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Social Media Censoring Conservative
Opinion
The media director for the Heritage Foundation published
evidence that his social media account was suspended over his polite
disagreement with the LGBTQ agenda on transgender athletes.
The tweet was labeled “hateful conduct.”…
Greg Scott provided a screenshot of his tweet, which simply
offered a dissenting opinion on transgender athletes.…
Scott was commenting on an NBC article about a transgender
weightlifting athlete who was “stuck on the sidelines,” according to
their headline.
His account has not been re-activated despite his appeal of the
suspension.
“If a relatively benign and commonsense point—that women
shouldn’t be forced to compete against male powerlifters—can now
get someone banned from the platform, Twitter is signaling an
increasingly aggressive ideological enforcement regime,” Scott said
to PJ Media.
Twitter and other social media platforms have been accused by
many conservatives of selectively implementing their rules to
disproportionately punish those on the right as opposed to abusive
voices on the left.
—Carlos Garcia, blaze.com
U.S. Birth Rate Continues to Fall
June 14, 2019
† And that there may be always
such a heart in you, let me exhort all
governors of families, in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, often to
reflect on the inestimable worth of
their own souls, and the infinite
ransom, even the precious blood of
Whether or not you live alone, as a senior adult you may find
Jesus Christ, which has been paid
down for them.
yourself very lonely. As you get older, you may not feel well
Senior Adults Can Be
Alone and Lonely
—George Whitefield
much of the time. Rather than sink into a pit of despair, it is
important for you to pay attention to what is happening to you.
† One spark of fire can do more
Be careful that you do not isolate yourself from others. Make
to prove the power of powder than
a whole library written on the subject. the effort and go to church. Get in on the senior adult activities
—Billy Sunday
as much as you can.
Talk to your family and friends on the phone.
† The standards of right and
wrong do not change daily, nor are
Show an interest in the others around you rather than talking
they determined by the media,
political correctness or Hollywood.… about your aches and pains.
The standards of right and wrong are
Find ways to do something for others who may need your
set forth in the living Word of God.…
The Bible is God’s final authority (Ps. help or encouragement.
119:89).
Set times during the day to read your Bible and pray.
—Jeff Fugate
Get up each morning and go to one of the unofficial
The nation’s birth rates [in 2018] reached record lows for women
† Remember that if God brings “breakfast clubs” at McDonald’s or Hardee’s.
in their teens and 20s, a government report shows, leading to the any kind of chastisement upon you,
Give out gospel tracts or copies of the Sword of the Lord
fewest babies in 32 years.
it is only to make you useful. Do not
The provisional report…based on more than 99 percent of U.S. sit down discouraged and say, “I when you are out and about. Put on a big smile and do it. You
birth records, found 3.788 million births last year. It was the fourth have no more reason for living. I are a senior adult so they won’t likely throw you out of the
year the number of births has fallen, the lowest since 1986 and a wish I were dead.” Oh, there never place.
surprise to some experts given the improving economy.
The fertility rate of 1.7 births per U.S. woman also fell two percent,
meaning the current generation isn’t making enough babies to
replace itself.…
If trends continue, experts said, the U.S. can expect labor shortages
including in elder care when aging baby boomers need the most
support.…
Other experts are not concerned, predicting today’s young women
will catch up with childbearing later in their lives. The only two
groups with slightly higher birth rates in 2018 were women in their
late 30s and those in their early 40s.
—onenewsnow.com
EDITOR’S COMMENTS: Shutting down the nation’s abortion
mills would be a good way to start in solving this problem.
Vermont House Passes Amendment
Creating a “Right” to Abortion, Allowing
Abortions Up to Birth
Vermont House lawmakers approved an amendment…to enshrine
the “right” to abort an unborn baby up to birth in the state
constitution.
Proposal 5 passed the state House in a 106-38 vote, according to
Ballotpedia News. It also passed the state Senate earlier this spring.
To be added to the Vermont Constitution, the amendment must be
approved by the state legislature again in 2020 and then voters will
have to agree to it on the ballot, likely in 2022.…
The amendment would add the following language [to] the
Vermont Constitution. “That an individual’s right to personal
reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to
determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed
unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least
restrictive means.”
—lifenews.com
EDITOR’S COMMENTS: The states dominated by liberals are
trying to prepare for the day when the Supreme Court will overturn
the infamous Roe v. Wade decision. They can see it coming. We
expect that the day is going to come in which the Supreme Court
will remand the matter to the individual states.
Woman Nine Months Pregnant Killed, but
Canada Says Her Unborn Baby
Isn’t a Human Being
A Canadian man who was found guilty of murdering his nine-
months pregnant wife did not face any charges in the death of their
unborn baby this spring.
A judge sentenced Nicholas Baig, 27, of Pickering, to 17 years in
prison…for the murder of his pregnant wife, Arianna Goberdhan,
according to the Toronto Sun.…
According to the report, Goberdhan was just 20 days from her due
date when Baig stabbed her 17 times on April 7, 2017. Both she and
her unborn daughter…died as a result.…
Canada does not provide any justice for unborn babies in these
circumstances. However, many states in the U.S. do. Currently, 37
states recognize the unlawful killing of an unborn baby as homicide
in at least some circumstances.
Abortion activists routinely oppose such laws because they do not
like that the laws recognize the humanity of the unborn child.
—lifenews.com
was so much reason for your living
You may be alone, but you need not be lonely. If you are
as now. By this ordeal you have
been consecrated a priest of the lonely, well, bow your head and ask the Lord to help you break
Most High God. Go out and do your
out of it—start today!
whole work for the Master.
—Dr. Shelton Smith
—T. DeWitt Talmage
† One thing you cannot bury with
a good man—his influence. They
have not buried Daniel yet; his
influence is as great today as ever it
was. Do you tell me that Joseph is
dead? His influence still lives and will
continue to live on and on. You may
bury the frail tenement of clay that
a good man lives in, but you cannot
get rid of his influence and example.
Paul was never more powerful than
he is today.
—D. L. Moody
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“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”—Ps. 17:15.
What a wealth of meaning lies in the word “satisfied.” What a
response it finds in our hearts. To be satisfied usually suggests
rest and peace amid green pastures and still waters.
This Scripture, however, has a far deeper meaning than that.
To be satisfied in this text means to be glorified. The word looks
on into the morrow, on into the Golden City, on into the very
presence of the Lamb.
† I think we have more machinery
We shall be satisfied when we shall see Him. All joys of earth
of government than is necessary,
too many parasites living on the will fade into utter insignificance when we behold Him in His
beauty, see Him as He is and are transformed into His likeness.
labor of the industrious.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible for our finite minds to grasp the depth and the
height, the breadth and the length of our destined delight.
† Often the most useful Christians
are those who serve their Master in When we reach the goal at the end of the race we will be
little things. He never despises the overwhelmingly satisfied.
day of small things, or else He
would not hide His oaks in tiny
acorns or the wealth of a wheat field
in bags of little seeds.
—Theodore Cuyler
† Every dissipation of youth must
be paid for with a draft on old age.
—Bob Jones, Sr.
† Emotion varies, but God is the
same. The facts on which faith feeds
abide while faith fluctuates. The
secret of calm is to dwell in that
inner chamber of the secret place of
the Most High.
—Alexander Maclaren
Satisfied forever
When Thy face I see;
Changed into Thine image
Evermore to be;
Fully satisfied
Just in Thee to hide;
Happy, oh, so happy,
Happy, Lord, with Thee.
—R. E. Neighbour
Humor With Heart
» One man said, “All I know about the speed of light is that it
gets here too early in the morning.”
» A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become
† Most men, indeed, play at religion
as they play at games, religion itself well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
being of all games the one most
» Car sickness is sometimes that feeling you get at the end of
universally played.
—A. W. Tozer
the month when the payment comes due.
» The greener grass on the other side usually turns out to be
† There is no conflict in doing
what you can do and in trusting God artificial turf.
to do what you cannot do. A person
» Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present
must reconcile God’s providence
tense and the past perfect.
with human responsibility.
—Dr. Curtis Hutson’s book Punch Lines
—Tom Malone