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Oprah who admits to ongoing sex while never being married -- recently interviewed John Edwards' wife. When Elizabeth Edwards married John in 1977, she says she asked him for one gift—fidelity. "I wanted him to be faithful to me," she says. "It was enormously important."

To many, the Edwardses' marriage seemed unbreakable. When their son Wade died in a car accident in 1996, John, Elizabeth and their daughter Cate mourned as a family. Years later, they celebrated the births of the youngest Edwards children, Emma Claire and Jack.

When John decided to go into politics, Elizabeth was a constant on the campaign trail. She stood by his side when he became a U.S. senator and again when he ran for president in 2004.

Shortly after John lost the 2004 election, the Edwards family was tested again. Elizabeth was diagnosed with breast cancer, but with the support of her husband and family, she vowed to beat it. Read On

   
   
   
 

JUDGING SONIA Peppered with questions ranging from the right to bear arms, the use of nunchucks and her controversial "wise Latina" comment, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor carefully responded Tuesday to Republican scrutiny of her judicial record, as Democrats sprang to her defense.

Sotomayor, who if confirmed would be the first Hispanic justice on the high court, appeared to step back from her earlier comment that she hoped a "wise Latina" would reach a better conclusion than a white man, saying no one has an advantage in finding judicial wisdom.

"I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gendered group has an advantage in sound judgment," Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, the second day of her confirmation hearing. "I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge." Read On

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HOPE Focus on the Family President and CEO Jim Daly has submitted a letter to Time praising the magazine for its latest cover story, "Is There Hope for the American Marriage"?

The story, in the newsweekly's July 13 issue, is an essay by Caitlin Flanagan in which she asks a grammatically simple but culturally complex question: What is marriage?

"Is it — given the game-changing realities of birth control, female equality and the fact that motherhood outside of marriage is no longer stigmatized — simply an institution that has the capacity to increase the pleasure of the adults who enter into it?" she writes. "If so, we might as well hold the wake now: there probably aren't many people whose idea of 24-hour-a-day good times consists of being yoked to the same romantic partner, through bouts of stomach flu and depression, financial setbacks and emotional upsets, until after many a long decade, one or the other eventually dies in harness." Read On

 
 
 
   

DID SHE DITCH GOD? So, Kathleen Parker has determined that getting rid of social conservatives and shelving the values they fight for is the solution to what ails the Republican Party (“Giving Up on God,” Nov. 19). Isn’t that a little like Benedict Arnold handing George Washington a battle plan to win the Revolution?

Whatever she once was, Ms. Parker is certainly not a conservative anymore, having apparently realized it’s a lot easier to be popular among your journalistic peers when your keyboard tilts to the left. She writes that “armband religion” — those of us who “wear our faith on our sleeve,” I suppose, or is it meant to compare socially conservative Christians to Nazis? — is “killing the Republican Party.” Lest readers miss the point, she literally spells it out. The GOP’s big problem? G-O-D. Read On

 
 
 
 

SEXUAL PREDATORS LOVE CHAT Children and teens love chat rooms. The problem is, sexual predators do, too.

Parents need to wake up to how dangerous and just plain raunchy chat rooms can be. The anonymity of participants, unfiltered and unlimited access by virtually anyone, and the lack of parental supervision, make for a dangerous combination.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, two out of every five children ages 15 to 17 who are abducted fall victim in connection with internet activity. The way in which children use chat rooms makes them incredibly vulnerable to weirdos who wish to do them harm. Read On

 
 
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