Christian News Digest, 2/12/09

As usual, the first three of the seven top stories are included in the excerpt . . . come to the site for four more!

Christian Victory! Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller) joyously accepts New Testament!

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=29863&ref=BPNews-RSSFeed0212

Penn Jillette, the verbal half of the magician duo Penn and Teller, and an outspoken former atheist, has posted a YouTube video exhorting Christians to share their faith.

Penn and Teller are headliners in Las Vegas, and their shows generally are marked by foul language and shock appeal. Penn Jillette, though, used no coarse language in telling about an audience member who gave him a New Testament.

Christian Horror! Street preacher’s First Amendment ‘sermon’ gets him handcuffed

http://concernedchristians.ca/index.php/Media/Christianity/Street-preacher-s-First-Amendment-sermon-gets-him-handcuffed.html

The Philadelphia Police Department will soon find itself facing a federal lawsuit because of the amazing overreaction by one of its officers to a New Jersey man’s correct insistence that his sidewalk ministry was protected by the First Amendment.

Christian Horror! School Secretary threatened after daughter mentions Jesus

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88709

A school secretary whose daughter mentioned Jesus to a classmate now is facing discipline, including the possibility of dismissal from her position, for having sent an e-mail to friends from her home computer asking for prayer about the issue . . .

Her daughter, Jasmine, age 5, attends the school and recently was scolded by a teacher for talking about God and her faith, the report said. She was in tears after the discipline, the paper said.

Christian Victory! National Association of Evangelicals Loves Obama’s Faith-Based Office!

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/02/national_associ.html

The National Association of Evangelicals issued a favorable response to President Obama’s new Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Office. Carl Esbeck, a law professor at the University of Missouri, applauds the office while offering few concerns.

Christian Horror! Spanish Government to force homosexual indoctrination on traveling students!

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09021209.html

The Spanish government has now begun to reach beyond its borders to force students into a new homosexualist indoctrination program.

Parents of Spanish students attending the Spanish Giner de los Rios Institute, located in Lisbon, Portugal, have received notification that the Spanish Embassy is requiring them to submit their children to “Education for Citizenship and Human Rights” classes, which seek to “revise the student’s attitudes to homosexuality” and to teach them to conform to the moral standards set by “society” rather than those of their religious traditions.

Christian Horror! Palin Criticizes Campaign to Donate to Planned Parenthood in Her Name

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09021208.html

In a press conference yesterday Sarah Palin criticized the e-mail campaign that was launched in the lead-up to the election, in which people were urged to donate to the nearest Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name.

“I have boxes of thank-you notes from people associated with Planned Parenthood thanking me for the donations,” she said during a press conference. “It’s political theater — it’s great theater, I guess, for some.”

Christian Horror! Christian TV special being stifled

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=418356

The American Family Association (AFA), a pro-family group based in Mississippi, has encountered resistance in its attempts to air a television special called Speechless: Silencing the Christians.

According to the website SilencingChristians.com, the majority of Americans get their information about the homosexual movement from Hollywood and the secular news media — outlets that deliver what AFA says is a message “tainted by pro-homosexual propaganda.” That is why the pro-family group produced the 14-episode Speechless series that initially aired on the INSP Network, and then put together a one-hour special based on the series.

Related articles:

1. Christian News Digest, Tuesday 2/10/09
2. Christian News Digest, 2/11/09
3. Christian News Digest, 2/14/09
4. Christian News Digest, Monday 2/9/09
5. Christian News Roundup, 3/4/09

Jenny Donati is webmistress and co-editor of Secular News Daily. Jenny is an outspoken secularist who believes firmly in the separation of church and state. She demands evidence to support arguments, and holds herself to the same standard. She doesn't write about herself in the third person . . . but there's a first time for everything.

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