What's wrong with HB 3773? A LOT!!! (New Online Petitions added!)

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bills , bills, and more bills.......

But more hands that can produce and move the economy forward!

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Defense of Life Is Linked to Liberty
In Rimini, Cardinal Martino Speaks About Social Doctrine

RIMINI, Italy, AUG. 25, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Defense of life, religious
freedom, and peace and human rights are the priorities on the world scene,
says the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Cardinal Renato Martino highlighted these issues Tuesday when addressing
the topic "The Social Doctrine of the Church at the Service of Modern
Man," at the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, being held here this
week by the ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation.

The session began with a question posed by Giorgio Cittadini, president of
the Foundation for Solidarity: "What are the conditions necessary for an
individual and the community in which he lives to enjoy full liberty?"

Cardinal Martino responded by illustrating the contents of the recently
published Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, written by the
pontifical council he heads.

According to the cardinal, the priority areas of commitment in society, in
the light of the demands of the Gospel and the primary needs of humanity,
are life, religious freedom, and peace and human rights.

The promotion and defense of life, from conception until natural death, is
"of fundamental importance for Christians' action in the social realm,"
said the president of the pontifical council.

Peace-loving

"The right to religious freedom is the foundation of all other rights,"
Cardinal Martino said. "God guarantees man's inviolable nature, made in
the image and likeness of God. Freedom of conscience, just like religious
freedom, does not stem from a subjective claim, but derives from the
reality of human dignity and man's transcendent vocation."

Further, Cardinal Martino distinguished between a peace-loving person, a
pacifist and a peacemaker.

"The peace-loving person is the one who, by the gift of God and his own
virtue, is able to live with himself and others without conflict. Peace is
proper to peace-loving men," he said.

"Pacifism is something good, but unless it is oriented by peace-loving
men, it runs the risk of betraying the objective of peace, becoming an
ideology," the cardinal warned.

"The peacemaker is the peace-loving person who enters into historical
situations of conflict to offer words, attitudes and solutions of peace,"
he continued. The peacemaker, or "agent of peace," is guided by love,
because, as St. Augustine wrote, "to have peace means to love," the
Vatican official said.

Also, Cardinal Martino confirmed that "the main criteria of attention to
human right must be the proclamation of the transcendent principle of the
dignity of the person, as true humanism is transcendent."

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Fruitful Society Has Need of God and Children, Says Pope
Comments on Psalm 126(127) at General Audience

VATICAN CITY, AUG. 31, 2005 (Zenit.org).- To find meaning and to
be fruitful, society needs God and children, says Benedict XVI.

"A solid society is born, indeed, from the commitment of all its
members, but it has need of the blessing and support of that
God who, unfortunately, is often excluded and ignored,"
lamented the Pope, during his address at today's general
audience.

Some 11,000 faithful, gathered in St. Peter's Square, heard
the Holy Father, on a humid morning, after first being greeted
by him from an open car.

The Bishop of Rome dedicated his catechesis to reflect on
Psalm 126(127), which begins: "Unless the Lord builds the
house, they labor in vain who build."

The psalm describes the daily life of the family and the
citizenry, basing it on a contrast the Holy Father himself
highlighted: "Without the Lord, in vain does one seek to
erect a stable house, to build a secure city, to have one's
labor fructify."

"With the Lord, instead, one has prosperity and fruitfulness,
a family rich in children and serene, a city well supplied and
defended, free from constant worry and insecurity," Benedict
XVI added.

The psalmist "does not hesitate to affirm that all this labor is
useless if God is not beside the one who labors," noted the
Pope. "And he affirms, on the contrary, that God even rewards
his friends' sleep.

"In serene and faithful abandonment of our freedom to the Lord,
our works also become solid, capable of lasting fruit. So our
'sleep' becomes a blessed, God-given rest, destined to seal an
activity that has meaning and consistency."

Life-bearing gift

The second part of the psalm, on which the Pope reflected,
presents children as a blessing of happiness from God, based
on an image of Jewish culture at the time the psalm was written.

"Procreation is, therefore, a gift bearing life and well-being for
society," the Holy Father said. "We are aware of it in our days
in the face of nations that are deprived, by the demographic loss,
of freshness, vitality and the future incarnated in children.

"Over all, however, rises the blessed presence of God, source of
life and hope."

With this meditation, the Holy Father continued with a series of
commentaries on the psalms and canticles of the Bible that are used
in the Liturgy of the Hours. Others are posted at
www.zenit.org/english/audience.

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President Bush Nominates Pro-Life Woman to Key Population Post

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Bush has named a pro-life woman to a key population post
within the State Department. The president appointed Ellen Sauerbrey, a former Maryland state lawmaker
and gubernatorial candidate, to become assistant secretary of state for population. Sauerbrey, whose
nomination must be approved by the Senate, has been a strong pro-life advocate as the U.S.
representative to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. She has been instrumental in ensuring
important United Nations documents do not promote abortion. In her new position, Sauerbrey would
oversee more than $700 million worth of programs for refugee protection, resettlement and humanitarian
assistance, according to an Associated Press report. This year, Sauerbrey lobbied other nations to include
language in a document reaffirming a declaration on women and population developed at the 1995 Cairo
population conference to ensure that it did not back abortion. The U.S. eventually agreed to drop the
request for the language when other nations agreed that they would not use the document to promote
overturning laws against abortion in dozens of countries. Sauerbrey told reporters in March that nations
agreed abortion decisions should be made at the national and not the international level. "I think one of
the things that has been very clearly established that should give a lot of comfort to concerned Americans
is that virtually every country said we interpret it the same as you -- we interpret that these are issues of
national sovereignty," Sauerbrey said. Darla St. Martin, associate executive director of National Right to Life,
told LifeNews.com that "Ellen Sauerbrey had worked very hard carrying out the president's pro-life policies."

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Sacrificing Humans to the Condom Gods
By Douglas Sylva

Is it flippant to wonder if the major international AIDS institutions, the United Nations and
its many allied nongovernmental organizations, actually worship the condom? After all, they
are willing to make sacrifices – human sacrifices – in the name of the condom. Right now,
these groups are in the process of sacrificing the people of Uganda.

Uganda must be sacrificed because its AIDS rate is too low, and it is low because the
government of Uganda decided almost from the beginning of the epidemic to seek to
convince the general population to change its behaviors. School children were told to
abstain and to delay sexual initiation. Married couples were told to remain faithful to one
another. The school children listened; the couples listened, and Uganda escaped the
epidemic that has devastated every other country in its region.

But this success through a veritable sexual counter-revolution could never be acceptable
to the liberal and sexually liberated members of the international AIDS establishment,
who needed to prove that the new norms of sexual promiscuity were not to blame for
the explosion of sexually transmitted diseases, culminating in the AIDS epidemic, and that
sexual promiscuity could even be made "safe" through a tiny piece of latex.

And so they have engaged in a massive campaign of misinformation that is now being
advanced by sympathetic or ignorant media outlets almost every day of the week. They
must turn reality on its head to make their case.

Propaganda: Condoms were responsible for the success in Uganda, and cases of AIDS
may now increase because the Bush administration has begun to replace condoms with
abstinence-only training. According to a August 30th story in the Guardian newspaper,
"Stephen Lewis, the UN secretary general's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said US
cuts in funding for condoms and an emphasis on promoting abstinence had contributed
to a shortage of condoms in Uganda, one of the few African countries which has
succeeded in reducing its AIDS rates. 'There is no doubt in my mind that the condom crisis
in Uganda is being driven by [US policies],' Mr. Lewis said yesterday. 'To impose a
dogma-driven policy that is fundamentally flawed is doing damage to Africa.'" According
to Reuters, Lewis claimed that Bush's "distortion of the preventive apparatus . . . is
resulting in great damage and undoubtedly will cause significant numbers of infections
which should never have occurred."

Reality: Abstinence and fidelity were responsible for the success in Uganda, and
AIDS may now increase because Western institutions have insisted that condoms replace
abstinence and fidelity training. According to Dr. Edward Green, a Harvard medical professor
and an expert on Uganda, "Abstinence and fidelity objectives and indicators have been
almost completely removed from Uganda's current national AIDS strategy (which were
central to earlier strategies), apparently to appease the wazungu (foreign AIDS advisors)."
And so there is the possibility that the West could use condoms to raise AIDS rates while at
the same time blaming abstinence, in order to make the case for even more condoms.

Propaganda: It is more important to liberate Ugandan women from conventional
marriage than it is to liberate Ugandan women from prostitution, since marriage is an
enormous threat to women. According to Lewis, "As more and more research is done on
the particular vulnerability of women to infection, we're learning more about the situations
in which risk is paramount. And extraordinarily enough, according to UNAIDS, the risk is
particularly high in apparently monogamous marriages and partnerships. Ironically, and lethally,
in the age of AIDS in Africa, marriage can be dangerous to women's health. . . . There is
virtually no defense against that reality: the power imbalance in marriage is too great to
permit or to request the regular use of condoms. Thus it is that the classic 'ABC' intervention
[Abstain, Be faithful, or use Condoms as a last resort] doesn't work in the one place where
the risk for the woman may be greatest….A way must be found to allow the woman to
protect herself, independent of male hegemony."

Reality: It is difficult to know whether this statement is simply chauvinist (men cannot
remain faithful and do not care if they infect their wives), or chauvinist and racist (black men
cannot remain faithful and do not care if they infect their wives). But the idea that married
women are more vulnerable than prostitutes because some married men are promiscuous –
when all men who frequent prostitutes are by definition promiscuous – is ridiculous.

Propaganda: The Christian beliefs of George W. Bush and the Ugandan first lady
are guiding them to replace sound public health policy – again focused almost exclusively
on the condom – with "abstinence only" religious doctrine. According to the Guardian,
"Campaigners accuse Uganda's first lady, Janet Museveni, of being instrumental in the
switch towards a policy of abstinence. Ugandan government officials say that her religious
beliefs, stemming from being a born-again Christian, are central to her promotion of the
message of abstinence."

Reality: It was traditional religious beliefs that guided the Ugandan government and its
people to reduce sexual promiscuity so successfully in the late 1980s and 1990s.

In this perverse quest to prop up the condom, all things tied to self-control – the only sure
way to avoid the sexual transmission of AIDS – are blamed for a disease spread primarily
through a lack of self-control. Green is preparing for the worst: "I personally have been
fearing an increase in national prevalence for a couple of years . . . If Uganda's AIDS
program looks increasingly like that of any other African country (condoms, testing, pills),
it would follow that Uganda would begin to have results like other African countries. . . .
After a decade of unprecedented HIV prevalence decline, casual *** and HIV prevalence
may now be on the rise. From what we have seen already, 'experts' are probably preparing
to blame this on Uganda moving to 'abstinence only.'"

But is it possible that not everyone in the mainstream media has accepted this fiction?
Last Tuesday, the same day that Reuters dutifully reported that, "US Abstinence Drive
Hurts AIDS Fight – UN Official," the news service ran another story with the headline,
"Topless Virgins Vie for King in AIDS-hit Swaziland." Apparently, "More than 50,000
bare-breasted virgins vied to become the King of Swaziland's 13th wife on Monday
in a ceremony which critics say ill befits a country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS
rate. King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, arrived dressed in a
leopard-skin loincloth to watch the Reed Dance ceremony, which he has used since
1999 to pluck new brides from the girls dressed in little more than beaded mini-skirts. . . .
Critics say [King] Mswati, who has courted controversy for his lavish lifestyle . . .
sets a bad example by encouraging polygamy and teenage *** in a country where
40 percent of adults live with HIV."

Were we supposed to compare the two articles, and notice that the UN and its friends
can condemn Bush (who has pledged $15 billion to fight AIDS), Christianity, abstinence
and fidelity in one article, while no Western critics could be found for the bizarre ritual of
promiscuity in the other article? Were we supposed to notice that people like Lewis are
fixated on Uganda, where the AIDS infection rate is 6 percent, instead of places like
Swaziland, where the entire society may come crumbling down?

Douglas Sylva is Senior Fellow at the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM).
His e-mail address is dsylva@thefactis.org.


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Sobra sobra na ang tao sa Pilipinas kaya nagkakagulo.......Dapat mabawasan para mahatagan ug impotansya ang usag-usa. Mao nang mang rebelde ang uban kay kulang sa pansin. Nangitag pa-aagi nga mapansin. Unya kung di makuha ang gusto manabla nalang.........bisag ikamatay nya ug sa ubang tawo buhaton nya. Kaya dapat isulong ang programa sa Family Planning.

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That "reasoning" does not jive with reason. The importance of individuals is not at all influenced by population. if we follow your silly thinking, then we ought to wipe out everyone so the two last epople on earth will get maximum importance. I think anyone can see how totally absurd that is!

Overpopulation is a myth.

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well because of the impeachment case, all other bills were ignored including this one, and it looks like they are going to fight for impeachment again during the opening of Congress on Sept. 19, in fact wala gyud bills na discuss pag start ato mga jueteng/impeachment crap..

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Ang problema man gud sa imo, wala man gud mo ka agi ug gutom..!!!! kung kakita lang ka sa among lugar nga halos mag-inilugay'g bahaw, maka ingon gyud ka nga pagka lami patyon sa akong tatay ug nanay uy para ma-undang ug panganak...!!! Unsaon man nimo pag-buhi sa tawo nga wa kay capacity mo buhi? karon ang pilipinas ba rich enough to raise people equally? Nagpakabana baka sa mga tawo nga gimo himo ang kalsada ug pinoy-anan kay walay ma tulugan? Nagpakabana kaba sa tawo nga halos buhaton tanan crimen para lang babuhi? Nagpakabana kaba sa mga tawo sa iskwater nga murag salmon nga ga hu-ot?

WALA..!!!! because you are comportable with your accordance!!!!!

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Ang problema man gud sa imo, wala man gud mo ka agi ug gutom..!!!! kung kakita lang ka sa among lugar nga halos mag-inilugay'g bahaw, maka ingon gyud ka nga pagka lami patyon sa akong tatay ug nanay uy para ma-undang ug panganak...!!! Unsaon man nimo pag-buhi sa tawo nga wa kay capacity mo buhi? karon ang pilipinas ba rich enough to raise people equally? Nagpakabana baka sa mga tawo nga gimo himo ang kalsada ug pinoy-anan kay walay ma tulugan? Nagpakabana kaba sa tawo nga halos buhaton tanan crimen para lang babuhi? Nagpakabana kaba sa mga tawo sa iskwater nga murag salmon nga ga hu-ot?

WALA..!!!! because you are comportable with your accordance!!!!!

Ako, bay, kaagi man gyud ko ug gutom - unya dili man sad ko comfortable karon. Nganong against man gihapon ko anang klaseha sa population control? Kay sakto man ang pang-rason. Kinsay man say niingon nimo nga dili ganahan ang Katoliko nga simbahan sa pag-plano sa pamilya? Gikinahanglan lang nga mag-abstain ang bana kung 'dili puwede'. Disiplina ang gipangayo - o against gihapon ka ug pagdisiplina sa kaugalingon?

Sigurado sad ka nga tanang squatter mura'g salmon naghuot sa ilang puluy-anan? Pila man ka squatter area imong naadto? Ako, upat. Duha sa south ug duha sa north. Dili man tanan ingon ana ang sitwasyon. Dili man gani kadaghanan ingon ana.