Several organizations are asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to review a lower-court decision permitting same-gender adoption.

(NC same-gender adoption case continues  )

The court ruled in a case involving two lesbians, one of whom is State Senator Julia Boseman (D-New Hanover). Boseman's partner Melissa Jarrell had a baby through artificial insemination and permitted Boseman to adopt the child. Child custody became a factor when the couple split up and the natural mother wanted Boseman, her former partner, out of the picture. The North Carolina Court of Appeals granted custody to Boseman.  "Basically this case just represents the craziness in our laws when we go against God's moral law and open up our courts and our institutions to this kind of ridiculous behavior," notes Barbara Weller of the Christian Law Association.

(This is the kind of thing many of us feared and said would happen if we started to allow same sex marriage. The question here shouldn't be about if  same sex couples have the right to have children but the question should be what would be best for the children. Children need loving parents not those who want to push same sex marriage down our throats. Children having enough issues they shouldn't have to deal with explaining why they have two dads or two moms. )

Massachusetts may soon lay off its prison chaplains. Those plans could unfold within the next few weeks.

Mark Hemenway of New England Prison Ministries is concerned because the role of prison chaplain is important. "It is -- and it's huge," he stresses. "And if you speak with a chaplain, you'll hear stories of people who were saved from suicide, who were helped from committing acts of violence." The impact of chaplains "is not always apparent, but it's very real," he adds.

(While it might be too bad to see  these workers not be around prisons perhaps we can get some truly Godly chaplains by different Christian Ministries like Good News Jail and prison ministries bringing them in. Not all chaplains know the true God. They might know about God without knowing God. If you are a person of faith join me in praying  that true people of God will be brought into the prisons around the nation.  Read more on this issue Prison chaplains facing cuts.)

At the request of a Christian-founded organization, Australia is considering a bill to legalize homosexual "marriage."

The bill before the Australian Senate is being pushed by Amnesty International. Piero Tozzi, executive vice president and general counsel of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), tells OneNewsNow that Amnesty International was originally formed by a Christian mainly to try to free prisoners of conscience behind the Iron Curtain. However, considering the present situation, Tozzi says it seems the group's focus has changed.

"I believe it was in 2006, Amnesty changed its position from neutrality on the abortion issue to favoring abortion," Tozzi reports. "Now they've really come full-circle, and I think betrayed the founding principles."

(This group is  no longer working for Christian based values.  You can't compare the fight for same sex marriage with the fight to   free prisoners of conscience behind the Iron Curtain. People were abused, and even killed because of their faith or political views behind the Iron Curtain. All those who I have heard take a stand against same sex marriage have never pushed for those who want same sex marriage to be put in prison or killed because of it. Read more on this issue Amnesty International pushes same-sex 'marriage'.)

The vice chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) is promoting a proposed resolution that would warn 2010 GOP candidates that if they do not respect the party's "conservative values," they will not receive the financial backing or endorsement of the RNC.  (Principles before GOP politics )

The "Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" was drafted by Jim Bopp, vice chairman of the RNC.  It requires that GOP candidates prove not only with their campaign speeches, but also with their voting record that they embrace at least eight of ten conservative principles (listed below).
 
Bopp tells OneNewsNow he has yet to get RNC chairman Michael Steele's opinion on his proposal because the resolution was leaked prematurely by "people who are trying to undermine the effort." He says the resolution is designed to ensure the party puts its money where its mouth is.

(This is a great idea. Some of us on the right have been concerned that the Grand Old Party has been forgetting  it's core principles like right to life, a strong America, and less spending of  the tax payer's money. I hope the leadership of the party will follow this idea but I am not sure. Too often the party and some of it's members have been more concerned with being liked than standing on principal. ) 

I did a sermon yesterday on how to have a more joyful holiday this year. You can watch the video of it or read it on my faith based blog right here.  

The couple who crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner are peddling their story to broadcast networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a television executive says.

The executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the network does not publicly discuss bookings, told The Associated Press that representatives for Michaele and Tareq Salahi contacted networks to urge them to "get their bids in" for an interview. The executive said the Virginia couple was looking for a payment in the mid-six figures range. (Obama dinner crashers shopping interview... )

Meanwhile, CNN confirmed that the Salahis had canceled an appearance they had scheduled for "Larry King Live" on Monday.

Network news divisions say they don't pay for interviews. But for eagerly sought interviews in the past, they have offered to pay for access to exclusive material, such as pictures or videos from their subjects.

(If these souls must be paid to talk to the media every good  TV network- station,  radio network - station, and newspaper should reject their offer. The only ones who should talk to them are those who job it is to guard the President and others at the White House.) 

 Despite presenting his side of the car-crash story and asking that it remain "a private matter," Tiger Woods may still not be in the clear.

Troopers arriving at his Isleworth home requesting an interview were turned down for a third straight day, but the Florida Highway Patrol said it will continue to investigate. Yet the tabloid-fueled rumors now swirling around one of the world's richest and most-recognizable athletes could turn out to be more troublesome still.

About an hour before the troopers arrived Sunday afternoon, Woods released a statement on his Web site taking responsibility for - but providing few details about - the middle-of-the-night accident that left him dazed, bruised and bloodied.

"This is a private matter and I want to keep it that way," Woods said. "Although I understand there is curiosity, the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me are irresponsible. ...

( I hope Tiger along with his wife can work out whatever is taking place in their home. However when the police are called and you are a public person nothing is a private matter. Tiger could stop some of this talk if he would just sit down with the police but for some reason he and his wife won't do that which makes one wonder. Also if the police wanted to talk to you or I do you think we would be allowed to refuse seeing them. Perhaps money and power does help people stay out of jail.  Read more on this story  right here.)

Roman Polanski will remain in a jail outside Zurich for at least three more days until he meets the security conditions of his bail, a Swiss official said Friday.

Polanski wouldn't be placed under house arrest in Switzerland before Monday, because he has yet to fulfill all the requirements to ensure that he stays in his chalet in the Swiss luxury resort of Gstaad, Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said.

Galli did not elaborate, but the 76-year-old director must post $4.5 million bail, surrender his identity papers and be fitted with a monitoring bracelet.

Polanski cannot leave the chalet because the ministry is still deciding whether to extradite him to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. Authorities in Los Angeles want him sentenced after 31 years as a fugitive.

(As I have posted before  this man needs to be brought to America to face the charges he has been running from for the last 31 years. Justice needs to take place no matter how long it has been . Read more on this issue Polanski in jail until at least Monday.)

"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert on Wednesday admitted he got carried away during his racy American Music Awards performance, as furor over his singing and dancing stoked a wider controversy in the U.S. gay community.

Complaints poured in to the ABC TV network that aired the show, and it canceled the Lambert's appearance on its "Good Morning America" news and chat show set for Wednesday. (Adam Lambert furor spreads to gay community...  )

Yet rival network CBS put him on its "The Early Show" program, where Lambert claimed he had not intended to provoke audiences but declined to apologize, saying: "I'm not a baby-sitter. I'm a performer."

"I admit I did get carried away, but I don't see anything wrong with it. I do see how people got offended, and that was not my intention," he said.

(Shame on this so called performer. He may not be a baby-sitter but he should show class which he hasn't so far. I guess anything done by a member of the gay community is cool with those who run the TV networks. At least ABC TV stopped this man from being on it's morning show unlike CBS.  No wonder more souls are trying to raise their kids without TV.) 

Double-digit. That hyphenated adjective has been used most often recently to describe October's 10.2 percent unemployment rate. But it can also be used to describe the federal budget deficit as a percentage of the gross domestic product. That precise number is not yet known, but it may turn out to have a more dire effect on our national life than October's unemployment rate.

In the fiscal year just ended, federal spending was nearly 25 percent of GDP while federal revenues slipped below 15 percent because of the financial crisis and recession. We have not seen a budget deficit of this magnitude since World War II, which surely was a greater challenge than recent economic troubles.

Apologists for the Obama administration argue that some 2009 spending, like that on financial bailouts, is nonrecurring. True, but as the Congressional Budget Office has reported, the trajectory of administration spending and revenue is pushing the annual deficit toward $1,000,000,000,000 -- that's $1 trillion -- for the next decade.

Congressional Democrats' health care bills threaten to add to that. The bill currently before the Senate is advertised as costing less than $1 trillion. But significant spending doesn't kick in till 2014 and over the ensuing 10 years adds up to $1.8 trillion, nearly double that.

Thanks to current low interest rates, servicing the debt costs the government only $200 billion this year. But the White House estimates that debt service will exceed $700 billion in 2019. "In a few years," the Economist editorializes, "the AAA rating of Treasury bonds, the world's most important security, could be in jeopardy."

(OK lets forget how much everything costs  just keep spending because government should do everything. That is the attitude of those running our nation and some of us believe destroying the idea America was built on. Read more of the above story   Damn the deficit: Full speed ahead on health care...)

Political activist Andrew Breitbart broke a story this week about ACORN, a national association of community organizers that claims to advocate for low-and-moderate-income people, on his Big Government blog. This time ACORN is accused of a massive document dump at its San Diego office. The discarded papers contain sensitive personal information about clients and employees, such as Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, voided checks, tax returns, even credit reports. Other documents, according to Derrick Roach, the private investigator who retrieved the data, contained detailed information about how ACORN operates in California.

The real story, though, is the timing of the disposal, which occurred six days before representatives from the Attorney General's Office visited the ACORN offices for their investigation into potentially illegal advice and misconduct captured on video by two activists posing as potential ACORN clients. The videos caused a national stir in September. ( Jerry Brown vs. ACORN... )

If Mr. Brown is serious about returning to the governor's job, which he held from 1975-83, he will need to get serious about investigating ACORN. If he doesn't, it might cost him at the ballot box.

(Brown needs to do what is right and look into ACORN. What he decides should not be based on politics or is that asking too much. The good people of America and CA. deserve that don't we?)