Archive for October, 2007
Ideological Idolatry
This week, the Senate of the United States will be taking up the issue of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which just passed in the House of Representatives this past week. The bill is likely to meet with a veto from President Bush, the same fate it met at the beginning of October when [...]
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Since Sunday, the nation’s attention has been focused on the wildfires encroaching upon Southern California. More than a quarter of a million acres have burned, and almost a million residents have evacuated. Today, President Bush sent a message to let residents of Southern California know that “Americans all across this land care deeply about them. [...]
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Tags: justice
Liberating Leviticus
Ask and ye shall receive…
I asked a blogger on this thread to offer me some specific scriptural citations that indicate that homosexuality is a sin. So, somebody pointed out that in Leviticus 18.22 and 20.13, two men having sex “as with a woman” is clearly condemned.
This got me thinking, because it is also [...]
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Today, the U.S. Senate joined the House of Representatives in passing the Matthew Shepard Act and sent it to President Bush.
The Matthew Shepard Act provides an opportunity for communities to receive federal resources in the prosecution of crimes based on the victim’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, disability, gender and gender identity.
This can make a [...]
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