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Focus on the Family opposes stem cell research using human embryos. In order to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells, a living, human embryo must be killed. It is never morally or ethically justifiable to kill one human being in order to benefit another. By requiring the destruction of embryos — the tiniest human beings — embryonic stem cell research violates the medical ethic, “Do No Harm.”
The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fantasy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.As the "silent member" of the Congress, Thomas Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786.
We need the oil. High oil prices are bad for the economy. Environmental nuts are making you, Mr. Average consumer, pay too much to protect their elite multi-million dollar views. They want us out of Iraq? Well then they should allow us to drill off the coast of California. People in Texas and Oklahoma look at the oil rigs and they don't complain, they know it is necessary and part of the American way. Joe 12 pack in Texas can't say "Boo hoo, remove the oil rig in my view, or I'll sue." Why should some liberal Hollywood elites get perfect views? What is more important, our ability to get to work and drive our kids to school or their "right" to view the ocean?
My Friends, in the bible God gave us dominion over the earth. To quote Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” If you believe in some secular environmentalist view and not the bible, you will oppose drilling off the coast of California. But most people believe that it is better to block Barbra Streisand's Malibu, Calif., view of the ocean than to deny the bible. Look out for environmental activist judges to embrace Alec Baldwin and Luna Moonchild Butterfly and not God.Okay, once there was a spill outside the liberal elite conclave of Santa Barbara. That was 35 years ago! The technology has advanced! The protections will be massive so it won't happen again. If these people were patriots they would demand that the government drill here! Can you imagine someone in the heartland saying, "My view and a few seagulls are more important than the country's energy needs?"
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Debating politics in the pulpit Bill would allow churches to back candidates, issues
This just boggled my mind when I read it. No more hinting around about who to vote for in churches. I wonder if this will have some unintended consequences if it passes. Answer. YES! I can't imagine it will pass, but that is part of the deal they cut and the politicians know it. "Yeah we'll sponsor their wacky extremist bill, but they won't pass because the democrats will spend money and energy fighting it and look like anti-God heathens. We look like good Christian supporters. We can't lose!"
The case has reignited debate over the House of Worship Freedom of Speech Restoration Act, introduced earlier this year by North Carolina GOP Rep. Walter Jones. The measure, which Jones has proposed two other times, would amend the Internal Revenue Service tax code to enable church leaders to endorse candidates and campaigns in their sacred buildings. Though the IRS has rarely pulled a religious institution's tax exemption because of pulpit politicking, conservatives say even a threat of an investigation has a chilling effect on religious leaders.
"If my pastor says vote for Bush I say, "How many times?"
President Bush Press Conference
Q: Mr. President, under the law, how would you justify the practice of renditioning, where U.S. agents who bust terror suspects abroad, taking them to a third country for interrogation? And would you stand for it if foreign agents did that to an American here?
BUSH: That's a hypothetical.
We operate within the law, and we send people to countries where they say they're not going to torture the people.
But let me say something. The United States government has an obligation to protect the American people. It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way.
And we will do so within the law. And we will do so in honoring our commitment not to torture people.
And we expect the countries where we send somebody to not to torture as well.
But, you bet, when we find somebody who might do harm to the American people, we will detain them and ask others from their country of origin to detain them. It makes sense. The American people expect us to do that. We're still at war.
You know, I've said this before to you, I'm going to say it again: One of my concerns after September the 11th is the farther away we got from September the 11th, the more relaxed we would all become and assume that there wasn't an enemy out there ready to hit us.
And I just can't let the American people — I'm not going to let them down by assuming that the enemy is not going to hit us again. We're going to do everything we can to protect us.
We've got the guidelines. We've got law.
But, you bet, we're going to fight people before they harm us.
Security is a trade-off; we have to weigh the security we get against the price we pay for it. Better trade-offs are to spend money on intelligence and analysis, investigation, and making ourselves less of a pariah on the world stage. And to spend money on the other, non-terrorist, security issues that affect far more Americans every year.--Bruce Schneier, Security Expert
The confirmation that US agents were involved in the Swedish case provided the first concrete evidence that since 9/11 the US has been involved in organising a worldwide traffic in prisoners. Official and journalistic investigations show that the US has systematically organised the repatriation of Islamic militants to countries in the Arab world and East Asia where they can be imprisoned and interrogated using methods forbidden to US agents. Some call it torture by proxy. Prisoners have been captured and transported by the US not only from Afghanistan and Iraq, but from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Libya, Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia.
