Thursday, February 7, 2013
| Obama swearing in on MLK Bible ironic
By Dr. Alveda King When President Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 21----Martin Luther King, Jr. Day----he placed his hand on Bibles once owned by my uncle, Reverend King, and by President Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. The historic struggle for African Americans' equality under the law was represented at this ceremony by the Holy Scriptures belonging to the man who freed the slaves and the man who led the civil rights movement. The fulfillment of this struggle would be represented by our nation's first black president. Unfortunately, the gesture was not symbolic. It was ironic. [ Click here to read more. ] | | | |
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 Babies as enemies: Planned Parenthood's sterile sexuality dehumanizes preborn
Rita Diller / Wednesday STOPP Report
Sex could not have been more disconnected from the concept of creating life.
The message I'd heard loud and clear was that the purpose of sex was for pleasure and bonding; that its potential for creating life was purely tangential, almost to the point of being forgotten about altogether. This mindset laid the foundation of my views on abortion. Because I saw sex as being closed to the possibility to life by default, I thought of pregnancies that weren't planned as akin to being struck by lightning while walking down the street: Something totally unpredictable, undeserved, that happened to people living normal lives.
So said Jennifer Fulwiler, former atheist turned Catholic, in a recent National Catholic Register blog post. Her words struck me like lightning: "I saw sex as being closed to the possibility of life by default, I thought of pregnancies that weren't planned as akin to being struck by lightning while walking down the street."
I had struggled with unanswered questions for decades. After reading her words, three things became very clear to me. |
|  Black pro-lifer files lawsuit against NAACP
LifeSiteNews
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People threatened Ryan Bomberger with legal action for using its name and trademark to oppose abortion. Now the chief creative officer of The Radiance Foundation is fighting back. Bomberger said he received a letter from NAACP attorney Ned T. Himmelrich accusing him of "trademark infringement" for mentioning the NAACP in his artwork and his website. The artist and musician, who is black, often refers to the organization as the "National Association for the Abortion of Colored People," a designation that singularly displeased its liberal leadership. "It is ironic that a black man is being sued by the nation's oldest civil rights group for exercising his most basic civil right-the freedom of speech," said Bomberger. "This threat of legal action from the NAACP is nothing more than a multi-million dollar organization's attempt to bully someone who's simply telling the truth." |
|  Germany, the morning-after pill, and the Catholic Church: Media and scientific manipulation
LifeSiteNews
A drama has been unfolding in Germany over the last month that has seen the leading conservative prelate in the country, Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner, seem to suggest that it is permissible in Catholic hospitals to administer the morning-after pill (MAP) to rape victims. The Bishops of Germany will be discussing the matter further at their next plenary meeting later this month. The story begins with a hard case which was trumpeted with selective facts in the media, manipulating sentiments and causing a national uproar. Headlines which exploded across the country and internationally read "Rape victim turned away by Catholic hospitals." | |
