MInTheGap

In the name of tolerance and diversity, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed into law for the state of California a couple of measures aimed at traditional family values:

The bills signed by Schwarzenegger include SB777, which bans anything in public schools that could be interpreted as negative toward homosexuality, bisexuality and other alternative lifestyle choices.

Also signed was AB394, which targets parents and teachers for such indoctrination through “anti-harassment” training, CCF said.

AB394 promotes the same issues through state-funded publications, postings, curricula and handouts to students, parents and teachers.

It also creates the circumstances where a parent who says marriage is only for a man and a woman in the presence of a lesbian teacher could be convicted of “harassment,” and a student who believes people are born either male or female could be reported as a “harasser” by a male teacher who wears women’s clothes, CCF said. [Hat Tip: Ken Ham]

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I have real pity for this girl. At one point in time a group of people believed that they could make a few dollars off her looks and personality, and that they did. But as happens to many children that are not fully grounded in real life and then are thrust into stardom, when reality came around she did not know how to cope.

I was in a job that took me into restaurant one day many years ago where I was talking with a district manager whose daughter got some kind of karaoke machine for her birthday. She turned to me and said, “She may not be able to sing that well, but you have to think she’s pretty, right?”

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“How dare you have so many kids!” That’s not a phrase uttered to the Duggards or someone with over twelve children, but to someone that had three children in the country of the Ukraine.

This past Sunday, Virtuous Blonde and I were privileged to host a missionary to that land in Eurasia and he was telling us that not only is the birthrate abysmal (they are below the replacement rate), but that people are actively hostile to those that have multiple children. I was amazed, because I know that people here in the states are judgmental, but not hostile.

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There is a whole group of people out there that God is a magical ATM machine. What I mean by this is that God is someone who loves us and wants to give us good things, we just have to key in the right passcode. You know, punch in a few prayers and fastings and God will give us exactly what we want.

Surprisingly, many prayer meetings end up as nothing more than hoping to hit the right code that will have God act.

This is part of what’s behind the prosperity movement, and those that believe that God is out there wanting us to have an abundant life in the here and now, and all we have to do is figure out how to claim the reward.

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My dad is a pretty funny guy when it comes to cell phones.  He pays for two lines off of my brother’s account– one for himself and one for my sister.  The deal is that he pays a flat rate of $15 a month for each phone (just for having the line) and that gives him unlimited calling nights and weekends.  However, day minutes come at a flat fee– and my dad doesn’t want to pay anything extra.  So, if anyone calls him that’s not on the account– regardless of the reason– he doesn’t answer it (with very few exceptions).

We picked up our first cell phone last year when we switched to Vonage.  We wanted to make sure that we had some backup in case the power or Internet was down for some reason.  So, we buy a card once every three months to make sure that we keep the same number for the very few people that have it.

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It was probably during our first year of marriage– we were living on our own in the apartment we were renting– my wife, our cat, and I were enjoying a peaceful evening when our doorbell rang.

Standing out side was a man and he had some pamphlets in his hand. I let the man in the house, and we started to look at his material. By now, you’ve probably guessed that this man was a Jehovah’s Witness. What was strange was that I thought that these people traveled in groups of two– and here was a single guy.

At the time, I was a deacon in my church, and figured that this guy didn’t know what he had gotten himself into.

Over the next few weeks, once a week, this man came by, we had him into our house, and he and I looked at the Scriptures and compared what the Bible said to what he believed. He even brought a cat toy once for our cat. In the end, however, he stopped coming to the house– probably about the time that he figured that there was no convincing me that the Trinity was false (which is where we had started our discussion).

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Have you heard what’s going on in Kansas with Dr. George Tiller?  He’s the infamous abortion doctor from the state, but what is currently going on there should have pro-choice people wishing to run from him and Planned Parenthood like the plague.

Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline charged the Overland Park, Kan., [Planned Parenthood] clinic with 107 counts, 23 of them felonies. Besides 29 misdemeanor counts of providing unlawful late-term abortions, the clinic is charged with multiple counts of making a false writing, failure to maintain records and failure to determine viability.

from the Associated Press  [Hat Tip Jill Stanek]

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