How Are Christian Values Faring in GOP Platform?

The Christian Post reports:

The Republican National Convention may not be officially opening until Monday, but the hard work of finalizing the GOP platform – often referred to as its mission statement – is now under way in Tampa, Fla. Christians are paying particular attention to this year’s committee meetings given the fact that the Democrats have voted to include same-sex marriage in their platform for the first time in history.

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Christianity Today Writer Ken Smith Founded Company Fined for Deceptive Business Practices; With Child Porn Ties

The Christian Post reports:

The co-author of a recent Christianity Today article is one of the founders of Zango, a company fined by the FTC for unfair and deceptive business practices, including lax distribution of software that furthered child pornography. The Christianity Today article was co-written by Ted Olsen and Ken Smith, who founded 180solutions (which later became Zango), a company with software that had been “distributed in conjunction with child pornography,” according to documents obtained by The Christian Post.

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Wine Country Vintners to Church: ‘We Don’t Want Your Kind Out Here!’

Christian Newswire reports:

Calvary Chapel Bible Fellowship (“The Barn”) is gearing up to file a federal lawsuit against the County of Riverside, CA, in the event the County continues its ban on churches in the Temecula Wine Country, an area that is being expanded from approximately 7,000 acres to over 18,990 acres. A public hearing will occur on Wednesday, August 22, 2012, over the fate of churches in this region. The hearing will position the Wine Country Vintner’s Association against the church congregation and many other Christians from the area.

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Wounded Security Guard: ‘I Feel God Put Me in a Position to Be There at That Time’

CNS reports on the security guard who was shot by a gunman at the Family Research Council on Wednesday:

Leo Johnson, the building operation manager at the FRC, a conservative policy group that promotes “faith, family and freedom,” has been hailed as a hero by authorities for not letting an armed gunman get too far past the front door. In an interview with WJLA-TV, Johnson described how the shooter, Floyd Lee Corkins II, posed as an intern and opened fire without warning just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

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Tim Tebow ‘Jesus’ Pose in GQ Stirs Controversy

Fox News reports on a controversial photo of Tim Tebow inside GQ Magazine. In the photo Tebow is shirtless with legs crossed and arms outstretched as if he is posing as Jesus Christ on the cross. This is not the first time the photo has appeared in GQ. According to Fox, the same photo was in the magazine when Tebow was quarterback for the University of Florida. View article →

Democrats Officially Add Homosexual ‘Marriage’ to Party Platform

Christian News Network reports:

The Democratic party has voted to officially add homosexual marriage to its platform, and has called for a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

The decision came down Saturday in Detroit, Michigan in front of a full platform committee. The vote to support “marriage equality” and “to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples” was unanimous.

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Theologian Rejects Claim That Jesus Never Addressed Gay Marriage

The Christian Post reports:

A Southern Baptist theologian is rejecting a popular argument made among gay activists who say Jesus never addressed the issue of same-sex marriage.

“Is it indeed the fact that Jesus never addresses the issue of same sex marriage?” asked Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., in a recent commentary.

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Todd Bentley: Truly Misleading

Unfortunately, this is a sign of the times in which we live where tolerance rules the day. Apprising Ministries shows you via Bud Press of Christian Research Service that Todd Bentley is back and he’s headed to infect the UK. View article →

Gay Agenda in Campaign Against Chick-fil-A Not About Civil Rights?

The Christian Post reports:

The backlash against gay activists and their political supporters for their campaign against Chick-fil-A for espousing the “biblical family unit” appears to be growing. Conservative activist Star Parker went so far as to describe the gay agenda as not a movement about civil rights but the advancement of the homosexual political agenda.

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Fewer Americans Than Ever Hopeful for Children’s Future

The Christian Post reports:

When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, 27 percent of Americans said today’s children would be better off than their parents. But now, when he is seeking re-election, only 14 percent are hopeful, “the lowest level of optimism ever measured,” a new Rasmussen poll says.

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Spain Angers Feminists with Plan to Tighten Abortion Law

AFP reports:

Spain’s conservative government has provoked a storm among women’s groups with plans to tighten abortion laws to make the procedure illegal in cases where the foetus is deformed.

About 100 people took part in a rally in Madrid’s central Tirso de Molina square on Sunday to protest against the proposed reform which they argue will take Spain back to the era of the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.

The crowd, mostly women, chanted “We give birth, we decide” and “Not one step backwards”.

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