http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moralabsolutes/ en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:29:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051523/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Poor women and children need food, health care and education, but the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program is coming under fire for giving them abortions instead. The program's web site features a link to Planned Parenthood, the business that does about 25 percent of U.S. abortions. Pro-life blogger Dawn Eden, author of The Thrill of the Chaste, found the link at the USDA's WIC Learning Center, the official web site for the federal government's program."That's because a hefty chunk of the $5 billion in taxpayer funds for the program designed to help feed and... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051523/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051477/posts Fresno, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Disability rights advocates and pro-life groups are speaking up in the case of Janet Rivera, an incapacitated California woman who had her food and water restored yesterday. They say Rivera's guardian was wrong to override her family and deny her the right to sustenance.Rivera, 46, had a heart attack on February 2006 and she never regained consciousness. She has been on life support for two years.As LifeNews.com has reported, on July 14 a court-appointed guardian removed her feeding tube despite her family's wishes.After obtaining help from pro-life attorneys, the Rivera family won a court order to... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051477/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:36:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051471/posts July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Campaign Life Coalition Canada (CLC) is hosting and co-sponsoring the International Pro-Life Conference, "Creating a Culture of Life Around the Globe," in Toronto October 2-4 with Life Canada and the International Right to Life Federation (IRTLF). Among the many notable speakers at this major conference will be Father Gerard Wilberforce, the great, great grandson of slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce. Jim Hughes, International Right to Life vice-president and president of Campaign Life Coalition Canada told LifeSiteNews that the conference is expected to be as exciting as the 2002 International conference with speakers from around the world.... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051471/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:28:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050953/posts He does not include these little persons in his claims to care about the poor and his concern for the immigrants. Yet, they are, in the words of a great treasure of our age, the late “Mother” now “Blessed” Teresa of Calcutta, the “poorest of the poor”. These little boys and girls are being evicted from their first home every day by the thousands. No, they are actually being killed, burned, and dismembered, in a war on the womb being waged with surgical strikes and chemical weapons. And, he supports it all, calling this evil a “right”. Frankly, I can... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050953/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:40:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050850/posts July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "My God is a Goddess with golden breasts, dripping milk and honey. A suckling baby am I, nursing at the golden breast." So writes Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Canada's father of abortion, in one of the poems found in his self-published book of poetry, "Freedom is my Passion."With Morgentaler having burst once again onto the public stage in recent weeks, after being awarded Canada's highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada, many people are questioning who exactly Henry Morgentaler is, and what his legacy has been.While news coverage of the abortion doctor over the years... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050850/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:26:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050833/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life group that monitors international issues says the problem of sex-selection abortions could be lessened if pro-abortion activists got involved. But the Population Research Institute says the blather of protecting women and their health appears to stop at the border's edge.In a new YouTube video the group has released, PRI president Steven Mosher decries the practice, common in East and South Asian countries, of sex-selective abortion."In China, India, and other Asian countries, there is a strong preference for boys," Mosher told LifeNews.com. "This combination of a preference for boys and modern technology--the ultrasound... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050833/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:58:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050829/posts Fresno, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Twelve days after she was initially denied food and water, a California court ruled that Janet Rivera is entitled to the nutrition and hydration that a guardian revoked. Rivera is the latest disabled patient like Terri Schiavo to draw the attention of pro-life advocates because of her plight. Rivera lost her right to food and water on July 14 when a court-appointed guardian removed her feeding tube despite her family's wishes. The 46-year-old had a heart attack on February 2006 and she never regained consciousness. She has been on life support for two years. Fresno County... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050829/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050413/posts The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems. The Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343) are two bills geared toward military and families who fall below state poverty lines. The measures are said to be a way to prevent child abuse, close the achievement gap in education between poor and minority infants versus middle-class children and... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050413/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:32:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050223/posts South Dakota is only the first State to pass such legislation. many must follow. The legislation was well drafted and supported by a record of legislative findings of fact that includes unassailable medical science which unequivocally affirms that children in the womb are, in fact, human beings and therefore persons. The legislation had and still has overwhelming popular support. That is why it survived efforts by “pro-choice” (read “pro-feticide”) extremists to defeat it through a referendum. Several other States are now said to be ready to follow this example. Some within the pro-life community have speculated that such a courageous... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050223/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:34:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050316/posts Madrid, Jul 23, 2008 / 12:29 pm (CNA).- The civil rights watchdog organization Hazteoir.org filed a complaint with Spain’s Attorney General this week against the organizers of a July 5 “gay pride” parade for inciting religious hatred. The gay pride parade, which took place in Madrid, is renowned not only for its graphic and violent displays of homosexual sex, but also for its open aggression against the Catholic faith. Many participants dress up in clerical or religious garb combined with sexual objects, and others carry signs that insult the Pope, the bishops and Catholics in general. According to Hazteoir.org, participants... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050316/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:17:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050309/posts WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 23, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The chairman of the U.S. bishops pro-life committee says an issue is being discussed by members of Congress that should be a matter of agreement between "pro-lifers" and "pro-choicers": respect of conscience. Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, affirmed this in a letter Friday to members of Congress. The cardinal's letter responded to a debate that arose when the New York Times reported on July 15 that it had a draft of proposed federal regulations on the conscience rights of health care providers. According to the Times... ZNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050309/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:11:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2050290/posts History's humongous wheel turns and turns and turns again. Over time, mud and sludge accumulate on even the sprucest institutions. Take the 500-year-old Anglican family of churches, Christianity's third-largest, after Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy. With Anglicanism's biggest family event under way - the every-10-years gathering of bishops and archbishops in England - what the world sees, accurately or not, is a family in moral and spiritual disarray. --snip--For all that, Anglicanism's public troubles proceed from the takeover of Western Anglicanism by theological activists whose purpose is the remolding of Christianity into something less like the old-time religion than like the... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2050290/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:38:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050234/posts Hollywood, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Sherri Shepherd, a co-host of the popular women's television program "The View," said in a recent interview that she's had numerous abortions. She says that she didn't began to change her promiscuous behavior until she became a Christian.In the interview with Precious Times, a magazine for black Christian women, Shepherd, who is 41, said she was "sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count.""I felt if someone killed me, it wouldn't even make a difference," she said, talking about how the abortions and other problems caused a... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050234/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:48:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050197/posts Fresno, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A California court is scheduled to hold a hearing today in a case of a disabled woman like Terri Schiavo who has been deprived of food and water for nine days. Janet Rivera lost her right to food and water on July 14 when a court-appointed guardian removed her feeding tube despite her family's wishes. Rivera, 46, had a heart attack on February 2006 and she never regained consciousness. She has been on life support for two years Jesus Rivera, her husband, had been his wife's conservator until June 17, when he was replaced for unknown... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050197/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:59:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050012/posts For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet. Sometimes, Aaron Mohanlal would call in sick to work, take the boy to his home for sex and drop the seventh-grader back off at school at the end of the day. To keep the abuse secret, Mohanlal bought the 13-year-old a cell phone and created nicknames for their genitalia. When police arrested him, the teacher was caught on hidden video trying to destroy letters threatening the boy if he ever told. Last summer, a Broward County jury convicted... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050012/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049878/posts Abuse shelters are the domestic violence industry's Holy of Holies. Their ministrations are shrouded in mystery, the High Priestesses unnamed, their locations often kept secret. There abused women can become purified of the patriarchal demon and begin life anew. Of course if you're an abused man, don't bother to ask for help. They're likely to claim you are harassing them and call the police. And abuse shelters don't seem to be very interested in helping the youngsters, either. Although abuse shelters claim to serve the children of abused women, what passes for child care may be a gum-chewing, tattoo-adorned teenager... ifeminists.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049878/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:19:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049667/posts Three residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have lost an attempt to ban the use of the word "lesbian" to describe gay women. The residents argued that using the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity. But an Athens court ruled there was no justification for their contention that they felt slighted, saying the word did not define the islanders' identity. Greeks often refer to the island as Mytilene, after its capital. "This is a good decision for lesbians everywhere," Vassilis Chirdaris, lawyer for the Gay and Lesbian Union of Greece, told Reuters news agency. Court expenses... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049667/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:21:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049139/posts Sioux Falls, SD -- Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors. The state law, which the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld last week, required abortion practitioners to inform every woman that she is terminating the life of a human being. It requires giving her information about the mental health complications such as a high risk of depression and suicide... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049139/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:29:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049635/posts Green, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Local pro-life advocates in this city near Akron successfully got local officials to evict an abortion business that set up shop near a legitimate medical center. Formerly known as Ohio Women's Center, G&H Healthcare served as an abortion business in the city of Green in Summit County.G&H was located in an office complex and, according to Judith Hoyt, an officer with Summit County Right to Life, the neighboring medical center received constant questions about whether it did abortions."The Fresenius Medical Care Center located next door to the G&H Healthcare clinic became offended when several people... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049635/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:21:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049529/posts July 2008 In view of the present tensions and divisions within the Anglican Communion, and out of deep concern for the unity of the Church, we consider it important to express clearly the position of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) concerning human sexuality. We believe that God created humankind in his own image; male and female he created them for the continuation of humankind on earth. Women and men were created as God’s agents and stewards on earth We believe that human sexuality is God’s gift to human beings which is rightly ordered only when expressed within the... Anglican Mainstream http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049529/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:41:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049527/posts It's about a hundred degrees and getting hotter in the Big Top at Lambeth but the £1 million black hole in the budget at the Lambeth Conference means they can't afford air conditioning. Expect fainting bishops to be ferried out by ambulances any moment now, if they don't start shooting each other first. The press conference this morning was a farce. Communications officers declined to comment on who is here for reasons of 'security' but declined to say what the 'security' issues were. Apparently there are some Nigerian bishops at the conference but we are not allowed to know who... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049527/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049396/posts The Mediator (the quarterly newsletter of the awesome evangelical outreach to Hollywood, MasterMedia Internatonal) reports that Oprah Winfrey now airs a one-hour daily radio show on her XM satellite radio channel that takes listeners through the 365 lessons in the New Age tome "A Course in Miracles." The folks at MasterMedia got their information from truthorfiction.com If you're not familiar with the teachings of A Course In Miracles (which were supposedly channeled to the author by Jesus) you can check out the quotes on the truthorfiction page above (some of the quotes are from other New Age books, but... Thermonuclear Thought http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049396/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:42:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049054/posts Columbus, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Several states have dealt with the problem of judges routinely approving requests for a judicial bypass so teens can get abortions without their parents' knowledge or consent. Now, an Ohio judge has admitted she's never denied a single request from a teen to get around the parental involvement law.The National Right to Life Committee indicates 37 states have parental consent or notification laws and 29 are currently in effect, including Ohio. Most have a Supreme Court-mandated judicial bypass for the rare instances where girls may be victimized by their parents.Hundreds of hearings take place before... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049054/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:16:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049046/posts GLASGOW, Scotland, July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The work of the Church to protect the unborn, to assist "frightened young" pregnant women and to help to "secure a better standard of living and greater opportunities for the poor," far from being mutually exclusive, are closely interrelated works that cannot be separated from each other, according to the Catholic bishop of Motherwell.Joseph Devine, the fourth bishop of the diocese that encompasses parts of Glasgow in Scotland, said, "Indeed, a nation that condemns to abortion our beautiful and blameless unborn babies betrays itself as morally, ethically and politically untrustworthy and disinclined... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049046/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:03:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049036/posts I That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is not exactly news. Even in the benighted precincts of believers, where information from the outside world is known to travel exceedingly slowly, everybody grasps that this is one doctrine the world loves to hate. During Benedict XVI’s April visit to the United States, hardly a story in the secular press failed to mention the teachings of Humanae Vitae, usually alongside adjectives like “divisive” and “controversial” and “outdated.” In fact, if there’s anything on earth that unites the Church’s adversaries—all of... First Things http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2049036/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:41:46 GMT