What Really Happened on July 4th

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The delegates went on to approve the Declaration of Independence. After the announcement of the vote, silence moved over the Congress as the men contemplated the magnitude of what they had just done. Some wept openly, while others bowed in prayer.

After signing the Declaration with unusually large writing, the President of the Continental Congress, John Hancock, broke the silence as he declared, “His majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can also double the price on my head.”

Adding to the solemnity of the tense moment, Hancock said, “We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together.” Benjamin Franklin responded in his characteristic wit, “Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately!” Full Article

On August 1, the day before an engrossed copy of the Declaration was signed (the copy now displayed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.), Samuel Adams, whom men of that day ascribed “the greatest part in the greatest revolution of the world,”[4] delivered an address in which he proclaimed regarding the day of Independence: “We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and… from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.”[5] The men who helped give

Pro-life Fireworks across the American Flag

Pro-life Fireworks across the American Flag

birth to America understood what was taking place. They saw in the establishment of America the first truly Christian nation in history.

As Franklin suggested, they did “hang together,” but even so, many of these signers as well as tens of thousands of colonists lost their lives, families, reputations, and property in order to purchase liberty for themselves and their posterity.

What was it that motivated these people to risk everything in order that they might have freedom? What was it that brought about the events leading to the colonists declaring their independence? John Adams, our second President and a leader in the cause of independence, revealed what he and many others thought as he wrote at the time that the colonies declared their independence:
It is the Will of Heaven, that the two Countries should be sundered forever. It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the Case, it will have this good Effect, at least: it will inspire Us with many Virtues, which We have not, and correct many Errors, and Vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy Us. – The Furnace of Affliction produces Refinement, in States as well as Individuals…. But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

 

 

Honor Your Father for Father’s Day

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The culture at large appears to be awakening to the importance of fathers.

This Father’s Day, honor the dad in your life

The culture at large appears to be awakening to the importance of fathers. We are beginning to remember there is a steep price to be paid when fathers are disengaged from the daily lives of their children.

We are beginning to remember there is a steep price to be paid when fathers are disengaged from the daily lives of their children.

Honestly, ask yourselves, when is the last time you had a conversation about abortion when the guy’s role was seriously discussed? Such talk ought to feel natural, but often it seems forced, even awkward.

But another dimension of that truth is that men do matter and ought to care a whole lot more than many of us do. That the children whose lives are snuffed out have fathers.

That countless numbers of those fathers directly contributed to the death of their children either by coercing the mothers or (in some ways worse) by default – – by failing to support women in their hour of desperation and despair.

Fathers and father figures in our lives have shown us that real masculinity means being a strong and uncompromising protector.

They have shown us by their words and their actions the value of respecting loved ones, of defending truth and justice, and of Life itself. This Father’s Day, honor the dad in your life with a special recognition unlike any other gift.

National Pro-Life Bridges Day 2019

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Stand on a highway overpass in your community and display a pro-life banner bearing the message “Abortion takes a human life”

Abortion takes a human life

Volunteers will reach highway commuters in both directions of traffic with the message “Abortion takes a human life”, with the goal of encouraging people to think and talk about the abortion issue.

The Pro-Life Action League will collaborate with 50 pro-life activist leaders from around the country, each of whom will assemble a team of five or more individuals who will stand on a highway overpass in their community and display pro-life banners bearing the message “Abortion takes a human life” during rush hour.

Police throughout the nation are expected to cooperate with this bold exercise of the First Amendment, which has been firmly upheld by the federal courts. The Pro-Life Action League is working with 50 local leaders to select suitable bridges for this project.
Locations will be posted here when the final bridges have been selected. You can find more information here on what is involved in coordinating this national outreach on highway overpasses. – View more at: https://prolifeaction.org/event/bridgesday

It Took 34 trillion watts of ultraviolet radiation to color the Shroud of Turin

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The Shroud of Turin, revered by Catholics as the sacred burial cloth of Our Lord in His tomb, is considered by some to be a hoax or forgery. Scientists who’ve examined it, however, understand that what caused the image to form on the cloth can’t be reproduced with the current state of science. Full Article

The Shroud of Turin is not a fake

The Shroud of Turin is not a fake

Instead, the results of ENEA “show that a short and intense burst of VUV directional radiation can color a linen cloth so as to reproduce many of the peculiar characteristics of the body image on the Shroud of Turin, including shades of color, the surface color of the fibrils of the outer linen fabric, and the absence of fluorescence”.

“However, Enea scientists warn, “it should be noted that the total power of VUV radiations required to instantly color the surface of linen that corresponds to a human of average height, body surface area equal to = 2000 MW/cm2 17000 cm2 = 34 thousand billion watts makes it impractical today to reproduce the entire Shroud image using a single laser excimer, since this power cannot be produced by any VUV light source built to date (the most powerful available on the market come to several billion watts )”. Full Article

The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. Is it really the cloth that wrapped his crucified body, or is it simply a medieval forgery, a hoax perpetrated by some clever artist? Modern science has completed hundreds of thousands of hours of detailed study and intense research on the Shroud. It is, in fact, the single most studied artifact in human history, and we know more about it today than we ever have before. And yet, the controversy still rages. This web site will keep you abreast of current research, provide you with accurate data from the previous research and let you interact with the researchers themselves. We believe that if you have access to the facts, you can make up your own mind about the Shroud. Make sure you visit the page where you can Examine the Shroud of Turin for yourself. Visit www.shroud.com the oldest and most extensive web site for the shroud.

Barrie Schwortz, an Orthodox Jew, spends much of his time educating Christians that the Turin Shroud is real and unexplainable by scientific methods. Schwortz began as a skeptic of the shroud, but by scientific evidence became absolutely convinced of its authenticity. To be open-minded and brave enough to immerse oneself in the evidence of beliefs that go against your own, and allow yourself to be convinced of their validity, requires a courage and honesty that not many can claim. This is what Barrie Schwortz has been doing for the past 30 years. This is his story.

There is clear and convincing proof in the body of scientific evidence in favor of the belief that the Shroud is the actual burial cloth of Christ. Ever since 1898 when Italian photographer Secondo Pia discovered that the image was actually reversed, as in a photographic negative, scientists have attempted to unravel its mysteries. The more we peel back its layers, the more mysterious the Shroud becomes and lives up to one of its earliest descriptions when it was known as “an image not made by human hands.”

Bishop Barron on The Two Minus One Pregnancy

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Life begins at conception, and God breathes a soul into that life immediately.

Shelby aborted her daughter’s 2 siblings and would happily sit down with her 2 1/2 yr. old daughter in the near future and explain to her what she had done as an example of women’s choice….. I wonder what Shelby’s daughter will do when Shelby is an old lady … will she chose to euthanize her mother when she gets too inconvenient to care for her as an example of “women’s choice” which she learned from her mother?

Where Do Pro-Choice Catholic Democrats Come From?

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What do families like the Pelosis, the Kennedys or the Bidens — and millions of non-famous Irish and Italian-American clans with strong ethnic and historical connections to the Church — do with themselves when they reject its teaching authority?

The history of the Catholic left gives us the answer: Such people focused on the parts of the Church’s mission that still appealed to them, such as looking out for the poor and rebuking unjust discrimination. And of course the Church has  an almost 2,000 year tradition of offering the needy education, health care, and a voice in the face of genuine oppression. Many

Where Do Pro-Choice Catholic Democrats Like Joseph Biden and Nancy Pelosi Come From?

As the Catholic left developed, it became increasingly hard to distinguish from secular progressive movements, except in its use of biblical metaphors and cherry-picked quotes from Church documents to further its agenda.

Catholics had joined the Civil Rights movement and marched for integration.

So Catholics who’d once taken part in Freedom Rides for black Americans got swept up in a “Women’s Liberation” movement that sought to dismantle legal definitions of marriage, laws restricting abortion, and finally the traditional family itself.

That movement’s greatest success was Roe v. Wade, which gave the U.S. the laxest abortion laws on earth — outside of Communist countries — and resulted in the deaths of more than a million American unborn children every year since 1973. What most people don’t know is that the Kennedy family had helped lay the groundwork for that decision a decade before.

As the Catholic left developed, it became increasingly hard to distinguish from secular progressive movements, except in its use of biblical metaphors and cherry-picked quotes from Church documents to further its agenda.

Why do Abortion Supporters Try to Silence Men?

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For many pro-choicers, if you are a pro-life male, you are not welcome to discuss or even listen to a discussion about abortion.

This dismissal of men’s viewpoints simply because of their biology is especially ironic given the fact that many of the same pro-choice advocates have been fighting for sex-neutral bathrooms on campus. Apparently, sexual anatomy does not matter for picking a bathroom, but biological gender can devalue one’s opinions in an intellectual discussion. thefederalist.com

This dismissal of men’s viewpoints simply because of their biology is especially ironic.

Apparently, sexual anatomy does not matter for picking a bathroom, but biological sex can devalue one’s opinions in an intellectual discussion.

The central question to George’s lecture and Law Students from Life’s argument is whether an embryo is a rights-endowed human being.

Instead of debating this issue, these pro-choice advocates have preferred to play identity politics to avoid facing the undeniable fact that a human fetus is a human being with innate human dignity. en.wikipedia.org

The most prominent rebuttal of George’s presentation had nothing to do with the content of his reasoning or the quality of his scholarship; it had to do with the sex of the attendees at the event. If it’s true that a fetus is a human, then it should follow that she cannot be sacrificed for the professional advancement of another.

I AM the Voice of John!

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In 1977, a young nurse working in the obstetrics unit of a West Virginia hospital stumbled upon an abandoned newborn left to die in a “dirty utility room”.

She was unaware that the Roe vs. Wade decision passed prior made this atrocity legal. After being reprimanded for bringing this revelation to staff’s attention, and against instruction to “do nothing”, she held the infant, baptized him and declared “I name you John.  I will tell the world what I saw here today. I will be your voice.” 


Thirty-five years later, Maryann Lawhon has held true to her promise she made in 1977, as River Song Productions presents…”The Voice of John.

Over 53,000,000 innocent Americans have lost their lives since 1973. These deaths were not from a global war or dreaded plague. This is the number of American children who have been killed since 1973, when abortion was legalized.

The Voice of John is a documentary exposing the truths about abortion and the pro-choice laws that allow this to continue. River-Song Productions (RSP) presents The Voice of John, in an attempt to expose the real truth about the abortion industry. We will reveal the atrocities associated with the culture of death created by the unregulated abortion industry that has never been addressed by the liberal media in America.

 

Movie Alison’s Choice: A FILM About LIFE

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When young Alison finds herself pregnant by a dead-beat boyfriend, she turns to abortion. There in the clinic, as she waits for her name to be called, she encounters a cast of extraordinary characters; a flamboyant counselor, a suburban mom, a heart-weary receptionist, an inner city counterpart… And more than anyone, a gentle-faced janitor with mop “eternally” in hand. The two begin to talk and it quickly becomes clear he is no mere janitor, but the living God manifest – and He’s come to plead for the life of her baby. With the clock ticking precious minutes away, it is a fight for life or death. Suddenly a nurse appears, “Alison, we’re ready for you.” What will Alison choose… Alison’s Choice – Promo

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For you who have seen and love The Encounter movie, Bruce Marchiano takes his portrayal of Jesus to even deeper levels of grace and compassion in his new film, Alison’s Choice. Just like The Encounter, we find Jesus reaching to lives in our contemporary world. Only this time he manifests as a janitor, and the object of his care is a young girl struggling with an unplanned pregnancy. Not only does Marchiano reprise his role as Jesus, but he also wrote and directed Alison’s Choice. Filled equally with love and truth, Alison’s Choice is a cliffhanger as Jesus has only minutes to rescue both Alison and her baby from that most devastating choice.

Now on Amazon Prime. Facebook.

I’d love to connect and discuss this screening with you further, so please let me know if you might have some time to connect.   

God Bless You,  

Charles Bates  chuck_dc12@msn.com 714-392-6542

The Least Safe Space in America (The Womb)!

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Recently at Harvard Law School, there have been many discussions about marginalized populations and the role of the law in protecting the defenseless and disadvantaged. Notably absent from this discussion is that there remains a class of human beings who are still excluded from the fundamental rights guaranteed to all persons by the United States Constitution. FULL ARTICLE

Although Justice Blackmun infamously stated that the Supreme Court “need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins,”[3] the question has long been long settled scientifically.[4] Biologically, individual members of the species homo sapiens begin their life-cycle at fertilization. From the earliest stage of the human life-cycle, the unborn entity is biologically human.

The unborn child and the newborn infant are only separated by a few inches. The short journey down the birth canal does not magically transform that entity from non-human to human. The event of birth cannot impart humanity upon a non-human entity.

The unborn child’s dependence upon another human being doesn’t make her any less of a person. Children, especially newborns, are particularly dependent on adults and can hardly survive without them. Human value cannot vary based on the degree of that dependence. If it did, those who depend on insulin or kidney medication would have less value than the rest of us. If dependence is the criterion for human value, would conjoined twins who share vital systems possess a right to life?