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Morality and Decency Conference Speakers
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Newsletter Updates
May 7, 2008
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Feminists can’t stand the fact that a woman can reject their ideology and still be a highly accomplished, influential, intelligent individual. That explains their vindictive campaign to stop conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly from receiving an honorary degree from Washington University in St. Louis. According to Washington University’s student newspaper, Student Life, about 50 students began meeting on Monday “to find a way to reverse the University's decision to award Schlafly a degree or, if that proves impossible, to make a statement of protest during the commencement exercises.” As the article put it, the protestors are outraged that the University actually has the nerve to honor a woman who “belittled the feminist movement.” The feminists’ tiresome tirades about Schlafly are further proof that they have no interest in championing successful women. They simply believe all women should agree with them politically—and turn into foul-mouthed bullies when they don’t. We can rest assured the feminists will never admit the real reason for Schlafly’s honorary degree: she is the living definition of the independently successful, high-achieving woman. Good News: University Defends Decision to Honor Phyllis Schlafly |
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URGING CAUTION A Christian legal group is urging caution in the case of the 463 children seized by Texas officials from the "Yearning for Zion" polygamist sect. Liberty Legal Institute says the State of Texas should be required to prove that hundreds of children taken from a polygamist church compound were either abused or were in imminent danger. Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for Liberty Legal, warns that hasty action could result in permanent damage to religious liberties and the rights of all Texas parents."Our children aren't children of the state," he argues. "They're children of their parents."
Shackelford says parents have a God-given right to "raise their children and do what's best for their children." But he notes "we do allow, and we agree as a country" that that right can be "interfered with if there is actual abuse or neglect or imminent danger to the children." However, Shackelford argues that without hard evidence, such interference should not occur.
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Centers for Decency is apart of a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization which encourages, motivates, educates, and equips the family and community in morality and decency offering information, articles, volunteers to make the difference, with conference speakers thereby battling the pornography and obscenity. Centers for Decency, 1415 South Voss Road, Suite 110393, Houston, Texas 77057 or call 713.266.2715. |
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Washington, D.C. — Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Director and Senior Fellow of Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, commented on Wednesday’s release of “An Evangelical Manifesto,” the product of a 10-member steering committee that “seeks to clarify the confusions and corruptions surrounding the term ‘evangelical.’”
Dr. Crouse said, “The select group drafting the manifesto apparently excludes traditional conservative, pro-life and pro-family evangelical voices. Further, the timing of the manifesto — at the end of primary election season and just before the general election in a presidential election year — makes this a decidedly political document when millions of evangelical votes are at stake. “The manifesto seems to be targeting evangelicals by blurring the distinctions between liberal and conservatives, producing an amalgam that will become as impotent and barren in the 21st century as most mainline protestant churches became in the 20th century. Polls indicate that the majority of evangelical believers hold mainstream views and attend church weekly. They believe that the Bible is the Word of God and that personal faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. They oppose both homosexual ‘marriage’ and ‘civil unions’ as undermining marriage, and they believe that abortion should be illegal.
“The term ‘evangelical’ means a Biblical worldview and dictates a philosophical/theological perspective on the timeless moral issues of Scripture. Those positions ought to be clear and unequivocal, rather than muddied by sophisticated rhetoric and clever obfuscation. The subtle danger is, as the old axiom states: ‘Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything,’” Crouse concluded.