12 Questions For Pro-Same Sex Marriage Presidential Candidates
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By Gregg Jackson
08-23-071. To those who say: “Banning homosexual marriage is a form of discrimination, similar to the banning of interracial marriages, which makes homosexuals into second class citizens.”
Anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1967 (Loving v. Virginia) because they frustrated the core purpose of marriage in order to sustain a racist legal order. Since the decision didn’t change the fact that marriage was still between one man and one woman, how is banning “same sex marriage” discriminatory?
2. To those who say: “Homosexuality is a normal sexual orientation that God intended for some people and is not a perversion of normal sexuality.”
I am not aware of a single place in the Bible where homosexuality is not condemned by God as unnatural, perverted, and sinful behavior. Can you point to any place in the Bible where homosexuality is not condemned by God? Also, if in fact homosexuality is genetic, how do you explain the thousands of former homosexuals who are now straight?
The headlines out of Baltimore yeserday afternoon…
Baltimore Orioles manager Dave Trembley will return next season
The Orioles scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon to announce that Trembley, who took over for fired manager Sam Perlozzo on June 18, will retain the position entering the 2008 season, said Andy MacPhail, president of baseball operations for the team.
So, how did the team react in last night’s ball game? They gave up the most runs in a major league game since 1897! That’s right, the most runs in 110 years.
Texas stampede
Rangers score 30 unanswered runs in historic rout
BALTIMORE (AP) — Five runs in the fourth inning.
Nine runs in the sixth.
Ten in the eighth.
Six more in the ninth.
The Texas Rangers rounded the bases at a dizzying pace and became the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting an American League record Wednesday in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles.
“This is something freaky. You won’t see anything like this again for a long, long time. I am glad I was on this end of it,” said Marlon Byrd, who hit one of two Texas grand slams.
That is the equivilent of a football team scoring 120 points in a game. Simply astounding. How’s that for a vote of confidence in the new manager? Dave Trembley must be wondering if yesterday’s news was a blessing or a curse.
The Humanists were very candid in 1930 when C.F. Potter, founder of the N.Y. Humanist Society, proposed using your hard-earned tax dollars to destroy your religion and evangelize their religion. Think I’m kidding? Listen to what he wrote in his book “Humanism: a New Religion”:
“Education is a most powerful ally of Humanism & every American school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, & teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of a five-day program of Humanistic religion teaching? So very Humanistic is modern education that no religion has a future unless it be Humanism. The religion of tomorrow in America & all the world may not be in all respects identical with the religious Humanism we are advocating in this book, but it will be mightily like it & of the same spirit.”
Now, take a minute to review the last National Education Association’s annaul convention hilights and ask yourself if C.F Potter’s plan (shared by John Dewey- the founder of American Public Schools and a fellow Humanist himself) isn’t being instituted by the NEA today in our government run schools.
The NEA Lists Its Goals And Democrats Agree
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by Phyllis Schlafly, August 22, 2007
——————————————————————————–Some critics have complained that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But the Democratic candidates did sound off with their pro-federal-government, pro-spending policies when addressing the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation’s largest teachers union liked what they heard.
Senator Hillary Clinton told the NEA delegates that she will fight school vouchers “with every breath in my body.” Reiterating the message of her book “It Takes a Village,” she called for universal preschool for four-year-olds.
Senator Barack Obama likewise inveighed against “passing out vouchers.” Former Senator John Edwards also announced his opposition to vouchers and proposed that the federal government pay college tuition for all students who will work ten hours a week.
After cheering the promises made by the candidates, NEA delegates buckled down to the serious business of spelling out their political goals, many of which have nothing whatever to do with giving schoolchildren a better education.
The NEA demands a tax-supported single-payer health-care plan (socialized medicine) for all residents (a word artfully chosen to include illegal aliens). The NEA supports immigration “reform” that “includes [note: this is a change from last year’s verb “may include”] a path to permanent residency, citizenship, or asylum” for illegal aliens.
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You see, the left’s mantra about “separation of church and state” which is in the Constitution- the Former Soviet Union’s and not ours- is meant to drive Christianity out of the public square in an effort to impose and establish their own Supreme Court recognized and tax payer subsidized religion of Secular Humanism on our society via the public schools . Humansim’s Founders (Potter and Dewey) said so publicly and the NEA has done everything in their power to make their vision a reality.
We will be interviewing Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and author of the new book “Religion of Peace: Why Christianity is and Islam Isn’t.” cIurrently ranked #129 at Amazon.
Spencer has this to say of CNN’s 6 part series on “religious fundamentalism” this week:
CNN pretends that Judaism, Christianity, Islam all equally likely to incite violence
Just as my book Religion of Peace? confronts this very notion. Ms. Amanpour, I am available to provide for you an alternative view.“CNN explores religious fundamentalism,” by David Bauder for AP (thanks to all who sent this in):
NEW YORK – Christiane Amanpour’s work on the documentary series “God’s Warriors” took her directly to intersections of extreme religious and secular thinking.
She watched, fascinated, as demonstrators in San Francisco accused teenagers in the fundamentalist Christian group BattleCry of intolerance in a clash of two cultures that will probably never understand each other.Amanpour was one of the last reporters to talk to the Rev. Jerry Falwell. She interviewed him a week before he died about the legacy of the Moral Majority, the organization that thrust evangelical Christians onto the political stage.
The segment on Christians explores BattleCry in some depth, digging at the roots of an organization that fights against some of the cruder elements of popular culture and urges teenagers to be chaste. In noting how girls at some BattleCry events are encouraged to wear long dresses, Amanpour asks the group’s leader how it is different from the Taliban.Well, uh, Ms. Amanpour, one might note the absence of AK-47s, the lack of opposition to the education of girls, the absence of burqas, the absence of divine sanction for wife-beating, and sundry other things. Unless you’re too blinded by political correctness to notice, as is evidently the case.
In a non-judgmental way, she visits a family that is home-schooling its children and explores the influence of Evangelicals on the courts.
Homeschooling is evil too? Sheesh. Over 9,000 terror attacks committed in the name of Islam since 9/11, and Christiane Amanpour is spending her time demonizing homeschoolers.
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The Red Sox owner, John W. Henry, has blown another trade. No, not another Eric Gagme trade. I’m talking about the “carry trade”,
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — A doubling in currency volatility since June has knocked the “carry trade” off its perch as the most profitable strategy in foreign exchange, hurting investors from John W. Henry & Co. to Campbell & Co.
In one of the more popular carry trades, a U.S. investor who borrowed in yen to buy high-yielding Australian dollars enjoyed a return of 11 percent this year through June 5, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The gains have since been wiped out.
Chalk up another victim to the spreading U.S. subprime mortgage contagion.
John Henry has been a great owner for the Red Sox. Unfortunately for his hedge fund clients, his performance as a money manger has been more like that of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
In currencies, Boca Raton, Florida-based Henry’s largest loss in July was in the yen, Kenneth Webster, president and chief operating officer, said in a statement on its Web site. Assets at the firm, which is owned by John W. Henry, who also controls the Boston Red Sox baseball team, have plummeted by 75 percent since November to $479 million.
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At what point does this start to impact John Henry’s other businesses, namely, the Red Sox?
“Sorry fans, no free agent signings this year. Have you seen the prices of copper and soy beans lately? We couldn’t possibly afford it.”
Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us for another edition of Someone You Should Know, the untold, inspirations true stories of the men and women fighting for us around the world. The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Thanks to Matt, Bruce is now on board and we are lucky to have him as part of the show.
Tonight, Bruce told us a story about leadership. The story of
Riling said his actions that day were just those of a soldier doing his job.
“I don’t claim to be a hero for getting this award. I don’t want to be labeled as a hero. I felt I was just another soldier on the battlefield, doing my job, helping other soldiers and helping Marines,†Riling explained.
Army Maj. Gen. J.D. Thurman, 4th Infantry Division commander, said Riling’s actions clearly indicate the kind of a soldier Riling is and why he could not have picked a better senior noncommissioned officer to lead the division.
“I think the nation is lucky to have soldiers like him who are willing to put their lives on the line,†said Thurman. “It’s important to have professionals such as Command Sergeant Major Riling in our formation. He sets the example and is a role model. Courage is paramount with guys like him. He embodies all of the things that we want in a professional soldier. (He is) loyal, open, honest, trusting. That’s the type of soldier that he is.â€
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