God designed each one of us with sexuality to be celebrated, managed and not hidden. Having a disability does not cancel God's design for beautiful, Biblical, balanced sexuality. Read my article "Caliente! (Hot!)" http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/02/caliente-hot.html.
Advocates of abortion, sterilization, "family planning" and infanticide want to cancel the sexuality of the disabled, low-income and those not of certain European heritage. Clarence Gamble, MD, heir to the Procter and Gamble fortune, was one key such advocate who was also heavily involved in Planned Parenthood, described people as "hopeless mental cripples" and fought against people pouring "defective genes into the State's blood stream to pollute and degrade future generations" (Better Health Magazine of the North Carolina Social Hygiene Society, October 1947, "Better Human Beings Tomorrow A Doctor Discusses Frankly The Process of Sterilization And Argues For Wider Use Of Sterilization.")
Gamble's thinking helped the establishment of and promotion of "healthcare" facilities and legislation that disrespects people and creates disabilities rather than curing them. Watch this video of a CNN interview in which Elaine Riddick says about her state-sponsored forced sterilization "... My body was traumatized so severely I ended up having to have a total hysterectomy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYQLHHCxq8.
Riddick was sterilized more than 40 years ago through the North Carolina Eugenics Board, and she is still talking about it because she loves herself and others. "For me I had to recover because I'm on a mission. Sometimes we can't look at our self. Sometimes we have to do God's will."
In Acts 5 religious leaders sought to stop the apostles from telling people about Jesus Christ. "Then Peter and the apostles replied, We must obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29 Amplified Bible.) Jesus Christ died for sin and to have an eternal relationship with believers. Jesus Christ rose from the dead in three days and wants the good news spread globally. Part of the good news is that God has given believers the power to love Him and people, and He has commanded believers to love.
Killing and maiming innocent people has nothing to do with Biblical love and sexuality. 1 Corinthians 13:6 New Living Translation Bible says about love, "It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out."
Love is active against evil. Chinaaid is speaking out against China's one-child policy. Family planning officials beat up Li Fengfei, forced her to undergo a second-trimester abortion that killed her child and harmed her and are now charging her with a crime! Read her story here http://www.chinaaid.org/2013/09/li-fengfei-arrested-after-exposing.html. Chinaaid is headed by Bob Fu who is a friend of human rights activist and lawyer Chen Guangcheng who spent time in jail and house arrest in China because he filed a 2005 class-action lawsuit against forced abortion and forced sterilization. Watch this interview in which Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, says, "China likes to use violence to crush people like me" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doiWP2SQx2E.
The apostles in Acts 5 experienced violent threats from authorities. Acts 5:42 Amplified Bible says, "Yet [in spite of the threats] they never ceased for a single day, both in the temple area and at home, to teach and to proclaim the good news (Gospel) of Jesus [as] the Christ (the Messiah)."
Are you a victim of state-sponsored sterilization? Don't let threats or pressure stop you from standing up for what's right. You are lovable to God, and God wants you to love yourself and other people. In North Carolina $10 million is to be split equally among those sterilized through the North Carolina Eugenics Board. Compensation claims must be filed by June 30, 2014, for victims to receive a one-time payment to be distributed June 30, 2015. North Carolina had a eugenics board from the 1930s through the 1970s through which social workers, family and others arranged for people to be sterilized. If you think you are one of the victims, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/FirstPartyVerificationform.pdf. Sometimes people are not able to speak up for themselves and need advocates. If you are not a victim, but are related to a victim, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form with required attachments: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/ThirdPartyVerificationform.pdf. These forms are verification and not a guarantee of compensation. If you have filed a verification form, please share your experience and inspire others. Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
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Proverbs 31:8 Amplified Bible says, "Open your mouth for the dumb [those unable to speak for themselves], for the rights of all who are left desolate and defenseless." It is not a sin to need a full-time caretaker or some other type of assistance. God has given us the responsibility to provide help according to the abilities He has given us. Deanna Copeland is a full-time caretaker for Andrea Hood who has cerebral palsy, spina bifida and autonomic dysreflexia. Copeland only earns $1,400.00 monthly for full-time work through a Medicaid program http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.
God wants people to prosper. Deuteronomy 28: 1-13 Amplified Bible says, "If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough. Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name [and in the presence of] the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity, through the fruit of your body, of your livestock, and of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them."
In South Africa Desmond Tutu retired as archbishop to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that exposed many of the evils done under apartheid. Sterilization, abortion, "family planning" and infanticide are human rights abuses. So is not being paid properly for work. Deana Copeland plays a critical role in the healthcare, happiness and wholeness of Andrea Hood, and so do other caretakers like her. If you are a caretaker like Copeland fighting for increased pay, share your story. Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
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