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Foreseeing the Future and Changing It
The maxim says "If we ignore history, we are bound to repeat it." Some recent headlines suggest we can look at some recent history with the opportunity to avoid repeating it, but only if we rise up against the advocates of "comprehensive sex education" and condoms as the most reliable means to fight AIDS.
The July 16th LifeSiteNews headline reads, "Britain's 'Culture of Promiscuity' sees nearly 400,000 new STD Cases." The British Health Protection Agency (HPA) recently reported 397,990 new cases of sexually transmitted diseases in Britain, the highest number since record-keeping began thirty years ago. In their report released July 2, the HPA found that half the cases of infection could be found in the 16 to 24 year age group, even though this group made up only 12 percent of the population.
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Is Illinois gambling with addiction?
7/23/2008 2:41:00 PM By Joseph Ryan, Daily Herald Staff
- Daily Herald
The state falls short in help for addicts, despite reaping billions from gambling losses
(Second of three parts)
For Meg, the weekly Gamblers Anonymous meetings didn't work.
"I just did it to show my husband and my family I didn't have a problem," says the middle-class suburban mother of two.
That way, she could continue dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars - most of it in credit card advances and casino loans - into video poker machines as she drove her family into bankruptcy after embezzling from her boss.
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Media Ignores Press Conference Announcing McDonald's Boycott -- No Bias Here
IFI Media Watch
It's difficult to understand what selling hamburgers and chicken McNuggets has to do with the way people have sex, but McDonald's obviously believes the two issues are inexorably linked.
Recently, the McDonald's Corporation joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber (NGLCC) of Commerce, a radical homosexual activist organization working toward homosexual "marriage," contributing $20,000 to their group.
"We have a well-established and proud heritage of associating with individuals and organizations that share in the belief that every person has the right to live and work in their community free of discrimination," said Pat Harris, McDonald's Global Chief Diversity Officer.
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Don't Blame Financial Crisis on Capitalism
 In response to the current crisis involving our nation's financial institutions, some commentators are proclaiming that capitalism has failed. They are mistaken … we are witnessing the consequences of the loss of values that were the substance of our culture, not the failure of capitalism.
Capitalism is an economic system that depends on the virtues of the people engaged in the system, i.e. their work ethic, discipline, moral and spiritual values. As with any system, capitalism is subject to human fallibility, or what Christians would refer to as fallen human nature. Therefore, in order for a capitalist - or free market - economic system to function properly, the culture must place a high value on personal virtue and undergird it with reasonable laws and regulations that provide additional restraints and protections against inevitable human failings.
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Hold a Voter Registration Drive This Summer!
Registering to vote is the first step in engaging in civic life and becoming a good steward of your God-given responsibility of self-government. Any Illinois citizen who will be eighteen by Election Day -- November 4th -- is eligible to register.
The process for registering is easy and convenient, but, sadly, millions of Americans choose not to take the time. Estimates count that from 35 percent to 50 percent of Americans are not registered to vote.
It seems to be even worse among self-professing Christians. In the last presidential election -- in 2004, over 25 million people who identify themselves as church-going Christians failed to vote. Research shows that only about 60 percent of Christians are registered to vote, and, of those, only 60 percent actually vote. This means that only 36 percent of Christians actually vote.
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Sacrificing Truth
America's current confusion regarding truth and religion was well illustrated in a column by Eric Zorn in the June 26th Chicago Tribune newspaper. He exulted in polls that seem to show most Americans uncertain as to whether their religions are true or not, and he made it very clear that he believes religious freedom exists only when absolutists are marginalized. He is quite content to settle for ignorance as the norm: "The great riddles of life are, in fact, riddles." However, ignorance of Truth is not equivalent to "no Truth," and it is certainly not religious freedom! Religious freedom is a lie if one is not permitted to actually believe that his views are correct! It is, in fact, religious tyranny.
While it is theoretically possible for all religions to be wrong, it is not possible for all religions to be right. Therefore, it may be safely concluded that some or many religions are wrong! But, woe to the person who points this out! What Zorn is saying is that many Americans either do not know what they believe, or do not believe what their religions actually teach. But, in his view it is better to be wrong about your own religion than to believe that another religion is wrong. As long as you don't really believe in what you believe, you are welcome in Mr. Zorn's America! However, from this we understand that Zorn either believes with CERTITUDE that all people are eternally safe, regardless of their beliefs, or else he really doesn't care whether people are eternally safe or not, just so they don't bother him!
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Evidence of the Culture of Death Overtaking Hospice?
Attempts have been made to legalize assisted suicide in California, but so far they have failed, leaving Oregon as the only state to enter that brave new world. The latest news from California mentioned a bill promoting euthanasia. What is that about?
In fact, the bill in question seeks to require medical providers to provide information and referrals to hospice whenever a terminal diagnosis is made. From the introductory text of California bill AB 2747, it states:
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