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In June, William J. Federer wrote a compelling article entitled Trust Ted Kennedy, again? He covers Sen. Kennedy’s original push for Pres. Johnson’s immigration policy in 1965 and his push in 1986 for the amnesty bill.

In the article, he quotes Sen. Kennedy on his assurances that the passage of the immigration bill (in 1965):

• would not flood cities “with a million immigrants annually”
• immigration levels would remain “substantially the same”
• “the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset”
• “the bill will not permit the entry of subversive persons, criminals, illiterates or those with contagious disease”
• “no immigrant visa will be issued to a person who is likely to become a public charge”

And further,

“Kennedy answered the critics of the 1965 immigration bill: ‘The charges I have mentioned are highly emotional, irrational and with little foundation in fact. They are out of line with the obligations of responsible citizenship. They breed hate of our heritage. …’

“Kennedy promised: ‘The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.’”

You’ll want to read the article for a concise view of important highlights from then to now.  It is eye-opening.

Mr. Federer’s article, Trust Ted Kennedy, again?, is a quick, incisive & powerful read.  Regardless of your position on immigration you really want to read this dynamic article!  Click on the above hyperlink and see this for yourself.  Click the link:  Trust Ted Kennedy, again?

Declaration Against Genocide

Terrorism Awareness Project

There is a genocidal movement afoot in the world. Its advocates are legion, its resources prodigious, its atrocities mounting. But Americans still pretend that it doesn’t exist.

Genocidal outrages are now an everyday occurrence in Africa. In the Middle East the murder of entire ethnic and religious groups is an obsession that inspires terrorist armies and heads of state. In the full glare of the global spotlight, Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah’s Nasrallah, and Palestinian leaders are calling for the obliteration of the Jewish state. From the goose-stepping soldiers of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran to the broadcasts of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on al-Jazeera and Egyptian TV, homage is paid to the Nazi past by radicals in the Muslim world. In their sermons and public proclamations the most virulent Jew-hatred is trumpeted since the dark of days of the Second World War. And unlike the Nazis they do not conceal their malevolent goal.

Yet there is little or no response from the rest of us: no universal condemnation and outrage, no common call for resistance. Worse, excuses are made for the bearers of the hate. If only the “Great Satan,” which is America, and the “Little Satan,” which is Israel, will but change their policies, then the death sentences that have been pronounced against their citizens will be rescinded and the world can be at peace. Thus is blame transferred to the targets of the hate. It is time to oppose the complicity of silence. It is time to unite in condemning the hatred that is a blight on our times; it is time to repudiate the calls for genocide that darken our human horizon. Therefore we are submitting this Declaration Against Genocide to student governments, to campus human rights organizations, to Muslim Students Associations and to individuals in the academic community, to join us in drawing a collective line in the sand against barbarism and to declare ourselves for civilization and hope.

Go to the Terrorism Awareness Project  web page now and sign the petition.
A copy of the petition statement is below.

Whereas genocide – the murder, or plan to murder, an entire people – is a crime against all humanity;

Whereas genocide is a crime that has metastasized in the modern era, leading to the murders of millions of Armenians, Cambodians, Tutsis, Sudanese, Bosnian Muslims and others;

Whereas the largest and most devastating genocide on record is the Holocaust of European Jews;

Whereas a new genocide of the Jews is being called for by Islamic leaders in the Middle East;

Whereas global forces are being mobilized by the Iranian regime to eliminate the Jewish state;

Whereas the genocide of the Jews is called for in texts understood by some Muslims as authoritative and echoes through sermons in some mosques today, and is proclaimed by certain leaders of the Islamic religion;

Whereas Catholicism and other Christian denominations have condemned the Holocaust and repudiated anti-Jewish pronouncements that have stained their religious past;

We call on all Student Governments and campus Muslim groups to:

1. Condemn and repudiate the Hadith which reads: “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time [of judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!” Sahih Muslim book 41, no. 6985
2. Condemn and repudiate the Hamas Charter which says: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”
3. Condemn Ahmadinejad who has said “The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.”
4. Condemn Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah who has said:
   

   “The Jews are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment.”

   “There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel.”

   “If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”

5. Affirm:
   • The right of all people to live in freedom and dignity
   • The freedom of the individual conscience: to change religions or have no religion at all
   • The equal dignity of women and men
   • The right of all people to live free from violence, intimidation, and coercion

We call upon all campus political, cultural, ethnic and religious groups to stand with us in opposing all forms of religious supremacism, violence and intimidation.

I wonder, how many victims were murdered while you read this?
Go to the Terrorism Awareness Project web page now and sign the petition.
What are you waiting for? 

• Have you ever wondered if God really has a plan for your life?  Have you ever wondered what it is?
• Have you ever wondered why you can’t figure out what God’s will is for you ?
• Have you ever wondered why you have the parents you have?
• Have you ever wondered why you were born when and where you were? For instance, why not back in Jesus time? Or a hundred years ago? Or ten years later?

If you are a God-loving Christian then most likely you have pondered those questions more than once. The answer to, “What is God’s will for my life?” is the one that answers the universal questions of all human beings, “Why am I here?  What is my purpose?”

God has no accidents. You are here for a reason and, yes, He does have a plan for your life. Yes, you do have a special destiny. That destiny, God’s plan, however, does not override your freedom of will; you always have a choice.

Yesterday I read an engaging article by Daniel Darling entitled, “Stop Wrestling, Start Serving: The Non-Mystery of God’s Will“.  It is a practical nuts-and-bolts article on recognizing God’s will for your life.  He starts it with this story:

“There is an old story preachers tell about a man trapped on the top of his house during a flood/hurricane/tsunami (insert your own natural disaster). The water is swiftly rising. As this man sits on his roof, fearful of being swept away by the current, he cries out to God, ‘God please deliver me!’”

He finishes the amusing but poignant story and goes on to state and expand on the truth that God’s will is not some vague, ethereal thing out there beyond our reach. Addressing the frustration many  Christians  wrestle with he goes on to make two fundamental assertions on which his essay rests.

“It really doesn’t have to be this way. Here are two truths that should change the way we think about God’s Will.

• “1.  It is Satan who wants us to be confused, directionless, and ineffective.
• “2.  It is God who has a preordained plan for us, who has given us specific steps, and who wants to see our lives matter.”

“So, knowing those truths, how do we wrap our arms around that seemingly mysterious thing called ‘God’s Will’? Here are four concrete ways in which God speakes to us:

• “1. God speaks through circumstances.

  “2. God speaks through opportunities.

  “3. God speaks through spiritual counselors and mentors.

  “4. God’s will is revealed in God’s Word.”

Under each heading he discusses in lively and practical ways the personal discernment of God’s will using illustrations and common sense.  This is an easy to read and apply message for every day people desiring to follow God’s Will for their own lives.

“1. God speaks through circumstances.
Its funny, Christians routinely blast atheists and atheism, but we ourselves often act as if there is no God. We complain about the uncontrollable events in our lives as if we’re just here by chance, left to sort life out on our own.”But life isn’t dog-eat-dog. God is in charge of this world. God is in charge of our little world. And the events that He allows
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Culture of Life or Culture of Death?

In March 2005 we were drawn in to the incredibly sad drama of a fractured family fighting over the life of one woman.  Who could see the video clips of Terri Schiavo and not be moved with compassion?  We watched as Terri’s parents and siblings fought valiantly for her life.  We listened as Pope John Paul the II forcefully spoke out to save her life. We saw the governor of Florida fight to save her life.  We saw Congress pass special, time-sensitive legislation and President Bush fly from his ranch back to D.C. to sign it into law — all in an effort to save Terri’s life. 

Yet, to our shock and dismay, we saw the entire judicial path thumb their collective noses at the congressional directive to take a new look into the case and the new evidence.  Their arrogance and defiance ordered the death of an innocent woman who could not fight for herself.   Her crime?  She had a severe brain injury and her otherwise healthy body was being fed & hydrated with a feeding tube.

She valiantly clung to life for 13 days as they starved and dehydrated her healthy body.  Her death on Thursday morning, March 31, was caused by a court-ordered death sentence; a ”cruel and unusual punishment” forced onto an innocent woman.

Before we could digest Terri’s death the ailing Pope John Paul II took a final serious turn for the worst.  Then the world that watched the Terri Schiavo tragedy watched as the ailing Pope declined and died.  The Pope died with dignity in his papal apartment with a feeding tube.  He died with joy at his home-going to be with Christ.  He fought for the saving of Terri’s life and laid down his own life joyfully at God’s calling him home.  Even as he lay on his death bed slipping in and out of consciousness he had his secretary help him write a note to his aides that said, “I am happy and you should be as well . . . Let us pray together with joy.”  He passed away peacefully on April 2, 2005.

The difference between the two deaths is stunning.  The first was fraught with rancor and deceit and selfish machinations as the fight for life and death continued until Terri’s last breath.  The second was one of peace and dignity and the joy of going home to be with the Lord.

In his article, If Polls Correct, Many Americans Misguided, appearing in the Tyler Morning Telegraph, April 2, 2005, Call Thomas said this in reference to Terri Schiavo’s judicially forced death:

“This will not be the end of such cases, but the beginning, or more accurately, a continuation on the line of death that began in the womb in 1973 with Roe v. Wade and will now quickly advance toward the ‘retirement’ villages.  The angel of death that moved through ancient Egypt at the first Passover was called ‘the destroyer.’  Our courts are his modern incarnation.

“No life is safe because every life now depends on the whims, desires, comfort level and pleasure of others.  From an ‘endowed’ right to life, we have quickly moved to a court-imputed right to die.  Increasingly we do not speak of life at all, but death.  America truly is, as the suffering Pope John Paul II has described it, a ‘culture of death.’”

Those who camp in the “Culture of Death” have been vigorously and systematically working to create a pervading public attitude that agrees with their deadly anti-God view.  They have achieved a significant degree of success in dragging the public consciousness backwards to the pagan culture before Christ.  And they consider themselves “progressive”?

Centuries ago, before Christianity swept around the world, the pagans commonly set out unwanted babies to die in the elements.  The elderly, the disabled, the unwanted, the unbeautiful, were left to die.  In short, any one who was inconvneient or a burden or imperfect was put out in the wilderness to die.  Human life had no value.

The spread of Christianity and its Gospel of Life changed all that.  God values life.  All human life is sacred to Him.  We are human beings created in the image of God.

Then along came Adolph Hitler.  In the early days of the Nazis it became common practice to “euthanize” the elderly, the infirm, the handicapped, the mentally retarded, and the generally undesirable.  In fact, before he began gassing the Jewish people he had already mudered more than half a million people whose lives the Nazis’ considered were not worth living.

Who has the right to say whether or not a life is worth living?  Joni Erickson-Tada said in a 2005 interview that at first she didn’t want to live as a quadriplegic.  But she has gone on not only to live a very full life but has positively impacted hundreds of thousands of people by her life.  Her point was that before facing tragedy one does not see how you can live that way.  Once you are living it you find there is so much more to life and so much more to give than you were able to imagine.  No life is without value.

 Pope John Paul II spent his life spreading the Gospel of Christ.  And he fully taught Christ’s message that all human life is valuable and sacred, no matter the condition.  He always maintained that other people can draw from the reservoir of love in the suffering of another.  Anyone who has ever spent real time ministering to the very sick or disabled can testify to the truth of that. 

Consider God’s Word:

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; ….  Jeremiah 1:5

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.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behod, it was very good.   And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.  Gen 1:16,27,31

I join with the Schindler family and many others in praying that Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered death is not in vain.  I stand with them and call for March 31st to be a Terri’s Day Observance.  I pray we never forget Terri or give up in this battle for the Right to Life.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” 
U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776

LIFE IS SACRED.  ACT ON THAT TRUTH.

© 2005, 2007 by A.L. Madsen

http://www.priestsforlife.org/ 

http://www.Terri’sDay.org 

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Remember Terri, 3 years after ‘deliberate dehydration’
‘Her death was beginning of a new chapter in the movement’
WorldNetDaily

 Family members and friends of a brain-injured Florida woman who died after U.S. courts allowed her husband to deprive her of food and water are launching an effort to observe “Terri’s Day” each March 31, in recognition of the anniversary of her “death by deliberate dehydration,” says a priest who is a pro-life activist.

“This third anniversary should be an occasion for all of us to both remember the injustice done to Terri, and reach out to others with prayer and concrete action when they need the kind of help Terri needed,” said Bobby Schindler, Terri’s brother.

Schiavo, on whom WND reported extensively, died of starvation and dehydration in March 2005, two weeks after a federal judge ruled her husband could order doctors to withhold food and water.

Her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, battled unsuccessfully through Florida’s state courts and federal courts to spare her life. She was not on artificial life support but needed a feeding tube to eat and drink, a measure her husband opposed.

Congress got involved by allowing the Schindlers to argue their case in federal court after their appeals in state courts failed. The Senate approved by unanimous consent a compromise plan that the House later endorsed and President Bush signed.

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Terri’s Foundation and Priests for Life Call for ‘Terri’s Day’ Observance 

March 31, 2008 (Priests for Life)
Contact: Jerry Horn, Priests for Life, 540-220-0095 STATEN ISLAND, NY, March 31 /Christian Newswire/ — The family of Terri Schiavo, along with the Priests for Life organization, has established the observance of “Terri’s Day” each March 31, the anniversary of her death by deliberate dehydration.Bobby Schindler, Terri’s brother, said, “This third anniversary should be an occasion for all of us to both remember the injustice done to Terri, and reach out to others with prayer and concrete action when they need the kind of help Terri needed.”Continue reading

As you might imagine, I am decidedly Pro-Life.  I offer this news I received from the Family Research Council.  One of my questions is, since the business of providing abortions is such an extremely lucrative business and they have such deep, deep pockets why are our tax dollars subsidizing them?

 Abortion Leads the PAC For Planned Parenthood, weighed down by new criminal charges and legal suits, the best defense seems to be a good offense. The organization is sinking $10 million into its PAC, hoping to load the Congress with abortion allies who would help protect–if not increase–its multi-million federal funding stream. The amount allocated for political races is triple what the organization has spent in past elections. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) is even wading into local politics, a scene it had previously ignored. NARAL Pro-Choice America and PPAF will spend a combined $20 million in the 2008 election cycle on contests for the House, Senate, and White House. Phill Kline, the former Kansas Attorney General who is leading an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s legal violations, says, “They’re trying to influence public policy in a way that allows them to continue what they’re doing.” With the congressional majority and U.S. Supreme Court in the balance, November’s outcomes will have a significant impact on the future of Roe v. Wade. Another group that has promoted more than its share of radical, anti-life candidates, the National Education Association (NEA), found a new way to support the abortion cause by playing host to some of the movement’s heaviest hitters at its headquarters last week. The NEA donated its facilities to an annual conference of the National Council of Women’s Organization, a far-left group that counts among its members NOW, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, the National Abortion Federation, the Center for Reproductive Freedom, and others. Equally shocking, the NEA shared its stage with notorious abortionist George Tiller, who has been charged with performing almost 20 illegal late-term abortions. Tiller, a target of Phill Kline’s investigations, was honored with a standing ovation and given an opportunity to showcase photos of his gruesome work. To cap off his appearance, the Feminist Majority Foundation announced that it would devote its resources to keeping Tiller’s Kansas clinic open. Since the NEA’s role in the event became public, the group has struggled to defend itself. When asked by pro-life members why it serves as a revolving door for abortion activists, one NEA official said that it has always allowed “likeminded groups” to use the building. If you’re a teacher who belongs to the NEA and are frustrated by how your dues fund the organization’s radical political causes, please protest. Call the national headquarters at (202) 833-4000 and urge them to focus on education, not the pet causes of the leftwing elite. While you have the phone in your hand and are dialing Washington, don’t forget to call the White House Comment Line at (202) 456-1414. Urge President Bush to act now on the proposal on his desk to end the meshing of federal Title X funds with abortion clinics. Urge him also to end the abortion referral mandate under Title X. There is no excuse for federal subsidies for the abortion industry.
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  If you are Pro-Life I urge you to join me in making those phone calls.  If you are not, then I’m sure your calls will be for the opposite purpose.

The March 28, 2008 blog entry at FRC is cause to Praise the Lord!There is a 3min. video  featuring 3 different people whose adult stem cell treatments were tremendously successful .

1.  Amy, Systemic Scleraderma

2.  Jill, Antiphospholipid Syndrome (a lupus-like disorder)

3. Barry, multiple sclerosis

Their ability to fully function in life has been returned to them through the successful adult stem cell treatments they received. 

Watch this video and share in their joy!  Praise be to God.

FRC blog:  http://www.frcblog.com/

Support H.R. 2807 — The Patient’s First Bill

 Too often people shirk the opportunity to do the right thing for fear of repercussions of one kind or other. Once in a while, an ordinary citizen has the courage to do what others don’t. Brenda Biesterfeld, a single mother of three, is one of those courageous individuals. And she needs our support right now.

As you know, earlier this month a California asst. librarian, Brenda Biesterfeld, reported 39-year-old Donny Chrisler for viewing and downloading child pornography on the library’s computer.  He was arrested and police found thousands of child porn pictures in his home.  Thank you Brenda for having the courage to do what was right!

Two days after the police arrested Danny Chrisler Ms. Biesterfeld was fired from her job.  Fired for doing the right thing!  And Ms. Hill, who only wanted to “make a note” in his file, still has her job, and is being protected by the library system. 

Below is an excerpt of an email I received from Ms. Biesterfeld’s lawyer, Mat Staver, of Liberty Counsel, asking for signatures on a petition to support Ms. Biesterfeld.

“Petition calling for Brenda’s immediate reinstatement — along with a formal apology from Lindsay, California library officials. Go here: http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?u=5623&RID=15454271  Liberty Counsel has taken up Brenda’s case and we have already sent a Demand Letter to Lindsay library officials. But now I need your help to show those officials and the national media that we will not tolerate this outrageous firing — and we will not sit by quietly when local officials take the side of child pornographers! Please sign the petition today. I have posted more information on the petition site. The more you learn about this case, the more outraged you will be.

 I hope and pray you will take a moment to sign this petition.  This single mother of three had the backbone to stand up to the lame political correctness of her supervisor and got a degenerate who preys on children off the streets.  How many children did she protect by her courageous action?  Could it be one of your own children that is just a bit safer now?

 This is the opening statement in an excellent article on this travesty.  And at the end of the article is an outstanding list of resource links to other articles and to ALA policies and federal statutes.

“Librarians across the United States should report child pornography to law enforcement despite their supervisors’ reluctance to protect children, said Campaign for Children and Families, a leading California-based pro-family organization.”

Check it out at: Libraries Must Report Child Pornography to Police. It will open in separate window.

Auntie L

I read a very interesting post: Genital Hospital by theophilusmonk. This blogger shared eye-opening statistics from an article by Jennifer Oxford in Christianity Today on-line. Both the article & the blog cover the CDC Press Release regarding STDs in teen girls. To get the full picture you should also read the CDC press release

The headline & sub-headlines in the report are:  

I don’t know about you, but I find that not only alarming but deeply disturbing. 

On theophilusmonk’s blog I posted this reply:

As Ms. Oxford encourages in her article, I agree wholeheartedly that we, in our churches, need to open our hearts and homes and minds to these young women who are suffering physically & emotionally with STDs. Only Jesus can heal those scars. I know several and their sense of shame is heartbreaking. We ARE our brother’s/sister’s keeper. And we have failed them morally & culturally in our inability &/or refusal to deal with the Pimping of our society. 

I ask you, how can kids hope to practice “abstinence only” when everyone is saying they “can’t do it”. Why is it so loudly proclaimed that our children are nothing more than rutting animals who have no control over their bodies? Why have we become so accepting of the demeaning sexualizing of our daughters by the media? What’s the biggest accomplishment of the entire bra-burning radical feminists and the drugged-out-free-love hippies? The prostitution of our children! 

BTW, I once fancied myself a bra-burning feminist. I deeply regret it. I fought for work place & wage equality and career choices. I never wanted to see our daughters abandoned to the sick pleasures of sex-crazed degenerates. Racing hormones in teenagers is bad enough without the constant barrage of sex blasting from TVs, radio stations, magazines, & books.  

The opening sentence of the CDC press release was:

A CDC study released today estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States - or 3.2 million teenage girls - is infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus, and trichomoniasis). [emphasis mine] 

For our young black girls the study results are much worse. They have an infection rate of 48%. That is horrible. We’re letting our children be destroyed in name of so-called sexual freedom?!?  

And now I ask you, why can’t the CDC, the public, the “powers-that-be” find a solution to this epidemic that is destroying our children?

The Condom Culture has totally failed & is destroying our children! You can’t blame Abstinence Only for the overall statistic of 1 in 4 teen girls having an STD.

Abstinence does not cause STDs.

Promiscuous Sex causes STDs! 

 ABSTINENCE is the ONLY way to fully protect anyone from an STD.