Sexual Purity - links
Travelodge Hotel Chain Switches Off its Porn TV
Travelodge, one of the largest UK hotel chains, has decided to cut out its pornography option and replace the “adult” channels with family friendly material in order to encourage the growing number of parents and children who stay at its budget hotels.
Aug 20, 2007
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Pornography
Valuing Speech
Valuing Speech
Sunday, June 24, 2007
by George Will
WASHINGTON — Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.
At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city’s government says those words italicized here constitute something akin to hate speech, and can be proscribed from the government’s open e-mail system and employee bulletin board.
Jun 30, 2007
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Religious Liberty
Graven images? Pornography in the Church - KC Star
http://www.kansascity.com/255/v-print/story/142253.html
Jun 18, 2007
Topic: Faith, Bible, Ministry, Family, Sexual Purity, Pornography
Sex Offenders Test Churches’ Core Beliefs
On a marquee outside and on a banner inside, Pilgrim United Church of Christ proclaims, “All are welcome.” Sustained by the belief that embracing all comers is a living example of Christ’s love, Pilgrim now faces a profound test of faith.
Apr 10, 2007
Topic: Faith, Family, Sexual Purity, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship
For Some Black Pastors, Accepting Gay Members Means Losing Others
When the Rev. Dennis Meredith of Tabernacle Baptist Church here began preaching acceptance of gay men and lesbians a few years ago, he attracted some gay people who were on the brink of suicide and some who had left the Baptist faith of their childhoods but wanted badly to return. At the same time, Tabernacle Baptist, an African-American congregation, lost many of its most loyal, generous parishioners, who could not accept a message that contradicted what they saw as the Bible’s condemnation of same-sex relations.
Mar 27, 2007
Topic: Faith, Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship
RADIO - Global Warming
Dr. Barrett Duke Guests hosts Richard Land Live! on Saturday January 6, 2007
Updated Jan 24, 2007 to point to the FFF version of the broadcast.
Jan 6, 2007
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, War, Science, Bioethics, Environment
Same-Sex Marriage Setback in Massachusetts
Massachusetts, the only state where same-sex marriage is legal, took a first step toward possibly banning it Tuesday when legislators voted to advance a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman. The amendment now requires the approval of at least 50 legislators in another vote in the 2007-8 session. Then it would be placed on the November 2008 ballot as a referendum question.
Jan 4, 2007
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
WSJ - ‘Unprotected’
Wall Street Journal – Opinion Journal
BY DANIELLE CRITTENDEN
Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
“My patients were hurting, they looked to me and what could I do?” So confesses an anonymous campus physician in the beginning of her startling memoir. Over the course of 200 pages, she tells story after story about suffering young women. If these women were ailing from eating disorders, or substance abuse, or almost any other medical or psychological problem, their university health departments would spring to their aid. “Cardiologists hound patients about fatty diets and insufficient exercise. Pediatricians encourage healthy snacks, helmets and discussion of drugs and alcohol. Everyone condemns smoking and tanning beds.”
Unfortunately, the young women described in “Unprotected” have fallen victim to one of the few personal troubles that our caring professions refuse to treat or even acknowledge: They have been made miserable by their “sexual choices.” And on that subject, few modern doctors dare express a word of judgment.
Dec 14, 2006
Topic: Family, Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Addictions, Substance Abuse, Living, Health, Sexual Purity, Abstinence, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Social Issues
Gay and Evangelical, Seeking Paths of Acceptance
Justin Lee believes that the Virgin birth was real, that there is a heaven and a hell, that salvation comes through Christ alone and that he, the 29-year-old son of Southern Baptists, is an evangelical Christian.
Dec 12, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
New Jersey Court Backs Full Rights for Gay Couples
New Jersey’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that gay couples are entitled to the same legal rights and financial benefits as heterosexual couples, but ordered the Legislature to decide whether their unions must be called marriage or could be known by another name.
Oct 26, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Legislation