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Posted in condoms, Global Warming on Mar 31st, 2009
St. Louis tulips, buttercups, and hyacinths are ablaze with riotous color and yet nighttime temperatures are still in the thirties. Thus, mornings while I’m wrapping my feet up in a blanket as I drink a hot cup of joe, I’m having difficulty wrapping my noodle around the concept of “global warming.” Seems not too far back [...]
According to this piece from LifeNews.com editor Steven Ertelt (March 31), the National Right to Life Committee is warning members of Congress of a bill it anticipates will seek to overturn the longstanding 1996 Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits the creation of human embryos for research. Writes Ertelt, The NRLC letter says “there is a substantial chance that [...]
According to Michael Hiltzik in this March 30 piece from the Los Angeles Times, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine isn’t doing too well these days: The $6-billion [stem cell] program was enacted by voters in 2004 as Proposition 71 after a campaign of exceptional intellectual dishonesty, featuring vignettes of sufferers from diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
