Joshuah's House Blog

Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is ‘Mark of the Beast’

joshuah — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:59:36 +0000

A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them. The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the “Mark of the Beast,” and hence is a violation of her First [...]

A word of welcome…

joshuah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:52:15 +0000

…to all the clucking hens from truewomanhood.wordpress.com. They periodically stop by and affirm their normality, by way of contrast. We are glad to be of service to them in this regard. My wife tends to think that secretly they all want to join the “KuLt” and wants to say: “We know that secretly, you [...]

Michigan Man Sues for Right to Put Back Family’s Nativity Scene on Public Median

joshuah — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:11:00 +0000

We can safely remove the “of the people, by the people, for the people” part I think since it’s an entirely notional sentiment. “…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the [...]

Atheist ads to adorn New York subway stations

joshuah — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:08:36 +0000

Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming “Thank God” when arriving at their destination subway station beginning next Monday. Or at least that’s what a coalition of eight atheist organizations are hoping, having purchased a month-long campaign that will place their posters in a dozen busy subway stations throughout Manhattan. The advertisements ask the question, written [...]

Blasphemous Candy Coating

talitha — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:05:08 +0000

Recently someone who disagreed with what I had to say on somebody’s blog was, yet again, unable to actually stick with her convictions and had to add phrases like “I respect you and your desire to obey the Scriptures as you understand them” and “praise God for what He has shown to each of us [...]

Jerusalem set for al-Aqsa protest

joshuah — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:31:48 +0000

Thousands of Israeli police have been deployed in Jerusalem as Palestinian groups call for protests over tensions at the al-Aqsa mosque. The Islamist group Hamas called for a “day of rage”, local media said, while its rival Fatah urged peaceful protests over access to the key holy site. Sporadic clashes in recent weeks are apparently due to [...]

French minister says he won’t resign over sex with ‘boys’

joshuah — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:15:07 +0000

French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said Thursday he will not resign over accounts in a book he wrote in 2005 about paying to have sex with “boys” in Thailand. In an interview with French television network TF1, Mitterrand said he “absolutely condemn[s] sexual tourism, which is a disgrace, and … pedophilia,” in which he insisted he [...]

Current health bill unacceptable, Catholic bishops say

joshuah — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:04:12 +0000

Senior Catholic bishops are threatening to oppose the health care bill under consideration in Congress if lawmakers don’t make significant reforms regarding federally funded abortions and other issues. “No one should be required to pay for or participate in abortion,” the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a letter Thursday to members of Congress. The [...]

Canada: Bishop facing child porn charges gets bail

joshuah — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:19:06 +0000

Bishop Raymond Lahey was released on $9,000 bail after turning himself in to Ottawa police on Thursday afternoon to face charges of possessing and importing child pornography. The Roman Catholic cleric, who resigned his post in Nova Scotia on the weekend before news of the charges broke, has been ordered to stay away from parks and [...]

Captor kept me on tether, Elizabeth Smart testifies

joshuah — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:52:57 +0000

Elizabeth Smart was not afraid to face Brian Mitchell in her first testimony detailing her 2002 abduction. In fact, her father said, she wanted the man who allegedly kept her tethered to a tree in the Utah woods muzzled and forced to listen to her testimony. Mitchell was in court Thursday for a competency hearing, but Smart [...]

TLC drops Jon and keeps Kate

joshuah — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:53:34 +0000

I don’t know this program, have never seen it, and doubt I ever will since I don’t have a television plugged in. I did, however, find the comment from TLC that the family has “evolved” rather interesting. Why? Because it provides further proof that evolution is not necessarily progress. This family has not evolved, but [...]

Tony Alamo Christian Ministries: Parents fear 3-month-old will be taken over ‘bad faith’ affidavit

joshuah — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:29:22 +0000

The parents of a 3-month-old say they are afraid Arkansas child welfare officials are going to take their baby in retaliation for an affidavit signed by the father and filed in federal court last week. The affidavit, filed Sept. 15 by Carlos Parrish, is a document supporting allegations the Arkansas Department of Human Services acted in [...]

Graying Britain looks to assisted suicide reform

joshuah — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:06:11 +0000

It used to be an issue just for the terminally ill. Now as populations around the world age, governments are increasingly being confronted with the taboo idea of dying as something people can volunteer to do. “The demand for the option, if not the practice, is growing rapidly,” said Dr. Philip Nitschke, 61, founder and director [...]

Human tissue can be taken for human-animal embryo experiements without consent

joshuah — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:18:52 +0000

New rules coming into force next month will give scientists working on stem cell research access to samples of blood and tissue collected by NHS hospitals during biopsies and treatments, as well as to giant “tissue banks” which built up stores of material before the legislation was introduced. Ethics experts, patients’ groups and churches described the [...]

Sunday school teacher to face death in child’s killing

joshuah — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:12:39 +0000

If this woman is found to be guilty of these crimes, she should be taken to the edge of town and stoned to death. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a former California Sunday school teacher accused of killing an 8-year-old girl earlier this year. Sandra Cantu’s body was found in a suitcase in an irrigation [...]

Episcopal nuns leave over gays, join Catholic Church

joshuah — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:50:20 +0000

Source/Full Story @: USATODAY.com Ten Maryland nuns — almost an entire religious community — converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism on Thursday, saying their former denomination had become too liberal in its acceptance of homosexuality. The ten members of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, who were received into the Catholic Church by Baltimore [...]

Codex Sinaiticus: Oldest known Bible goes online

joshuah — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:27:08 +0000

The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, conservators and curators, the Project gives everyone the opportunity to connect directly with this famous manuscript. [Find out more about [...]

Poland’s 1st openly gay rabbi aims to rebuild community

joshuah — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:27:08 +0000

Well, we know that this particular Rabbi won’t be teaching Biblical Law. The Hebrew Scriptures teach us that homosexuality is an abomination. Lev 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw’s former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world [...] [...]

Man charged in slaying of Kansas abortion doctor

joshuah — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:27:08 +0000

“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.” Galatians 6:7 The man was a monster, plain and simple, and he indeed did reap what he had sown. The fact that he was killed whilst serving as an usher at some “church” illustrates the level of his [...] [...]

Culling Pigs in Flu Fight, Egypt Angers Herders and Dismays U.N.

joshuah — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:27:08 +0000

“And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.” Deuteronomy” 14:8 “And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.” Leviticus 11:7 “For [...]