http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moralabsolutes/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:21:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418346/posts Larry Jones took bribes and hid hard-core porn magazines at the charity, Feed The Children is alleging in a countersuit against its fired president. The charity also is accusing Jones in the civil case of other misdeeds, including misspending charity funds, pocketing travel money, keeping gifts from appearances and misusing a charity employee as a nanny. Jones, 69, denied wrongdoing. "They fired me wrongfully,” Jones said Tuesday evening. "What they’re trying to do is build a case up against me so that will hold up. It won’t hold up … I didn’t do anything. … If I had … done... The Oklahoman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418346/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:21:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417303/posts LifeNews.com Note: Maria Vitale is an opinion columnist for LifeNews.com. She is the Public Relations Director for the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and Vitale has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio. It's gotten to the point where I have to turn my head away when I hear the opening bars of music. The haunting melody is the soundtrack for a tear-jerker of a commercial for the Humane Society. Images after images of abused pets appear on the screen. As the joyful owner of a tabby, I find portrait... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417303/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:32:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417297/posts Jerusalem, Israel (LifeNews.com) -- The top two Jewish rabbis in Israel sent a letter on Monday to their colleagues denouncing abortion. They said that abortion kills thousands of Israeli babies a year and delays the coming of the Messiah and they promised to do more to promote pro-life and pregnancy help efforts. Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar sent a letter yesterday to all of the state-employed Jewish rabbis saying they would "strengthen" the efforts of the pro-life council in the rabbinate to help reduce abortions.The letter says "the vast majority of abortions are unnecessary and Halacha severely prohibits... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417297/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417288/posts Lincoln, NE (LifeNews.com) -- Until his recent sellout on abortion funding, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson was a darling of the pro-life movement as the lone consistent pro-life Democrat in the Senate. Now, a new poll shows him losing massive support and he would lose by a lopsided margin in his 2012 bid for re-election. A new Rasmussen Reports survey shows Nelson struggling after becoming the 60th and deciding vote for the Senate's pro-abortion health care bill. Should pro-life Republican Governor Dave Heineman challenge Nelson for his Senate seat, a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows he would get 61% of... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417288/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:20:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416614/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama promised Americans in a speech to Congress that his version of a government-run health care bill would not contain abortion funding. Now his top spokesman confirms that Obama favors the Senate bill that funds abortions over the House bill that bans abortion funding.In a September nationally-televised speech to Congress, Obama sought to clear up projections from pro-life advocates that his health care plan would fund abortions."One more misunderstanding I want to clear up -- under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions," Obama claimed.Since his speech, the House... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416614/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:28:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416600/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Most of the focus on the Senate last week revolved around the pro-abortion government-run health care bill the chamber passed on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans and Democrats squabbled over a pro-abortion nominee President Barack Obama as put forward for a crucial legal position. Dawn Johnsen, a law professor at Indiana University who is a former legal counsel for the pro-abortion group NARAL, is Obama's selection to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.Her nomination has been delayed by Republicans who oppose her because she is strongly pro-abortion -- going as far as saying... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416600/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:07:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416211/posts TMZ has obtained a never-before published photograph which appears to show John F. Kennedy on a boat filled with naked women -- it's a photo that could have altered world events. TMZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416211/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415890/posts I was crossing the Jacques Cartier Bridge on my regular Saturday-morning run recently when I began to think about suicide. Not for myself, but because of the 10-foot high fences that line either side of the bridge. Each picket is bent into an n shape at the top so scaling is, effectively, impossible. It's a barrier that means business, which is why it was installed years ago to prevent people jumping into the St. Lawrence. Its message is blunt: "We don't want you even thinking about committing suicide here." As such, it stands as a metallic contradiction given that Quebec's... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415890/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:47:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415713/posts ... While the national health coverage debate has been roiled by questions of whether the government should be paying for end-of-life counseling, physicians [...], in consultations with patients or their families, are routinely making tough decisions about the best way to die. Among those choices is terminal sedation, a treatment that is already widely used, even as it vexes families and a profession whose paramount rule is to do no harm. Doctors who perform it say it is based on carefully thought-out ethical principles in which the goal is never to end someone’s life, but only to make the patient... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415713/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:01:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415570/posts LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. His most recent book is the Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World. This opinion column originally appeared in the Church Report.Terri Schiavo continues to prick our collective conscience, our sensitivity to the way she died -- deprived of all food and water, even the balm of ice chips for nearly two weeks -- as raw today as on the day she drew her last breath five years ago next March. Usually, the trauma remains... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415570/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:22:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414014/posts As a kid, Corrina Gura was fascinated by babies. She remembers visiting the specimens of preserved human embryos and fetuses on display in the Prenatal Development exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry with her parents. When her aunt was pregnant, she asked if she could rest her hand on her aunt's belly. Those experiences years ago helped shape Gura's current belief that a baby's life begins at conception. "All it needs is a place to grow and food, and it will survive, which is what I need," said Gura, who lives in Skokie and works as a projects... Chicago Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414014/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:06:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414122/posts LifeNews.com Note: Sarah Palin is the former governor of Alaska and was the 2008 vice-presidential candidate. She is a pro-life stalwart and has won respect as the mother of a special needs child. Last weekend while you were preparing for the holidays with your family, Harry Reid’s Senate was making shady backroom deals to ram through the Democrat health care take-over. The Senate ended debate on this bill without even reading it.That and midnight-weekend votes seem to be standard operating procedures in D.C. No one is certain of what’s in the bill, but Senator Jim DeMint spotted one shocking revelation... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414122/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:56:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414115/posts BASEL, Switzerland, December 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swiss Federation of Service to Patients (Patientenstellen der Schweiz) has called for a ban on a particular type of contraceptive pill after it was linked to the death last month of a 17-year-old German girl who died in a Swiss hospital.The girl, who died at the University Hospital of Basel, was taking a pill that includes drospirenone, a synthetic progestin, which is a compound included in newer brands, such as Yaz, Yasmin, and Yasminelle.This has been the third grave incident reported in Switzerland this year involving such contraceptives.  In each case, the... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414115/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:42:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413966/posts WH requested Stupak 'not say anything' on abortion, congressman says By Tony Romm - 12/23/09 02:36 PM ET Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Tuesday the White House asked him to "hold off for a while and not say anything" about the abortion language in the Senate's healhtcare bill. The Obama administration reportedly asked the Michigan congressman to withhold judgement on the provision until "they [had] a chance to try to sell me the language," he explained -- a request Stupak later said he denied. "I don’t need to have a conference with the White House," Stupak told CNSnews.com. "I have... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413966/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:53:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413951/posts Teenagers who have sex before GCSE age are less likely to go to university, say researchers. The students 'grow up too quickly' as a result and want to stop studying, according to a major new study. The findings reveal both boys and girls think they are more adult after losing their virginity, and this alters their ambitions. Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413951/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:37:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413604/posts The Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center, one of the nation’s most highly regarded academic hospitals, has earned a reputation as a place where doctors will go to virtually any length and expense to try to save a patient’s life. “If you come into this hospital, we’re not going to let you die,” said Dr. David T. Feinberg, the hospital system’s chief executive. Yet that ethos has made the medical center a prime target for critics in the Obama administration and elsewhere who talk about how much money the nation wastes on needless tests and futile procedures. They like to note... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413604/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:44:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413387/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Hollywood elite and abortion promotion have long been synonymous but Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon is quickly becoming one of the leading pro-abortion voices in Tinseltown. Nixon followed up her Planned Parenthood fundraising letter earlier this year by wading into the health care debate.Nixon is joining abortion advocates who want to ensure taxpayer funding of abortion remains in the Senate government-run health care bill.Just one week after returning to the United States from filming the sequel to the popular television franchise's first feature film, Nixon is bashing a congressman's ban on abortion... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413387/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:08:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413383/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is getting attention for an interview yesterday in which she essentially admits that the American public would be forced to pay for abortions under the Senate health are bill and then relies on accounting gimmicks to suggests that's not the case. Sebelius spoke with BlogHer interviewer Morra Aarons-Mele yesterday and praised the new abortion language the Senate adopted in Harry Reid's manager's amendment. The language, submitted by Sen. Ben Nelson in conjunction with Sen. Bob Casey and pro-abortion Sens. Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray, opens the door to massive abortion funding. "I... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413383/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:03:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413368/posts "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more." Matt 2:18 In Bethlehem, Herod killed all male children under 2 years of age because he felt threatened. On Capitol Hill, battles are raging to keep the abortion mills running. Who threatens you, Pelosi? Why are you determined to murder our children, Reid? If they succeed, the vote is shaping up for Christmas eve, a night when we are all reminded of the Christ born in a manger, a star to guide the wise men... RenewAmerica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413368/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:31:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413250/posts Sonoma County's top official on Monday ordered the removal of stars, angels and other religious symbols from Christmas trees in county buildings after a complaint that the decorations violate constitutional protections. “I understand the concern about government endorsing religion or a doctrine, and I respect that is not our role,” Acting County Administrator Chris Thomas said. The complaint was lodged by Irv Sutley of Santa Rosa, a 65-year-old disabled veteran who has a long history of protesting the use of religious symbols in government settings. One of the offending trees was in the lobby of Thomas' office. He said he... Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413250/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:32:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413239/posts Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements? The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonon to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonon, who is creative director of Barney’s New York has often caused a stir with his design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy. For this year’s White House, he didn’t disappoint.These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of course, Mao... Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413239/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:12:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412936/posts So much for Sen. Ben Nelson's "line in the sand" against government funding for abortion...."I don't ordinarily draw a line in the sand, but I have drawn a line in the sand," the Nebraska Democrat said on Dec. 4, promising he wouldn't vote for government health care if it paid for abortion. Mr. Nelson's principles barely lasted two weeks. By Saturday, he announced that he would provide the 60th vote needed to pass government care. The man's word is meaningless. Nelson's capitulation was not over whether to ban abortion outright. The senator sold his soul to give government the power... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412936/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:38:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412913/posts Teenagers aged 16 or 17 should be allowed to access contraception, even though the age of consent for sex is 17, according to a consultation paper by the Law Reform Commission. The commission proposes that 16 and 17-year-olds should be entitled to consent to and refuse medical treatment, including surgery, and have access to contraception. It recommends that those aged 16 and 17 should be presumed to have full capacity, based on a functional test of understanding. If life-sustaining treatment is refused by a child of 16 or 17, he or she should be able to make an application to... Irish Health http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412913/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:02:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412741/posts Barack Obama's "safe schools czar" is coming under renewed attack. Fox News has picked up on reports that Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), has been surrounded by controversy concerning his organization as GLSEN has been accused of visiting middle and high schools where spokespersons engage in explicit sexual discussions with students. In conjunction with the controversial talks, it has been uncovered that GLSEN has recommended an alleged pornographic reading list for underage students. Exact details of the reading list are too explicit for print, but the material includes frank descriptions and the glorification... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412741/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:20:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412631/posts Ellen Goodman is morally troubled. The liberal columnist for The Boston Globe surveys the moral landscape and laments "there's no shame in the game." Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, whose observations are predictably liberal and feminist, but also marked by a keen eye for cultural detail. I still remember a column she wrote almost thirty years ago about an abandoned church being transformed into a condominium. In "Whatever Happened to Shame?," published in the December 18 edition of the Boston paper, Goodman reports that The New York Post has hired Ashley Dupre, the prostitute at the center of the... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412631/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:44:23 GMT