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Since this is Respect Life Sunday, and the beginning of Respect Life month, I wanted to talk about one woman who did respect life – and her choice has made a difference in the life of virtually every person in this church. Her name is Joanne Schiebel. In 1954, she was a young unmarried college student who discovered that she was pregnant. In the 1950s, her options were limited. She could have had an abortion – but the procedure was both dangerous and illegal. She could have gotten married, but she wasn’t ready and didn’t want to interrupt her education....

Geraldine Ferraro, the U.S.'s first ever female vice presidential candidate died recently, aged 75. A leftist Democrat, Ferraro got her position, the same way many other senior Dems did - with the help of Marxists. It is a central theme of this blog that Barack Obama was promoted to the U.S. presidency, by an alliance of several Marxist groups including Democratic Socialists of America. While this sounds far-fetched to some, there is nothing new about socialists working inside the Democratic Party to put "their" candidates into very high positions. The late Millie Jeffrey was a leader in United Auto Workers...

If you could only choose one, which would you choose having...knowledge or wisdom? And why? Could you cite historical event(s) in support of your choice? I like to read Psalms, Proverbs and Isaiah before going to bed.

SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea's ruling communist party said Saturday it would convene a meeting of party representatives in September to elect new leaders, Pyongyang's official media reported. The session would be "for electing its (the party's) highest leading body," said an announcement carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It will be only the third such meeting of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since the communist state was founded in 1948 and would likely designate leader Kim Jong-Il's son as his political heir, an analyst said. "The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee decides...

The D.C. City Council took one step closer to allowing same sex "marriages" in the District of Columbia on Tuesday when they voted the legislation out of the Committee on Public Safety & Judiciary. The panel refused to include protections for religious organizations--putting at risk the numerous churches in the region that provide goods and services to the needy who would have to decide between their faith or compliance with the city's commands. One of the largest area provider of relief services, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, took a stand yesterday, just as their counterparts in Massachusetts's had done in...

Candidate Obama answers a question about his lack of experience. He says he knows how to pick talent. He will set a course and mobilize his assembled talent to achieve that goal

MEIENDORF CASTLE, Russia, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday the United States had to choose between partnership with Moscow and the Georgian leadership which he described as a "virtual project". "We understand that this current Georgian leadership is a special project of the United States, but one day the United States will have to choose between defending its prestige over a virtual project or real partnership which requires joint action," Sergei Lavrov told reporters. U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday demanded Russia resolve a crisis with Georgia and said he would dispatch U.S. military aircraft...

Choose your candidate based on the issues.

WASHINGTON - Evangelical Republicans in Iowa chose one of their own in Mike Huckabee. "Wherever it ends — and we know where that's going to be — it started here in Iowa," the emboldened candidate proclaimed as he promised more victories in states to come. But the looming question is whether the Southern Baptist minister turned decade-long Arkansas governor is strong enough to triumph outside friendly Iowa territory, and go the distance to the nomination. That test begins immediately as Huckabee turns to New Hampshire, where he will run head-on into town meetings full of secular voters, and John McCain,...

One of the country's leading hospitals is throwing aborted babies into the same incinerator used for rubbish to save only £18.50 each time, it has emerged. Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, said it was no longer able to afford the dignified disposal at a local crematorium of foetuses from unwanted pregnancies. Instead, they are being burnt in the hospital's main incinerator - which is normally used for rubbish and clinical waste. The revelation sparked anger and distress among church leaders and pro-life groups, as well as women whose pregnancies were terminated at the hospital. Addenbrooke's adopts a different policy for unborn...

Hamas' victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections is already being sanitized by the politically correct, despite the terrorist group's bloody track record and its fallacious and dubious historical claims to the land of Israel. Thankfully, some Western leaders are condemning the selection of murderers by Palestinians for their government. At the top of a BBC article yesterday regarding the Hamas terrorist group winning Palestinian elections: The win poses problems for efforts to restart peace talks with Israel, say analysts. Israel insists it will not deal with an authority including Hamas. So this is all just Israel's problem/fault because the majority of...

It's happened. Just this morning. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has announced her retirement. Throughout her tenure, Justice O'Connor has been part of the razor-thin majority that has kept Roe v. Wade from being dismantled. Now, for the first time in over a decade, there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court. And unless we act quickly, it will be filled by a right-wing extremist bent on ending a woman's right to choose. We knew a retirement was coming, but if you're like me, today's announcement still came as a shock. Yes, this is a long weekend, but the next few weeks...

On November 2nd, 2004, America will choose its next President and no matter which of the two candidates we choose, we will have taken a stand, quite possibly, our final stand. Not just on the surface issues always volleyed about in campaigns, but on something of much greater importance. America’s moral authority to self-govern and lead the world… For more than 200 years, America, one of the youngest nations on earth, has lead the world in every respect, economically, militarily, spiritually, and intellectually. We have enjoyed the fruits of our forefather’s brilliant design, and their sacrifices. We have raised from...

www.JB-Williams.com Written by: JB Williams ©2004-10-12 Let’s pretend for a moment that Good and Evil both exist on earth. That issues aren’t only a matter of one’s perspective, but that real facts exist and they don’t have a side. That “gray area’s” are just mind bending attempts to justify the unjustifiable. That America is not divided along socio-economic lines, but rather by opposing forces with very different agenda’s. Let’s pretend that we no longer have the luxury of walking the tightrope of indecision, or sitting on a politically correct non-committal fence, void of moral or ethical conviction. Let’s pretend that...

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FREE TO CHOOSE</font color> Amid all the celebrations and the cookouts, something occurred to me about the holiday we celebrate today. The idea came from the pastor’s homily at Mass this morning. Today, of course, the trend of the message was “freedom.” Father spoke of the freedoms we all have, and named “…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…” as those rights that couldn’t be taken away from human beings anywhere, born into whatever circumstances they might. He named another right, though…one I hadn’t heard mentioned, but which had immediacy, considering where his audience was seated. Father spoke of the...

FRC Statement on Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Ruling June 1, 2004 - Tuesday FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 1, 2004 CONTACT: Bill Murray, (202) 393-2100 FOR RADIO: Yvonne Lingo "This judge's decision is not only a threat to unborn children, but to the democratic process," says FRC's Perkins. WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to today's ruling by a U.S. District Court judge in California, declaring the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 unconstitutional, Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins released the following statement in his daily e-newsletter, The Washington Update: "In a move not completely unexpected, the United States District Court...

 The government enforces, or forces it's choices upon you, by forcing you to pay taxes, whether its property taxes, or income taxes, or a sales tax, or gas taxes, you have no choice, then it chooses how to spend your money. It enforces, or forces, its compassion, or its laws, or its regulations, and morality upon you. Because you are not free to choose how you will spend your money for yourself, or what moral choices you should make for yourself. The government enforces it upon you, or forces you to choose what compassion and morality they decide is for...

Consider: The way we define 'human' determines our view of self, others, relationships, institutions, life, and future. Choose wisely...there will be results. In an effort to diminish the multiple and persistent dangers and abuses which have characterized the affairs of man in his every Age, and to assist in the requisite search for human identity, it is essential to perceive and specify that distinction which naturally and most uniquely defines the human being. Because definitions rule in the minds, behaviors, and institutions of men, we can be confident that delineating and communicating that quality will assist the process of resolution...

TALLAHASSEE - House Speaker Johnnie Byrd used a list of "Choose Life" license tag owners to promote a new parental-notice abortion law, an aide confirmed Wednesday. Byrd spent $14,000 in tax money on the mailing last month, days after he announced his bid for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. A letter sent to about 30,000 holders of the tags, signed by Byrd and Rep. Sandra Murman, R-Tampa, criticized the Florida Supreme Court for ruling that a parental notification law violated the state Constitution's privacy clause. Byrd's use of the Choose Life database to send a political message shows that the...

THE former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing raised the temperature in the debate over the new EU constitution yesterday by declaring Britain had to choose between a future with Europe or its special relationship with the United States. In a series of controversial statements, Mr d’Estaing, who is chairing the convention drawing up the blueprint for an enlarged EU, insisted there were two prerequisites for the constitution: a common foreign policy and a stable presidency. His remarks provided further ammunition to those calling for a referendum on the issue, fearing that the proposals put forward by the convention will mean...

The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is a misnomer and theological contradiction, that is, if defined in biblical terms. Yet the hoax continues. With that, the group denounces recently President Bush’s administration health care policies as "extreme". Perhaps some religious persons are duped by the organization's fabrication. But the truly biblically knowledgeable know a lie when they hear a lie. Rev. James Lamb, executive director of National Lutherans for Life, says it all when he states that "once you lose your scriptural base, you can justify anything. They’re playing to what they think the culture wants to hear." What is...