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The Alaska Supreme Court has granted a motion sought by an attorney working with the Alliance Defense Fund to keep life support systems operating for a patient who could die within minutes of those tubes being removed.
The little-reported case bears some similarities to the extended battle waged by the family of Terri Schiavo, on whom WND reported extensively, to prevent her death by starvation and dehydration....................
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What if the Culture War is over and we’ve lost? What if it was lost a long time ago? What if it was lost long before the recent California Supreme Court decision, before the Terri Schiavo fiasco, and even before Roe vs. Wade?
What if the litany of abuses we’ve witnessed over the last decades are not the signs of progressively slipping morals but rather the natural consequence of morals having slipped once and for all? How we answer this question informs how we - especially those of us who are Christians - proceed. If we have in fact lost the culture war then we need to ask ourselves how we lost it and how we can rebuild to fight again, and this time be victorious.
Observers who know their history and understand human nature can see where things are going and know that the means by which liberal activists pursue their agenda can backfire on them. Today the gay “marriage” activists in California are pleased because they have got their way. It is entirely plausible, though, that a decade hence courts might employ the same tactic but in a manner the gays find disagreeable. Alas for them, it will be too late! Somehow, though, these activists - and many sympathetic Americans with them - can’t see that.................
Will Admitting Defeat in the Culture War Revitalize Evangelism?
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