MercatorNet: Is conscience an unaffordable luxury?.
Sean Murphy, administrator of the Protection of Conscience Project asks:
Should the state be permitted to force people to do what they believe to be wrong?
Category: Religion
African Woman Writes Letter of Thanks to Meriam Ibrahim
After her trial of persecution for her faith, Meriam Ibrahim was finally been released from Sudan into Italy, where she has received the blessing of Pope Francis.
Obianuju Ekeocha, has penned a letter of thanks to Meriam Ibrahim for her courage in staying true to her faith and enduring the abhorrent conditions of childbirth in a Sudanese prison. See it at Culture of Life Africa. An excerpt is below.
“On behalf of all African women, I thank you Meriam Ibrahim, for showing the world the indomitable courage that is at the core of authentic femininity. I say this because your pain and persecution were tied so firmly to your femininity. And so your triumph was a most powerful witness to life, to motherhood, to marriage, to love and to faith.
You are indeed a true picture of faith and virtue, a true symbol of strength and resilience. You are, in my humble opinion, a real woman of substance, an African woman of substance and your story fills my heart with courage and audacity in my own vocation to defend our African culture of life,marriage, motherhood, faith and family, no matter how difficult, no matter how shameful and no matter how painful for me.”
Obianuju Ekeocha is also known worldwide for her open letter to Melinda Gates, written in 2012, protesting the billionaire elitist’s penchant for telling Brown women how many babies they should have. That letter can be found HERE, and is excerpted below.
“Amidst all our African afflictions and difficulties, amidst all the socioeconomic and political instabilities, our babies are always a firm symbol of hope, a promise of life, a reason to strive for the legacy of a bright future.
So a few weeks ago I stumbled upon the plan and promise of Melinda Gates to implant the seeds of her “legacy” in 69 of the poorest countries in the world (most of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa).
Her pledge is to collect pledges for almost $5 billion in order to ensure that the African woman is less fertile, less encumbered and, yes, she says, more “liberated.” With her incredible wealth she wants to replace the legacy of an African woman (which is her child with the legacy of “child-free sex.”
TFP Call to Chivalry
It’s a faith infused boot camp for the guys.
Read more about this 9 day camp experience at TFP Student Action.
Recently the guys were seen in front of of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic under construction in New Orleans. It seems that construction has been stalled because no local contractors are wanting to pour a foundation for the abortion mill. Word is out in pro-life news that the Archdiocese of New Orleans has stated that it won’t do business with contractors who work on that mill.
Supremes: Obama Can’t Force Companies to Pay for Birth Control
Congratulations to Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp, first for filing lawsuits to protect their religious freedom, and second for defeating the Obama Administration before the Supreme Court.
The courageous owners of these two companies objected to being forced to pay for forms of birth control which can have prominent interceptive (early abortive) mechanisms of action. In a 5 to 4 decision, in which Justice Roberts and the conservatives upheld religious freedom, (and naturally the leftists did not), the two companies are excused from paying for birth control which people could most certainly provide for themselves by other means. At issue were Plan B, Ella, and the indwelling coathangers otherwise known as IUDs.
This decision appears to be protective of closely held, for-profit corporations, but appears to exclude non-profit entities such as Little Sisters of the Poor.
Naturally the idea of religious freedom for Christians is causing the lefties to curse, swear, and threaten lives and property of their ideological opponents. Violence has always been integral to leftism. Those people are anything but compassionate.
Unstable
If your life were held as an example for others, and your marriage regarded as iconic, would you not feel an added bit of pressure to keep it together?
That wasn’t enough for the first openly gay Anglican bishop, Gene Robinson. He has announced his impending divorce from Mark Andrew, with whom he was legally hitched in 2010.
Likewise, the first same sex couple hitched in Massachusetts (2004), Hillary and Julie Goodridge, split only 2 years later, and finalized the divorce in 2009.
What’s love got do do with it?
Come Alive- Easter 2014
Working in health care messes up the religious events, as well as any other holidays, but it’s important to mark the highest Christian celebration of the year. Rushing from the all nighter to Church, there wasn’t time for power of this day to hit home til Pharmer caught this song, Come Alive, on the radio. Click the pic to hear it.
Jeremy Camp explains how the song came to him, watching a bunch of people in Central Park hurrying about their lives, HERE, in another vid.
Michael Bloomberg: Thinks He Could Tell God What to Do
Michael Bloomberg: ‘I Have Earned My Place in Heaven’ | The Weekly Standard.
Crazy former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg is contemplating his afterlife: “Pointing to his work on gun safety, obesity and smoking cessation, he said with a grin: “I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”” -the Weekly Standard.
Yes, Bloomberg possibly thinks his avid support of abortion as well as birth control for underage kids has prepared him a place of honor in heaven.
His religion is very different….
German Researchers have Discovered Who Will Recycle Jews as Focus of Hate
When lefties need to manipulate society in order to take control, they single out a scapegoat group upon which frustrated people can focus their hatred.
The NAZI’s used the Jews for that purpose, and it seems that it’s going to be “Deja Vu All Over Again”.
A German group has corroborated what yours truly has observed. It’s not the right wing extremists who currently express hatred of Jews. It’s the Intelligentsia: those ensconced in professional and academic positions as a result of their political correctness. They sense impending economic destruction and they’re taking out their frustration on the Jews and Israel, (because they’d be afraid to take any other responsible groups to task for the world’s troubles).
Oddly, there are some leftie Jews who seem to relish the abuse. That’s just too weird.
What does an Old Mesopotamian Tablet Mean to Leftists?
Why This Might be ‘One of the Most Important Human Documents Ever Discovered’ | TheBlaze.com.
There’s big debate over at The Blaze about the decoding of an ancient tablet which describes a vessel designed to save species from a great flood.
To the academicians, this tablet does not support the Biblical account of Noah’s ark, but rather is evidence that the story originates in Babylon.
The lefties are crowing, saying that this tablet somehow invalidates the Bible, calling it PROOF that the Noah’s ark did not exist.
This claim presupposes that ideas never occur more than once, which flies in the face of everyday experience.
Finding an older tablet of specifications for a big boat to preserve life from a flood does not “prove” the non-existence of a later prototype.
The suggestion that it does would imply that discovering the drawings of Da Vinci would somehow “prove” that the aircraft built by the Wright brothers never existed, to a person studying the history of air travel a thousand years from now.
Possibly such leftie logic, exemplified above, will be extinguished before the next millenium, due to natural selection 😉
The anti-Bible and anti-Creator religions are based upon unprovable beliefs, and are based upon faith in the unseen, and things which cannot be objectively established. They are quite divorced from the scientific method, though the word “science” is frequently abused as a mantra in these religions.
Government Retaliates Against Priest Who Sued over Shutdown of Mass
Navy Chaplain Fr. Ray Leonard had begun service to the U.S. military after 10 years of ministering in Tibet, under conditions of religious suppression. He was surprised to find religious freedom deteriorating in the U.S. upon his return.
During the government shutdown this past fall, chaplains were banned from celebrating Mass at the Georgia Naval base. Rev. Leonard was threatened with arrest for administering any of the sacraments during the shut down. He then filed suit against the Department of Defense for forbidding him to perform the duties of a Catholic priest. A day later, he received a letter reinstating his right to perform his duties. One week later, he was informed that his DOD contract was no longer valid, and offered a new contract which required him to agree not to receive payment for services already rendered. He was the only chaplain to undergo such a contractual change. Fr. Leonard had been scraping together money for his food and rent during the months of November and December, in lieu of his salary. (We expect the IRS to be going after him for that, later on, if he can’t account for every penny and every free meal. )
Thomas More Law Center has amended the original lawsuit, adding a complaint that Fr. Leonard has suffered unlawful retaliatory damage from the government in response to the first lawsuit. A court has ordered the government to respond to the amended complaint by March 3, 2014.