Troubling Stats on Disappearance of Married Fathers
June 28, 2010 in The Family by The Editors | No comments
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“ICANN has approved XXX as a top-level domain,” reports PC World. The secular magazine gets it pretty close to right when they say: “The adult entertainment industry will soon have its own glaringly obvious domain, but unfortunately that doesn’t necessarily mean that dot-COM domains will suddenly be porn-free.”
They add, “However, porn sites will be like dolphins. All dolphins are whales, but not all whales are dolphins. Dolphins are a subset of the larger whale family. Similarly, all XXX sites will be porn, but not all porn sites will be XXX. Many porn sites have a long and established presence as a dot-COM domain and will not simply abandon that.”
We rue ICAN’s decision, and in a blog post last Spring, warned this moment would come.
“A new Baptist Press article explores why citizens should not extend a new place in this World Wide Web for pornographers, explaining how it would among other things:
(a) create a more legitimate platform for an illegitimate cause,
(b) create a cultural Trojan horse, and
(c) pad pornographers pockets.
It says in part:
“A former U.S. Department of Justice employee is urging people to speak out against the proposed formation of an Internet domain exclusively for pornographic websites.
“Until May 10, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is accepting input from the public on whether to establish the domain, marking the third time the idea has been considered.
“Patrick Trueman, a former chief of the Justice Department’s child exploitation and obscenity section, said the .xxx domain would not clean up the .com domain by requiring all pornographers to move to .xxx.
‘The .com domain is a cash cow for pornographers and they are not leaving it,” Trueman wrote in comments submitted to ICANN. “ICANN has no enforcement powers to make them leave and thus clean up .com. Pornographers would simply expand to .xxx and maintain their current .com sites, perhaps doubling the number of porn sites and doubling their menace to society.’”
Read the rest here.
In his June 18 Presidential Proclamation of Father’s Day, President Obama had this to say in part:
Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. [emphasis added]
Do you think Mr. Obama, in praising “two fathers” refers to a situation of same-sex partners, or the late 80′s situation comedy with Paul Reiser, “My Two Dads“?
Our rapid moral decline in America, I’m afraid, leaves us only to guess.
For those of you that love when archeology and Christianity intersect, you’ll love the images found in this CNN piece, Vatican: Oldest known images of apostles Andrew and John found.
Extremely fascinating!
“About 80 unborn babies conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) are eliminated by abortion each year in Great Britain, according to a new report.”
Read more here.
‘Messengers’ to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando have “passed seven resolutions moments ago, all near-unanimously or unanimously. Among them were resolutions emphasizing the centrality of the Gospel and supporting family worship time. Messengers also passed a resolution “On the Scandal of Southern Baptist Divorce” and “On the Gulf of Mexico Catastrophe.”
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
-Blaise Pascal
WASHINGTON (BP)–You can’t keep a good state down. Proving that its state motto, “Equality Before the Law,” truly applies to all its residents, Nebraska has again stepped up to take the lead against the horrific practice of late-term abortion and its main proponent, LeRoy Carhart.
By the overwhelming margin of 44-5, Nebraska’s unicameral legislature passed a bill April 13 that bans abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, except when the abortion would preserve the life or physical health of the mother. Gov. Dave Heineman signed the bill into law that same day.
Read more here: http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=33107
I wish to add my voice to “a conservative group that monitors the entertainment industry [now] applauding Apple CEO Steve Jobs for his pledge to keep porn applications off the iPhone.”
“Jobs took a stance against porn when the iPhone was released in 2007 and has reiterated that stance at least three times during the past month while also taking a dig at a competitor, Google’s Android phone.”
Read more here.
“If you’re looking for a good book on apologetics to study with a group, William Lane Craig’s new book On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision is a great one. It covers the basics, but in depth. It begins with a biblical case for doing apologetics, then covers several of the most common and significant arguments for Christianity and objections to Christianity. The book has wide margins for note taking, definitions of what might be new terms to readers, and questions to stimulate thought and discussion.”
“After reading and engaging this book in a study group, you can’t help but have your own faith built up by confidence in the evidence and be much more comfortable engaging non-Christians in persuasive discussions about Christianity because you’ll have some answers to the questions and objections.”
Read more from Stand to Reason here.