David Limbaugh: Believers Must Stop Appeasing the Enemies of God
by Chad Groening
(AgapePress) – A best-selling author and syndicated columnist says Christians need to stop trying to get along with the politically correct crowd, and boldly fight for their right to worship as they please.
David Limbaugh may be best-known for his best-selling book Absolute Power, which documents the abuses by the Janet Reno Justice Department during the Clinton years.
But the brother of talk show giant Rush Limbaugh says he is a born-again Christian, and isn't happy with the way many Christians appease the left.
“I am troubled by the fact that sometimes I get feedback from fellow Christians to the effect that 'We need not be confrontational in the public arena, because we're going to turn people off.' I reject that,” he says. ”
And I don't mean to be confrontational. I do believe we have to approach matters as the Bible says with gentleness and respect. But Jesus was confrontational. The truth divides, and we cannot run from the truth for the sake of being liked and respected by those who are politically correct.”
Limbaugh asks, “If Christians can't stand up for God, what can they stand up for?” He believes Christians need to stand up for the right to worship as they please.
by Allie Martin
(AgapePress) – A columnist with the Washington Post is questioning whether NBC morning show host Katie Couric is a reporter, or an advocate for certain causes.
In a Post column examining television news, Lisa de Moraes says Today show co-host Katie Couric doesn't need to leave the show for a talk show to do on-air advocacy work on controversial subjects, because she does just that on the Today show.
For example, earlier this week, at the end of a taped interview with the mother and brother of confessed child murderer Andrea Yates — the Houston woman who drowned her five children — Couric told viewers where to send contributions to the Texas Woman's Defense Fund. The address also appeared onscreen.
The fund was established last week right after Yates' mother and brother told NBC News correspondent Jim Cummins that they needed help paying legal bills.
However, a spokesperson for the Today show said producers didn't believe that the show's six-million viewers would get the impression that Couric and/or NBC News believe Yates' actions were defensible if she suffered postpartum depression at the time of the murders.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
