Coral Ridge Ministries inadvertently Reminds Usthat the UN-Christian RRR Cult is USA's Taliban

Reminder: The leadership of the "Religious" Radical Right is oligarchical. Coral Ridge Ministries has been one of the key organizations at that level.

But something very interesting happened to the RRR Cult recently. Last year, it lost two of its most influential charismatic leaders. One was the actual founder of the cult, Jerry Falwell, who had dubbed it "The Moral Majority." (How interesting that this collection of the hateful and/or ignorant, which has always been steeped in vicious lies, started out with two lies in its very name! They were never even remotely either moral or a majority. For as long as it has existed, the cult has comprised only about 5% of the U.S. population. [Which, unfortunately, still is millions of people, and today numbers about 15 million of the USA's 300 million people.]) And the other one was Dr. D. James Kennedy, who headed Coral Ridge Ministries (CRM), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The loss of any charismatic leader is earth-shaking to his or her movement. Especially when his/her agendas have not been achieved. It leaves a real power and influence vacuum, and that has happened in both of these cases, because NO noteable and charismatic person was waiting in the wings, for either organization. And that is good news for society, as we continue to battle the loathsome hate-agendas of the RRR Cult. Hopefully, both of those organizations will be seriously hobbled forevermore by those leadership losses.

In the case of CRM, it's interesting to observe that since Kennedy's death, they have continued to air his broadcasts. No one there has the charisma to replace him!

Okay -- that sets the stage. Now let's see just how CRM (just like all the other organizations in the leadership of the cult) continues to demonstrate just how Taliban-like the RRR truly is.

CRM has just released its 18th annual "Spiritual State of the Nation Survey," and almost none of it lacks being drenched in hatefulness and bigotry. The survey is mailed almost exclusively to lemmings of the RRR Cult. A person either has to already be on CRM's mailing list, or respond to an offer to request it, after seeing or hearing it on one of their broadcasts. So you can well imagine just how meaningless such a survey is! That survey is not the least bit representative of the views of the American people in general, and thus, once compiled, it has no more integrity and value than a couple of bales of scrap paper. It would make good birdcage liner, but that's about all. A waste of good trees.

And once collected, those surveys (around 100,000+ or so, typically) are dishonestly presented to our Congressional leaders as though they were meaningful.

Its very first question asks, "Are you concerned that our country as a whole is abandoning biblical values?" Choices: Yes, No, and Undecided. (I can't help but wonder if a "No" answer to that serves as a marker for discarding that person's survey, but I can't substantiate that. As dishonest as the RRR Cult is, though, I wouldn't put it past them to even go that one additional step farther to bias an already-corrupted survey.)

The second question is a list of "concerns" for which the responder is asked to evaluate each as being "Very Dangerous," "Somewhat Dangerous," or "Not Very Dangerous." (I was amused to note that there was no choice called "Not AT ALL Dangerous." Which would have been applicable in almost all cases.)

Here's the list:

Apathetic or uninformed Christians

News Media

Hollywood

Courts

The ACLU and similar groups

Pro-homosexual indoctrination

Abortion

Congress

Public education (K-12)

Colleges and universities

Islamic terrorism

Cults and false religions

Atheism

Darwinism/Evolution

Other: __________

The obvious difference between the mindless RRR Cult and normal & sensible Americans is made astoundingly clear by that very ludicrous list. One can be sure that their warped notion of people who comprise "apathetic or uninformed Christians" are people who are not RRR cult lemmings, and therefore are not supporting their vile, anti-human-rights agendas.

The cult is absolutely convinced that the news media is out to get them. Their perception of that might not be too far off, since journalists tend to be very astute people, and highly-intelligent people usually loathe mindless and irrational bigotry.

Same for Hollywood!

As for the courts -- well, thanks to their toady, "President" GW Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court may already be poisoned beyond repair for decades to come, against personal liberties. For the first time in 80 years! But you can bet that the cult's leaders will keep up the strident drumbeat to even further poison it, and every other appellate court in the land. They want a theocracy, and fair courts have always been America's strongest firewall against that.

Of course, CRM regards the ACLU to be a threat. That organization, and others like it, fair-mindedly and sensibly defend our rights as specified in the U.S. Constitution -- including the rights that the cult is dedicating to destroying! The ACLU is more and more becoming one of the most critically-important organizations in America.

In the case of "pro-homosexual indoctrination," we see one of the RRR's most blatant lies injected into the survey. Just like the blacks, 50 years earlier, in Civil Rights Movement #1, homosexuals in Civil Rights Movement #2 seek nothing more than EQUAL rights with everyone else, and to not be ignorantly and hatefully discriminated-against over such a triviality as sexual orientation. And that includes same-sex marriage. Nothing could possibly be more harmless than that, and it presents absolutely NO threat to opposite-sex marriage. (Fortunately, the American people are steadily recognizing the ludicrousness and hatefulness of the RRR's agendas, and especially those agendas which are aligned against gays.)

The RRR's incredibly ignorant and hateful war against America's girls and women as they seek to destroy their right to access the beneficial remedy of abortion is legendary, and goes almost all the way back to Roe vs. Wade, on January 22, 1973. To see just how loathsome that agenda is, as it desperately seeks to hurl America back into the pre-Roe Dark Ages of forced gestation of UNwanted pregnancies, just see the other articles dealing with that topic within this blog, and in the APIFAR blog. Articles in both of these blogs also deal with the RRR's irrational and hateful attacks on the trivial variation of normalcy known as homosexuality. And this is an especially valuable article to read.

As for Congress -- the RRR won't be happy until it has a veto-proof majority of anti-personal-liberties Representatives and Senators, to promote and sustain their hate-agendas... and as a hedge in case a Democrat can manage to survive the corrupted electronic voting machines gauntlet and actually get into the White House.

The RRR is dedicated to poisoning the Public Education system in two ways. The first is to violate the First Amendment principle of the separation of church and state in as many ways as possible, including the corruption and dilution of real science with the pseudo-science of "creationism." (Think, "6,000-year-old earth!") And secondly, to undermine it by giving "vouchers" to people so they can send their kinds to private indoctrination centers (where that same mindless tripe would be taught) or could home-school them thusly. Those vouchers are dangerous to society in two ways. The one just mentioned, and because they also siphon much-needed and critically-important funding away from the public school systems! (Egalitarians need to vigorously oppose those voucher proposals, at all costs!)

The cult is livid about the colleges and universities (especially the state-run ones) that sensibly and intelligently want no part of spewing its ignorance at their students.

The survey says "Islamic terrorism," but that is really a thinly-veiled attack on Islam as a whole, and anyone familiar with the RRR recognizes that in a heartbeat!

As for "Cults and False Religions" -- that's funnier than hell! Talk about being myopic! As America's own home-grown version of the Taliban, all other cults are benign when compared to the RRR Cult. That cult, and the False Teachers that head it, comprise the only truly vicious cult in the USA. (Fortunately for the rest of the world, no other countries are interested in being infested by it!)

The suggestion that "Atheism" poses any sort of threat to anyone is as idiotic as it gets! In line with Jesus' actual commandment, about one in 100 Christians proselytize... but almost NO atheists do. Atheists are very adept at minding their own business!

Isn't it fun to watch CRM calling the evolutionary process, "Darwinism/Evolution?" I wonder if they would call relativity, "Einsteinism/Relativity?" Naw. Probably not. After all, they don't seem to perceive either Einstein or relativity to be a threat to their ignorant mindsets. At least, not yet! The sad thing is that the aspects of real science that deal with evolution pose no threat to Christianity, either. But the RRR's lemmings are too ignorant to figure that out, and for some arcane reason that accomplishes nothing, the RRR's leaders are determined to keep foisting that inane lie on society. (CLUE to all of those cultists: Any God who is omniscient and omnipotent enough to have created a universe at least 40 billion light-years across, which contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, most of which contain hundreds of billions of stars, each, and countless planets -- would have found it duck soup to have created the evolutionary process. And He probably did!)

(Footnote to the above: D. James Kennedy claimed that the Nazis killed millions of people, thanks to Darwin. Wrong! That was another lie. Hitler misused and abused science to fit his horrendous agenda. That wasn't the fault of science. Anyone can misuse science, to their own unethical ends. And that's what Hitler did. If a nuclear weapon ever is used improperly, that won't be the fault of the science dealing with nuclear fission and fusion. That would be the fault of those who abused that science. It's obvious that the RRR Cult's leaders don't have any regard for facts.

Remember -- until the RRR Cult is history, don't underestimate its threat to our freedoms. And its capability to cause our society to devolve into a tyranny like that depicted in "The Handmaid's Tale," or worse yet, of George Orwell's "1984," should we be apathetic enough to allow them to prevail. Because:

RRR Cult : Society :: 5% Arsenic Solution : Glass of Drinking Water

I'll end this article by citing the survey's next question, and then conclude the examination of its remaining questions in a later article. That question asks, "Is it too late for a spiritual revival in this nation?" Well, if such a revival would promote the RRR and its agendas, we can only hope and pray that it IS too late for that. We need instead to relegate those agendas to extinction, where they can join the equally ignorant and hateful agenda of segregation in history's dusty boneyard, forevermore!

"Father McKenzie, writing the wordsof a sermon that no one will hear.."Here's how EUROPE luckily avoidedinfestation by the RRR Cult

To appreciate the full magnitude of the content of this article, I encourage you to click on each of its internal links, as you read it.

When the Beatles sang "Eleanor Rigby," it probably just portrayed a lonely recluse that only her pastor took note of anymore, when she died. But just maybe they already were aware of the religious disparity that already existed between Britain and the USA... over 40 years ago.

America's internal terrorists are the leaders and lemmings of the RRR Cult. The UN-Christian "Religious Radical Right." America's very own, personal-liberties hating, home-grown version of the Taliban.

And as unlucky as America is to be infested by it... Europe is lucky enough to have completely escaped it! Talk about dodging a very sociopathic bullet!

Ironically, it is the very structure of the RRR that saved Europe from it! And which will continue to protect the hundreds of millions of people living on that very fortunate continent. Because the RRR Cult is different from all other cults, in one very important way. A factor that enabled it to infest American society and threaten our freedoms -- while simultaneously preventing it from infesting Europe.

You see, almost all other cults recruit their lemmings and immediately isolate them with the other lemmings, within the cult. Sometimes so extremely as to isolate them from most of the rest of society. But the RRR's crafty leaders did exactly the opposite, right from Day One, back in the 1970s -- when the late Jerry Falwell (to his eternal shame) started the cult, and called it the "Moral Majority. (What a misnomer that was, since the cult he started was never even remotely a majority... and today still comprises only 5% of the U.S. population. Nor was there anything "moral" about it.) The RRR primarily targets the more ignorant folks who have already been conned into populating the congregations of fundamentist churches. I could have said "Christian fundamentalist churches," but those are often far more UN-Christian than Christian. After all, how Christian can any church or denomination be which rejects Christ's clear command that we show compassion to our neighbors? But instead espouses and promotes such loathsome agendas as the one that seeks to force girls and women to gestate UNwanted pregnancies to term against their will? Which would deprive millions of them of countless of their pre-ill-timed-pregnancy future opportunities.

The cult infests those churches from within -- and then, here is the key to its success -- it leaves its lemmings in place, where they can influence and convert their other congregants into adopting the cult's heinous agendas.

The United States has always had a pretty stable percentage of Christian believers, and a solid percentage of those are church-goers. That's a good thing in its own right, and as a Christian myself, I could hardly think otherwise. In fact, per a recent Gallup Poll, fully 83% of Americans profess Christianity. OF that number, 94% are actual, normal, sensible, relatively-intelligent and generally-tolerant, actual Christians. While the remaining 6% are the lemmings of the RRR Cult, who subscribe to the loathsome agendas of the cult's oligarchical leadership and organizations.

No one seems to be sure why there is such a disparity between the Americans and the Europeans with respect to numbers of Christians, and numbers of church-goers. But I have a theory.

European history goes back thousands of years, and except for Native Americans, that of the USA only 400. And the beginning of this nation was hugely influenced by the ultra-conservative (to the point of being downright nutty) Puritans. Any ducking-stool mentality that can be found in today's RRR cultists can likely be traced back through time to that cult.

So Europe was far luckier. At least as far as being threatened by a ubiquitous, continent-wide, liberty-threatening cult is concerned. Because, thanks to its long history and its great diversity, the following important comments and aspects pertain to it:

[Phil Zuckerman wrote]: "The last time I was in Europe, I was told by two different sets of friends that we would be 'going out to the church' for the evening. In both cases (one in Oban, Scotland, and the other in Cologne, Germany) the churches turned out to be religious institutions in facade only; both were former churches that had been gutted and turned into popular pubs and night clubs. Indeed, throughout much of Western Europe--with the unique exception of Ireland -- churches are being turned into bars, discos, warehouses, and laundromats. Not only is church attendance way down, but so is religious belief."

* In Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1851, 60 percent of the adult population attended church; in 1995 that was down to 11 percent (Bruce 1999).
* In 1899, 98 percent of Dutch citizens claimed to belong to a particular church. In 2001, only 40 percent did so (Grotenhuis and Scheepers 2001).
* Only 34 percent of West Germans, 31 percent of Belgians, 24 percent of the British, 17 percent of the French, 11 percent of Finns, and 9 percent of Icelanders attend church at lease monthly (Inglehart, Basanez, and Moreno 1998).
* Only 6 percent of Danes, 7 percent of Swedes, and 9 percent of Norwegians attend church at least monthly (Bruce 2000).
* Only 2 percent of Danes, 2 percent of Swedes, and 2 percent of Norwegians attend church on an average Sunday (Bruce 2000).
* 12 percent of Danes claimed to "never attend church" in 1947; that was up to 34 percent in 1996 (Bruce 1999).
* 32 percent of Swedes and 33 percent of Norwegians claim to "never" attend church (Bruce 2000).
* The percent of the population in the United Kingdom in 1900 which had attended Sunday school as children was 55 percent; in 2000 it was down to 4 percent (Bruce 2002).
* Among West Germans in 1967, 42 percent believed that Jesus is the son of God; this dropped down to 29 percent in 1992; among East Germans, the number drops as low as 17 percent (Shand 1998).
* 43 percent of the British in 1940 claimed to believe in the existence of a personal God; that dropped to 26 percent in 2000 (Bruce 2002).

The best available empirical research reveals is that secularization is unambiguously observable in most of Western Europe, but not in the United States. In fact, religion remains remarkably strong in the United States. For instance, more than 95 percent of Americans claim to believe in God or a universal spirit or lifeforce, compared to 61 percent of the British; nearly 80 percent of Americans claim to believe in heaven, compared to 50 percent of the British; 84 percent of Americans believe that Jesus is God or the son of God, compared to 46 percent of the British (Gallup and Lindsay 1999). Comparing additional traditional religious beliefs, over 70 percent of Americans believe in life after death, compared to 46 percent of Italians, 43 percent of the French, and 35 percent of Scandinavians (Gallup 1979). And over 70 percent of Americans believe in bell, compared to only 28 percent of the British (Greeley 1995). Concerning traditional religious participation, nearly 45 percent of Americans attend church more than once a week, compared to 23 percent of Belgians, 19 percent of West Germans, 13 percent of the British, 10 percent of the French, 3 percent of Danes, and only 2 percent of Icelanders (Verweij, Ester, and Nauta 1997).

The referenced sources of the above information, and the data itself, can be found here.

Very interestingly, if one of the Puritans had chopped a hole in the bottom of their ship while it was still in mid-Atlantic, he likely would have been one of the greatest American heroes of all time -- without ever having even reached America! And we'd never even have known his name.

Without the influence of the Puritans at the very inception of American society, it is highly probable that the United States today would be very much like Europe in this regard... and that the RRR Cult would never have existed.

And that if Jerry Falwell had existed, and had tried to organize that loathsome faction under those circumstances, he almost surely would have been told, very properly, to go fly a very large kite.

Finally -- what about Canada? With whom we share a common border over 4,000 miles long. Did it escape the RRR Cult, despite its adjacency and proximity? For the most part, yes! Very fortuitously! As pointed out by Zuckerman:

"Interestingly enough, Canada maintains a sort of middle ground between the United States and Western Europe concerning traditional religious belief: In 1995, 70 percent of Canadians claimed to believe in God or a universal spirit, standing between over 90 percent of Americans and 61 percent of Britons; 61 percent of Canadians claim to believe in heaven, standing between 78 percent of Americans and 50 percent Britons (Gallup and Lindsay 1999). Concerning church participation, 30 percent of Canadians attend church weekly (Bruce 1999), standing between 45 percent of Americans, 19 percent of West Germans, and 13 percent of Britons."

It wasn't as good as having a vast ocean seperating them from the land of the Puritans, as was the case for the Europeans. But developing as a separate nation undoubtedly afforded the lucky Canadians a great deal of protection against such repressive and irrational hatefulness. A strong enough filter, through which an insufficient amount of the cult's poison was able to pass, to result in an infestation.

For example -- there is nothing more harmless than same-sex marriage (SSM). It doesn't make people gay. It doesn't cause gay people to have sex any more often than they already do. (Not that that's anyone else's business than theirs; RRR cultists are some of the world's worst busybodies. And busybodyism & abject ignorance go together!) And there is no way in the world that SSM could do on one whit of harm to opposite-sex marriage, or to the marriage of any opposite-sex couple. Any notion that opposite-sex marriage somehow needs to be "defended" against it is one of the RRR Cult's most blatant and loathsome lies. Yet -- in the still-too-Puritanical USA, that hateful cult has scared Congress and state legislatures into passing so-called "Defense of Marriage" laws and state constitutional amendments. How utterly MINDLESS!

But by stark comparison, Canada fully legalized same-sex marriage. With no significant opposition from within its borders. As has a growing number of European nations. Intelligence and the RRR Cult are mutually-exclusive. Nor does the RRR emanate any compassion. Just a ducking-stool mentality and hateful irrationality.

There is very little that is Christian about America's very own Taliban.

And as long as that cult continues to infest America, and weild its influence upon our courts and our elected representatives, it is imperative that we keep this analogy in mind:

The RRR Cult : Society :: 5% Arsenic Solution : Glass of Drinking Water

Just as segregation infested and poisoned the South, 50 years ago, this insidous, loathsome, and ignorance-laden cult threatens vital and important liberties of tens of millions of Americans today. Blacks were the targets before. Today, it's gays and girls & women.

And just as society outgrew and rejected segregation, we need to fight, outgrow, and reject the toxic RRR Cult and its hate-laden agenda today. What a sad commentary on America that such an infestation can still manifest itself and survive into the 21st century!

Abortion-on-Request Talking Points:Reproductive Rights as they haveexisted in the USA since Jan. 22, 1973

This outline contains a multitude of irrefutable FACTS
that are devastating to the Anti-Choice agenda of the RRR Cult.

Please note: The host of this blog site's programming makes it difficult or impossible to indent. And that doesn't bode well for posting outlines, in which indentations are vital! Therefore, I have inserted asterisks (*) before each subgroup. More asterisks = deeper subgroups.

Terminology note: The term, "abortion-on-request," is employed herein because that is exactly what it IS. The more commonly-used term, "abortion on demand," may have been coined by Anti-Choicers, in an effort to imply that abortion should be hard to obtain. Thankfully, for most girls and women, it still is easy to access. It is as easy to walk into a clinic and obtain this remedy as it is to buy an over-the-counter medicine in a drug store, other than filling out some forms, in most cases.

The RRR Cultists have succeeded over the years, however, in pressuring ignorant people and fearful legislators into erecting some roadblocks that have complicated matters for teenage girls in many states. Such as requirements of parental notification or permission. Those who are responsible for having done that really need to ask themselves which option would be more likely to negatively impact a girl's future... forcing her to gestate to term, which could be devastating to countless of her future opportunities... or allowing her to easily have her full range of future opportunities restored via the remedy of abortion?

Brainwashing the ignorant is a key strategy employed by the dishonest and hateful leaders of the RRR Cult. The answer to the above question is as obvious as obtaining the answer when adding two plus two!

The worst threat to reproductive rights as 2008 dawns is the eventual fate of Roe vs. Wade. Thanks to "President" Bush's stuffing the U.S. Supreme Court with RRR cultists, we no longer have an egalitarian, personal-liberties-oriented High Court for the first time in 80 years. It is very likely that the only chance America may still have to avoid tyranny in the future is to ensure that a Democrat is elected President in November. And that the White House is not again stolen by the unscrupulous and dishonest Republican Party! Please see other articles in this blog, and in my APIFAR blog, for a greater understanding of this. Both contain detailed articles addressing these dangers. Especially in the APIFAR blog.

Here's the fact-filled outline. Please feel free to copy this entire document, and distribute it far and wide by all means at your disposal. It is not copyrighted. Nor is any other article in any of my blogs that were authored by me.

Abortion terminates entities (z/e/fs: zygotes, embryoes &
fetuses, up until the 7th month of gestation) which have ALL
of these characteristics in common with sperm and ova:

-- Human
-- Unique
-- As a stage of development, indispensable to future birth
-- Have NEVER experienced conscious awareness^
-- Alive

...which makes it hypocritical when abortion opponents
try to defend zygotes, embryos, and fetuses (z/e/fs) but not
gametes (sperm and ova). Which comprise Stage One of the
reproductive process

^ (After the 7th month of gestation begins, conscious
awareness may be possible, but all the other of the above-
listed attributes still apply.)

And the Bible, which is the primary moral authority for the
majority of Americans:

-- In NO way condemns abortion
-- Doesn't even MENTION abortion
*-- By Jesus' day, abortion had been around for 1,000 yrs.
-- Contains NO defenses of any RPEs, as people.
*-- Reserves all of its protection for already-born people
*-- That the Bible regards personhood to begin at birth is
made clear by it's immense emphasis on the importance
of BIRTH order, BIRTHrights. and first-BORNS.
-- In certain cases, condemned babies to horrible deaths
-- Never indicates that there is anything "special" about
fertilization
*-- Thus making z/e/f and sperm & ova of EQUAL worth

Abortion-on-request enables women to:

-- Put their lives back on track immediately
-- Restore their well-being to pre-unplanned pregnancy levels
*-- The vast majority of women are happy with this decision
*-- Most women have no regrets
-- Restore their full range of future opportunities
-- Avoid physical difficulties of a 9-month pregnancy
*-- Especially important for young girls, ~12-16
-- Statistically 6-10 times safer than carrying-to-term
-- Avoid the trauma of adopting-out, and wondering later
-- Avoid possibility of changing mind about adopting-out
-- Reduce likelihood of long-term economic deprivation
-- Avoid bringing child into less-loving home
-- Avoid bringing child into unstable environment
-- Wait until timing is better before having children
*-- Who then are MORE likely to be loved
*-- Who then are MORE likely to be in stable home
**-- And thus are LESS like to have troubled childhoods
**-- And therefore more likely NOT to become criminals
*-- And thus are MORE likely to become successful

Legal abortion-on-request:

-- Is exponentially safer than illegal abortions
*-- Thus saving the lives of hundreds or thousands of women/yr.
-- Has been available throughout the USA since early 1973
*-- Between 1973 and 2008, 33 million women have had them
*-- Between 1973 and 2008, 45 million abortions have been done

Other related facts include:

-- MOST women who have abortions go on to HAVE kids later,
when the timing is better
*-- Those children would NOT have been born if the abortions
had not taken place earlier, because the same gametes
would not have matched up.
**-- Those "2nd-round" kids STARTED reaching age 13 in
significant numbers by 1988. By the early 1990s,
millionsof those "2nd-round" kids were in their
mid-teens by the early 1990s.
**-- Mid-teens is the highest risk age for crime, and
this continues into the early 20s.
***-- As pointed out above, wanted and loved children
are LESS prone to criminal behavior.
**-- By 1995, millions of "2nd-round kids" were entering
the workforce. Perhaps a million-plus MORE have entered it
every year SINCE. By 2000, the oldest ones had reached
the age where they could be getting quite successful.
***-- Since the early 1990s, the rate of violent crime in the USA
has declined dramatically, and by 2000 was at 40-year
lows in many categories.
***-- The decade of the 1990s, and the 21st century to date,
in the USA, has been the most economically-dynamic
period of time for any nation in the entire history of the
world. Except for the 1990s. The Clinton years.
Which were even better. GW Bush has done grievous
damage to the nation.

Although the exact figures may be impossible to derive, the probability that abortion-on-request has substantially benefitted all of American society in terms of the crime rate and the economy is quite strong, despite the temporary anomaly caused by the attack on Sept. 11, 2001, and subsequent problems caused by the thieving rip-offs to consumers by Big Oil, and by the criminal impact of sub-prime loans to the housing market. Like the Energizer Bunny, American consumers just keep right on buying! And that counts for 2/3 of the entire U.S. economy. And a strong U.S. economy benefits the entire world.

Update on the economy, as of March 30, 2008: America has surely entered a recession in recent weeks (despite Bush's failure to acknowledge that). But this has come about as a result of factors that overwhelmed all beneficial ones mentioned above, thanks to the greed and mismanagement that led the nation into the sub-prime mortgage crisis. More than 2 million houses face foreclosure during the rest of 2008, and this recession is expected to last until at least 2010. IF consumers stop buying in droves, that could lead to an acual depression. All of these new developments have happened in spite of the benefits that have been derived from abortion-on-request. And might have ultimately become even more serious if we hadn't been spared from forced gestation over the last 34 years.