by La Shawn on January 29, 2004
in Faith
In my opinion, if you’re shacking up with someone and can go to church and sit there comfortably, without conviction, there’s something wrong with the church.
Pastor LeRoy Sullivan, of Bread of Life Outreach Ministry, had similar thoughts. He was disturbed about the fornication among his church’s members, so he’s now preaching the value of marriage, something that every pastor is supposed to preach anyway.
The world needs to hear some real preaching like “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards.
I did a radio interview yesterday afternoon, my second. The host of a local station in Utah wanted to discuss my article, “Why Courting the Black Vote Won’t Work.” I was much more relaxed and professional (less stuttering!) than I was in the first one. The recording is not available online so I’ll try to upload it to my blog.
This host was also non-hostile. I’ve got a feeling that one day soon I’ll run up against a wolf in sheep’s clothing, pretending to agree with me and then…Bam! Suddenly I’m on the air defending myself against false accusations and an onslaught of loaded questions from crazy callers who “slipped though.” Maybe I watch too much TV.
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by La Shawn on January 28, 2004
in Lunacy
What was this guy smoking? He told one of his black students that he needed to “send her back to Africa” for being absent.
A black woman who said a college professor told her she needed to go back to Africa has asked for an apology and said the incident prompted her to drop out of school.
She shouldn’t have quit school over this, but I certainly understand her anger. Why, in this politically correct, overly sensitive racial climate would you say to a black person, even in jest, that you’d send them back to Africa?
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Watching the New Hampshire primary, you’d get the impression that John Kerry was President of the United States.
So a bunch of white people in New Hampshire and Iowa think Kerry should be president. Big deal. Hold a primary in Oakland, California or anywhere in Texas and see what happens. For such an “inclusive” party, I notice a distinct lack of color in the all-important primaries.
The husband of a billionare said this with a straight face: “I ask Democrats everywhere to join us so we can defeat George W. Bush and the economy of privilege, and so that we can fulfill the ideal of opportunity not just for some but for all Americans.”
Economy of privilege??? Big Ketchup v. Big Oil: The Showdown Continues. The man lives very well married to a woman worth a fortune, the result of her dead first husband’s hard work, and Kerry has the gall to talk about the “economy of privilege?”
Wake me up when it’s over.
More conservative club bashing. Another high schooler tries to start a conservative club to counteract the ubiquitous liberal bent in government-run schools.
In the newsletter, Bueler calls for a crackdown on “every Muhammad, Jamul and Jose who wishes to leave his third world state to come to America, mostly illegally.”
This statement is inflammatory, I’ll admit. Without going off the politically correct deep end, I think some sensitivity is warranted. However, the kid should be protected against liberal thugs who turn out not to be so tolerant after all! Reading stories like this and the ones about Affirmative Action bake sales remind me of the way I treated people like this back in my liberal days. When I was in law school, there was a group called the Western Heritage Society that may or may not have been off the wall (I can’t remember). Its leader was bold in his commitment to preserving “western heritage.” To my liberal ears, that was code for “Racism!” At the time, I couldn’t appreciate nor tolerate different points of view.
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by La Shawn on January 26, 2004
in Columns
What’s the surest way to increase a teenager’s risk of incurable diseases, cervical cancer, pregnancy, infertility, abortion, a broken heart, a jaded view of love and marriage, and doom a child to poverty and fatherlessness?
Teach her how to put a condom on a cucumber.
Despite all these risks and many more, taxpayers spent 12 times more promoting so-called safe sex education than abstinence in 2002, according to a new report released by the Heritage Foundation. Taxpayers contributed $1.73 billion to “safe sex” programs and $144.1 million on abstinence education.
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by La Shawn on January 24, 2004
in General
After a few Advils and hours of playing with this thing, I think I’ve got my Atom feed working.
by La Shawn on January 24, 2004
in General
…with this new RSS feed Blogger just came up with. It’s called Atom, and I don’t find the “instructions” very helpful. I followed them but it hasn’t worked for me. To anyone with Blogspot who’s set it up or any technically savvy geek (I admire computer geeks!) out there, e-mail me at *** or leave a comment. It’s much appreciated!
by La Shawn on January 23, 2004
in Faith
Yesterday was the thirty-first anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I’d forgotten. Last night I was listening to a radio show called Family Life Today, and I was reminded. The host, Dennis Rainey, was interviewing a woman named Carol Everett. She’d had an abortion shortly after the Roe v. Wade ruling.
Afterward, Ms. Everett worked for the man who’d aborted her child for the next six years. She described her high pressure sales mentality and her $25.00 commission per abortion, convincing women to come in and have their babies killed. Ms. Everett’s teenage daughter even worked there for a time.
As this woman described what happened after a 32 year-old woman with two kids died after she bled out from a botched abortion, my heart sank. I don’t usually listen to Family Life Today and this was a story I really didn’t want to hear. But I was riveted.
Ms. Everett is now saved, but she clearly still feels overwhelming guilt from that time in her life. The host gave her such words of comfort, that I was overcome with emotion and began to cry. The host quoted two passages of Scripture:
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:11-12
and:
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2
What an awesome God we worship! The Bible is filled with such comforting passages. No matter what we’ve done in our wretched lives, once we come to Christ, repent of our sins, accept Him as Lord and Savior and submit to Him, there is no more condemnation.
The weight of those words touched my heart, and I praised God. I’m so very thankful, eternally grateful that He had mercy on me. I love Him because He first loved me.
“Finding Life in the Redeemer” is the name of the show. Listen to all three days’ worth.
Read Chuck Colson’s latest commentary.
by La Shawn on January 22, 2004
in Rants
This article expresses exactly what I think of people who e-mail me without signing their names to nasty responses to something I write:
Why would you want to cloak yourself behind a dark cloud of anonymity if your comments, ideas, criticisms or suggestions had merit and were truly constructive?
Some of the letters I think were written by 15 year-olds with ADHD may have been composed by adults. Scary thought.
The conservative financial practices of older African-Americans are what helped my generation reach the middle class. They did without many of the trappings that you find in even the poorest of black households today. Back then, folks were more concerned about providing a better way of life and an education for their children.
So writes Tannette Johnson-Elie in “Talking about hard work of past would do black youth a favor.” This is what youth need to hear.
Given the dismal graduation rates of African-American students, particularly black males, in the state’s public schools, it’s evident young people could benefit from the examples of hard work and sacrifice set by the generations before them.
You don’t find too many refreshing articles like this out there. Instead of training young blacks to professionally gripe about some perceived racial slight, we need to teach them the value of hard work and pride in one’s work, no matter what kind it is. Quaint concepts, I know.
This is what Black History Month should be about instead of the same old recycled, revisionist stories about the Civil Rights movement.
I’ve been asked by a news organization to provide a sound bite about President Bush’s pledge to constitutionally ban homosexual “marriage.” While I oppose such “marriages”, I don’t think the Constitution should be amended to ban them.
I’m torn between prohibiting the states from allowing legal marriages between homosexuals, but at the same time wary of giving the federal government even more power over our lives.
An amendment to protect marriage would limit the power of the states. Is limiting the power of states to expand the definition of marriage worth more central government intrusion?
According to an ABC News poll, 55 percent of Americans say that same-sex marriages should not be legal, but 33 percent oppose amending the Constitution to protect marriage.
In his State of the Union speech last night, President Bush said this about protecting marriage:
A strong America must also value the institution of marriage. I believe we should respect individuals as we take a principled stand for one of the most fundamental, enduring institutions of our civilization. Congress has already taken a stand on this issue by passing the Defense of Marriage Act, signed in 1996 by President Clinton. That statute protects marriage under federal law as the union of a man and a woman, and declares that one state may not redefine marriage for other states.
Activist judges, however, have begun redefining marriage by court order, without regard for the will of the people and their elected representatives. On an issue of such great consequence, the people’s voice must be heard. If judges insist on forcing their arbitrary will upon the people, the only alternative left to the people would be the constitutional process. Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
I agree with every word but still have reservations about an amendment.
What’s your view?
by La Shawn on January 20, 2004
in Faith
The Salvation Army is set receive in excess of $1.5 billion from the estate of Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc. Praise the Lord!
According to the Miami Herald:
The gift is for development of community centers across the country, similar to the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center that opened in San Diego in June 2002. The Kroc center offers educational, recreational and cultural arts programs.
“We are obviously thrilled, but genuinely humbled by the exceptional generosity of Joan Kroc,” said W. Todd Bassett, national commander of The Salvation Army.
Now I don’t know what the Salvation Army does these days, but I know it was founded as an evangelical charity organization around the time of the Civil War. Read about the founder, William Booth and the Salvation Army’s doctrine of belief.
What a great commission! Mark 16:15 reads: “Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” May William Booth’s army of soldiers and vision live on…
by La Shawn on January 19, 2004
in Lunacy
Either this is someone’s idea of a joke or they’re a product of our government-run schools. In reference to my recent blog entry, “Cultural Wasteland”, one of my readers (”The Annoyed White Male”) sent this photo.
I wrote that it’s become a trend to refer to one’s out-of-wedlock baby’s father as “My baby’s daddy.”
The person who did this marquee apparently decided to go for laughs by putting up “My Baby Daddy” without the apostrophe “s”, which is the more commonly heard expression. But I won’t belabor it.
My regular commenters may have noticed that their comments are back! After server problems, the Blogspeak commenting system “merged” with HaloScan. HaloScan kindly imported my old comments into the new system. By the way, I’ll be upgrading my account so people won’t get cut off at 1000 characters when posting a comment. Thanks again for reading.
by La Shawn on January 18, 2004
in Faith
Good grief! I’ve linked to a blogger who believes I’m a hateful psychotic. If you contact her via e-mail (no commenting system), step lightly!
I was reading Colossians this morning and wanted to quote one of my favorite verses on the deity of Christ:
“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.” Colossians 1:13-17
When I read comments by people like the blogger who thinks I’m a psycho, I’m reminded that when I speak out against the damage of an ungodly agenda like liberalism, moral relativism or whatever it may be, I must do so in love because the Gospel message is offensive enough.
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