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  • The More They Know Darwin, The Less They Want Darwin-Only Indoctrination

    10/28/2009 7:34:50 PM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 303 replies · 3,108+ views
    Evolution News & Views ^ | October 27, 2009 | Anika Smith
    The More They Know Darwin, The Less They Want Darwin-Only Indoctrination According to an international poll released by the British Council, the majority of Americans — 60% — support teaching alternatives to evolution in the science classroom. The percentage is the same for Britons, despite the fact that both countries have been inundated with pro-Darwin media coverage in this super-mega Darwin Year. Of course, the British media reporting this are chagrined. Britain is the birthplace of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, and the official-sounding British Council, the UK group behind the “Darwin Now” campaign that commissioned the Ipsos...
  • Swiss crackdown on 'suicide tourism' could spell end of Dignitas clinic

    10/28/2009 5:46:29 PM PDT · by bruinbirdman · 8 replies · 275+ views
    The Times ^ | 10/29/2009 | Roger Boyes
    Switzerland announced plans yesterday to crack down on “suicide tourism”, signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill people to take their lives. The plans — in the form of two draft Bills that will be offered for public debate — are likely to set off a rush of patients from Britain and elsewhere in Europe since Switzerland has become the main destination for those seeking assisted suicide. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, the Justice Minister, said that two options would be presented to parliament. Either clinics such as Dignitas and Exit, which deals chiefly with...
  • Graphic Obama-Themed Abortion Display Clashes with Strong Pro-Abortion Presence at UC Berkeley

    10/28/2009 3:55:35 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 36 replies · 1,302+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/28/09 | Kathleen Gilbert
    BERKELEY, California, October 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The University of California Berkeley campus erupted into a hotbed of controversy earlier this week after the Genocide Awareness Project set up an immense two-day display of graphic abortion images in the midst of what is considered one of the most liberal universities in America. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform teamed up with the on-campus group Berkeley Students for Life on Monday and Tuesday to set up the large images of aborted children, juxtaposed with the images and words of President Obama.  The huge billboards quickly attracted curious onlookers and angry local...
  • Aborted Fetal Material Used in Anti-Wrinkle Creams

    10/28/2009 10:09:49 AM PDT · by bogusname · 42 replies · 978+ views
    Christian Newswire ^ | Oct. 27, 2009 | Christian Newswire
    Children of God for Life announced today that Neocutis, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology and skin care is using aborted fetal cell lines to produce several of their anti-aging skin creams. "It is absolutely deplorable that Neocutis would resort to exploiting the remains of a deliberately slaughtered baby for nothing other than pure vanity and financial gain," stated Executive Director Debi Vinnedge. "There is simply no moral justification for this." ...
  • Mate debate: Is monogamy realistic? (CNN Continues it's Downward Spiral)

    10/28/2009 10:15:17 AM PDT · by Reaganesque · 78 replies · 1,639+ views
    CNN.com ^ | 10/28/09 | A. Pawlowski,
    (CNN) -- If you were to judge the success rate of monogamy by the sex lives of public figures, perhaps couples should change their marriage vows to say, "Till a tempting new partner do us part." Talk-show host David Letterman recently joined former presidential candidate John Edwards, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on a long list of politicians and entertainers (think Jude Law) who have admitted having sex outside their marriage or committed relationship. But do they just illustrate the realities of modern life? In the age of hookups, friends with benefits and...
  • Socializing Society by Eliminating the Family

    10/28/2009 8:40:25 AM PDT · by IbJensen · 26 replies · 840+ views
    Chron Watch ^ | 10/28/2009 | Thomas E. Brewton
    Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, proposes to abolish traditional marriage as a state-sponsored institution. As many feared, same-sex marriage may become the wedge to destroy the religious and political institutions of marriage and family. Each new day brings to light additions to the torrent of liberal-progressive-socialist attacks upon the basic social and political institutions of Western civilization and its foundation in Judeo-Christian morality. Reducing marriage to no more than issuance of a civil certificate acknowledging the partnering of any two people is exactly what the Soviet Union did. The aim was, and...
  • How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up!

    10/28/2009 8:20:36 AM PDT · by dvan · 23 replies · 1,285+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | October 28, 2009 | Michelle Malkin
    The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige. Over the last week, an outfit called "So We Might See" has conducted a nationwide fast to protest "media violence" -- specifically, "anti-immigrant hate speech, which employs flawed arguments to appeal to fears rather than facts." Their ire is currently aimed at Fox News and conservative talk-show giants. But how long before they target...
  • Does HIV mean certain death? (AIDS and Global Warming have one thing in common: HARD-LEFT POLITICS!)

    10/28/2009 8:32:21 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 105 replies · 3,352+ views
    The Spectator ^ | October 24, 2009 | Neville Hodgkinson
    Does HIV mean certain death? In the quarter century since the world was introduced to the idea that a new sexually transmitted virus was the cause of Aids, HIV has been generally regarded as one of the biggest killers of our time. HIV/Aids has not been the mass disease in Britain that people were led to believe in the 1980s, but the death toll from immune deficiency diseases ascribed to HIV in Africa has been staggering. The scale of death there is an ongoing tragedy that tests the moral resolve of the rich world. How much do we care? Enough...
  • (UK) Doctors engaged in ‘slow euthanasia’ for patients with terminal illnesses

    10/28/2009 7:49:59 AM PDT · by markomalley · 13 replies · 518+ views
    The Times ^ | 10/28/2009 | David Rose
    Patients with terminal illness are being heavily sedated by doctors before their deaths in a form of “slow euthanasia”, research suggests. A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that almost one in five had administered infusions of drugs to keep patients unconscious for hours or days at a time. In appropriate doses, sedatives and strong painkillers are considered a valuable way of easing the pain and anxiety of patients who are dying with conditions such as cancer. But 18.7 per cent of British doctors polled said they used drugs to invoke “continuous deep sedation” in a dying patient, a practice...
  • Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me' over trying to pull govt funded abortion from bill

    10/28/2009 6:10:03 AM PDT · by Mozilla · 18 replies · 1,032+ views
    The Hill ^ | 10/28/2009 | Bob Cusak
    Rep. Bart Stupak said Speaker Pelosi is not pleased with his effort to change abortion-related provisions in the healthcare bill being crafted by the House. During an interview on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" show, Stupak (D-Mich.) said he is undeterred in trying to ensure that taxpayer dollars do not pay for abortions. Stupak, who opposes abortion rights, acknowledged that some in his party are upset with his public campaign to change the bill. "The Speaker is not happy with me," Stupak said. The Energy and Commerce subcommittee chairman said he has been working with Democratic leaders on a compromise, but they...
  • Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Advocated ‘Queering Elementary Education’

    10/28/2009 6:19:20 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 8 replies · 372+ views
    Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Advocated ‘Queering Elementary Education’ Wednesday, October 28, 2009 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s safe schools czar wrote a foreword to a book in 1999 that called for elementary school children to explore their sexual identities, for teachers to incorporate homosexual themes in grades K-5, for discarding a “hetero-normative” approach to education and for “acknowledging children as sexual beings.” Kevin Jennings, now the assistant deputy secretary for education who heads the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, began the foreword to Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling (Rowan...
  • Playing for Keeps (Abortion in Obamacare)

    10/28/2009 5:51:30 AM PDT · by markomalley · 8 replies · 299+ views
    American Spectator ^ | 10/28/2009 | Ken Blackwell
    When President Obama was asked about whether abortion was in his health care plan, he answered elliptically. He didn't say it was or wasn't. He said there was a "tradition in this town of not paying for abortion." But isn't he the One elected on a platform of hope and change? Isn't he the One who wants to re-found the American experiment? Liberals would never have supported him for President if he said -- as Sen. Al Gore once said -- that abortion should not be federally-funded. Gore was running for President in 1988. He faced a buzzsaw of criticism...
  • Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me'

    10/28/2009 2:28:17 AM PDT · by markomalley · 8 replies · 602+ views
    The Hill ^ | 10/27/2009 | Bob Cusack
    Rep. Bart Stupak said Speaker Pelosi is not pleased with his effort to change abortion-related provisions in the healthcare bill being crafted by the House. During an interview on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" show, Stupak (D-Mich.) said he is undeterred in trying to ensure that taxpayer dollars do not pay for abortions. Stupak, who opposes abortion rights, acknowledged that some in his party are upset with his public campaign to change the bill. "The Speaker is not happy with me," Stupak said. The Energy and Commerce subcommittee chairman said he has been working with Democratic leaders on a compromise, but they...
  • Darwinopterus v Dawkins (admits evolution "nowhere explicitly set out" in any of his prev. books!)

    10/27/2009 7:33:36 PM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 24 replies · 840+ views
    CMI ^ | October 27, 2009 | Jonathan Safarti, Ph.D.
    Prominent antitheist and self-styled “atheist” Richard Dawkins has written a new book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Ironically, he admits about all his previous pro-evolution books: “Looking back on these books, I realized that the evidence for evolution is nowhere explicitly set out, and that it seemed like a good gap to close.”. Naturally, CMI is preparing a book to answer Dawkins’ latest. In a chapter about alleged bad design, Dawkins had a section about the loss of wings and evolution of features like halteres, the little drumstick-like stabilizers behind the one pair of wings on...
  • What every child needs? Government has no idea.

    While organizing our filing system, I ran across my adoption papers. My mother gave them to me a couple of years ago for my own records. The cost of my adoption was a 300.00 donation to Catholic Charities in Chicago, I was six days old. I am blessed to be in the family, in which I was placed. My mother tells me there were lots of rules to comply with. The agency wanted to make sure I had a stable and secure home. In reality, no one can predict how a family will one day turn out. Ours certainly had...
  • A "Brite" Who is Actually a "Know Nothing" (Dawkins: Catholic Church "greatest force for evil")

    10/27/2009 6:46:41 PM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 172 replies · 2,511+ views
    Discovery Institute ^ | October 27, 2009 | Bruce Chapman
    In America we are a century and a half away from the "Know-Nothing Party", a secret political society that fulminated against the Catholic Church and Irish immigrants. (Asked about its composition, members would say, "I know nothing;" hence, the moniker.) Formed in public as The American Party, the party's hateful, nativist politics took a long time to expunge from our shores. But we now have an Englishman, Richard Dawkins--one of society's "Brites" according to his fellow-Darwinist, Daniel Dennett--in a screed against the Catholic Church that proclaims the same frothing bigotry exemplified by the Know-Nothings. This and Dawkins' various other attacks...
  • Gardasil Vaccine Researcher Drops Bombshell

    10/27/2009 3:49:03 PM PDT · by mlizzy · 77 replies · 2,385+ views
    The Philadelpia Bulletin ^ | 10-25-09 | Susan Brinkmann
    Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15. “I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all,” said Joan Robinson, Assistant Editor at the...
  • Abp. Dolan: American Catholic Leadership against Abortion Redeems Laxity against Slavery

    10/27/2009 4:10:27 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 12 replies · 384+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/27/09 | Kathleen Gilbert
    NEW YORK, October 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While the American Catholic Church once failed to diligently promote human dignity in the era of slavery, Catholics can now take pride that its leaders are taking a stand against the civil rights atrocity of abortion, said New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan last week.In his column at Catholic New York Online, Archbishop Dolan reflected on October as Respect Life Month by pointing out the similarities between slavery and abortion in America - two assaults on human life, he notes, that were both deemed "constitutional."Dolan writes: "That 'right' to own a slave was...
  • Dozen People Watched Gang Rape, Police Say (The Devolution of the USA)

    10/27/2009 9:10:56 AM PDT · by Red in Blue PA · 64 replies · 3,100+ views
    Foxnews ^ | 10/27/2009 | Staff
    RICHMOND, Calif. — Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it. Two suspects were in custody Monday, but police said as many as five other men attacked the girl over a two-hour period Friday night outside Richmond High School. "She was raped, beaten, robbed and dehumanized by several suspects who were obviously OK enough with it to behave that way in each other's presence," Lt. Mark Gagan said. "What makes it even more disturbing is the presence of others. People came by, saw...
  • SECTION 1803: SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL MAKES PLANNED PARENTHOOD QUASI-GOVERNMENT AGENCY?

    10/27/2009 9:45:35 AM PDT · by EternalVigilance · 10 replies · 654+ views
    AIPNews.com ^ | October 27, 2009 | Katie Walker
    American Life League 27 October 2009 CONTACT: Katie Walker540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org  Washington, DC (27 October 2009) – The Senate version of America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 may transform the nation’s largest abortion chain into a quasi-government entity for sex education. Section 1803, page 503, creates a National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Resource Center and states: The Secretary shall award a grant to a nationally recognized, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that meets the requirements described in clause (ii) to establish and operate a national teen pregnancy prevention resource center (in this subparagraph referred to as the ‘Resource Center’) to carry out the purpose...
  • (UK) Doctors who back assisted suicide 40 per cent more likely to withdraw treatment

    10/27/2009 5:32:24 AM PDT · by markomalley · 8 replies · 304+ views
    The Times ^ | 10/27/2009 | David Rose
    Doctors who support the legalisation of assisted suicide are more likely to withdraw or withhold treatment from dying patients, a study has found. Actively helping someone to die remains illegal in Britain but more than a third of GPs and hospital doctors report making decisions which they expected would accelerate the death of a terminally-ill patient. A significant minority — 7 per cent — said that they had taken steps such as withdrawing medications, foods or fluid, with the intention of hastening a patient’s death. But doctors who actively support a change in the law to allow assisted suicide are...
  • (UK) NHS lifetime ban on 'high-risk' gay men donating blood to be reviewed

    10/27/2009 5:28:14 AM PDT · by markomalley · 25 replies · 741+ views
    The Times ^ | 10/27/2009 | David Rose
    A longstanding ban that prevents gay and bisexual men from giving blood is being reviewed and could be overturned as early as next year, the Government has said. Men who have had sex with other men are currently banned for life from donating blood, under measures designed to reduce the risk of passing on infections such as HIV. But gay rights campaigners have condemned the policy as being irrational. The Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (Sabto) meets today to discuss evidence for and against exclusion of high-risk donors as part of an official review of...
  • (UK) Cervical cancer jab would 'make girls more promiscuous'

    10/27/2009 5:25:49 AM PDT · by markomalley · 15 replies · 340+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 10/27/2009
    Almost one in five girls (19 per cent) also think a boyfriend may expect them to take sexual risks because they have had the jab. One in four girls having the cervical cancer jab would not tell a boyfriend they had been vaccinated while one in five think the vaccine is embarrassing because it is for a sexually-transmitted infection. However, 79 per cent of girls said having the vaccination reminds them of the possible risks of sexual contact and 93 per cent think it shows they are serious about their own health. The survey of more than 500 12 and...
  • "Law & Order" Abortion Episode Outrages Pro-Abortion Groups

    10/26/2009 4:02:37 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 35 replies · 1,611+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/26/09 | James Tillman
    WASHINGTON, DC, October 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Last Friday's episode of Law & Order on NBC, entitled "Dignity," has infuriated pro-abortionists while pleasantly surprising pro-lifers with an unexpectedly even-handed treatment of the issue of abortion.  Ripping its plot from recent headlines, "Dignity" begins with the murder of late-term abortionist Dr. Walter Benning (Matthew Boston) during a church service.  Although the episode has a disclaimer stating that the story is fictional, its initial outline closely matches the case of the late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller, who was shot and killed in a church in Wichita, Kansas, on May 31st.  After the...
  • Vancouver Church Steps up to Provide Venue for Euthanasia Activist after Library Refuses

    10/26/2009 3:57:34 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 9 replies · 334+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/26/09 | Thaddeus M. Baklinski
    VANCOUVER, October 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Unitarian Church of Vancouver has stepped in to provide a Canadian venue for Australian right-to-die activist Philip Nitschke after he was refused workshop space to hold a seminar on how to commit suicide by the Vancouver Public Library.Rev. Steven Epperson of the Unitarian church said he believes Nitschke, director of the suicide advocacy group Exit International, has the right to free speech, even if he's telling people how to kill themselves."Historically, we have provided a forum, a space, for controversial, difficult ideas to be presented," Epperson told the Vancouver Province.The Vancouver church has a...
  • Saved from Abortion: The Remarkable Stories behind Four Pro-Life "Saves"

    10/26/2009 3:53:24 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 9 replies · 440+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/26/09 | David Bereit
    Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for LifeOctober 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The words a sidewalk counselor spoke to a woman entering the abortion center in Dallas, Texas summed things up so accurately. "I know the baby is not the problem," the counselor said, "but it's the situation you are in."The woman took information from the counselor but continued into the clinic -- while 40 Days for Life vigil participants prayed for her and her child.An hour later, the woman came out of the clinic in tears. She was married, she said, but thinking about abortion -- though...
  • Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN Promotes Pornography to Children

    10/26/2009 9:57:41 AM PDT · by massmike · 7 replies · 476+ views
    massresistance.net ^ | 10/26/2009 | n/a
    Obama’s “Safe Schools” czar, Kevin Jennings, founded and led GLSEN for 18 years. A current GLSEN lesson plan for “LGBT History” -- intended for schoolchildren – celebrates gay and lesbian activists from the 1950s and ’60s. It recommends the film “Gay Pioneers” which profiles several practitioners and promoters of pornography. GLSEN recommends “Gay Pioneers” for classroom use, for showing at a Gay-Straight Alliance club meeting (invite other clubs!), for a school assembly, or for donation to the school library. (In the past, GLSEN’s website has recommended readings for children describing -- and implicitly endorsing -- adult-child sex and sexual experimentation...
  • ‘Hooray for eugenics!’: How American Bible-rejecting churches supported Nazi-like policies

    10/26/2009 8:21:51 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 17 replies · 719+ views
    Creation Magazine ^ | Russell Grigg
    Many people have said or thought this since Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton, invented the term ‘eugenics’ in 1883.[1] Since then, the cheerleaders for this offspring of evolution have included racists of many different nationalities, such as Hitler’s Nazis, as well as enthusiasts for the ‘right’ to abortion, euthanasia, and now in the 21st century, human destruction for embryonic stem-cell research. This is of course consistent with the belief they all share, namely that people are all just evolved animals. The many violations of human rights, and the killings and genocides which are the result of eugenicist beliefs are well documented...
  • Statement of Bishop Tobin in Response to Congressman Kennedy's Attack on Catholic Church

    10/26/2009 7:24:55 AM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 53 replies · 1,875+ views
    Rhode Island Catholic ^ | October 26, 2009 | Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin
    [Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I) told CNSNews.com that the Catholic Church is doing nothing but fanning “the flames of dissent and discord” by taking the position that it will oppose the health-care reform bill under consideration in Congress unless it is amended to explicitly prohibit funding of abortion.] Bishop Tobin's rejoinder: “Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s statement about the Catholic Church’s position on health care reform is irresponsible and ignorant of the facts. But the Congressman is correct in stating that “he can’t understand.” He got that part right. As I wrote to Congressman Kennedy and other members of the Rhode Island Congressional...
  • Felines, Nothing More than Felines

    10/26/2009 4:29:29 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 19 replies · 1,248+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | October 26, 2009 | Mike Adams
    Editors' Note: the following column contains graphic language.Dear People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (http://www.peta.org/): This Friday, I will turn 45 years old. I’m planning to celebrate my birthday by arranging a small demonstration in front of Randall Library on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Wilmington. I realize this is short notice but I need a favor. Since we’re old friends I figured you could do this for me as an early birthday gift. I’m looking for three cats that have been discarded by their owners because they were either unable to afford them or...
  • UNMC Research Team Makes Major Breakthrough In Stem Cell Research (Adult Stem Cells)

    10/26/2009 5:18:44 AM PDT · by markomalley · 6 replies · 424+ views
    A University of Nebraska Medical Center research team led by Iqbal Ahmad, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has reprogrammed regular body cells to resemble embryonic stem cells without the use of potentially harmful foreign genetic material. The research, published in STEM CELLS, suggests that cells taken from a patient's eye can be "reprogrammed" to replace or restore cells lost to degenerative diseases. The research is the first proof in principle that somatic, or body cells, can be transformed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) simply through the influence of the microenvironment in which the sampled cells are cultured....
  • Boy, 13, and girl, 14, to be parents

    10/25/2009 7:24:59 PM PDT · by myknowledge · 32 replies · 1,299+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | October 26, 2009
    A 13-year-old boy is set to become a father after his 14-year-old girlfriend became pregnant. The two children, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, attend the same school. But the girl, who is several months pregnant, is in the year above the boy, report the Daily Mail. It is the latest in a history of under-age pregnancies in Poole, Dorset. In 1997, Jenny Teague became the country’s youngest mother when she gave birth, aged 12, to daughter Sasha. Two years later, sisters Charlene, 17, and Miranda Way, 15, from Poole gave birth within months of each other. The local...
  • Abortion Kills More Black Americans Than the Seven Leading Causes of Death Combined, Says CDC Data

    10/25/2009 9:40:20 AM PDT · by wagglebee · 34 replies · 1,234+ views
    CNS News ^ | 10/23/09 | Karen Schuberg
    (CNSNews.com) – Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available. Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC.  During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined.  These were the seven leading causes of death for black Americans...
  • Asian Darwinist Profs Call Creationists Barbarians

    10/24/2009 4:02:17 PM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 250 replies · 2,869+ views
    CEH ^ | October 22, 2009
    Oct 22, 2009 — “We have kept the creationist barbarians from the gate,” announced a professor at Hong Kong University triumphantly. A news article in Science this week described tensions in the city over the teaching of evolution. The Darwinists won a vote over a change in wording in the science curriculum that would have “opened the door to teaching creationism and intelligent design in secondary schools.” The door must be shut tight, apparently. Even the possibility of this happening created a furore. Reporter Richard Stone said, “As a year of honoring Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution draws...
  • CHRISTIANS MUZZLED BY NEW LEGISLATION

    10/24/2009 11:22:43 AM PDT · by Psion · 33 replies · 1,690+ views
    The Last Crusade ^ | Oct. 24, 2009 | The Last Crusade
    The Silence of the Lambs - - Obama Style Farewell, Free Speech - - Part 991 bythelastcrusade.org So much for free speech and 1st Amendment rights. A hate crimes bill, which was passed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday and sent to President Obama for his signature, will serve to muzzle Christian writers, preachers, and teachers who still possess the temerity to advocate Biblical values. Mr. Obama has made a pledge to the gay and lesbian community that the bill will become law before the end of October. Matt Barber, an attorney for Liberty Counsel, says that the President...
  • Around 40 Dems line up against federal abortion funding in healthcare bill

    10/24/2009 2:21:51 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 10 replies · 895+ views
    The Hill ^ | 10/24/09 | Jordan Fabian
    Approximately 40 House Democrats are prepared to block healthcare reform legislation from coming to the floor should the bill include federal subsidies for abortions, said Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) Friday. Stupak, who is conservative on social issues, told CNS News that he has organized the voting bloc to support his amendment that would strip the abortion provisions from the legislation. House Rules Committee chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), according to Stupak, said that there is "no way" her panel would provide a vote for his amendment. The group of 40 would join House Republicans in voting against procedural measure that would...
  • 200 abortionists, Jeanne Tiller get aborted eye-full at National Abortion Federation event

    10/24/2009 2:00:11 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 42 replies · 1,213+ views
    JillStanek.com ^ | 10/22/09 | Jill Stanek
    On October 17, the National Abortion Federation held a "Remembering Dr. Tiller" event at the Westin Hotel in Denver, with 200 abortionists from around the world attending. I simply can't imagine being in a room full of abortionists. Their hands, yuck. What did they talk about? Although the thought of all this truly creeps me out, this is the sort of event where I'd like to be a fly on the wall.Jeanne Tiller accepted the award on behalf of her husband George, who was murdered May 31.American Right to Life got wind of the event beforehand and were able...
  • News to Note, October 24, 2009 (another would-be "Icon of Evolution" bites the dust)

    10/24/2009 8:09:04 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 35 replies · 910+ views
    AiG ^ | October24, 2009
    (For all these stories and more, click on the excerpt link below) 1. BBC News: “Primate Fossil ‘Not an Ancestor’” Remember “Ida,” the missing link that wasn’t? In a Nature letter, scientists attack the lofty claims that surrounded the announcement of the fossil primate. 2. Did the Baby Mammoth, Lyuba, Suffocate in a Dust Storm? In a special guest news analysis, creationist (and mammoth expert) Michael Oard considers the well-preserved mammoth “Lyuba” (whom we first discussed in A Mammoth Discovery). The occasion? Lyuba’s worldwide debut. 3. National Geographic News: “Chimps Display Humanlike Good Will” Chimps, especially mothers and their offspring,...
  • The Loin in Winter: Hefner Reflects, and Grins (NY TIMES Tries out "People" Model)

    10/24/2009 6:53:11 AM PDT · by Titus-Maximus · 41 replies · 1,794+ views
    NY Times ^ | 10/23/09 | Brooks Barnes
    LOS ANGELES — Hugh Hefner leaned back on a red loveseat, the saggy one in the study of his infamous mansion here, and interlocked his fingers behind his head. A visitor had asked — more like shouted, since he has trouble hearing — a question about mortality. At 83, does he think about it? In a word, no. Mr. Hefner, the legendarily libidinous founder of Playboy, the prophet of hedonism, does not believe that his denouement is at hand. He doesn’t act like it, either. He still works full days on his magazine, flies to Europe and Las Vegas, pops...
  • Stupak: If no Pro-Life Amendment, ‘About 40 Likeminded Democrats’ Will Vote to Kill Health Bill

    10/23/2009 3:51:59 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 52 replies · 1,636+ views
    CNSNews ^ | October 23, 2009 | Terence P. Jeffrey
    Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com yesterday that he has organized a group of “about 40 likeminded Democrats” who will vote to kill the health-care bill if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) does not allow a floor vote on his amendment to prohibit federal funds from going to insurance plans that cover abortion. Under Stupak’s plan, the approximately 40 Democrats in his camp would join with all House Republicans in voting to defeat the special House “rule” that would set the terms for debating and amending the health-care bill on the House floor when it is brought up for a...
  • Ken Connor: Rationing and Death Panels - End of Life Care Should Not End Life

    10/23/2009 4:53:06 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 6 replies · 280+ views
    Life News ^ | 10/23/09 | Ken Connor
    LifeNews.com Note: Ken Connor the chairman of the Center for a Just Society and co-author of "Sinful Silence: When Christians Neglect Their Civic Duty." A pro-life attorney, he was intimately involved in the fight to save Terri Schiavo and is the former president of the Family Research Council.The subject of how best to honor and care for those facing death due to terminal illness or old age has always been controversial. As talk of "death panels" and "rationing" stirs debate over the government's proper role in health care, two new studies funded by the National Institutes of Health are lending...
  • Regulatory Czar Sunstein urges the term 'marriage' abolished

    10/23/2009 1:01:12 PM PDT · by thisisthetime · 207 replies · 6,110+ views
    WND via The Woodward Report ^ | October 23, 2009 | Aaron Klein
    The U.S. government should abolish its sanctioning of marriage, argued Cass Sunstein, President Obama's regulatory czar. Sunstein proposed that the concept of marriage should become privatized, with the state only granting civil union contracts to couples wishing to enter into an agreement. Sunstein explained marriage licensing is unnecessary, pointing out people stay committed to organizations like country clubs and homeowner associations without any government interference. "Under our proposal, the word marriage would no longer appear in any laws, and marriage licenses would no longer be offered or recognized by any level of government," wrote Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler in...
  • Nun Volunteering as Abortion Clinic Escort in Illinois

    10/23/2009 12:05:38 PM PDT · by NYer · 60 replies · 1,358+ views
    LifeSite ^ | October 23, 2009 | Kathleen Gilbert
    LifeSiteNews.com) - A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Illinois recently - but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort. Local pro-life activists say that they recognized the escort at the ACU Health Center as Sr. Donna Quinn, a nun outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, after seeing her photo in a Chicago Tribune article. "I've called her sister several times, and she never responded," local pro-lifer John Bray told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). "But it's her."  Amy Keane, a pro-life...
  • Retirement community wants 6-year-old evicted

    10/23/2009 8:53:41 AM PDT · by InvisibleChurch · 219 replies · 3,400+ views
    www.wtsp.com ^ | 10.23.09
    Pinellas Park, Florida-- A six year old girl sent to live with her grandparents as a baby is now being evicted from her home, for being too young. The grandparents, Jimmy and Judie Stottler, live in a Pinellas Park retirement community that doesn't allow children. The Home Owners Association now wants the child removed. "For some reason, there's a few, just a few who don't want Kimberly. And I just don't get it," said Judie Stottler. The granddaughter was taken from her home at just six months old after the state discovered her mother was abusing drugs. She's lived with...
  • Sunstein urges: Abolish marriage

    10/23/2009 8:02:19 AM PDT · by Grunthor · 159 replies · 2,506+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | Oct 23 | Aaron Klein
    The U.S. government should abolish its sanctioning of marriage, argued Cass Sunstein, President Obama's regulatory czar.
  • YOUNG BRITISH GIRLS SOLD AS SEX SLAVES TO SAUDI MILLIONAIRES

    10/23/2009 7:29:54 AM PDT · by Psion · 70 replies · 3,444+ views
    The Last Crusade ^ | October 23, 2009 | The Last Crusade
    “This Is As Sick As It Gets!” Islamic Pedophilia Plagues England bythelastcrusade.org British parents are forcing the schoolgirls into prostitution and selling them to Saudi and other Arab millionaire pedophiles. Members of the UK’s Vice Squad collared three women and one man from Manchester after secretly filming them offering to pimp six girls aged between 14 and 23 at a five-star West London hotel. They also taped the gang bragging how they were prepared to peddle even younger, prepubescent girls. The gang - - described by the British police as “something out of TV's Shameless" - - also had...
  • Using obviously false statistics Democrats aiming to punish Red States that prohibit Gay adoptions

    10/23/2009 6:06:00 AM PDT · by jmaroneps37 · 10 replies · 466+ views
    The Collins Report ^ | October 23, 2009 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
    Democrat Pete Stark, who told a town hall questioner “I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg, it wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine” has proposed a new bill to punish Red States for daring to prohibit adoptions by gays. Not surprisingly, Stark’s bill, “Every Child Deserves a Family Act” is built on a lie. The bill would withhold federal welfare funding from any state the Gay lobby doesn’t like. Its immediate targets are Utah, Nebraska Florida, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Where did Stark’s data come from? Stark’s bill says, “A report from the Evan B. Donaldson Institute found that...
  • Abbey's road [Case of a Benedictine college could foretell religious freedom's loss under Obamacare]

    10/23/2009 5:57:15 AM PDT · by rhema · 22 replies · 987+ views
    WORLD ^ | November 07, 2009 | Jamie Dean, Edward Lee Pitts
    For the 18 Benedictine monks living in a 142-year-old monastery in the tiny town of Belmont, N.C., life is intentionally simple: They rise early for prayer in a Gothic-style Basilica with wooden pews and hand-painted windows; they take care of the two-story monastery built with hand-hewn bricks; and they vow fidelity to Roman Catholic doctrine and teaching. These days, that simplicity has grown complicated by a thorny combination: healthcare and the federal government. The trouble stems from a conflict brewing at Belmont Abbey College, the 1,600-student, Catholic college connected to the monastery. Earlier this year, eight Belmont Abbey faculty members...
  • Congress Passes 'Pedophile Protection Act'

    10/22/2009 6:35:24 PM PDT · by conservativegramma · 91 replies · 2,418+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | October 22, 2009 | Bob Unruh
    A "hate crimes" plan that opponents have warned will be used to crack down on Christian speech, even the reading of the Bible, is poised to be signed by President Obama, a longtime proponent of the plan to give homosexuals and those with other alternative lifestyles special protections not provided other classes of citizens. The Senate approved the "hate crimes" plan 68-29 today after Democrats strategically attached it to a "must-pass" $680 billion defense appropriations plan. Most Republicans, although normally strong supporters of the U.S. military, opposed the plan. "The inclusion of the controversial language of the hate crimes legislation,...
  • PERSONHOOD MOVEMENT LAUNCHES IN NEVADA

    10/22/2009 1:46:27 PM PDT · by EternalVigilance · 8 replies · 536+ views
    AIPNews.com ^ | October 22, 2009 | Katie Walker
    American Life League FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 October 2009 CONTACT: Katie Walker540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org  Washington, DC (22 October 2009) – Nevada became the seventh state to launch a “personhood” initiative yesterday. The amendment reads simply: “In the great state of Nevada, the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being.” “We are thrilled the people of Nevada are finally taking steps to fulfill the dream of the civil rights movement,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “They are working for the fundamental right to human personhood, without which, no other rights exist. For the people of Nevada and the...