Host: Jim Schneider
Air Date - January 11, 2013
Show Description:
It was time once again for the Crosstalk team to clear the news desk and Jim did just that by presenting the following news stories for listener comment:
- Reverend Louie Giglio will not give the benediction at the upcoming January 21st presidential inauguration to avoid controversy over a message he preached against homosexuality 15 years ago.
- President Obama signs the 633 billion dollar defense law but disagrees with the conscience rights provision.
- The Marine Corps has advised its legal staff that spouses clubs operating on its installations must admit same-sex spouses if they want to remain on the bases.
- The Washington National Cathedral will soon begin performing homosexual marriages.
- The National Institutes of Health says they have awarded the Fenway Institute a 3 year $800,000 grant to address health disparities in LGBTQ youth of color through the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparity.
- Openly gay British Columbia elementary school teacher suspended for showing his 4th grade students a sexually charged YouTube video featuring men in drag.
- Kids need to see more gay people on TV according to a BBC report.
- The Anglican Church says the blessing of homosexual couples is not enough.
- Reverend Scott Lively is accused of committing crimes against humanity in violation of international law just by sharing his biblical views on homosexuality during a 2009 visit to Uganda.
- V.P. Joe Biden compared restrictions on guns to auto safety regulations such as air bags.
- NRA president disappointed that recent task force meeting over gun violence seemed to have more to do with attacking the 2nd Amendment rather than doing something to improve child safety.
- Bank of America reportedly freezes the account of a gun manufacturer.
- According to the most recent statistics from the F.B.I., more Americans commit murders with hammers than with assault rifles or other long guns.
- Louisiana sheriff’s department to hold four-hour course on how to operate firearms.
- New York representative looks to repeal presidential term limits.
- Planned Parenthood achieved record abortions and profits in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
- Planned Parenthood does on average one abortion every 94 seconds.
- Atheist Richard Dawkins says that raising your child to believe in hell is worse than sexual abuse.
- A Muskegon abortion clinic, closed by the fire marshal the day after Christmas for multiple code violations, is unlikely to reopen.
- Eric Holder is staying on at the Justice Department.
- President Obama signs bill guaranteeing secret service protection for the rest of his life.
- White House Press secretary places the blame for the 16.4 trillion dollar national debt on Congress.
- There’s talk about the minting of a trillion dollar platinum coin in order to avoid having to raise the debt ceiling.
- New video game featuring a black alien female superhero delivered to earth to fight global warming is about to hit the market due to a $100,000 grant from the Obama administration.
- In one of its last actions of 2012, on Christmas Eve, the U.N.’s General Assembly agreed to extend for another 3 years the formula that has American taxpayers contributing more than one-fifth of the U.N.’s regular budget.
The Crosstalk Radio Talk Show is heard each weekday on over 90 radio outlets across America and worldwide on the Internet. Crosstalk covers the issues that affect our world, our nation, our families and the Christian church from a perspective centered in the Word of God. Whether we discuss the economy, the political scene, the continuing moral collapse of our nation, legislation that affects the family, or the state of evangelicalism, our authority is found in the unchanging standard of the Holy Scriptures. Veteran co-hosts Dr. Vic Eliason and Jim Schneider have worked as a team for over 20 years to bring solid information to the body of Christ.
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