Current Events – Page 64

U.S. Soldiers Told American Family Association a “Domestic Hate Group”

Oct 17, 2013JerryChristian Persecution, Current Events, FamilyChristian Persecution, Current Events, Family

According to Fox News’ Todd Starnes, members of the U.S. military were told last week that the American Family Association is a “domestic hate group” because the group advocates traditional values and speaks out against homosexuality.

Starnes writes AFA was listed as a domestic hate group alongside the KKK, the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and Neo-Nazis. Moreover, a photograph taken by a soldier with a camera phone shows the information slide on American Family Association contained a picture of Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, despite the fact Phelps has no known ties to AFA.

American Family Association has issued a response, saying,

“Let me be very clear. Your AFA does not condone the actions of Phelps and his followers, nor have we ever advocated hatred towards anyone, even those we don’t agree with.”

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When the Bizarre is Commonplace

Oct 9, 2013JerryCurrent EventsCurrent Events

Robert Knight has published a column for the Washington Times entitled, “When the Bizarre is Commonplace.”

In it Knight expounds on some of the bizarre happenings in America right now that many are accepting as normal–including a lesbian couple in California turning their 11-year-old adopted son into a girl.

Knight writes,

“Two lesbians in Berkeley are turning their adopted 11-year-old boy into a girl. Seriously. The lad, who they acquired at age 2, is being given drugs via an implant on his left arm to block his puberty. The next step would be a surgery that will mutilate him forever. It’s supposed to be fine because the boy, Thomas, has bought into the idea. The two women say that the drug scheme will give the boy, now named Tammy, more time to think it over.

And we’re supposed to be OK with this?”

Knight also discusses the plight of a German home school family seeking asylum in America; laws in California and New Jersey preventing people from voluntarily seeking therapy for unwanted homosexual desires; and similar issues unfolding around the country.

Part of the reason the bizarre can become commonplace is that unless you look to a higher moral standard to guide you, your sense of “right and wrong” is largely based on your sense of what is “normal”–what you see in the culture around you. If that culture is sliding in a particular direction, your sense of right and wrong will slide with it. And if society’s moral compass always points in whatever direction society is already going, that compass doesn’t guide society’s actions. It simply reflects them.

You can read Robert Knight’s column here.

Action Committee Responds to Marijuana Proposal

Oct 4, 2013JerryCurrent Events, Marijuana, NewsCurrent Events, Marijuana, News

The following press release was received from the Family Council Action Committee based in Little Rock.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 4, 2013

On Thursday afternoon Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel certified a group trying to legalize so-called “medical” marijuana to begin gathering petition signatures to place their measure on the November 2014 ballot. On Friday Family Council Action Committee President Jerry Cox released a statement.

“Ultimately, this is about legalizing marijuana,” Cox said. “This proposal is very similar to the one Arkansans voted down last November, and it still has a lot of the same problems: It’s vaguely-worded; marijuana stores will open in Arkansas; and people will still be allowed to grow their own marijuana.”

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