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Comment on Supreme Court health care ruling’s impact on women…. by Anjali

Anjali — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:45:03 +0000

When I see things like this I aalwys say a quick prayer of gratitude that my children were born into a family that loves children. I’m not saying that in a conceited way, and we are not perfect by any means, but the thought has occurred to me before that my children could have been born (or not born) into a family that would have ended their precious lives.I have a friend who recently had a baby who, when she was pregnant, her boyfriend put extreme pressure on her to have an abortion. His sister who is an OB even said, It’s really no big deal. Through lots of encouragement she stood her ground. When she heard the baby’s heartbeat for the first time, she texted him to let him know (he wasn’t speaking to her at that point). To make a long story short, the baby is a few months old now and her boyfriend (soon to be husband) is a PROUD father. He asked her to stay home with their new baby and is paying all her bills (they don’t live together so it’s double everything) and he even wants her to look into homeschooling! After the baby was born, he cried for weeks and begged her forgiveness and she says he is probably the most pro-life person ever! Pray for them, though, as they are still not Christians and please pray for me that I would not allow this opportunity to slip through. I’ve tried to share, and I see improvement, but I admit I am not really gifted in that area.The thing to remember is that while not every story ends this way, God has a story that is unique to every person and he uses it to glorify His name through it. I love Psalm 23 also and God spoke to me through it recently when I read, he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. I realized through that verse that many times God allows us to go through different situations, not just to refine us, but so that His name will be known (to those who don’t know Him) and glorified among us. So sorry to hear about your home, Kelly, but God will be gloried through this!

Comment on Supreme Court health care ruling’s impact on women…. by Bebo

Bebo — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:53:17 +0000

Well, I do know people who would say that if you use birth croontl you have just committed murder. Because God might have wanted you to get pregnant that month, and your preventing a person from BECOMING is the same as murder. And what’s the difference between preventing someone from becoming and murdering them at a preborn stage?I’m not that far on the spectrum. I feel God could (and sometimes does!) thwart people’s ideas about when they’re going to conceive. Sometimes God does not bless when we think He should, and other times isn’t it sad that the scared 14-year-old is pregnant when there are so many married moms who are really aching for a child? I don’t have answers to these things except that I think “just relax,” or do this procedure and have sex sideways, etc. to infertile couples or judgmentalism against the 14-y-o is going to help.I could certainly see times where a married couple because of sickness or something like that would feel it needs to not try to conceive for a while. And that might mean a form of birth croontl.And you know…It’s really none of my business, on the one hand, what someone does in that regard in their marriage privately so long as I’m not paying their medical bill. On the other hand I am concerned that it seems the NORMATIVE experience that one would be expected to use birth croontl. I find it disturbing. Sick, actually. It fosters the idea that we can have children when and if they are convenient. Children (usually!) should be an expected part of a marriage. It was the first command that God gave to Adam to “be fruitful and multiply.” I don’t see a “hey, quit all that babymaking!” verse in scripture, however, so I would have to assume that the NORMATIVE experience would be for a wife and husband to have several children. Some would have 14 and some only one or even none. But the usual should (ideally) be several and we see this borne out in scripture in several passages.So…No. I don’t think that birth croontl should be taught about at all. I don’t (I HOPE!!!) get all high n mighty against people who for whatever reason feel they need birth croontl. Or people who don’t have the same religious views I do. I know what it feels like to be looked down upon for thinking a certain way and would never want to do that to someone else. :]But I have to say I find the idea that this is the *usual experience* offensive… I should NOT have to be asked about birth croontl at my physician’s appointments. It shouldn’t be something pushed as some sort of medical accessory package at every doctor’s appointment. It makes me feel harassed, that the people who deliver babies would be the same ones pushing to croontl how many of them you have or what is best for your family. I think that in balance, doctors should be able to ask you ONCE. Once. Every stupid appointment, including when you’re in for tonsilitis is no stinkin’ fair LOL!My children should not be taught this in school. At all.I’m ok with other people teaching this to their kids. Other people might even buy birth croontl for their children and I would have no way of knowing this. It really isn’t my bz unless I’m paying for it.Then again…Ok, this isn’t really a birth croontl issue, though…Those poor children and young women forced into prostitution. What can be done for them? I would hate to just enable their rapists/ Johns by giving them condoms. Is there no rescue for these people? I think about it a lot. I would hate for the only “help” they receive to be a stupid condom… but I would hate even more for them to get AIDS because my stuffy morality prevented the condom distribution. :]Really… I wish there were some way to rescue these people!!! Sometimes, I can see some shades of gray at the edges there on these issues, you know? But I’ve sort of outlined my *ideal*. Those women and KIDS in slavery, though. I hardly even know how to pray for them. How to give folks like that hope… yeah, I guess that’s off topic a bit. But I wonder.

Comment on Aurora Shooter an Occupy Anarchist by admin

admin — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:34:42 +0000

Article Postscript: The following You Tube link shows the official Occupy Wall Street website claiming Holmes was indeed a member of the Black Bloc – It was scrubbed after 1 hour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jIHjTvFrzuE#

Comment on Aurora Shooter an Occupy Anarchist by admin

admin — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:29:40 +0000

It would then be incumbent upon those peaceful members of the Occupy movement to throw out the vandals….WM

Comment on Aurora Shooter an Occupy Anarchist by Micheal

Micheal — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:49:10 +0000

And I use quotation marks on the word “Anarchist” for a reason, because real Anarchists believe in breaking up corrupt power structures, not smashing windows. Any mindless clown with a brick can smash a window, that doesn’t make you an anarchist, just a vandal. Though I am NOT an anarchist myself, the anarchists I have met do NOT endorse this idiotic smashing of property, and nor does Occupy Wall Street. I denounce this type of bullshit. It has NO PLACE in our peaceful movement.