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News/Politics 10-18-12

What’s news today?

How about this?

More debate lies from Obama. And yes, he knows it’s false, so that’s a lie.

From CNSNews

“During Tuesday’s second  presidential debate, President Barack Obama said that  women “rely” on Planned Parenthood for mammograms, but, according to the Food and Drug Administration, no Planned Parenthood facility in the United States is licensed to do mammograms.”

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Also from CNSNews,

“The Catholic Church’s Atlanta archdiocese said  that Catholic parishes, missions, and schools that support the Susan G.  Komen for the Cure should no longer do so because of the group’s  reestablished partnership with the country’s largest abortion-provider,  Planned Parenthood, “a group whose goals and activities are in direct  opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church on the sanctity of  human life.””

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Post Racial President? Uh, no.

From USNews

“Four years after Barack Obama was elected president, this is not exactly a “post-racial” America.

A new study from Washington University in St. Louis finds that under Obama, many black Americans feel less free than whites when it comes to political participation.”

“The study found that while the election of Obama initially boosted feelings  of political empowerment among black Americans, those sentiments  significantly faded in the years that followed—especially among  conservative and religious blacks.”

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32 thoughts on “News/Politics 10-18-12”

  1. When I say this please understand that I had an aunt who died from breast cancer, an aunt who is a survivor, and another aunt who had pre-cancerous tissue removed. My grandfather and my dad died from cancer. I probably run a strong risk of deveoping cancer from the fertility drugs I took. NOW: I am about over all the pink ribbons and Komen for the Cure and the pink firetrucks and all the other breast cancer awareness merchandise. I feel like the quest for the cure has become big business. I would be interested to know how much of the “pink” actually helps women with breast cancer.

    Also could someone please explain to me the stigma attached to breast cancer? I don’t get that. Cancer is cancer. Little known fact-MEN can also get “breast” cancer!

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  3. I agree with what Kim said. In addition, I do remember reading that any tom-dick-or-harry can put the pink ribbon on his product without actually ever supporting the cause.

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  4. KBells, the world is indeed watching. A Christian has to avoid all the appearance of evil. Billy Graham had men search his hotel rooms before he entered, lest he be set up. The world doesn’t care about Bill Clinton and Ed Kennedy, but they are after anyone they can trash who is a Christian.

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  5. The Komen Foundation took a big hit with PP. Not only has it become big business, but it is also very political. Once the curtain was lifted on that many quit going pink and rightly so.

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  7. You don’t go to a meeting of Southern Baptist leaders toting a fiancee and have her spend the night in your room, then say, “nothing happened,” like a teenager–particularly when you have a perfectly good wife in California. There are so many problems with this scenario that he should step down just because it looks improper.

    He’s the president of a Christian college, even assuming the college would overlook the divorce, he’s setting a poor example to the students he supposedly is leading.

    I, for one, get so tired of hearing Christian “leaders” behaving poorly that I wish they would all just disappear. We all know how difficult it is to live a godly life and it must be so much more difficult in the public eye.

    Tempting fate, however, is always a poor idea. He must have known what he was doing and didn’t care. That doesn’t show much respect for anyone in this story.

    But then, all I know is what I read in World.

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  8. KBells, D’Souza has made a credible case for his behavior and for the deviousness of the highly judgmental WorldMag article accusing him of blatant adultery. The truth is that Olasky has a serious ax to grind against D’Souza.

    It appears that WorldMag has made a disgraceful rush to judgment.

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  9. A male friend of ours died last week from complications of breast cancer. It’s important that all of us check ourselves–though I doubt many men have been asked to have mammograms.

    I’ve indicated in the past that all the pink in October disturbs me–I lost an aunt and a cousin to breast cancer five years ago and I should not have that reminder shoved in my face every time I go to the grocery store.

    Komen is in free fall–that’s what happens when you wobble. I should have quoted the verse for my post above, but it’s true in both of these cases: “He who is faithful in little is also faithful in much.”

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  10. “Marvin Olasky, the editor of World, is the former provost of the King’s College. Olasky was on the search committee when I interviewed to be president, and he vehemently opposed my candidacy. Olasky publicly admitted that he was resigning his position as a consequence of my appointment. The reporter who wrote this story, Warren Smith, also used to work as a consultant for King’s until I decided not to renew his contract. And what was Olasky’s gripe against me? As he put it, I was seeking to make King’s a non-denominational “mere Christianity college” in the image of C.S. Lewis. This for Olasky was simply intolerable. Having nursed his grievance for two years, now apparently Olasky is using World to continue his vendetta.”

    This is what D’Souza says in the article posted by Kbells. I have no idea if what he says is true or not. But if it is, then Smith should not have taken that story. No professional journalist would. I have never been too impressed with World’s “Professionalism.”

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  11. I’ve now read Kbells link. I have to ask you now, though, who in their right mind would become the president of a Christian college if they were separated from their wife? Does he not know the Scriptures? Should he not have held his marriage of more importance than a job?

    Forgive me those of you who are divorced, but I’m sorry, I think a divorce in Christian leadership is a disqualifier. If you cannot manage the household God has put you in charge of, how can you effectively lead a college which has a spiritual component?

    This just tells me he does not hold marriage in high regard. The Christian church has a real problem, spiritually as well as in the eyes of the world, because we seem to condone divorce.

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  12. Michelle, the claim that D’Souza shared a room in Charlotte was made by the WorldMag reporter. D’Souza claims that he is not conducting a sexual affair with his affair with his girl friend and that they had separate rooms in Charlotte.; further that his wife in California initiated their separation two years ago when D’Souza was appointed head of Kings College in New York.

    World Mag has rushed to judgment on this, a big mistake knowing that Olasky resigned from King;s College when D’Spouza was appointed president.

    In my view both the WorldMag article and the righteous attack on D’Souza is highly unchristian.

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  13. D’Souza comes off as self-absorbedly naive in what he wrote, while Smith comes off as a liar on Olasky’s dime. Bitter roots, when thay have grown, cause trouble and defile many.

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  14. Assuming D’Souza’s side of the story is true, it still looks bad for him. And if indeed he did disclose that he and his wife were separated (and apparently headed for divorce), the college should never have hired him.

    And no, it is not a good idea to be engaged when one is separated but not divorced! Seek reconcilation. Stay single if reconciliation doesn’t happen, unless you have biblical cause for divorce.

    Whatever the facts, the whole thing is ugly. (I have read D’Souza and respect him, so I say that in grief and not solely in judgment. It is wrong, of course; it is also sad.)

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  15. I was sorry to hear about the D’Souza story, I appreciated the book he wrote some years ago on the positive marks on history that the Christian faith had made. But now, unfortunately in this case, he’s become more widely known due to the 2016 film (which I have not seen) — it’s a political year and it was, seemingly, a controversial and very political film.

    Something sounds odd about the whole thing, and I agree — if there was a marital separation at the time of his appointment, it should probably have been viewed as an issue of concern by those who were hiring him.

    And it does seem clear that he was introducing the other woman as his “fiance” (while he is/was still married), which raises legitimate questions since he is in a position of Christian leadership.

    Life is messy.

    I also am growing weary of all the pink ribbons EVERYWHERE. (And I was disappointed to see that an attraction in town is giving a certain portion of its admission fees to the Koman group this month; ugh — guess I’ll make sure I don’t go until November).

    I don’t think I noticed all the pervasive “pink” in October until Michelle began mentioning it a couple years ago, but now every time I go to the grocery store, I have to punch the “no” thing saying I’m not interested in giving a dollar for the cause today. I’ve even seen clothing with the symbols on it. I’m all in favor (who isn’t) of fighting breast cancer, spreading awareness and putting money into continued research.

    But I guess the growing October “campaign” with all the frills and bells and whistles just strikes me as a little strange.

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  19. Either way this will look bad for the Christian community. Either a high profile conservative Christian is an adulterer or the another one is a vindictive liar. The world would love to see one or both of these men fall and will gloat.

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  20. I went by the polling place today, not to vote, but to get a sample ballot. Elvera needs one, and she is at a church function.
    The line is about 150′ long. Longest I’ve ever seen for early voting.

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  22. If I vote early–not that it’s a possibility here–would I stop getting all these annoying phone calls? 😦 Grrrrrr. I can’t imagine how people in Ohio are surviving this.

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  23. Michelle, I already voted and we are still getting the phone calls. Early voting began in my county on Monday and my son and I voted on Tues. There was not a line around 10:00 a.m. when we went. It was at a new site for early voting so maybe not too many people are aware of it. I really expected more of a crowd.

    I do feel like there is something fishy about the D’Souza story. And now he has resigned. There is a nice prayer posted at World from the Board of Directors. You know how NY seems a bit like CA, in a world of its own (sorry to say that CA friends). Maybe D’Souza got caught up in the NY and Hollywood standards and he lost his bearings. God alone knows the complete story. It seems pretty sad all the way around at this point. I am thinking about the students who are my son’s age and how difficult it must be for them to process.

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  24. I know three women with breast cancer at this time, but I don’t know that any of them has ever mentioned feeling stigmatized. Quite they opposite, they all have commented on the good support they have received from their communities.

    My complaint about all the pink stuff everywhere is that it gives the impression that breast cancer is the number one cause of death in women, when it’s not even the number one cancer killer of women. That’s either uterine or cervical cancer [I’ve forgotten], but breasts are more glamorous than either [and Susan G. Koman had a sister who knew a lot of PR people], so breast cancer gets more attention. Heart disease kills about ten times as many women as cancer, but only seems to get attention one day a year, when the American Heart Association promotes the “Wear Red for Women Day,” which is widely ignored. And I don’t see a lot of red kitchen gadgets, office supplies, or professional athletes changing their uniforms for it, either.

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  25. I wasn’t gonna post this story. Random posted a link, I read it, and some others. I thought it a very sordid affair, with questionable behavior by all parties. I didn’t want to appear to have some grudge against World by bashing them. And honestly, I think they deserve some bashing for it. The same goes for D’Souza, I mean really dude, how could you think this was kosher? You know better, so does Marvin and WC Smith. Buncha boneheads.

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  26. I was just grocery shopping at Publix and saw their new reusable shopping bags have the pink ribbon design on them. I really like the ones that have “Food to Share” on them more. My mother had breast cancer (but did not die from it) so you would think I would be more sympathetic to all the pink ribbon merchandise. I liked it at first but then it was like our nation OD’ed on it. Too bad we don’t have pink and blue ribbon merchandise to save the lives of all the babies who are aborted.

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  31. Wow, the World/D’Souza situation is quite a mess.

    Perhaps D’Souza’s marital situation was in fact one of the causes for friction between him and Olasky at The King’s College, rather than only theological/denominational issues.

    It does seem like both sides are at least partly in the wrong here – although I have a hard time seeing where D’Souza is at all in the “morally” right even if he was legitimately wronged by World. I mean, engaged before divorce? WTH? Does his divorce even have Biblical grounds? Is it even likely that it does, given the situation with Ms. Joseph and the fact that his wife was the one who asked for separation – I don’t know what that implies?

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  32. RW: That was an interesting read. The following is particularly revealing:

    As Carter did with Khomeini, Obama was prepared to view the Muslim Brotherhood as a “moderate” organization, rather than educate himself on the forces that were actually taking over all the demonstrations across the Middle East. The only protests that Obama did not back were the anti-Islamist ones that took place in Iran in June 2009 surrounding the elections.

    In other words, it is the job of the United States to support movements that most strive for Western values, while remaining steadfast against those that want to destroy the West. One could say that, in fairness to Carter, there had been no precedent for the rise of radical/political Islam when he became president; whereas Obama has had the benefit of decades of hindsight to know about this phenomenon. It is this fact that leads many to conclude that Obama actually sides with those radical forces.

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