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Hugh Hefner turns 80 next Sunday, and The Mansion is once again the place to be. “A major pajama party” is planned, as he told Maclean’s, along with other observances equal to the dignity of the occasion. But this milestone also has “Hef” in a reflective mood, wondering how he will be remembered and trying to sum up “the major message in my life.”

So begins today’s Wall Street Journal editorial entitled “The Playboy Legacy: As his 80th birthday approaches, Hugh Hefner is proud of his achievements. He shouldn’t be.” It really is a good article, and you should take the time to read the whole thing, but what I find interesting is that here is a man who thinks he has it all, wants to have it all, and yet is struggling because he’s come to the point in life where he is close to death, and knows he doesn’t have it all.

Case in point:

Still endlessly indulged by reporters, he has slipped into his best bathrobe for another round of clubby interviews in which to showcase his three salaried “girlfriends” and to reminisce about the original Playboy “dream.”

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A doctor was recently jailed in India for performing an abortion on a woman who was carrying a female baby:

A doctor in India and his assistant have been
sentenced to two years in jail for revealing the sex of a female [unborn baby]
and then agreeing to abort it.
This is the first time medical professionals have been jailed in such a case.

Under Indian laws, ultrasound tests on a pregnant woman to determine the gender of the [unborn babies] are illegal.

It has been estimated that 10m female [unborn babies] may have been terminated in India in the past 20 years.

Just for the record : I will no longer tolerate babies being called foeteses or whatever. I understand the technical accuracy of the term; however, I believe the term is being used to try to dehumanize the unborn baby, and I will replace it when I remember!

It’s appalling to me that so many children are being aborted. It makes it even worse is that people are selectively choosing one sex over another– they know they have a baby, they know that it will be a girl, and they choose to kill it.

Leading campaigners say many of India’s fertility
clinics continue to offer a seemingly legitimate facade for a
multi-billion pound racket and that gender determination is still big
business in India.

Experts in India say female [infanticide] is mostly linked to socio-economic factors.

It is an idea that many say carries over from the time
India was a predominantly agrarian society where boys were considered
an extra pair of hands on the farm.

The girl child has traditionally been considered
inferior and a liability - a bride’s dowry can cripple a poor family
financially.

At least they make a baby-child link here, and they call it “foeticide” instead of abortion. The terms are still ugly. This should help point people to what’s truly happening.

Over at sayanythingblog.com, Rob points us to this nifty graphic:

If you’ll notice the parts with arrows (may have to open the graphic up in a new tab/window), you’ll see that Planned Parenthood must be falling on rough times if they’re having to advertise in this way to get people to come in! First, refer a friend and get movie tickets! Then, come in for an appointment before April 8th and get a chance to win an iPod!

Not only does this give us the weird moral dilemma of a baby’s life for an iPod or movie tickets, but it also shows that things must not be as peachy for the number one baby killer out there as they were.

Well, I know I haven’t posted in a while, but here I am. We had a recent death in the family, and then I put some time in on this website. Therefore, I got offered a place over here to have my weblog instead of fighting with some things at bravejournal (plus I don’t have to pay to get the ads removed!). For the time being, I don’t have a tag board, but I like and dislike some things about this interface. I will try to get a tag board and other things improved, but in the mean time I’ll try to work at regularly posting!

Sidebar: If you’d like to post on the forums in here or get a login, just click register in the top right corner. If you’d like a weblog on here, just let me know and we’ll see what we can do.

On to the news:

BREITBART.COM is reporting the following:

The state’s highest court, which made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage, ruled Thursday that same-sex couples from other states cannot marry here.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a challenge to a 1913 state law that forbids non-residents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state.

So, it looks like the Homosexual marriage thing is contained to Mass. for now, but who knows where it will go. I’m still more interested to hear how the amendment is going in that state to repeal the court’s fiat. Also, whatever happened to the talk of impeaching the judges?

So, now the news surrounds Debra LaFave as the case is dismissed against her in one of the two counties that she was charged in sex crimes against one of her middle school students. The lurid details displayed all over the internet, and talk of how attractive the teacher was providing fodder for late night talk shows, Ms. LeFave is just the latest in a series of high profile cases that have gotten media attention and are symptomatic of a problem that is only going to get worse.

One could ask, what causes someone that has a husband to go looking after some child that they are teaching? It could be that the husband isn’t meeting needs. It could be that the woman is a predator. It could be that the woman liked the thrill of the forbidden fruit.

Deep down, however, it is ultimately this woman’s choice to do something that society for now thinks is wrong (and is her responsibility) but it is also a product of a society that gradually erradicating any sense of moral conviction that this once great country had in exchange for a morality that accepts anything as long as it “doesn’t harm anyone” or “is consensual.

What was once shocking when Mary Kay Letourneau went from loving mother to having a child and wedding her student has now become common place, within only a few short years. And yet, in that time, the media and the court system has attempted to follow the current mood of the nation– which is “who cares”?

While the Christian community and those concerned for the lives of their fellow Americans have done a tremendous work at combating the advances of those that would pollute sexuality, the advance behind the front wave is taking its toll on our country. What do I mean? There’s plenty of outrage about gay marriage, but being gay has gone from being a psychological disorder to something that’s required in almost every new movie or tv show. Even if there’s not an avowed gay character, then there will be talk that one of them is probably gay.

Now there is a movement to decriminalize polygamy, with even Christian columnists talking about how the patriarchs of the Bible had multiple wives. Of course, this is attracting attention, and rightly so, but in its wake is the stream of unwed couples living together playing house and thinking it is perfectly acceptable. There is an attitude of “as long as we love each other” or “as long as it is consensual” then we’re fine. It’s played over and over, and it’s raised here.

The problem is, it is wrong– the Creator said it is wrong, society in their conscience knows that it is wrong– but we live in a time where we are told we are animals. When society violates God’s laws, society pays the price, and
we are paying it now. These judges did not make these decisions in a vacuum. In the case of LeFave, the judge tried to get her a stiffer penalty, but the parents of the boy didn’t want him to get on the stand, so they told the prosecutor to let her go.

The judges and legislatures are reflecting our values back for us to see. Will you stand against the tide and reject these things? Will you just accept it and say that this is the way the world is? Do you want to know the way that you can be most effective in turning the tide? Witness! God alone can change hearts, and with those hearts will come a new vigor for upholding righteousness!

From WorldNetDaily:

Amid controversy over a homosexual speaker, a high school in Wisconsin has canceled its “Diversity Day” event scheduled for tomorrow.

Speakers at Viroqua High School in Viroqua, Wisc., for the biannual event were to include Hmong, Jewish, Muslim, American Indian, African American, Latino, Buddhist, physically handicapped and poor people, the La Crosse Tribune reported.

The paper said, however, the event was called off late last week after the Florida-based public-interest legal group Liberty Counsel raised a potential challenge, insisting the program include the viewpoint of a former homosexual.

So basically, here’s how it goes. We get minority people who don’t represent the majority. We bring them in to preach the benefits of their style of life and let kids know how to deal when they meet these people later on in life. We don’t provide any context other than to say that these people are all acceptable. A group decides that it isn’t totally representative of a diverse population, and fear the moral context of homosexuals being able to present their situation as normal, so they recommend that an ex-gay and a pastor be also able to comment (after all, there’s a Buddhist there). The homosexuals are offended at the idea of an ex-gay there, and bail, cancelling the event.

What’s wrong here? I mean, any reasonable person could say that these people were wrong, since the school was just trying to give students a flavor of personality types different than themselves that they could meet. The problem is that it was in a moral vacuum, and equated all sorts of things as being find. Ask any Jew if he is the same as a Muslim and I’d bet you would find a bunch of differences listed. Some of the people presented represented nationalities or skin types, but some were lifestyle choices. Who is the school to be telling students what lifestyle choices are right, especially against parent wishes?