A while back I saw a message saying, "We preach hard, and give 'em heaven," which makes me think, "Now open your heart, mind, mouth and hands, and welcome people with disabilities in all areas of life." Jesus did. Luke 14:12-14 Amplified Bible says, "Jesus also said to the man who had invited Him, When you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they also invite you in return, and so you are paid back. But when you give a banquet or a reception, invite the poor, the disabled, the lame, and the blind. Then you will be blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied), because they have no way of repaying you, and you will be recompensed at the resurrection of the just (upright)."
God wants the best possible life for everyone now and eternally. Deuteronomy 28:13 Amplified Bible says, "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."
God created us and preserves our life from fertilization through birth, youth, old age and beyond death for people who are African, European, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, working all different kinds of assignments at all different kinds of hours and with different minds and abilities and with multiple mixtures of these characteristics. God created us to have a good relationship with Him and to be in relationships with people who are just right for us.
Good relationships are compatible with good business. An untapped, massive market exists in welcoming persons with autism and other different minds and bodies into restaurants, marriage and other good, enjoyable, beautiful things. When Rafael, who has autism, and I go to restaurants we don't usually see persons with autism, Down Syndrome, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy and other disabilities. Increasing the wage of service providers to the disabled would help the disabled enjoy restaurants with wait staff. Deanna Copeland is a service provider for Andrea Hood and only makes $1,400.00 monthly. Read their story here http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.
Also as a society we need to embrace the behavior of people who act differently. Rafael eats with his hands. People in Ethiopia and other cultures eat with their hands. Read my article "Food, Love and Marriage" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2012/07/food-love-and-marriage.html.
While God welcomes all people to marry Him in heaven, God does not call everyone to marriage on earth. Some people are designed to be single; others are designed to be married. Some people with disabilities God created to experience the joy of marital sex. Read my article "Sex and the Disabled" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2012/04/sex-and-disabled.html.
Sin has a spoiling effect on relationships. Once we receive a relationship with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost, God never lets go of us for all eternity. However, believers sometimes let go of God by sinning.
When our relationship is not right with God it is also not right with people. One type of sin is lying. The sin of lying is common to singles and married people. Many married people lie to people who are not their spouse to get sex. They also lie to their spouse and/or don't talk about sex and other subjects.
God is for loving, joyful, sex-filled marriages. God is for openness/nakedness. Genesis 2:24-25 Amplified Bible says, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not embarrassed or ashamed in each other’s presence."
Parents with awesome, affectionate, romantic, sexually sublime marriages are well positioned to talk to their children about sex. When parents have little or no sexual relationship, talking to their children about sex may inspire their children to think, "What do you know?;" "You aren't having fun and sexual sinners seem to be having fun." These children may decide to pursue sex outside of marriage.
We live in times when schools, the media, Planned Parenthood and others cannot be relied upon to teach our children about sex. Many advocates exist who promote sex outside of marriage and adolescent autonomy from parents, family and the Christian faith.
Some adolescents, adults, singles and married people have chosen abortion to kill the new life of a boy or girl created during sex outside of marriage and inside of marriage.
Some unborn boys and some unborn girls survive attempted abortions. Baby Ana Rosa Rodriquez survived an attempted abortion, but had her arm sliced off during the attempted abortion. In this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXOM99fm1A8 Gospel Singer Fred Hammond talks about surviving an attempted abortion. Abortion caused Claire Culwell to be born with club feet and dislocated hips. She survived the attempted abortion, her twin did not. Culwell is adopted and learned about her past by finding her birth mother who sought an abortion when she was 13. Watch their story here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=571B4ZiIZ_Y.
Are you an abortion survivor? Share your story. Joyce Meyer writes in her book Joy redefined Loving Others, "It is impossible for you to be happy if you don't get your mind off yourself and start reaching out to help someone else."
Jesus reaches out to people. Jesus even reaches out to young children who are not wanted, planned or possessing a perfect physique. Yet some seek genetic testing to kill the disabled. Did you know that 67 percent of babies with Down Syndrome are aborted? Read this article http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/24/67-of-babies-with-down-syndrome-die-in-abortions-what-else-should-you-know/ to learn more about people with Down Syndrome. A doctor suggested Andrea Bocelli's mom have an abortion because her son might have a disability. She didn't follow his advice. 1 Timothy 5:25 Amplified Bible says, "So also, good deeds are evident and conspicuous, and even when they are not, they cannot remain hidden [indefinitely]." Andrea Bocelli, who is the biggest selling Classical musician in history, blind and a father, says he is glad to be alive; and he shares his story in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QfKCGTfn3o&feature=youtu.be. Do you have a good deed to share?
God wants us to manage our sexuality and every area of our life with love. Philippians 1:8-10 Amplified Bible says, "For God is my witness how I long for and pursue you all with love, in the tender mercy of Christ Jesus [Himself]! And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment], So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble]."
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act protects the lives of unborn babies from age 20 weeks and beyond when girls and boys are able to feel the pain of being torn apart by abortion. On November 7, 2013 Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced his sponsorship of the Senate version of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2013.
While God does not always like what we do with the human physique, God likes the human physique. God also designed for parents to enjoy the sexual relations that may lead to starting a new human life. In Song of Songs/Song of Solomon 7:11 New Living Translation Bible a wife/lover says to her husband/lover, "Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers." How wonderful to come to life through married parents making love in the outdoors! Or perhaps your mother laid on the beach with her legs and feet extended up as her husband lay across her creating fantastic friction when you were conceived? Risking a sandy butt isn't for everyone. Some spouses like to release love by lying on their sides merging their vagina and penis in a way that makes the head available for kissing feet, hands and other body parts and hands available to massage the butt and other places. The bed is probably considered the best place or at least the most convenient place for lovemaking. The bathroom is probably more popular than people admit. Read my article "How Gross Can Be Good" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2012/04/gross-can-be-good.html. Do you have a conception feasting love story to share? Write to:
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Even when married couples are past the age of reproduction, God designed for them to enjoy sex. Love licks (Japanese for oral sex,) sexual intercourse and other love making are better than cannibalism or euthanasia. Read my articles "An Appetizer, the Main Dish or Among a Smorgasbord of Love Play" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-appetizer-main-dish-or-among.html and "Awesome Aging" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/02/awesome-aging.html.
Because God loves us, God does not will for us to have partner sex outside of marriage. Because God loves us, God wills for us to enjoy sex inside of marriage. God does not want any of us to be afraid of sexuality and try to stomp it out. God created sexuality. What God creates is good, beautiful and excellent provided we participate in God's creation according to His design. God designed sex to bond marital couples. Sometimes sex leads to reproduction. Read my article "Fearless Sex" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/01/fearless-sex.html.
Sexual sin doesn't have to stop us from enjoying fearless sex. Have you participated in killing an unborn boy or an unborn girl? If we are in relationship with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, abortion and any other sin does not separate us from the love of God. Stop sinning, and shake off shame and condemnation. Acts 3:19-20 Amplified Bible says, "So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord; And that He may send [to you] the Christ (the Messiah), Who before was designated and appointed for you—even Jesus."
Enjoy friendships with the opposite sex and the same sex, and if marriage is God's will for you, also enjoy sex with your spouse. John 10:10 Amplified Bible says, "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." Refuse to allow shame and condemnation to steal the joy and the feast of sex with your spouse. Read my articles "Second-Class Christian Citizens?" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/01/second-class-christian-citizens.html, "How to Catch and Keep Friends" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-catch-and-keep-friends.html, "Love Letters, Relationships and Political Activism" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/04/love-letters-relationships-and.html and "Showing Your Heart" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/02/showing-your-heart.html.
Christopher Yuan says he was strangled by a boyfriend/lover in his book Out Of A Far Country A gay son's journey to God. A broken mother's search for hope., and he continued to stay in the relationship for a while. How did he escape sexual slavery? "I didn't leave homosexuality because I thought it was so bad...I left homosexuality because I found something better, and His name is Jesus," Yuan says in this speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEDG2xxDGAg. Christopher Yuan's story is not I'm sorry I got caught in my sins, wish to keep on sinning while God wipes out the consequences of my choices, but a story of real change and love of God. Proverbs 28:13 Complete Jewish Bible says, "He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy." Have you come out of sexual slavery?
People who have HIV are not exempt from the mercy and love of God. Christopher Yuan talks about having HIV, illegal drug use and selling, about God and sexuality in this speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDbyhoRuw54.
Christopher Yuan went to dental school and is currently a cool, confident, compassionate, committed single. I pray that if he gets married, he will be committed to a Christian wife and to good fillings of the marital vaginal kind.
The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 New Living Translation Bible, "Never stop praying," and in 1 Timothy 2:1-6 Amplified Bible, "First of all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men, For kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way. For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior, Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth. For there [is only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, Who gave Himself as a ransom for all [people, a fact that was] attested to at the right and proper time."
A Latino proverb says, "Una buena accion es la mejor oracion" (A good deed is the best prayer.") Did you vote November 5, 2013? Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7edX9l2c08 about voting, lynching and living.
Sarah J. Garnet, the eldest of eleven children, the wife of a minister named Henry H. Garnet and the first African American woman to be appointed principal in the New York City public school system, believed so strongly in voting that she was also a founder of one of Brooklyn New York's first equal rights organization, called the Equal Suffrage League.
Sarah J. Garnet was also a friend of Ida B. Wells who was friends with black men who owned a grocery store in Memphis. Wells' friends were lynched, and she wrote about their deaths in her newspaper noting that they were killed because their grocery store was competitive with a white owned store. A few months later her newspaper office was sacked. The year was 1892, and a record number of lynchings of African Americans happened. The lynchings and the ruin of her newspaper office did not stop Wells from speaking out against racially-motivated evil.
Evil acts are not to stop Christians from doing good deeds. 1 Corinthians 15:58 Amplified Bible says, "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be firm (steadfast), immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord [always being superior, excelling, doing more than enough in the service of the Lord], knowing and being continually aware that your labor in the Lord is not futile [it is never wasted or to no purpose]."
Sarah J. Garnet along with other women raised money to help replace the destroyed presses of Ida B. Wells. Helping people is holy and loving. Philippians 4:5 Amplified Bible says, "Let all men know and perceive and recognize your unselfishness (your considerateness, your forbearing spirit). The Lord is near [He is coming soon]." 1 John 3:16-18 Amplified Bible says, "By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [in Him]. But if anyone has this world’s goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity)."
Ida B. Wells wrote the book Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases in 1892. She would write other books, marry Ferdinand/Frederick Barnett and have four children with Barnett named Charles, Herman, Ida and Alfreda. Read more about Ida B. Wells in my article "All Mothers Work" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/05/all-mothers-work.html.
Born a slave in Mississippi, Ida B. Wells became free as many other African Americans did after the Civil War.
Just because African American slavery has ended doesn't mean that the slave-master mindset is dead. Sadly it has survived, is very sick and tries to be slick masquerading as things like "healthcare." Watch these videos with Elaine Riddick and Freda McKissic Bush, MD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJNX5bHYVI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60C87TaxpQQ.
What is the biggest killer of African Americans? It's not heart disease, cancer, diabetes, AIDS or violent crime. Watch this video for the answer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20KPGyOfBhk.
Margaret Sanger of the American Birth Control League which became Planned Parenthood had the slave-master mindset. Sanger, who received some funding from Clarence Gamble, an heir of the Procter and Gamble fortune who also had the slave-master mindset, says in this interview with Mike Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsrOPDdbTzM, "I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have a disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sort of things, just marked when they are born. That to me is the greatest sin that people can commit."
Margaret Sanger's thinking is against the human race and in favor of abortion, sterilization, infanticide and "family planning" targeted toward the disabled, low-income persons and those not of certain European heritage. For Margaret Sanger, who spoke at KKK rallies, Planned Parenthood and their likes it never was and is still not about reproductive rights. It's always been about reproductive racism, sexism, elitism, disability discrimination, etc. Watch this Maafa 21 video http://maafa21.com/, and read this fact sheet by The Rebecca Project for Human Rights http://www.rebeccaproject.org/images/stories/Fact%20Sheets/depo-provera-deadly-reproductive-violence-rebecca-project-for-human-rights-2013.pdf; "Over the past two years, the Rebecca Project has investigated, documented and interviewed scores of women and girls, deducing that birth control providers serving low-income women and girls such as Planned-Parenthood characteristically decline to inform patients about the FDA's warnings concerning Depo Provera. However, health providers are mandated ethically to inform women of harm and to post FDA Depo Provera Black-Box warnings on websites -- instead of misleading and misinforming families about the drug's dangerous side effects."
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk1f95sDna0 in which persecution of immigrants is discussed and an advocate with the Rebecca Project talks about the side effects of Depo Provera, US government efforts to sterilize 1/4 of the world's women of color and other issues. Do you have an abortion, sterilization, infanticide, Depo Provera, Norplant or other "family planning" experience to share?
No matter what color we are we can be enslaved by the slave-master mindset. God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit calls people to freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Amplified Bible says, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit."
Free people are faithful to research ways to stay out of slavery and to fight for freedom. Proverbs 18:15 Amplified Bible says, "The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the ear of the wise is ever seeking (inquiring for and craving) knowledge."
Hiram Rhoades (Rhodes) Revels was an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister who was an educator. After Revels was the first African American to serve in the US Senate completing the term vacated by Confederate President Jefferson, Revels became the first president of Alcorn College for Negros. Like Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American elected to the US Senate who served the full six-year term, Revels represented Mississippi and was a member of the Republican Party which was founded to stop the spread of African American slavery.
Dr. Alveda King, a niece of Christian Minister and Civil Rights Activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and co-editor with Dr. LaVerne Tolbert of the book Life At All Costs An Anthology Of Voices From 21st Century Black Prolife Leaders, has African, Native American and European ancestors. She is also a Christian who talks about her heritage, the mix of heritage Americans possess, and her "family planning" experience in this Civil Rights and the Pro-Life Movement speech given at Villanova University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4JAbHvw9U.
Alveda King's grandfather had a dream about her before she was born, and he encouraged her mother not to abort her. His dream came true. Alveda King is alive today and full of life. Women and girls are hurt by abortion. Men and boys are hurt by abortion too. Read my article "Do Fathers Have a Say in Abortion and Frozen Embryos?" http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/01/do-fathers-have-say-in-abortion-and.html.
Women, girls, men and boys are also hurt by sterilization. North Carolina didn't have a dialogue with Elaine Riddick that clearly informed her of the state's intention of sterilizing her. Instead of receiving healthcare Elaine Riddick was forcibly sterilized by the state of North Carolina nine months after she was raped by a neighbor and was giving birth via a C-section to her son conceived through rape. Watch this CNN interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYQLHHCxq8 in which Elaine Riddick says about her state-sponsored sterilization, "Later on because of my body was traumatized so severely I ended up having to have a total hysterectomy. But prior to that before I had the hysterectomy most of my life was I had to live in a whole lot of pain, hemorrhaging. When I got my monthly cycle ... it felt like someone had taken a knife and was gutting me .... My menstrual cycle ... wasn't normal because it lasted ... 12 to 15 days at a time, and this happened from the time ... after I had my son from the time I was 14 until I got into my 40s when I eventually did have to have a total hysterectomy."
Riddick says about the psychological impact of her forced sterilization, "You will never recover from this because it's always there. Every time you wake up when you go to sleep it's there. You think about how you've been treated in this country here. You think about--well me myself I had been so severely damaged until I was on Prozac, Serentil and Haldol, and that's how I coped. I had to wean myself off these things in order for me to cope, and I have to cope, and I have to go on."
Sometimes people consider physical health as more important than mental health. The reality is that they both need our regular attention, and failing to take good care of ourselves physically and mentally is dangerous and even deadly. Read my article "Heart Disease, Depression and Christianity" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/02/heart-disease-depression-and.html.
Sometimes people consider animals of little value, but that's not how God teaches us to view and to treat animals. Proverbs 12:10 New Living Translation Bible says, "The godly care for their animals, but the wicked are always cruel." Proverbs 12:6 New Living Translation Bible says, "The words of the wicked are like a murderous ambush, but the words of the godly save lives." Have you spoken out against sterilizing cats and/or other animals? Have you spoken out against euthanizing cats and/or other animals?
Are you a victim of American state-sponsored sterilization? A Persian proverb says, "Opportunity should be grabbed." In North Carolina $10 million is to be split equally among those sterilized through the North Carolina Eugenics Board.
A Latino proverb says, "No hay tiempo como el presente" (There is no time like the present.") 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 an advocate for 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.
A Korean proverb says, "The fortunate man has bread and friends." If you have filed a North Carolina verification form, please share your experience and inspire others.
Chinese Americans have been identified with African American slavery and segregation. In the 1927 US Supreme Court decision Gong Lum v. Rice, the court ruled that Chinese American citizens are colored and as a consequence are restricted to segregated schools. Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., was an associate justice at the time. Also in 1927 US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote in the Buck v. Bell case upholding American state-sponsored sterilization, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
In this interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doiWP2SQx2E Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, the husband of Yuan Weijing and the father of Chen Kerui and Chen Kesi, talks about his nephew, Chen Kegui who is the husband of Liu Fang and father of a young son named Chen Fubin, and, he notes that Chen Kegui was put in the same jail shortly after Chen Guangcheng escaped China that Chinese authorities put Chen Guangcheng in after he filed a 2005 class-action lawsuit against forced abortion and forced sterilization. Chen Guangcheng also encourages people to blog in this interview.
Pastor Bob Fu is president of China Aid Association and author of the book God's Double Agent The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom in which one of the subjects Bob Fu writes about is how he, his wife, Heidi Fu, and their first child, Daniel Fu, escaped a forced-abortion tragedy that loomed over the family because Heidi Fu was pregnant without a pregnancy permission card required by China's one-child policy. Most people do not escape China's one-child policy that includes forced abortions and forced sterilizations. Fu writes in God's Double Agent The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom, "Chinese political structure--from the national level all the way down to the village level--has family planning commissions with almost unlimited power. If a woman manages to hide her illegal pregnancy and has an "extra child," the commission can make her pay fines worth three to five times the family's income, confiscate property, or throw her in prison. (China collects more than ten billion US dollars in "family planning," fines every year.) But if the woman is unable to hide her illegal pregnancy, officials will inject her with a poison regardless of how far along she is. Every day, thirty thousand women are forced to have abortions, no doubt contributing to Chinese women's astronomical suicide rates. China boasts that it has successfully prevented four hundred million children from being born, more than the entire population of the United States."
A woman subjected to a forced abortion at nine months of pregnancy shares her story here http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=1327. This article includes a letter from a woman subjected to a forced abortion and a forced sterilization http://www.chinaaid.org/2012/07/sister-guo-yanling-christian-in-guangxi.html; also "Her family home was forcibly demolished, all their assets were stolen, and she was placed under administrative detention."
China has implemented a new anti-rumor law. Read here http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/access-09102013102331.html for more information about the new anti-rumor law which has impacted Chen Guangfu, Chen Guangcheng's eldest brother, and others. Don't be intimidated. Chen Guangcheng isn't. He's still speaking out for human rights. New York University rejected Chen Guangcheng. Now he's affiliated with the Witherspoon Institute, the Catholic University of America and the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice which also with individuals and with groups like http://www.savesaeed.org is working to free Pastor Saeed Abedini who is imprisoned in Evin prison in Iran because of his Christian faith and works. Ephesians 4:14-15 Amplified Bible says, "So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead. Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
Chen Guangcheng is a friend of Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa. Tutu is also an honorary chair of Freedom Now which is providing legal counsel to Chen Guangcheng's family. Jared Genser, founder of Freedom Now, wrote the following three suggestions on how to help Chinese dissidents in this article http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jared-genser-the-us-needs-a-new-strategy-in-addressing-chinas-human-rights/2013/10/27/58246600-34ef-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html, "First, the clear violation of China’s commitments and its lies must be directly and publicly confronted. Failure to squarely address the government’s impunity only emboldens those in the Chinese government who interpret quiet diplomacy and private protestations as a license to oppress. It was disheartening, for example, when President Obama failed to sign a letter to incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping last December from 134 Nobel laureates pressing for Liu Xiaobo’s release. The White House has never publicly called for Liu Xia to be released from her extralegal house arrest. This signals to Beijing that there will be no real price for failing to respond to private requests for action on these cases.
Second, in instances in which Chinese officials refuse to engage as honest actors, it is incumbent upon the U.S. administration to meet with Chinese dissidents and their families who can speak with unique authority about the persecution they continue to face in China. Meetings with President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, in particular, make clear that the United States views human rights as a central component of its foreign policy.
Finally, each high-level meeting with Chinese officials should include a substantive discussion of human rights issues relevant to the subject of the meeting. International standards on political, social, economic, environmental and cultural rights inform nearly all aspects of modern life. Prioritizing a bilateral relationship that consistently emphasizes fundamental freedoms would allow the administration to articulate a coherent strategy for addressing human rights while fostering the conditions for a real dialogue."
In South Africa Desmond Tutu headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that exposed many of the evils done under apartheid, so that evil may be stopped and good promoted. North Carolina is not the only American state that did state-sponsored sterilizations. In 1907 Indiana became the first US state to legalize state-sponsored sterilizations. California is believed to be the state with the largest number of state-sponsored sterilizations, but not all state records have been released. John Harvey Kellogg, who invented corn flakes breakfast cereal with his brother, also founded the Race Betterment Foundation which was active in Michigan, another state that had state-sponsored sterilizations.
Cindy Trimm says in her book Commanding Your Morning, "Think big and think detailed!.... Become a visionary--be creative. Take the limits off your mind! Think beyond where you are.... Ask God to enlarge your capacity for thinking, to take the limits off." Other American states besides North Carolina and other nations need to apologize to, financially compensate victims and erase all forms of "family planning" evil.
The door to evil has not been closed. US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote in the 1927 Buck v. Bell case upholding American state-sponsored sterilization, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Like Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in America Buck v. Bell has not been overturned.
Also some places are not prosecuting known killers and putting them in jail. Cristin Gilbert, a young woman who had Down Syndrome and was raped, was killed along with her child by abortionist Leroy Carhart, who also killed Jennifer Morbelli, a teacher, and her daughter, Madison Leigh, who had a disability. Leroy Carhart is not in jail. He is still performing abortions. Douglas Karpen has killed Denise Montoya and babies born alive after attempted abortions (infanticide). He's not in jail either. Watch these former Karpen abortion clinic employees talk about working with Karpen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhyJItGPko.
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