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My wife Sylvia lay sleeping but coughing in the hospital bed, dressed in the standard hospital gown. With two IV’s sticking out of each arm, it was a scene eerily reminiscent of an ER episode. As I stood there looking at her for a moment, the room buzzed softly with the sound of hospital machinery. Although it was quiet and getting late, it somehow didn’t feel very peaceful. An uncomfortably bright hospital light added to the clinical effect and to my feeling of uneasiness. Although I’d tried to make the room a little homey (there were cards, flowers and stuffed ...

Joy JunctionP O Box 27693 • Albuquerque, New Mexico 87125 • (505) 877-6967 • Fax: (505) 873-2708 Date: March 09 2002 Contact: Jeremy Reynalds Tel: (505) 877-6967, or (505) 463-2873 Learn more about Joy Junction on the World Wide Web at: www.joyjunction.org Nationally: Legislators Debate Porn on Internet Local: Gay Drag Group that Wanted to Help Joy Junction Linked to Scores of Hard Core Gay Web Sites? Just over a year ago, New Mexico’s largest emergency homeless shelter, a faith based ministry declined an approximately $1200.00 gift from a local homosexual group that raised the funds from a drag show ...

A leading political commentator’s recent prediction should be sending shockwaves through the conservative Christian community. Newsweek ’s political writer Howard Fineman recently warned about an impending “daring assault” by Democrats that he called an “incendiary battle plan.” The strategy basically likens the GOP’s right wing to the Taliban. As Fineman put it, the idea runs along these lines. “Our enemy in Afghanistan is religious extremism and intolerance. It’s therefore more important than ever to honor the ideals of tolerance—religious, sexual, racial, reproductive—at home. The GOP is out of the mainstream, some Democrats will argue ... because it’s too dependent upon ...

It’s beyond dispute that there’s a problem with the way parents behave at youth sports. That was brought into sharp focus recently with the conviction of a 44-year-old truck driver for involuntary manslaughter after he beat another man to death at their sons’ hockey practice. According to media, Thomas Junta claimed that he killed 40-year-old Michael Costin in self-defense after an argument over rough play during the July 5 2000 practice. While Junta could technically be looking at as many as 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on January 25, first time offender sentencing guidelines call for ...