Planned Parenthood’s newest abortion “super center” opened last month in Houston, Texas, and is the largest abortion facility in the western hemisphere. The massive 78,000 square foot facility also includes a surgical wing to provide late-term abortions.

Why is this significant?

Because if President Obama’s healthcare bill passes, your tax dollars could help fund this “community health center” and others like it.

President Obama has set March 18 as the date for a final House vote on the Senate pro-abortion healthcare bill. Speaker Pelosi is giving pro-life Democrats and Republicans no chance to amend the pro-abortion Senate healthcare plan. It’s take it or leave it.

In addition to other loopholes, their plan includes as much as $11 billion over 5 years for “community health centers” including Planned Parenthood clinics like the one in Houston.

Enter the Stupak 12

Rep. Bart Stupak and a coalition of pro-life Democrats are now standing in the way. These courageous representatives have vowed to vote against any legislation that does not explicitly exclude taxpayer funding for abortion providers, or insurance companies that provide abortion.

Without these votes, the healthcare “reform” legislation might not pass.

CatholicVote is working feverishly to stop this legislation from going forward. We were told yesterday that the pressure being placed on these pro-life representatives is overwhelming.

They are hearing from their pro-abortion colleagues and pro-abortion groups that stand to profit from this legislation.

But have they heard from you?

Can you place at least 2 calls to any of the representatives listed below?

Tell them that millions of people are counting on them to do the right thing. Tell them to stand strong. And tell them you will support them in any way you can.

Finally, tell them you are praying for them. Let's make sure they hear from the Catholic vote.

Sincerely,

Brian Burch, President
CatholicVoteAction.org

There are no restrictions in the Senate bill on how the money for Community Health Centers can be spent. As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius would be empowered to funnel cash to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Is this the kind of healthcare reform that you want?

Here is a partial list of those who need to hear from you:

Jerry Costello (IL)
(618) 233-8026
(202) 225-5661

Kathy Dahlkemper (PA)
(814) 456-2038
(202) 225-5406

Joe Donnelly (IN)
(574) 288-2780
(202) 225-3915

Steve Driehaus (OH)
(513) 684-2723
(202) 225-2216

Brad Ellsworth (IN)
(812) 465-6484
(202) 225-4636

Marcy Kaptur (OH)
(419) 259-7500
(202) 225-4146

Dale Kildee (MI)
(810) 239-1437
(202) 225-3611

Jim Oberstar (MN)
(218) 727-7474
(202) 225-6211

Charlie Wilson (OH)
(740) 376-0868
(202) 225-5705

Written by Nonie Darwish

In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child. Consummating the marriage by 9.

The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.

Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.
To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses. Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family.. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.

The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.
The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.

In the West World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.

By passing this on, enlightened American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.

Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two. She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .

When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society. But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.

In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries. For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world. Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.

While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.
While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.

It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.
While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.

In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. is one... and there are others....

I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful.. some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam.. the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children, the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America.

Monday March 15 thru Thursday March 18. Morning Schedule 8:15AM Rosary, 8:30AM Mass followed by a reflection. Evening Reflection at 7:30PM in the Church. On Wednesday, March 17 we will have our Penance service and several priests hearing individual confession in English.

Saint Francis of Assisi Religious Education Parent Association is sponsoring an Enchilada fund raiser at Saint Francis of Assisi Hall on Saturday March 20th from 5 to 7PM. Dine in or Take out. $9 per plate / 3 Chicken Enchiladas, Rice, Beans and Salad Pre-sale tickets only no tickets will be sold at the door to purchase tickets please come to the Pastoral Center or call Rebecca Cantero at 805-276-1921. Come and reminice with old friends and meet new friends. Special thanks to the Magaña family from Tlaquepaque fine Mexican food in Santa Paula for providing the food.
Saint Francis of Assisi Senior Breakfast serves seniors (60 years of older) from 8AM to 9:30AM, Monday through Friday. All senior's are welcome a samll, voluntary donation will be accepted.
Growing up Catholic Sessions for our parents and children in first communion will be held on Thursday March 11 & 25 at 6PM in the parish hall.
Stations of the Cross and Soup for the soul continues through Lent Stations begin at 5:30PM and Soup follows in the Parish Hall. Bring your family. A basket is set out for love gifts towards our Saint Vincent de Paul Society who put together 180 bags of food each Tuesday and to cover the soup supplies. Bring the family. For more info., contact Marie Alviz at 524-5837.
ENGLISH LENTEN MISSION WITH FR TONY WALSH
Monday March 15 thru Thursday March 18
Morning Schedule 8:15AM Rosary, 8:30AM Mass followed by a reflection. Evening Reflection at 7:30PM in the Church. On Wednesday, March 17 we will have our Penance service and several priests hearing individual confession in English.

Make no mistake about it: President Obama, Senator Reid, and Speaker Pelosi are pushing ahead with their government takeover of health care - this time, with a "new and improved" health care bill!

However President Obama's new health care proposal still contains the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade -- and your tax dollars will still be paying for it.

We need your help right now, as the pro-abortion lobby has tightened its stranglehold on Congress and the White House. According to official White House visitor logs, President Obama has allowed Planned Parenthood unfettered access to his Administration. Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards, has privately met with President Obama's staff to discuss health care reform on several occasions (with her first visit coming only days after his inauguration!). This open door policy demonstrates the imminent danger of taxpayer-funded abortions - unless we take immediate action.

Will you stand with us by making an urgently-needed contribution of $50, $100, $250, or more? Americans United for Life stands in strong opposition to any bill that uses taxpayer dollars for abortion.

Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid, and President Obama are determined to reward their friends at Planned Parenthood with your tax dollars. In Pelosi's own words, she will do anything and everything to pass health care reform: "If the gate is closed we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed."

We cannot let these radical, pro-abortion forces win. But we cannot fight back without significant financial support from partners like you. Will you help us ramp up our fight against taxpayer funded abortion with your tax-deductible contribution of $50, $100, $250 or more to Americans United for Life? I'm counting on your urgent contribution.

Yours for Life,
Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Americans United for Life

Come for Stations of the Cross at 5:30PM and stay for soup in the Hall. There will be a basket set out for love gifts towards our Saint Vincent de Paul society who purchase groceries each week to feed over 150 families each week and to cover the soup supplies. Please call and R.S.V.P. with Maggie at the Pastoral Center if you will be coming so that we can have a head count. If you would like to make a meatless soup or bring some French flute bread to share, during the Friday’s of Lent, call Marie Alviz at 524-5837

The Fillmore Church of Christ is pleased to offer a video series “Does God Exist?,” presented by John Clayton, a geologist and former atheist, at 219 Mountain View Street at Highway 126, beginning March 3, at 7PM. The public is cordially invited to this free series of videos, being shown each week at 7 PM, followed by a question and answer session. The purpose of the program is to provide thinking, seeking people with scientific evidence that God does exist and that the Bible is His Word. Lesson titles the month of March are: March 3rd, “Why I Left Atheism,” March 10th, “The Cosmos: A Logical Proof of God’s Existence,” March 17th, “The Cause of the Cosmos,” and March 24th, “God, Man, and Caveman,” and March 31st, “Jurassic Park and Genesis 17.” Other lessons in April and May include, “The Flood,” “The Age of Things,” “Fossils and Genesis 20,” “Evolution’s Proof of God”, “Issues of Biological Evolution” and others, ending on May 26th.

Clayton hold moster’s degrees in education and geology from Indiana University and Notre Dame University. He was awarded “Teacher of the Year Award” in 1972, and in 1985 was selected the Distinguished Physics Teacher for the State of Indiana by the American Association of Physics Teachers. For further information call 524-2851.

When the screen fills up with words, then the words tumble to the bottom and new words start up again at the top of the screen. Very nice!

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray%20For%20America/index.htm

By Jan Markell
www.olivetreeviews.org
February 22, 2010

Christianity Today online says that vampires are hot stuff right now even for Christians. Visit a Christian bookstore or publishing house Web site and you might be surprised how many vampire-themed books you will see. What's wrong with the picture? Legions of people will tell you that nothing is wrong. They are, in fact, trying to sanctify vampirism.

Stephanie Meyer's popular Twilight series is cashing in to be sure. Her four books which have sold over 17 million copies, and two movies thus far, are setting new records. To those of us who object, they will tell you that the theme of vampirism is just folklore. They aren't in the Bible. Relax.

But Web sites indicate some are obsessed, CONTINUED »