PRAYER
Please pray for wisdom to know which candidates for elected office are truly men or women who seek to know and do what is right in God’s sight.
None of us can read minds. Our knowledge of a person’s character rests on what they say and do or what others say about them. But words by or about a candidate may be accurate or simply political spin.
In a Republic, however, citizen voters elect their leaders and are thus ultimately responsible for what their nation does or does not do. To choose truly good leaders, we need God’s guidance. He can help us know the truth about those seeking our vote. With His wisdom and guidance we can again truly become “One nation under God with liberty and justice for all.”
FISCAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
“[T]he social issue of marriage, and its importance to our society, has become a tremendous fiscal issue. The problem of marriage absence is now costing the taxpayers even more than national defense.
We used to have a social structure in the United States where husbands and fathers provided the financial support of wife and children. Last year, 41 percent of all babies born in the U.S. (including 53 percent of babies born to women under 30) were illegitimate, growing up without their own fathers.
It is obvious that when the mother of these children has no husband to support her and her babies, she calls on Big Brother Government. You and I then pay the bills for what is labeled welfare.
It’s not poverty that causes broken families: it’s the absence of marriage that causes poverty and puts kids below the designated poverty line. Social issues cause fiscal expenses…. [D]uring the Great Depression of the 1930s, … the American family, white and black, was not broken. It stayed together to face life’s reversal….
Nor do…[these financial] figures count the social and fiscal costs of the expensive problems that come mostly from female-headed households. These include drug addiction, sex, suicides, school dropouts, runaways, and crime.
Welfare spending is a failure: it doesn’t advance us toward any constructive goal, such as helping recipients to get on their feet economically. It merely increases dependence on government handouts and increases votes for big-spending politicians.”
(Phyllis Schlafly 3/8/2012)
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2012/mar12/12-03-07.html
CHURCH AND STATE
The Catholic Bishops are not only morally right on the issues of contraception, sterilization and abortion, they are medically right, as well. The first Law of Medicine is First do no harm. Contraceptive drugs: pills, injections and implants release synthetic hormones that are designed to cause a malfunction of a woman’s healthy reproductive system. They are known to be connected to a variety of women’s health problems. Some women die from their use.
Natural Family Planning offers a safe, effective and reversible method of birth control while protecting a woman’s health. Research has shown it to be 98-99% effective for avoiding pregnancy with adequate instruction if it is used according to the guidelines.
Information on Natural Family Planning as well as assistance in learning to use it is now available through the Illinois Valley Citizens for Life office in Ottawa. To schedule an appointment, call 815-434-7223 and ask for Pat from the Natural Family Planning Institute.
Published by: Natural Family Planning Institute
1090 N 2803 Road, Utica IL 61373 * 815-667-4155
