Monday, August 27, 2012
Porn Harms Executive Director Speaks On Enforcement of Hardcore Porn Laws Now A Goal of Republican Party - www.PornHarms.com
http://pornharms.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PornHarms The GOP is changing it's platform to include enforcement of obscenity (hardcore pornography) laws, not ONLY child pornography laws.
To learn more about The War on Illegal Pornography and existing federal obscenity (hardcore pornography" laws, visit our website www.WarOnIllegalPornography.com.
Articles about this:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/gop-platform-calls-for-crackdown-on-all-for...
http://dcist.com/2012/08/republican_platform_cracks_down_on.php
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/gop-anti-porn-plank-platform_n_18338...
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pornography-now-targeted-in-gop-platform/
Our press release about this:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 27, 2012) -- A change in the Republican Party Platform to target illegal adult pornography, rather than only child pornography, is a positive development that will protect children, as well as families from the scourge of hardcore pornography, according to Morality and Media.
"Distribution of obscene or hardcore pornography on the Internet is a violation of current federal law," explained Patrick A. Trueman, president of MIM. "Yet, most children in America have free access to obscene pornography as soon as they learn how to use a computer. The average age of first exposure to obscene Internet pornography is now eleven," Trueman said.
The new language replaces previous platform wording, which only opposed child pornography. It will now read, "Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced." Trueman noted that current federal obscenity laws not only prohibit distribution of hardcore pornography on the Internet but also on hotel/motel TV, on cable/satellite TV, and in retail shops.
"We are most grateful to Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council who led the effort to get the tough new language into the platform," said Trueman. "Without enforcement of federal obscenity laws, pornographers have had a green light to target our children and families," he added.
America is suffering an untreated pandemic of harm from pornography, which touches nearly every family in America. Research shows that children and adults are developing life-long addictions to pornography; there is a very substantial increase in demand for child pornography because many adult-porn users are finding that they are no longer excited by adult images; on average four out of five 16 year-olds now regularly access pornography online; 56% of divorces cite Internet pornography as a major factor in the breakup of the marriage; girls consuming pornography are several times more likely to engage in group sex than those who do not; significant and growing numbers of men in their twenties are developing "porn-induced sexual dysfunction."
In 2010, Morality In Media initiated The War On Illegal Pornography coalition, a program to get federal laws on adult pornography vigorously enforced. This came after repeated attempts to influence the U. S. Department of Justice to enforce existing obscenity laws, which were passed by Congress and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. MIM's broad, bipartisan coalition of 127 national, state and local groups has gained the support of nearly half of the U.S. Senate and many members of the House. Trueman adds, "Family Research Council is one of the most active participants in the coalition. Tony Perkins' leadership has contributed to much of our success over the past two years."
To learn more about The War on Illegal Pornography and existing federal obscenity (hardcore pornography" laws, visit our website www.WarOnIllegalPornography.com.
REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM CHANGE TARGETS ILLEGAL ADULT PORNOGRAPHY
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 27, 2012) – A change in the Republican Party Platform to target illegal adult pornography, rather than only child pornography, is a positive development that will protect children, as well as families from the scourge of hardcore pornography, according to Morality and Media.
“Distribution of obscene or hardcore pornography on the Internet is a violation of current federal law,” explained Patrick A. Trueman, president of MIM. “Yet, most children in America have free access to obscene pornography as soon as they learn how to use a computer. The average age of first exposure to obscene Internet pornography is now eleven,” Trueman said.
The new language replaces previous platform wording, which only opposed child pornography. It will now read, “Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced.” Trueman noted that current federal obscenity laws not only prohibit distribution of hardcore pornography on the Internet but also on hotel/motel TV, on cable/satellite TV, and in retail shops.
“We are most grateful to Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council who led the effort to get the tough new language into the platform,” said Trueman. “Without enforcement of federal obscenity laws, pornographers have had a green light to target our children and families,” he added.
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Obama to Palestinians: Delay Statehood Until Election Over
The Obama administration has asked the Palestinian Authority to delay
its bid to unilaterally declare a state at the United Nations until
after November’s presidential election, a senior PA official told
KleinOnline.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the request was passed to PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ office by the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem earlier this month.
The official said the PA has not yet made a decision about the timing of its application with the U.N. General Assembly for accepting “Palestine” as a non-member state. The official, however, did indicate Abbas is inclined toward waiting until after the U.S. presidential election.
Any U.N. push by the PA prior to the election would thrust the Obama administration into the position of having to deal with the U.N. statehood question in the middle of an election.
Last September, the PA failed to secure enough votes to declare a state at the U.N. Security Council after the U.S. played a key role in scuttling the statehood attempt. The PA pledged to take a similar request to the General Assembly, where it expects to garner the support of more than 130 countries.
Any General Assembly recognition of a state would be considered mostly symbolic. Still, it would be a step toward possible future Security Council approval which would grant full recognition of a state.
The U.S. and Israel oppose the declaration of a Palestinian state outside the framework of direct negotiations between both parties.
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The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the request was passed to PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ office by the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem earlier this month.
The official said the PA has not yet made a decision about the timing of its application with the U.N. General Assembly for accepting “Palestine” as a non-member state. The official, however, did indicate Abbas is inclined toward waiting until after the U.S. presidential election.
Any U.N. push by the PA prior to the election would thrust the Obama administration into the position of having to deal with the U.N. statehood question in the middle of an election.
Last September, the PA failed to secure enough votes to declare a state at the U.N. Security Council after the U.S. played a key role in scuttling the statehood attempt. The PA pledged to take a similar request to the General Assembly, where it expects to garner the support of more than 130 countries.
Any General Assembly recognition of a state would be considered mostly symbolic. Still, it would be a step toward possible future Security Council approval which would grant full recognition of a state.
The U.S. and Israel oppose the declaration of a Palestinian state outside the framework of direct negotiations between both parties.
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Wheaton's Birth Control Mandate Suit Dismissed
A federal judge has dismissed Wheaton College's lawsuit against the Obama administration's health care mandate.
The mandate requires religious groups to provide
contraception coverage in their health insurance plans, even if it
violates their beliefs.
The judge threw out Wheaton's suit after the
government altered an exemption to include the college. That exemption
gives religious institutions one year to comply.
The government said it will re-do the mandate to protect religious freedom before the exemption expires.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty represented Wheaton in the case
Syrian refugees top 200,000 as exodus grows-UN agency
GENEVA — More than 200,000 Syrians have poured into neighboring
countries in the course of its 17-month-long conflict, with a recent
surge pushing the total past the 185,000 the U.N. refugee agency had
expected to flee by the end of this year.
The total reflects an increase of about 30,000 in the past week alone to Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan but also includes those awaiting registration in Jordan, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
“There has been a dramatic increase in the number of refugees in the region during August,” spokesman Adrian Edwards said in Geneva on Friday, adding that the agency expected to issue new contingency planning figures by around mid-September.
Turkey continues to see the largest refugee influx, with more than 74,000 registered as of Wednesday, Edwards said.
More than 3,500 people fleeing violence in Syria have entered Turkey over the past 24 hours, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate said Friday, one of the highest daily flows since the start of the uprising.
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The total reflects an increase of about 30,000 in the past week alone to Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan but also includes those awaiting registration in Jordan, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
“There has been a dramatic increase in the number of refugees in the region during August,” spokesman Adrian Edwards said in Geneva on Friday, adding that the agency expected to issue new contingency planning figures by around mid-September.
Turkey continues to see the largest refugee influx, with more than 74,000 registered as of Wednesday, Edwards said.
More than 3,500 people fleeing violence in Syria have entered Turkey over the past 24 hours, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate said Friday, one of the highest daily flows since the start of the uprising.
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Women are being 'cheated' by Fifty Shades
Fifty Shades and the Twilight series may be some of the most popular
books around today but Dr Rosalie de Rosset says they have nothing to
offer women
“Mummy porn” book Fifty Shades of Grey is the book everyone is talking about. Once a social taboo not to be broken, E L James’s erotic novel about a woman who becomes sexually dominated by a mysterious man has ended the stigma and blushes that would it once would have stirred.
For Dr Rosalie de Rosset, professor of literature at Moody Bible Institute, the success of books like Fifty Shades and the Twilight series represents a frustrating trend among today’s women towards impoverished pop fiction with “flat” characters – particularly the female characters – and “theologically bankrupt” stories.
Even Christian literature in her view leaves a lot to be desired, consisting mainly of “Jesus fixes everything” scenarios that do not reflect anything like the complexity and depth of real life.
“They are not well written and they are not theological,” she says.
Dr de Rosset has just published a new book, “Unshaken and Unseduced”, that is challenging Christian women to reject “cotton-candy” novels for the more rewarding classics of English literature. Her book is peppered with quotes from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
What is it about these characters Dr de Rosset so admires? The heroines have “dignity”, she enthuses.
“Everywhere I go, Christian and non-Christian women absolutely love Elizabeth Bennett and Jane Eyre. But that stands in such contradiction to their behaviour, to their demeanour, and to what they end up expecting as goals and outcomes of their lives,” she laments.
“It seems to me that what every woman really wants is a D’Arcy and Rochester, but what they don’t understand is that coming up with men like that involves who you are too.”
She explains further: “It is the very restraint Jane Eyre has and the very ability she has to turn Rochester down when it’s not appropriate for her to be with him. She waits it out. And it’s Elizabeth’s ability to assess D’Arcy and say ‘there are things I don’t like about you at all’.”
Sadly, whilst many women aspire to be like Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennett, in real life – with all its temptations and distractions – many women just “don’t think it’s doable”, Dr de Rosset says, and they “let their standards slip”.
In addition, bad ‘chick lit’ and even Hollywood rom-coms are causing women to have unrealistic expectations about life – and love. By not reading good quality books, women are missing out on an education that could help them confront their own life challenges and relate to other people in different circumstances, particularly hardship or suffering.
Dr de Rosset explains: “When you look at popular fiction, it is action driven. The question is: what is going to happen next? The question with classic literature is always: why did this happen.
“We cannot experience everything on our own, nor could we know how to deal with what we are experiencing. The [classics] have so many levels of teaching that help us to understand another human being and we can key in and have compassion because we have understood what that was even though it was not our experience.
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“Mummy porn” book Fifty Shades of Grey is the book everyone is talking about. Once a social taboo not to be broken, E L James’s erotic novel about a woman who becomes sexually dominated by a mysterious man has ended the stigma and blushes that would it once would have stirred.
For Dr Rosalie de Rosset, professor of literature at Moody Bible Institute, the success of books like Fifty Shades and the Twilight series represents a frustrating trend among today’s women towards impoverished pop fiction with “flat” characters – particularly the female characters – and “theologically bankrupt” stories.
Even Christian literature in her view leaves a lot to be desired, consisting mainly of “Jesus fixes everything” scenarios that do not reflect anything like the complexity and depth of real life.
“They are not well written and they are not theological,” she says.
Dr de Rosset has just published a new book, “Unshaken and Unseduced”, that is challenging Christian women to reject “cotton-candy” novels for the more rewarding classics of English literature. Her book is peppered with quotes from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
What is it about these characters Dr de Rosset so admires? The heroines have “dignity”, she enthuses.
“Everywhere I go, Christian and non-Christian women absolutely love Elizabeth Bennett and Jane Eyre. But that stands in such contradiction to their behaviour, to their demeanour, and to what they end up expecting as goals and outcomes of their lives,” she laments.
“It seems to me that what every woman really wants is a D’Arcy and Rochester, but what they don’t understand is that coming up with men like that involves who you are too.”
She explains further: “It is the very restraint Jane Eyre has and the very ability she has to turn Rochester down when it’s not appropriate for her to be with him. She waits it out. And it’s Elizabeth’s ability to assess D’Arcy and say ‘there are things I don’t like about you at all’.”
Sadly, whilst many women aspire to be like Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennett, in real life – with all its temptations and distractions – many women just “don’t think it’s doable”, Dr de Rosset says, and they “let their standards slip”.
In addition, bad ‘chick lit’ and even Hollywood rom-coms are causing women to have unrealistic expectations about life – and love. By not reading good quality books, women are missing out on an education that could help them confront their own life challenges and relate to other people in different circumstances, particularly hardship or suffering.
Dr de Rosset explains: “When you look at popular fiction, it is action driven. The question is: what is going to happen next? The question with classic literature is always: why did this happen.
“We cannot experience everything on our own, nor could we know how to deal with what we are experiencing. The [classics] have so many levels of teaching that help us to understand another human being and we can key in and have compassion because we have understood what that was even though it was not our experience.
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2,400-plus youth turn to Christ at Falls Creek summer camps
AVIS, Okla. (BP) -- While this summer has seen record temperatures
across the country, records of eternal significance have been recorded
in Oklahoma.
A record 2,469 professions of faith were made by students attending camp at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, along with 1,277 students who recorded decisions involving a special call to Christian service. In the last week of camp alone (July 23-27), 331 professions of faith were recorded. Overall, 6,595 decisions of various types were recorded this summer.
"Those aren't just numbers, that's Kingdom impact," said Andy Harrison, Falls Creek program director and Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma student ministry specialist.
Other decisions made during this summer's eight weeks of camp included assurances of salvation (287), restorations (2,014) and special needs (548), although full-time campers totaled 41,191, down from last year's 42,961, while total attendance slipped to 52,978 from 57,541.
"We have seen students deal honestly with what God has been telling them," said Todd Sanders, Oklahoma Baptist student leadership strategist.
"It is always exciting to see students respond to Christ in all areas of camp, whether through the short film 'Lone Pass' in our morning teaching times, in our missions areas, in the evening services, in their cabins, in small groups, in one-on-one conversations, at night or during the day," Sanders said.
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A record 2,469 professions of faith were made by students attending camp at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, along with 1,277 students who recorded decisions involving a special call to Christian service. In the last week of camp alone (July 23-27), 331 professions of faith were recorded. Overall, 6,595 decisions of various types were recorded this summer.
"Those aren't just numbers, that's Kingdom impact," said Andy Harrison, Falls Creek program director and Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma student ministry specialist.
Other decisions made during this summer's eight weeks of camp included assurances of salvation (287), restorations (2,014) and special needs (548), although full-time campers totaled 41,191, down from last year's 42,961, while total attendance slipped to 52,978 from 57,541.
"We have seen students deal honestly with what God has been telling them," said Todd Sanders, Oklahoma Baptist student leadership strategist.
"It is always exciting to see students respond to Christ in all areas of camp, whether through the short film 'Lone Pass' in our morning teaching times, in our missions areas, in the evening services, in their cabins, in small groups, in one-on-one conversations, at night or during the day," Sanders said.
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Church Closes Doors on Sunday and Becomes the Great Commission: Trading the good word for good deeds
Sherri Kadlec won't be attending Hillside Church of Bloomington on
Sunday, but she'll still be at church. She'll just be picking up litter
strewn around school yards and parks as a form of service.
Kadlec's church and four other congregations in Bloomington are canceling regular worship services to do charitable works in an effort to show they're living out the do-good messages they preach.
Nearly 1,000 people from Bethany, Emmaus, Evergreen, Garden Community and Hillside evangelical churches plan to help their neighbors by painting houses, picking up trash, cleaning school playgrounds and public parks, offering free vehicle oil changes to single parents and hosting a basketball clinic.
"It's kind of breaking the mold, getting outside of the church and connecting with people," said Carl Nelson, president of Transform Minnesota, a network of nearly 160 evangelical churches helping to organize the event. "We're really serious about our faith and willing to step out and just simply serve people, no strings attached."
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Kadlec's church and four other congregations in Bloomington are canceling regular worship services to do charitable works in an effort to show they're living out the do-good messages they preach.
Nearly 1,000 people from Bethany, Emmaus, Evergreen, Garden Community and Hillside evangelical churches plan to help their neighbors by painting houses, picking up trash, cleaning school playgrounds and public parks, offering free vehicle oil changes to single parents and hosting a basketball clinic.
"It's kind of breaking the mold, getting outside of the church and connecting with people," said Carl Nelson, president of Transform Minnesota, a network of nearly 160 evangelical churches helping to organize the event. "We're really serious about our faith and willing to step out and just simply serve people, no strings attached."
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This Is How an ‘Anti-Slavery Crusade’ Led to the Creation of the Republican Party
In was in the 1800s that the modern-day Republican Party’s roots were
set. In analyzing the movement’s history, a fact that is sometimes
overlooked is that anti-slavery sentiment and the overarching battle to
extinguish the institution were at the center of the so-called Grand Old
Party’s (GOP) platform.
In fact, it was this epic battle — one that threatened to split the United States of America into two parts — that very literally led to the political party’s formation.
Over the weekend, CNN’s Tom Foreman delved into the GOP’s unique history, providing a brief recap of how it all took form:
In the tumultuous mid-1800s, right before the Civil War, some political activists were concerned about keeping slavery from spreading into new western territories, and they saw no way to stop it through existing political powers: the Democrats and the Whigs (the pro-Congress party of the mid 1800s that largely destroyed itself in the 1852 elections in a battle over slavery).
In fact, it was this epic battle — one that threatened to split the United States of America into two parts — that very literally led to the political party’s formation.
Over the weekend, CNN’s Tom Foreman delved into the GOP’s unique history, providing a brief recap of how it all took form:
In the tumultuous mid-1800s, right before the Civil War, some political activists were concerned about keeping slavery from spreading into new western territories, and they saw no way to stop it through existing political powers: the Democrats and the Whigs (the pro-Congress party of the mid 1800s that largely destroyed itself in the 1852 elections in a battle over slavery).
New Book by Jim and Elisabeth Elliot's Only Daughter Inspires Next Generation to Trust God in Adversity
Author
Valerie Shepard Elliot Takes Advice from Her Mother Elisabeth Elliot to
Pen a Children's Book about Her Unique Childhood in the Ecuadorian
Jungle, Titled "Pilipinto's Happiness: The Jungle Childhood of Valerie
Elliot"
SOUTHPORT, NC,
Aug. 27, 2012
/Christian Newswire/ -- Valerie Elliot Shepard was 10 months
old when a primitive tribe of Ecuadorian Indians made a martyr of her
29-year-old father and his four Wheaton College classmates. But that
didn't stop Valerie and her mother from moving to live with those same
savage Auca Indians to complete the Elliot family's evangelical mission:
to eclipse the tribe's savagery with the unconditional love of Jesus
Christ.
Now, 85 years after the birth of Christian missionary and hero of the faith Jim Elliot, Valerie shares the story of her unique jungle childhood with a new generation of believers.
Told through the wide, curious eyes of a child, Valerie's new children's book Pilipinto's Happiness: The Jungle Childhood of Valerie Elliot begins two years after her father's murder when Valerie and her mother followed the Quichua and Auca Indians to the place she would call home from ages 3 to 8. The book will release on October 8, 2012, the 85th anniversary of Jim Elliot's birth.
Now all grown up and the mother of eight grown children herself, Valerie invites a new generation to peer behind the veil of her unbelievable childhood experiences and look into the jungle surroundings where she walked, climbed, and fluttered around as "Pilipinto" --meaning "butterfly"--the Indians' nickname for her.
"The gift to me, and what Mother and God taught me, was the principle of being perfectly content," Shepard said about the story her now-85-year-old mom, Elisabeth Elliot, suggested she write more than 15 years ago. "God puts us in all kinds of situations as we are growing up. My situation was unusual, amazing, and simple."
While more than a half-century old, many refreshing new messages surface from the book's real-life accounts of simple living, faithfulness in adversity, and true heroism. Valerie chronicles in colorful detail how the Indians, their language, and even the dangerous jungle elements created a delightful playground for learning to trust God's hand and to respect the simplest of His gifts--something Valerie instilled in her own children and is determined to pass on to the next generation.
"There is an awful discontentment among young people," said Shepard, who recalls having only a book to read when she wasn't outside playing in the jungle. "I do look at the youth culture and just feel only the Lord can bring about a heart contented with simple pleasures and gifts from the Lord."
More than just a beautifully-illustrated children's book, Pilipinto's Happiness is a powerful tool to familiarize young people, college students, and adults alike--too often starved for Christian heroes and heroines--with powerful models in the faith who demonstrated reckless abandon for the Kingdom of God.
"Because my parents prayed and hoped to bring Indians to the Lord, when my father was killed my mother had no plan or immediate thought she should leave Ecuador," Shepard remarked. "Human fears would flood her mind, but verses from Scripture gave her peace and assurance we would be taken care of. Mother continued to work with the Indians and continued to pray for them. And the more that she prayed for them, the greater her love grew for these people in need of a Savior."
For information on Pilipinto's Happiness: The Jungle Childhood of Valerie Elliot, visit Vision Forum's online bookstore.
Media interested in a review copy of Pilipinto's Happiness: The Jungle Childhood of Valerie Elliot and/or an interview with Valerie Elliot Shepard should contact Gregg Wooding of I Am PR, 214-605-0733/ Gregg@iampronline.com.
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