What’s interesting in the news today?
First up, an American has been arrested in the UK for calling homosexuality a sin. From FoxNews
“An American evangelist said he was arrested and interrogated about his Christian faith after he was caught on a London sidewalk preaching that homosexuality is a sin.
Tony Miano, a retired deputy sheriff and former chaplain with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept., was charged with “using homophobic speech that could cause people anxiety, distress, alarm or insult.””
“I talked about women addicted to romance novels, men addicted to pornography, people with lustful thoughts, heterosexual fornication and homosexuality,” Miano told Fox News. “When I mentioned that the Bible was clear that homosexuality is a sin, a lady walked by and she glared at me and hurled the f-bomb.”
Miano said the woman came back a short time later and began to videotape his sidewalk sermon. Then, she called the police.”
Don’t think this isn’t coming here soon.
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Another scandalous development in the ongoing State Dept. sex scandals. From TheDailyCaller
“A State Department officer has been accused of selling visas for sex and money in what may have been a massive human trafficking operation, The Daily Caller has learned.
The State Department acknowledged last week that one of its officials is the target of a probe over “allegations of improprieties relating to a Consular Officer formerly assigned to Georgetown, Guyana” without providing further details. Local media are also claiming the official, who was recently withdrawn from normal duties pending completion of an official investigation, associated with drug lords as part of his visa scam.
The scandal began when executives and tourists complained that their visa applications were being held up, and local media began reporting that a visa official was demanding bribes and sex in exchange for visas.”
This is in addition to another where an ambassador is alleged to have solicited underage prostitutes.
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This one isn’t shocking. Most of the media has been in the pro-abortion camp for a long time now. They certainly don’t want people seeing the truth about what a 20 week old baby in the womb looks like. Because it looks human, and exposes the lie that it isn’t yet. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act goes against everything they’d like you to believe. From LifeSiteNews
“A national pro-life organization is outraged after three major American newspapers rejected a pro-life ad as “too controversial.”
The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the LA Times refused to run an advertisement created by Heroic Media.
The ad features a hand holding a 20- to 24-week-old baby with the quote, “This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours. Speak Up.”
Heroic Media Executive Director Joe Young said he was shocked and angered that the media outlets were willing to talk about the issue but were unwilling to show the reality of life at 20 weeks.”
Here’s the ad in question. You can click it for a larger version, or visit their website https://www.heroicmedia.org/20weeks
So what’s so “controversial” about it?
Nothing, except the truth.
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The White House and their mouthpiece did lots of squirming yesterday. They just can’t admit it was a coup in Egypt. Why? Well because if they do, they’ll be forced to follow US law and pull all aid to the country. From Politico
“The White House is taking its time to determine whether the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was a coup because of the potential fallout from calling it one, press secretary Jay Carney said Monday.
“I’m being very clear with you … this is a complex and difficult issue with significant consequences,” Carney said during his daily briefing, the first since Egypt’s military ousted Morsi nearly a week ago. Calling the action a coup could cut off more than $1.5 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid for Egypt.
But the Obama administration is reluctant to cut off aid. “We think it would not be in the best interests of the United States” to change its aid program at this time, Carney said. Asked if that would mean the administration would be cutting off aid in the near-term, Carney repeated his response: “we think that would not be in our best interests.””
Oh please, since when are they ever concerned with following the law in this admin?
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Who’s up for a “Summer of Recovery II” update? From TheWashingtonExaminer
“Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider.
Friday’s disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. The report also showed another disturbing fact: There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs.
Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing.”
And from CNSNews
“The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.
That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of full-time private sector workers in the U.S.”
The Recovery is a myth.
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Wandering Views 
A long excerpt from a World article entitled, “Holding the Line”. It’s about the treatment of Christians in the military. I had heard about this before, but not to this extent. This is serious business and we don’t hear about it in the media.
Likely because it’s no big deal in the MSM.
Apparently, the military does not welcome Christians today.
“They expect us to check our religion in at the door—don’t bring that here,” Lee said. “Leaders like myself are feeling the constraints of rules and regulations and guidance issued by lawyers that put us in a tighter and tighter box regarding our constitutional right to express our religious faith. … Pray that we will be able to weather the storm.” Lee received five standing ovations.
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Last December Congress passed a similar amendment to safeguard the religious beliefs of service members. But President Barack Obama, when he signed the larger bill into law, said the protections were “unnecessary” and “ill-advised.” Six months later the Obama administration has refused to issue regulations to enforce the protections. At a congressional hearing this spring, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel seemed to be unaware that the protections were in the law.
The Obama administration issued a statement on June 11 saying it “strongly objects” to a new religious liberty amendment: It would have a “significant adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale and mission accomplishment.” The Administration did not object to an amendment offered last month by Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., that would create atheist chaplains. That amendment lost, but 150 House Democrats voted for it.
How bad is the military environment? Reports of the influence of Mikey Weinstein, who met with officials at the Pentagon and has called religious proselytizing “a national security threat … sedition and treason … spiritual rape,” are probably exaggerated. But Major John Sackett, an Air Force chaplain, told me at the conference that Air Force chaplains like himself have “fear of retribution. … I often ask, ‘Will what I need to say now actually get me in trouble?’”
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Obama clamis to be a Christian. Everything he says and does contradicts that statement.
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As much as I believe it to be true, I can’t see the purpose of standing on a street corner and preaching that homosexuality is a sin.
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Standing on the street corner is a time-honored method of delivering opinions or protests. Rights are like muscles: use ’em or lose ’em. 😉
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oops, I’m not really anon, but forgot to sign in. 😦
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This would make an interesting election. I would watch the debates.
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Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who Sunday announced his candidacy for New York City comptroller, says he wants to help shape the city’s budget and work on Wall Street accountability.
And in a bizarre twist, Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 after it became known he frequented prostitutes, will be running against libertarian Kristin Davis, the former Manhattan “Madam” who ran the high-class prostitution ring used by Spitzer and other high-powered clients, Breitbart reported.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/spitzer-prostitution-ringleader-comptroller/2013/07/08/id/513816?s=al&promo_code=14181-1#ixzz2YYBRWk8i
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Linda, it’s not my style either.
But let’s face it. Free speech has often caused people “anxiety, distress, alarm or insult.”
I’ve heard some pretty nasty things said about Christians, but I’d never suggest people in our country not be allowed to freely express those ideas.
Start yanking selected people out of the public square who say something that offends someone and that’s going to be a problem for everyone’s guarantees of freedom of expression. Bad precedent.
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I guess I should have been more clear. I’m not talking about free speech or folks right to express their opinions. Rather, as a Christian, if your goal is to reach the lost, it doesn’t seem like a good move to me.
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Hyde Park corner is a notorious spot for standing up and saying whatever you want. Perhaps he was there?
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I’ve seen James White do some street corner stuff. Some of those instances generated decent discussions with passers-by. Same with the occasional campus visits. The ‘rabid’ street preachers get nowhere.
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He was outside of wherever it is that the Wimbledon Tennis Championships are. He was with a group called Sports Fan Outreach International, which evangelizes sports venues all over the place, including the Super Bowl.
http://www.sfoi.org/
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Sex/drugs/money/blackmail for visas has been done before and shouldn’t be tied to an administration or even country. People take advantage of the desperate.
The only reason the minister was taken in for questioning was based on a complaint. I highly doubt a cop would take the initiative but once a complaint has been filed they need to iact. London preachers are notorious for saying just about anything so this is an anomaly driven by a spurious complaint. If the pastor had complained about the f-bomb directed his way by the lady, then the roles/arrest would be reversed. Really difficult to make a generalization from this. The other issue may have been the location …. outside of a public sports event, in English common law you can be cited for disturbing the peace when interfering with public enjoyment of an event. Essentially there is a time and place for everything.
Initially I was surprised to hear the media reject the ad. I’ve seen similar in Cdn media and Canada is far more pro-choice than the US. But in thinking about it, I really shouldn’t have been surprised, the America media does not like to offend what they deem the consensus. I’ve heard of leftist groups being denied ad time and space for ads that might offend corporate media owners and corporate sponsors/advertising. The US media seems to stay away from anything that might upset somebody. Hence the focus on the Khardasians I suppose.
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Speaking of the US media, some here might like this cartoon
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/08/1221246/-The-important-questions#
Yes, its the daily kos but I think the left and right in America can agree on the NSA and the media.
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“But in thinking about it, I really shouldn’t have been surprised, the America media does not like to offend what they deem the consensus.”
If that were true, they’d have no problem with the ad.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/154838/pro-choice-americans-record-low.aspx
“The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as “pro-choice” is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty percent now call themselves “pro-life,” one point shy of the record high, also from May 2009.”
They won’t run it because it doesn’t fit their agenda or jive with their personal beliefs. Biased is the word that fits best.
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Anon…. their personal bias tells them its a controversial subject which may result in even greater failing sales. In the abortion debate, the way to not upset the applecart is to not get involved.
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Humorous cartoon, hwesseli. I would think it’s FOXnews they’re spoofing, but the woman’s jewelry is modest pearls and her neckline is above the navel— otherwise it’s spot on. 🙂
The real issues are much bigger than Left or Right. Big money plays both sides against the middle and we are left wondering why we can’t seem to fix things. And no matter who we put in office, we still seem to be sliding closer to real tyranny.
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