Bioethike

This weekend, in anticipation of the the Focus on the Family ad featuring former Gator and Heisman-trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mom, which will appear during tomorrow’s Super Bowl game, I’ll post a few pro-life goodies and commentary. I’m calling the series “Tebow Truth,” in honor of Tim and his mom’s courageous confession about [...]

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Within hours of my January 30 post Ladies, your clock really is ticking: 88% of eggs lost by age 30, I already had two responses, both negative. Seems the information presented in the post, which I had retrieved from The London Telegraph, struck a nerve.
Saturday before the Divine Service, I mentioned these responses to a [...]

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In the Let’s Start Encouraging Young Folks to Marry and Procreate Sooner department, we have this from The London Telegraph:
The new research by the Univeristy of St Andrews and Edinburgh University is the first to colate the actual decline of the “ovarian reserve” – the potential number of eggs [...]

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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 remain [...]

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Threatening an already fragile worldwide Anglican Communion, on December 5 the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected Canon Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, as suffragan bishop for the diocese. Canon Glasspool becomes the second openly gay bishop in the PECUSA after V. Gene Robinson, who was consecrated bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
Canon Glasspool is the [...]

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In a stunning blow to same-sex marriage advocates, the New York State Senate rejected (38 to 24) efforts to legalize same-sex marriage, despite prior approval by the State Assembly and heavy lifting by Democratic Governor David Paterson. This action is sandwiched between last month’s voter rejection of Maine’s same-sex marriage law and a similar contest [...]

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With 230,631 signatories (Tuesday, Dec. 1, 10:13 p.m. CT), which include prominent Evangelical, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox religious leaders, one would think that the Manhatten Declaration would be a good thing. Not according to the Los Angeles Times:
Few today would criticize civil rights activists, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for participating in or [...]

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Just ask one or more of the following questions:
How did humankind know that God’s design for marriage was one man and one woman for life before the Bible was written?
How do non-Christians know that today?
Was same-sex activity sinful before Moses wrote the first four books of the Bible? Why or why not?
If you believe it [...]

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Well, I’ll let the Scriptures answer. Here are the words of St. Paul:
12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14In whom [...]

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From today’s Providence Journal:
Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin has forbidden Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy to receive the Roman Catholic sacrament of Holy Communion because of his advocacy of abortion rights, the Rhode Island Democrat said Friday.
“The bishop instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give [...]

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