HT: To Michelle Malkin and The Political Teen who is now renamed Expose the Left.

I love to watch people who are passionate about their beliefs, and it’s especially fun when I don’t agree an ounce with them and they are losing it.

This video is hilarious!

I expect Randi Rhodes to lose it tonight on Larry King tonight…stay tuned.

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I saw this interview with the Rev’s Schuller when it first aired and then noted it was rerun last night on Larry King.  I’ve waited to see if there was going to be some uproar in the homosexual community about Rev. Schuller’s comments on gay marriage.  The silence is deafening.

Maybe someone can tell me why when he clearly states that heterosexual marriage is "more excellent" than homosexual marriage no one says anything, but when someone like Pat Robertson or Janet Parshall states a similar sentiment they get attacked relentlessly.

Dr. Schullers’  comments, "I’m addicted to excellence…totally commited to excellence…and anytime there’s a controversy choose the interpretation that is more excellent.  And I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way…"

"…I’m not going to use my energy to promote the gay liberation movement because I don’t want to talk somebody into a viewpoint that is less excellent…"

…how people raised in Christian homes take that heritage and throw it away.

Today I was listening to Janet Parshall’s America and she had on a former porn star who I will not name because I don’t want to give her publicity. However, what I will say is that the MAJORITY of her testimony was all about her stupid and deviant mistakes.

I will never ever understand how someone raised in a godly home - although there is no perfect Christian home - willingly chooses to deny Christ, make very stupid choices that ultimately cause their own pain.

In this woman’s testimony Janet lauded her testimony and declared that “God raised her up for such a time as this.” Well, I wonder what her life would’ve been like if she didn’t have this spectacular testimony of becoming a prostitute, having numerous children out of wedlock, contracting STD’s, and starring in numerous porn movies. To say that that was God’s plan for her so that she could have “a ministry” now is ludicrous….and I’m not saying Janet said that, but it’s implied.

My point is that I get so sick and tired of hearing these self made testimonies that really have nothing to do with Christ, but are more about the persons idiotic mistakes. In other words, it seems like the testimonies that get glorified and are made great in the public eye, are those where the person was just plain stupid and disobedient towards God. They willingly spit in His face, deny all they were taught and have to learn the hard way.

What would her life had looked like if she hadn’t been so stupid with her choices? How could God have used her if she didn’t become a prostitute, get addicted to drugs etc? Why glorify that?

So the testimony is that “I saw the light and God healed me.” Yes, this is good - God healed you.

My point however is that God wouldn’t have had to heal you if you were obedient in the first place. Imagine a world where Christians raised with a godly heritage actually lived their lives as God intended. Imagine THAT testimony.

Who says that one has to go through such trauma to be used of God in order to glorify God’s healing and love.

  In a recent Nightline episode that aired January 27, 2006, Vicki Mabrey presented what some call a controversial program happening within the prison walls of Lawtey Correctional Institution. The issue at hand – faith in prisons and not just Christianity.

Mabrey contends that even though officials cite success with their program it isn’t really sufficient because there aren’t any scientific studies that prove that these types of faith based programs help lower disciplinary actions or lower recidivism rates.

This is interesting since Mabrey didn’t talk to one of the foremost experts in prison ministry, Chuck Colson who founded Prison Fellowship. (Or if she did it was left on the cutting room floor.) A cursory examination on the Prison Fellowship website reveals that Mabrey and Barry Lynn are incorrect about there being no studies that show faith helps in redeeming prisoners, lowering recidivism rates and lower disciplinary actions.

Prison Fellowship states, “While only limited credible research has appeared in criminal justice literature on the value of religious programming for prisoners and ex-prisoners, studies of Prison Fellowship programs have now been widely published. Prison Fellowship continues to evaluate its programs and is committed to getting the word out that Christian programs for prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families help reduce the effects of crime in our society.”

Of the eight cited research studies on the Prison Fellowship website, four of them deal specifically with recidivism. In every single case the research showed that the recidivism rates were lower for those who had participated in Prison Fellowship programs. See information here.

However, even if Mabrey doesn’t want to give credit to Prison Fellowship’s success, her reporting clearly shows that Lawtey is having success with recidivism. Of 642 prisoners who participated in the Lawtey program and who were released in 2003 only 48 have returned. This is about 13% of those involved in the program.

Despite this success it is clear that Mabrey has some problem with Christianity as she asks one Orthodox Jew, “You don’t feel like this is a prison all about Christianity?” even though there are 28 religions represented in the program she didn’t single out any other religion to attack.

Instead she had on the liberal Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State who called this arrangement "constitutional quicksand."

She could’ve had on any number of Constitutional lawyers who disagree with Lynn if she wanted to make her piece more fair and balanced. Jay Sekulow, Craig Parshall and many more could have added a different perspective. However, Mabrey apparently couldn’t help herself because she only presented the liberal view, and did every thing she could do to undermine the success that faith does play in helping prisoners, by focusing on an issue that isn’t an issue – so called Constitutional problems.

Lawtey is working within state and government guidelines and volunteers are doing the faith based work. The prisoners are volunteering for the program. So there isn’t any state coercion and with 4000 inmates on the waiting list to enter this program there must be something working and a need being met to help heal the wounded hearts in these prisons that isn’t being found in purely secular run programs.

For your convenience we have three clips of this Nightline piece that was clearly biased towards the left.

Barry Lynn on "Constitutional Quicksand" - Download Video

Vicki Mabrey asking about Christianity - Download Video

Barry Lynn lying about recitivism studies - Download Video

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