Actually, I think it goes further than that ...
Posted on 06/26/2007 5:11:17 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
CHICAGOLAND PING (this is an old ping list due to hard drive failure)
Religion is only “messy” for liberals who worship at the Church of Secularism, like Jennifer.
“The incremental erosion of abortion rights and the specter of Roe vs. Wade being overturned haunts those who uphold the notion of a woman’s right to choose.”
Personal rights end when they impose restrictions on another’s personal rights.
Abortion is a selfish act by a MOTHER against her own child.
That child has a right to live and despite the works of the March of Dimes to snuff out birth defects through abortion, that child has a RIGHT to live despite any genetic “weaknesses”.
It’s okay to question Mitt Romney about his Mormonism but to Harry Reid, Speaker of the House.
It’s okay to question Mitt Romney about his Mormonism but not Barrack Obama about his childhood education as an Islamist.
Islamic law is theocratic rule. That is what our separation of church and state sought to end. Instead we are courting muslim candidates because we must “atone” for the war in Iraq and p***ing off the muslims enough to whack us on 9-11-2001.
Actually, I think it goes further than that ...
I'm looking in my Bible for the part that says God thinks it's OK to dice and slice little babies, right up to the moment of birth.
“Church of Liberalism” according to Ann Coulter:
Saints (JFK).
Holy documents (Roe v. Wade).
Martyrs (Soviet spy Alger Hiss and Mumia Abu Jamal).
Churches (public schools, where prayer is banned).
Clergy (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free).
Sacraments (abortion).
Doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the “absolute moral authority”
of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland)
Cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).
Religious left developing new ‘spiritual covenant’ [another try at a political coalition]
Religion News Service ^ | June 22, 2006 | Daniel Burke
Posted on 06/24/2006 11:01:23 AM EDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654891/posts
WASHINGTON — After wandering the political desert for nearly 40 years, organizers of a Spiritual Activism conference here said that the religious left is taking tentative steps toward the Promised Land.
“We’re talking about first, baby steps here,” said Rabbi Michael Lerner, head of the Network of Spiritual Progressives and editor of the progressive Jewish magazine Tikkun.
For the first time since the Vietnam War, according to Lerner, the “spiritual” or “religious” left is building a viable political coalition. The goal is not to tip elections toward Democrats in 2006, or even 2008, but to develop a grass-roots network that all politicians must reckon with for years to come, Lerner said.
About 1,200 people from 39 states attended the gathering in May.
The sundry peaceniks, green thumbs, poverty busters and civil-rights activists were armed with a “spiritual covenant” and talking points with which to engage elected representatives.
They heard speeches by liberal evangelicals like Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis, founder of the Sojourners social justice movement. And they met in small workshops to talk about topics such as global warming, “moving the movable middle” and “using feminine principles to change the world.”
Lerner, author of the new book “The Left Hand of God,” said he learned from experience that “it doesn’t matter to whisper in the ears of the powerful.”
During the 1990s, the rabbi said, both Bill and Hillary Clinton regularly employed his rhetoric in political speeches. But without an army of activists to lobby lawmakers, words seldom translated into deeds, according to the rabbi. “It was meaningless,” he said.
Now Lerner puts his faith in men like Dart Westphal, 52, the president of a non-profit housing corporation in the Bronx. On Wednesday morning, Westphal sat in the office of his congressman, Rep. Eliot Engel, with the spiritual covenant in hand.
In a brief meeting with Engel’s legislative aide, Westphal said Engel must “let justice roll down,” and pick one of the items in the covenant — he didn’t care which one — and act on it.
Lerner wrote the covenant and has said it is partly inspired by Republicans’ 1994 “Contract With America.” But instead of the GOP’s conservative platform, Lerner’s covenant includes liberal measures, such as adding a “social responsibility” clause to government contracts.
To Westphal, a practicing Lutheran, the specifics of the spiritual covenant did not matter as much as the liberal ideals that inspired it.
He did have a bone to pick with the Spiritual Activism conference itself, though: It was not religious enough, he said. “The problem is that it’s interfaith. It’s hard to sing hymns without offending people from other faiths,” he said.
That may signal an obstacle to building a cohesive religious left, said Mark J. Rozell, professor of public policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
Where surveys show religious conservatives are willing to argue there is one correct view on policy issues, religious liberals often view policy from a variety of perspectives, Rozell said.
“The religious right is thus much more unified than its counterparts on the religious left,” Rozell said.
For example, while Lerner’s spiritual covenant might be a document the religious left can carry and coalesce around, Wallis’ Sojourners group is releasing its own separate “Covenant for America” at a conference in July.
According to Pat Casey, 60, who came to the conference from Madison, Wis., the religious left is united on one front: a desire to counter the political influence of the religious right.
Casey, who owns a small communications firm, said he is usually not the sort of person who would attend a rally in Washington. But the father of five said he was concerned that religious conservatives have “hijacked the Bible.”
This week he was happy to lend his voice to any protest song, whether it be “Give Peace a Chance” or “This Little Light of Mine.”
“Something’s happening here,” Casey said. “It’s something that people from all different traditions are saying, ‘Look, we’ve been quiet for too long and it’s time to speak out.’ “
With the Help of a Dozen, Democrats Learn to ‘Get Religion’ (Liberal Religiousity Alert)
Religion News Service ^ | 10/17/2006 | Daniel Burke, Kevin Eckstrom and Peter Sachs
Posted on 12/26/2006 1:22:32 PM EST by markomalley
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758617/posts
In Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30dems.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=all
By SHAILA DEWAN and ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: October 30, 2006
“The left uses religion to further their own leftist ends. They don’t actually believe in their religions. Notice how the left hates Catholics who actually practice what their religions says, but love “Catholics” who don’t (Kennedy, Kerry).” ~ LiMD
How to answer the question, “Who’s a real Christian, then?”
http://www.tektonics.org/lp/patriot.html
Email this AM of previously posted letter in my local newspaper.
Dear Ms Hunter:
Your statement appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times, June 26, 2007, “Here in the United States religious attitudes have smothered laws to broaden federal support for embryonic stem cell research — a science that has shown promise for the treatment of Parkinson’s and other chronic illnesses.” leaves much to be desired. Except for growing tumors, embryonic stem cell research has not produced or promised anything. I would hope that you could support your statement of “promise”.
If you will take two minutes to read the following, I believe you might see the real promise and success of adult stem cell. To date over 80 success stories can be credited to adult while non has been credited to embryonic. You might consider this information in your next stem cell article.
Sincerely,
Frank Cunningham
March 2007
Lewistown Sentinel
Dear Editor:
It totally amazes me that a wire service (AP) can send out a story that gets banner headlines in newspapers and the same service does not send out similar related stories. As Wesley J. Smith wrote in “National Review”, “The pattern in the media reportage about stem cells is growing very wearisome. When a research advance occurs with embryonic stem cells, the media usually give the story the brass-band treatment. However, when researchers announce even greater success using adult stem cells, the media reportage is generally about as intense and excited as a stifled yawn.”
Where have the stories with banner headlines been when a man in his mid-50s had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s at age 49? Stem cells were harvested from the patient’s brain using a routine brain biopsy procedure. They were cultured and expanded to several million cells. About 20 percent of these matured into dopamine-secreting neurons. In March 1999, the cells were injected into the patient’s brain”. The patient went from 0 motor skills to 83% motor skills.
(http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith042302.asp).
An example of this “brass-band” reporting is in your February 24, 2007 story. “Scientific panel: Study showing promise of adult stem cells was flawed”. One questionable study and banner headlines?
How about a banner headline for this: “A study conducted by the Washington Medical Center in Seattle involved 26 rapidly deteriorating MS patients. They were treated with adult stem cells and it worked. Of the 26 patients, 20 stabilized and six improved. Three patients experienced severe infections and one died.”
Or this: “PITTSBURGH (June 23, 2005) — In a ground-breaking study, scientists at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have discovered that adult, or post-natal, stem cells have the same ability as embryonic stem cells to multiply, a previously unknown characteristic indicating that post-natal stem cells may play an important therapeutic role.”
Or others: “University of California - San Francisco – Adult stem cell study reveals cells’ capability in mouse brain tissue repair”
“Regenetech Inc., a Houston-based, adult-stem-cell company, said this week that recent scientific studies of adult stem cells expanded with its NASA-created techniques, succeed.”
“Researchers at the Tulane University in New Orleans - Adult Stem Cells Offer Hope for Diabetes Treatment”
“Texas Heart Institute - World’s First Adult Stem Cell Study Using Patient’s Own Fat Tissue [supports heart treatment]”
One must question the agenda of some media but in particular the agenda of one of a very, very few wire services who control the spreading of their favorite prejudiced stories. It is understandable that the media cannot investigate every story or can afford the investigative resources therefore the wire services are used. Be aware though, the best way to control thought is to have the wire services limit their stories to those they are proactive in, never revealing a contradiction.
If the wire services were operating under fair and equitable reporting, I am sure we would see such stories as:
“Success Stories with Adult Stem Cells Coming in Almost Too Fast to Track, January 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Success stories about adult stem cell treatments are coming in so fast that LifeSiteNews.com, one of the few newswire services to follow the issue closely, is having trouble keeping up. While most disease research organizations, such as Juvenile Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis and the Canadian Cancer Society, continue to promote the use of living embryonic human beings for experimentation, the only success stories to date have all come from the use of adult stem cells.”
“Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital have found that the spleen may be a source of potential adult stem cells that contain a protein called Hox11, which is associated with embryonic development and limb regeneration.”
“Erica Nader, injured in a car accident and paralyzed from the upper arms down, has been treated for a spinal cord injury using stem cells taken from her nose and implanted in the spinal cord at the site of the injury. at Lisbon’s Egas Moniz Hospital. “After three years, magnetic imaging resonance tests (MRI’s) show that the cells indeed promote the development of new blood cells and synapses, or connections between nerve cells,” says Dr. Carlos Lima, chief of the Lisbon team. Nader is recovering slowly but steadily. She was paralyzed from her biceps down and three years ago had no finger movements. Now, she can do exercises on a floor mat and walk with leg braces on a treadmill.”
The success stories are too many to include in a letter. What is to be pointed out is that there are persons at work who are, at the very least, amoral. Their intent is to foster on the people a one sided argument hoping the reader does not read beyond the headlines. And maybe, get some of the tax money that is spent on miss-guided and unsuccessful efforts of these people.
WWJD?
The simplicity is that Jesus IS God and He Lives the example for Christians. No answer by mere mortal tongue will satisfy the soul to hear, “you are a “real” Christian”. The only Peace upon hearing such would come from God alone. No other can fill us with Life as He. He is not a head-lopping swordsman riding on a war horse, nor does He take one multiple lovers and party through the night like a vampire.
Who is like Jesus? Heaven rejected Satan with Saint “Who is like God?” Michael the Arch Angel. Humanity continues in this Spirit to reject death.
Would Jesus abort a child?
Would Jesus lust or promote it?
Would Jesus euthanize His aging stepfather?
Would Jesus lop the heads off His enemies?
Would Jesus live the life of luxury and debauchery and then tax younger generations with outrageous bills because He’d have wasted His fertile years on fad toys, dope, and promiscuity?
No, Jesus showed us the narrow door and gave us simplicity. This mortal coil is merely a rental.
Total liberal BS. There is no scientific evidence for this. They just want to slaughter more human embryos to further the anti-life ideology.
Thanks Chief, I thought it was something I said....LOL
If I turn off the computer, I have the damnest time starting up again (always says ‘hard drive failure’) but if I leave it running, it’s fine and I can reboot at will. Pretty strange. I have a new hard drive but I need to find a day I want to ruin (maybe the next rainy Saturday) by backing everything up, installing, configuring, reloading, etc.
You can even add JFK >>> “... the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”
Had he been a Catholic one he could have done great things.
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