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By Gina Dalfonzo|Published Date: November 20, 2009
This is what happens when you hate first and ask questions later. (H/T Jonah Goldberg) |
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By Gina Dalfonzo|Published Date: November 20, 2009
If you haven't yet checked out the Christian Carnival -- a weekly collection of posts gathered from all over the Christian blogosphere -- you should do it this week. Our own Kim Moreland has a post up!
The Carnival moves around from site to site every week, so if you want to be notified as to where they'll be next, sign up here (you'll need a Google account). And if you ever see a post of ours that you think we should submit to the Carnival, let us know! |
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By Kim Moreland|Published Date: November 20, 2009
After allowing television cameras into their home and their lives only to have their marriage and family fall apart, Jon and Kate Gosselin and their children are still celebrities of sorts. Now, though, many people are licking their chops for more dirt and titillation, and watching with bated breath for further news of this couple's demise. The custody arrangements of this soon-to-be-broken family illustrate the confusion that occurs after a divorce. Jon and Kate will soon have to maintain 1½ residences apiece.
Not having followed the show or the resulting fallout, I'm not 100 percent sure who said or did what, but regardless of the emotional wounds inflicted, unless there is Divine intervention, it's probably too late for reconciliation because of no-fault divorce laws. From the beginning, these laws were a bad idea and have led to great suffering and social conflict. The "no-fault" fault lines are a classic example of good intentions paving the road to hell.
But for couples who are thinking about divorce or even divorced, there's hope. For one, there's a great program called Retrouvaille. Then there is Mike and Harriet McManus's Marriage Savers. The McManuses have been fighting for marriages for a long while now, offering resources for engaged, newly wed, and failing couples.
With so much help available, maybe we shouldn't despair even about Jon & Kate and their eight.
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By Gina Dalfonzo|Published Date: November 20, 2009
Pro-life leaders are working hard to get the Stupak pro-life language into the Senate health-care bill, which is up for a vote tomorrow. AUL President Charmaine Yoest has more, including what pro-lifers around the country can do to help. |
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By Diane Singer|Published Date: November 20, 2009
We hear so much bad news regarding Iran that it's nice to hear some good news for a change. On November 18, two Christian women, Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh, who had been imprisoned for nearly a year, were released from jail. Though the charges against them have not been dropped, they are free for the time being.
Voice of the Martyrs urges all Christians to pray for these young women to recover physically and to be cleared of all charges. If nothing else, reading their story will remind Western Christians not to take our religious freedom for granted. |
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By Gina Dalfonzo|Published Date: November 19, 2009
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By Anne Morse|Published Date: November 19, 2009
At the Navy Hospital in Bethesda yesterday, I couldn't believe my eyes--and not just because an opthamologist had dilated my pupils. A large poster at the bottom of an escalator near pharmacy read:
Pastoral Care Services invites you to celebrate
The Season of Hajj to Mecca
with a Luncheon
Monday, 30 November 2009
BRAL Journey Room
1200 to 1300
To make your reservation by Tuesday, 24 November 2009 at 1600,
please contact Pastoral Care Services at . . .
Accompanying the words was a large picture of bearded, white-robed men of Middle Eastern appearance, their hands raised in worship, against a background of mosques.
Hajj, according to Wikipedia, is "a pilgramage to Mecca" and is "the fifth pillar of Islam, a moral obligation....The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to Allah."
My reaction to this poster was strong and, frankly, hostile, given what happened earlier this month at Ft. Hood, where the pastoral care staff has, I imagine, been occupied with comforting the wounded and the families of soldiers who were murdered by a fellow soldier who believed he was carrying out a moral obligation on behalf of Allah, and who believed that solidarity with fellow Muslims should be put ahead of loyalty to the country he volunteered, volunteered, to defend with his life.
Given what just happened at Ft. Hood, inviting U.S. soldiers to celebrate a Muslim religious obligation seems insensitive in the extreme.
Since seeing the poster, I've been doing my best to analyze my reaction to it. I think that for the most part, I'm just angry at the political correctness that led to the Ft. Hood massacre. (See the Weekly Standard's in-depth piece, which reveals that Major Nidal Malik Hasan all but screamed "I'm going to kill the infidels!" and nobody did anything about it except worry about being viewed as a bigot. I'm angry because members of my own family might have been victimized by this lunatic--my husband was once stationed at Walter Reed, where Hasan worked for a number of years, and my children and I obtained our medical care there until we switched to the Navy Hospital a few years ago. I'm angry because who knows how many other Hasans there are out there, at U.S. bases all over the world, plotting slaughter while our leaders celebrate "diversity" in the military and shy away from making hard decisions. And I'm angry at the fanatics who encourage others to murder for Allah's sake.
In the end, I suppose I'm angry that we live in a fallen world and must endure the consequences of that fallenness.
That poster seemed to suggest that nothing had changed--that we're all going to keep pretending that Islam is a religion of peace, and that anyone who thinks otherwise needs diversity training. Just for fun, can we balance the "celebrate Islam" posters with ones telling soldiers where to report soldiers of ANY faith who appear to interpret faithfulness to their god as an obligation to slaughter their fellow soldiers? |
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By Gina Dalfonzo|Published Date: November 19, 2009 Speaking of fiery . . . no wonder Al Gore's so committed to the idea of global warming. |
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By Kim Moreland|Published Date: November 19, 2009
If you're going to be in the Beverly Hills area on November 30, you might be interested in attending what is sure to be a fiery debate among Stephen Meyer, Donald Prothero, Michael Shermer, and Richard Sternberg. Find out more here.
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