THE GOSPEL HINDERED ...

The American Civil Liberties Union, representing the

grandparents of two students, has filed suit in federal court in

Oklahoma City against a man, who for the past 33 years has

traveled to schools in Arkansas and Oklahoma giving lessons from

the Bible. The man, George Harrington, as well as the New Lima

OK school district were named as defendants in the suit.

Harrington does not pray with students or give altar calls or

directly evangelize the students and has the overwhelming

support of the close-knit community as well as the school

Superintendent. (RELIGIOUS RIGHTS WATCH - Feb 92)

 

THE VERY BUSY ACLU ...

The ACLU is battling to halt all federal funding of

abstinence-based sex education curricula used in public schools

and health programs. The constitutionality of the Family Life

Act of 1981, known as the Chastity Act, is being contested

because it allegedly promotes religion. Administered by the

Department of Health and Human Services, the program is designed

to discourage teen pregnancy and promote adoption as an

alternative to abortion. In a pending lawsuit, the ACLU argues

that counselors who use HHS-funded materials often dispense

religious advice. (THE NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELIGION REPORT

- Nov 91)

 

SIGNS OF THE TIMES:

Shmidt Laboratories will be unveiling a condom packet marketed

directly at teenagers early in 1992. The "Safe Play for Young

Lovers" kit, resembles a cigarette pack with a fliptop and is

sold with a key chain attached to a plastic condom storage

holder. Ads will be appearing on television and in Playboy

magazine this year. (CHRISTIAN WORLD REPORT - Jan 92)

 

The fall season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", will

feature gay and lesbian characters as ordinary citizens of the

24th century. The characters will be portrayed as ordinary

citizens living in a future century when one's sexual

orientation is a matter of total public indifference.

(CHRISTIAN WORLD REPORT - Jan 92)

 

A Senate committee voted to end the Bush Administration's ban on

experiments with transplanted fetal tissue. The Senate Labor

and Human Resources Committee voted 13 to 4 for an amendment to

another spending bill that would reverse the Administration's

ban on the use of Federal funds for any experiments in which

tissue is transplanted from an aborted fetus to patients. (NEW

YORK TIMES - 2/6/92)

 

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is following

in the steps of the Presbyterian Church USA by announcing a

study of an ELCA booklet produced by its Task Force on Human

Sexuality which will develop a formal policy statement before

the 1993 Churchwide Assembly in Kansas City. Responses to the

55-page document, "Human Sexuality and the Christian Faith: A

Study for the Church's Reflection and Deliberation" are due by

June 30, 1992. (BOSTON GLOBE - 1/31/92)

 

Privacy advocates contend that manufacturers of cellular phones

and wireless computers have decided not to adopt maximum levels

of privacy protection in new models of these communication

products due to pressure from the National Security Agency

(NSA). People concerned with privacy are eager to incorporate

more potent scrambling and descrambling codes in the equipment

to prevent eavesdropping. The privacy-rights faction feel that

the NSA oppose such codes that are hard to crack because they

interfere with intelligence gathering methods. According to

Marc Rotenberg, Washington Director for the Computer

Professionals for Social Responsibility, "The NSA is trying to

weaken privacy technology ... At stake is nothing less than

future of our privacy in the communications world." (NEW YORK

TIMES - 2/7/92)

 

INTERNATIONAL NEWS NOTES:

Vyacheslav Rozanov, deputy chief of the thermonuclear department

at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, stated that

Libya has offered high paying jobs to his colleagues at this top

nuclear institute, providing new evidence the Soviet Union's

collapse could spread nuclear technology. According to Rozanov,

at least two fellow scientists had been made offers which were

turned down. He added that due to economic problems in his

country they might say yes to more money next time. (ASSOCIATED

PRESS, MOSCOW 1/19/92)

 

Commissioner Frans Andriessen of the European Parliament

announced that checks by EC inspectors last November revealed

that 13.7 kilograms of uranium were discovered missing from the

Dounreay nuclear reprocessing plant in the north of Scotland.

MEP Rolf Linkohr demanded to know if enriched uranium was

involved because, if so, it was enough to make a nuclear bomb.

Further investigations are presently being conducted. (EUROPEAN

PARLIAMENT EP NEWS - 1/17/92)

 

Syria is negotiating a $2 billion arms deal with Russia, the

London Arabic-language daily Al Hayat reported. Quoting unnamed

Russian sources in the British capital, the paper said that the

deal covered sophisticated MIG-29 and Sukhoi 24 jets, and SAM-10

and SAM-11 air defense missiles. (JERUSALEM POST INTERNATIONAL

- 2/8/92)

 

The European Parliament failed to secure enough votes to approve

financial aid to Syria worth some 316 million ECU (211 million

pounds) in loans and guarantees after concern was expressed

about its human rights record. The vote was 206 in favor with

121 against and 24 abstentions, but failed to meet the necessary

260 votes required for it to pass.

An aid package worth 82 million ECU (57 million pounds) in bank

loans for Israel barely passed 260 to 84, with 23 abstentions.

The European Commission was instructed however to delay

implementation of the protocol until the human rights situation

and the UN Security Council resolutions on the occupied

territories are respected. (EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EP NEWS -

1/17/92)

 

 

As Islam rapidly grows in the former Soviet Republics of Central

Asia, recent events are signalling that this region may be close

to an Islamic political revolution, according to recent reports.

"The Economist" magazine reports that two years ago there were

160 working mosques in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Today there

are over 5,000. With the collapse of the Communist Party, the

area is fertile ground for Islamic Fundamentalism. Evidence

that this is a real possibility came on September 9th, when, for

the first time in the region, a party overtly calling for the

creation of an Islamic state received official recognition.

This is the Islamic Renaissance Party. This party has grown

from 10,000 to 70,000 members in 1991 according to one of its

officials. (CHRISTIAN WORLD REPORT - Jan 92)

 

The following letter recently appeared in the JERUSALEM POST

INTERNATIONAL:

Sir, - At a press conference during the Madrid peace talks,

Hanan Ashwari, when asked by a Christian journalist, obviously

sympathetic to Zionism, about her attitude to the Jewish

communities in Judea and Samaria, took umbrage and proclaimed:

"I am a Christian Arab from Palestine. There is no Judea and

Samaria. Jesus was born in my country."

In a vein of black humor, I might respond that Madame Ashwari

has finally lifted from the Jewish people the guilt for Jesus'

crucifixion. But of one turns to the Book of Acts in the New

Testament, Chapter 1, Verse 8, we read that Jesus appeals to his

apostles to be his "witnesses in Jerusalem, as well as in Judea

and Samaria, throughout the land."

If Judea and Samaria as place names were acceptable to Jesus,

what problems does Madame Ashwari have with those same names now?

Yisral Medad - Shiloh

 

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