Pictures from my “writing retreat” at a harbor in Ventura, CA. (Did I mention I was writing a novel? Self-imposed first draft completion date: sometime during my birthday month of May) I snapped these, weak knees and all, while I was out walking:
February 2009
Wouldn’t want it any other way.
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Some Christians call me “un-Christian” for believing and saying out loud in public that illegal aliens are lawbreakers who have no respect for the rule of law and should be rounded up and deported. If I were a betting woman, I’d wager $100 that not one of these people call Christ-professing illegal aliens un-Christian for breaking the law.
(Calling a thing by its name is worse than being the thing even among Christians. Sad.)
I have no patience with hang-wringing Christians who’re “torn” over illegal immigration. Opposing illegal immigration and believing lawbreakers should be subject to the justice system aren’t the least bit unbiblical. I have no idea where they get the idea that saying anything negative about border-jumpers and visa-overstayers is wrong.
If you Christians think my stance on this issue is “unloving,” you’ll hate this: when I read about the Arizona (border state) rancher who held a group of trespassing illegal aliens at gunpoint until the police arrived, I wanted to give him a medal. That man had a right to defend himself and his family and protect his property.
This country has degenerated to the point where illegal aliens have standing to sue law-abiding citizens for exercising their own rights! Blood boiling stuff. Anyway, the criminals claimed that Roger Barnett violated their civil rights. It pleases me that a federal jury disagreed. Earlier this week, the jury found in favor of Barnett and against the illegal aliens, who should be sent back to Mexico immediately. (Source)
Unfortunately (an understatement!), the jury ordered Barnett to pay punitive damages for assault and “infliction of emotional distress.” Can’t win ‘em all. Some is better than none, though all would have been what we reasonable people call justice. I hope Barnett will appeal.
(Photo credit: Jack Kurtz/The Arizona Republic)
It’s too good to be true and likely won’t become a law, but for now, it’s golden. North Dakota lawmakers just passed a bill (51 to 41) that defines a fertilized egg as a human being with all the rights of a “person.” (Source)
While it didn’t take a bill to declare a fertilized egg human (because it is human, as opposed to canine), the language of the measure directly challenges Roe v. Wade.
If the state senate passes the bill, it won’t become law unless the governor signs it. The bill outlaws abortion; that’s why the governor won’t sign it. Selfish, irresponsible, and amoral men and women will fight like hell to keep child killing legal, and too many judges (and governors) agree with Roe‘s tortured ruling. Supreme Court justices found a way to justify murder by declaring that the Constitution contains a “right to privacy” (which it does not) that includes killing babies in utero.
If I were queen of the world, I’d outlaw child killing at all stages of pregnancy. Once a woman made the decision to have intercourse, her choices were made. The choice she has once a human being is growing inside her is to carry the baby to term, be a parent to him, or give him to an intact family.
Since I’m not queen of the world, the best I hope for is: 1) Roe is overturned; 2) people will give generously to pregnancy crisis centers that talk women out of killing their children and offer financial and psychological help. Most of all I hope: 3) churches make this a high priority issue; 4) Christ followers warn these lost women of the consequences of this and other sins and; 5) Christ followers tell them how to avoid God’s just punishment.
