Christian News Brief Monthly Archive - Jan 2005
12 Jan 2005
Kid Rock Will Not Perform at Inauguration Youth Concert
The American Family Association has been told that bad-boy rocker and recording artist Kid Rock will not be gracing the stage at the Presidential Inauguration youth concert after all. "We have been informed that Kid Rock will not perform," says Donald E. Wildmon, AFA's founder and chairman. The c ...
12 Jan 2005
Philadelphia Christians Back in Court Jan 12th
In Philadelphia, the case of five pro-family activists, one of whom is a minor, charged in connection with sharing the gospel at a homosexual event is back before the courts today (January 12). The three felonies and five misdemeanors that are leveled at the four adult activists could add up to 47 ...
12 Jan 2005
Homosexual Partners Now Denied Domestic Partner Health Benefits in MA
Radical homosexual activists who have pushed for same-sex "marriage" rights are discovering they can't have their cake and eat it too. According to news reports, many large companies in Massachusetts -- where homosexual marriage is legal -- are dropping health-care benefits for the "partners" ...
12 Jan 2005
Washington Post Story on Contraceptive Use Draws Criticism
A pro-family leader is taking issue with the focus of a recent Washington Post story dealing with the fact that fewer young women are using contraceptives. A recent front-page article in that newspaper took an almost frantic view of the report on contraceptive use. Wendy Wright of Concerned Women ...
12 Jan 2005
Democrats Criticized for Sex Education Stance
An abstinence proponent says she had hoped that a recent letter from several Democrats in Congress on the issue of sex education was a joke. It turns out the letter to key federal health officials was not bogus. Leslie Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, ...
12 Jan 2005
Simple Life Stars Turned Away from NJ Middle School
A vocal group of parents in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, made it known recently that they still value propriety and morality for their school-age children. That's why they protested a plan to let the Fox Television reality show The Simple Life tape an episode at J.P. Cleary Middle School. As ...
12 Jan 2005
Pro-Family Advocates Denounce Columbia House Decision to Enter Porn Industry
Pro-family advocates are denouncing a move by a national record and book club to get into the pornography business. Columbia House has decided to create a subsidiary called "Hush" which will begin distributing porn to homes across the nation. Former federal porn prosecutor Pat Trueman says he is ...
13 Jan 2005
Chewing Gum Ad Outrages Some
A pro-family advocate is outraged over a television commercial for a popular brand of chewing gum. More and more programs are pushing the envelope of indecency during the prime-time hours, but now it seems the commercials are trying to keep pace. The latest foray into sex is an ad for DentyneÔ "F ...
13 Jan 2005
Battle Rages Over "Choose Life" License Plate
Earlier this week, a federal judge in New York refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging that state's exclusion of a pro-adoption group from a specialty license plate program. Even after redesigning its proposed plate, The Children First Foundation was prohibited from the program because it include ...
13 Jan 2005
Columbia House Porn Division May be Targeted
A former federal prosecutor says the decision by Columbia House to create a subsidiary to distribute pornography could end up costing that company dearly. Pat Trueman, a former porn prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice who is now with Family Research Council, opines that Columbia House will ...
13 Jan 2005
Book Nowhere to Hide Reveals Privacy Concerns
A new book is raising the alarm over how Americans are losing more of their privacy than they realize. Robert O'Harrow, Jr.'s new book, Nowhere to Hide, paints a picture of just how much information on citizens the government can access. "[The book is] about the data revolution -- and the gover ...
13 Jan 2005
Environmentalists Block Fence Critical to Immigration Determent
A California-based immigration reform activist says it is just nonsense that radical environmentalists have blocked a bill that would make improvements to a security fence that has already been credited with substantial success. Rick Oltman, Western field director for the Federation for American Im ...
13 Jan 2005
Middle East Experts to "Wait and See" on Abbas
Many Middle East analysts are taking a wait-and-see attitude when it comes to projecting the impact of the new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Josh Block of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee says the impact of Abbas' policies on the troubled region will be judged in time. Noting the ...
13 Jan 2005
Paul Baloche to Headline 11th Annual National Memorial for the Pre-born
One of the most well-known names among Christian songwriters will headline an annual pro-life gathering later this month in Washington, DC. The event, the 11th annual National Memorial for the Pre-born, will take place in the caucus room of the U.S. Senate Russell Building. And according to the Na ...
14 Jan 2005
Crosses Banned on Inauguration Route
In another inauguration-related legal battle, the Christian Defense Coalition is going to court in hopes of forcing the U.S. Secret Service to rescind its ban on crosses being displayed along the presidential inauguration parade route. Coalition founder Rev. Pat Mahoney was outraged when he receive ...
14 Jan 2005
Missions Agency has New Formula for Spreading the Gospel
A Virginia-based missions agency says it has found a successful new formula for spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to lost souls in some 80 countries. Oliver Asher is vice president for projects and foundations at Advancing Native Missions, which has several teams assisting with the relief effort ...
14 Jan 2005
Child Sex Trafficking Bigger Problem than First Thought
According to the Beverly LaHaye Institute, sex trafficking of children, orphaned by the tsunamis in South Asia, could be a bigger problem than was first thought. Institute director Dr. Janice Crouse feels the sex trafficking of children in the wake of the tidal waves demonstrates the depravity of t ...
14 Jan 2005
Pro-Family Advocate Says Homosexuals Sacrifice Childrens Welfare to Further Agenda
An Arkansas pro-family advocate says homosexual supporters will sacrifice the welfare of innocent children to further their own agenda. An Arkansas judge recently ruled that that the state's child welfare agency had no right to require that children under the state's care not be placed in homosex ...
14 Jan 2005
Some Question NC National Guard for Failing to Hold Homosexual Guardsman Accountable
A military watchdog organization is questioning the judgment of the North Carolina National Guard for failing to discharge a soldier who admitted to having homosexual relations with a 17-year-old Iraqi soldier. The Guardsman was given a dishonorable discharge and 25 years in prison for murdering th ...
14 Jan 2005
Math Standards in US Inadequate
A new review of state academic standards finds that math standards in most states in the U.S. are inadequate. The review by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation reveals a slight improvement in English standards from 2000-2005, but a decline in math standards during that period. Only three states -- Ca ...
14 Jan 2005
Michigan Supports Ending Race and Gender Preferences
More than half a million Michigan residents have voiced support for a proposed constitutional amendment that would end race and gender preferences in the state's public institutions. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative has collected more than 508,000 signatures and turned them over to the secreta ...
17 Jan 2005
Federal Judge Commended for Tossing Latest Newdow Case
Christian Coalition of America is commending the federal judge who rejected Michael Newdow's lawsuit attempting to prevent prayer at the 2005 Presidential Inauguration. The atheist activist's suit alleged that he would be forced to accept unwanted religious beliefs if a minister at the inauguratio ...
17 Jan 2005
Homosexual Activist Attacks Christian Sheriff in Alabama
A homosexual California resident who was visiting his ill mother in Marshall County, Alabama, happened to browse across the county website and was offended to read Sheriff Mac Holcomb's statements on the Sheriff department's page, where he called homosexuality an abomination as compared to the cul ...
17 Jan 2005
Global Pastor's Wives Network Hosting "Free to Soar" Conference
Global Pastor's Wives Network (GPWN) will host a three-day conference geared toward minister's wives next week in West Palm Beach, Florida. The January 25-27 event is called "Free to Soar" and will bring together women from various denominations and areas around the world for a time of encourage ...
17 Jan 2005
Michael Chertoff Well Qualified, but Likely to Face Stiff Opposition
A former federal prosecutor says the man chosen by President George W. Bush to head the Department of Homeland Security is well qualified, but he is still likely to face stiff opposition during the confirmation process. Nominee Michael Chertoff was a federal prosecutor, headed up the U.S. Justice De ...
17 Jan 2005
US Doing Right Thing With Tsunami Aid, But Unlikely to Change Sentiments
Conservative publisher and pundit David Horowitz says no amount of U.S. aid and assistance to Muslim victims of the Southeast Asian tsunami will alter the anti-American sentiments of the extremists who wish the U.S. harm. Nevertheless, he says the U.S. is doing the right thing by leading the way in ...
25 Jan 2005
Marriage Protection Amendment Makes Another Appearance
The Marriage Protection Amendment is before the U.S. Senate again. Less than one month after convening the 109th Congress, lawmakers in the Senate have reintroduced legislation preserving marriage as the union of one man and one woman. On Monday (January 24), Republican Senator Wayne Allard of Col ...
25 Jan 2005
Abortion "Moral Horror" says United Methodist Bishop
The United Methodist bishop for the Florida Annual Conference has publicly denounced abortion as a "moral horror" -- and one Methodist activist calls that a "historic moment" for the denomination. Speaking on Monday (January 24) to a UMC pro-life group in Washington, DC, Bishop Timothy Whitaker ...
25 Jan 2005
"Choose Life" License Plates in Trouble in SC
Even though they've passed muster in other states, "Choose Life" license plates may be in jeopardy in South Carolina. The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling by the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down a law that allows the plates in South Carolina. The court said the l ...
25 Jan 2005
Gambling Problem Among Nations Senior Citizens?
A recent survey of senior citizens revealed that as much as 70 percent of those sampled were gambling regularly. A spokesman for an organization that helps problem gamblers says the percentage is even higher for the entire U.S. adult population, which includes those in the Church. While the number ...
25 Jan 2005
Mammals Ate Dinosaurs?
A lecturer for Answers in Genesis, a creation apologetics group, says the recent discovery of the fossil of a prehistoric mammal that apparently devoured a tiny dinosaur only affirms the biblical account of creation. The scientists who made the discovery say the dog-sized mammal is the first proof ...
25 Jan 2005
Social Security Must Change
The leader of a taxpayer advocacy group says it is foolish for the government to maintain the status quo with Social Security when many younger workers can expect a negative rate of return on their contributions. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, believes Social Security refor ...