by Bill Fancher
(AgapePress) – Two advocates of morality and proactive Christianity are encouraging people of faith to be catalysts for positive change in American culture.
Pro-family activist Janet Parshall says even though she and other people of faith know how the “culture war” will end, that is no excuse for shirking individual responsibility. She reminds Christians that the battle is not over yet.
“Do I think that we're going to see more moral decay? Absolutely,” Parshall says. “But I think for men and women who have publicly aligned themselves with the one true Living God, if we're called to be salt and light, it means we sprinkle that moral preservative that's so necessary in the culture.”
Parshall says vulgar television programming is getting worse as voyeuristic reality TV sinks to new depths. “We are very much like first-century Rome, where we've cried out for bread and circus and gotten it.”
“I still look at my hands and [say], there's an awful lot of power in that finger right there and I can walk right up to that TV set and turn it off. I win — they lose,” she says.
According to Parshall, people of faith must learn to voice their feelings in a proactive manner. She has a kindred spirit in prison ministry activist Chuck Colson, who says America is in need of Christian influence like never before. He feels believers must work harder than ever if there is to be any hope of restoring the country's godly heritage.
“Let's remember what [Alexis de] Tocqueville taught — that countries are changed by the habits of the heart, by the way people live … by those who live in obedience to Christ living it out in the culture,” Colson says. “We better do our job over these next four years, and let's see this country come back and restore moral decency, and a respect for right and wrong, and a belief in truth as against untruth in our culture. That's a job we can all do together.”
Colson says prayer is a great place to start in the effort to spread God's influence throughout America.
Girl Scouts NJ Camp Hosting Feminist Event for Kids
by Sherrie Black and Jody Brown
(AgapePress) – A Girl Scout camp in New Jersey will become a homosexual haven for two weeks in August.
While the Boy Scouts of America has taken a stand against homosexuality, it seems a New Jersey Girl Scouts group has no such reservations about that lifestyle. CNSNews reports Camp Sacajawea in New Jersey will be called “Mountain Meadow Summer Camp” as it is transformed for two weeks into a place for nine to 17 year-old children of homosexual, transgendered, biracial, adoptive, single-parent, and other “progressive” families.
The Girl Scouts of South Jersey Pines owns the 490-acre Newfield, New Jersey, campground, but leases it to Mountain Meadow, which runs its self-described feminist camp from August 5-18. Mountain Meadow offers a sliding scale camp fee ranging from $55 to more than $3,000, based on household income.
Despite the financial arrangement, the Girl Scouts disavows any connection to the lesbian feminist group.
According to the CNSNews report, the director for the feminist summer camp is a lesbian and a founding member of Lesbian Avengers in Chicago, a militant homosexuality advocacy group. Linda Oakleaf states on her website she has been a Girl Scout for 15 years, trains Girl Scouts leaders, and is a troop leader for an outreach group in western North Carolina.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
