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Program Pays Girls $1 Per Day To Not Get Pregnant
- WXII12.com
The group College-Bound Sisters was founded at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by Hazel Brown, a maternity nurse who thought too many teens were having babies.
Extramarital Affairs, Like Sanford’s, Morally Taboo
- GALLUP
There is also a slight difference between men's views and women's views on extramarital affairs; 8% of men say they are acceptable, compared to 3% of women. And despite the conventional wisdom that young Americans may be more morally libertine than those who are older, 18- to 29-year-olds in the Gallup survey are little different in their views on the moral acceptability of extramarital affairs than are those 30 years of age and up.
Court upholds Va. abortion ban
- The Washington Times
A sharply divided federal appeals court upheld Virginia's ban on partial-birth abortion Wednesday, ruling that the statute does not unduly burden a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy by more conventional means.
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Ulysses Handy, 24, shot three people in the head at point blank range. A former Boy Scout and member of the church choir, Handy shows no remorse for the killings. His motive? Handy wants others to experience the pain he feels inside. As he begins three consecutive life sentences, Handy has decorated his body with a pentagram, 666, and "devil horn" tattoos. Do you believe in "natural born killers"? Are we born evil, or it is cultivated through our life experiences? What happened to Ulysses Handy?
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As a child, Handy was raised to honor God. He says, "I went to Catholic schools all my life. And I was a honor student, Boy Scouts, all that. The choir--I went to catechism, first communion, and after a while, that wasn't me. It didn't give me pleasure." What kind of pleasure do you think Handy was looking for? What is the difference between pleasure,and joy or peace?
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See Genesis 3:1-17 and Romans 5:12-14. Why is evil part of our world? Is sin an undeniable part of our in-born nature?
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Handy said participating in certain activities, some of which centered on God, "wasn't me". Do you think those types of activities are "natural" to anyone?
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How do we escape our sinful nature? See 1 John 1:9 and Romans 8:1-4.
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What happens when we seek God, accept Jesus' sacrifice as payment for our confessed sins, and repent? See 2 Corinthians 5:17 and John 1:12-13. What kind of nature do we inherit when we become children of God?
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How do any of us overcome the temptation to live by our sinful nature? See Romans 8:3-14 for God's powerful antidote to a life of sin.
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