OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OPPOSES ADVISING YOUTH TO MARRY BEFORE PARENTING

Santorum said: "Finish high school, get a job, wait for marriage before parenting. Those three things, if you do [them], according to Brookings [Institute], result in only 2 percent of people who do all those things ending up in poverty, and 77 percent above the national average in income. It’s a huge, huge opportunity for us.

But what is the Obama administration doing? Elaine Bennett, wife of Bill Bennet, runs a program called Best Friends. And she told me through Bill that the Obama administration now has a policy, and this program is a program targeted at at-risk youth, specifically, in many cases, the African-American community, who are at-risk young girls. The Obama administration now has regulations that tell them they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their lives. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. Th

ey have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

The problem is: neutrality ends in poverty; neutrality ends in choices that hurt people’s lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations which are there to help young girls make good choices, NOT to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable!"

I also heard Planned Parenthood tell us school board members the same thing –don’t promote marriage because it would offend the students' parents who had not married each other. Now look what we have –84% black in Chicago are single parented and you can bet most are in poverty category. And their schools are failing –why? Because functional parents are important in the homes of children. It almost always means less money for families –for women and kids –when men make multiple families. It’s the LEFT that disregards the relationship between religions, morals, marriage, and money.

I'm not trying to make anyone feel guilty about their pasts --but to get us all on the same page regarding what's best in advice and teaching for youth. We know what causes poverty --it's too often our moral choices (and those of our parents)--and our unsanctified personalities that make it hard for marriage to work. Commitment to marriage and children is a boon to our emotional, spiritual, physical, and economic well-being. Think of all the expense from STD's like HIV/AIDS, from addictions, from unwed pregnancy, from divorce --we are over-burdening our Uncle Sam! Obama's rich can't even pay the bill with 100 per cent of their incomes!

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Obamas and the Flag

From Snopes: "Of the first (not wearing a flag pin), Obama's actual explanation went as follows:

"You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism." (Source: ABC News, Oct. 4, 2007.)

What a lame excuse! I'd have more respect if he said he couldn't find it! or didn't have one. Or left it on his other suit.  But to call the flag pin a substitute for patriotism???  Really!!!??
As for his other faux pas, not covering his heart with his hand when everyone else is and he knows eyes are on him, what was that?  Ignorance?  Or friendship with flag burners? 

Furthermore, his attitude toward the flag in his actual quote --is consistent with the video taken a year ago at the 9/11 ceremony of Michelle whispering something that looked like "All this for a   d... flag!" And his look in response to her.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=odncXZnJ_CM


They sure allow room to think they belittle the flag as a symbol of our nation --and disrespect the solemnity of ceremonies involving the flag. It's understandable, given their backgrounds. And now we have this new flag  ABOVE with his O on it -- and stripes like the blood smears on the wall in the photo from the middle east. 

If they're smart, they'll say it was a tribute to the fallen --but with the O in the corner?  Doesn't wash.

I think it's really weird --the coincidence of their actions with the anti-American mentors they had.   Then there was the covering of  Georgetown U's. in-obvious Christian symbol high up on the wall behind him when he was to speak there --and his messing with the flag using the Obama "O" --and his photo in place of the stars in one case. Why can't he learn from the criticism?  There are actually U.S. laws against messing with the flag this way.   Does he have a message he'd rather get to his radical supporters? Some signal indicating that he is still with Ayers, Doehrn, Davis, Alinsky, Khalidi, Rezko, Islamists and other flag and country haters at heart? Or are the Obamas just insensitive, obtuse, slow-learning and ill-mannered?

Pray for God's Will --whatever it is.  

I just hope it isn't Judgment through our  

election of  the wrong man.

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Obama's Guaranteed Supporters --if They Take the Effort to Vote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=arOGHY27JwI


 "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

About Romney and Snooky

I blog at a newspaper --liberal one --big city --and here are 2 comments about Romney's comment in interview for TV where he said he enjoys Snooky --on Jersey Shore.  The 2nd comment is mine.  (The reason I don't identify the newspaper here is because I don't want to be stalked and harrassed by someone who would again have me in his cross-hairs.)

 

A blogger 

9/16/2012   10:00 AM  EDT

 

The more I thought about Romney's comments in the interview, the more I find them disturbing. He is the potential leader of this country, he could not pick anyone better than Snooki? There are plenty young men and women in the entertaining business who devote themselves to humanitarian causes, he has to pick Snooki?
As to the comment "I heard the best answer is as little as possible." Oh, Where is your own mind, Mr. Romney?
Both what Mitt and Ann said in the interview are undignified. Th whole irony is this: Romney won't release his tax returns beyond two years, he won't tell us the details of his economic plans and foreign policies, but he is willing tell us that he likes Snooki? If he is elected, God helps us!

ME

10/16/2012   10:59 AM EDT

Gee whiz --I learned on this blog that Obama said something about Snooky in some interview moment --and then later didn't recall knowing who that was. Remember that Dave Letterman and Jay Leno and comedy channel stars --talk about Snooky. So pop culture knows who Snooky is --whether or not Obama and Romney really do.

Remember that Obama just called a radio show, The Pimp with the Limp, recently --in Fla. to express his appreciation for a couple of specific songs --so he is pandering to common folk with common tastes, too. Both trying to shed the label of elitists.

So how disturbing is that?

It should disturb you more that the influences on Obama are Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals,  Karl Marx, Communist FM Davis, Weathermen bombers Ayers & Doehrn, anti-Israel Muslim Prof. khaldi and Muslim slumlord Tony Rezko, and Rev. Jeremiah "damning America" Wright --and his "bitter half" Michelle --who mouthed her disdain for flag respect at the 9/11 ceremony a year ago --and the socialist, over-paid Chicago gal --what's her name --Valerie Jarett --who hangs around in the family quarters with them --along with Reggie Love (now resigned) --his gay trainer who claimed to "wake up the pres. every am." Where was the wife, inquiring minds wondered?

 
 Don't look at what the candidates say in interviews trying to show that they are " just folks like us"  as much as their record.   Romney balanced the state budget 4 years in a row in Mass as their gov. Obama has added 1/3 of our total national debt since Go. Washington in his 3 years of serving. And seems not to know the relationship between deficit and debt. 

Romney ran a company that now holds the pension plans of state service and teacher retirement unions because of  bain's good return on investments. He gave start-up money to many successful companies that provided many jobs.

 
 What has Obama done?????????? His claim to fame, death of Osama, would've been accomplished no matter who was president --because the special ops people did it and have been working on finding that guy since 9/11. The tragedy is that the MD who helped us find him is in Pakistan jail for 33 years --how did our admin. let that happen? leaks. And why can't we get the guy out. He did what Pakistan claimed THEY were helping us do --find Osama. We should sanction Pakistan if they don't give us the doctor.

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I might add here that  foreign policy springs from one's world view, intelligence, and others in the leadership team who are experts in international relations.   Obama's policy, as he would "state it"  which Blogger above wants Romney to do --has not been successful. I don't think we understand the obama policy --except to say he does apologize for our problems with and treatment of  Islamists/terrorists.  And yet they hate him, too --burning him in effigy. 

 

Can anyone's policy be viewed as wholly successful in this world climate?  I don't know.  But for sure, we need to get our economic house in order and Obama is going in the wrong direction.   Romney/Ryan are the business/math minds together.  I don't want them to know EXACTLY what they would do right now --simple solutions, fast solutions, are subject to the realities of the office and the world.   But Obama has had some time to work on this --and he has failed utterly.

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"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Obama's Speech Should've Included....

 I thought it was the same old faces with the same old empty, no solutions, emotional-hype- rhetoric. But the GOP convention included new people, up and comers, great speeches. and stuff about Romney I didn't know --but was glad to hear. And I thought he spoke forcefully and eloquently --not like a whiney Polosi and a halting Obama.

Look at Barack's speech: empty platitudes and stale promises. He says things like, "We can" "We're in this together! I have faith in the American people. I believe in you --We must improve.  We need jobs.  (yup)  Better, cheaper education for all --take care of the less fortunate --penalize the fortunate --be patient with me --give me another 4 years to do what i've been doing." 

Many generalities that any student body president could think of and say --things we generally agree about --except raising taxes.

Speech should've included: "I've invested the People's money in off shore drilling in So. America and blocked it in No. america. I say we must become energy independent while making it impossible because I block anything that isn't green enough for me.

I talk about keeping jobs here --while not raising a squeak when GM (who still owes us 25 billion) took Volt manufacture to China. 

I support Israel --barely--while giving our money to Palestine whose radicals get ahold of it. 

I promised transparency and blocked C Span from health deliberations. I shun lobbyists while meeting them across the street in a restaurant and off calendar."

 "I don't know what in heck to do, to tell you the truth! I've never had a real job. This is my first time to be head of anything, after all. But be patient --I'll get it figured out.' Just keep that teleprompter where I can see it! So I can lead my cheers!" 

BTW --I was against gay marriage before i was for it --and I never saw an abortion I couldn't approve --or an abortion survivor whom the law should protect"

I know he's president --but that's what's amazing, REALLY!







"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Hurrah for Romney! GREAT SPEECH! Woe to Spinners!

Woe to the Spinners! Romney hit that ball out of the park! I loved the speech --I loved all the speeches last night! Rubio was ingenious. And I suspect all the negative spin is fear-based --fear that Obama can't compete with down-home American beliefs and values --with a solid family man about whom there have been no Globe articles about threats of divorce, infidelities and affairs with gay trainer Reggie Love.

I felt Romney was just like people I know --church community people. And I gathered from the many who worked with him and benefitted from Bain, including a democratic woman in his Mass. government --that he is a man of exceptional abilities and character. I liked hearing people tell of his compassion for their dying children, and how he made a housewife comfortable by helping her fold the laundry.

Obama? smoking pot, running around with radicals, no friends that anyone can find except communists, Weathermen, Black Panthers and Acorn.
 Who's REALLY out of touch here with mainstream America? Not Romney.







"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

A Blog Post from Turkey

" Why does your Democrat  [Obama] come to my country and preach religion to invigorate my Islamic bigor [?] , sharia-seeking government's votes ???

Why does your Democrat go to Egypt and declare US to be the world's largest Muslim state ???

Why does your Democrat come to the Middle East the first thing he is elected and praise that horrendous headscarf ??? Do you know what happens in the Middle East when an American president arrives in person and praises the headscarf ? It is an automatic reprimand to those women who do not wear one."

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Why indeed?  Because he is way more incompetent in international diplomacy than Dems said of Romney --way more mixed up by his Islamic, Communistic, anti-white-Imperialist, race-baiting, socialistic,  Alinsky-style Rules for Radicals and Jeremiah Wright, anti-american  influences.     

Romney abroad?   He dared to tie into what the British  themselves were saying about the Olympics, concerned for lack of security.  Liberals picked up on this and made it sound insulting.  I read what he said.  It didn't sound insulting to me.

I'm convinced that the  liberal press cares not one whit for honesty, objectivity or accuracy. Granted some conservative bloggers have manufactured falsehoods --and I don't deny that the Truth isn't always self evident --but  SO MUCH evidence is out there to suggest we need NEW HOPE & CHANGE --not this socialistic direction in which we are going.  

Obama has put more people on SSI disability recently than new jobs --to reduce the unemployment stats. 




"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

On Legitimate Rape? More of My Blog Posts

I didn't hear the gentleman on "legitimate rape," but let me guess --was he trying to distinguish between women who are really raped and those who would cry "rape!" just to get their abortions --and not because they were really raped? I bet that's what he meant by legitimate.

I think his concern probably was that if abortion is made illegal --but legal for rape --that all women will claim they were raped when they want abortions. There is nothing legit about rape, of course --and GOP knows it same as the DIMS. And it is very DIM and an effort to obfuscate the facts to misunderstand what the man meant .

Abortion takes a human life for selfish reasons. There are very few women impregnated by rape, incest --and hardly any who have to terminate a pregnancy in the 3rd trimester to save her life --via partial birth abortion. The child can be delivered early instead of aborted if the woman cannot carry to term.

Abortion should never have been legalized --except  for rape, incest, life of mother  --where the sad choices have some legitimacy.  Take the rare 12 year old rape victim who is impregnated.  (I wonder how many of these there are?)    Personally speaking,  I don't think she should also be forced through pregnancy and labor because of an act of rape, which is always against God's will.

  Gay marriage should not be legalized --for its effect on youth. 

  Romney will not  tax the middle class more than the rich.   And he isn't going to hurt the elderly.

What you don't get is that we are all going to be poor under O if we don't have REAL change --not socialistic change.  Why would we want to be like GREECE???   Obama is taking us there as fast as he can.   He's either ignorant and inept about economics --or he's determined to break us down and then take over in a  Bolshevik fashion.  I prefer to think the former.  In either case, "Hit the Road, Barack!"





 "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

RecentBlog Posts of Mine on the Candidates and Election Issues

 Obama did it wrong --when he refused to defend federal law like DOMA --when he declared support for abortion for any reason and letting surviving abortion victims die --when he created 32 czars for unelected power at our expense --NOT legit part of the executive branch --NOT the way our gov't is supposed to work --when he disallowed our offshore drilling while funding it around So. America --when he bailed out GM who is now taking jobs to China -- when he passed the ACA (Obamacare) with its big gov't control of all aspects of healthcare and our lives --when he persecuted AZ for defending themselves against illegal aliens --when he ignored the plight of Syria --when he failed to take care of Iran --when he bowed to China's and Saudi's leaders and promised Russians (off mic --an accident)  he'd be able to please them more after the election and not before --when he said over and over again that we are not a "christian nation." When he ineptly lost weapons in Mexico to drug running murderers -- when he snubbed Israel --when he and his wife gave up their law licenses before they could be disbarred (her for insurance fraud and him for lying on application) --when he got pork money as a senator for Tony Rezko, the slum lord who blew millions of our money which Obama got for him -- when he let two terrorist radicals establish him in politics with a fund-raiser at their house --when he let himself be touted as a Constitutional law prof --when he was a lower echelon instructor who avoided the faculty discussion group mtgs. --when he invested tax money into failed green companies --when he told the Christian schools and Catholic institutions that they have to pay for birth control and abortifacients for students and employees --when his party gives money to PP whose primary business is abortion--despite their claim to provide general women's healthcare.  We have plenty of public health offices for the women's healthcare --we don't need abortionist PP and it is illegal to take our tax money to pay for abortion. 

Look at the mentors he had, and all he does is understandably either inept from no real job experience --or bent on our downfall for socialist "change."   There is a Catholic priest who reminds us at youtube --that socialism, little brother of Marxist Communism,  ultimately denies the validity of religion and takes away religious liberty.   ALready, Obama has started this in his Obamacare, forcing the religious institutions to go against their religious beliefs --or be fined hugely.
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You look at a man's record --Romney is successful at management and making money. He did this for free for 8 years? (the Olympics and the Governorship.)  His goal is to make us successful economically as a country--ALL OF US can then be lifted up. There is truth to "trickle down" economics --evidenced by fact that our poor people are the richest poor people in the world --with running water, heat, A/c, electric, IPods, big screen tv's, IPads, video game systems, nice clothes, furniture, free healthcare, free money, subsidized everything, food cards, and expensive tattoos and piercings.

NOW, if we could just study harder in school, we might all experience the upward mobility of the many who started out poor and are now rich (like many people I know.) There has been opportunity in this country--and I'm tired of hearing democratic constituency belly-aching about their SELF-IMPOSED poverty (with all the benefits I listed above) --self-imposed by smoking, drinking, fathering multiple families, and refusing to even look for legit work. (though granted, there isn't much work now in this socialistic nation. Obama wants to create more disabled on SSI (more than jobs currently) or gov't jobs --for which the gov't HAS NO MONEY!   And taxing the rich higher  can be done --but it will be a band-aid unless you stop this spending! and growth in entitlements!  

I believe he is setting us up for a violent response from his supporters if he doesn't win --his party and supporters are accusing GOP of racism and sexism (the war on women)  and greed.     The greed and envy are on the Democratic side --and it's not factually defensible to say the GOP has no compassion for the poor.  NOt so.  But we see a system that is rewarding all the wrong things --and fomenting unrest among the envious.  Convincing the elderly that they will suffer under Romney--when in fact, it is the other way around.  Obama Care rations treatment for the elderly -- in a draconian way. We have to do something to continue to care for the elderly and the truly needy who lack options  --we can't continue to do it with all the greed, fraud, envy, unrest, socialist thinking of OBama. 



"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

GAY MARRIAGE WILL TEACH OUR YOUTH THAT IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE

The law is a teacher.  Way more women abort now than before.    We have performed 50 million legal abortions since we legalized abortion; the pro-aborts with knowledge have admitted that reports of illegal abortions causing maternal deaths annually were hugely exaggerated as propaganda for abortion prior to 1973.    That's what gay marriage will do --TEACH the youth that it makes no difference whether you do it with a woman or a man.  Because what is legal is seen as "right."
I just had this conversation with a young marijuana smoker --he said it's LEGAL as medicine in some states so it must not be that bad.  Medicine can't be bad for you.    The mature know this is not true --and know the bad effects of mj on the brain.  But the immature think the law stands for what is right and good.   Therefore, the law teaches --that there is nothing wrong with abortion, drugs now deemed mostly illegal, and homosex-perimentation and exploring one's sexuality.
Consider that in Uganda MSM are  19 times more likely to be HIV infected than someone in the general popululation --that MSM are still the leading carriers and victims of new cases of HIV in the US and the world.    You just can't sanitize or disease-proof anal sex --or oral sex with infected people.  There is a high risk of harm for MSM and their women and children.  There is risk to public health via the lowered immunity of AIDS victims.  What they can get, we can all get because their vulnerability puts diseases out there for all. 
We need to cease and desist.   Who on earth wants his anus penetrated the first time?  Only a nutcase, so the likely recipients of this act were seduced or coerced --and the result is damaged gender identity.   Those who initiate others into this gay identity and  lifestyle or encourage them to experiment with it are doing a great evil to youth.    Legal gay marriage will be a pandora's box of  sex-ploration by youth, more  people with STD's, and risk to the health of all through lowered immunity of AIDS.  And more people disinclined  to procreate and sustain normal hetero relationships and family life.







"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

My Response on a Blog Re: Obama's Defense of Gay Marriage

On a blog --in response to specific comments of another blogger: 

 

Argue with St. Paul if you must. That was only 20 centenarians' lifetimes ago and he has more claim to divine insight than most of us since he was a persecutor of Christians who was blinded by a light on the road to Damascus ("he saw the light!".) He heard the resurrected Christ's voice telling him how and where and by whom (named him) to get his sight back (ironically on the street called Straight) --and from then on, he was a leading teacher/apologist for Christianity. Here's what He wrote: Romans 1: 18-32.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201:%2018-32&version=NIV1984

I suppose you know Sodomy gets its name from the city where the men desired sex with the angels --who were visiting Lot as men. It refers to homosexual relations. Don't be so sure (as you stated)  that these acts possible for men with each other were as common as you think for married heteros through the ages ----especially anal --or swallowing semen. I'm pretty sure my mother and grandmother never did these things. And it's not the way I have sex either. And I've yet to have a lady friend tell me she loves sex this way--but I've had a few say they got rid of guys who wanted them to do gay acts. They told 'em to get hence and find a boyfriend for the yuck stuff.

Men want these acts once they experience them, evidently. Which is why sodomy is so forbidden in the Bible. God knows that men would put their do-hickies just ANYWHERE! and come to crave the forbidden if they pursued self-gratification this way (lovers of self.) The procreative plan is for man to crave intimacy with his wife in the normal way--not to say there isn't much variety in position and in foreplay --and in oral stimulation --which is probably all permissible. As Paul wrote, "The marriage bed is undefiled."

My remark about AIDS. It was quixotic what society/media did in the wake of the AIDS crisis. It seems suicidal to promote homosexuality as a normal, unavoidable, lifestyle. But we did it --and went to great lengths in our privacy protection--because we didn't want anyone to persecute AIDS victims for fear of their blood and fluids. The country WAS terrified that we didn't know how to stop this epidemic that was fluid-borne. We feared accidental contagion through contact sports, traffic accidents, bathroom accidents, hospitals --(and some of those were afflicted and died of AIDS because of needle-sticks or surgery accidents.) It WAS the gays and "men on the downlow" who brought it to America --to the blood supply, the prostitutes, the drug addicts, wives and their babies. The promiscuity of the gay community was amazing --horrifying --so the idea of marriage came up --maybe if they married....! But if heteros weren't faithful, why would we think that homosexuals would be more so? Considering the huge beach parties, bath houses, gay bars, and the extremely promiscuous nature of the movement. Newsweek noted the young gays, late in the epidemic, didn't use condoms.  They showed photos of huge beach parties, with hundreds of men standing around at night half-dressed --some women.  No, not swimming.  Holding their drinks, networking, finding temporary boyfriends.   Sad, not gay.

 

 

 

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Who's Nicest? Obama or Romney?

This is from a blog --NOT BY ME --by a guy named Dan and I thought it was great.  (Why don't I cite the blogs where i write?  I have good reason.) 


Nice guy??? Maybe it's like everything else under Obama...try to portray it as exactly the opposite of reality. Jimmy Carter was a nice guy....and an incompetent. Obama's certainly an incompetent...but not a nice guy. This is the most self-congratulatory, overreaching egomaniac who's ever occupied the White House. And he's a not-very-veiled corrupt thug of the Chicago variety. 
  
A short list: 

•  sacking an inspector general who exposed an Obama crony;
•  Fast & Furious;
•  trying to use the Endowment for the Arts for propaganda purposes;
•  trashing the U.S. in foreign speeches; 
•  crony capitalism with his bundlers; 
• standing up the leader of a trusted ally;
•  race baiting before he has all the facts;
•  lying (profusely, it turns out) about the impact of Obamacare and other legislation;
•  unprecedented deficits and debt; 
• appointments of anti-American ideologues as secretaries of Energy, Commerce, Environmental Protection, Health & Human Services, etc....and we could go on endlessly.                                         
• On an almost daily basis, this President has assaulted:
•  common sense, 
• the Constitution, 
• the principle of separation of powers,
•  Congress, 
• the Supreme Court, 
• ordinary citizens who dare to disagree with his ideas
•  and American values.
• We won't be forgetting. November is pay back time. Romney's fine...but it wouldn't matter who the GOP nominee is. We're mostly voting against this failed President who it turns out has nothing, at all, in common with the average hardworking, patriotic American. If you enjoyed 2010, you're gonna love  2012  
•                                                                                                                                                                                             "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Why Does Gay Marriage Lose at the Polls?

• A RECENT BLOG EXCHANGE:  
   
   The Texan:  

  The answer may have to do with voter turnout. People who support gay marriage, or at least don't actively oppose it, are less likely to make a special trip to vote on the issue. Those who genuinely (if absurdly) believe that gay marriage is a threat to their own straight lifestyle are motivated to show up. Double that for those who believe their god condemns it.
  

   

  Me:  To The Texan:   You are sort of right.  The irresponsible citizens don't always vote --and they are often the ones too ignorant to see that marriage matters.   You think gay marriage is opposed just because it is a threat to straight lifestyles?  Let's say homosexuality IS a threat to heterosexuals --say in the case of the Episcopalian minister who left wife and kids to be with his male lover --and then the church elevated him to bishop.  She might consider homosexuality a threat to her life and happiness and marriage.  I would if I were her.  I'd be furious if my husband wanted to get his jollies with anal or oral sex --and had also been doing so for years and then coming home to me.  Blccch.

   

   This activity should never be entertained in the mind, much less in act.  "Yield not to temptation --for yielding is sin,"  goes the old gospel song.  What's happened to our brains that we don't have a taboo fence to keep us from pondering the taboos of same-sex relations, polygamy, adultery, pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality?    For all these activities start first in the mind. Today, we have tv and schools--all media--telling us "gay is good" --"choose your gender"  --"you can marry any other human(s)--regardless of gender."    This is all total bunkum and should never be entertained in mind or media or society --in any way at all.    We shall reap what we sow. 

   

   We don't just BELIEVE our God opposes gay marriage.  It's obvious from our design that we were NOT designed for homosexual coupling.  We are designed to couple with, and parent with, the opposite sex --only.   And God's Word is clear in Romans 1 --also Leviticus.  But nature tells us --even if there are aberrations in fallen nature --like the dog humping our legs --- the dog is still designed to hump a dog --not our legs.  

   

  Likewise, all men are designed for copulation with women --not each other.

  
  

  Nevertheless, God forgives the repentant sinner --and all of us have sinned.  But that's no excuse for legitimating sin via gay marriage. 

  
  

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

OBAMA --the first gay president??? on Mother's Day

Last week, Newsweek featured Obama on the cover with a rainbow halo and called him "the first gay president."  Andrew Sullivan, a married, gay conservative, wrote the article.   I noticed he suggested that Obama lacked closeness to his father and step-father  as many gays did!  (Now there's an admission that fits MY theory of gay causation!)   He likened Obama's situation as a bi-racial man to that of homosexual men.  But I have to wonder if the democrats were not chagrined to see the title, "first gay president," affixed to Obama --since Sullivan was not saying he was actually gay. 

However, allegedly, the mother of the murdered choir director at Obama's church pastored by Jeremiah Wright, came out to say her son and 2 other church men were murdered on the eve of Obama's  first presidential  candidacy because they were known to be involved with him homosexually.  One gay man came out publically after those murders to claim that he had a sexual encounter with Obama in the back seat of a limo that he (not Obama) had rented.  He said he did this so he would NOT be murdered for it, figuring if he got the story out, they wouldn't dare do him in.  

http://conservativeallies.yuku.com/topic/9086/Three-Openly-Gay-Men--Rev-Wright-s-Chicago-Church-KILLED---M#.T7PT1lL93Mk


 Our  minister said Sunday, that, in effect,  Obama had announced with his gay marriage affirmation during Mother's Day week that mothers (or fathers)are no longer necessary for the rearing of children. Aren't they???

Same-sex kids idolize each other as a part of normal growing up; in my youth, to turn that admiration for same-sex individuals into sexual desire was as taboo as incest or pedophilia. We slammed the mind's gate down on taboos --"didn't go there." Now the public school and media entertainment feel obligated to encourage kids into gay relations. New law for gay marriage will be a TEACHER to our kids --that they can explore same-sex possibility. What a mess on the horizon!

We do need a constitutional amendment defining marriage.   The writers never dreamed we'd be lunatic enough to make a new definition of marriage. Had they had prophetic insight, they would've defined it. If we today have any prophetic insight we SHALL define it and get it into the constitution as most states have done --before all the kids are confused, believing marriage is for any 2 (or more) people. 

Proponents of gay marriage say they have over 50% of the country in their favor.  If this isn't true, it soon will be, with youth growing up on GLEE and SISTER WIVES  and all the other media and education propaganda that says marriage and sex are for any combination of people.

Read Romans 1 to see that this problem of homosexuality is as old as the Gospel.   And the Good News is that ALL people can be forgiven of their sins and experience new life in Christ.  Repentance comes first.  Agreement with God about what is right and wrong is essential for repentance. 


"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

DOES MEDIA SHAPE CULTURE --OR VICE VERSA?

I had a recent discussion with a couple who are PhD candidates and they assert that media reflects culture more than it leads it. I couldn't disagree more.

Cultural trends are always inspired --started by someone who gets a lot of publicity and admiration.  If there are no trend setters; no cultural change.    I believe Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie tv series, based on the books,  inspired a generation of home-schoolers who wanted their kids to be wholesome and protected from the seamy side of life like the Ingalls girls --who wanted their marriages to be happy like the tv couple --who  even liked country decor and dress also. While we didn't all home school or dress our girls in dresses, we still ALL admired the little house family and their demonstration of "family values."   

Then came Seinfeld and Friends.   The Christian young people of college age were glued to Friends.   These are people who don't need parents or have them --and any parents are usually  ridiculous characters as in most sit coms.  And sure enough, Just like the Friends,  I find today's younger generation to be tolerant of gay marriage, transgendering, alcohol use (nothing new), cohabiting before the wedding (new as a cultural phenom) --even some who were raised to be Christians.  The shows  made light of immorality.  And while they sometimes showed glimpses of negative consequences of immorality--it never turned out THAT bad --with the woman and her kids in poverty.  Consequences are always more laughable than painful in such series.  Of course, we want them to have happy endings.

Dan Quayle wasn't wrong about Murphy Brown --that she made a choice to keep a baby and be a career woman raising her child without a father. As pro-lifers we support women who keep their babies --but would their kids have been better off in so many ways if they had been given up for adoption?    I don't in the least condemn single moms --but we are not speaking truth if we don't do as Santorum did --and tell the truth --that if you wait for marriage before parenting, you and your child have have much less chance of poverty status. 

TV says (watch Lifetime) single women can have jobs and raise their fatherless  kids just fine--and they will eventually meet a rich, single, professional man who will marry them.

I agree with being culturally savvy enough to engage others in conversation --and to point out truths that show up in good drama/good art, but the admired art today is selling us untruths --and we should protest and compete with better art and drama --like Courageous --which, for its alleged faults (maybe too many themes in one story,)  it had the power to move MOST of us in a good direction --in our realization that good Christian fathers are needed to impact our culture --for the sake of the children--for the sake of their ultimate salvation.





"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

THE LAW TEACHES!

THE LAW TEACHES!

The law really does teach a  concept of what is "right" and what is "wrong."   The Ten C's and the Golden Rule teach the believer --along with other commands of Christ --and the majority of what is written in the Bible teaches us.   Granted, government and religion don't agree today about what is right and lawful or not.  Despite our claim of church-state separation,  the law teaches the masses by determining what is legal or lawful and what is not.  The masses equate "legal" with "permissable" and also "right."  Sometimes the law of the land has been  Biblically right --when it outlawed slavery, polygamy, sodomy and abortion.  But this is no longer true today, since it has created new "rights."

In 1973, the Supreme court said state laws against abortion were illegal --that abortion was a woman's constitutional right --and thus "right."   I've heard girls defend abortion by saying, "It's legal!"  The whole case was based on a fraud --Jane Roe (pseudonym) was not pregnant by rape as the women's advocacy groups (NOW) claimed.   She did go on to have the baby because the case wasn't settled until it was too late for her to have the abortion she wanted.   Her daughter and she are both pro-life advocates today! 

One defense given for legalizing abortion  was that so many women died at the hands of back-alley abortionists before 1973.  Is that a true statement?  It is according to this liberal site:   http://socialistworker.org/2005-2/562/562_06_Abortion.shtml:

One 1932 study estimated that illegal abortions or complications from them were the cause of death for 15,000 women each year. Current, more conservative, estimates of the death toll still stand at between 5,000 and 10,000 deaths per year.Some of these deaths were the result of the abortions themselves, but many more were from infection and hemorrhaging afterward. Because of the fear of being punished and socially ostracized, many women--and their doctors--kept their real condition a secret.The right wing has gone on an organized campaign to discredit such statistics, going as far to claim that deaths from illegal abortion were "just" a few dozen a year--and that the anecdotes of items such as coat hangers being inserted into women's bodies to cause an abortion are false. In reality, coat hangers were just one horror among many during the years of illegal abortion.

 So approx. 1.5 million babies killed a year on average  since 1973 vs. 5 to 15,000 alleged deaths of unwed women (double the number for their babies killed with them)  by illegal abortion attempts annually? before legal abortion.   Someone once did a cemetary and death records study and couldn't find 5-15,000 unwed women of child-bearing age per year  who could be presumed to have died by illegal abortions, even factoring in the secrecy.  BTW, CA doesn't report their abortion records and they probably have many.

All I can tell you is that I went to a small town/rural township school --with 40 in my graduating class, we fulfilled the stats of 1 out of 40 unwed teen pregnancies for white girls  --and this one ended in a marriage which did not last --but she was at least not a single mother without any child support or a father to her child.   I never knew anyone who had to go to a home for unwed mothers from which many adoptions were made. I did know a lot of adopted children. I also didn't know anyone who had an illegal abortion --and usually such secrets weren't very secretive.  We all  knew who was rumored to be  "going all the way,"  and it was considered immoral to do so --even by the unchurched.  Sex ed. warned us about STD's and we all had heard of condoms as an attempt to prevent pregnancy and disease.   Those were the options to unwed pregnancy in those days.  Abortion was never  a school debate or paper assignment --and no one I knew thought it was "right" or argued for that view.

   In the 1970's, Planned Parenthood hit our schools with their Rocky Mtn. PP brochure about how "no longer was there a dichotomy between good girls and bad --no longer was there a double standard whereby "all boys did it"  and "good girls didn't."  The brochure told how grandma used to say, "Keep your knees together, " but this was no longer necessary.  Because we have birth control --and abortion.  

Even then, "Good girls didn't" and " immoral, weak-willed girls did"  wasn't the standard  that PP alleged. AFter all, the shot gun wedding was evidence that the males were held to account --though sometimes the parents preferred the girl go have the baby and give it up --seeing no future in the baby's father.   There was more compassion  then PP admits --and eventually  a realization that the father shouldn't get to stay in school and keep playing football while the pregnant girlfriend got expelled.  It was around that time that schools decided to help unwed mothers stay in school, even providing childcare in some cases.   One school nearby was known for its pregnant girls on the Homecoming Court.
 The sexual revolution started after the advent of The Pill, with legal abortion in '73 --and the hippie revolution with its free love emphasis.  There were only a few real hippies in society in the 60's but by the 70's the culture was on its way to the free-love, drug-using culture it became --the sexual revolution.

There were not nearly so many fatherless youth or "broken homes," in our day.    There was no trend to keep one's baby as a single unwed teen mother.  Steadily dating couples were just as tempted then as now to have sex --but casual intercourse among relative strangers and new daters  was very unlikely and uncommon.  And before the pill, in the 50's, everyone was afraid of pregnancy, so much more time was spent on the preliminaries of intimacy --guys didn't expect to go all the way with casual dates, and as much as they pushed for the "foreplay" activities, they typically would stop themselves before they made a baby because society was likely to make them marry the girl.    Many did marry their first loves-- or 2nd or 3rd at least.  Promiscuity was not encouraged as normal, the way it is today.  And divorce was not as easy to get --many would change their minds in the waiting period.


"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Murphy Browns Get Married!!

Light in the darkness: National Review’s Rich Lowery wrote about marriage and out-of-wedlock births in Time magazine this week. He noticed that most *Murphy Browns –i.e. successful, educated, accomplished, deliberate choice-makers –are, in fact, MARRIED –”a bastion of marital traditionalism. It is left to the poor and the working class to ignore age-old wisdom about how to order our lives and thereby [they] suffer the consequences.”
According to his article, ONLY 8 per cent of women with college degrees are unwed mothers –compared to 70% of high school drop-outs, 51% of high school grads, and 34% for those with some college. I remember when it was 1 out of 40 white girls who had unwed pregnancies –and 2 out of 5 black girls. Now it’s 29 per cent white, 53% latino, and 73 percent blacks –who have out of wedlock births.
Lowry suggested Michelle Obama should use her position to encourage kids to wait for marriage –instead of worrying about their weight.
He said, “The decline of marriage is our most ignored national crisis. As it continues to slide away, our country will become less just –and less mobile. (I assume he meant “upwardly mobile?”)
I can’t think the courts promotion of gay marriage as a right is going to help at all. More and more men are contemplating hedonism with each other instead of making families with women for whom they are designed. Homosexuality is the gift that keeps on giving! from one generation to another and not through parents as much as through gays themselves.
* Murphy Brown was a tv sitcom character 20 years ago who decided to bear a child, accidentally conceived out of wedlock. She figured she could raise it herself when she should have considered adoption. Vice President Dan Quayle was ridiculed (later vindicated) for being so out of touch and old-fashioned about women's rights to bear AND RAISE children, married or not, that he criticized Murphy Brown. He spoke of the importance of fathers to children. Culture war in politics is nothing new. Unfortunately we are at the tipping point where more people are immoral than moral --and want policies to support the immoral.
"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

TIME MAG ON RICK SANTORUM'S INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

I was delighted to see a whole page in Time this week given to Rick Santorum's Inconvenient Truths --written by, of all people, Joe Klein (author of Primary Colors, a bio-novel about a couple like the Clintons.) Joe commended Santorum for his "sometimes eloquent," and "vigorous" defense on his controversial personal views. Rather than fumbling around to say "what I really meant was....", Santorum defends himself quite well when given the opportunity to speak.

I don't think Santorum opposes birth control in insurance or government programs --but he doesn't believe in it himself, as a devout Catholic --and he doesn't think Catholic institutions or their insurance should be forced by the state to provide it. He believes also in the right of conscience for individuals. (For sure, abortion is part of Obama's "women's health care" on the slippery slope. Obama twice voted for partial-birth/3rd trimester abortions which are always medically unnecesssary.)

Klein tells about Santorum having a baby born that survived only a couple of hours and how difficult the whole process was for his wife who nearly lost her life. Then he had the baby with the Trisomy 18 genetic defect that will end her life early.

About this child, Klein said he was "haunted by the smiling photos I've seen of Isabella with her father and mother, brothers and sisters. She has been granted three years of unconditional love and the ability to smile and bring joy. Her tenuous survival has given her family a deeper sense of how precious even the frailest of lives are.

Klein says yes, he supposes we should get to make our own choices about handicapped kids through pre-birth testing which Santorum religiously believes causes many abortions of Downs' Syndrome and other imperfect infants, and then Klein writes, "but I also worry that we've become too averse to personal inconvenience as a society --that we're less rigorous parents than we should be, that we've farmed out our responsibilities, especially for the disabled, to the state --and I'm grateful to Santorum for forcing on me the discomfort of having to think about the moral implications of his daughter's smile."

We need to realize a politician can hold beliefs which he doesn't desire to impose on everyone else. This is not an inconsistancy --it's a realization that not all our beliefs need to be public policy. But there are some religious beliefs we hold about culture which have very pragmatic implications for the future. Which should be encoded into law. We have more abortion because it's legal. We shall have more homosexuality, because we are trying to make it equal to heterosexuality as a lifestyle. We are not going to like the culture we get.

Watch for my review of another new Time magazine article I liked by the editor of National Review. On marriage before babies --by Rich Lowry.

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I personally am not politically or religiously opposed to birth control, vasectomies and tubal ligations for those who have made several babies already, or who have health problems --though I wonder if there is any correlation to infertility these days with The Pill. But I understand a religion that thinks we should use natural family planning and otherwise let God give us all the babies he can. I understand their view that our sexuality is for procreation as well as one-flesh intimacy between man and wife. I understand their concerns for the Sovereignty of God.

These are areas about which we Christians agree to disagree. Abortion is taking innocent life for no good enough reasons. Abortion legality should ONLY be for life of mother, or maybe as a choice for the poster-child for abortion, the 12 year old rape victim. I know I would not have wanted my 12 year old daughters to have to experience pregnancy and birth from rape. I favor the rape kit at the hospital that does cleanse the womb of the foreign invasion. But those are my only 2 exceptions for "choice" --and they are really very rare.

I do think that manipulating one's fertility is a matter for the right of conscience --one way or another. We are co-laborers with God in all endeavors --maybe even family planning. But I don't think any insurance company or employer or the taxpayers should be required to cover contraception or abortion against their consciences. Most people will have some insurance choice, and can choose to have contraception coverage or not. Companies which provide pregnancy coverage are probably happy to pay for contraception. Catholic institutions are exceptions, and we hear that Catholics manage to use birth control anyway.

Obama's administration once more creates a controversy by defining "women's health" as having no babies. This controversy is designed to make all women feel abused by religion, abused if their insurance company pays for pregnancy but not contraception, and particularly abused by the GOP candidates who defend the Catholic Church. Media predicts the women's vote for Obama.

Not this woman!




"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Freedom of Worship or Freedom of Religion?

Source of my comments is Mark Steyn's article in National Review this month, titled The Church of Big Government.

President Obama and Hillary have been using the phrase, "Freedom of Worship," and this is suspected to be significantly different than "Freedom of Religion" or "free exercise." Governments don't care how we worship within the four walls of the church or in our homes, particularly, but they care about what we say and do in public --and what we say about homosexuality and abortion in particular --and whether or not we proselytize, evangelize, and try to influence public policy, etc.

Notice how the media jumped on Santorum's 2008 speech about the Devil and his hold on our nation. He was right --but everybody groaned, "O no --he can't get elected with biblical beliefs like that! a literal Satan? Come on!" It was a speech to a Catholic student audience.

Big Brother is the secular god, and he wants to provide everything for everybody --being "my brother's keeper," Obama said. Only thing is, it's not Obama who provides for his brother. In fact it was noted that his brother lives in Kenya, Africa, in a shack on $12 a year with no apparent help from Obama, his real brother, most powerful man in the world--who is comparatively rich.

Steyn notes that the Catholic Church has supported Obama's healthcare plan, failing to realize that "if you agitate for state health care, the state gets to define what health care is." And in Obamacare, the state defines women's healthcare as abortion, pharmaceutical abortion, condoms and birth control. And the Obama's "compromise" states that insurance companies should provide it free since the conscience of Catholic institutions forbids them to do it.

Steyn suggests Obama thinks we are all too stupid to realize that there is nothing that is free. People need to be paid for their labors and products, and the only money the state has comes from tax-payers --not Obama, our Brother's Keeper. The state makes no money; it only spends ours. So Obama would take our money paid to gov't or insurance companies and use it for his idea of women's healthcare--against the consciences of the taxpayers. It's socialistic redistribution of money from have-mores to have-lesses. Which never seems to work. Look at Europe. According to Steyn, both the EU nurseries and churches are empty; their retirees are 50, their students are 30 (living on the gov't) and the Muslims are bursting out of their ghettos gaining all sorts of respect for their consciences (lest they riot as in Afghanistan.)

E.G. England requires booties on sniff- dogs searching for terrorists in Muslim territory, because dogs are offensively unclean to Muslims. We bend over backward to accommodate their religious sensitivities (which is kind of us) but in the U.S., we are comparatively mean to Christians, fining bakers and photographers around $20,000 for refusing to do gay weddings.

Obama admires Europe's secular, socialist government which Steyn says EU leaders happily refer to as a "post-Christian Europe" --or "future post-Christian Europe." But look what's happening there (besides their financial problems) : a man in England named David Booker worked for a church homeless shelter and said to a colleague in private conversation that he didn't believe church vicars should be allowed to marry their gay partners. The colleague didn't object to his comment, but told on him and he was suspended and the hostel announced that "action has been taken to safeguard both residents and staff" from the dangerous, insulting idea that vicars (pastors) should not have gay partners.

In Canada, Hugh Owens took out an ad in a Canadian newspaper and they were fined $9000 by the government. That case has worked up to Canada's Supreme Court this year. Meanwhile, no newspaper will ever do what this one allowed Owens to do. He posted the scripture references (not the scriptures) to the verses against same-sex relations.

In 2003, the Vatican issued a ruminative document on homosexual unions. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties warned Catholic bishops that "distributing the statement could lead to prosecution under the 1989 incitement to hatred Act, and 6 months in the slammer."

Steyn mentioned the minister Ake Green who preached against homosexuality in Sweden and was convicted of "hate crimes" because, in 2002, Sweden criminalized criticism of homosexuality.

As Steyn says, "The state is willing to intrude on core rights--rights to property, rights of association, and even rights to private conversation."

He quotes Henri de Lubac in 1944 who said concerning WWII and its causes: "It is not true, as is sometimes said, that man cannot organize the world without God. What is true, is that, without God he can only organize it against man." Steyn notes that atheistic humanism became INhumanism in the hands of the Nazis and Communism. What we have in Europe today is "dehumanism" in which a culture is amusing itself to death, he says.

And so it is today that, more and more, the state in the US bullies the churches, the conscientious objectors, the evangelists, the Bible-preachers and believers who would dare try to influence culture and thus the state along the Biblical definitions of morality and life. Even conservative Bible-believers are content to fiddle while Rome burns, buying the church/state separation ideology that squeezes our cultural foundations behind the walls of the church.


"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

You Go, Rick! He Didn't Say Women were Emotional!

Santorum's looking better every day.

Watch what even Fox news did to him on what he said about women in front lines --he never said women were too emotional but even Fox headlined it that way. He said that with women in combat, there can be emotions that would interfere with The Mission at hand. He later said he really was thinking more about men's desire to protect women --and their attraction to them--the men's emotions. Same reason gays don't belong in the military either: attraction of polar opposites. Same reason there are always shipboard romances and pregnancies when women are on board.

Sexual attraction interferes with military missions. I'm not saying women shouldn't serve, but they should never be bunked next to the men in a submarine. There is a place for regarding sexual differences (and orientation differences) in various jobs and situations --without being unfair to women.

Watch the late night comedians --always after the republicans.




"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible