Is Violence a Civil Right?

Sherif Girgis writes:

Can we provide every member of the human family equal protection under the law? Your record as a legislator gives a resounding answer: No, we can’t. That is the answer the Confederacy gave the Union, the answer segregationists gave young children, the answer a complacent bus driver once gave a defiant Rosa Parks. But a different answer brought your father from Kenya so many years ago; a different answer brought my family from Egypt some years later. Now is your chance, Senator Obama, to make good on the spontaneous slogan of your campaign, to adopt the more American and more humane answer to the question of whether we can secure liberty and justice for all: Yes, we can.

The Princeton senior gets to the heart of the issues of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in this open letter to Senator Barack Obama.

(HT: JT)

Dear Nancy Pelosi

"This isn't really an abortion issue," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, as she walked the Capitol on Friday. "That is what really saddens me about what the justices said. This is about a procedure that any parent would want her daughter to have access to if she needed it. And to frame it as an abortion issue is doing a disservice to medicine and to our young women and our country. So I hope we can get the focus back on the fact that this Supreme Court is deciding what medical procedures are necessary for child-bearing women."

Dear Nancy Pelosi,
In response to your quote in the San Francisco Chronicle about the partial-birth abortion ban recently upheld by the Supreme Court, these "child-bearing women" you speak of helping, are they bearing any children in the procedure that kills their unborn children? I'm not sure you understand what "child-bearing" means.

Britt Treece

(HT: JT through Denny Burk)

P.S. - Also note the liberal slant of the news articles. They spin the issue to be about "freedom" and "justice" for women rather than freedom and justice for all people. There are also some amazingly scary quotes in this article.

North Carolina Marriage Amendment

North Carolina Senators Forrester, Smith, Allran, Apodaca, Berger of Rockingham, Bingham, Brock, Brown, Brunstetter, East, Goodall, Hartsell, Hunt, Jacumin, Pittenger, Preston, Snow, and Tillman submitted the marriage amendment bill, Bill S13, on January 24, 2007. It opens by saying, "Marriage is the union of one man and one woman at one time. This is the only marriage that shall be recognized as valid in this State. The uniting of two persons of the same sex or the uniting of more than two persons of any sex in a marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, or other similar relationship within or outside of this State shall not be valid or recognized in this State."

On February 12, 2007, President Pro Tem Marc Basnight referred the bill to a committe that hasn't met in five and a half years, the Ways and Means Committee. This is a silent filibuster to keep the people of North Carolina from voting on one of the most fundamental issues of creation and society. We cannot sit around and simply watch this kind of legislative arrogance.

Defining marriage correctly is in the range of the biggest issues in the world, right alongside abortion-murder, justice, and freedom. For those of us who live in the world, this is a big deal. For those of us who live in America, this is a bigger deal. And for those of us who live in North Carolina, this is one of the biggest political-cultural deals out there right now. If you care about marriage as it is defined by God, get involved. Here are some links:

AFA.net's info page on the marriage amendment - where I got the information first

The NC Legislature's Home Page - find your representatives, send them letters, emails, phone calls, cards, etc.

Bill S13 on the NC Legislature page - the bill itself

Senator Fred Smith's blog on the issue

Return America.Org - "We need your help in building a network of churches and individuals to educate, motivate and mobilize citizens in a united effort in promoting Judeo-Christian values; to educate and influence government in these principles upon which our state and nation were founded." This organization is based in North Carolina, and they just held a huge rally in the legislature's backyard this past week.

Please don't skip on past this. This is more important than the next thing on your to-do list. It is more important than the next task at work. Our society will become pure darkness if we don't fight to shine God's light of truth all over it.

It's High Time You Learned of the AFA

The American Family Association is a wonderful, God-honoring organization that is working for the restoration of family (read, Biblical) values in our country. Their website says:

AFA is for people who are tired of cursing the darkness and who are ready to light a bonfire. We are a non-profit (501(c)(3)) organization founded in 1977 by Don Wildmon. The American Family Association represents and stands for traditional family values, focusing primarily on the influence of television and other media – including pornography – on our society.

AFA believes that the entertainment industry, through its various products, has played a major role in the decline of those values on which our country was founded and which keep a society and its families strong and healthy. For example, over the last 25 years we have seen the entertainment industry "normalize" and glorify premarital sex. During that time we have suffered a dramatic increase in teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and abortion as a means of birth control.

We believe in holding accountable the companies which sponsor programs attacking traditional family values. We also believe in commending those companies which act responsibly regarding programs they support.

AFA supporters receive a monthly letter about a specific issue with a recommended action such as sending a postcard or making a phone call. In addition, supporters receive the AFA Journal with news on various moral and family issues.

Check them out. Sign up for the emails. It's simple to get involved by writing e-letters to politicians, companies, and media outlets. The most current issue is House Resolution 254, a bill that's trying to give homosexuals special status under the law, but there are always things coming up in our ever-darkening world.

Those who love Jesus are called to love His light and walk in it, shining Him to expose the darkness along the way (Ephesians 5:1-15). As Micah 6:8 says,

He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?