Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2010
According to LifeNews.com, last week the Show Me State joined Oklahoma in passing a law allowing pregnant women, with reasonable suspicion of harm, to use deadly force in order to protect the lives of their unborn children. Awesome!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2010
Absent Autonomy: CTCR Ethical Recommendations Regarding the Beginning of Human Life Robert C. Baker For partial credit toward MHE 604 Section 01 Social and Cultural Contexts of Health Care – Summer I 2010 Word Count: 1,935 Abstract: The Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) aids that church body [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2010
Oh, the irony! Coming to Cardinal Nation this fall is a new “service” provided by none other than Planned Parenthood: artificial insemination. Complete control over procreation, even over against nature, seems so, well, self-serving. That is, unless, human beings are not unique among other life forms, which likewise can be physically manipulated. HT: Jill Stanek.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2010
In what now appears is going to be a long, hot gay summer, the Obama administration is moving forward with pushing forward the gay-normalization agenda. Says Clinton: This is a human rights issue. Just as I was very proud to say the obvious more than 15 years ago in Beijing that human rights are women’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2010
From The New York Times: The policy will be set forth in a ruling to be issued Wednesday by the Labor Department’s wage and hour division, the officials said. . . The new ruling indicates that an employee in a same-sex relationship can qualify for leave to care for the child of his or her [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2010
Obama clearly honors a “two-father family” as a “nurturing family.” I thought that, generally speaking, women were the more nurturing sex. Why not a three- or four-father family? This is really getting confusing!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2010
In what should come as no surprise, the US resumed its trend of following Europe in a declining fertility rate. A portion of “Table 1″ is provided above. From the report: The 2008 preliminary estimate of the total fertility rate (TFR)) was 2085.5 births per 1,000 women–2% ower than the rate in 2007 (2,122.5) (Table [...]
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.
