UPDATED: Pentagon Blocks Access to Southern Baptist Website
Military official: Malware to blame for site block
Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, a Defense Department spokesman, said the military’s software filters detected malware at SBC.net and blocked the website. The malware since has been removed off the website, and the denomination’s website unblocked, he said. “The Department of Defense is not intentionally blocking access to this site,” Pickart told The Tennessean in an... Continue Reading
Rewriting the Story of the Exploited: The Gospel for Sex Workers
According to US Department of Justice, the average age of entry for an American girl into prostitution is between 12 and 14
I’ve observed that a common denominator among women in the lifestyle is that they “don’t feel like they belong.” When I mentioned this observation to a woman at a residential home, she said that it described exactly how she felt on the street. A feeling of not belonging: how central that is to the human... Continue Reading
Leon Kass: The Meaning of the Gosnell Trial
Eminent bioethicist Leon Kass on the dangers of a world increasingly indifferent to matters of human dignity
Dr. Kass sometimes finds himself at odds with [pro-life] advocates. The movement’s narrow focus on nascent life, he worries, blinds it to the fact that “abortion is connected to lots of other things that are threats to human dignity in its fullness. Pursuing perfect babies, ageless bodies and happy souls with the aid of cloning,... Continue Reading
Legalize Polygamy! No. I Am Not Kidding.
Proposition: Marriage equality doesn’t end with same-sex marriage; we need to legalize polygamy, too
The definition of marriage is plastic. Just like heterosexual marriage is no better or worse than homosexual marriage, marriage between two consenting adults is not inherently more or less “correct” than marriage among three (or four, or six) consenting adults. Though polygamists are a minority—a tiny minority, in fact—freedom has no value unless it extends... Continue Reading
Attacks on Egyptian Christians Continue
Only action to prevent future such egregious attacks will demonstrate that Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood truly disapprove of the jihad being waged against Egypt’s Christian citizens
A few days before the Muslim Brotherhood leader’s election, he spoke to his followers on television ensuring them that Egypt’s new constitution “would reflect true sharia.” Islamic supremacists believe that they now have not only a moral obligation to wage jihad against Egypt’s indigenous Christian population, but they have legal carte blanche, as well. In... Continue Reading
Confronting the Real “War on Women”
Casual sex, cohabitation, and the collapse of marriage are three of the worst “falsehoods that constitute a very real war on women”
Perhaps men aren’t meant to leave their families for over 40 hours a week to pursue a career. With the Industrial Revolution, “the working, teaching father ha[s] gone extinct.” Fathers are unnaturally “displaced” from their homes, so their sons never observe them working and learn from that example. This, MacPherson said, leads to a confused... Continue Reading
California’s Attack on Boy Scouts Continues
While the target of this bill is the Boy Scouts, its effects are much wider than that
SB 323 would remove certain State tax exemptions for public charity youth organizations that discriminate on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or religious affiliation. While the target of this bill is the Boy Scouts (the Committee’s official analysis says, “It is clearly aimed at them”) its effects are much wider... Continue Reading
German Homeschoolers Case Has Implications for Religious Freedom in America
According to the U.S. government, religious freedom is not an individual right but only a group right
According to the arguments made by the U.S. government in Romeike v. Holder, Farris said, “If you believe that God wants you to do something, that’s not going to be a protected religious belief unless you’re part of a church that forces you to take whatever action is in question. “Most evangelical Christians — in... Continue Reading
In the Middle East, not America, Christians are actually persecuted
Why isn’t the mammoth Christian community of the world’s most influential nation in a tizzy over the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and around the world?
Today in the Middle East and elsewhere, Christians huddle together beneath a solitary light bulb to read from contraband Bibles and sing hushed hymns. At any moment, their doors may be broken in and their lives could be snuffed out. Many Christians sit in dank prisons for committing no crime except following Jesus. Tomorrow, they... Continue Reading
Army Reserve Presentation Calls Christians ‘Extremists’
The list appears to come from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels Christian organizations “hate group” based on their beliefs about homosexuality
According to the Power Point Presentation, obtained and posted online by legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, the Army Reserve in Pennsylvania considers evangelical Christians, Catholics, and Mormons as dangerous as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, and Hamas. The text accompanying the slide listing “extremist” groups defines extremism as beliefs, attitudes, feelings, and actions far removed from... Continue Reading
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