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WA Post: Crackdown on Child Pornography
Crackdown on Child Pornography
Federal Action, Focused on Internet, Sets Off a Debate
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 15, 2007; Page A01
Lewd photographs of children were disappearing from adult bookstores. Child porn magazines in plain brown envelopes were no longer reaching customers through the mail. It was the early 1990s, and experts believed that federal law enforcement efforts were ending child pornography.
“We thought this was one of those rare forms of social deviance, of criminal behavior, that had been eradicated,” said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “Except for a fixated group of hard-core pedophiles, we thought it was gone.”
Dec 15, 2007
Topic: Family, Addictions, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Human Rights, National
IVP: Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study…
Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse present social science research on homosexuals designed to answer the questions
* Can persons who receive religiously informed psychotherapy experience a change in their sexual orientation? * Is it harmful for anyone to receive such therapy?The results show that outcomes for this kind of therapy are similar to outcomes of therapy for other psychological problems. Such therapy is not harmful to individuals.
This research will be of interest to all those who want to know the latest research on sexual orientation change and the effects of religiously based therapy on those who utilize it.
Sep 17, 2007
Topic: Faith, Ministry, Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
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
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
Boy Scouts suffer a legal setback in Supreme Court over discrimination
Six years after the Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts could ban gay leaders, the group is fighting and losing legal battles with state and local governments over its discriminatory policies.
Oct 20, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Abuse, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Church and State, Community Service, Human Rights, Legislation, Religious Liberty