Posts Tagged “Pro-life”

“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.” — Pope Benedict XVI

A little more than one year ago, Chuck Colson (the Evangelical founder of Prison Fellowship who, long before that, was an ill-advised advisor to Richard Nixon in the heat of the Watergate debacle) released, alongside Roman Catholic academic heavy hitter Robert George, a manifesto that might be considered the defensive foxholes of the Culture Wars. 

The document, dubbed the Manhattan Declaration, was lauded by many on the Right upon its release.  It has since been signed by tens of thousands.  A link to the document and its cyberhome follows this post.

One of the most direct paragraphs of this forthright 6000-plus word manifesto reads as follows:

Because the sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage as a union of husband and wife, and the freedom of conscience and religion are foundational principles of justice and the common good, we are compelled by our Christian faith to speak and act in their defense. In this declaration we affirm: 1) the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every human being as a creature fashioned in the very image of God, possessing inherent rights of equal dignity and life; 2) marriage as a conjugal union of man and woman, ordained by God from the creation, and historically understood by believers and non-believers alike, to be the most basic institution in society and; 3) religious liberty, which is grounded in the character of God, the example of Christ, and the inherent freedom and dignity of human beings created in the divine image.

Secularists may all yawn at this point, noting new here – ”just move along ma’am, nothing new to see hear, c’mon keeping it movin’” Read the rest of this entry »

By Micah Clark

By Micah Clark

2011 Indiana General Assembly is Less than One Week Away!

The Indiana legislature is right around the corner, with an official start up date of January 5th. We are starting to review the first of more than 1,200 bills that are typically filed in each session.

Here are a few bills that have been made public that we have reviewed which might interest you, and give you an idea of the wide variety of issues considered: Read the rest of this entry »

Gary Gerard, General Manager of the Times Union in Warsaw, Ind had another interesting article Saturday, and while I agree with some of what he had to say, I disagree on others. Read the rest of this entry »

This morning I commented on Pat Miller’s Facebook page after noticing he had patronized Higher Grounds Coffee.

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By Micah Clark

This is What Change Looks Like

It is hard to encapsulate what has happened to our nation in the last few days with the passage and signing of the massive health care reform legislation. At a time when America is literally bankrupt and on the verge of losing its triple AAA bond status, with high unemployment and no end to it in sight, the US Congress passed the largest entitlement bill ever seen in most of our lifetimes. The unfunded mandate for states like Indiana is enormous and potentially devastating over time as the program, like all government entitlements before it, grows far beyond the projected expense numbers.

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Obama has picked what the White House calls another “judicial moderate with a record of good judgment and ‘empathy’ for the people involved in cases before the court.”

Just how moderate is U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton?

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Tell Congress: Remove Abortion Funding & Mandates from Needed Health Care Reform
Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation on the House and Senate floors.
Genuine health care reform should protect the life and dignity of all people from the moment of
conception until natural death. The U.S. bishops’ conference has concluded that all committee-
approved bills are seriously deficient on the issues of abortion and conscience, and do not provide
adequate access to health care for immigrants and the poor. The bills will have to change or the
bishops have pledged to oppose them.

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From House Republican Leader John Boehner’s official blog

What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan.

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Here.

The rain as most of you know came down in buckets. It stopped at a couple of minutes before 9:00. In spite of the rain we had a good turn out, close to 300 people.

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