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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

Online-Gambling Shares Plunge on Passage of U.S. Crackdown Law

By ERIC PFANNER, International Herald Tribune
Published: October 3, 2006

LONDON, Oct. 2 — On a Black Monday for the online-gambling industry, companies that operate Internet betting sites and payment systems lost billions of dollars in market value after the United States government moved to criminalize the processing of online wagers.

Oct 3, 2006

Topic: Family, Addictions, Gambling, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Legislation, National, Issues

Online-Gambling Shares Plunge on Passage of U.S. Crackdown Law

On a Black Monday for the online-gambling industry, companies that operate Internet betting sites and payment systems lost billions of dollars in market value after the United States government moved to criminalize the processing of online wagers.

Oct 3, 2006

Topic: Family, Addictions, Gambling, Citizenship, Legislation

Online Gaming in Crisis Over U.S. Ban

Online gambling firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.

Oct 2, 2006

Topic: Family, Addictions, Gambling, Citizenship, Legislation, National

2006 SBC Resolution on Alcohol Use in America

The 15 resolutions passed at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention included this resolution on Alcohol.

Jun 14, 2006

Topic: Faith, Ministry, Family, Addictions, Substance Abuse, Citizenship, Social Issues, Issues

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