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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2009
Dude, seriously! With the Senate voting on cloture tomorrow morning at 1:00 a.m. (gee–it must be a really important vote!), one would think that Sen. Claire McCaskill (D.-Mo.) would be answering her phones in her Washington, D.C. office. Or having someone to answer her phones for her. Oh, but no! I’ve called several times this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2009
UPDATE Sunday, 2:14 p.m. CT: Here is the Senate’s schedule for the remainder of Sunday. The Senate will vote on cloture tomorrow (Monday) morning at 1:00 a.m. ET, so your calls, e-mails, and faxes need to be sent today. Following the remarks of Senator Coburn, the Senate will adjourn until 1:00pm Sunday, December 20. Following [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2009
Hot Air reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D.-Ne.) caved on the Senate’s version of health care reform for an extra year of federal Medicaid subsidies. From Sen. Reid’s (D.-Nev.) Manager’s Amendment: HT: Jill Stanek.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2009
The Washington Post and other outlets are reporting that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Ne.), a staunch pro-life advocate, will now vote for the Senate’s version of health care reform. C-Span will offer video of the Senator’s announcement later. Sen. Harry Reid’s (D.-Nev.) Manager’s Amendment allows states to “opt out” of abortion coverage, which simply means that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2009
Bioethike has been nominated in two categories for the American Life Leagues’ Pro-Life Blog of the Year. Bioethike is the only Lutheran-specific blog, and one of the very few non-Catholic blogs nominated this year. Please make sure that you vote on or before December 21! Vote here. Thank you!
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2009
Trumpeting again this year “Choice on Earth,” an obvious mockery of the Christmas message of “Peace on Earth,” Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards is hoping that you’ll shell out your cash, cash, cash. Keep in mind Planned Parenthood is a billion-(with a “B”)-dollar-a-year industry. Here’s Cecile:
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2009
The circus theatre unfolding drama of the Senate’s version of health care reform should not distract from our diligence to love our neighbor. Americans United for Life‘s legal team has provided some helpful information for understanding that there are serious, serious issues with the bill as currently amended. Here are a few. The bill: Allows [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2009
Seems this summer’s ELCA General Assembly has sped up the “who can fracture the Church as quick as the Episcopal Church can” game. From the ELCA News Service: Voting 10 to 5, with one abstention, a resolution on the “bound conscience” of the synod said that the ELCA’s current ministry polices, adopted in 1990, “shall [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2009
During my lunch hour, I drove to Delmar in St. Louis in order to register my concerns about the “Medicare form e-mail” I received from Sen. McCaskill’s office. Recall that this was in response to my e-mail to her asking her to support the Nelson/Hatch amendment to prohibit the federal funding of abortions in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2009
Prior to the Senate’s vote against the Nelson/Hatch amendment, which would have added current prohibitions against the federal funding of abortion to the Senate’s version of the health care reform bill, I e-mailed both of my US senators asking them to vote in favor of Nelson/Hatch. Today I received a lengthy e-mail reply from Sen. [...]
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.
