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Sunday is Sanctity of Human Life day. I’ll be doing a couple short presentations about CareNet Pregnancy Center for Sunday School classes at a local church.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are staffed largely with volunteers and funded mostly by donations (100% in many cases). They help women and families in their time of need. They significantly outnumber abortion clinics.
In theory, pro-choicers should support these as well (at least pro-choice Christians). The centers aren’t lobbying against abortion, they are just helping women make a good “choice” and helping them when they choose life.
I encourage people to visit their local pregnancy center for a tour. There are many volunteer options (counselors, teachers, repair/maintenance) and of course they welcome donations. If nothing else, at least have the phone number handy for when you hear of people in crisis pregnancies. It is a matter of when, not if, you come across someone who needs their services.
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STDs on the rise – Is Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) the new HIV? The Queen of Swords had a good editorial on it.
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What did Barack Obama think of the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act? Apparently, not much.
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What is God doing about evil in the world?
See www.str.org
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Filed under: Weekly roundup
From the first link:
“As long as sex among unmarried heterosexuals is celebrated, promoted, encouraged, and tolerated, progress made in eradicating syphilis, HIV, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted diseases will continue to be hampered. And as long as reproduction is seen as a secondary and optional feature of premarital sex, our society will continue to experience high rates of abortion and out of wedlock pregnancy – despite widespread access to contraceptives.”
Now THAT’S a bullseye and something I’ve been saying for quite awhile, and it is rightfully added to an article describing the high rates of STDs amongst the homosexual community. Too often it seems any discussions about homosexuality suggest there are no other forms of promiscuity that require attention and correction. That God. He knows everything. How brilliant to sanction only sex within a marriage between a man and a woman.
The point in the Obama link is being discussed in several pieces at Townhall.com and AmericanThinker.com, as well as I’m sure, other conservative (read: honest and responsible reporting) sources. I am struck by the irony of a black man like Barry assuming he can dictate who is or isn’t a person. And they compare Bush to Hitler. Sheesh!
Hi Marshall,
Barack’s race has nothing to do with it. After all, white liberals often use the same tactic against black people who are against gay marriage. Personally, I don’t see his position as any worse than Bush’s Iraq policy (after all, children were killed in Iraq).
Be careful linking MRSA to homosexuals. A lady in my Sunday school class had gall bladder surgery about a year ago and contracted MRSA. She’s in her early 50’s with two adult children. I doubt she’s been involved in any of the activities listed in the link.
MRSA has also been reported in some schools in the area and was not transferred by sexual contact.
We conservative Christians quickly get labeled as homophobes or as being too strict when we should be concerned about the sick. Yes, and telling the non-sick how to stay that way. But be careful linking MRSA to sexual activity.
As for he Obama link, I think it’s interesting that he voted “present” on the bill. By doing so, he made two groups angry. He pro-abortion supporters think he sold out and the anti-abortion supporters, well read the link. {saracasm on} Poor guy, he just can please anyone. {sarcasm off}
Our local pregnancy crisis center has been doing a “spare change in a baby bottle” fundraiser for a few weeks now.
For some reason, the feminists hate CPCs. They claim that they lie, pressure women to not abort, etc… as opposed to Planned Parenthood, with an abortion/adoption (outsourced, of course) ratio of 186/1.
Oh, supposedly CPCs don’t help women once the baby is actually born. Sigh.
“186/1″
I’m surprised their ratio is even that “good.”
“Oh, supposedly CPCs don’t help women once the baby is actually born. Sigh.”
Yep, unlike Planned Parenthood. Here is a comprehensive list of what they do for the women who exercise their choice not to have their baby aborted:
“For some reason, the feminists hate CPCs.”
Yeah, I don’t quite get it. There’s all this talk of “we hate abortion. No one is for abortion. We are not pro-abortion, we are pro-choice” Yet they seem to hate anything that could possibly discourage a woman from getting one ever.
Chance,
Some people are in fact pro-abortion…not just pro-choice.
LorMarie,
You seem to be equating something unchangable with something changable.
Barry is black (half-black anyway, but at one time there was no such thing. He’d have been considered black). Blacks were considered non-persons, or some fraction less than 100% person. Blacks, most of them anyway, were displeased with this designation. They were considered so due to their color, something they can’t change (Michael Jackson notwithstanding). Now here he is, his personhood not in question by any but the most pathetic, and he’s assuming the authority to determine the personhood of another human being based on the child’s size, age, and its mother’s abhorent disregard for it, none of which the child can change. And you want to compare it to the condition of homosexuality, which has been proven to be changable. It doesn’t work.
It is also a major stretch to compare this to dead Iraqi children, whose lives were lost as a result of terrorist activity, not American attempts to eliminate it. The scumbags were killing children long before WE got there. There’s every indication that the Iraqi children know better who the bad guys are.
Randy,
No one is “linking” MRSA with homosexuality, except to say that it is rampant among them due to the ease with which it can be spread throught their sexual practices. It is true for a host of STDs. Combine this with the documented higher rate of promiscuity and infidelity, it shouldn’t be surprising that the highest percentages of a variety of diseases shows up amongst such a small percentage of the general population (around 2%) I read that 80% of new AIDS cases are among the homosexual community. Forgive me if the number isn’t perfectly accurate, but it is close enough to the truth. Evidently, similar stats exist for MRSA. None of these facts suggest that it doesn’t happen to others.
As for Barry, his “present” vote is as good as a “no” on this bill. However, according to some of the articles I’ve read on the subject, he has voted “no” on other versions of the bill. This man is unworthy of the presidency.
Marshall,
Not sure why you are taking liberty with applying a nickname to Barack since I’ve never heard him use it for himself. If he has, I stand corrected. If he hasn’t, well…Ive “seen that done before.” Respectfully, please spare me the history lesson about how black people were/are viewed. I am black myself so I know all about the black experience. It isn’t even the point here. My comparison was was correct. I’ve been in plenty of discussions on and off the net and have witnessed whites resorting to the, “you are black so how could you support or be against…” diatribe. Hey, some of them use that argument in favor of abortion rights. The same thing goes for the gay rights issue. I often hear that I should support a homosexual’s right to marry simply because I am black (and should understand where they are coming from). That was even used against Obama. It’s nothing more than pulling the race card when it’s not applicable.
As for Iraqi children, I will say this: I have been involved in the anti-Iraq war movement and had the opportunity to hear the stories of American soldiers who participated. In addition, I have a brother (former marine) who was there twice. Unfortunately, there were children killed (and some families completely wiped out) as a result of American actions. The difference is that it was mostly unintentional on the American side and likely deliberate on the part of the enemy. But, children are killed nonetheless. So knowing the risk to children’s lives, I see someone who is pro-war as no better than someone who is pro-choice. Of course some will argue that war is unavoidable in certain cases, that’s true…but people will argue the same for abortion. Why is one more moral than the other?
Marshall,
I haven’t checked the stats on AIDS or MRSA, but my understanding is that MRSA is more widely spread amoung heterosexuals than AIDS. My point is only that we as conservative Christians need to be careful. We got a bad rap because so many of our number just ignored AIDS – we figured it was a homosexual disease and they got what they deserved. That was a wrong attitude and we should not have taken that approach.
As for Barack, I think I agree with your points, but I do think it’s ironic (probably better word than “interesting”) that he made both sides angry.
Note: that I include myself in the conservative Christian label and fully accept the blame for what some of my conservative Christian brothers and sisters did.
Randy,
I think we aren’t so far apart on the subject of MRSA. I don’t think that the article suggests the same type of disregard afforded homosexuals regarding the early days of AIDS. Rather, it was only to point out how their practices allow for the easiest transmission amongst them.
“Not sure why you are taking liberty with applying a nickname to Barack since I’ve never heard him use it for himself.”
Lighten up, Lorrie-baby. If you want to go that way, I’d say the more appropriate attitude would be to use his complete name, that is “Barak Obama”, or “Mr. Obama”, neither of which I intend to do. Do you know him personally enough to simply say “Barak”? If so, good for you.
Next, I don’t much care what color you are. Really and truly. I do care that one human being would be so arrogant to point to another and say, “You’re not a person” or “You’re not human” and mean it. But as a black woman, I’m surprise you don’t see the irony of a black man making such a cold and heinous statement about another human being.
Finally, I’m not black, I don’t even tan well, but I don’t need to be to see the lie involved in comparing homosexuals with blacks or women or any other minority that is unable to change their race or gender. (Before anyone wastes keystrokes, transsexuals haven’t changed what they are, only what they look like) Homosexuals can and have changed in large numbers.
Now, let’s not be too stern with one another. We’ve only just met.
Marshal Art said: Homosexuals can and have changed in large numbers.
What evidence do you have that homosexuals have “changed”, and not simply denied their sexuality to conform, under pressure or indoctrination of some kind?
Sexuality is not some black and white thing. Like skin tone, its of varying shades. Some people appear to be strictly hetero or homo, and couldn’t conscience the other. Most people are somewhere in between, and probably towards the hetero end of the scale, though I’ve not statistics to back up that assertion.
Havok,
“What evidence do you have that homosexuals have “changed”, and not simply denied their sexuality to conform, under pressure or indoctrination of some kind?”
Testimony. Am I to believe that only those who claim to have changed are not telling the truth about their orientation? Sexuality is a matter of behavior and therefor nothing like sking tone whatsoever. Varying shades, is it? Do you cut pedophiles the same slack, or are only they the mentally unbalanced ones? We all have our urges and desires. Some need to be overcome and these are on the list. How deeply they are overcome can vary, but, changes in one’s perspective, paradigm, POV can be made. There are many organizations dedicated to helping people to overcome their home/lez desires. There are many success stories. Strangely (sarcasm), many have done it through faith-based groups and prayer. That God. He’s somethin’!
Did I say “sking tone”? Sorry.