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Suppose you are a member of the Mission Committee of your church, and there are a number of missionaries that you support around the world. There is a missionary who you specifically are very fond of, a bright, committed and active guy in the jungles of the Amazon, working among the indigenous tribes there. He sends back amazing reports about scores of natives converted to Christianity, evangelistic outreach, churches planted and so on. The Mission Committee is happy to support him, and your church is proud to display him as one of the most successful missionaries you’ve ever supported.

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I am reflecting on 1 Chronicles 4:10 – Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. – May God bless Randy Forbes indeed.

Hat Tip Talk Wisdom

I am all for people taking their children out of public school on September 8th. However, not everyone is in a position to be able to do that. Even if they do, the issues raised in the school will continue to reverb long after Obama’s words are forgotten.

Obama is for everybody to have food.
Obama is for everybody to have healthcare.
Obama is for all children to get what they need.
Obama needs our help.

Political Science is a good study for schools. It teaches the political system and how groups of people operate with in it – groups that have different ideas. September the 8th will not be a lesson of political science. Rather it will be a study of one side of issues that are multifaceted. With out a question some of the study would be in disagreement with the views of parents.

Classrooms will be placing children into a conflict between who they should believe, their parents or the school. Is the President wrong or are their parents wrong. It would be naive to suggest some classes are not going to take the position that the President is correct and that those who disagree with the President are wrong. This will be done on an emotional level. The President wants every person to have food to eat – that is a good thing – Logically even if unsaid those against the president do not want every person to eat.

Any doubts in the benefits of Sunday school should now be settled – the disagreement is not about everybody eating; It is not about people getting health care they need; It is not about everybody being able to work; It is not about who wants to destroy the planet. It is about how we address these issues. Those who don’t go to church will need to explain to their children; Look in their children’s eyes …

Don’t you want everybody to eat?
Don’t you want everybody to have health care?
Won’t you help?

Do you want people to go hungry?
Do you want people to die?

Public service is a good thing, but who do you server? The President or God.

Delaware Liberal made the following ad-hominem

To the myopic abortion industrial complex on the right (that needs to keep birth control and safe sex information away from teens in order to protect their vacation homes and private jets)

I am calling it an ad-hominem because what else would you call a statement related to abstinence when the rest of the content is about Mike Castle’s record on promoting the culture of death?

Mike is not keeping his position under wraps on his house.gov site he says:

Stem Cell Research – Rep. Castle is the House architect of the Congressional effort to expand federal stem cell research policy. He authored The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, which has been vetoed twice by President Bush. He advocates for expanding scientific research in regenerative medicine and believes that biomedical advancements in treatment and prevention of diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and certain forms of cancer should be actively pursued. Rep. Castle has also supported legislation to establish strict ethical guidelines for such research and also an effort to create a nationwide cord blood registry for donated umbilical cord blood for treatment and research.

In between the lines, Mike makes no distinction between adult and embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells have actually helped people and were supported by Bush. Embryonic stem cells have helped nobody, kill undeveloped humans and cause cancer to those who cannibalize them.

I digress to talk about abstinence:

Lets look at one of the favorite liberal tactics to show the danger of AIDS; when people come in they give everybody a card (don’t tell them what it means) tell them to go mingle, shake hands, over at the water cooler before the meeting begins. Having walked in and asked if abstinence was to be discussed with the predictable result of being mocked – I did not participate in their mingling.

When the meeting began they explained the meaning of the cards. Cards that had a red spot represented AIDS; they tracked who those people shook hands with until everybody except for myself had AIDS. Ironically they made my point better than if I had spoken.

Knowing how this works I would abstain again; wouldn’t you? Some I suspect may suggest gloves, which only work some of the time.

If the problem is studied, it is very clear, the effect of abstinence reduces Aids and casual sex increases it.

Sex is also involved in the long term bonding between married couples. In a study published on ICR:

Research shows that if he has intercourse with multiple partners, the bonded feeling is dissipated, eventually imperiling a man’s ability to form long-term attachments.

And most people already know where babies come from. One would be foolish to suggest that those who refrain from sex outside of marriage that they would have children outside of marriage.

Now lets return to abortion. Would abstinence from sex remove the need for abortion? Well of course.

The question comes down to what people think “you” will do. The liberal worldview is that “you” can not control your desires. The Christian worldview is that “you” can. Who is right? Do you, can you, practice self control?

That strawman who is rich does not exist

To the myopic abortion industrial complex on the right (that needs to keep birth control and safe sex information away from teens in order to protect their vacation homes and private jets)

Nobody is advocating for less information. What is advocated is that eduction includes abstinence. This is not for selfish reasons; nobody gets rich when somebody does not harm themselves. It is a gift to society.