This week: From the Susan B. Anthony list… Welcome to the Bureau of Womanhood Conformity. The Fathers of Mercy: supporting the new evangelism since 1808. A child’s story of survival, born 4 months premature. Candid comments on the abortion business, from a former clinic owner. A whole new market snuffing-out life at the other end – Planned GrandParenthood. The liberal magazine cover craze.
Welcome to the Bureau of Womanhood Conformity. Independent thoughts are considered subversive. Rule #1: all must agree with Our Leader. Deviations will not be tolerated.
Tell President Obama to respect a woman’s choice to practice her beliefs… not his. It is not Obama’s opposition who is waging a war on women.
This is not the first time the Church has had a call for a new evangelism. The Fathers of Mercy were founded in 1808 to fulfill this very purpose. They are still going strong! Stop by their website to learn more about them or visit their YouTube channel for some excellent homilies. For example, there is this one on superficial preaching:
…or this on on the warnings and prophecy of Pope Paul VI in his 1968 masterpiece Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life):
Fallen away Catholics and those interested in the fullness of the Christian faith might be interested in the basics:
Only 1 pound, 2 ounces and 12 inches long – Ezekiel Cal Lugo was born 4 months early. This beautiful video tells the story:
Pregnancy services such as abortion protect a woman’s right to choose and make it the “safe, legal and rare” option that it is today. Women’s health, not profit, is the motive. Yea, right.
Laugh now, but for the culture of death, the implications of this are not at all far-fetched:
Thanks to a new California law, school students will now receive mandatory indoctrination instruction on the historical contribution of homosexuals. California lawmakers are determined to brainwash teach their young children that which is necessary to become successful adults. Apparently, that does not include things like science. California now ranks 47th in the nation in science at the 8th grade level. Only 22% of California 8th grade students managed to even pass the national standardized test.
Oh, and while California lawmakers are focused on honoring the gay agenda, the state itself is sinking fast. Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) announced the deficit is now $16 billion (up from $9.2 billion in January). Expect drastic cuts and huge tax increases, followed by an exodus of individuals and companies to… anywhere else.
Newsweek, irrelevant as ever, pays homage to their candidate. If you have been under a rock, that first cover is real. The others are products of The Looking Spoon and The People’s Cube.
Some random thoughts or bits of information are worthy of sharing but don’t warrant their own full post. This idea was started by Jennifer Fulwiler at Conversion Diary to address this blogging need. So, some Fridays I too participate when I have accumulated 7 worthy items. Thank you Jen for hosting this project!
#3: I have those pictures of mine!
#6: Ummm… I’m actually a native Californian and have lived here for all but 9 of my (almost) 32 years. Prop 13 in 1978 cut property taxes which in turn largely killed the state budget. Add in the governorships of Pete Wilson (middle and high school for me) and Arnold Schwarzenegger who cut education and you’ve got the current state of the school system. The passage of the bill requiring schools to promote a more nuanced (read: mentioning that not all gays were degenerates — I’ve read the curriculum and that’s all it is) has nothing to do with it. It’s not like Gay History Month has been established. It just means that Harvey Milk might actually be mentioned in California history classes.
It is still too early to fully gauge how SB48 will be implemented and how the courts will interpret it. Some analysis: Gays in textbooks: Two arguments against SB 48, CA SB 48 Sexualizes K-12 Public School Students, California Bill SB48: Would require public schools & textbooks to portray homosexuality and transgenderism in positive light! and California mandates gays be added to history books while shutting out Christian group “activities” in education.