Abortion clinics to advertise, faith hate strikes Christian, and education dumbing-down to Twitter
March 27, 2009 by patrick
Filed under Russ Bravo, Weekly News Review
Weekly News Review from a Christian Viewpoint. Patrick Woodward talks to Russ Bravo, (pictured) editor of Inspire Magazine, about the latest news from a Christian standpoint. Today, family planning centres and condom makers may be allowed to advertise on TV and radio, a Christian minister becomes victim of faith hate attack, and the school curriculum could be changed to focus more on new technology and less on history. Press Play to hear this week’s podcast, or click “News Feed” to subscribe free.
Story Links:
Adverts for abortions:
telegraph.co.uk Abortion clinics to advertise on television for the first time
Care Confidential official site
Faith hate:
inspiremagazine.org.uk Police investigate ‘faith hate’ crime after attack
dailymail.co.uk Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show
Twitter in curriculum:
telegraph.co.uk Twitter is put on new primary school curriculum
guardian.co.uk Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up
I think Twitter can be helpful, but don’t think it should replace history lessons. It could be taught briefly in IT, or communication studies. Doing a PHD on Twitter could get a bit boring though! Seriously, there must be more practical and useful lessons young people can learn these days, stuff they really need to know about life…
If you came home to find the taps had been left on and the house was flooded, you wouldn’t get a bucket and chuck water out the window first – surely you’d turn off the taps first? Why won’t the government teach people to save sex for marriage, rather than how to deal with merely the effects of the problem? Is saving sex for marriage wrong – NO (statistics even show it’s better emotionally, physically and would keep pregnancy and STI statistics low anyway)!? Is taking cocaine illegal – YES!? Then which is worse, to take away peoples mere right to have sex before marriage, or to murder an unborn child, just out of convenience?
If we don’t think it’s morally right to take peoples ‘right’ away for murder, then why should we ever bother to send people to prison for anything?