by La Shawn on March 17, 2004
in Rants
Thanks to the private prodding of faithful readers, I decided to “preach to the choir” and respond to Cynthia Tucker’s column, “Blacks flee gays, can’t flee AIDS.”
A woman of Cynthia Tucker’s age and professional status should be ashamed. While immorality has had an especially high toll on the black community, liberals like Tucker not only promote the behavior but dare to blame its consequences on “homophobia,” a buzz word that doesn’t intimidate me in the least.
She states that black people’s opposition to the homosexual lifestyle contributes to the rise of HIV in the black community. “Gay bashing” is so prevalent that black homosexuals don’t form support groups and seek “safe sex” education, opting to hide their behavior for fear of condemnation. Implicit in her statement is that if we would accept homosexual behavior, the rates of HIV in the black community would drop.
So regardless of indiscriminate, high-risk sexual behavior, drug use and the like, all roads lead to homophobia, which leads to HIV. Where is the causal connection? How does Tucker go about proving her premise? Well, she doesn’t. She just makes assertions and offers no argument.
Of course, she never intended to support her assertion. Tucker’s intent was to stir up ire (It worked on me!). Her reasoning is as disingenuous as it is willfully ignorant.
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by La Shawn on March 16, 2004
in Rants
Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, really gets me worked up. I’ve wanted to post and comment on at least two of her recent columns, but something about this woman really makes me angry. I think I’ll calm down and pray before I post (if I post) any comments to “Blacks flee gays, can’t flee AIDS.”
It’s times such as this I have to remember the words of Paul: “Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.” Ephesians 4: 26 and 27
Amen!
by La Shawn on March 16, 2004
in General
I’ve been unofficially commissioned by a Christian women’s magazine to write an article about migraine headaches. Two members of my family suffer from migraines, and I decided to write the article to learn more about pain relief. For this article, I’d like to get quotes from Christian women who suffer from migraines.
The article will give background on migraines and provide updates on the latest statistics and treatments. Weaved into the article will be the faith aspect: How do Christians deal with the chronic pain of migraine headaches?
I plan to write another article about migraines slanted toward secular and general interest publications, so I’d also like to hear from men and people who don’t consider themselves Christians.
If you or someone you know suffers from migraine headaches, please contact me.
Spread the word and thanks for your help!
by La Shawn on March 15, 2004
in Lunacy
“Brown U. forms panel to examine slavery”
Brown University President Ruth Simmons, a great-granddaughter of slaves, has established a committee to examine the school’s historical ties to slavery and debate whether the university should make amends….
“What I’m trying to do, you see, in a country that wants to move on, I’m trying to understand as a descendant of slaves how to feel about moving on,” Simmons told the Times.
A black, female president of an Ivy League school wants to know how to “feel” about moving on. Moving on from what? Her great-grandparents were the slaves. She’s a free woman living in a free country who can go wherever she wants and do whatever she wants.
Wake me up when it’s over.
by La Shawn on March 15, 2004
in Liberals
Mary Mitchell, a columnist for the Chigaco Sun-Times, is deluded. According to her, black clergy who support President Bush’s marriage amendment enter into an “unholy union” with white conservatives.
By what standard is she judging it “unholy”? The word implies there’s a such thing as “holy.” Without a biblical frame of reference, the word is meaningless.
Mitchell believes that because some of the people who oppose homosexual “marriage” are the same who didn’t want blacks sitting next to them at lunch counters back in the day (mostly Southern Democrats, by the way), black Christians should disregard the Bible. Let’s hear what she has to say:
That’s shocking when you consider the Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the lynchings of black people in the South. And what about black gays and lesbians? Would these ministers help the Ku Klux Klan burn crosses in their yards?
Amazingly, the same-sex marriage debate has also put a lot of black activists/preachers in league with white conservatives because these leaders cannot separate the equality issue from the religious one.
But black pastors who are upset because gay activists have likened their cause to the civil rights movement have overlooked an important point. That historic movement may have been founded on high moral ground, but it was a battle for legal rights, not moral acceptance.
Some of the same people who didn’t want blacks sitting next to them at the lunch counters or on the buses still don’t want them there. And some of the same people who believed it was an “abomination” for blacks and whites to marry, still believe it is an “abomination.”
Mitchell is confused. It doesn’t matter that some white people think that blacks sitting next to them at lunch counters or on buses is an abomination. It’s not, although some argue that it is. According to God, not men, homosexual behavior is an abomination. That’s the standard, not what people think about it. Perhaps someone could send Mitchell a Bible for her edification.
She goes on to praise a “brilliant letter” she “stumbled across”, written by a black minister who says he had an “epiphany” after a white priest came out of the closet. Because the priest had been active in the Civil Rights movement and impacted his ministry, the minister turned his back on God’s word.
Excited by this man’s apostasy, Mitchell writes, “As for the biblical arguments that are being wielded like swords against gays, [Reverend] Caldwell reminds us that black people have a history of ‘adapting scripture, not adopting scripture.’”
And that’s the only lucid statement in the whole column. In spite of herself, Mitchell accurately describes the power of Scripture:
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
Mitchell based the whole premise of her column on a nonsensical letter written by a black minister who in no way represents biblical Christianity. Her argument fails on all points.
by La Shawn on March 12, 2004
in Faith
David Limbaugh is frustrated. I’m feeling it, too. In his latest column, “The One-Sided Culture War”, he writes:
If our society finally surrenders to the relentless onslaught against the absolute moral standards that serve as the foundation for our library of freedoms, it will only be a matter of time before America falls.
I don’t mean to be a prophet of doom. We don’t have to throw in the towel. But unless a healthy percentage of traditionalists wakes up and starts fighting back, our grandchildren will not inherit the blessings of liberty or the luxury of a society built on the rock solid foundation of Judeo-Christian values.
Limbaugh gives several examples of societal changes that reached fruition before our very eyes:
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“It [slavery] exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience.” — Henry David Thoreau
Few people will admit how analogous government dependence is to living on a plantation. Star Parker, once enslaved by “Big Government,” is now unshackled and ready to expose her former master in a new book, Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and What We Can Do About It. She openly takes on “Uncle Sam” for keeping millions trapped in poverty.
A former “welfare queen” and current president and founder of the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), Parker courageously analyzes Big Government’s system of dependency. She encourages those living on handouts to break the chains of poverty and find purpose and meaning in their lives.
In a follow-up to her first book, Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats, where she handed down a stinging indictment against liberal politicians and the black leaders they exploit, Parker hits the mark once again in Uncle Sam’s Plantation. “Uncle Sam has developed a sophisticated poverty plantation, operated by a federal government, overseen by bureaucrats, protected by the media elite, and financed by taxpayers.”
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Planned Parenthood, the Abortion Factory of America, has hired someone to “articulate the spiritual dimensions of sexuality and reproduction.”
“Reverend” Dr. Ignacio Castuera will advise child killers on “moral and ethical issues” in their quest to snuff out life.
According to the Planned Parenthood press release, Castuera “will play a pivotal role in communicating the theological justification for choice, sexuality, and contraception to the Planned Parenthood community and the general public.”
Come Lord Jesus!
Child Killers Holiday
Do you know what abortionists have been doing today? Celebrating National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers.
Planned Parenthood says, “Today, March 10, is Abortion Providers Appreciation Day. Planned Parenthood thanks the brave women and men whose lifesaving work makes reproductive choice a reality for all of us.”
Do they see the irony of their “lifesaving” work?
King David said to his Lord: “My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” Psalm 139:15 and 16
When I began reading Thomas Sowell’s column a few years ago, I was struck by his erudite, sometimes “too intellectual” style. I thought, “The average person won’t understand what this man is talking about!”
Over the years, after much reading and studying the issues on my own, I’ve learned to appreciate his work.
I wish there were thousands of Thomas Sowells walking around Washington, D.C. What a great city this would be.
I don’t know whether he’s a Christian, but what he writes about homosexuals and their perceived right to be “married” hits the mark:
Love affairs are personal relations. Marriage is a legal relation. To say that government should not get involved in legal relations is to say that government has no business governing.
Homosexuals were on their strongest ground when they said that what happens between “consenting adults” in private is none of the government’s business. But now gay activists are taking the opposite view, that it is government’s business — and that government has an obligation to give its approval.
Then there are the strained analogies with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King challenged the racial laws of their time. So, the argument goes, what is wrong with Massachusetts judges and the mayor of San Francisco challenging laws that they consider unjust today?
First of all, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were private citizens and they did not put themselves above the law. On the contrary, they submitted to arrest in order to gain the public support needed to change the laws.
As private citizens, neither Mrs. Parks nor Dr. King wielded the power of government. Their situation was very different from that of public officials who use the power delegated to them through the framework of law to betray that framework itself, which they swore to uphold as a condition of receiving their power.
Also check out this interview, “Sowell Reaches Beyond Rhetoric.”
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a once-venerable organization that stood between blacks fighting for dignity and racists determined to maintain legalized discrimination, has sunk as low as it can go.
Every year the NAACP (”the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the U.S.”) nominates a group of “entertainers” for an Image Award, given to “black artists who strive for the portrayal of positive images and meaningful opportunities for African-Americans in motion pictures, television, literature and recording.”
This year one of the nominees was R&B singer R. Kelly, a man indicted on 21 counts of child pornography by a Grand Jury. He seems to be having trouble staying away from underage girls and video cameras.
For those who’ve never heard of Kelly, he sang that corny song, “I Believe I Can Fly” from the movie “Space Jam,” with Michael Jordan and a bunch of cartoon characters. He’s also known for such treasures as the “Bump ‘N Grind” song and “Feeling on Yo Booty.”
When I read about Kelly’s arrest a couple of years ago, I didn’t think much of it. I’d heard rumors he was into teenage girls. But if you’ve seen one deviant, you’ve seen them all.
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Sometimes the liberal bias in the media is more than I can bear (the panda has nothing to do with this post; I just thought he was cute!).
I have to find some humor in the middle of this madness. Guess what? The majority of black voters will not cast a ballot for George Bush. Bet you didn’t know that, did you?
We’re still subjected to stories like this: “GOP faces steep climb to lure blacks.”
When President Bush solemnly placed a wreath at the Atlanta grave of Martin Luther King Jr. a few weeks earlier, a low chorus of boos rumbled from protesters across the street.
OK. Where is the news?
“Protestors decry homosexual portrayal of Christ.” Debauchery and blasphemy, bold and unrestrained. No news here, either.
“State law threatened by public’s revulsion to sex offenders.” Now this may be shocking. Parents don’t want to risk the molestation of their children at the hands of sexual perverts.
And who knew the entire state of Indiana was filled with homophobic, “non-bohemian”, technologically-impaired, heterosexual bigots? Read all about it in “Image of intolerance may cool job climate.”
“But this is my home, and I know there are many good, tolerant people in Indiana. If people like me don’t stay and fight for what we know is right, things will never change.”
But Christians aren’t free to fight for what we know is right without being called “intolerant”, right?
Wake me up when it’s over.
by La Shawn on March 8, 2004
in Faith
Ninety percent of black voters will cast a ballot for this man:
Kerry also cited the Bible and the US Constitution in defending the rights of gays and lesbians during a boisterous town hall forum after the church services.
Early during the forum’s question-and-answer period, an African-American woman stood up and asked Kerry to take her side in insisting that the cause of gay rights should not be mixed with the civil rights movement.
The senator replied by briefly noting his support of preserving marriage for a man and a woman, but then began making a full-throated defense of civil rights for gays and lesbians — recalling how minorities were once denied entrance to universities, and insisting that just as the Equal Protection Clause protected them, so, too, should it protect the rights of homosexuals.
At one point he compared the “crucifixion of Matthew Shepard,” the Wyoming 21-year-old who was beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in the fall of 1998, with the dragging death of an African-American Texan, James Byrd Jr., whose murder earlier in 1998 sparked new efforts for hate crimes legislation.
Included in the 90 percent will be church-going people who profess belief in Christ, including pastors.
by La Shawn on March 7, 2004
in Faith
I begrudingly check the headlines every morning because I know what I’ll find: the consequences of sin on the human race. This morning I find this:“Rev Al: Support gay marriage”.
The Rev. Al Sharpton called on black religious leaders Saturday to support same-sex marriage, even if that means having to put aside their own beliefs.
To do otherwise, he told supporters of his presidential candidacy at the Emanuel AME Church in Harlem, would renew threats to civil rights and play right into the hand of the president.
To state the obvious, Al Sharpton cares little about God’s word, but he’ll have to answer to Him for that.
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by La Shawn on March 5, 2004
in General
What should happen when one alleged crime uncovers another? Both crimes should be investigated, right? If someone breaks into a house with the intent to steal and stumbles upon a woman stabbing a man repeatedly, it would be ludicrous to believe the thief will be charged but the woman won’t.
It’s a rough analogy, but something similar is afoot in the “Memogate” investigation. By exploiting a computer glitch, Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee accessed the Democrats’ restricted files. Excerpts of some of the memos were reportedly published in “conservative-leaning” newspapers.
In today’s news, the Washington Post reports the findings of William Pickle, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms. The ominous headline reads, “GOP Aides Implicated In Memo Downloads.” Amazingly, the left-leaning Post manages to state the facts fairly objectively:
The report released yesterday by Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William H. Pickle noted that two former Senate GOP staff members — including the Republicans’ top aide on judicial nomination strategy — were primarily responsible for accessing and leaking computer memos on Democratic plans for blocking some of President Bush’s judicial nominations.
First, the Post acknowledges that the files were improperly accessed and leaked. Second, it reports the contents of the memo. Both issues are very important.
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