A Bible Belt city known for its country and Christian music has joined other communities in passing ordinances concerning sexual orientation.

Nashville, Tennessee, is home to the Southern Baptist Convention's national headquarters, host of the annual gathering of the National Religious Broadcasters, and arguably the base of the Christian music industry. Now the Nashville City Council has passed an anti-discrimination ordinance to protect the homosexuals who work for companies that contract with the city. The bill passed by the thinnest of margins, as opponents argued that city contractors should not be forced to compromise their moral and religious values.

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Had the ordinance been presented as a referendum before the general public, Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), says it would have been defeated.

(Music City USA sings a 'gay' tune)

In an extreme example of the "nanny state" mentality, a public school in Chicago is forbidding students to bring lunches from home and is ordering them to only eat food from the school cafeteria.

The principal at Little Village Academy (K-8) on Chicago's West Side told the Chicago Tribune that making students eat the cafeteria food, unless they have a medical excuse, is intended to protect them from their own unhealthful food choices.  "Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at school," said Elsa Carmona. "It's about nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve [in the lunchroom]. It's milk versus a Coke."
 
While the administrator makes the nutrition argument, former public school teacher Dr. Karen Gushta -- research coordinator at Coral Ridge Ministries and author of The War on Children: How Pop Culture and Public Schools Put Our Kids at Risk -- tells OneNewsNow it usurps parental authority. ( School usurps parental authority)

(Billy's Thoughts>>> Why should the leadership of any school be able to decide if children bring their lunch to school or that they eat the school food. I thought we lived in America not in Cuba, or China.)

There was more to the Founding Fathers and past presidents like Abraham Lincoln than we were ever taught in history class or were able to read in a book. (Larry Flynt exposes sex lives of former presidents... )

But now, thanks to porn king Larry Flynt, we can read all the sordid details because according to him, the lives of the nation's past presidents were governed by sex.

In his new book One Nation under Sex, he takes an up-close-and-personal look at the sex lives of the Founding Fathers and beyond.

(Billy's Thoughts>>> Mr. Flynt has sick mind. He is a man we should all pity and pray for. Flynt's ideas on sex is what has brought our sinful nation down along with making our culture sicker and sicker.)

President Barack Obama will lay out U.S. policy toward the Middle East and North Africa in the coming weeks, Clinton told Arab and U.S. policy makers in a speech that placed particular emphasis on Israeli-Palestinian peace. (Obama to push new state of Palestine in September? )

(Billy's Thoughts>>> This will not for one second stop the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The reason is the PLO and radical followers of Islam hate Israel and want to rid the planet of  every Jewish soul, other Presidents have tried to get these two to come to peace terms but that can't happen when one group hates the other.)

President Barack Obama will lay out U.S. policy toward the Middle East and North Africa in the coming weeks, Clinton told Arab and U.S. policy makers in a speech that placed particular emphasis on Israeli-Palestinian peace. (Obama to push new state of Palestine in September? )

(Billy's Thoughts>>> This will not for one second stop the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The reason is the PLO and radical followers of Islam hate Israel and want to rid the planet of  every Jewish soul, other Presidents have tried to get these two to come to peace terms but that can't happen when one group hates the other.)

The head of an Ohio-based political action committee isn't surprised that a school board in his state bowed to pressure from liberal groups to prevent a Christian from telling the truth about Islam at a public high school.

Usama Dakdok, founder of Florida-based The Straight Way of Grace Ministry, was scheduled to address an event sponsored by the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association at the local high school. But the event, featuring Dakdok's speech critical of President Barack Obama's pro-Islamic leanings, had to be moved to a private office building because of complaints voiced by the NAACP and the Islamic Society of Mansfield.  ( Silent Ohio Christians chastised)

 
Phil Burress, chairman of the Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values Political Action Committee, says Christians need to take back control of America's public schools.
 
"This is political correctness run amok," Burress comments. "Our schools have become the absolute centerpiece for political correctness for the liberal left. ...If they like what you're going to say, they'll let you speak -- and they don't, then they yell 'separation of church and state.'"

(Billy's Thoughts>>> You can say anything about the Christian faith in these schools but you better not touch Islam. Perhaps this is another reason to remove your kids from the government schools.)
 

Promoting Easter can be controversial in the view of Edwards Cinema, a California theater chain.

Each year, Compass Bible Church in Aliso Viejo runs commercials advertising its Easter service, and even designed one to run in movie theaters at a cost of several thousand dollars. Senior pastor Mike Fabarez says in order to do this, a contract had to be signed.

“Edwards Cinema, which is, I guess their agent is the Media Networks who runs all of their advertising, and they said it's too controversial,” Fabarez says. “[They said] it uses the name of Jesus and so we're not going to accept that ad.” (View ad above)

 (Theater axes church's Easter ad)

NCM Media Networks, which handles pre-show advertising for many theaters in Orange County, says it gave Fabarez content guidelines, which prohibit nudity, drug use, and promotion of religious figures. The pastor acknowledges having received those guidelines, but says the written contract included no prohibition of religious figures. He feels the decision is nothing short of hypocrisy.