Florida Chaplain Says Hospital Fired Him for Saying ‘Jesus’ in Prayers
Thursday , August 30, 2007 A Florida hospital chaplain says he was fired from his position for including the word ‘Jesus’ at the end of his prayers, according to report on MyFOXOrland.com Reverend Danny Harvey, who worked for the Leesburg Regional Center for more than seven years, claims to be the victim of religious discrimination after he says the hospital staff forced him to resign from his post. Click here to view report on MyFOXOrlando.com Hospital officials deny any discrimination against Harvey and said that his departure was brought about because his services were not consistent with center’s various faiths. Louis H. Bremer Jr., LRMC president and chief executive officer, said in a statement: “The interpretation many Christians are getting is that prayer is completely banned from the hospital, which couldn’t be further from the truth.” “It would be very appropriate to say Jesus’ name in the presence of a Christian family. That’s no problem,” Bremer said in the statement. “What must be understood is knowing the audience and what is appropriate for that particular situation.” Hospital chaplains regularl offer comfort to patients and/or their famiies through scriptures and prayers. If the person was a different faith, a representative of that faith would be contacted, according to officials. “I would approach a family and offer them the chance for me to pray for them, but they have the option to say no,” Harvey told the Daily Commerical. “I have never imposed my beliefs on others.”
County Pays For Refusing To Allow Christian Message in Public Parks
Liberty Counsel
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT – 800-671-1776
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 28, 2007
Orlando, FL – This morning, the Orange County Board of Commissioners approved a settlement between the county and Shirley Snyder, a local resident who was prohibited from giving religious material to willing recipients in a public park. Liberty Counsel agreed to drop the federal lawsuit it filed last month, because Orange County has agreed to not stop Snyder from sharing her Christian message in the county parks. As a result of the lawsuit, the county amended its regulations to allow literature distribution in all county parks. The settlement includes the payment of damages for the county’s actions against Snyder.
The lawsuit was the result of an incident in April when Snyder was at Cypress Grove Park in Orange County. She was sharing pocket-size tracts about Jesus Christ and flyers inviting people to an Easter service. Snyder was told by a county employee that she must stop distributing the items. County officials insisted that she could not distribute anything again until she obtained county permission.
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit against the county on behalf of Snyder on July 20. After a hearing was scheduled in federal court, the County agreed to stop enforcing its unconstitutional policy against Snyder and agreed that she was free to distribute religious materials in the park without prior approval. Snyder has returned to the park to share her faith with others.
Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: “Of all places, speech in public parks is highly protected, both by history and by the courts. Our liberty is only as vibrant as our resolve to defend it. Had Shirley Snyder not protested her constitutional violation and had Liberty Counsel not demanded it, her freedom of speech would be a mere shadow that fades with the evening sun.”
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Democrats Hope America Loses?
The Democrat leadership believes failure by our troops in Iraq — the central front in the War on Terror — is essential for them to win elections in 2008…
…and that any positive sign of progress in Iraq is simply a “problem” for them.
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, driven by polls and politics, declared “This war is lost,” even before the President’s new strategy began. Reid also has bragged, “We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.”
And Democrat House Majority Whip James Clyburn said that a positive report in September from General Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker would be “a real big problem for us (Democrats).” Meaning the Democrats’ desire for an arbitrary troop withdrawal — and their party’s 2008 electoral fortunes — would be in jeopardy if our troops succeed.
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Evangelical Christians in Mexico Increasingly Persecuted by ‘Traditional Catholics’
Evangelical Christians in Mexico Increasingly Persecuted by ‘Traditional Catholics’
Evangelical Christians are increasingly attacked by “traditional Catholics” in a southern Mexican state, according to a persecution watchdog group.
by Michelle Vu, Christian Today US Correspondent
Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 7:34 (GMT)
Evangelical Christians are increasingly attacked by “traditional Catholics” in a southern Mexican state, according to a persecution watchdog group.
In the indigenous region of Chiapas state, traditional Catholics – following a blend of Catholicism and native religious practices – are more frequently being accused of various acts of religious intolerance against protestants, such as “threats, intimidation, and robbery or expulsion from their communities, or death,” reported Alfonso Farrera, director of the National Bar of Christian Lawyers, to Compass Direct News.
In total, the bar says it has records of 200 cases of unresolved religious intolerance against evangelical Christians in Chiapas state, while incidents of persecution are “accelerating daily in the indigenous regions.”
Many of the conflicts arise from community leaders demanding evangelicals pay quotas for Catholic festivals, according to Compass. Some Evangelicals have said that though they are willing to cooperate in community projects, they refuse to fund religious festivals involving drunkenness and immoral behaviour.
Common complaints by Evangelicals include local leaders cutting off the water supply or being denied benefits from government programmes because of their faith.
Evangelical families are also often threatened with expulsion from their properties because they do not share in the faith and lifestyle of the town.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Felipe Arizmendi, has denied ties with the “traditional Catholics”.
Arizmendi declared that the “so-called traditional Catholics, who do not depend on our diocese, do not take into account the Bible nor the laws of this country, but are governed by their own agreements and traditions,” according to Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper on February 8.
Protestant Christians in other states besides Chiapas have also reported persecution by indigenous groups and by traditional Catholics. Christians living in indigenous regions in the central state of Hidalgo are among those who have reported harassment because of their faith.
According to the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission, persecution of protestant Christian is likely the result of Mexico’s association of Protestantism with America. Traditional Mexicans view Protestant Christianity as a threat to their culture, tradition, and Catholic faith, especially given the number of Mexicans in recent decades that have changed to evangelical Christianity after reading the Bible.
Mexico is composed of 89 per cent Roman Catholic and only six per cent Protestant.
Has Fidel Castro Assumed Room Temperature?
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The Religion of Peace???
Muslim families in Turkey are forcing women to kill themselves for what???
When wrong boyfriends or clothes lead daughters to kill themselves
Families in Turkey accused of forcing young women to take their own lives
Helena Smith in Batman
Thursday August 23, 2007Nuran Uca never made it to 61 Aydin Arslan Street. If she had gone to the colourful two-storey building, climbed its narrow stairwell, walked down a corridor and sat in the plump brown armchair that so many other women had used, she might be alive today. There, with counsellors from the Kam-er support group, she could have talked about the “crime” of falling in love with a man she could never marry.
Instead, on June 14 the Kurdish woman succumbed to the phenomenon that is claiming lives in this Kurdish area of south-east Anatolia: she hanged herself in the bathroom of her home.“She was just 25 but it was especially tragic because both were teachers, educated people,” said Remziye Tural at Kam-er, the women’s organisation that has become a lifeline in Turkey’s poor south-east for those who face death because of a perception of dishonour. “She was modern and wore tight clothes – which is why his family rejected her. She was banned by her parents from seeing or speaking to him, and then they stopped her leaving the house. In the end the pressure was too much.”
Despite the searing heat, Ms Tural is dressed for work in a pink T-shirt, combat trousers and boots.
On the streets of Batman, a city with a population of 250,000, an alarming number are harbouring suicidal thoughts, and acting on them.
Across Turkey, men are twice as likely as women to take their own lives, but, defying that trend, more than 300 women in Batman have attempted suicide since 2001. Seven women died in almost identical copy-cat deaths in one month alone.
The rising number of suicides has brought schoolgirls marching in protest to Batman’s cemetery crying “stop the violence”, a courageous act given the conservative mores in Batman.
“The numbers are increasing,” said Ms Tural. “By June this year, 19 had tried to take their lives and most were successful. That’s just in Batman. All over, in villages and towns, young girls are committing suicide.”
There were those who had jumped into the River Tigris, others who had fallen off rooftops or cut their wrists, and some, like Nuran Uca, who had opted to end their lives abruptly as they were doing chores around the house.
Invariably, survivors said it was their kader, or destiny, to meet such an end.
But women’s groups and human rights advocates believe the suicides are tantamount to murder. Stories have emerged of girls as young as 12 being locked in rooms for days with rope, poison or a pistol.
“There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that these are, in fact, ‘honour killings’ passed off as suicides – that these girls are being forced to take their own lives,” said Aytekin Sir, a psychiatrist who has studied the practice. There is no evidence that Nuran Uca’s family forced their daughter to kill herself.
Last year, Yakin Erturk, a special UN envoy, arrived at the same conclusion, saying “honour suicides” had clearly begun to replace “honour killings”, with the deaths increasingly being disguised as accidents.
Death sentences
For a long time the potent forces of fear and shame in the communities stopped young women visiting the Kam-er centre on Aydin Arlsan Street. But recently at least four girls a day have gone there, often in fear of death sentences issued by their fathers and brothers for infractions perceived to have brought shame on their families.
Nearly one-fifth of those who walked through the doors of the organisation since it started up in 1997 complained of threats from their families. Some had received text messages on their mobile phones saying typically: “You have blackened our name. Kill yourself or we will kill you.”
According to Vildan Aycicek, at the organisation’s headquarters in the city of Diyarbakir, west of Batman: “Women apply to us when they think they cannot survive the violence any longer. Most are illiterate and don’t know their legal rights. If they do, they have no idea how to use them.”
There had, she said, been cases of Kurdish and Turkish women calling Kam-er’s hotline from Britain and other countries saying they also feared for their lives. Worldwide, the numbers of “honour killings” are notoriously difficult to estimate. But in Turkey the vengeful practice is cited by academics as the cause of death for hundreds of women each year – far above the official annual figure of 70. Sometimes adultery, or a woman’s desire for divorce, prompts an all-male “family council” to order a killing.
But the list of “offences” is long: rape, incest, pregnancy brought on by both, a girl ringing into a radio chat show, exchanging eye contact with a boy or wearing a skimpy shirt. Sometimes accusations are no more than rumours.
One villager near Diyarbakir explained the attitude of his home area. “Without rules you have chaos,” said Seyikan Arslan. “If my sister or my mother made a mistake we [men] would have to make it right. They would have to pay to cleanse our honour.”
Few places demonstrate the clash in Turkey between east and west, between tradition and modernity, better than the towns of Anatolia. Both Diyarbakir and Batman, the site of Turkey’s first oil refinery, have seen a surge in migration from desperately poor rural areas.
The culture clash has played a large part in exacerbating tensions within families and particularly between patriarchal fathers and their female offspring. “Migration is behind the big rise in honour and suicide killings,” said Dr Sir, whose research found that support for the deaths far outstripped other popular penalties such as a woman having her nose sliced off or head shaved.
European hopes
Ironically, the suicides have also been blamed on Turkey’s efforts to stop “honour crimes”. With Ankara’s reforming Islamic-rooted government determined to enter the EU, it has toughened laws against the killings. Lenient sentences for those who cite provocation as a mitigating factor are no longer possible. So, to save men from a life in prison, experts believe families are instead forcing women to kill themselves.
“Often there is about two months between a killing being ordered and it taking place. That gives us time to save a woman,” said Ms Aycicek, mentioning the “intervention” teams of activists, police, imams and government officials set up to tackle the practice.
Yet, despite these measures, some deny the prevalence of this revenge.
“A lot of this talk about honour killings is aimed at showing Kurds as primitive and savage,” said Bawer Ucaman, at Diyarbakir’s chamber of commerce.
Absent from the campaign in Batman has been the mayor, Huseyin Kalkan, who was awarded damages by DC Comics after a lawsuit over the use of his town’s name for the superhero Batman. That money, activists point out, could be used to save women like Nuran Uca.
Jacksonville Jaguars Gives Planned Parenthood Abortion Business $30K Grant
I have always been and will be a Miami Dolphins Fan. When Jacksonville received their NFL Franchise I thought that would be a great thing, until I learned that the NFL would make Orlando the Jaguars’ as a home team market. No more Dolphins games on my TV! From that time on I’ve been saying that Los Angeles NEEDS a NFL team, and I’d love to see the Los Angeles Jaguars become a fact!
Now I see this (below) about the Jacksonville Jaguars giving an aborting group (yes, Planned Parenthood the murders of pre-born babies) a $30,000.00 grant!
Jacksonville Jaguars – get out of Florida!
August 23, 2007
I hope you will take a moment to read a very important news alert from our friends at LifeNews.com, then take the recommended action at the bottom of the article. Jacksonville, FL (LifeNews.com) — With the start of football season just weeks away, millions of Americans are purchasing tickets and T-shirts to support their favorite teams. However, the Jacksonville Jaguars have given their fans one less reason to support the team, because its foundation has given a grant to the nation’s largest abortion business.
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Ford ups gay support with more cash donations
Ford ups gay support with more cash donations
Just announced by Human Rights Campaign, Ford Motor Company donates $25,000 to aid group in its fight to defeat a Federal Marriage Amendment.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest homosexual activist organization, is acclaiming Ford Motor Company as its top-tier sponsor of an upcoming October 6 “Gala Dinner” in Washington, DC.
HRC uses event sponsorships to fund their agenda, and is largely recognized as the frontline political lobbying group for homosexual marriage in America.
In addition, the Seattle, Washington branch of HRC announced a separate $5,000 sponsorship donation from Ford Motor Company.
Here’s a partial list of Ford’s 2007 track record in support of homosexuality:
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* The Bush Administration’s efforts to cover up the North American Union:
Myths, Facts — Truth By Tom DeWeese
* Brannon Howse Interviews Phyllis Schlafly On The North American Union & How It Will Destroy Our Economy and Sovereignty
* The North American Union is Really a Debate Over Political Ideology
* North American Competitiveness Council, Super NAFTA Highway, Conspiracy or Real Threat to US Sovereignty
* Lou Dobbs of CNN Says The North American Union is Part of The New World Order and The Plan of The Ruling Elite
Item #1
The Bush Administration’s efforts to cover up the North American Union:
Myths, Facts — Truth by Tom DeWeese
http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/1110/Tom_DeWeese
Item #2
The North American Union
By Kerby Anderson
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Item #3
Brannon Howse Interviews Phyllis Schlafly On The North American Union & How It Will Destroy Our Economy and Sovereignty
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The North American Union is Really a Debate Over Political Ideology
By Tom Deweese
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North American Competitiveness Council, Super NAFTA Highway, Conspiracy or Real Threat to US Sovereignty
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
Guest(s): John McManus and Thomas Fitton, President, Judicial Watch
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Lou Dobbs of CNN Says The North American Union is Part of The New World Order and The Plan of The Ruling Elite
http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/1425/
11 Reasons To Teach Biblical Doctrine
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All it Takes For Secular Humanism To Triumph is For Good Christians
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MoveOn Launches Localized ‘Cost of War’ Campaign
The anti-war group MoveOn launched a campaign on Thursday to highlight the cost of the Iraq war for individual congressional districts. MoveOn hopes the plan will motivate the districts’ residents to petition their representatives to vote for a troop withdrawal.
The global warming myth is getting out of hand!
Fox News is reporting that so-called artist Spencer Tunick had hundreds of people pose nude on one of Switzerland’s Glaciers, and for what? To promote the lie of global warming!
The Fox News story can be found here: Hundreds of People Pose Nude on Switzerland Glacier to Raise Awareness About Climate Change
Jackie Mason Vlog 47 Karl Rove; The Most Innocent Criminal
What did Karl Rove do to deserve so much hate from the left? How did this Intelligent, humble, easy going guy from Texas become one of the most hated men in America?
Church in Dallas refuses to bow down to homosexual pressure
August 15, 2007 Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your entire email list of family and friends. Church in Dallas refuses to bow down to homosexual pressure Dear Ric,
There is a battle taking place in Dallas. It is a battle trying to force a church to lower their Scriptural standards to meet homosexual demands. When High Point Church refused to allow their building to be used in a memorial service celebrating homosexuality, the homosexuals became very upset and started a campaign of harassment and public ridicule aimed at High Point. If those pushing the homosexual agenda get their “hate crimes” bill passed into law, this is only a sample of what churches, pastors and Christians can expect. Click here to read the news article about this situation. Click here to read the church’s statement regarding their refusal to bow down to the homosexual demands. Sign the petition of support for Pastor Gary Simons and members of High Point Church thanking them for taking a stand for Biblical standards and refusing to bow down to activist homosexuals. If you think our efforts are worthy, would you please support us with a small gift? Thank you for caring enough to get involved. Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your family and friends. Sincerely, 
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