Anti-Christian, Sex Slaves, Gay Marriage and Abortion

The headlines this week sound more like some strange porn movie.

From The Catholic News Agency:

A Christian bishop in Iraq has received a threatening letter from an Islamic extremist group belonging to Al Qaeda…..

“The Secretary General of the members of the Islamic Brigade decided to give the Christian crusader infidels of Baghdad and the other provinces the last warning, to leave Iraq immediately and permanently and join Benedict XVI and his followers, who have trampled on the greatest symbols of humanity and Islam.”

“There’ll be no room in Iraq for the Christian infidels from now on,” the letter continues, threatening that those who remain will have their throats slit as “it is happening to the Christians of Mosul.” This is more than likely a reference to a recent attack on two sisters who were killed by Muslim extremists.

I wonder why the Media hasn’t reported much on this story?  If it was a Christian country threatening the Muslims in the same manner it would be front page news on every newspaper.

In a world where we preach "if it feels good do it" and we tell the youngest students that sex is okay you would think we wouldn’t be so surprised when bad things begin to happen.  You see, immorality spreads and continues to spread until society changes.  That has been proven time and again throughout history. 

From WPBF - ABC news in Palm Beach, FL:

Sexual slavery is common in third world countries. But what many might not know is that it happens in the United States as well.

Every year, at least 2 million children are sold into sex slavery worldwide. The ones who get out alive tell stories of horrific torture.

"South Florida is one of the hottest of hot spots," Bechard said.

Humans are trading hands in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.

Just last month, 35 people were arrested for selling and buying sex on Craigslist. The youngest arrested was 19 years old.

(Raymond) Bechard said children are a profitable product for criminals. As Bechard put it, a drug dealer can sell a drug just once a day, but a trafficker can sell a person five to 20 times a day over and over.

Anyone 17 and under is considered a trafficking victim.

Raymond Bechard is the founder of Ahava Kids, a human rights organization that has saved more than 3,000 people from human sex trafficking.  If your looking for an organization to donate to this Christmas, consider that one.

Forbes Magazine had an article by Richard A. Epstein titled "libertarian thoughts on Prop 8":

Today’s harsh skirmishing over Prop 8 starts from the common assumption that the state has the right to issue marriage licenses, so that the only question worth asking is whether it can discriminate between gay and straight couples. But to the libertarian, the antecedent inquiry is whether the state has any proper role in issuing marriage licenses at all.

It was therefore risky business for gay-rights advocates to push the constitutional button that exposed them to the counterattack of Proposition 8. Indeed, the opponents of Prop 8 also overreached in a second way. Running tasteless campaign ads against Mormons forfeited the high ground. In so doing, they opened the way for the Catholic theologian Michael Barber and others to defend Prop 8 in the name of religious liberty, on the ground that recognizing same-sex marriages prompted anti-discrimination suits against churches that refused to admit gays. He has half a point. Gay-rights advocates overreach big-time when they support anti-discrimination laws to deny freedom of association to others.

Good points….there is much more to the article, I highly suggest you read the whole thing.

And the Herald Tribune Reports:

A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces job-discrimination laws.

The proposed rule would prohibit recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and other health care workers who refuse to perform or to assist in the performance of abortions or sterilization procedures because of their "religious beliefs or moral convictions."

Obama has said the proposal will raise new hurdles to women seeking reproductive health services, like abortion and some contraceptives.

Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, said that in recent years, "we have seen a variety of efforts to force Catholic and other health care providers to perform or refer for abortions and sterilizations."

Leavitt, a leading proponent of the rule, said it would increase compliance with laws adopted since 1973 to protect health care workers.

"Federal law," he said, "is explicit and unwavering in protecting federally funded medical practitioners from being coerced into providing treatments they find morally objectionable."

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