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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2010
Calling it an “epic fail,” Clyde Middleton at Liberty Pundits shares the good news that President Obama’s Executive Order 13505, “Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells Destroying Tiny Human Beings” has been “tossed” by DC District Court Judge Royce Lamberth. This means that the administration cannot use federal funds to expand [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2010
You must check out the blog for the Center for Morality in Public life. Titled Ethika Politika (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?!?), this looks like it going to be a treasure trove for those wishing to applying natural law thinking to contemporary, hot-button issues. CFMPL President Andrew Haines was kind enough to e-mail me last week. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2010
The Los Angeles Times reporting: U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled July 8 that the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against states like Massachusetts that have legalized gay “marriage.” States are permitted to define marriage as they wish, according to Tauro’s reasoning. He also ruled that DOMA violates the Equal Protection Clause, part [...]
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 Apr 15th, 2010
The President signed the memorandum today (Thursday) that will be released tomorrow. From the Washington Post: The decision injects the president squarely into the debate over gay marriage by attempting to end the common practice by many hospitals of insisting that only family members by blood or marriage be allowed to visit patients. . . [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2010
Governor Dave Heineman signed two bills: One bars abortions at and after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on assertions that fetuses feel pain at that time. The current standard is viability, or when a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. The other. . . will require doctors or other health professionals to assess [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2010
From Americans United for Life: The White House’s proposed executive order to “deal” with the abortion problems in the Senate health care reform bill reveals that the President will not even attempt to ensure that there is no federal funding for abortion or mandates for abortion coverage in the bill. The first section of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2010
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.
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