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Regarding Gays and President Bush's Faith Based Initiative Rabbi David Eidensohn, director of the National Non-Sectarian Council of Pro-Family Activists, slammed the Bush administration for reversing its support for the rights of religious groups to accept federal funds and refuse to employ gays. "This flip-flop shows that religious people in America have to give their tax money so that gays can destroy religion," said Rabbi Eidensohn. "Millions and millions of tax money go to gays to hire lawyers, rent buildings, and achieve great cultural and political power, and those who pay the taxes must suffer in silence. The pro-family majority ...

Women Celebrate 'Mother God' as Moderate Baptists Gather in Atlanta Wishing the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) a "happy 10th birthday," CBF coordinator Daniel Vestal welcomed participants to the organization's annual assembly, June 28-30, at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center. Vestal leads the denomination-like organization that began in Atlanta a decade ago for Baptists disgruntled with the conservative direction of the Southern Baptist Convention. As the Dallas Morning News noted: "Making sense of the alphabet soup of modern Baptist institutional life ... is a challenge. They include: the Southern Baptist Convention, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Baptist General Convention of Texas, Southern Baptists ...

The Law is here presented again because the same situation exists in America today as in the France of 1848. The same socialist-communist ideas and plans that were then adopted in France are now sweeping America. The explanations and arguments then advanced against socialism by Mr. Bastiat are -- word for word -- equally valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing. THE LAW by Frederic Bastiat The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! ...

THE PRINCE (excerpts from GORBY AND THE PRINCE by Joan Veon) For years there has been a media black out as to the real role which Prince Charles plays in world affairs. In this regard, the prince is a military leader, head of state in his own right, an activist on the world stage, and a one worlder/environmentalist. Military Leader Charles is a complex man with many sides. He is a man of action, having served in the Royal Navy in a number of junior and senior command positions. According to one of his biographers, William Holden, he is a ...

May 11,2001: Volume 4, Number 21 HOMOSEXUAL GROUP POSSIBLY CONNECTED TO PEDOPHILIA APPLIES TO UN * The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) -- a gay-rights group barred from the UN because some of its members promoted pedophilia -- is seeking reinstatement as a non-governmental organization (NGO) by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). If ILGA regains NGO status it can lobby and consult the UN Member States on a number of crucial and contentious issues, including how the UN defines and interprets human rights. * In 1993, ILGA became the first gay-rights group granted official UN recognition. ILGA ...

RICHARDSON – Gov. Rick Perry knew he was making history Thursday when he materialized before a group of Richardson business leaders in the first successful demonstration of a technology called "teleportation." The governor was in Austin, but his three-dimensional, holographic image was being beamed to the University of Texas at Dallas using Internet2, a network connecting universities and corporations. It was a moment, Mr. Perry indicated, as significant as Alexander Graham Bell's first phone call to Thomas Watson. But "this technology, I happen to think, will have an even greater effect on the citizens of the world than what Mr. ...

The synopsis of the article is that a woman named Grace Booth ate a chicken enchilada for lunch and she began to feel hot and itchy. Then her lips began to swell, she developed severe diarrhea and had trouble breathing. Booth, 35, was rushed to a nearby hospital. She was suffering from anaphylactic shock. Doctors injected her with anti-allergy medicine, administered Benadryl and put her on an IV. After five hours she was able to walk out of the hospital. Taco shells and other corn products have been recalled nationwide that contain a genetically modified type of corn called StarLink ...

MULLINGS A Political Cyber-Column "Huge Rodham" Rich Galen Friday, February 23, 2001 _______________________________________________ * President Bush held his first press conference yesterday and did well. The press was alerted only yesterday morning, as opposed to the one- day notice that has been the routine, and it was held in the briefing room rather than the usual East Room location. * These two facts allowed the event to have a much more relaxed atmosphere - and present a much more comfortable President for the American public to see. Very, very smart on the part of Karen Hughes and Ari Fleischer. ...

FAMILY NEWS IN FOCUS STORIES: Legal Group to IRS: Audit Teachers' Union By Stuart Shepard, correspondent SUMMARY: A conservative legal group has filed several complaints with the IRS claiming that the NEA is not properly reporting their political activity. For years, the National Education Association (NEA) has been working to influence the outcome of elections. Already a major player in U.S. politics, the teachers' union recently voted to become even more involved in the grooming of candidates who support its liberal agenda. That's why the charge leveled by Eric Christensen of the Landmark Legal Foundation is so striking: "They (NEA) ...

FAMILY NEWS IN FOCUS STORY,p> Conservatives Sound Alarm on GOP 'Unity' Group By Martha Kleder, Washington, D.C., correspondent SUMMARY: A new GOP political alliance aimed at reaching out to homosexuals is gaining support from lawmakers and has the ear of President Bush---a fact that worries many pro-family groups. The Republican Unity Coalition came into being during the election campaign, according to Peter LaBarbera, with the Americans for Truth Project. "The Republican Unity Coalition is a brand new effort aimed at pulling in heterosexual support for the tolerance of homosexuality in the Republican Party," LaBarbera said. The coalition even goes so ...

To what extent does your religion influence which political party are aligned with?A great dealSomewhatNot at allNot aligned with any political partyA great deal 22% => 12566 votesSomewhat 17% => 9665 votesNot at all 50% => 27754 votesNot aligned with any political party 9% => 5260 votesCurrent Vote Tally: 55245

Harris Poll Does a White House office that would distribute money to religious groups and charities violate the separation between church and state? Yes 46% => 21871 votes No 48% => 23063 votes Not sure 5% => 2430 votes Current Vote Tally: 47364

Conservatives Decry Matalin Appointment by Martha Kleder, Washington, D.C., correspondent Focus on The Family SUMMARY: GOP strategist and television talk show host Mary Matalin will have a place in the next administration---much to the chagrin of pro-family conservatives. Michael Heath, with the Christian Civic League of Maine, thinks the naming of Mary Matalin as counselor to Vice President-elect Dick Cheney may negatively impact the fight against the gay movement in Maine. "In Maine, we've been fighting the homosexual-rights movement for two decades," Heath said. "She's been speaking to folks who want to change public policy with respect to homosexuality in ...

Teaching kids to watch television and videos less often and play fewer video games can make them less aggressive, according to a new study. Thomas N. Robinson of the Stanford University School of Medicine and colleagues studied third-and fourth-graders at two public elementary schools in San Jose, giving students an 18-lesson, six-month curriculum designed to encourage them to watch TV and videos less and play fewer video games. Result: Students who were assigned the lessons were significantly less aggressive. Reported in the January issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine: "These findings support the causal influences of these ...

CNN Poll regarding Ashcroft