Conservatives love Fox News. And Rupert Murdoch loves conservatives, especially “social values” conservatives, because their loyal viewership makes him lots of money. Rupert Murdoch bought Myspace last year. The children of his Fox News viewers (not to mention children with other political persuasions) use Myspace (66 million registered users at last count). Rupert Murdoch sells “Naughty” adspace on Myspace that exploits those children. Rupert Murdoch is just one of hundreds of business execs who manipulate teens for profit. See for example, Merchants of Cool for a brilliant explanation of how the process works. In the parlance of Murdoch’s marketers (and Viacom and WB and others) , teenage boys are “mooks” and girls are “midriffs.” Still thinking through the whole accountability thing, but there’s gotta be something more than just the shrill fingerpointing of the so-called culture warriors. What do you think? Update: I’m suspicious this is not the answer. HT-  JDR

Archbishop Publicly Tells Pro-Abortion Kansas Governor Not to Receive Communion

Archbishop Naumann concluded his column stating, “I have not made lightly this request of Governor Sebelius, but only after much prayer and reflection. The spiritually lethal message, communicated by our governor, as well as many other high profile Catholics in public life, has been in effect: ‘The church’s teaching on abortion is optional!’ I reissue my request of the faithful of the archdiocese to pray for Governor Sebelius. I hope that my request of the governor, not to present herself for holy Communion, will provoke her to reconsider the serious spiritual and moral consequences of her past and present actions. At the same time, I pray this pastoral action on my part will help alert other Catholics to the moral gravity of participating in and/or cooperating with the performance of abortions.”

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Proverbs 24:11-12
11 Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?

Question for reflection: Are children in the womb a part of the Body of Christ? Is recognizing a child in the womb then not recognizing the Body of Christ?

“Suffer not the children to come to me, for such is the kingdom of God” Jesus Chirst

1 Cor 11:27-29
27Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.

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Why Wait? Because your worth it!

Next to freshman biology class, there is nothing more universal on college campuses than the “hookup scene.” It is simply expected that students from state schools to the Ivy League will experiment with premarital sex. In the words of one Harvard student recently quoted in the New York Times: “For me, being a strong woman means not being ashamed that I like to have sex.”

Well, surprisingly there are growing numbers of students who have a much different definition of what it means to be a strong woman (or man). It means not being ashamed to say that they would like to have sex, but choose not to.

A relatively new student group at Harvard called True Love Revolution has urged college freshmen to resist the hookup culture by passing out flyers that read: “Why wait? Because you’re worth it.”

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+More Resources and Articles: On Abstinence ;

Visit the +True Love Revolution homepage.

For more information, see the True Love Revolution page at Harvard College’s website.

Randall Patterson, +“Students of Virginity,” New York Times, 30 March 2008.

Zoe Sandvig, +“Putting ‘Sexy’ Back into Abstinence,” The Point, 2 April 2008.

Janie M. Fredell, “Abstinence: The New Pink?” The Harvard Crimson, 14 March 2007.

Michelle Miller, “College Students Embrace New Sexual Revolution on Campus,” The Leadership Institute, 19 April 2007.

Jesse Harlan Alderman, “Harvard Club Promotes Abstinence,” Breitbart.com, 22 March 2007.

Adrienne Richards, “Harvard’s True Love Revolution Takes Aim at ‘Mindless Sex,’” Wilkes Beacon, 26 march 2007.

Erin Flaherty, “That Chastity is So Hot Right Now,” Shine, 31 March 2008.

Elizabeth Anscombe, “Contraception and Chastity,” Orthodoxy Today, 1977.

BreakPoint Commentary No. 070214, “A Chaste Approach to Sex: Princeton’s Anscombe Society.”

Anna Broadway, +Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity (Galilee Trade, 2008).