Truth Project Worldview Project

The Truth Project Coming to N.C.

Special Report - May 22, 2009
The North Carolina Family Policy Council is pleased to announce that it will partner with Focus on the Family to offer The Truth Project worldview series. The first Truth Project training will be in Charlotte on Saturday, June 6, from 8:30 AM to 12:45 PM at the First Baptist Church of Charlotte. This event will be facilitated by The Truth Project staff, with assistance from Matt Lytle, Ph.D., director of research for the North Carolina Family Policy Council. This training event is designed for those who would like to lead The Truth Project as a small group. In addition, the agenda focuses on training and vision components, supporting the worldview content.

The Truth Project Curriculum is a systematic and comprehensive biblical worldview study that looks at all of life. Conferences will equip participants to make a Christ-centered difference on culture by applying God's principles to daily life. Each conference session is designed to equip you to facilitate Focus on the Family's DVD-based Christian Worldview lessons.

If you can attend this important session, please register today with The Truth Project. Online registration is available.

Click here to see an overview of the lessons

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Weak Christian Support Could Enable Obama Win

LifeNews.com 10/25

Poll: Weak Christian Support Could Enable Pro-Abortion Obama to Beat McCain

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- If Barack Obama, described by pro-life groups as the most pro-abortion presidential candidate since the 1973, becomes president pro-life voters may have themselves to blame. New polling data shows evangelical Christian voters, typically the most pro-life voting group, failing to strongly support John McCain. A new survey from the Barna Group, a Christian research firm, finds evangelical voters preferring McCain over Obama by a 63 percent to 23 percent group. While that's a strong lead, President Bush pulled in 85 percent of those voters in 2004 when he won a narrow victory over pro-abortion candidate John Kerry. Barna looked at self-identified born-again Christians, who do not describe themselves as evangelical. The support McCain over Obama by a scant 45 percent to 43 percent margin, which is within the survey's margin of error. In 2004, 62% of this category voted for Bush. Overall, the Barna survey shows 60 percent of faith voters support Barack Obama while only 49 percent backed Kerry in 2004. The lack of support for McCain's candidacy from these voters who compose a large segment of the Republican base helps explain why McCain has been unable to have a more solid hold on states Bush won in the last two elections.

Prominent Black Pro-Life Leaders Endorse McCain, Not Obama, Over Abortion

LifeNews.com 10/20

Prominent Black Pro-Life Leaders Endorse McCain, Not Obama, Over Abortion
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a powerful video with personal testimonials, key black pro-life leaders, including Dr. Alveda C. King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., talk about how their faith influences the policies and politics they support. These black Americans state eloquently why they support Sen. John McCain and cannot, in good conscience, support Barack Obama. A primary reason cited by these black American leaders is Obama's radical position on abortion, including the fact that Obama voted four times in the Illinois Senate against the bill that would provide health care to babies born alive after a botched abortion. Why is the issue of abortion so important to black American leaders? Black communities are being devastated by abortion which is tantamount to black genocide, they say. Some 35% of abortions in the United States are performed on African-American women, while they represent only 12% of the nation's female population. According to the 2000 Census, 14 million (17 million as of 2007) African-American children have been killed through abortion. This means that more African-American babies have been killed by abortion during the past 30 years than the total number of African-American deaths from all other causes combined, including AIDS, heart disease, cancer, violent crimes and accidents. See the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQd8wnyQ7s

Barack Obama's Pledge to Overturn Every Abortion

LifeNews.com 7/23

Barack Obama's Pledge to Overturn Every Pro-Life Abortion Law 1 Year Old

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) --

One year ago this week, Barack Obama promised activists with the nation's largest abortion business that the first thing he would do as president is overturn every pro-life law in all 50 states. Obama said his first action would be signing the mislabeled Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). The measure, if it becomes law, would codify Roe v. Wade by making the infamous Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited abortions the law of the land. But it would go further, warns Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. "If FOCA were to become law it would overturn hundreds of state laws that have put limits on abortion," he explains. Perkins points to a new research paper written by FRC Vice President of Government Affairs Tom McClusky and he said Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other pro-abortion groups agree with this assessment. The ACLU has said, "This [FOCA] bill prohibits such restrictions as parental notification and consent, as well as the requirement that all abortions be performed in a hospital, spousal consent, waiting periods, etc."

Lois' Lodge does not endorse political candidates and is not able to substantiate information created by other sources and posted on this blog. We just seek to share the news that is sent our way relative to prolife and crisis pregnancy issues. We welcome your comments and input.

Professor Under Fire- Makes Controversial Statement Recommending Abortion for Down Syndrome Babies

LifeNews.com 1/18

University of North Carolina Prof Suggests Abortion for Down Syndrome Babies
Chapel Hill, NC (LifeNews.com) --

A University of North Carolina professor is under fire for suggesting that parents who discover their unborn child will have Down syndrome should have abortions. The comments offended one student who has a brother with the condition and highlighted attempts by disabilities groups to head off abortion as a solution to the disability. Professor Albert Harris told his embryology students last week that babies who have Down syndrome should be aborted. "In my opinion, the moral thing for older mothers to do is to have amniocentesis, as soon during pregnancy as is safe for the fetus, test whether placental cells have a third chromosome #21, and abort the fetus if it does," he said. Harris has taught at the college for 35 years and he told the newspaper he's made the pro-abortion statement several times before in an attempt to spark discussion. He told the newspaper he has no apologies for the remark. "I know somebody who had a child like this, and it ruined their life," he said.

ACTION: Contact UNC about Professor Harris at Office of the Chancellor, 103 South Building, Campus Box 9100, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9100. Email chancellor@unc.edu, call (919) 962-1365 or fax (919) 962-1647.

Babies Feel Pain at 20 Weeks

LifeNews.com 2/12

Leading Physician Convinced Babies Feel Pain at 20 Weeks of Pregnancy
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) --

A leading physician who has investigated the pain premature infants feel says he's convinced that unborn children have the capacity to feel pain as early as 20 weeks into pregnancy. Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a University of Arkansas professor, is the foremost authority on the subject. He recently spoke with the New York Times about his research. Anand says it started at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England when he was a resident at a neonatal intensive care unit. He noticed babies would come back from surgeries in terrible condition and realized it was because they were suffering through the operations without anesthesia. Clinical trials eventually showed that babies suffered massive stress without it and babies who received anesthesia beforehand were 15 percent more likely to survive such early operations. Today, the standard of care that Anand discovered is routine. As technology advanced, so did the ability to determine when babies began to have the capacity to feel pain.