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Charlie Peppler has dealt with this issue in one of the most thoroughly orthodox Christian ways that I have seen:
http://oldmadenew.blogspot.com/2005/11/if-its-battle-whos-opponent.html

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If it's a battle, who's the opponent?
We are in the middle of a battle. It doesn't take much to see it all around us. Hostile parish takeovers. Parishes being made extinct. Clergy being deposed. Lawsuits.
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There's a lot more going on, and the battle we're in is part of what's been going on for thousands of years. What we're seeing is the modern expression of it.
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Fast forward a couple of centuries to several of the more "advanced" societies such as Rome or ancient Greece, where homosexuality was built into the culture. It was a standard part of a young man's training to be "with" other men. Was a god doing "a new thing" then?
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Well worth reading.

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Attacks on freedom of political speech are becoming more brazen. Because the attackers aim to enlarge government's control of the political campaigns that decide who controls government, the attacks advance liberalism's program of extending government supervision of life.
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Usually, I like George Will. But, he is the same guy who just a couple of weeks ago railed against Intelligent Design and approves of government control when it comes to ID in the classroom. So, when "free speech" is under attack, I guess it depends on whose ox is getting gored.

Here is the letter I sent to the Baytown, TX Sun (circ @40K)
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Friday's news reported the call by Rep. John Murtha, Democrat Pennsylvania, for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Rep. Murtha is one of many Democrats who voted for the resolution that authorized President Bush to send American troops into harm's way. Now Rep. Murtha wants to abandon the soldiers he helped send to war. He wants to wave the white flag, to surrender. He wants to abandon the fledgling Iraqi democracy to the terror of Al Qaeda and the repression of Sunni Bathists.

As the press reminds us every single blessed day, more than 2000 courageous American soldiers have died in Iraq. American withdrawal from Iraq before the job is done, before Iraq is free and capable of it's own defense will make every lost American and multi-national force life a life lost in vain, for nothing.

How thankful we are our American forefathers were not so spineless.

If Jefferson had been a Democrat: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that some men are better than others--us."
If Washington had been a Democrat: "Men, Valley Forge is a bad idea. It's cold. It's dark. It's wet."
If Patrick Henry had been a Democrat: "Give me Liberty, but don't hurt me."
If Thomas Paine had been a Democrat: "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, forget about it."
If Paul Revere had been a Democrat: "The British are coming. Surrender!"
If Abraham Lincoln had been a Democrat, Texas school children would pledge allegiance to the Confederate States of America and many people would be living in slavery this very day.
If Winston Churchill had been a Democrat: "Never. Never. Never fight evil."
If Bill Clinton had been a Democrat: "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

From now on, when Americans say "we support the Troops", let's mean it. Let's support them until they win, until they come marching down Main street victorious in defense of liberty whether here or abroad. Let's rededicate ourselves to the ideals of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan. Freedom is worth fighting for. Let's remember John Kennedy's words: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." (Jan. 20, 1961)
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I quote Kennedy. Even though he was a Democrat, he was no cut and runner from the loony left.

Please put me on the Letters to Editor list.
I write letters all the time.

Here is the latest I wrote (edited somewhat for brevity here), which was published today in the Baytown Sun (circulation 40,000)
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...I see the Democrats have invented the necessity for a new word in the English language, "losingest", as in "Democrats have adopted the 'most losingest' political strategy since Democrats in 1860 thought they could win the slavery debate by seceding from the United States to form the Confederate States."

Here is their strategy, "Bush lied. Vote Democrat." Like the "thump, thump, thump" of a bald, bulging tire about to blow at 75 m.p.h., every day it is "Bush, Bush, Bush lied, lied, lied." This from the party of "is, is" really is astonishing.

It doesn't matter that President Clinton launched cruise missiles into Iraq to "take out" Saddam's nuclear weapons program (just when he was to go before a grand jury [to lie] about Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky), nor that Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller and every other Democrat Senator in congress in 2002, having seen EXACTLY the same CIA intelligence that President Bush saw took to the floor of the Senate to warn the country of Saddam's weapons program, nor that 500 tons of enriched uranium was found in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, nor that ricen was found, nor that anthrax was found in Iraq after the war, nor that Saddam murdered almost 1 million of his fellow citizens, invaded two neighboring countries--Kuwait and Iran--launched missiles into Israel, created the worst environmental disaster in history when he burned Kuwait's oil fields, nor that Saddam had allowed Al Qaeda to set up training camps in Iraq, nothing, absolutely nothing matters to Democrats except the "losingest" political strategy since the civil war, "Bush lied".
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Here is the biggest problem of all with the Democrats' "Bush lied" losingest strategy in since the Civil War, George Bush may not be running for President in 2008! I say "may not" because since he "stole" the first election (according to Democrats), he's actually only been elected once--2004. Therefore, he should be eligible for one more term starting in 2009.
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Here's a idea for hope.

Yes, the MSM produces non-stop misinformation. Yet, many people do not believe it. There are many people who do not have Internet connections, email or blog readers but are able to discern the truth with no outside help. I saw a poll result recently that said more than 50% of Americans believe God created man in his present form (in other words, that man did not descend from apes). Yet public schools have taught, since the 30s, exclusively Darwinian evolution. These people didn't get their belief from the schools and maybe not even from their church. Less than 1/2 of Americans go to church regularly and many, many churches teach Darwinian evolution anyway, so it wouldn't matter if someone went there. So where do these people get this faith?

This is my theory: People have brains and hearts, but they also have something that "sees" by faith that is not the brain and not the heart. The MSM misinformation machine confuses brains and many are fooled. But, people that have "eyes to see" (eyes of faith) are not fooled.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

Just a bit of hope.