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The conference succeeded by hiding the key premise, creating a false dichotomy, twisting the definition of love, and leveraging the emotions of parents. The Bible does not treat homosexual sex or marriage as an agree-to-disagree issue. It’s univocal in its definition of sex and marriage. It’s also univocal in its prohibition of homosexual sex. Finally, it warns people who engage in such behavior that they will not inherit the kingdom of God. These are serious matters. To simply agree to disagree would be to disregard the eternal destiny of the people whom God is eager to save. Not only are...

The Democrat/media complex embarked on a complicated course of action when Donald Trump was elected President. There were many questions in their minds about possible strategies to regain power. Most of the strategies involved deception, or relied on the incompetence of their adversaries. There were risks of failure in these actions. In fact, as you look at the questions below, you may think that there was a very high risk of failure. Let’s consider some of the questions they would have faced based on the strategies they chose: Can we sell the “Trump is a traitor” lie, saying he collaborated...

Autism spectrum disorder has no single known cause. Given the complexity of the disorder, and the fact that symptoms and severity vary, there are probably many causes. Both genetics and environment may play a role. Genetics. Several different genes appear to be involved in autism spectrum disorder. For some children, autism spectrum disorder can be associated with a genetic disorder, such as Rett syndrome or fragile X syndrome. For other children, genetic changes (mutations) may increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder. Still other genes may affect brain development or the way that brain cells communicate, or they may determine...

Washington, DC – Today, Club for Growth President David McIntosh issued the following statement as the House Ways and Means Committee continues to mark up the “Tax Cuts and Jobs” bill:“While the corporate tax cut will lead to some increase in our nation’s GDP, the rest of the provisions on individual taxpayers fails the pro-growth test,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh stated.“Republicans must correct at least four serious shortcomings of the House bill to follow through on campaign promises and to bring our nation closer to a tax reform proposal that is truly pro-growth.“1: millionaires’ tax rate: House Republicans...

Familiar patterns of deception. This all feels so familiar. I’ve gotten over it, but I’ll never forget it. It was November 2011, and I was leading the polls in the Republican nomination race. My 9-9-9 tax play was attracting national attention and interest in my candidacy was as its height. Then came the women. I won’t recount all their names or their claims here because they don’t deserve the attention. If you really want to read about it in detail, along with my detailed refutations of every allegation made against me, knock yourself out.

For those that are thinking Fiorina is a good choice to get behind, that she is a good debater, goes hard after hitlery, etc., it's incumbent on all of us to know who she REALLY is: A few tidbits: When the police in Baltimore were arrested she said 'we all breathed a sigh of relief' (all over the interwebs) In 2008, Fiorina supported the Wall Street Bailout known as TARP and even advocated that it was insufficient. (Fox News) Fiorina supported portions of the Obama stimulus, particularly broadband subsidies. ....(Information Week) Fiorina called on more government intervention into the housing...

Lies and deceptions surrounding the manufactured global warming crisis created for political and financial gain at the expense of millions of people The area south of Buffalo, New York was buried this week in 76 inches of snow, quite possibly the largest 24-hour total in U.S. recorded history. At the same time, the desperate advocates of global warming/climate change are finding more novel ways to push their carbon dioxide reduction and carbon footprint taxation in order to redistribute the wealth from the United States to the rest of the world. David Ignatius suggests in the Washington Post that climate should...

Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. This will be your opportunity to bear witness. — Luke 21:10-13(ESV) As in the parallel passage in Matthew 24, the Disciples have asked Jesus about His statement concerning...

Obama held a press conference last Friday, July 15 which turned out to be a purely partisan effort to increase taxes and increase the American debt. His speech and the answers he gave to cherry picked questions from the press was fundamentally dishonest: in all I counted three dozen lies, deceptions and misleading statements.　 Deception 1. "make sure that the United States does not default on our obligations, and that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved." There is zero risk of a default to the creditors of US debt. The federal government takes in about...

President Obama is evidently feeling the pressure from the current shenanigans over a routine hike in the debt ceiling. But really, what president does not have to push through congressional attempts to embarrass him at debt-ceiling time? Man up, Mr. President. If you can 't take the heat, keep out of the kitchen, said Harry Truman, a product, like the president, of an all-American big-city machine. Problems, said the Bard, come not single spies, but in whole battalions, and the president's real problem is the onrushing Four Horsemen of the Democalypse. There is the shambles in the black community. Walter...

Last night Kieth-O and Jonathan A of Newsweek played up the supposed cooperation of would-be terrorist Umar and family as being a direct result of Pres-O's perceptive soft line on terrorism - that because Pres-O wisely refused and refrained from referring to US opposition to Islamic insurrectionism as a "war on terror", he thus engendered this very productive outpouring. So the Pres's refusal to use "war on terror" rhetoric is productive and correct, politically. But hey! This is in direct opposition to the "facts" as he claims them to be (via the patented emotional Olber-azim) on several occasions (one within...

A Pennsylvania lawsuit alleging that Barack Obama is not a “natural-born citizen” of the United States took an unusual twist this week, after a federally mandated deadline requiring Obama’s lawyers to produce a “vault” copy of his birth certificate expired with no response from Obama or his lawyers. The lawsuit, filed by former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip J. Berg — a self-avowed supporter of Hillary Clinton — alleges that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus “ineligible” to run for president of the United States. It demands that Obama’s lawyers produce a copy of his original birth...

President George W. Bush took office to the sustained applause of America’s conservative movement. In 2000, he defeated the liberal environmentalist Al Gore, abruptly terminated the legacy of the even more hated Bill Clinton, and gave Republicans control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. A few cynics were suspicious of Bush’s understanding of and commitment to conservative principles, but most on the Right welcomed his inauguration. Five years later, the traditional conservative agenda lies in ruins. Government is bigger, spending is higher, and Washington is more powerful. The national government has intruded further into state and local concerns. Federal officials...

The Anthrax Investigation: Deceptions and False Trails Just over four years ago, a small batch of letters was dropped into the mail at Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ. Unlike our regular, dependable mail, these letters were tainted with a reasonable approximation of weapons-grade anthrax. Evaluators have differed over how close to weapons-grade the deadly enclosure was, but none can quarrel with its effect: 5 people known dead, at least 17 others seriously ill (some with permanent after-effects) , paralysis of the postal system, contamination of Senate offices, and nationwide panic. The letters themselves contained layers of deception – ranging from the...

During the 1999 Kargil crisis, Clinton's forceful diplomacy pulled Pakistan back from the nuclear brinkOn the brink of a catastrophe: Indian artillery pound Pakistani infiltrators in the Kargil region of Kashmir. Pakistan was reported to be readying its nuclear weapons until President Clinton intervenedWASHINGTON: During the first week in June [1999], just as Milosevic was acceding to NATO’s demands over Kosovo, Clinton turned his own attention to India and Pakistan. In letters to Nawaz Sharif and Vajpayee, the president went beyond the studied neutrality that both prime ministers were expecting—in Pakistan’s case with hope, and in India’s with trepidation. Clinton...

Original Sin                       http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b80051c3e46.htm Culture/Society Editorial Keywords: CULTURE, LIBERALISM, POLITICS, DECEPTIONS, POWER, CORRUPTIONSource: The Laissez Faire City TimesPublished: Dec. 28, 1998 Author: ACEPosted on 08/19/2001 11:27:40 PDT by Coyote Original Sin by ACE Few things are more embarrassing than getting caught in a lie. At least for most of us. And yet we're all guilty. We lie not only to others but to ourselves as well. It's at once both an obsession and a joke. How do you know a politician is lying? Watch his lips. If they're moving, he's lying. I don't recall. I, [fill in the blank], did...

The Daley Generation started out 36,000 strong. They began first grade in a Chicago public school eight years ago, just after Mayor Daley won control of the school system, and today should be among the best students in decades. Since 1995, they've ridden a wave of new resources, new expertise, and a new enthusiasm--all under the watchful eye of a mayor who's staked his political reputation on their progress. For those who made it through eighth grade after eight years in the city's public schools, the results are impressive. Six out of 10 started out below the national norm in...

Powell Accuses Syria of Past Deceptions Saturday May 3, 2003 2:59 AM DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Accusing Syria of past deception about its Iraqi oil pipeline, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday that future relations hinge on whether Damascus takes sincere action toward becoming a Middle East peace partner. Powell arrived in the Syrian capital Friday evening for tough talks with President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa about the implications for Syria in the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and the emergence of a U.S.-backed road map toward peace between Israel and Palestinians. Al-Shaara greeted Powell at...

The Earth system - comprising atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere and biosphere - is an immensely complex system, involving processes and interactions on a wide range of space- and time-scales. Thus begins the abstract of an enlightening essay on the many shortcomings of today's climate models (O'Neill and Steenman-Clark, 2002) in which the implications of this situation are discussed within the context of developing "reliable numerical models that can be used to predict how the Earth system will evolve and how it will respond to man-made perturbations." The challenge of this enterprise, as the authors describe it, is truly daunting. They...