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  (WorldNetDaily)  David Kupelian, author of the recently released blockbuster "How Evil Works," will be featured this Sunday on an internationally televised documentary titled "Lies That Silence Christians."

A new DVD production produced by Coral Ridge Ministries, the documentary is being introduced in three weekly installments broadcast at the end of "The Coral Ridge Hour," which airs Sunday mornings on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and other networks (check local listings for air times).

This weekend`s production, the third and final in the series, includes Kupelian discussing the segment`s main topic – the oft-repeated but deceptive notion that "You can`t legislate morality."

Watch it now!

  (LifeSiteNews)  More than 176 abstinence education programs will lose funding for their outreaches to youth and young adults on September 30 because Congress and the Obama Administration canceled all grants going to abstinence-centered programming in their FY2010 budget.

The funding cuts will come even though the Obama administration was forced to reveal the results of a new study on Monday showing the effectiveness of abstinence education programs and the support parents have for them.

  (Family Research Council)  There are two key reasons why the legal rights, benefits, and responsibilities of civil marriage should not be extended to same-sex couples.

The first is that homosexual relationships are not marriage. That is, they simply do not fit the minimum necessary condition for a marriage to exist--namely, the union of a man and a woman.

The second is that homosexual relationships are harmful. Not only do they not provide the same benefits to society as heterosexual marriages, but their consequences are far more negative than positive.

Either argument, standing alone, is sufficient to reject the claim that same-sex unions should be granted the legal status of marriage.

  (Christian Post) The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is pushing back against fellow African-American Christians who have accused her of hijacking the civil rights movement for her own political agenda – namely to protect the unborn.

"It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hijacking the King legacy," Dr. Alveda King said in a statement Thursday. "My dad and my uncle gave their lives to ensure that the day would come when blacks would be judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. If they were here, I know they would stand with me in this fight for the lives of those most vulnerable among us."

  (Christian Post)  LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, has received a five million-dollar gift to establish an endowed scholarship fund for home-schooled students.

The gift, which came from an anonymous donor, was announced Wednesday by LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford at the university convocation and is believed to be the single largest endowment for home-school scholarships ever established.

  (OneNewsNow)  Internet`s largest social networking website has introduced a new geo-location service though which its 500-million users can share their whereabouts in real-time from a mobile device.

Facebook has rolled out a new locator application to its U.S. users that has an Internet watchdog group concerned. The site maintains, however, that users are in control of what they post and the people with whom they share. They can choose whether to share their location and can only inform friends if their settings allow it.

Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough Is Enough, warns that even though the application uses special privacy provisions for minors under 18, parents need to be aware that teens often befriend people on Facebook that they do not know.

  (Christian Post)  North Korea executed three leaders of the underground church and jailed 20 other Christians, reported a news agency focused on Asia.

Although the execution and imprisonment happened in mid-May, news only got out this month.

According to AsiaNews, North Korean police raided a house in Kuwal-dong in Pyungsung county, Pyongan province, and arrested all 23 believers who were gathered there for religious activity.

The leaders were sentenced to death and soon after executed. The other 20 were reportedly sent to the infamous prison labor camp No. 15 in Yodok. The 23 Christians had come to faith after some of them traveled to China on business and met with church members there.

  (The Guardian)  Terminally-ill patients would be well advised to find out the religious beliefs of their doctor, according to research showing the effect of faith on a doctor`s willingness to make decisions that could hasten death.

Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to take decisions that might shorten the life of somebody who is terminally ill as doctors who are deeply religious – and doctors with strong religious convictions are less likely even to discuss such decisions with the patient, according to Professor Clive Seale, from the centre for health sciences at Barts and the London school of medicine and dentistry.

"If I were a patient facing end of life care, I would want to know what my doctor`s views were on religious matters – whether they are non-religious or religious and whether the doctor felt that would influence them in the kinds of decisions they were looking at," said Seale.

(AP)  More than 100 leaders of religious groups are urging Congress to reject legislation that would prohibit them from hiring only fellow believers if they accept federal funds.

Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says taxpayers shouldn`t fund religious charities that discriminate against nonbelievers in hiring.

But officials from Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish groups argue that while they serve people of any religion, it`s the shared faith of their employees that motivates and defines their mission.

(Houston Chronicle)  The most recent survey of parents by the National Center for Education Statistics found that families primarily opted to home school because they wanted to provide religious or moral lessons to their children. Other top reasons include parental concerns about safety, peer pressure and the academic instruction at traditional schools.

(Forbes) “There is one surprising area where young people differ from their elders about homosexuality. Since the pollsters started asking about it in the late 1977, the number saying homosexuality is something one is born with has been growing. But today, more young people than older ones believe it is a lifestyle choice. In May 50% of 18-29 year olds told CBS News pollsters that being homosexual is something people choose to be; 47% said it was something a person couldn’t change. Among those 65 and over, however, 25% said it was a choice, 55% said it was something that couldn’t be changed.”

(LifeSiteNews)  While religious leaders have been warning about the moral effects of the modern pop music scene for decades, now even some leaders of the industry are expressing their concern. Today record producer Mike Stock told British media that he believes children are being “sexualized” by popular culture.

“The music industry has gone too far. It`s not about me being old fashioned. It`s about keeping values that are important in the modern world. These days you can`t watch modern stars - like Britney Spears or Lady Gaga  - with a two-year-old.”

“Ninety-nine per cent of the charts is R `n` B and 99 per cent of that is soft pornography,” he added.

(LifeSiteNews)  Mexico City Chief of Government Marcelo Ebrard and other members of his party have filed complaints against several representatives of the Catholic Church in Mexico for "homophobia" and "moral damage" following criticisms of the city`s new homosexual "marriage" and adoption laws.

  (Associated Press)  The lawyers who successfully sued to overturn California`s gay marriage ban are indicating they plan to recover attorney`s fees if the verdict is upheld on appeal.

(LifeSiteNews)  Up to $600,000 will be awarded by the Gerard Health Foundation`s during its 2009-2010 Life Prizes awards ceremony on January 22, 2011. The awards will recognize and honor individuals or organizations that have worked to save human lives.

"Our Foundation has a profoundly simple mission: to save lives," stated philanthropist Raymond B. Ruddy, founder of the Gerard Health Foundation. "Life Prizes works to honor those who have best accomplished this noble goal and to inspire the next generation to break the mold in their life-saving work."

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How will my same-sex marriage hurt your marriage?
Unfortunately, the question is not only about the impact of the homosexual unions.  Same-sex marriages would eliminate the difference between male and female, which would affect us all.  Those who support same-sex marriage are asking society to permanently alter the definition of a family.

Other questions:

Is same-sex marriage like interracial marriage?
Where does it stop?
Can’t we all just get along by having religious marriage and civil marriage?What public good does marriage provide?
Is it healthy to subject children to experimental families?But haven’t medical and psychological groups said that same-sex parenting is fine?How do we know what kind of families children need?Is the same-sex family about the needs of the children or the wants of adults?
Does gender really matter?

  (OneNewsNow)  A ministry leader says a high school in Michigan is conforming to President Obama`s political correctness and Islamic sentiments by altering its schedule to accommodate its Muslim students.

Fordson High School in Dearborn is holding its football practices in the middle of the night in order to give special accommodation to Muslims on the predominantly Islamic squad. The team feels the nocturnal regimen is a way for players to eat and drink while observing the month of daytime fasting known as Ramadan. The August heat has also played a factor in Coach Fouad Zaban`s proposal to reverse the clock for a week of two-a-day practices.

(OneNewsNow)  While a California school district is seeing a boom in interest in a controversial educational philosophy that goes back more than 100 years, at the same time it`s fighting a lawsuit over whether the system is legal in public schools.

California`s capital city offers two Waldorf-inspired public schools -- John Morse Waldorf Methods School (K-8), and the high school George Washington Carver School of Arts and Sciences. The Sacramento City Unified School District now is facing a trial in federal court on allegations that those schools are religious, making them ineligible to receive taxpayer dollars.

(Christian Post)  Somalia’s underground Christian community is asking fellow believers worldwide to pray for their safety during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan.

The tiny Christian population is regularly persecuted by Islamic extremists. They are requesting that fellow Christians pray they can live in peace with their Muslim neighbors. Ramadan began Aug. 11 and ends on Sept. 9.

“We are called criminal and apostate. What is our crime? We are Christians! We suffer because of what we believe,” said a Somali Christian, whose name is withheld for security reasons, to Open Doors USA.

(LifeSiteNews)  According to Tom Jensen, director of the North-Carolina based Public Policy Polling (PPP), polls finding that a majority of Americans support homosexual "marriage" cannot be trusted because Americans are sometimes hesitant to state their position before a live interviewer who may judge them to be intolerant.

Earlier this month a CNN poll found that 52% of Americans thought that homosexuals should have the constitutional right to marry; 46% said the Constitution should not give that right.

Public Policy Polling`s latest survey however, found that 57% of Americans think that same-sex "marriage" should be illegal, while only 33% think it should be legal and 11% have no opinion.

The difference between the two polls, according to Jensen, springs from the fact that CNN and other major polling organizations use live interviewers, while Public Policy Polling uses an automated system.

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