Arsonist sets Jesus statue on fire | kare11.com.
..only to find that it continues here in the U.S. Tuan Pham was imprisoned in Vietnam for his Catholic beliefs. He later emigrated to the U.S. only to find hostility towards his religious beliefs and practice in Minnesota.
An arsonist set fire to a 7 foot statue of Jesus which Mr. Pham had placed in his prayer garden. The city of St. Paul is also demanding that the statue be moved, having received a complaint about its visibility.
Life Site News: History teacher in France fired for presenting abortion debate to class.
Philippe Isnard, a history teacher in the public school system of France has been fired for presenting the abortion debate to his 15 and 16 year old students, after complaints from post-abortive parents, abortion supporters and the decidedly pro-abort media.
Isnard noted that the kids are considered sexually mature at that age, have been exposed to abortion and contraception info, and have access to the morning after pill at school without parental consent. “If they’re considered old enough to be sexually active, they should also be made aware of the consequences of their actions,” he said.
Isnard is barred from employment at any publicly funded school, and all benefits and access to the social welfare system have been cut off. This is an example of the socialist government method of mind and speech control.
Visit the site of Philippe Isnard’s new organization, ProVie France.
Some contact information for you:
French Minister of Education Luc Chatel
Ministry of National Education, Advanced Instruction, and Research
110 rue de Grenelle, 75357 Paris SP 07
Web site: http://www.education.gouv.fr/
Phone: 01.55.55.10.10
E-mail: sup-info@education.gouv.fr
In French- the contact page with more email addresses. Why not make a list?
Pharmer thinks the Ministry of Education would benefit from access to opportunities for post-abortion healing.
Look where you have to go to get news of what’s happening to Christians in Egypt.
Ahmed Dia-el-Din, Governor of Minya has been extorting huge amounts of money from Coptic Christians. He demanded that families in the village of Saeed Abdelmassih come up with a million pounds or donate land to build a mosque in this place which has no Muslims. When they refused to pay, he ordered demolition of three homes, which was accomplished on Feb 28th. The governor is also threatening to demolish a Coptic community center (Mallawi Diocese) which serves for rehabilitation and education of special needs youth. So far, demonstrations and anger from the Coptic communities have forstalled this.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has reported 53 actions by Muslims against Copts from 2008 to 2010, Of 29 districts, the Minya governorate leads the pack with 21 incidents.
An interview with Minister Bhatti prior to his assassination, on March 2 which a colleague shared with the media after his assassination by Islamic extremists, and which was disseminated by Al Jazeera English.
“I have struggled for a long time for justice and equality. If I change my stance today, who will speak out? I am mindful that I can be assassinated any time, but I want to live in history as a courageous man.” -Shabbaz Bhatti
Pharmer adds a little assist to accomplish the minister’s wish.
Contact information found at Lifesite News.
Embassy of Pakistan, USA
3517 International Court NW
Washington, DC 20008.
Phone: 202-243-6500, Fax: 202-686-1534
EMAIL: info@embassyofpakistanusa.org
High Commission for Pakistan in Canada
10 Range Road
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 8J3
Phone: (613) 238-7881-2 lines, Fax: (613) 238-7296
Email: parepottawa@rogers.com
Maria Fotopolous, a transplant from Oklahoma to California, and professional writer, was caught Hot Flashing by Izzy Lyman over at Breitbart. Displayed there is a pic of Maria which looks as though a tetanic contraction of the uterine myometrium might be in progress. Maria is cranking off at the Duggars for their prodigious reproduction rate.
Ms. Maria has not always been so ragged-out though. You can see her in some better moods at her turbodog50 Twitter home and her Turbodog Communications business site. Not all of her writing is as whacked as what we saw in this article she wrote for the California population controllers. It’s fair to say that in some cases she has shown a respectfulness of religion. But she’s in no mood for the faith expression of the Duggars, which acknowledges God as being in charge of the reproductive output.
A toxin has poisoned Fotopoulos’s brain, and may perhaps be potentiated by a personal sense of failure in the reproduction department. This Toxin exacerbates the Greenie Dogma that the earth cannot sustain its current population, though it could be packed into the state of Texas, and will be in actual decline by 2050 or sooner. Such whacky doomsday faith has caused her to see Margaret Sanger, (who comes complete with murderous, eugenics agenda) as a force for positive change.
So one must wonder………. who put the PCP in Maria’s kombuchu tea last week??
Voila! Vanderbilt drops abortion demand.
Yes…. 300 million bucks in Federal money — could have been held back from Vanderbilt had it continued using its application form, which was worded in such a way to prevent pro-life nurses from applying to its women’s health care track.
That, and the publicity provided by the Alliance Defense fund and allied pro-lifers was a bit much for the school. This news was all over the place
Vanderbilt’s application letter has been modified so that it no longer contains the demand of nurses to provide care for women who are undergoing abortions.
Vanderbilt has been trying to save face by claiming that the letter didn’t really mean to coerce participation in the abortions themselves. (Experienced health care professionals know that it would have.)
Nursing residents should expect a hostile work environment from those who run the woman’s health care track inside of Vanderbilt, since they are the origin of that application form. They will not like having had to modify it, likely at the behest of those higher up, who could not stand this publicity, nor the thought of losing the federal grants.
Any overtly pro-life health care professional will experience some form of negative backlash in the majority of health care institutions.
People who know they should have stood up for the sanctity of human life often resent those who actually do. You’ll find some of these people in surprising places.
It doesn’t matter that Vanderbilt’s woman’s health division of the nursing school has rescinded its demand. Pro-life nurses who enter there might want to keep a lawyer on their speed dial.
Thanks to the Alliance Defense fund for attending to the Vanderbilt case, and for sharing this information.
‘God raped Mary’ posters ‘hate crime’ – Canada – Canoe.ca.
Youth for Christ is one of those Birthright type organizations which will offer alternatives to abortion, but does not act or speak in opposition abortion itself.
Even still, it is in the cross-hairs of Canada’s abortophiles, who placed placards saying “God Raped Mary” in Winnipeg Canada, to mark the Christmas season. Apparently helping women who don’t want to abort is offensive –(business competition).
Says John Courtney, Exec of Youth for Christ: “If this were any religion other than Christianity, it would quickly be labelled a hate crime.”
Maybe Canada needs a fresh infusion of Muslims to roll back this entrenched abortion problem of theirs.
Case Dropped Against Michigan Woman Seeking Christian Roommate|.
Or…… in other words, there’s a downside to turning the other cheek.
The U.S. Housing and Urban Development agency harassed a single woman in Grand Rapids, Michigan for putting up a notice in her church, seeking a roommate of similar faith. In their demented minds, they assumed the authority to tell the woman with whom she could share the single bathroom in her home.
The ADF has gotten itself involved in this case, and HUD has dropped its accusation of housing discrimination, but has concluded that a two year window exists in which the complainant can sue this poor lady in civil court.
Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan ‘for blasphemy’ – Telegraph.
Travel carefully. Other places do not have religious freedom. You might be imprisoned or hung for saying the wrong thing.
Asia Bibi, a 45 year old mother of five is sentenced to hang for defaming Muhammed, although there is no evidence that she actually did or said such a thing.
Great Britain is another place of extreme political correctness, although at this time you might only be imprisoned for “hate speech” if you speak opposition to Islam or to gay practice.
ACLU Tries to Force Abortions on Catholic Hospitals | Daily News | NCRegister.com.
This is why the ACLU has been trying to compel Catholic Hospitals to do Abortions, but has made no move to compel Any Hospitals to do open heart procedures.
Many smaller hospitals have to outsource the most complex surgical procedures. Innumerable human lives have been lost in rural and other remote locations because their needs could not be met at small hospitals or clinics. But the ACLU has made no move to address this serious problem. (In addition, the it has stood behind an administration which seeks to reduce the availability of high tech, lifesaving care in the entire country as a method of cost containment.)
Instead the ACLU has put forth a stipulation, without evidence, that cutting up a baby and sucking it out can sometimes be necessary to save a woman’s life, and submitted a demand to the Dept of Health and Human Services that abortion be provided by all hospitals as emergency care.
The ACLU’s demand could close down a lot of emergency rooms, and precipitate innumerable more deaths from lack of available care, but that is obviously NOT their concern.
Abortion serves to conceal abusive sexual practices. This is what distinguishes abortion from essential services such as open heart or robotic surgery. This is the only possible reason that the ACLU could prioritize abortion so strenuously over other life saving procedures.
Democratic Ad: Catholic Church More Concerned About Abortion Than Poor | LifeNews.com.
To the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:
See what happens???? You make one single complaint about the Obamacare, (because the Pope made you do it) and the Dems throw you under the bus!
Check out this Minnesota Democratic Party Ad……. sez the Catholic Church Cares more about abortion than the poor.
Not the Back of the bus………. UNDER the bus!
Just do a Search, and find out that Google is not much help on factual news.
Christine O’Donnell debated Chris Coons in Delaware today, and her question about separation of church and state has been mocked by everyone who hasn’t read the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment.
There is nothing about Separation of church and state in the constitution. The premise of her question is absolutely correct. Go look for yourself.
There is a prohibition against establishing a state church, or a theocracy. And there is protection of freedom of religion. But there is no separation. One does not separate the religion of a person from his activities, since the religion governs the activities.
The lefties are hell-bent to strip us of our free expression of religion, and the little students have been dutifully indoctrinated by their instructors. Widener University Law Students exposed their utter ignorance of the Constitution and the First Amendment, by their laughing response to O’Donnell’s question.
Read the First Amendment for yourself:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
No separation in there.
That idea came from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote, Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 and which the lefties have interpreted for the purpose of expunging the free expression of religion. Interestingly, the letter was an assurance that the churches would continue to be protected from encroachment by the government.
Regarding the presentation of Creationism in the public schools: nothing is wrong with presenting that as a theory concerning how we came to be. Evolution is a theory. Intelligent design is also a theory. Pharmer posits them as equivalent theories, because no one has observed either event occurring, and both are studied and pondered as possibilities by both scientists and theologians. Creationism is a subset idea under the Intelligent design concept, which comes from a rather literal interpretation of the Judeo-Christian religious texts. It does not violate the Constitution to present the various theories of how humans came to be. It is, however a violation of the Constitution to give only one theory as educational dogma, as is done by presenting only Evolution (a theory first brought forth by Charles Darwin, who also acknowledged the Creator in his book).
Those of us read Darwin’s book and who are functional in the field of science, understand that a Theory is not Dogma, and is not to be taught as such, or it will not be questioned, refined and improved.
O’Donnell’s religion is Catholicism. It does not propound a literal interpretation of the Biblical Creation Story as dogma. It does, however teach that there is the Creator who made the universe(s) and designed humans in His own image.
Pharmer, a functional scientist who does not fear freedom of religion, recommends this for a holistic public education curriculum:
The Evolution theory should be presented along with the Creation theories of many different cultures. Let’s have some diversity.
It’s very sad that the students at Widener University, and almost all of the mainstream media in the United States are so completely uneducated about our Constitution.
Pharmer of Indiana is donating to the Delaware campaign of O’Donnell, to honor the spirit of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, as soon as they give a mechanism without requiring employer info. Found one! Sent $ for both O’Donnell and Angle.
There is a Dire need for the TEA Party and it must continue.
David Barton, of the Wallbuilders believes, with good reason, that the IRS will not attempt to remove tax exempt status from these churches because they know they’ll lose in court.
By laying low, the IRS hopes to keep most pastors living in fear of them so as to allow only the more bold leftist pastors to exhort their congregations to political activism.
Wake Up America!!
Obama Admin Targets Pro-Lifers in FBI Training Forum With Pro-Abortion Orgs.
Carrying anti-abortion signs and passing out leaflets has become classified as violence.
Linked HERE is the resource guide prepared by Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups for the August seminar at FBI headquarters in Portland, Oregon.
When Obama said that abortion would be at the heart of his health care plan for America, he meant it.
Someone this devoid of conscience would have no trouble jailing protestors for their exercise of free speech.
Bakery displays morals, now faces eviction OneNewsNow.com.
Pharmer, an Indiana resident, has long known that Indianapolis has gone leftie (down the tubes) in many different respects.
There’s a backlash against an Indy bakery for refusing a special order from a gay activist group to make rainbow cookies to celebrate National coming out day at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.
David Stockton, who deserves your mail-order business, turned down the job, saying that he didn’t feel comfortable supporting the gay cause because of the example it might give to his two daughters.
There has been a push to use an anti-discrimination law to have Stockton’s business, Just Cookies, evicted from his long -held location.
Don Surber, blogging at the Daily Mail says it best: “It is None of the City’s Business.”
Just Cookies, 222 E Market St. #43, Indianapolis, IN 46204-3374, Phone 317-634-4456.
If you want professionally made cookies, bring your business to the Stocktons. Maybe they’ll make enough to move out of the city, and start up a big, booming, mail order business. Indy doesn’t need their tax money anyway.
The lefties of New York, sensing that even their own people would vote them out, have decided it might be a good idea to move the mosque to another site. Governor Patterson intends to meet with the Muslims with incentives for this change of plans.
What should be of prime interest to the ACLU is that there is a proffering of STATE LAND for building the mosque at a different site, to avoid the controversy of its location as a victory monument at ground zero of the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Perhaps there will also be some state land offered to the Greek Orthodox for the replacement of the St. Nicholas church???? Hmmmm???
The primary evidence to show the democrat desperation to be reelected is their break with Obama on the Mosque construction at ground zero..
Reid publicly announced his opposition to the leftist + muslim effort to declare victory over America by building a mosque where Islamic terrorists killed over 3000 people at the World trade center. Please note that the above link is to a UK newspaper ;-)
Interestingly the leftists have not yet figured out that a mosque does not represent victory for them, as their social agenda will not but supported there.
Fun facts:
Plans to build a gay bar next to the proposed mosque also exist, and the prospective owner, Greg Gutfeld plans to cater to muslim men.
The ACLU favors the building of the mosque…….
yet it is famous for opposing public displays of Christian beliefs.
The ACLU also opposes the professional position not to purposely kill humans in health care practice. Interestingly Muslims are also gaining media attention for the same pro-life position.
One may peruse massive literature on the ACLU pro-killing position at www.aclu.org oddly catagorized as ”reproductive rights”.
Religious Tolerance of the lefties is very selective.
Trevor Keezor, a cashier at Home Depot was fired for wearing an “One Nation under God” button. This occurred after wearing it at work for a year, and shortly after he took up reading a bible at lunch break.
By contrast, Home Depot has shown itself to be much more friendly towards the display of accessories showing pro-gay sentiment, and this has inspired the AFA to initiate a boycott of the company.
FOXNews.com – University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs.
Professor Ken Howell was fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana for teaching Catholic beliefs in his class on Catholicism. Specifically he explained the Catholic teaching on homosexual sex, in an email, based on the religious interpretation of natural law. This caused him to lose his teaching position, and also to lose his job as head of the Newman Center at the University.
The Newman Center job is said to be funded by the Diocese, so explanations concerning that dismissal will be interesting. The current claim, attributed to Chancellor Patricia Gibson, is that the Diocese fired Howell because he can no longer teach at the university.
The Alliance Defense fund, a Christian legal group which has also given aid to conscientiously objecting health care professionals, is considering assistance to Dr. Howell.
At first blush, we see a general group of Christians offering to defend a Catholic professor who has been abandoned by his own Diocese.
This is a religious and academic freedom case worth watching.
Florida school district bans Bibles on Religious Freedom Day – The Religion World – Orlando Sentinel.
The above headline appears somewhat inaccurate. It instead seems that Liberty Counsel is suing the Collier County School district over their refusal to allow World Changers to distribute Bibles to public school students.
The distribution included a disclaimer that the Bibles were not from the school, and that acceptance by the students was voluntary.
The school district allows literature from non profits to be distributed there, but forbade the Bibles, giving the reason that they do not provide any educational benefit.
The lawsuit is well deserved.
Martha Coakley, that Massachusetts Senate candidate who thinks Catholics shouldn’t be permitted to work in hospital emergency rooms, has obtained the full backing and support of Obama, immediately after her expression of this sentiment. Obama intends to travel to Coakley’s state on Sunday in order to bolster her effort against Republican Scott Brown.
Pharmer is happy to have assisted others in learning of Coakley’s religious intolerance via submissions of this Washington times story and Ken Pittman to a number of well known venues of news and commentary.
This story also appeared on the Drudge Report, Jill Stanek’s page, and was echoed by Rush Limbaugh on his Friday 1/15 radio show, among others. It is hoped that enough people heard of Coakley’s views that Obama might need to address a question about it when he travels to Massachusetts in her support.
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