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UnChristian Thing To Do

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:17:00 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: More on the moral dialectic between what Jesus would do if Jesus were a Christian..

Clip Source: www.associatedcontent.com

Fertility Drugs - the Most Selfish, UnChristian Thing to Do

Taking fertility drugs is the most selfish, unchristian thing to do. It is selfish because there are so many kids in this world that need a home so people should adopt rather than using fertility drugs to have kids. The world would be so much better if all kids had a home with loving parents. There would be less criminals in the world if kids had a good environment and loving parents that help them grow into good human beings.

I am not a Christian. Christians are against stem cell use for research. How come Christians aren't against fertility drugs and other procedures that people use to help them procreate? If Christians are against using science to help cure diseases and other things then why are they not against using science in procreating. Don't they believe procreation is God's work?

Tags: religion, morality, politics, people

Countdown: Bush Gets Booed at Nationals Opener

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:59:38 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Let the people speak!

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: president, people, public, opinion

Social imperative to marry waning

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:14:24 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: My personal opinion of why more and more people are putting off marriage is that the stigma of just being single has worn away..

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Facing Middle Age With No Degree, and No Wife

About 18 percent of men ages 40 to 44 with less than four years of college have never married, according to census estimates. That is up from about 6 percent a quarter-century ago. Among similar men ages 35 to 39, the portion jumped to 22 percent from 8 percent in that time.

Clip Source: www.census.gov

According to Families and Living Arrangements: 2005, the proportion of households consisting of one person living alone increased from 17 percent in 1970 to 26 percent in 2005. In 2005, 10 percent of the nation’s households contained five or more people, down from 21 percent in 1970. During the same time period, average household size declined from 3.14 to 2.57 people.

Tags: marraige, single, census

America the Ugly: The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:22:40 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: The civil rights movement of the 1960's was critical in making society consider how a stigmatized group, the mentally ill, should rejoin society at large. Turning the clock back to an earlier era when hospitals would again be an asylum except for exceedingly few people is both unrealistic and retrogressive.

Today's solution continues to be the development of small, noninstitutional yet structured places within the community where people live, get treatment and are afforded rehabilitation in social and vocational skills.

Clip Source: www.law.uchicago.edu

The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars

LAST August, a prison inmate in Jackson, Mich. -- someone the authorities described as ''floridly psychotic'' -- died in his segregation cell, naked, shackled to a concrete slab, lying in his own urine, scheduled for a mental health transfer that never happened. Last month in Florida, the head of the state's social services department resigned abruptly after having been fined $80,000 and is facing criminal contempt charges for failing to transfer severely mentally ill jail inmates to state hospitals.

What few people realize, though, is that in the 1940s and '50s we institutionalized people at even higher rates -- only it was in mental hospitals and asylums. Simply put, when the data on state and county mental hospitalization rates are combined with the data on prison rates for 1928 through 2000, the imprisonment revolution of the late 20th century barely reaches the level we experienced at mid-century. Our current culture of control is by no means new.

Tags: crime, mental illness, prison, justice