OUR COLUMNISTS Coming American Revival? Guest Commentary by Matt Friedeman A gentleman called me up the other day and asked a sincere question: Do you suppose the election outcome foreshadows an upcoming revival in America? Answer: No. Code of Dishonor Commentary by Brad Locke Baseball players, and professional athletes in general, tend to abide by a twisted code of honor. The code is rooted in one simple principle: don't tattle on or "disrespect" your colleagues. If you do, prepare to suffer the consequences. Bush Re-Election Helped from Unexpected Source Commentary by David Sisler I have a theory about why George W. Bush was re-elected. If homosexuals had not flaunted their Scripture-violating lifestyle in the face of God and man, the marriage issue would not have been on the 2004 ballot in 11 states. And George W. Bush may well have been defeated. Freedom's Hardest Work: A Veteran's Day Salute Commentary by Mark Creech How easy it is to take our freedom for granted! But freedom is not free. It has an exacting price, one that requires the beneficiaries of freedom to do its work.

...Pro-family groups are raising the alarm over a movie about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey which opens today (Friday, Nov. 12) in selected theaters in Los Angeles and New York. Bob Peters of Morality in Media (MIM) screened the film and says it glorifies the controversial researcher. "This particular movie portrays Kinsey as having had a positive effect on society, end of question," Peters explains. "There is no intimation that there has been a rotten fruit to Kinsey's legacy that has caused incalculable harm to both individuals and society." According to Peters, Kinsey (Fox Searchlight Pictures) paints a different picture of the title character than what has come to be known as the truth of his research. "The bottom line is, he got a lot of his data from questionable sources -- from prisoners, from prostitutes, from people in gay bars, from pedophiles," the MIM president says, "and yet the movie gives the impression that he was a completely objective scientist who got his data ... in accordance with [traditional] scientific procedures." Kinsey's research on sexuality in America in the 1950s paved the way for the sexual revolution of the 1960s and set the standard for sex education programs used in schools to this day. (See Earlier Article) [Bill Fancher]

...The American Civil Liberties Union says it isn't filing a lawsuit over a new monument displaying the Ten Commandments outside the county courthouse in Stigler, Oklahoma. The eight-foot monument with the Ten Commandments on one side and the Mayflower Compact on the other was unveiled last Sunday. Michael Camfield of the ACLU of Oklahoma says no legal action to challenge the monument is planned because the U.S. Supreme Court will address the issue next year. [AP]

...A Virginia pro-family advocate says the people who helped re-elect President Bush don't support homosexual relationships -- the administration apparently does. Joe Glover, president of the Family Policy Network, has worked tirelessly for family values, including the fight against legalized homosexual "marriage." He says it was conservative Christians who put the president back in office and who held to the belief that the president shared their views. But Glover says the day after the election, that all seemed to go out the window. "The day after George Bush was elected president again, because of this morals revolution taking place in our country, he allows his vice president to not only put his lesbian daughter on the platform, but to bring her lesbian 'partner' up on the stage with him," Glover says. "It almost seems to be a slap in the face from the get-go against the very conservatives that re-elected the president at a time when he ought to paying them some homage and respect." Glover says the Cheney daughter's open flaunting of her homosexuality is the antithesis of what the administration claims to stand for -- and that the post-election display sends a mixed message to Bush supporters. [Rusty Pugh]

...A leading Evangelical scholar has been invited to speak this Sunday at the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Rev. Ravi Zacharias is believed to be the first non-Mormon to receive such an invitation since evangelist Dwight L. Moody spoke in the Mormon Tabernacle more than a century ago. Zacharias meets on Friday with Mormon President Gordon Hinckley and other church leaders. They have invited the Indian-born evangelist into the Tabernacle to speak on the topic, "Who is the Truth? Defending Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life." Rev. Greg Johnson, a Baptist minister who is hosting Zacharias in Salt Lake City, says thousands of Mormons and Evangelicals plan to attend Sunday's presentation. [AP]

...The author of the book Unfit for Command says it was the age of information that helped him and his fellow Swift Boat veterans to make their case against the statements of former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. John O'Neal says many of the major media networks did their best to avoid giving airtime to the vets' allegations. "When they write the history of this [election], they're going to write tremendous questions about the journalistic ethics of the New York Times and the three big networks," the author contends. In an interview on Fox News, O'Neal alleges those media outlets gave the Massachusetts senator a pass on investigating his Vietnam War background and the Swift vets' claims -- but that alternative media avenues, such as cable television and the Internet, ultimately allowed them to accomplish their goals. "I think we had two significant effects," he says. "First, I think John Kerry was unable to run simply as a war hero berating everybody else, which would have been pretty bizarre anyway. And second, I [believe] we reclaimed ... the honor of our guys -- living and dead -- who served in Vietnam." O'Neal still thinks Kerry should issue a public apology to his fellow Vietnam veterans. [Ed Thomas]

...The United Nations wants to tax the world. Kofi Annan's U.N. has revived its proposal for a global tax. Cliff Kincaid of the think tank America's Survival says he is not surprised. "This is just the latest such incident in the history of the U.N.," he states. "They've been pushing global taxes for years and years." The Bush administration has told the world organization that it will not support any kind of a global tax. "A battle is obviously shaping up between the administration and the U.N.," Kincaid says. It has been estimated that the U.N. could receive $13 trillion a year through a worldwide tax called the "Tobin Tax." Meanwhile, the world organization is investigating itself for corruption in the Iraqi "oil for food" scandal. [Bill Fancher]

...While many world leaders and secular media outlets are offering glowing tributes for Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, one Boston Globe columnist is taking a very different approach. Jeff Jacoby's column in the Globe on Friday has this headline: "Arafat the monster." He notes that Arafat "left this world peacefully ... lying in a bed surrounded by familiar faces ... unlike the thousands of victims he sent to early graves." Jacoby says in a better world, national leaders -- including President Bush -- would not be offering statements such as "God bless his soul." "God bless his soul?" Jacoby asks -- bless the soul of the man who "sent his agents to slaughter athletes at the Olympics, blow airliners out of the sky, bomb schools and pizzerias, machine-gun passengers in airline terminals?" Jacoby wonders how it is possible to reflect on what he calls Arafat's "most enduring legacy" -- the rise of modern terrorism -- without remembering the legions of men, women, and children whose lives he and his followers destroyed. [Fred Jackson]

...A former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations says it is absurd that the man who invented international terrorism is now, in death, being treated like the king of England. Dore Gold is president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an independent, non-profit institute for policy research and education serving Israel and the Jewish people. The former ambassador says he does not understand why the electronic media is reporting the death of Yasser Arafat as it is. "If you watch the television, [it's like] the king of England died -- and basically Yasser Arafat was the man who invented international terrorism," Gold says. "In fact, in my book Tower of Babel, I describe how he was invited to the United Nations General Assembly in 1974 to speak, just after he had finished a whole spate of airplane hijackings, ... attacked the Olympics in Munich, [and] killed the American ambassador to Sudan." And Gold says Israel has documentary evidence showing that in 2002, Arafat authorized payments to homicide bombers -- and yet U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan describes the late Palestinian leader as the man who launched "the peace of the brave." [Chad Groening]

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