I really know nothing about Judge Alito but I have looked into his records with the court since his nomination. It really looks good to me and with the liberals being so up in arms over this (especially the ACLU) it is even more reason for me to believe he is the right man.

Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005 2:17 p.m. EST

College Bans Dormitory Bible Studies

In a shameful attack on freedom of religion, the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) has banned resident assistants (RAs) from leading Bible studies in their own dormitories.

The university claims the ban is necessary because some students might not feel RAs who lead Bible studies are "approachable.”

"As a state university, UWEC has no business forbidding RAs or any other students to engage in religious activities in their own rooms and on their own time,” declared David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which has written UWEC to protest the ban.

The controversy began on July 26, when UWEC Associate Director for Housing and Residence Life Deborah Newman sent a letter saying RAs could not lead Bible studies in their dorms at any time. Her reason for this was that students might not think Bible study-leading RAs were sufficiently "approachable.”

The letter was sent to RAs who were members of the Student Impact religious group and who had been leading Bible studies—not as official residence hall activities, but in their own dorm rooms and on their own time.

Newman’s letter added that Koran and Torah studies would be similarly prohibited and that RAs who did conduct a Bible study in their dorms would face "disciplinary action.”

Shocked by the ban, undergraduate RA Lance Steiger inquired further via e-mail. In a Sept. 22 reply, Newman reiterated the ban and told him, "[a]s an RA you need to be available to your residents both in reality and from their perspective.”

Steiger contacted FIRE, and on October 10, FIRE wrote UWEC Interim Chancellor Vicki Lord Larson to ask her to lift the Bible study ban.

FIRE reminded Larson of UWEC’s own acknowledgement that RAs are students first, and that "every university student at a public university such as UWEC enjoys the full panoply of First Amendment rights, including freedom of religion and freedom of expression.”

FIRE also pointed out a 2004 article in UWEC’s student newspaper in which the Office of Housing and Residence Life praised an RA who for three years in a row staged the controversial feminist play "The gotcha11 Monologues" as an official "residence hall activity.”

This praise came despite the RA’s acknowledgement that "with the gotcha11 Monologues ... she [did not have] as much time as she would have liked for her wing.” UWEC has failed to respond to FIRE’s letter.

"UWEC’s position that leading a Bible study is more likely to make students uncomfortable than leading a controversial play like 'The gotcha11 Monologues' simply doesn’t hold water,” noted FIRE’s French. He continued, "The First Amendment doesn’t end with a Bible study or with 'The gotcha11 Monologues' — it guarantees a student’s right to perform both.”

"While RAs have a responsibility to be approachable to students, this cannot extend so far as to bar their own religious or political expression,” added FIRE Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Greg Lukianoff. "No state institution has a right to demand that others not hold any beliefs or engage in any expression that might possibly be offensive.”

FIRE has expressed concern about the status of constitutional rights at UWEC before. In April, FIRE revealed that UWEC’s Student Senate had forbidden any student-organized activity that promotes a "particular ideological, religious, or partisan viewpoint” from receiving student-fee funding - a policy that directly contradicts the university’s First Amendment obligation to distribute student funds regardless of viewpoint and violates the rights of all UWEC students.

FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation that unites civil rights and civil liberties leaders, scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals from across the political and ideological spectrum on behalf of individual rights, due process, freedom of expression, academic freedom, and rights of conscience at our nation’s colleges and universities.

Wabbit Season

It's Wabbit Season.

I appreciate the prayers Brother Tom. This young man does here the Lord calling. He is allowing the drugs and alcohol to stand in the way.

Brother, please don't feel bad that you couldn't help him or rescue him.

I do feel sad but I realise that there is nothing I personally can do. It is up to Jesus and to him.

I don't run, I got armour. I charge in full steam ahead.  

My brothers surgery is scheduled for 8 AM central time tomorrow. I will be checking in here off and on and will give an update as I get one.

I have another prayer request. There is a young man that I have been working with and even took into my home for awhile. I had to move him out of my home as he refused to stay out of trouble. Drugs, alcohol, robbery, and other things much worse. He has been in and out of jail a lot because of things. Last night he finally reached rock bottom. His family and "friends" has turned him away. He asked for help. After a long time of talking and praying with him my wife and I made some calls and got him into a place that will help him with his addictions but he has to go there of his own accord.

He was supposed to show up here this morning and I was going to take him there. He still has not showed up and no one knows where he is.

I would sincerely appreciate your prayers for this young man.

 

I have a question for you. What is your discourse on the following verses?


1Co 3:14  If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

So its ok to have sex even tough I'm not married?

Questions like that do make a person wonder such.

 

So its ok to have sex even tough I'm not married?

Again you still have not read what I have posted, you are getting beyond ridiculus.

But with technology on my side I suggest you run.



           Snowball Throwing Machine

You can try to fight back.

Ready to get a whole lot more.

You have just been hit by a snowball!

You better be ready though.