RE: [ZION] Feedback Please - Chapter 5

2004-03-05 Thread Sander J. Rabinowitz
Jonathan Scott wrote:

   Each year there are 1.3 million abortions in the US.
   There have been over 40 million abortions since Roe vs Wade 
 in the US alone.
   Currently, 1 in every five pregnancies in the US results in abortion.
   America has a population of 291 million.  Were abortion 
 illegal, its population would be approximately 331 million.  This is 
 a difference of 12%.

I'll simply observe at this point that some persons advocate open access 
to abortion precisely because it reduces the population from what it 
might have been otherwise.  Zero Population Growth advocates tend to be 
the most radical of all, tending to feel that any extra person upon the 
face of the planet can only be a net liability, basically just another 
consumer of resources and generator of wastes.  The viewpoint is 
repugnant, but it exists nonetheless.  I even remember a couple of years 
ago responding to a woman's letter to the editor in our local paper that 
came from that perspective.

All the best,
/Sandy/ 

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RE: [ZION] Federal Marriage Amendment

2004-03-05 Thread Gerald Smith
It means that no legal document can require marriage to also apply to 
same sex or other couplings.

This doesn't disallow unions for them, just proscribes that the term and 
form of marriage be saved for man and woman.
Gary


Jonathan Scott wrote:
 
 Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, nor 
 state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital 
 status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried 
 couples or groups.
 
 Sorry, but can someone tell me what this part means?
 -- 
 Jonathan Scott



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RE: [ZION] Defend Marriage Petition, more information, installment 2

2004-03-05 Thread Rusty Taylor
I have not followed the issue in detail over the past years as you
evidently have, so I am not very well informed. what I can tell you though,
is that a reporters job is to make sure that the story can stand alone, ,
unless the srticle indicates it is part of a series. Proctors comments
about the information being buried, in my opinion, are valid. we sure do
not hear any comments about this study from main stream news sources in our
area.

respectfully

Bob Taylor


What it indicates, Bob, is that Ms. Proctor is a half-baked
reporter herself.

-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ZION] Defend Marriage Petition, more information,
installment 2


Dear Zionistas-- here's a follow up to my initial transmission

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040303more.html

Bob Taylor


Dear Zionistas

this article, while supplying no really new
information, certainly confirms
my previous suspicions regarding the printed media in
our country.  while
this does not necessarily indicate a media conspiracy,
I would say it
indicates they at least think alike on this particular topic.

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040301press.html
Last week two long-anticipated studies were released
on the sexual abuse
scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church, and it
is hard to believe
that the reporters from the New York Times, the Los
Angeles Times, the
Washington Post, and the Washington Times were at the
same press
conference, because they certainly didn’t get the same story.
By Maurine Jensen Proctor


Bob Taylor

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[ZION] Steve Farrell on the Marriage Amendment

2004-03-05 Thread Steven Montgomery
Many of you know that Steve Farrell and I are best friends. Best friends or 
not, we are somewhat divided over whether or not an amendment is the best 
way to defend traditional marriages. While Steve is in favor of a Marriage 
Amendment, I am in favor or protecting traditional marriages by limiting 
the jurisdiction of Federal Courts. Anyway, in the interest of balance 
grin, here is Steve Farrell's latest, taken from 
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/3/134302.shtml:

Marriage  the Constitution: Time for an Amendment?

Steve Farrell
Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2004
Do we need to amend the Constitution to defend the age old tradition of 
marriage? Professor Richard Wilkins, former Assistant to the Solicitor 
General of the United States, and the founder and managing director of 
Defend Marriage (a project of United Families International), believes so.

A little over a week ago, he asked me to join Defend Marriage as their 
press director. I accepted; and why not? Is there a more vital cause? The 
traditional family is the transmission belt of the values of a free 
society. You know this. I know this. Our enemies know this.

Destroy the family, and a nation is ripe for revolution. Let's not mince 
words. The family is key; and there are forces that would like to take the 
traditional family out, forever.

We can't let them.

Despite the settled belief that this is true, however, Wilkins notes, many 
are confused as to why the federal constitution needs to be amended to save 
marriage. Isn't this an issue for the states? they ask. Won't this 
diminish the 'sacred nature' of the Constitution? others wonder.

These are substantial concerns, he says. However, these very 
concerns – rather than suggesting that we 'leave the Constitution alone' – 
now impose upon the people a duty to provide a constitutional definition 
for marriage.

Unless the people clearly establish the constitutional meaning of 
marriage, the judges will do it for us – and, in the process, erode the 
very idea of a written Constitution, expand judicial power and upset the 
vital balance of power established by the Framers of the United States 
Constitution.

Good points. Professor Wilkins suggests we consider the following:

# Although it appears the Constitution was written to leave questions like 
marriage to the states, this has not stopped federal courts from intruding 
where the Constitution gives them no license to tread. The United States 
Supreme Court has decreed that states can not 'demean' any adult consensual 
sexual relationship.

Lawrence v. Texas. This new rule – nowhere supported by the text of the 
Constitution nor by the history, traditions or practices of the American 
people – will shortly require all states in the nation to recognize any and 
all consensual sexual relationships as 'marriage.'

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in mandating homosexual 
'marriage,' merely applied the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court to its 
state constitution. The Mayor of San Francisco, in unilaterally issuing 
marriage licenses contrary to controlling California law, similarly relied 
upon the reasoning of Lawrence to defend the legality of his actions.

# Therefore, whatever the Constitution once provided, all rules related to 
marriage have now been subsumed by a 'constitutional analysis' previously 
unknown to the law. State legislatures, and the people they represent, no 
longer control the meaning of marriage or the hundreds and thousands of 
legal rules associated with marriage.

All such questions, henceforth, will be governed by decisions of state and 
federal courts. And, in light of the expansive 'constitutional analysis' 
adopted in Lawrence, those decisions will not be guided by either the words 
of the Constitution nor the traditions, history and actual practices of the 
American people. .

In light of the foregoing, anyone concerned about preserving the structure 
and content of the American Constitution should understand why the words 
'marriage' and 'constitutional amendment' need to be linked, to save the 
social viability of marriage, and integrity of the Constitution itself.

He makes good sense. He continues:

1. A Constitutional amendment will restore the crucial understanding that 
American government operates under a written Constitution.

As Chief Justice John Marshall noted in the famous decision of Marbury v. 
Madison in 1803, America is governed by 'a written constitution' and the 
framers of the constitution contemplated that instrument as a rule for the 
government of courts, as well as of the legislature. (Emphasis by Justice 
Marshall.)

Because America operates under a written Constitution that is as binding on 
the courts as on any other branch of government, judges must adhere to the 
text of the Constitution and interpret and apply its terms consistently 
with the traditions, history and actual practices of the American people. 
Any other course, as Chief Justice 

[ZION] Martha Stewart Guilty

2004-03-05 Thread John W. Redelfs
Martha Stewart is guilty on all counts.

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RE: [ZION] Defend Marriage Petition, more information, installment 2

2004-03-05 Thread RB Scott
Bob:

I'm sorry Bob, but Ms. Proctor's sweeping charges that the media
deliberately buried the informing was just flat out wrong, as I
pointed out in my response to her column. Ms. Proctor has been on
a blame the media jag for quite some time.  She ground this ax
again.  This time she got it wrong. Flat out wrong.  She needs to
do her homework and, frankly, before reporters write stuff like
she wrote, they usually go right to the source: they get the
subjects' view of the matter.  This is called balancing,
triangulating the story. Writers who seek only to spew their
personal opinions, however uniformed they are, avoid
triangulation.

Ron

-Original Message-
From: Rusty Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ZION] Defend Marriage Petition, more information,
installment 2


I have not followed the issue in detail over the past
years as you
evidently have, so I am not very well informed. what I
can tell you though,
is that a reporters job is to make sure that the story
can stand alone, ,
unless the srticle indicates it is part of a series.
Proctors comments
about the information being buried, in my opinion, are
valid. we sure do
not hear any comments about this study from main stream
news sources in our
area.

respectfully

Bob Taylor


What it indicates, Bob, is that Ms. Proctor is a half-baked
reporter herself.

-Original Message-
From: Rusty Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ZION] Defend Marriage Petition, more
information,
installment 2


Dear Zionistas-- here's a follow up to my initial transmission

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040303more.html

Bob Taylor


Dear Zionistas

this article, while supplying no really new
information, certainly confirms
my previous suspicions regarding the printed media in
our country.  while
this does not necessarily indicate a media conspiracy,
I would say it
indicates they at least think alike on this particular topic.

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040301press.html
Last week two long-anticipated studies were released
on the sexual abuse
scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church, and it
is hard to believe
that the reporters from the New York Times, the Los
Angeles Times, the
Washington Post, and the Washington Times were at the
same press
conference, because they certainly didn’t get the same story.
By Maurine Jensen Proctor


Bob Taylor

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[ZION] Hatch's Proposal

2004-03-05 Thread Steven Montgomery
Take a look at Orrin Hatch's proposal for an amendment. Tell me what you think:

http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/editors200403040830.asp



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Re: [ZION] Steve Farrell on the Marriage Amendment

2004-03-05 Thread Steven Montgomery
At 01:13 PM 3/5/2004, you wrote:
Many of you know that Steve Farrell and I are best friends. Best friends 
or not, we are somewhat divided over whether or not an amendment is the 
best way to defend traditional marriages. While Steve is in favor of a 
Marriage Amendment, I am in favor or protecting traditional marriages by 
limiting the jurisdiction of Federal Courts. Anyway, in the interest of 
balance grin, here is Steve Farrell's latest, taken from 
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/3/134302.shtml:
Oops. Strip that last colon off the URL. It should be this:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/3/134302.shtml



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to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.  (History of 
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[ZION] 34 U.S. Senators would nix Marriage Amendment

2004-03-05 Thread Steven Montgomery
According to Newsmax and unnamed published reports, at least 34 U.S. 
Senators would vote no on the Marriage Amendment:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/5/95800.shtml

What stand a better chance is to limit the jurisdiction of Federal 
Courts--something that only takes a simple majority, rather than a 2/3 
majority of both House and Senate and then 3/4 of the States.

--
Steven Montgomery
The most important consequence of marriage is, that
the husband and the wife become in law only one
person Upon this principle of union, almost all the
other legal consequences of marriage depend. This
principle, sublime and refined, deserves to be viewed
and examined on every side. —James Wilson
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Re: [ZION] Testimony of Richard Richardson

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Scott
Yesterday the US Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Orrin Hatch 
held a hearing on the proposed federal marriage amendment.  Here is 
the testimony of Richard Richardson before that committee:

TESTIMONY OF REVEREND RICHARD RICHARDSON
St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
The Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston
Children's Services of Roxbury, Inc.
Boston, MA
Thank you.  It's a good article.
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[ZION] Cool Riddle

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Scott
	Name something that is better than God, that dead people eat 
all of the time, and that if you eat it you will die?
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Re: [ZION] Hatch's Proposal

2004-03-05 Thread John W. Redelfs
Steven Montgomery wrote:
Take a look at Orrin Hatch's proposal for an amendment. Tell me what you 
think:

http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/editors200403040830.asp
I think that Hatch's proposal, if it became an amendment, would create a 
nation in which same-sex marriage was permitted in some states, and not 
permitted in others.  This would override the current provisions in the US 
Constitution that requires states to recognize the legal documents of other 
states.  It didn't work when we had slave states and free states.  I don't 
think it would work if we had traditional marriage states and gay marriage 
states.

But...

I may be wrong.  It may be that Musgrave amendment is not passable in its 
current form.  If so, then the Hatch idea is better than the current situation.

John W. Redelfs[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [ZION] 34 U.S. Senators would nix Marriage Amendment

2004-03-05 Thread John W. Redelfs
Steven Montgomery wrote:
According to Newsmax and unnamed published reports, at least 34 U.S. 
Senators would vote no on the Marriage Amendment:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/5/95800.shtml

What stand a better chance is to limit the jurisdiction of Federal 
Courts--something that only takes a simple majority, rather than a 2/3 
majority of both House and Senate and then 3/4 of the States.
I continue to feel that we should do both:  pass a federal marriage 
amendment if we can, and pass legislation limiting the jurisdiction of the 
Federal Courts.  I don't think we should assume up front that an amendment 
is politically impossible.  And we should remember that what can be done 
with a simple majority can be undone with a simple majority.  If an 
amendment would be harder to pass, it would also be much harder to repeal.

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[ZION] Third Party Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread John W. Redelfs
If President Bush actively promotes a federal marriage amendment, then I 
will vote for him in November.  Otherwise, I will vote for a third party 
candidate.   However, I know nothing about the various third party 
candidates.  Does anyone here have information that might be valuable to 
me?  Who is running on the American Party ticket?  The Constitution 
Party?  The Libertarian Party?

John W. Redelfs[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [ZION] Help Me Please

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Scott
Hello,
	I'm working on chapter three, and I need some help.  I'm 
compiling a list of all of the possible positive and negative things 
kids of the sixties would would have had to measure and consider 
when choosing whether or not (or how much) to abandon US 
culture...especially in light of the Vietnam War.

Adhering to US  Abandoning US
Culture Culture
---
Positives   Acceptance of   Life
  Parents   Sex
Honor   Drugs
Acceptance of
  Peers
Freedom
Fun
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Negatives   Possible Death  Disapproval of
Terror  Parents
Possible Physical
  Handicap
Shame
P.S. I guess I wasn't very specific.  Could you please help me flesh 
out the above lists?  Thanks.
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Re: [ZION] Farrell, Hatch and Redelfs

2004-03-05 Thread Steven Montgomery
At 06:40 PM 3/5/2004, you wrote:
Orrin Hatch feels that ONLY a federal marriage amendment will provide an 
effective barrier against judicial activism redefining marriage to include 
same-sex marriage.
Apparently Steve Farrell agrees.  So does Redelfs.  Anything less than a 
federal amendment will be swept away by the flood of filth we are 
currently witnessing.

Some may argue that an amendment cannot be passed because it requires a 
two-thirds vote of both houses and ratification of three-fourths of the 
states.  I hope that is not true because if it is, then the battle is 
lost.  If we cannot pass an amendment, then our goose is cooked.  I pray 
that it is not so.

John W. Redelfs
According to Boyd K. Packer, in his speech given at the J. Reuben Clark 
Center at BYU (See: 
http://www.lds.org/newsroom/voice/display/0,18255,5004-1-61,00.html):

Quote
The present major political debate centers on values and morals and the 
Constitution.

There occurs from time to time reference to the Constitution hanging by a 
thread. President Brigham Young said:

The general Constitution of our country is good, and a wholesome government 
could be framed upon it; for it was dictated by the invisible operations of 
the Almighty. ...

 Will the Constitution be destroyed? No. It will be held inviolate by this 
people; and as Joseph Smith said the time will come when the destiny of 
this nation will hang upon a single thread, and at this critical juncture, 
this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction. 
It will be so.23

I do not know when that day will come or how it will come to pass. I feel 
sure that when it does come to pass, among those who will step forward from 
among this people will be men who hold the Holy Priesthood and who carry as 
credentials a bachelor or doctor of law degree. And women, also, of honor. 
And there will be judges as well.

Others from the world outside the Church will come, as Colonel Thomas Kane 
did, and bring with them their knowledge of the law to protect this people.

We may one day stand alone, but we will not change or lower our standards 
or change our course.
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Even if the rest of the nation is destroyed the Constitution will be 
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Re: [ZION] Farrell, Hatch and Redelfs

2004-03-05 Thread Steven Montgomery
At 07:32 PM 3/5/2004, you wrote:
At 06:40 PM 3/5/2004, you wrote:
Orrin Hatch feels that ONLY a federal marriage amendment will provide an 
effective barrier against judicial activism redefining marriage to 
include same-sex marriage.
Apparently Steve Farrell agrees.  So does Redelfs.  Anything less than a 
federal amendment will be swept away by the flood of filth we are 
currently witnessing.

Some may argue that an amendment cannot be passed because it requires a 
two-thirds vote of both houses and ratification of three-fourths of the 
states.  I hope that is not true because if it is, then the battle is 
lost.  If we cannot pass an amendment, then our goose is cooked.  I pray 
that it is not so.

John W. Redelfs
According to Boyd K. Packer, in his speech given at the J. Reuben Clark 
Center at BYU (See: 
http://www.lds.org/newsroom/voice/display/0,18255,5004-1-61,00.html):
Dang. The URL should be:

http://www.lds.org/newsroom/voice/display/0,18255,5004-1-61,00.html



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RE: [ZION] Martha Stewart Guilty

2004-03-05 Thread RB Scott
Not true. The most serious ones were dropped a week or two ago.

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From: John W. Redelfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:05 PM
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Subject: [ZION] Martha Stewart Guilty


Martha Stewart is guilty on all counts.


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