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Breitbart
reports. Excerpt:
California's highest court agreed Wednesday
to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage
but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.
Radical
“gay rights” activists will stop at nothing to impose “gay marriage” on the
public, even if that means overturning democracy when it doesn’t suit their
purposes. Three lawsuits have been filed
to overturn Prop. 8 (which amends the state constitution to preserve the traditional
definition of marriage) recently approved by California voters. The same Supreme Court which instituted same-sex
marriage earlier this year will now determine the constitutionality of the
voter approved marriage protection amendment.
If the court were to overturn a lawfully approved ballot initiative, it
would be an unprecedented display of raw judicial activism and tyranny.
D.
Joy Riley, M.D gives an important perspective on the debate
over taxpayer funding of stem cell research that destroys human embryos. She also shows how Britain is an example of
where confusion over what a human embryo can lead. Excerpt:
“…induced pluripotent cells (iPS) —
embryonic-like stem cells formed without destroying embryos — have been
produced. James Thomson, who originally reported human ESC culture in 1998,
sees iPS as the future. Likewise, Ian Wilmut, famous for cloning
"Dolly", has endorsed iPS over cloning as the way forward. Still the
clamor for federal funds and human embryos continues.”
The
Telegraph has the exclusive interview with the woman who had her wind
pipe replaced using her own adult stem cells. This piece also includes video. Excerpt:
"The moment I woke after the
procedure, I looked up at the doctor and he smiled and told me it had been
successful - it was the best moment ever," she said. "I knew then
that I had a life and a future."
The 30-year-old Colombian mother of two,
who has lived in Spain for nine years, was struck down by tuberculosis five
years ago. She was given conventional treatment but her condition worsened.
"I was coughing all the time, I
couldn't walk very far and I couldn't say more than a few words at a time
before becoming breathless," said the dental nurse speaking on Wednesday
at the Barcelona hospital where she was treated. "I wasn't able to work
and couldn't do the normal things mothers do for their children."
Last January she was offered the chance of
a replacement windpipe grown using her own stem cells, a pioneering process
known as "tissue engineering". Without the transplant, surgeons would
have had to remove one of lungs, a procedure that carries a high mortality
rate.
LifeNews also reports.
Daniel
Herbster reporting
Citizens for Community Values of
Indiana is one of the many great organizations in our nation fighting to
protect family values and to oppose pornography and sexually oriented
businesses. I had the opportunity to
interview Patrick Mangan, the Executive Director of CCV of IN, about his work
enabling people to take back their communities.
DH: Patrick, I’ve enjoyed getting to know you and your
organization better over the last few months, so it’s a pleasure to introduce
you to our readers here at AdvanceUSA Blog.
I’ve seen first-hand how your work affects the state of Indiana and
especially my home town of South Bend.
Tell our readers what kinds of issues Citizens for Community Values
works on?
PM: Well our mission is to protect men, women, and
children from the misinformation of sexual activists, and the harms of sexual
addictions, sexual predators, sexually oriented businesses, materials harmful
to minors, broadcast indecency, and the porn/sex industry in all of its forms,
by promoting the principles of the Judeo/Christian ethic which is the
foundation of our nation.
Our vision is to empower concerned citizens and
community leaders to significantly reduce sexual exploitation, promiscuity, and
abuse in Indiana and beyond by:
G.
Tracey Mehan III provides an
important perspective when considering the results of the recent
elections. Excerpt:
This scapegoating of the solid and most
loyal of the three wings of the Reaganite coalition is inaccurate and just
plain wrong. It is self-defeating in the long run. It is rank blame-shifting
and a libel of a GOP constituency which has always supported low taxes, a
strong defense and a constrained judiciary. All it asked for was fair
consideration of its concerns with family and the culture of life.
Read
the full
article here.
HT:
FRC
Kevin
McCullough explains, examining the hatred expressed by the “gay rights”
activists and showing how their position goes against common sense and the
Constitution.
Matt
Barber explains. Excerpt:
With a unified voice amplified several
million-fold through the ballot box megaphone, African-Americans have spoken on
the issues of marriage, family and human sexuality. Whether young or old, male
or female, Democrat or Republican, blacks are justifiably fed up with the
deceptive antics of the self-described and craftily contrived "gay rights
movement."
For decades now, well-organized,
well-funded and highly influential "gay" political pressure groups
have, with impertinence, hijacked the language of the authentic civil rights
movement. In what amounts to a sort of soft racism, self-styled
"queers" have disingenuously and ignobly hitched their lil' lavender
wagons to a movement which, by contrast, is built upon the genuine and noble
precepts of racial equality and humanitarian justice.
The
Philadelphia Bulletin reports.
Excerpt:
Less than two miles from two main abortion
providers in the city, Planned Parenthood and the Philadelphia Women's Clinic,
The HOPE Center opened Friday to provide pregnancy support.
While 40 percent of state abortions happen
in the city, most crisis pregnancy centers are located in the suburbs. Former
Philadelphia Eagle, Rev. Herb H. Lusk II opened The HOPE Center through his
People for People community outreach organization to counter that statistic and
help expecting couples.
"I've always been pro-life, but I've
been passive about it," Rev. Lusk said. "When I began to consider
that the African-American population alone has declined in the past three years
across the nation, I realized that we're not procreating our own race; and that
is a direct result of abortion in our communities."
According to the Pennsylvania Department of
Health, 50 percent of black pregnancies end in abortion in Philadelphia. And
between 1973 and 1999, there were over 13 million African-American abortions
nationwide.
"It breaks my heart to hear that; it
makes me cry," Rev. Lusk said of the statistics. "We can do better
than that."
Read
the full
story here.
HT:
Tony Perkins, FRC
USA
Today reports. Excerpt:
Like previous presidents, Obama is expected
to issue a flurry of executive orders after he takes office Jan. 20. Some could
reverse Bush administration policies; others could promote his own.
Ending a ban on government funding for
research using embryonic stem cells would be among the most controversial.
"The question is, does the Bush policy
get replaced with the law of the jungle" where scientists can create and
clone human embryos for the sole purpose of studying their cells and then
destroying them, asks Richard Doerflinger, the bishops conference's associate
director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. "We are very
concerned about it as a moral issue."
Americans
United for Life has created a helpful
online resource for finding out more information about the terrible and deceptively
named “Freedom of Choice Act” which would overturn every abortion restriction
in the nation and enshrine the faulty Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision into
Federal law. The website is FightFOCA.com and allows you to sign an
online petition against this terrible pro-abortion legislation.
Cal
Thomas points out the irony
of Barack and Michelle Obama practicing school choice in Washington,
DC. Excerpt:
Parents who put their children first are to
be admired and emulated. Politicians who are parents and who have the power to
let others make the choices they can make, but refuse to do so, are
inconsistent at best and hypocrites at worst.
Throughout the campaign, Barack Obama
presented himself as a champion of the poor and middle class. Poor and
middle-class parents do not love their children any less than the Obamas love
their daughters. They want their kids to have a good education, realizing it is
their ticket to a better life. But liberal politicians deny them that right. Is
that fair?
CitizenLink reports
and reveals the source of this scourge, pornography. Excerpt:
Daniel Weiss, senior analyst for media and
sexuality at Focus on the Family Action, said the horror of child sexual
exploitation is growing worse.
"We cannot expect a change until the
culture as a whole puts an end to the mass marketing of pornography," he
said. "If we continue to allow pornographers to put out the message that
humans are nothing more than sexual commodities, we cannot act surprised when
children are abused, consumed and molested for someone’s sexual gratification.
"Law enforcement officials must begin
prosecuting the entire range of illegal pornography.”
Apparently
proponents of homosexual marriage find the democratic process
inconvenient when it goes counter to their demands. Three lawsuits have been filed to nullify the
marriage protection amendment recently added to the California constitution by
voters. Fortunately, as The
Catholic Online reports, our friends at Liberty Counsel will come to the
aid of marriage and democracy.
As
The
Desert Sun and the Campaign
for Children and Families report, homosexual activists are willing to
resort to violence and intimidation to oppose protecting traditional marriage.
The
media has reported that President Elect Barack Obama and his wife are searching
for private schools for their children. Terence
Jeffrey exposes
a classic case of liberal hypocrisy where a politician who denounces school
choice for poor and middle class families makes use of it for himself.
LifeNews explains the likely
strategy that will be used by pro-abortionists to eliminate any restrictions on
abortions.
The
Committee for Justice gives us a heads-up on the kinds
of Supreme Court nominees we are likely to see from an Obama administration
and what some Republican senators think about it.
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