
“ARE YE TRYING OR DYING?”


The Southern Baptist Convention, which has long dealt with issues of race since splitting in 1845 with Northern Baptists over the right to hold slaves, has grown to accept a diverse array of cultures within its congregation. Once an all-white membership, nearly 20 percent of its current congregation nationwide now is composed of minorities. Until now, however, it has never had an African-American president – Luter himself was the first ever African-American first vice-president of the denomination, appointed in June 2011.
Luter has had a long and turbulent road to rise in the ranks, The Tennessean reported, revealing that when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, his church was destroyed and lost its entire 7,000-member congregation, most of whom fled the city. Three years later, however, the Franklin Avenue Baptist church reopened its doors after help from the entire neighborhood, and now draws 5,000 people for church services. The report goes into detail about Luter’s background and upbringing, sharing how a near-fatal motorcycle accident when he was 21 guided him in the right direction toward God.
For more click on: http://www.christianpost.com/news/southern-baptist-convention-set-to-elect-first-black-president-70673/

CANCER DRUG FOR BABIES HELD UP FOR 14 MONTHS AND WAITING. WHY? It hasn’t reached the floor. Asked leader of house and senate: We have our own way of doing things & it’s so complicated I don’t have time to tell you. GOD HELP US!!! They are your employees.
CALL THEM! If we don’t they’ll just keep on talking to lobbyists $$$, etc. If the GOP STALLS LONG ENOUGH THEY MIGHT REACH THEIR GOAL: GETTING THAT BLACK PRESIDENT OUT! MANY FUNDAMENTALIST STATES BLOCKING VOTES OF YOUNG & OLD NON-WHITES AND POOR WHITES (unless they have an ID). TO HELL WITH THAT. WHAT HAPPENED TO ONE PERSON ONE VOTE? They are also closing voting booths in poor WHITE AND NON-WHITE AREAS.
TO HELL WITH THAT! HOPEFULLY ENOUGH FAIR MINDED CITIZENS WILL MAKE SURE EVERYONE VOTES (even if they have to pick them up and make sure that they vote without hinderance).


Wahls, pictured left testifying before the Iowa State Legislature, is an engineering student at the University of Iowa. He celebrated the marriage of his two moms in 2009.
The message below went out to Standing on the Side of Love supporters on Thursday, February 10, 2011. You can sign-up for these emails here.
Two weeks ago, I took a stand for equality, and for my family. Taking time away from classes at the University of Iowa, where I am an engineering student, I testified before the Iowa House of Representatives in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. “I was raised by a gay couple,” I told lawmakers, “and I’m doing pretty well.”
More than one and a half million people have now viewed my testimony on YouTube, and a lot of people have heaped an inordinately large amount of undeserved praise on me. As a Unitarian Universalist, my testimony was simply what I was raised to believe – that we all should stand on the side of love.
A few days ago, I found out that the Standing on the Side of Love campaign was launching a new, online map of “courageous love” to mark National Standing on the Side of Love Day and had posted my testimony before the legislature to the map. I am humbled that someone thought my family’s story might be an inspiration to others across the country and have been truly touched by the outpouring of support not just for my family, but for families like mine all across the world.
So, let me ask you — who in your life and your community would you like to honor for the tremendous ways in which they stand on the side of love?
Click on: http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/blog/honoring-my-two-moms/


“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.” ― Albert Einstein

Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council: global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so called “model bills…” reach into almost every area of American life and directly benefit huge corporations.
Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue. In ALEC’s own words,
corporations have “a VOICE and a VOTE” on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state.
“BREAKING: Intuit Out of ALEC; Coke, Kraft, Pepsi, too, while Koch Stands Ground (Rebekah Wilce, PRWatch)
TAKE ACTION NOW! Click on: http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

The Big Bang itself is a scientific theory, and as such stands or falls by its agreement with observations.[2] But as a theory which addresses the origins of reality it carries theological implications regarding the concept of creation ex nihilo (a Latin phrase meaning “out of nothing”).[3][4][5] In addition, many theologians and physicists have viewed the Big Bang as implicating theism;[6][7] a popular philosophical argument for the existence of God known as the Kalām cosmological argument rests in the concepts of the Big Bang.[8][9] In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory,[10] who rejected the implication that the universe had a beginning.[11][12]
