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Canceling Halloween...Great! But for the Witches??

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A school district in Puyallup, Washington sent a letter home to parents Wednesday saying that there will be no observance of Halloween in any of the district's schools.

Why? Because it might offend WITCHES! Kidding? Nope.

The superintendent made the decision for three reasons. First, Halloween parties and parades waste valuable classroom time. Second, some families can't afford costumes and the celebrations thus can create embarrassment for children.

The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches.

"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.

[You've got to be kidding!]

The Wiccan, or Pagan, religion is said to be growing in the United States and there are Wiccan groups in Puyallup.

On the district's list of guidelines related to holidays and celebrations is an item that reads: "Use of derogatory stereotypes is prohibited, such as the traditional image of a witch, which is offensive to members of the Wiccan religion."

[This nation needs Jesus!]

The Real Children's Poll Results

The results of the 2004 Scholastic Election poll of children in grades one through eight are in and George Bush won! Over a half million U.S. children voted in the poll and the final results were Bush 52%, Kerry 47% and assorted other candidates 1%. Interestingly, the Scholastic vote, taken in each presidential year since 1940, has correctly predicted the winner in every race except 1948 and 1960. The explanation is that children reflect what they are hearing at the dinner table.

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The Right Word

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word...is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." -- Mark Twain

iVote Values a Success in Louisiana!

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This is the project I've been heading up:

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The band Detonations and the Louisiana Family Forum have had one aim in common this year: Getting people to register to vote.

Monday is the deadline to register for the Nov. 2 election, and political and nonpartisan groups have been pushing people to get their paperwork in on time.

A record 2,866,183 people had registered as of Sept. 25 — a 2.5 percent increase since the 2000 presidential election, according to the secretary of state's office.

The increase is not just population growth: the rate is four times higher than the increase in voting-age population during that time.
The 2000 presidential election, with narrow votes in many states and the contested vote in Florida, showed that each vote does matter, said Jean Armstrong, president of the Louisiana League of Women Voters.

"This year we have one of the most crucial elections in recent history," Armstrong said.

Louisiana residents will vote Nov. 2 for the president, a U.S. senator, all seven U.S. House seats, a state public service commissioner and many local offices. The congressional seats could go to a Dec. 4 runoff if not settled on Nov. 2.

The increase of Louisiana registrants is seen among all racial groups — but not all parties.

The number of registered Democrats shrank 5 percent, to 1.6 million, over the past four years. In the meantime, the number of registered Republicans grew 11 percent, to 682,511. And independents and "other party" voters rose a combined 16 percent.

The Republican Party of Louisiana has spent the past three years targeting fairs, festivals and high schools — especially in rural areas — for get-out-the-vote drives, Executive Director Jon Bargas said.

"When you make it easy for them, then the response is very positive," Bargas said.

The strategy is to tap voters who already have a conservative philosophy but might have grown up in a Democratic household and never changed their party registration, Bargas said.
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The conservative-minded Louisiana Family Forum has found direct contact much better than direct mail, executive director Gene Mills said. It asked ministers from all denominations to learn how to encourage their church members to register.

The group also is promoting its agenda and registration with rallies at arenas in several cities, Mills said.

Canadian Hate-Crimes Law Leads to $1,000 Fine

From Family News in Focus:

The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that a used car
salesman and his employer must pay $1,000 to a homosexual
man for moral damages inflicted when the salesman called
the unnamed man "Fifi."

Judge Michele Pauze determined that the salesman, Marcel
Bardier, used "discriminatory words . . . by revealing his
sexual orientation in hurtful and vexatious terms."

The homosexual man, whose name cannot be published, told
the judge that he felt dehumanized, humiliated and
degraded by the comment.
In addition to the $1,000 monetary award, the car salesman
and his employer must also pay interest and expenses.

We just barely missed this happening here, as the it had to be voted down in the Congressional conference committee.

Eyes Up!

Must Be Tough Being a Judge in a Post-Modern Society

...because obviously, Judge William Morvant wasn't looking to the highest law when he ruled against the Louisiana Marriage Amendment on Monday afternoon.

Talk Radio Heads were saying Tuesday morning that "We can't blame Judge Morvant. He was just doing his job. No, it was so-and-so's fault." (One host's favorite pick was the drafters of the language since he didn't have their names -- it's easy to blame nameless folks.)

We can't blame the judge?

That argument didn't work in the Nuremberg Trials.

The Nazis were "just doing their jobs." Sorry. Still Guilty.

It's time for Americans to remember that there is natural law, or Divine Law, that extends higher than any statute written by men, whether it's the Louisiana State Constitution or the federal one, for that matter.

The authors of the Declaration of Independence knew this when they wrote of inalienable rights -- rights given by God that man cannot legally deny (our country has forgotten this).

This country is in need of the 3rd Great Awakening! That's what is going to change it. But what will cause this? I shudder to consider it.

Christopher Columbus and the Flat Earth Myth

Interesting Observations by Gary DeMar

"Each and every Columbus Day, we are reminded by some misinformed historians who should know better, that the great navigator proved by his daring bravado that the Earth was more like a blue marble than a dinner plate. How many elementary-school students are taught that prior to the progressive thinking of Christopher Columbus any ship that journeyed beyond the horizon risked falling off the edge of the Earth? If we believe historical revisionists, Columbus supposedly stood firm against the religious and scientific leaders of his day proposing that the Earth was round and not flat. Many history books tell the story that the learned men of the day ridiculed the explorer's theory of a round earth and proposed that the Earth was indeed flat.

While a historical account of one man doing battle with the religious and academic establishment of his day makes interesting copy, none of it is true. "Columbus, like all educated people of his time, knew that the world was round. . . ."1 The shape of the earth was not even a topic for debate in Columbus's time; it was an established fact that the Earth was round. Flat Earth advocates were as rare as hen's teeth in the fifteenth century, and hens don't have teeth.

Even the late evolution advocate Stephen Jay Gould admitted that Christians did not teach that the Earth was flat. 'Virtually all major Christian scholars affirmed our planet's roundness. The Venerable Bede referred to the earth as orbis in medio totius mundi positus (an orb placed in the center of the universe).'"2

1. Zvi Dor-Ner, Columbus and the Age of Discovery (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991), 72.

2. Stephen Jay Gould, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (New York: Ballantine Books, 1998), 114.

Jefferson and Washington Would Not Have Approved of "Gay Marriage"

Presidents Jefferson and Washington Would Not Have Approved of "Gay Marriage"

The Ultimate John Kerry Ad

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RatherGate: Story wouldn't have gotten 60 Seconds from Show's Creator

On Kerry:

"You can't play war hero if it's about a war where you threw your medals away," Don Hewitt, the 82 year old creator of "60 Minutes" said recently when interviewed after receiving the 2004 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism at the University of South Dakota.

On RatherGate:

"I never would have done the story," said Hewitt, who retired in June as the show's executive producer after 36 years.

"I would have been very wary injecting myself into a campaign. You've got to be very careful that you're not perceived as doing the job that one of the two candidates should be doing himself."

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