Entries in the Category "Social Issues"
Why should Bush veto Stem Cell research bills?
Stem cell research… this could cause Bush to use his veto power for the first time. What is the big deal with stem cell research? They would use fetuses that would otherwise be disposed. I’ll tell you exactly what’s wrong with it. First of all, they haven’t found ANY cures with the existing lines. This perception that stem cells can fix anything is nothing but a pipe dream. More importantly, what happens if we do find a cure with baby stem cells? How could we possibly get enough stem cells to distribute the cure? This would lead to harvesting of fetuses. This would be one of the most murderous, immoral things to ever happen on this earth. Scientists would have to take the life of one person to improve the life of another. I can think of few things more self-centered and immoral.
ACLU disallows freedom of speech and religion
Ann Coulter is right when she says that the ACLU (Aging Communist Liberals Union) and the democrats want America to be “Godless.”
She knew her speech as valedictorian of Foothill High School would be cut short, but Brittany McComb was determined to tell her fellow graduates what was on her mind and in her heart. But before she could get to the word in her speech that meant the most to her -- Christ -- her microphone went dead. AdvertisementWhy would that perception exist? Was she chosen to speak based on the content of her speech? NO! She was chosen based on the fact that she was valedictorian! The school was sponsoring. Why is it that school principals can preach their left wing views… but a student who earned her right to speak at commencement can’t even speak what is in her heart.The decision to cut short McComb's commencement speech Thursday at The Orleans drew jeers from the nearly 400 graduates and their families that went on for several minutes.
However, Clark County School District officials and an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that cutting McComb's mic was the right call. Graduation ceremonies are school-sponsored events, a stance supported by federal court rulings, and as such may include religious references but not proselytizing, they said.
They said McComb's speech amounted to proselytizing and that her commentary could have been perceived as school-sponsored.
This “sepeartion of church and state” argument is out of hand. When will people realize that “separation of chuch and state” does not mean “absence of religion in the state.” By letting one valedictorian speak what is in her heart, what gave her the drive to succeed, and what gave her the ability to succeed, the state is not endorsing a religion.
No matter how hard the ACLU tries, they will not be able to change the fact that our nation’s history and culture is full of Christianity. It is also full of other religions. Our forefathers would never have dreamed of someone’s speech being censored because of its religious content. It is likely that they would cite two things in the bill of rights that the ACLU often “fight to defend” in their argument. In America, we have FREEDOM OF SPEECH. In America, we have FREEDOM OF RELIGION. If the left wants to defend those rights, then defend those rights. Don’t defend them only when it’s convenient for your base.
I’m a Christian…would it bother me if the valedictorian of my high school class gave a speech on how the religion of Islam or Judaism gave him or her the power to succeed? No I would not, because we have been guaranteed freedom of religion and freedom of speech in this country. A graduation speaker can say what wants to say and what he or she believes in, but I can still believe what I want to believe.
MPAA rates movie PG for too much God
This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. This is another step toward the Church of Liberalism. I know a rating is really not the biggest deal in the world, but it stills shows an overall attitude that seems to be spreading. America must be Godless. People say it is what our founding fathers intended... Our founding fathers used to say prayers in congress...
Separation of church and state... that means the government cannot promote one religion. It doesn't mean that there must be absence of religion in everything.
DEMOCRAT passes sweeping abortion bill in Louisiana
Gov. Kathleen Blanco was expected to sign a strict abortion ban into law after the Senate on Monday gave the measure final legislative approval.Blanco has said she planned to sign the bill that would ban nearly all abortions in Louisiana
This is really surprising. Who would have thought that a DEMOCRAT would pass such a sweeping ban on the murder of babies? Gov. Blanco... also a democrat... says that she plans to sign it into law. I guess that makes up for her messing up of the Katrina relief.
Could this lead to the overturn of Roe vs. Wade?
I sure hope so. Roe vs. Wade is a crime against the constitution and should be overturned. Even if one does not believe in the right to life, one should still be able to see that applying the right to privacy to the right to kill your child is quite a ridiculous stretch.
Massachusetts lawmakers pass bill that starts a statewide universal healthcare program
SO... apparently Massachusetts is retarded... They have started a ridiculous state funded healthcare program. It is clear the democrat strategy in this state is to cripple all businesses so they cannot compete in the world market.
would require businesses that do not offer insurance to pay a $295 annual fee per employee.
The cost was put at $316 million in the first year, and more than a $1 billion by the third year, with much of that money coming from federal reimbursements and existing state spending, officials said.
It's nice to see my tax dollars are going into such a ridiculous program.
Our businesses are already having to outsource jobs to China because of the heavy costs in the US... apparently Mass. wants to encourage that to happen more.
South Dakota makes abortion a FELONY!
This will likely lead to a challenge of roe vs. wade. This is going to get messy... but... I'm confident that with the most recent additions to the Supreme Court, an overturn is unavoidable.
Dominos Pizza owner starts Catholic town in Florida
This is very interesting. It should be interesting to watch the court battles that will surely follow this. It should be interesting if this goes over as smoothly as things like senior citizen communities.
'Pizza pope' builds a Catholic heaven
First ammendment rights at risk
Dear Friends and Colleagues-In the last few days, Case Housing and Residence Life has instituted a ban on our First Amendment right of the Freedom of Speech. This new rule prevents us from speaking our minds and forces us to conform to what this administration believes is "correct and just"
Talking with Lisa Marsalek, Associate Director of Housing, this is a "protocol," not a policy. If a Residential Assistant directly or indirectly hears an individual making what Case deems to be a derogatory comment (such as "that's gay"), that person is to be lectured. DEPENDING UPON THE ENVIRONMENT AND SITUATION, this could result in a writeup.
Who, then, determines a derogatory comment? If one wears a pro-life t-shirt, could Case have RA's lecture to them of the possible offensive nature of such a garment? If a person chooses to carry around a book by Freud, could one be lectured on how Case finds the sexual nature of such a text to be a potential problem? Is Case the final arbiter of morality and righteousness?
While some may think this is a moral action and some may not, the fact remains that Case SHOULD NOT limit our rights both as citizens and students. No matter what your political affiliation, the First Amendment is important all of us as individuals.
Here's what we can do. Community Hour (12:30 to 2:00) on this Friday, January 20th, gather in front of Adelbert Hall (facing the Quad) and let's show this Administration that we truly do have a voice, loud and clear.
Pass this on to those who want to make something big happen.
In concern-
Matthew Crowley
A majority of america believes in creationism
A majority believe God or a supreme being played a role in the origin of man.
link to article and poll
Opposition of Abortion In Our Culture Comes From Unexpected Place... Jimmy Carter?
Carter condemns abortion culture
By Ralph Z. Hallow
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 4, 2005
Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday condemned all abortions and chastised his party for its intolerance of candidates and nominees who oppose abortion.
"I never have felt that any abortion should be committed -- I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors," he told reporters over breakfast at the Ritz-CarltonHotel, while across town Senate Democrats deliberated whether to filibuster the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he may share President Bush and Mr. Carter's abhorrence of abortion.
"These things impact other issues on which [Mr. Bush] and I basically agree," the Georgia Democrat said. "I've never been convinced, if you let me inject my Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion."
Mr. Carter said his party's congressional leadership only hurts Democrats by making a rigid pro-abortion rights stand the criterion for assessing judicial nominees.
"I have always thought it was not in the mainstream of the American public to be extremely liberal on many issues," Mr. Carter said. "I think our party's leaders -- some of them -- are overemphasizing the abortion issue."
While Mr. Carter has previously expressed ambivalence about abortion, his statements yesterday were "astonishing," said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute at Concerned Women for America.
"He has long professed to be an evangelical Christian and yet he had embraced virtually all the liberal political agenda," said Mr. Knight. "Maybe with Jimmy Carter saying things he never uttered before, more liberals will rethink their worship of abortion as the high holy sacrament of liberalism."
Running for president in 1976 -- just three years after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision -- Mr. Carter took a moderate stance.
"I think abortion is wrong and that the government ought never do anything to encourage abortion," he said during that campaign. "But I do not favor a constitutional amendment which would prohibit all abortions, nor one that would give states [a] local option to ban abortions."
In Washington to promote his latest book, "Our Enduring Values," Mr. Carter acknowledged he made mistakes in office.
"I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president," said Mr. Carter, who in recent years has traveled the globe with his wife Rosalyn, "trying to help hold 61 elections" in developing countries.
He has been outspoken in condemning Mr. Bush's policy toward Iraq. "I think all Christians -- and certainly all Baptists -- are different," Mr. Carter said yesterday. "I have a commitment to worship the Prince of Peace, not the Prince of Preemptive War."
But he praised Mr. Bush's policy toward war-torn Sudan, and declared that the best treatment he has received since leaving the Oval Office was from the first President Bush, and the second-best treatment he got was during the Reagan administration, especially from Secretary of State George P. Shultz. The worst treatment he's received, the former president said, was from President Clinton.
Mr. Carter said his party lost the 2004 presidential elections and lost House and Senate seats because Democratic leaders failed "to demonstrate a compatibility with the deeply religious people in this country. I think that absence hurt a lot."
Democrats must "let the deeply religious people and the moderates on social issues like abortion feel that the Democratic party cares about them and understands them," he said, adding that many Democrats, like him, "have some concern about, say, late-term abortions, where you kill a baby as it's emerging from its mother's womb."
Atheism Declared Primary Religion in America
Atheism is the established religion in this country. Any mention of "God" is removed from the public domain. We cannot even legally say the pledge of allegiance anymore because the word "God" is in it. Is this just separation of Church and State? No... it is not. Atheism, is a religion in itself. Their stance on the origin of man proves this. A majority of Christians believe in intelligent design by God. A majority of atheists believe that we were brought to this earth by a complex evolution process. They both lead to an unanswerable question. For Christians, it is "Where did God come from?" For atheists it is, "Where did the matter for the Big Bang come from?" By definition, a religion is "personal beliefs or values: a set of strongly-held beliefs, values, or attitudes" (Encarta.com). They both fall under this category.
The constitution says we are entitled to freedom of religion. How is the word "God" in the pledge of allegiance, the phrase "Christmas Break," the phrase "Easter Break," going to prevent anyone from freedom of religion? Pushing atheism into the lives of the children of our country is not acceptable. If we are going to push athiesm, we should at least present other points of view to prevent any one religion from gain precidence. If we live in a country with religious tolerance and awareness, the freedom can be maintained. Our forefathers did not intend for absence of religion. They intended for there not to be "The Church of the United States."
It is time do as our founding fathers intended. We must maintain freedom of religion. The only way to do this is to give all religions their respect, not to suppress them. We cannot let any one point of view take precidence. If we are to truly follow the founding fathers' intentions, we must remove atheism as our country’s established religion.
To address a common thread in all of the comments I have been receiving. I consider evolution a religion because it is not proven. It is still very theoretical. Scientists have yet to directly link man to ape. Have they found similarities, yes. However, they have not found any direct links between the two.
Why should a religious person who is a believer in intelligent design have the views of the evolutionists shoved down their throat? I understand that the focus of a biology class would be on evolution. However, why can't the ideas of intelligent design or other means of origination at least be mentioned as possibilities? For years the believers of intelligent design have listened to the theory of evolution in the classroom even though they do not believe in. Why can't the evolutionists listen to the other side? This would at least make the classroom more comfortable for the students who believe those theories.
This has turned into a debate over evolution versus intelligent design. The main point has been missed. What I am trying to say is that America's secular society is taking over. It is important that there is freedom of religion, not suppression of it. Things like the recent lawsuits over the word "God" in the pledge of allegiance are ridiculous. This needs to stop. Religious tolerance needs to replace the current absence of religion (Atheism).
Republican Young Adults are the Rebels of Today
The Democrats are often considered the rebels in society. However, in the current college generation, this has taken a turn to the right. The rebels in today's society are the outspoken Republicans. The signs are clear. The environment that has developed is lined with liberal propaganda. By definition, a rebel is one who goes against what the environment around them is pushing them to do. The teachers in our education system, the media from which we get the news, and colleges campuses nationwide have a distinct liberal environment, therefore the Republicans become the rebels.
The teachers in our education system from elementary school on up favor liberal ways of thinking. Perhaps one of the strongest demographics for the democrats is the union vote. Most teachers fall into this category. However, if they were able to keep their views to themselves, that would not be a problem. This is not the case. All across the country, Republican students who speak out their views in the classroom are getting discriminated against. It happened to me in high school on more than one occasion and I have seen it happen in college.
For example, the former president of the College Republicans Case chapter was intending on majoring in Political Science. His teacher was a very opinionated professor who attacked George W. Bush's stance on the war in Iraq on a daily basis. About halfway through the course, he spoke up to defend our president and his own beliefs. His grades shortly after this dropped from A's to F's. Similar things began to occur in other classes. He switched majors shortly after.
One other fine example of the liberal leanings in the education system is their approach towards religious issues. Rather than take a neutral stance and introduce a diverse gathering of ideas, they choose the scientific, atheist approach. One fine example of this is the origin of man. Evolution is taught in high schools across the country. Only a small handful of states even do as much as suggest intelligent design as a possibility. Once again the conservative beliefs are being suppressed.
It is not only the teachers themselves that are contributing to this forced infusion of liberal thinking. College Campuses also tend to be very liberal. Take Case Western for example. Case Western Reserve University is supposed to be a more conservative campus. However, it's left leanings are clear on first glance. Last year, rather than getting a dignified keynote speaker, the college got Chris Mathews, a left leaning television talk show host, to address our graduating class. The year before that, the left leaning Ellie Wiesel was the keynote speaker.
Right before the election of 2004, the universities left leanings were most obvious. There were two large get-out-the-vote campaigns on campus that were deemed "non partisan." However, they were both left leaning. One of them was the Vote Or Die, a campaign that tried to push the message that if you did not vote for Kerry, you would get drafted and die. There were also many other "nonpartisan" speakers that came to our campus that were equally as left-leaning.
The most blatant display of liberal favoritism came on the eve of the Vice Presidential Debate. As a member of College Republicans, I wanted to exercise my first amendment rights and have my minority voice to be heard on campus. I went on a flyering mission with my fellow Republicans to poster the entire campus. As I postered, I noticed that there were many College Dems posters in the wrong places. We put ours next to theirs. Our posters were PROMPTLY torn down BY THE UNIVERSITY! Our organization was fined well over a thousand dollars. The College Dems posters remained and no fine was assessed to them. As one can see by the "more conservative" university, Case Western Reserve University, that liberalism is forced upon students and conservative thinking is suppressed.
The most significant source of liberal pressure is the media. Even the most liberal minds would admit the left leaning tendencies of mass media. The media does this in three primary ways, story selection, doom and gloom while a republican is president, and in some recent cases, false reporting.
Story selection is something that has been practiced since the dawn of mass media. Story selection is where the media picks and chooses what stories they cover based on their political ideals. This occurs a lot on networks like CNN and MSNBC. The most recent example is comparing the controversy surrounding Karl Rove versus Former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Karl Rove, Bush’s main advisor, has not been charged with any crime. However, he was accused of leaking the identity of an undercover CIA officer. The man behind it, one of Dick Cheney’s main men, came out and admitted that he did it. However, the media still tries to spin that Rove “might have done it.” However, in a similar case, Former FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote a Bill Clinton damning book. This made many crippling accusations like unethically taking money from foreign governments. This book also presented several significant examples of being soft on terrorism. The media barely touched it because it’s Bill Clinton.
Doom and gloom is another widely used tactic that goes hand in hand with story selection. The media loves to report negative news when a Republican can be blamed. One example is the economic reporting in recent times. Rather than saying the economic index went up, they would say “the economic index went up, but not as much as expected.” They love to dwell on negatives. The reality is the economy is growing at a sustainable pace. However, the media tries to convince the American people that their lives are in shambles with the economy in shambles at their feet.
False reporting is a recent tactic by the news media. The first case of this came with Dan Rather. He knowingly broadcasted a story that bashed Bush’s National Guard service based on a forged memo. While he later recanted it, the damage was already done. The same tactic was used in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The news outlets reported mass murder, mass rape, tens of thousands of deaths, and many more atrocities. NONE OF THEM WERE TRUE! They made up the news to try and make George W. Bush look bad. The news organizations never came out to admit their mistakes.
It is evident that there is pressure all around the children and young adults of America today, to think like a liberal. Doing so, is conforming to what everyone wants you to do. While many liberal thinkers consider themselves rebels, this is clearly not the case. Since a rebel is one who goes against societal pressures, the true rebels are the conservatives who stand up against the liberalism that surrounds them.