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Exclusive: Jack Cashill points out Barack's extreme position on abortion

Posted: February 29, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

By Jack Cashill

Those who accuse presidential aspirant Sen. Barack Obama of empty rhetoric
must have missed his speech last July, recently made public, to the
benefactors of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. At that festive event, he
was as sharp and specific as a scalpel.

"The first thing I'd do as president," he told a cheering audience, "is sign
the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do."

The audience cheered enthusiastically. And well they might. As NARAL
enthuses on its website, this act would "codify Roe v. Wade's protections
and guarantee the right to choose for future generations of women."

Prothero debunks 6 day literalist creationism:-

http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/paleontologist_prothero_takes_on_creationis.../

Tim.

Talks break down between Anglican Church and breakaway Ont. parishes

TORONTO - Talks between three breakaway Anglican churches in Ontario and
their dioceses have failed and the two sides are headed to court in what
could be a precedent-setting case over parish ownership, observers said
Thursday.

Efforts to settle the property dispute between the Niagara Anglican
diocese and three dissenting area congregations in southwestern Ontario
- Lowville, Oakville and St. Catharines - collapsed Thursday following
several days of tense negotiations.

The two sides agreed on a number of issues, but disagreed on who should
maintain possession of the church properties, said Cheryl Chang,
director of the Anglican Network in Canada, which supports the
dissenting parishes.

The impasse ultimately means the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in
Hamilton, Ont., will hear arguments Friday about who should conduct
Sunday's services - diocese-appointed reverends or those no longer
seeing eye-to-eye with the church and seeking to go it alone.

OREMUS for Friday, February 29, 2008

O God, make speed to save us;
O Lord, make haste to help us.

Blessed are you, God of compassion and mercy:

your steadfast love is shown to every living thing;
your word calls us forth and your law revives and refreshes.
You call us to repent our misuse of your gifts,
that we may be transformed by your wisdom
to manifest for others
the mercy of our crucified and risen Lord.
For these and all your mercies, we praise you:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
Blessed be God for ever!

An opening canticle may be sung.

Transcript of ++Venables

BREAKING: JI Packer threatened with suspension
Michael Daley on Feb-28-2008

As evidence of the escalating crisis in the global Anglican Communion,
today one of the of the world

Non today folks, it being a 'leap-year'.

Jeff Hickling.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.

*Sightings * 2/28/08

The Frontiers of Marital Pluralism

-- John Witte, Jr.

Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams set off an international firestorm this
month by suggesting that some accommodation of Muslim family law was
"unavoidable" in England. His critics argued that England will be beset by
"licensed polygamy," "barbaric procedures" and "brutal violence" against
women and children, all administered by "legally ghettoized" Muslim courts
immune from civil appeal or constitutional challenge. Consider Nigeria,
Pakistan and other former English colonies that have sought to balance
Muslim Sharia with the common law, other critics added. The horrific
excesses of their religious courts — even calling the faithful to stone
innocent rape victims for dishonoring their families — prove that religious
laws and state laws on the family simply cannot coexist. Case closed.

Defending the Facts on Obama's Faith

I don't endorse political candidates, but I will defend them
when it becomes necessary. On this, I agree with my friend
Richard Land, the conservative Southern Baptist leader who is
often identified with...

Often times, white people get frustrated with the state of their
country. They do not like the President, or Congress, or the health
care system, or the illegal status of Marijuana. Whenever they are
presented with a situation that seems unreasonable to them, their
first instinct is to threaten to move to Canada.

For example, if you are watching TV with white people and there is a
piece on the news about that they do not agree with, they are likely
to declare "ok, that's it, I'm moving to Canada."

Though they will never actually move to Canada, the act of declaring
that they are willing to undertake the journey is very symbolic in
white culture. It shows that their dedication to their lifestyle and
beliefs are so strong, that they would consider packing up their
entire lives and moving to a country that is only slightly similar to
the one they live in now.

Within white culture, it is agreed upon that if Canada had better
weather it would be a perfect place.

Being aware that this information can be used quite easily to gain the
trust of white people. Whenever they say, "I'm moving to Canada," you
must immediately respond with "I have relatives in Canada."