Freedom of Worship Part II

This post is a continuation from here.

The Justices ruled in the District:
Mojave's cross won't have to get licked.
If the ruling did not
Have the outcome we got
Would Arlington have to evict?

(Help us all, O Lord!)

Defend Us In Battle

Defend us in Battle, O Lord!
Your Wisdom's more valued than gold!
With Your Church as our guide
With Your Spirit inside,
Your vict'ry o'er death makes us bold!

Welcome Joe (Defend Us In Battle)!

Cathorick Comments 4-29-2010

Here are some comments I left elsewhere on the web:
(the location of the each comment is linked on the first line)

(1)
It's not just by Parks and by Stowe
That Blacks were more free from Jim Crow.
John Woolman did fight
To bring t'ward the light
The evils that slav'ry bestows.

(2)
This Cathorick blog is a pleasure
To read in all types of the weather.
It takes just a minute
To come and begin it.
So click on the link for some treasure.

(3)
It’s not only Dillon that’s writing
Some news in this form so delighting:
I’ve done it for weeks.
Will anymore geeks
Come over to browse? I’m inviting.

Freedom of Worship

(1) Supreme Court Shakily Upholds Mojave Cross Display 5-4
(2) U.S. Court: National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional
(3) Why “Freedom of Worship” Is Not Enough

I wonder what George would now pen.
His head would hang low, but still then
He'd be praying for days
When we've sailed better waves
In this ship Nature's God made for men.

The Condom and Pill Make More People Ill

(1) Boston University, at the instigation of its president, John Silber, has assumed management responsibilities for the Chelsea School District. One thing the School District decided to do was to distribute condoms to high school students in order to save lives threatened by AIDS. Edwin J. Delattre, dean of BU's School of Education, gave a speech urging that the decision be reversed. In the course of his remarks he cited the following report from the Richmond Times-Dispatch: “Dr. Theresa Crenshaw, a member of the national AIDS Commission and past president of American Association of Sex Education Counselors and Therapists told a Washington conference of having addressed an international meeting of 800 sexologists: ‘Most of them,' she said, ‘recommended condoms to their clients and students. I asked them if they had available the partner of their dreams, and knew that person carried the virus, would they have sex, depending on a condom for protection? No one raised their hand. After a long delay, one timid hand surfaced from the back of the room. I told them that it was irresponsible to give advice to others that they would not follow themselves. The point is, putting a mere balloon between a healthy body and a deadly disease is not safe.'“ Delattre comments: “I want all of our students in Chelsea to know what is at stake here—and, above all, what lies in their power alone, not ours, to accomplish decisively in the way of saving lives. I want them to know that betting your life—or letting someone else bet your life—on a condom is a gamble that only one in eight hundred experts on sexual behavior is willing to risk, and that if our own students behave otherwise, they make a mockery of their stated commitment, expressed over and over again in this room, to saving lives. And I want all the students who have taken it upon themselves to distribute condoms in Chelsea High School to know that this is the gamble they have invited their classmates to take—and this, in a community where health officials themselves express fear over current levels of AIDS in the population.”
(For a copy of the complete address, write Dean Delattre, School of Education, Boston University, 605 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.)

(2) A medical trial published in the journal AIDS in 2009—monitoring HIV progression by the need for antiretroviral drugs (ART)—saw “the risk of becoming eligible for ART was almost 70% higher in women taking the pills and more than 50% higher in women using DMPA [Depo-Provera] than in women using IUDS.

The Condom and Pill Make More People Ill

The fact that more sex is now giv'n
Won't stop all the bugs that are driv'n
By all that are sure
There will be a cure;
More doctors should voice their misgiv'ns.

Misgivings 'bout condoms and pills
Give some in the world lots of chills
(1) Since th'alternative's full
Of a life without pull.
How else would they get all their thrills?

(2) Since they think there's enough
Of us people, our stuff.
What else cuts down breeding 'cept* kills?

*'cept = except

Black Republican Not Oxymoron

Black Minister Forms PAC to Break Dems Party's
'Death Grip' on Black Community

Michael Steele Tells Blacks: You Don’t Have a Reason to Vote Republican

Old DNC was for enslaving
Republicans were for the paving
T'ward freeing of slaves:
Old Lincoln (R) made waves
Then the owners went ranting and raving.

Afro. Am's think the Democrats give
Their community more chances to live:
But the Donkeys say cheers
To abortion and queers.
Their offspring get screwed and outlived.

(DNC = Democratic National Convention)

Marriage is neither a conservative nor a liberal issue; it is a universal human institution, guaranteeing children fathers, and pointing men and women toward a special kind of socially as well as personally fruitful sexual relationship. Gay marriage is the final step down a long road America has already traveled toward deinstitutionalizing, denuding and privatizing marriage. It would set in legal stone some of the most destructive ideas of the sexual revolution: There are no differences between men and women that matter, marriage has nothing to do with procreation, children do not really need mothers and fathers, the diverse family forms adults choose are all equally good for children. What happens in my heart is that I know the difference. Don't confuse my people, who have been the victims of deliberate family destruction, by giving them another definition of marriage.

Walter Fauntroy-Former DC Delegate to Congress Founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus Coordinator for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march on DC

and

...36 percent of babies aborted are black, while blacks make up 17 percent of live births[.]...

DFLA Long Shot

From DFLA email:

Day 1 - Inform and Reflect

Pro-life House Democrats who voted for the Republican-opposed health care bill are being targeted for defeat by the far right, despite these Democrats having histories of near 100% ratings by mainstream pro-life groups.
Due to these same Democrats' work on advancing the Hyde Amendment within the health care law and their history of near 0% ratings by NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the like, abortion advocates on the left are working overtime to see that these House members are at least challenged in primaries, if not defeated outright.

Based on the distortions promulgated by each side, the right and the left both claim that one cannot be pro-life and a Democrat. We know better!

Today, DFLA offers you information on the contents of the health care reform law specially intended to be concise, neutral, and devoted to fact, not driven by ideology or some supposed prophetic insight as to the outcome of all this. We invite you to arm yourself with facts so that you can speak out against disinformation and incivility. We also hope to encourage you to persevere as a pro-life Democrat and even to increase your activity in the Party and in your community in promoting our "whole life" ethic.

If there is only one party having a voice for the unborn, our nation will return to the stalemate we saw in the decades prior to the resurgence of pro-life Democrats in the late 2000's. Don't let it happen!

From the Kaiser Family Foundation: their new
Summary of the New Health Care Reform Law

From FactCheck.org, a service of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania : The Abortion Issue: What are the facts regarding the new health insurance law's federal funding for abortion, or lack of it?

From Politifact.com, a service of the St. Petersburg Times, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Miami Herald newspapers:

Rep. John Carter says health care law provides full federal funding for abortions, but that's not so
We invite your comments or requests for more information. Look for two more emails to follow during Pro-life Democrats Days. We need your support, thoughts, and prayers more than ever! Thank you.

The bill says the States can opt out
Of abortion the Fed's will pass out
If it's there in the print
Why can't some get th'hint
Something's fishy in all this (no doubt).