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TV: Land discusses Romney on Hannity & Colmes
Dr. Richard Land was featured on Fox News Channel’s program Hannity & Colmes on Monday Dec 3, 2007.
Dec 3, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Citizenship, Church and State, National, Religious Liberty
UK: Eco-friendly? Get sterilized…
UK Daily Mail
Meet the women who won’t have babies – because they’re not eco friendly
By NATASHA COURTENAY-SMITH and MORAG TURNER
Last updated at 22:05pm on 21st November 2007
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers – and a voice calling her Mummy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.
Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.
Nov 27, 2007 - topic(s): Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Science, Environment
NOW PLAYING: Bella
Bella
Oct 27, 2007 - topic(s): Family, Parenting, Adoption, Pop Culture, Life, Abortion, Science, Bioethics
IVP: Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study…
Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse present social science research on homosexuals designed to answer the questions
* Can persons who receive religiously informed psychotherapy experience a change in their sexual orientation? * Is it harmful for anyone to receive such therapy?The results show that outcomes for this kind of therapy are similar to outcomes of therapy for other psychological problems. Such therapy is not harmful to individuals.
This research will be of interest to all those who want to know the latest research on sexual orientation change and the effects of religiously based therapy on those who utilize it.
Sep 17, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Ministry, Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
Podhoretz: ‘America the Ugly’
BY NORMAN PODHORETZ
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on us that took place on this very day six years ago, several younger commentators proclaimed the birth of an entirely new era in American history. What Dec. 7, 1941, had done to the old isolationism, they announced, Sept. 11, 2001, had done to the Vietnam syndrome. It was politically dead, and the cultural fallout of that war—all the damaging changes wrought by the 1960s and ’70s—would now follow it into the grave.
Sep 11, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Human Rights, National, War
Willcox: Why We Still Must Fight
By CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
September 11, 2007; Page D6
In all the grand speeches and requiem tributes today — commemorating the events of Sept. 11, 2001 — there are likely to be few references to Whittaker Chambers. But Norman Podhoretz rightly reminds us of Chambers in “World War IV,” his bracingly mordant account of the West’s battle against Islamofascism. It is a battle that entered a critical phase six years ago with the carnage in New York, Washington and rural Pennsylvania.
Sep 11, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Human Rights, Religious Liberty, War
Brooks: Our Religious Destiny
Wall Street Journal
Our Religious Destiny
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
August 20, 2007; Page A11
According to data from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme, an American is four times likelier than a Frenchman to attend a house of worship regularly, and eight times likelier than a Norwegian. Europeans are more likely to disdain faith openly: In 1998, the average Dane was seven times likelier than an American to agree that, “Religions bring more conflict than peace.”
Aug 21, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Church and State, Religious Liberty, Social Issues
Freedom, not climate, is at risk
Financial Times
Freedom, not climate, is at risk
By Vaclav Klaus
Published: June 13 2007 17:44 | Last updated: June 13 2007 17:44
We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now.
Jul 7, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Human Rights, Science, Environment
Friedman: Playing At A Theater Near You
New York Times
July 4, 2007
(republished by The Day, Connecticut on July 6, 2007)
I knew something was up when I couldn’t get a cab. Then there were sirens and helicopters whirring overhead. I stopped a passerby to ask what was going on. He said something about a car bomb outside a disco six blocks from my hotel. A few hours later, I finally found a taxi. The driver warned me that it was nearly impossible to get across town. Another bomb had been uncovered in a car park. Next day, more news: a suicide bomber had driven his Jeep into an airport and jumped out, his body on fire, screaming “Allah! Allah!”
Jul 6, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Human Rights, Religious Liberty
Valuing Speech
Valuing Speech
Sunday, June 24, 2007
by George Will
WASHINGTON — Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.
At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city’s government says those words italicized here constitute something akin to hate speech, and can be proscribed from the government’s open e-mail system and employee bulletin board.
Jun 30, 2007 - topic(s): Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Religious Liberty