Media reporting of the Culture of Life...a sign of the apocalypse???

I was catching up on some reading recently and came across the November 13, 2006 issue of Newsweek, which was titled, A New Social Gospel. Most of the articles within focused on the fact that, although the Democrats took control of the House and Senate, religion plays an important role in society today. There are a couple of articles that were of great interest to me.

One of these articles was titled, Church Meets State. The subtitle, however, seemed to express the thorn in the side of Democrats regardless of their gains. The subtitle was: The left often complains that evangelicals have too much influence in American life. The reality is that the agenda of Democrats conflicts with that of the majority of the American people. Evangelicals, and in this case we can probably interpret this term to mean most main-line Christians including Catholics (this is a RARE instance in which I group Catholics with evangelicals), by and large support Culture of Life issues and issues of morality. Let me give a couple of examples:

With regards to Gay Marriage, the article said: ...the right has been been very successful at the state level - there are now only five states withough some kind of ban on gay marriage... (Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2006, p39).

This is very telling because it goes on to say that the same type of amendment fails to get the 50+ votes needed in the Senate for a federal amendment. What that says to me is that the federal government plays their own politics and passes their agenda instead of the will of the people.

Another example is on birth control and sex ed. The left promotes the use of birth control and believes it should be the focus of sex ed. Of course, they take this stance because two of their biggest supporters are Planned Parenthood and major pharmaceutical companies who produce various forms of birth control. The evidence that evangelicals are winning this battle, however, is stated in this article saying: "the right has been wildly successful in expanding the use of sex ed programs that promote abstinence until marriage..."

These are just a couple of points that this article discussed and which seemed to show that the Democrats may have control of the House and Senate, but if they fail to listen to the moral and ethical beliefs of the evangelical voters, they may find that majority in Congress short-lived come 2008. Until next time...God bless.

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#1  15 January 2007 - 21:01

 

Prolifers are stronger than we were in the 70's, but the enemies of God still own most of the courts. The Democrats will make this situation worse, if they can.

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