Obama wants you to lose weight: “Cut the butter & cream. Hide the French fries. Make carrots the default choice! Substitute wheat pasta for white pasta..”
Just days after President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, pastors and priests around Maryland took to their own pulpits with their reaction– and in some cases– condemnation of the president. [...]
When Obama announced that his position on same-sex marriage had evolved, it outraged some African-American pastors like Pastor and Del. Emmett Burns.
“He has said to his base, African-Americans, ‘I am going against your beliefs and your thoughts,’” Burns said.
He’s so opposed to same-sex marriage, he told church members he will no longer support the president and now predicts Obama will lose the election because of it.
He and many other leaders are pouring their energies into gathering the signatures needed to put Maryland’s same-sex marriage law on the November ballot.
“I think it might be a call to action for people to really express what they believe,” Father Erik Arnold of Our Lady of Perpetual Help said.
In Maryland, some of the strongest opposition to the law has come from the black community– about 30 percent of the population. Some African-American religious leaders are preaching about it
“God said in every home, there needs to be a representation of his glory through manhood and femininity,” Pastor Harry Jackson, Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, said.
Pastor of Baltimore Maryland’s Empowerment Temple, Jamal Bryant spoke with Roland Martin, correspondent on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, today about President Obama’s announcing his support of gay marriage.
“I absolutely, vehemently disagree with the president,” Bryant told Martin. “I agree with his presidency, but with this policy, I do not agree. Marriage is the original institution of the church.
When asked if he will vote for the president again, Bryant said, “I think, given the option I’ve got, which is Mitt Romney, I’ve got no choice.”
Privacy concerns as US government rolls out domestic drone rules.
Via FoxNews:
Unmanned drones could soon be buzzing in the skies above many U.S. cities, as the federal government green-lights the technology for local law enforcement amid widespread privacy concerns.
The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday began to explain the rules of the sky for these newly licensed drones at potentially dozens of sites across the country. The agency, on its website, said that government “entities” will have to obtain a special certificate in order to fly the aircraft, adding that the FAA is “streamlining the process for public agencies to safely fly (drones) in the nation’s airspace.” [...]
“Our Founding Fathers had no idea that there would be remote-control drones with television monitors that can feed back live data instantaneously — but if they had, they would have made darn sure … that these things were subject to the Fourth Amendment (protecting individual privacy),” Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, told Fox News.
NEW SLOGAN: “Sometimes I Forget about You”
During a campaign event yesterday in Seattle, Obama said he sometimes forgets the magnitude of the recession. (Hat tip: Townhall)
Gunmen set fire to a home in a Christian village near a central Nigeria city violently divided by faith and shot those who ran outside to flee the flames, killing at least seven people and wounding one other, authorities said Thursday…
The killings that took place late Wednesday night happened in the village of Tahoss, said Mark Lipdo, who runs a Christian advocacy group known as the Stefanos Foundation. The gunmen, suspected to be from the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who roam the pasturelands of the plateau, targeted one specific family in their attack, Lipdo said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that her Catholic faith “compels” her to “be against discrimination of any kind” and thus for same-sex marriage.
A reporter asked Pelosi: “Many of the people that are opposed to gay marriage cite their religion as the reason why they’re opposed. You’re a Catholic that supports gay marriage. Do you believe that religion and the idea that you can support gay marriage can be separated? And how do you grapple with the idea that you support gay marriage as a Catholic?”
Pelosi responded: “My religion has, compels me–and I love it for it–to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination. I think it’s unconstitutional on top of that. ” [...]
While opposing “unjust discrimination” against homosexuals, the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that homosexual acts are “contrary to the natural law” and can never be approved and that marriage is the sacramental union of a man and a woman.
“Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,’” says the Catechism. “They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
More than 15 decapitated, dismembered bodies found in two abandoned vehicles on the side of a highway in the small town of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos near Guadalajara (State of Jalisco, Mexico) on the road to Lake Chapala, a site popular with foreign tourists and American retirees – May 9, 2012. (AFP Photo/Hector Guerrero)
Police found the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 15 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing between powerful drug gangs.
Police initially counted 12 bodies dumped in the car on a road between Mexico’s second city of Guadalajara and the lakeside city of Chapala, known for its North American expatriate community.
An anonymous call alerted police to the abandoned vehicles, and the bodies were taken to forensic services in Guadalajara, a police official said.
Jalisco state attorney general Tomas Coronado Olmos called an urgent meeting with the state governor and said the killings appeared to have been in revenge for 23 killings last Friday in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.
An arrested woman said that the killings were “the repercussion for what happened in Tamaulipas,” Coronado Olmos said.
The woman said she belonged to a local gang called Milenio, linked to the brutal Zetas drug gang.
[I]t was one of the biggest mass beheadings in the recent history of Mexico, where decapitations have become alarmingly common.
The bodies and heads were stuffed into two vehicles abandoned on the side of a highway in the small town of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, said Tomas Coronado, chief prosecutor for the state of Jalisco.
Some of the bodies had been refrigerated before they were dumped, Coronado said.
A policeman at the scene in Ixtlahuacan said some victims had been so badly mutilated that officers could not determine whether they were male or female. [...]
Guadalajara, known for its high-tech industry, mariachi bands and tequila, has been a strategic base for drug traffickers since the 1980s. [...]
Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos lies 18 miles (29 km) south of the centre of Guadalajara on the road to Lake Chapala, a site popular with foreign tourists and American retirees.
Other media outlets report 18 people were found decapitated (not 15):
- USAtoday
- UK DailyMail
Via CNN-México: (Spanish)
Más de 15 cuerpos son hallados en Jalisco: Los cuerpos fueron localizados en dos vehículos en la carretera que une a Guadalajara con Chapala, informaron fuentes locales.
On Meet the Press today, Vice President Biden went all-in on gay marriage, contrary to the “evolving” stance of President Obama. He told host David Gregory that he’s absolutely comfortable with gay marriage. [...]
Axelrod is none too happy about it; he quickly tries to back-pedal for Biden.
“Look, I am vice president of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights — all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Democrat Vice President Joe Biden says that the recession is still ongoing for millions of Americans. (NBC’s “Meet The Press” – May 6, 2012):
NBC’S DAVID GREGORY: “And the discouragement is real. Recent polling showing three-fourths, 76% of Americans still believe the country is in recession.”
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “Well you know, for the people who are unemployed, they are still in recession. For the people whose wages are stagnant, it feels like a recession. I come from a household where whenever there was a massive recession, someone around that table was going to lose their job.”
