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Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
Voting 188-186 today, the New Hampshire House temporarily put the breaks on a same-sex marriage bill that had just passed the State’s Senate hours before, according to Reuters. At issue was language in the bill, proposed by Democrat Governor John Lynch, that would protect clergy and others associated with religious institutions from performing same-sex marriages, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
Paul Schlichta at American Thinker provides commentary how Notra Dame got so, well, liberal. And it sounds, well, so familiar, if one is an American Lutheran. Schlichta writes, The process started a century ago, when the Catholic Church was attacked by a group of internal heresies that Pope Pius X collectively defined as “modernism“. This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
Although “Woman X,” a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had a pre-existing ovarian condition, her sad story adds further weight to the argument that the hyperstimulation of ovaries is. not. a. good. thing. As readers of Bioethike know, besides a procedure for in vitro fertilization (IVF), ovary hyperstimulation of thousands if not more women will be required in [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.