http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moralvalues/ en-us Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:30:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003862/posts Would this not send a strong message to support Christianity? Would it not also be a counter to the homosexual “Day of Silence?” Any comments? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003862/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:30:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843395/posts Powerline Post by John Hinderaker (excerpts) "A couple of years ago, the conventional wisdom was that Rudy Giuliani would be a formidable Presidential candidate, but could never get the Republican nomination because of his liberal views on some social issues. I believe that we were among the first to question this assumption...At the Candidates' Forum, the Giuliani campaign has started a thread titled Social Conservatives Back Giuliani, which cites some of the recent poll data...UPDATE: Interesting--so far, the commenters on Giuliani's Forum site are pretty much unanimously OK with his position as laid out above. That could change as more... Powerline Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843395/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jun 2007 23:54:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815898/posts THE CIVILITY SQUAD SKIRTS THE RAP RATS DOWNWARD SPIRAL Michelle Malkin April 11, 2007 -- THE culture of "bitches, ho's and niggas." Let's stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. A pox on all their race-baiting houses. Let's also stipulate: The Rutgers women's basketball team didn't deserve to be disrespected as "nappy-headed ho's." No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus' misogynist mockery was "deplorable, despicable and unconscionable." And as I noted on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" this week, I believe top public officials and journalists who have appeared on Imus'... nypost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815898/posts#comment Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:35:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1797338/posts A Brazilian website reported yesterday that Tom Brady's girlfriend Gisele Bundchen may be pregnant and, if so, the Pats QB is the father. According to the popular celebrity website Glamurama.com.br , Bundchen would be no more than two months pregnant, but may already have told select friends and family. The brief item was written by Joyce Pascowitch , who's the Brazilian equivalent of the New York Post's Richard Johnson Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1797338/posts#comment Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:56:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771946/posts BAGHDAD - Fatima Ali was a 24-year-old divorcee with no high school diploma and no job. Shawket al-Rubae was a 34-year-old Shiite sheik with a pregnant wife who, he said, could not have sex with him. Ali wanted someone to take care of her. Rubae wanted a companion. They met one afternoon in May at the house he shares with his wife, in the room where he accepts visitors seeking his religious counsel. He had a proposal. Would Ali be his temporary wife? He would pay her 5,000 Iraqi dinars upfront — about $4 — in addition to her monthly... Washington Post Via MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771946/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:18:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703352/posts It must be an election year. The reason I know this is because the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, is trying to curry favor with traditional marriage defenders by launching a crusade against polygamy. The reason Reid feels safe doing this is clear: There is little electoral support, even among Democrats, to legalize polygamy. It isn't based on principle. It's based on polls. Reid last week called for a federal task force to investigate polygamist communities in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Mormon senator from Nevada urged the Justice Department to look... Worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703352/posts#comment Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:21:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653581/posts ...Slowing the spread of one of the nation's most prevalent STDs among college students — the human papilloma virus, or HPV — requires knowing how the virus is prevented. That has been somewhat of a mystery — until now. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that consistent condom use can prevent the spread of HPV in up to 70 percent of cases, giving Innis and other health educators better proof that condoms can prevent HPV, helping to dispel any myths that they are not effective.... ABC News (echoing the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653581/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:00:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536231/posts Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection in California's San Quentin prison next Tuesday. His death will occur nearly 27 years after he brutally murdered Albert Owens, a 7-Eleven clerk in Whittier, Calif., and three members of the Yang family -- Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang, and their daughter, Yee-Chen Lin -- at the Brookhaven Motel in Los Angeles. Unlike the peaceful, painless demise awaiting Williams, the deaths of his victims were horrific: He shot each of them at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun, shattering their bodies so that they died in agony. Their suffering amused him.... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536231/posts#comment Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:17:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477271/posts People will either be self-disciplined or need the whip of tyranny, to paraphrase the famous 19th century sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville. He noted that the United States was self-disciplined because it was a deeply religious and Christian people. For 50 years, however, the media, in cahoots with the self-appointed nomenklatura of the educational establishment, have ripped religious values out of the public square and out of the educational system serving our children. What were those values that so upset them that they dedicated themselves to erasing them from the public square and people's consciousness? Well, they were such principles as... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477271/posts#comment Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:25:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420071/posts Russian health officials debunk “safe-sex” myth and promote abstinence in Moscow Rome, Jun. 09, 2005 (CNA) - In an about-face, health officials in Moscow have acknowledged that “safe-sex does not exist” and are opting for abstinence-based education for young people. “One should propagandize total abstinence before marriage,” Ludmila Stebenkova of Moscow's parliamentary committee for health care told the Pravda news service. Stebenkova, who is in charge of health care for the 12 million inhabitants of Moscow, believes that “the safe sex propaganda in the USA, for example, has resulted in the dissolution of morals. Sexually transmitted diseases started progressing there.... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420071/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jun 2005 04:35:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377059/posts "The leadership class of the Republican Party," actor Alec Baldwin charged on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, "is a conservative Christian loony bin." That claim earned Baldwin loud applause from the Los Angeles audience. Baldwin then acceded as to how "most Republicans who are registered Republicans are decent, honest good people who you have a difference of opinion with," but, he alleged, "the leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ass of the conservative right." Baldwin's comments came in the midst of a discussion with fellow... MRC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377059/posts#comment Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:15:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362191/posts A courtship worth watching Conservatives come calling, and blacks may be listening this time By Dan Gilgoff What has new Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman learned so far in his fledgling campaign to woo African-American voters? "Folks who don't necessarily agree with you appreciate that you're out there making the case," he tells U.S. News . In the past month, Mehlman has hosted town hall meetings with black audiences in Maryland and New Jersey, sat for a PBS television interview with African-American talk-show host Tavis Smiley, and traveled to Atlanta's Martin Luther King Jr. Center. "It's about building relationships," says... US News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362191/posts#comment Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:24:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1349493/posts There was a time when Democrats and Republicans sounded very similar. There was once a time when we were united in the cause of spreading freedom and liberty to the oppressed. That day, it now seems, is no longer here. When Kennedy spoke of the American duty to defend and spread freedom around the world in his 1961 inaugural address, he spoke those words to both friend and foe. He presented the American vision of a world free from tyranny with strong determination and with unwaivering conviction. Today, as we listen to the cries of some to submit our intentions... My Personal Writings http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1349493/posts#comment Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:52:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348686/posts Objective political analysts have stated that moral values in general and opposition to same-sex “marriage” in particular were the great catalysts in the November 2004 elections. If family and moral values were so decisive, then why would same-sex “marriage” be an unresolved issue for conservatives? * * * At 4:50 today, Patrick Guerriero, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, is scheduled to present his views on the Federal Marriage Amendment in one of five discussions titled “Conservative Principle and Unresolved Issues: Differences Within the Family.” It is possible that Mr. Guerriero will limit himself to arguing that the issue of... www.tfp.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348686/posts#comment Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340859/posts February 11, 2005CONGRESSIONAL MEMODemocrats Getting Lessons in Speaking Their ValuesBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERG ASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - Ever since the November election, Democrats have known that the hottest V-word is not "veto" or "Viagra," it is "values." Now, as hundreds of the party's elite descend here to select a new chairman and chart a course for the future, Democrats are enlisting a bevy of consultants - church leaders, a marketing guru from Silicon Valley and even a linguist - to redefine themselves and discover a message that will sell at the polls.To George Lakoff, a professor at the University of... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340859/posts#comment Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:31:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339106/posts Hanover, Penn., – Moral values are being undermined at 30 Catholic colleges during the weeks surrounding St. Valentine’s day. In fact, many students are afflicted by a play called “The V***** Monologues,” which is scheduled to be held on Catholic campuses throughout the country. (Asterisks added for the sake of modesty). TFP Student Action – a conservative organization of Catholic inspiration – is opposing the play, urging its members on 375 campuses to protest. According to the group’s web site: “In one scene, a woman describes her seduction by a lesbian woman when she was 16 years old, declaring it... TFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339106/posts#comment Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:27:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321192/posts Anti-Bush Bracelets Say, 'Count Me Blue' NEW YORK - After spending 10 days in London with friends who were outspoken about their disdain for President Bush (news - web sites)'s policies, Berns Rothchild came home wishing she had a way to show the world she didn't vote for him. "I sort of felt ashamed, and didn't really want to be associated with being an American," said Rothchild, who lives in New York City and voted for John Kerry (news - web sites). Her mother had a suggestion: bracelets, inspired by the Lance Armstrong Foundation's popular "LIVESTRONG" bands, that would signal... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321192/posts#comment Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:50:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321286/posts NEW YORK - After spending 10 days in London with friends who were outspoken about their disdain for President Bush's policies, Berns Rothchild came home wishing she had a way to show the world she didn't vote for him. "I sort of felt ashamed, and didn't really want to be associated with being an American," said Rothchild, who lives in New York City and voted for John Kerry. Her mother had a suggestion: bracelets, inspired by the Lance Armstrong Foundation's popular "LIVESTRONG" bands, that would signal opposition to Bush. Thousands of miles away, two women in Idaho had the same... Yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321286/posts#comment Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:39:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319737/posts Prior to September 11, 2001, Afghanistan’s repressive Taliban regime was known to most of the world only on account of a single controversy involving its decision to destroy two ancient Buddhist statues. Of course reaction to this incident was one of universal outrage, loudly condemned across the political spectrum as an abominable example of religious tyranny. Yet this desire by the Taliban to obliterate all religious symbolism with which it took umbrage has an ominous parallel within the borders of America in the systematic efforts by the ACLU and its ideological supporters to expunge every Christian expression from the public... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319737/posts#comment Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:16:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1307950/posts In 1984, as all devoted readers of Conversations with Trentino know, John Kenneth Galbraith visited the Soviet Union and praised it for the prosperity he saw in its "exfoliating apartment houses" well stocked stores, and traffic-filled streets. Professor Galbraith took particular note of labor efficiency: he observed that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics used its manpower efficiently, unlike the US. Galbraith was then the grand panjandrum of economics, a professor of that dark science at Harvard, erstwhile president of the American Economic Association, a founding member of the ADA, and formerly US Ambassador to India. A card-carrying liberal in... The Conning Tower http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1307950/posts#comment Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:46:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307550/posts Put this one in your back pocket for the next Christmas party. A gift from us to you. After a few cocktails, when the office bore turns the conversation to Moral Values and Religious Freaks who elected that Liar In The White House and this country’s Backward Obsession with Guns and Wal-Marts…. Yeah, when that guy goes into blowhard mode, quote him a little P. J. O’Rourke. Specifically, pull out this O’Rourkian rejoinder and perfect-for-any-political-occasion comeback: This country was founded by religious nuts with guns. It always seems to come as a surprise to some folks that this country is... The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307550/posts#comment Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:10:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1303958/posts Who's Missing From the Honored Guest List? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1303958/posts#comment Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:10:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295999/posts Democrats and other liberal backers of John Kerry's presidential campaign are at it again in Ohio, demanding a recount. That these people would again seek to "interpret the will" of the voter in hopes of changing the legal outcome of an election is not shocking, but the hypocrisy is and it continues to harm the Democratic Party. While many like to talk about the election being won by religious voters motivated by the loosely defined "moral values," it is much simpler than that. Kerry lost the election because he and his party don't really seem to stand for anything... CNSNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295999/posts#comment Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:43:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1287154/posts You remember the 1990s? Those wonderful Clinton years, when liberal Democrats, led by the great moralist James Carville, incessantly told us, "Character doesn't matter." Well, it's time to slap another egg on Carville's head because he and his party have been proven dead wrong again. During the Clinton impeachment proceedings, Republicans were forbidden from merely questioning the President's unethical behavior. Just in case you have forgotten, Clinton used his presidential stature to seduce a young, female intern in the Oval Office. To make matters even worse, he perjured himself in a court of law and coerced others to do the... The George Washington University Hatchet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1287154/posts#comment Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:37:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282569/posts I have been in touch with Democratic friends in Washington over the past few days to see what stage of mourning they have entered. We are told there are, what, four, five stages of mourning? Well, whatever the number, my friends are in the stage where the victim is really, really ticked off. (There is another word that is far more appropriate than "ticked" but the Justice Department probably reads these blogs, so the homogenized version will have to do). For those mentally healthy Democrats who are ready to put conspiracy theories behind them and start preparing for the next... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282569/posts#comment Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:00:56 GMT