Senate to Consider Hate Crimes Legislation
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to consider hate crimes legislation this week. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear the “Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to testify in support of it. The legislation is supposed to offer greater protections to lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-gendered crime victims. But critics argue it could lead to charges against those who speak out against homosexuality, like pastors. The Liberty Counsel is trying to collect more than 100,000 petitions to send to Senators before...
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Wake up. Life’s not a dress rehearsal. Live each day as though you won’t be around tomorrow – for you might not be. Dress up. When you get up each morning don?t forget to put on a good attitude; it’ll determine the rest of your day! Life’s like a piano; everything depends on how you play it. Only 10% is about what happens to you; the other 90% is about how you respond to it. Shut up. You’re not learning while you’re talking! Listen: “He who guards his lips guards his [soul]” (Proverbs 13:3). You’ll save yourself untold heartache,...
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At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior. “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise...
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