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Advocates of so-called “comprehensive sex education” have tried to convince us that kids should be taught in the classroom simply the basic scientific facts about sex, with no values getting in the way. But a new book tells us that science actually demonstrates just how much we need values in the sexual realm.
Get a Game Plan

The LFF Leadership Team will take the show on the road March 30th through April 16th, visiting six cities with one mission: writing the next chapter in Louisiana history.  The trips will include pastors' roundtables, media stops and evening receptions.  Pastors are invited to attend their nearest roundtable.  Call Dale Hoffpauir at 800-606-6470 for more info!  The tour dates are:

Taxing = Decline!

Congress will soon consider the president’s budget proposal that calls for at least $400 billion in new taxes and fees on the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. In reality, the implementation of these new policies could cost Americans thousands of jobs; reduce local, state and federal revenue; and increase our reliance on foreign oil.

Christian Culture

"Christians living with Christ in their cultures are aware [His power and attraction]. For they are forever being challenged to abandon all things for the sake of God; and forever being sent back into the world to teach and practice all the things that have been commanded them. " 

– H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture

Robert George @ LSU

Princeton Professor Robert P. George will deliver the 2009 Edward Douglass White Lectures on Citizenship on April 2 and 3 at LSU. His theme for the series will be “Morality and Policy: Contemporary Challenges.” George will deliver two lectures in the series: “Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Embryo Debate” and “The Concept of Public Morality” Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Homeward!

 Women who have lost jobs recently are involuntarily experiencing the life of a stay-at-home mom, and they are getting to know a lot more about the details of their children's daily existence.

They are also discovering some of the things they have been missing. Though the mass layoffs of this recession have so far affected mostly men, more than 800,000 women have lost their jobs since the end of 2007. For the mothers among them, it means that, suddenly, Mommy's home, often for the first time in many years.

Plan B Endangers Women's Health

US Federal District Judge Edward R. Korman has ordered the FDA to make the morning after pill available to 17-year-old minor girls without a physician's visit or prescription and without parental consent. Judge Korman also asked the FDA to consider making the drug available to girls and women regardless of age. Gene Mills, executive director of Louisiana Family Forum, had this response:

First Blood

British scientists are beginning a project this week with the first transfusions into human volunteers of "synthetic" blood made from the stem cells of “spare” in-vitro fertilized (IVF) embryos. Britain will take the lead in a global race to develop blood made from embryonic stem cells.

Tammany Casino Sinks!

St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis says he is abandoning his plan to create an entertainment district anchored by a casino on Lake Pontchartrain, south of Slidell.

Davis’ proposal, which received an unfavorable opinion from the Attorney General this week, would have required voter approval of casino gambling in the parish. Voters in 1996 voted overwhelmingly to ban both casinos and video poker. 

Resolve to ?

"Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us.... But we do not ordinarily apply it to the best purposes. It is not so ordinary for men to resolve to be good as to resolve to be rich and great, not so common for men to resolve against sin as to resolve against poverty and suffering. It is not so usual for men to resolve to keep a good conscience as to keep a good place." 

–in the Works of John Tillotson, v. 7, 1820