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Let the Jewish people be warned

2012-02-19T12:21:00.003Z

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The Baby Who Had Died in the Womb Came to Life and Was Born

2012-02-19T11:52:00.002Z

Sana Khan (Pakistan)

When a Pakistani woman came to her doctor again, the doctor said, "It's miraculous. I had run ultrasound tests on her many times. The fetus had been dead with no pulse. I don't know how on earth he could come to life."

In November 6, 2011, the mother didn't feel any movement of her baby in her womb. She had ultrasound tests. The result showed that the fetus died and she had to have immediate surgery. But she attended Lahore Divine Healing Crusade held in Pakistan on November 9 without receiving the surgery.

Speaker Pastor Taesik Gil, who came from Daejeon Manmin Church, South Korea, prayed for the sick on the stage with the handkerchief on which Dr. Jaerock Lee had prayed (Acts 19:11-12). She received the prayer with earnest heart with her hands on her abdomen. She felt hot and cool at the same time. Then, she came to feel her baby's movement again!

On the next day, November 10, the ultrasound retest results indicated normality in her baby's heartbeat and on November 11, she delivered her healthy baby. Hallelujah!

She now has been increasing her faith by listening to Dr. Lee's sermons through Isaac TV (President: Pastor Anwal Pazal).

It's About Sex

2012-02-19T01:55:00.001Z

In the conflict between the Obama administration and the Catholic church over mandated contraceptive coverage in health insurance policies, it’s easy to understand the motivations of the church. Catholics object to artificial contraception—and to abortifacients and sterilization, reimbursement for which is also mandated—as a matter of doctrine, owing to their beliefs about the dignity of the human person.

The church’s allies—evangelical Christians, Tea Partiers, and other non-Catholic conservatives—are motivated by a conviction that, theology aside, the Obamacare edict forcing the church to pay for procedures it finds morally objectionable is an unconstitutional trespass on the free exercise of religion.

But what is it that motivates those on the left? Why do they care so deeply about the kind of insurance coverage Catholic employers provide? It’s not as if NARAL and Planned Parenthood devotees are heavily represented in the workforce of Catholic institutions. And you don’t see petitions from leftwing pressure groups calling on the church to provide better dental and vision coverage, or mental health benefits.

Which would, as a pragmatic matter, be much more helpful for more of the workforce than the contraceptive mandate. No, for the left, the fight isn’t about social justice or the proper scope of the state. It’s about the contraceptives. It’s about sex.

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Obama's gay days surface for a little while

2012-02-18T16:29:00.002Z

Via Zippers

'Very Religious' People Have Highest Level of Wellbeing, Gallup Survey Finds

2012-02-17T19:56:00.002Z

Christian Post Reporter

A new Gallup report released Thursday indicates that those who are highly religious have a higher wellbeing rating than those who are moderately religious or nonreligious.

The most recent report in the Gallup poll "Wellbeing" series finds that highly religious individuals have the highest level of wellbeing, even after numerous demographic and geographic variables were controlled.

During the survey, researchers took into account the age, gender, socio-economic status, and where the respondent lived.

They also factored in the variables of marital status and whether or not the individual had children.

In light of these controlled variables, highly religious people scored the highest wellbeing index score of 69.2, while moderately religious people scored a 63.7 and nonreligious people scored a 65.3. Nonreligious people fell in the middle of the wellbeing range.

Researchers conducted 676,000 telephone interviews from Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2011, phoning all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C.

Each participant was asked two questions, the answers to which pooled them into one of three groups: highly religious people, moderately religious people, and nonreligious people.

Highly religious people, which comprised 41 percent of the adult population, were defined as those who said "religion is an important part of daily life and church/synagogue/mosque attendance occurs at least every week or almost every week."

Moderately religious people made up 28.3 percent of those questioned, and 30.7 percent said they were non-religious.

The study is one part in a multiple part series which compares the total wellbeing of religious and nonreligious people in America.

The series' previous studies have reported that highly religious people overall have better emotional health and physical health.

The study did not identify a precise reason why highly religious people exhibit the highest level of wellbeing. It suggests that perhaps the social networking which accompanies a religious congregation, the amount of time spent meditating, faith in a higher power, and the religious mechanisms for dealing with worry and loss can all reduce stress and promote happiness.

It also suggests that perhaps the conclusion is reversed, and individuals with a higher wellbeing seek religious institutions.

"It is possible that Americans who have higher wellbeing are more likely to choose to be religious than those with lower wellbeing, or that some third variable could be driving certain segments of the U.S. population to be more religious and to have higher wellbeing," the report stated.

Gallup research will continue its survey series, studying further factors that indicate a relationship between wellbeing and religion.

Obama unites Catholics . . . . . . against him

2012-02-15T12:47:00.002Z

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Obama has done what the Pope cannot, he has united Catholics. Most Catholics think Obama stinks as president. 59 percent of Catholics don’t approve of his job performance. Yup, the same Catholics who are responsible for Obama, now disapprove.

In what is the first major public measurement of the Catholic backlash Obama faces, a new Rasmussen poll finds 59 percent of Catholics don’t approve of his job performance. That poor standing with one of the major electoral constituencies that Obama needs this November may make it more difficult for him to win a second term.

“Catholics strongly disapprove of the job President Obama is doing as the debate continues over his administration’s new policy forcing Catholic institutions to pay for contraception they morally oppose,” notes pollster Scott Rasmussen in the new survey. “While the president’s overall job approval ratings have improved over the past couple of months, they have remained steady among Catholics.”

The new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of likely Catholic voters nationwide at least somewhat disapprove of the president’s job performance, while 40% at least somewhat approve. But the passion’s on the side of those who don’t like the job he’s doing: 44% Strongly Disapprove versus 19% who Strongly Approve.

According to the survey, 54 percent of Catholics voted for Obama in November 2008. However, Republican hopeful Mitt Romney currently leads the president among Catholic voters by a 52% to 35% margin. Among all voters, however, President Obama leads Romney and all Republican hopefuls.

It seems Obama is a uniter not a divider after all.

How to destroy a Nation: Hire marxists to take down non-state media

2012-02-15T12:36:00.002Z

Catholic Democrat Stands up to Obama

2012-02-14T19:34:00.000Z

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Rep. Dan Lipinski, a Catholic Democrat from Illinois, has come out against the so-called Obama "compromise."

This is good news because like it or not we needed some cover on this. Because as left leaning as some of the bishops are, they, as a group, are often slammed as right wing nutjobs. Our talking heads can point to Lipinski as proof that this isn't just a right wing witch hunt.

Lipinski nails it with his statement:

"I am enormously disappointed by today's announcement. All the facts indicate that the 'new' mandate is the same as the 'old' mandate. New words, same policy.

"Our understanding of the new policy is now limited to a Fact Sheet put out by the White House. This document says 'Religious organizations will not have to provide contraceptive coverage or refer their employees to organizations that provide contraception.'
But the health care law says that all employers must provide health insurance for their employees or pay a penalty. And according to the White House these same insurance plans that employers must provide 'will be required to provide contraception coverage to these women free of charge.' So religious organizations have to provide health care coverage from insurance companies that are required to provide abortion drugs, sterilization, and contraception. What changed? This is the same policy.

"We need a rule that protects religious liberty by allowing employers to provide health insurance coverage that does not include abortion drugs and other services that violate their conscience and religious doctrine. Instead we got a so-called compromise that is no compromise at all and provides no options for those with profound religious and moral objections to providing these services.
To say that the insurer and not the employer is required to provide the coverage is a fiction. There is no accommodation for religious liberty. The rule remains coercive and still violates the long-standing tradition of protection for conscience rights in federal law."

Lipinski, you might remember, voted against Obamacare.

I'm glad to see this. We need all the voices we can in this country speaking out for religious liberty. And make no mistake about it, I'm sure Lipinski's hearing it from his party right now.

Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey laughably released a statement Friday saying he was thinking about it. I'm thinking he's running a poll to see what is expedient for him right now.

Obama proposes $800 Million to Arab Spring Renewal

2012-02-13T21:03:00.000Z

Medical Doctors dissect Darwinism

2012-02-13T18:58:00.003Z

Catholic bishops to Obama: Good try but no cigar

2012-02-13T13:54:00.000Z

When it comes to mandatory contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the nation's Catholic bishops won't budge an inch.

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, initially said he would study President Obama's newest variation of the requirement. That didn't last long. Now, it's no sale unless the mandate is lifted from any person of faith who objects to facilitating contraception coverage for employees.

The bishops' position is essentially unchanged from what they said in August through their general counsel Anthony Picarello when they blasted the requirement that private insurance plans cover contraception, calling the mandate "unprecedented in federal law and more radical than any state contraceptive mandate."

They criticized the narrow "religious employer" exception to the mandate, explaining that it provides "no protection at all for individuals or insurers with a moral or religious objection to contraceptives or sterilization," instead covering only "a very small subset of religious employers."

The bishops called the plan "nationwide government coercion of religious people and groups to sell, broker or purchase 'services' to which they have a moral or religious objection." They said the plan represents "an unprecedented attack on religious liberty."

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Piers Morgan gets schooled on the Second Amendment

2012-02-13T00:44:00.002Z