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Gays expand battlefield
After a decade of fighting for same-sex “marriage,” some homosexual activists are breaking their silence to say it’s time to fight for benefits for all kinds of relationships.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, National, Social Issues
Chaplains help carry spiritual load of war
They look like the other soldiers, but the Army’s airborne chaplains are noncombatants who carry camo-covered Bibles instead of weapons when it’s time to leap from aircraft onto the battlefield.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Social Issues, War
Democratic defeatism
Suddenly, the Democrats have found their voice on Iraq. It is the sound of defeatism.
Would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and 10 of their colleagues in leadership positions have proclaimed that it is time to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Social Issues, War
Science’s stem-cell scam - Washington Times
July 22, 2006 Washington Times Commentary by Michael Fumento.
“Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) receive tremendous media attention, with oft-repeated claims they have the potential to cure virtually every disease known. Yet there are spoilsports, myself included, who point out ESCs have yet to even make it into a human clinical trial. This is even as alternatives — adult stem cells (ASCs) from numerous places in the body as well as umbilical cord blood and placenta — are curing diseases here and now and have been doing so for decades. And that makes ESC advocates very, very angry.”
Jul 22, 2006
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Social Issues, Issues, Adoption
Homosexual paper: Democrats to combat marriage amendments with ‘5-point plan’
WASHINGTON (BP)—The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, reported July 14 that the Democratic National Committee has devised “a five-point plan” to combat ballot initiatives to protect traditional marriage in state constitutions, although a DNC spokesman quoted by the Blade would neither confirm nor deny the report to Baptist Press.
Jul 14, 2006
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Legislation, National, Social Issues
Obama Defines Christianity to Include Leftist Ideals
Democrat Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, has made headlines recently by talking about religion and politics. In the process, he has alienated Democrats and Republicans alike: Democrats were offended when he said “not every mention of God in the public square is a breach to the wall of separation,” and conservative Republicans were outraged when he kept referring to religious conservatives as “those people” and described them as “heavy-handed.”
Jul 14, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Social Issues
Who is at fault?
WASHINGTON — Next June will mark the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War. For four decades we have been told that the cause of the anger, violence and terror against Israel is its occupation of the territories seized in that war. End the occupation and the ``cycle of violence’‘ ceases.
Jul 14, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, War, Issues
Q&A: What is the stem cell controversy all about?
WASHINGTON (BP)—The United States Senate is expected to vote the week of July 17-21 on three bills regarding human embryo research, including a controversial measure that would fund destructive, stem cell experiments.
Jul 11, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Human Rights, Social Issues
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
Liberal Baby Bust
The liberal baby bust
By Phillip Longman
USA Today
March 13, 2006
A Phillip Longman editorial explaining why conservatism may overtake liberalism simply by default. Why? Liberalism by it’s very nature leads to lower birthrates and therefore less liberals.
Mar 13, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Parenting, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State, Religious Liberty, Social Issues, Issues