Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are supporting a sexual risk-avoidance program for teens. Stuart Shepard with CitizenLink (a Focus on the Family affiliate) highlights this proposal here. Check it out and then tell us what you think!
“… while it’s difficult to watch a coordinated, well-funded, well-connected propaganda strategy undermine thousands of years of human history, it’s especially disconcerting to witness the use of the civil rights struggle as the vehicle for the strategy,” writes Pastor Voddie Baucham. He goes on to say that some “would have us believe that the homosexual struggle for a redefinition of marriage puts them in the same category as my ancestors. However, they would rather you didn’t take a closer look, lest you see how flimsy the comparison turns out to be.” Click here to read Pastor Baucham’s entire column.
The following post is the continuation of a weekly blog series called “Cultural Commentaries” by Family Council Communications Director Josh Mesker.
The pervading cultural attitude on dating appears to be that it is an end unto itself. Our culture says that dating casually is the way to have fun—merely something you do—until you’re ready to get serious about being in a relationship. I’d like to discuss this popular message and propose that dating isn’t just another activity. It should be treated as a means to an end, not simply as dinner and a movie.