Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2009
From the Family Research Council blog: The President’s Council on Bioethics is no more. With a one-day notice, the members were told in a letter from the President that their services were no longer required. Pack up, get out. Forget the fact that they had a couple of interesting reports coming out soon, one more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
From FRCblog.com: While the federal government lurches toward ignoring patients and wasting more taxpayer dollars on unethical, unsuccessful embryonic stem cell research, there are some bright spots in several states where ethics, and real adult stem cell treatments, are being promoted. LOUISIANA Prohibiting Human-Animal Hybrids SB 115 has been sent to Gov. Jindal for his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
From Mr. Smith’s blog Secondhand Smoke over at First Things: Leave aside for the moment that Obama smokes, do you see how insidious health care controlled by the government will be? And do you think we will be able to print money fast enough to pay for all of this? Health care cost containment will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
This one-session “Changing Currents” Bible study was written by yours truly and the Rev. Todd Wilken of Issues, Etc. You can access the free study here; just click where indicated to receive your free PDF from Concordia Publishing House. While you’re at it, may I also suggest the “What’s Civil about Civil Unions?” study?
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2009
To pay for President Obama’s dream of insuring almost every single American (“costing at least $1 trillion. . . yet [leaving] tens of millions of people uninsured”), Congress is discussing a VAT, or value-added tax, common in Europe, that would be applied to the cost of goods. So, let’s say, 5 percent more on everything [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2009
From The New York Times: President Barack Obama, under growing criticism for not seeking to end the ban on openly gay men and women in the military, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. Obama plans to announce his decision on Wednesday in the Oval Office, a White House official said Tuesday. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009
Below is a picture of my nephew, Zach, at his graduation last month from a private school in Georgia. To his left is Elizabeth, my late sister’s (Zach’s mom) best friend’s daughter. God bless them both!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009
Simply tragic. From Catholic Exchange: Discussing the typical abortion procedure, [former Tiller clinic employee Luhra] Tivis told the Pro-Life Action League in a previous interview: “[the mothers] have a sonogram, first thing and he tells them, ‘Oh, you’re not that far along.’ He’s very happy to take their money. Then the first thing he does [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009
After reading this piece, I am all the more agitated to fight for the rights of special needs children to sue their parents later in life for sheer stupidity: In the months before their daughter was born in 2007, Deborah and Ariel Levy worried the baby might have Down syndrome. They say a doctor at [...]
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.
