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Redefining Marriage a form of 'Soft Despotism' according to author

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:34:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "In claiming for homosexuals the right to marry," she reasons, the "state also claims for itself the ability to declare what constitutes marriage . . . It transforms marriage from a pre-political obligation into its own creation."

But as an artificial creation of the state, same-sex "marriage" is "an institution that needs to be coddled . . . Its very fragility demands a culture in which it is protected." This means, as Sugrue argues, that "once marriage becomes a statist institution for the sake of consenting adults, the state will increasingly be called upon to create the social conditions to protect these unions."

The need for coddling means the state will use public education for this end, and align itself against churches that refuse to recognize same-sex "marriage."

State-ordered gay "marriage" is an attack, not only on legitimate marriage, but upon religious freedom and the freedom not to have one's children indoctrinated into alien ideas about marriage.

Clip Source: www.crosswalk.com

In Michigan, a homosexual man is suing two Christian publishers—Zondervan and Tyndale House—for $70 million dollars. Bradley Fowler claims they violated his constitutional rights and caused him "emotional distress" by publishing versions of the Bible that call homosexuality a sin.

As Seana Sugrue explains in The Meaning of Marriage,

marriage is a pre-political institution, rooted in biology and moral obligations. Sugrue writes, "The reality of sex differences between men and women, leading to the potential for offspring, is essential to the pre-political foundation of marriage."

But marriage as a political form of social order, independent of the state, "is precisely what advocates of same-sex 'marriage' seek to change," according to Sugrue. "Marriage rooted in procreation and sexual differences is to be replaced by marriage for the gratification of two consenting adults."

But unlike traditional marriage, "same-sex 'marriage' requires a condition of soft despotism to exist," Sugrue warns.

Tags: gay, marriage, homosexuality, court

Methodists Following Presbyterians in Gay marriage issue

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:55:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another denomination is biting the forbidden fruit of fornication. It would appear that Gay marriage is becoming the new standard by which the church is going to be judged. No wonder there is a downward spiral in the moral climate of the country. Not even those who PROFESS CHRIST are able to stand for anything anymore.

GOD HELP US ALL!

Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

More United Methodists are throwing their support behind clergy in California who want to perform same-sex "marriages" despite the denomination's stance that homosexual practice is "incompatible with Christian teaching."

On Thursday, delegates from the Northeastern Jurisdiction Conference of the United Methodist Church - from Maine south to West Virginia - approved a resolution expressing respect for clergy in the California regional bodies who participate in wedding same-sex couples "as a matter of Christian conscience, spiritual discernment and prophetic witnessing," as reported by the United Methodist News Service.

In April, measures that would have removed the ban on noncelibate gay pastors and the statement that homosexual practice is "incompatible with Christian teaching" were voted down after emotional debates.

In the following months, however, regional conferences have approved measures supporting homosexuals after the California Supreme Court legalized gay "marriage" on May 15.

Tags: homosexuality, methodists, church, marriage, fornication, sin

McDonalds Supporters of same-sex marriage

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:45:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

A spokesman for McDonald's restaurants says those who oppose same-sex "marriage" are motivated by hate.

Earlier this month, the American Family Association (AFA) called for a boycott of the hamburger giant because of the company's promotion of the homosexual agenda. The AFA took issue with McDonald's refusal to remain neutral in the culture war.

McDonald's donated $20,000 to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, in exchange for membership and a seat on the group's board of directors.

Tags: same-sex marriage, mcdonalds, homosexuality

Prophet Muhammad Pediophile?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:16:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You form your own conclusions from this but I think I am going to file this under the Cuckoo's nest.

Clip Source: www.memritv.org

Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi, a Saudi marriage officiant, which aired on LBC TV on June 19, 2008:

Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage – having sex with the wife for the first time – is another thing. There is no minimal age for entering marriage. You can have a marriage contract even with a one-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of nine, seven, or eight.

In Yemen, girls are married off at nine, ten, eleven, eight, or thirteen, while in other countries, they are married off at 16. Some countries have legislated laws forbidding having sex before the girl is eighteen.

The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow. He took 'Aisha to be his wife when she was six, but he had sex with her only when she was nine.

He married her at the age of six, and he consummated the marriage, by having sex with her for the first time, when she was nine.

Tags: muhammad, islam, marriage

Naughty Bits of the Good Book just released to stores

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:53:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Their new book, The Uncensored Bible: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book, in stores Monday, raises such questions as "Which 'bone' was Eve made from?"

Or whether, in the Book of Judges, a king's assassin escapes through a latrine in a tale laden with euphemisms for feces.

Because the Bible addresses humanity body and soul, there's nothing sacrilegious about examining every aspect of human nature under heaven, say scholars Steven McKenzie, professor of Hebrew Bible at Rhodes College, a liberal arts college in Memphis affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA, and John Kaltner, an associate professor of religious studies at Rhodes.

The trio delve into 23 well-known Bible tales. They start with a sassy retelling of a familiar story, then take academic hair-splitting to Olympian levels as they examine some outrageous interpretations posed by scholars from around the world, and conclude by assessing whether the new "spin" succeeds.

Tags: bible, sex, parody, scholars, bible scholars

What would an Obama Nation Look Like?

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:26:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: All this talk of change, and the only change I can see that fits Obama and his democrat handlers is anything Bush did we can UNDO and make worse.

Clip Source: eagleviews.org

Obama recently told Fox News, “I would roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans back to the level they were under Bill Clinton, when I don’t remember rich people feeling oppressed.”

Here are just a few other positions Senator Barack Obama has taken:

He sponsored S.CON.RES.53: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that any effort to impose photo identification requirements for voting should be rejected.

In 1999 he was the only Illinois State Senator to vote against a bill barring early release for (criminal) sex offenders.

He voted against filtering pornography on school and library computers and he voted for sex education for kindergarten children through the 5th grade.

And the list goes on:

He voted no on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.

In 2001 he questioned harsh penalties for drug dealing.

He is willing to meet, unconditionally with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jung Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Opposed the Patriot Act.

Tags: bracak obama, democrats, 2008 election, president. senator obama, barack obame

Wisconsin Elementary school's 'WACKY WEEK' stirs controversy.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:49:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What where they thinking? With all the craziness in this world already must we be playing dress-up during the time when our children are supposed to be learning? It would appear from the participation that a minority of the students actually participated. Could this indicate that the majority thought it was just plain silly? Talk about WACKY WEEK! I think the only thing wacky about this week was the school district's idea of a wacky week.

Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

REEDSBURG, Wis. (AP) - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office.

Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.

The dress-up day was not an attempt to promote cross-dressing, homosexuality or alternative gender roles, district administrator Tom Benson said.

The theme for Friday's dress-up day came from students, Hayes said.

About 40 percent of the student body dressed up Friday, Hayes estimated, with half portraying senior citizens and half dressing as the opposite sex.

Tags: education, schools, school, public school

13 yr old teenager charged in prostitution crime

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:48:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This story saddens me and sickens me at the same time. I have only one question and that is, is this club Metropolis still open for business? It should be burned to the ground. All patrons, workers, owners etc. should be arrested and charged with corruption of minors at the very least.

Oh you may say that is extreme but you can not tell me that NOBODY there knew this was not going on. Everyone present at the time of the arrest should be charged with something.

Clip Source: www.wfaa.com

DALLAS — She's just 13 years old, a middle-schooler who is now facing charges involving a serious crime.

Police arrested the girl at a local nightclub where she was allegedly bringing other young girls to dance and to serve as prostitutes.

Investigators said the 13-year-old lured other girls to Club Metropolis, enticing them with the promise of money and even forcing some of them to dance and sell their bodies for sex.

Police estimate there are hundreds of teenage prostitutes on the streets of Dallas because there is a big demand. Recently, they found a 12-year-old girl dancing naked at a nightclub.

Police said the young girls aren't acting alone. They say some of the same people who are pimping out the adult prostitutes are the same ones exploiting young girls.

Tags: prostitution, sex, crime

Porno peddler praises Planned parenthoods new Teen website

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:40:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Asking a porno peddler if he thinks introducing young people to porn is a good idea what do you expect him to say, NO? Good grief why don't we ask an overeater if promoting all you can eat buffets is a good idea? How about we ask a serial killer if a website dedicated to how to kill a person and get away with it is a good idea? DUD!!!!!

Clip Source: www.crosswalk.com

(CNSNews.com) - David Mech, or David Pounder as he's known in pornography circles, said that Planned Parenthood's Web site for teens, Teenwire.com, is an excellent source for young people to learn about what he considers the benefits of viewing pornography. Mech contacted Cybercast News Service after reading its report about Teenwire.

"Planned Parenthood is an excellent organization that helps people by focusing on how people actually are behaving (i.e., having sex, watching porn, doing drugs, etc.), as opposed to helping people based on how they should be behaving (abstaining from sex, watching the news, eating healthy, etc.)," Mech, a pornography producer and actor, told Cybercast News Service.

Planned Parenthood's approach of promoting pornography "as an alternative to having sex," especially if Teenwire.com's advice on "outercourse" helps reduce sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.

25% of American Teen girls has an STD

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:19:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I guess passing out condoms in school is not helping to educate our young people about the hazards associated with recreational sex.

The article goes on to deride abstinence teaching as incomplete. Perhaps what we really need to teach these young people is the sinfulness of recreational sex. The bible calls this fornication. Society calls it recreation.

Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

CHICAGO - At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts.

Only about half of the girls in the study acknowledged having sex. Some teens define sex as only intercourse, yet other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some diseases.

Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing — 40 percent had an STD.

The overall STD rate among the 838 girls in the study was 26 percent, which translates to more than 3 million girls nationwide, researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. They released the results Tuesday at an STD prevention conference in Chicago.

Sin by any other name

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:14:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting how culture changes ones perspective. The things the bible calls sin does not seem to make the top 10 list. I guess the reason for that is most churches do not preach about sin anymore. So then society is left to it's own devises to come up with respectable behavior.

Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

“Sin,” as defined by the research organization, is “something that is almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective.” The study questioned more than 1,000 American adult respondents whether they believe in such a thing as “sin” and then asked them whether 30 different behaviors were sinful.

Out the list of 30 behaviors, adultery was most often described as a sinful behavior by American respondents (81 percent).

Following adultery was racism (74 percent); using “hard” drugs such as cocaine, heroine, meth, LSD, etc. (65 percent); not saying anything if a cashier gives you too much change (63 percent); abortion (56 percent); and homosexual activity or sex (52 percent) rounded out the top five behaviors most often considered sinful by Americans.

Other behaviors with significant moral objections included

reading or watching pornography

swearing

sex before marriage

harming the environment as a consumer

smoking marijuana

getting drunk

Tags: sin, sex, homosexuality, morality, drugs, drunkiness

Sex Tourism targeting American Youth

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:13:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.churchexecutive.com

WASHINGTON --Demands for commercial sex have created a growing market of sex tourism and human trafficking in the United States, with an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American children at risk of becoming victims of sexual exploitation, according to a new report.

"U.S. citizens and permanent residents under the age of 18 are increasingly being recruited into the commercial sex markets," the report says. Runaway children and underage American women are among the most common victims of human trafficking.

"As the culture continues to normalize sexual images and activities, the markets grow," the study says. "The sexualized popular culture ... reduces moral barriers to accessing commercial sex."

The United States, the report says, presents a unique challenge to those combating the sex slave industry: Most Americans are wired.

"If there were no buyers, there would be no sellers, and there would be no victims," the documentary says.

Tags: sex, prostitution, pediophilia, pornography, sex trade, slavery

At 12 This Boy Thinks He Is a Girl

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:21:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When we reject God's ways then anyway looks good. This story saddens me and I just hope that it is not true. However; I have seen and heard a lot of things lately that used to be taboo only to see them becoming more and more mainstream. No one can convince me that this 12 yr old has any clue as to what all this means. This is a case where the parents should be held for felonious assault on their own son. Ahem daughter.

Clip Source: www.bpnews.net

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--When I first read the headline, I had trouble believing it was true. “Surely this must be a tabloid tale,” I muttered to myself. Perhaps it was just a hoax or even an early April Fool’s joke.

Instead, I was reading FoxNews.com and the report was very real. “12-Year-Old Boy Becomes 14-Year-Old Girl, World’s Youngest Sex Change Patient,” stated the headline.

According to a variety of reports, a 12-year-old boy convinced his parents that he was a girl trapped in a boy's body -- a condition the boy maintains he became aware of when he was two.

The family consulted with psychiatrists throughout Germany. Some doctors not only rejected the idea of sex reassignment surgery for a 12-year-old, they condemned it. Others suggested the boy be admitted to a psychiatric ward for observation. Eventually, the London Daily Telegraph reported, the boy found a group of psychiatrists that agreed the “child should receive therapy, because growing up like a man would have damaged her [sic] personality.”

The boy, now 14, began undergoing hormone therapy when he was 12. The bright spot in this story, if there is one, is that it will be four years before he can undergo the surgical procedure that will alter his genitalia. German law will not allow sex reassignment surgery to be performed on anyone under the age of 18. To date, the boy’s treatment has cost $40,000. The entire tab is being picked up by German taxpayers.

Tags: homosexuality, abuse, child abuse

Are Homosexuals Born that way?

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:59:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No matter what the sin is we are all responsible for our actions before God. To say the devil made me do it of I can't help myself does not negate our responsibility before God to live righteously in an unrighteous world. How then are we to live? What is required of each of us?

It would appear in our society where the victim mentality runs rampant we have a tendency to dismiss all our foibles and fallacies on forces beyond our control. It is true that there are forces at work in our lives we may not be aware of but that does not excuse us when we behave badly.

Accepting the fact that we are LOST without hope without a savior is the first step in living rightly in an mixed-up world.

Turn towards Christ and away from sin and you shall live.

Clip Source: www.crosswalk.com

Currently, there are two dominant explanations for homosexual attractions, with evangelicals more likely to believe environment, particularly family dynamics is key, whereas, those outside the church more frequently lean toward the belief that homosexuality in innate.

It is unfortunate in this sound bite culture that advocates take sides at all about a scientific matter where there really are no sides. I have a hard time understanding why evangelicals fear biological or pre-natal factors playing a role in our sexuality. Such factors play a role in almost everything us about what it means to be human. Why not about sex?

At the same time we resist biological reductionism, we should also question psychological reductionism. Reducing the cause of homosexual attractions for all people to a poor relationship with one’s parents or to any singular factor is to make the same mistake as those who are stuck on the innate view. We are more complex than that.

The extreme views inside and outside the church mask the fact that no one knows for sure why homosexual attractions occur for any given individual. There is evidence that supports the operation of both environmental and pre-natal factors, perhaps in different ways for different people. Furthermore, men and women are quite different. And almost everybody who studies this topic agrees we have no consensus.

It seems to me that whatever we learn about the causes of sexual attractions, we are still subject to the same sexual ethic. The cause question can obscure the more fundamental task of deciding how one should live no matter what causes same-sex attraction. I submit that whether one is born gay or is socialized to become gay, (or some combination of both factors), one still must make a value based decision about how one wants to live.

Tags: homosexuality, psychology, science, mental health, religion, christianity

Masturbation goes Center Stage

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:34:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Okay correct me if I am wrong here but I thought if a guy masturbated in public it was against the law? I guess if you call it ART then it is acceptable? Perhaps I should go back to thespian school so I can take part in such nonsense. This one has to be placed in the Cuckoo's nest.

Clip Source: www.backstage.com

Teenage sex scenes showing a naked breast, masturbation and sadomasochism aren't the usual Broadway fare, but "Spring Awakening" has become the surprise hit musical of the season while being hailed as tastefully erotic.

Adapted from German playwright Frank Wedekind's then-scandalous 1891 play, "Spring Awakening" looks at the angst of high school students and their sexual awakening in repressed 19th-century Germany.

With song titles such as "The Bitch of Living" and "Touch Me," the show opened on Broadway last month to glowing reviews that compared its contemporary rock song score to that of the prize-winning "Rent." Its run was recently extended.

Scenes between the lead male and female characters include an erotically charged one in which she encourages a spanking with a wooden plank, leading to the exposure of a bare breast.

Similarly, one of the secondary characters displays homosexual longings and comically sings and masturbates center stage, surrounded by dancing females.

Critics and the show's creators, playwright Steven Sater and composer Duncan Sheik, said the show is less about sex than about staying true to teen spirit. The cast members are 17 to 22 years old.

"Our culture in general has a real acceptance and even love of violence and a real fear of sexuality that is troubling, and that is one of the things 'Spring Awakening' addresses," he said.

Tags: masterbation, sex, broadway, debauchery, sin, theater, film, acting. actors