FEDERAL SUIT CHALLENGES STATE FUNDING OF BAPTIST AGENCY

ACLU Targets Kentucky Children's Home
from staff reports (CitizenLink e-magazine, Focus on the Family)

A Kentucky foster care program is facing a threat of closure thanks to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge.

Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children (KBHC) receives state money to help fund residential homes, foster placements and pregnancy counseling centers for young people. The ACLU filed suit in federal court, charging the state funding runs counter to the First Amendment.

Bill Smithwick, president of KBHC, told Family News in Focus he stands by the agency and its Christian foundation.

"Our goal and our mission in ministry is to take care of these kids," he said. "We do so from an unapologetically faith-based perspective."

The ACLU, which did not return calls about the case, is asking the court to order KBHC to pay back millions it has received from Kentucky over the years.

"The very worst case scenario, which I don't think would happen," Smithwick said, "would be if, indeed, the ACLU won on every count, and we had to repay the money. I mean -- we'd be gone."

John Sheller, a KBHC lawyer, said he is confident about the agency's position.

"The Establishment Clause is obviously a very complex area of the law," he said. "But the most recent cases of the Supreme Court would tend our direction."

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THE FEMALE FAN

As I was watching some internet news clips on FOX, I saw an interview with a woman named Betsy Burns who has a blog on Ivillage.com called The Female Fan. Berns is the author of The Female Fan Guide to Pro Football, Win, Place and Show: A Female Fan's Guide to Thoroughbred Racing and The Female Fan Guide to Motorsports. She has served as a consultant to the National Football League, for which she developed, designed and implemented its Football 101 instructional series for women, now offered by the league in every NFL market. She's also a frequent contributor to and guest on national and regional radio and television. Being a female fan myself, I was extremely excited to have uncovered this gem, so I just had to check it out! My favorite part of the blog was her Football 101 posts because it explained key aspects of the game as written by a female to females. Sorry guys, but when you explain football stuff to us women, you don't give us enough detail and our eyes glaze over and we act like we get what you just said! *That's why we keep asking the same questions over & over* In all fairness to you guys, though, we women tend to ask football questions at precicely the wrong moments during the game! Right?! Anyway, I was happily reading the Girls Guide to the Super Powl post and happened to come across a poll to see which player was the sexiest! Now Come ON!!! It was called Sunday Night's Sexiest and it had a dozen or so players you could vote for. I guess that was there for the women who only wanted to know the bare minimum about FB to slightly impress their man but got bored and wanted to cure their craving for "People Magazine" type fodder! The only way this would be interesting to me would be if I could see a few of the NFL's "sexiest men" engage in an informal game of FB with a few of People's "sexiest men alive" to see who comes out the real winners! Slightly off topic, I know, but very, very funny to imagine! BTW, I just had to check to see who was winning so far, and it was @#$%& Tom Brady! Ah ha-too bad that's the only thing he's winning this year!

AIDS GROUP SUES PFIZER OVER VIAGRA ADS

This Monday, Los Angeles based AIDS Healthcare Organization sued Pfizer, Inc. over ads the group says encourage the use of Viagra as a party drug. The ads in question feature younger-looking men which implies that Viagra is meant to enhance the sexual experience ( no shit!) and not to treat impotence. Am I just stupid or is the main goal of treating impotence to restore a man's ability to get/maintain an erection so he may have sex, thus ENHANCING HIS SEXUAL EXPERIENCE? He would have no sexual experience otherwise, am I right? The group said that certain studies have shown that Viagra is mixed with crystal methamphetamine to make a party drug "cocktail". Viagra is used in this concoction -ha ha- since methamphetamine can impair the ability to get an erection. The group further alleged that the marketing of Viagra has fostered an increase in the spread of AIDS and other STDs. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? Can anyone, anywhere in this country-and abroad, for that matter--take any personal responsibility for ANYTHING?? The president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation said in so many words that to satisfy the heightened sexual desire that crystal meth can bring about, you have to use Viagra. WHAT? How about this--just don't use crystal meth if you want to have sex! Actually, if you have a propensity for using C/M, how about abstaining from sex so you don't knock up some other drug user and produce an unhealthy baby? Furthermore, if you do not want to contract AIDS or any other STD, exercise self-restraint and practice abstinance or monogamy. God forbid this would happen in our current culture of instant gratification! Even if it is true that Pfizer's Viagra ads make it clear that the drug is for sexual enhancement and not just a potential treatment for impotence, how is the company responsible for people's irresponsible behaviour? Seriously?

MY "OLD " TEEN ROCK STAR CRUSHES

Funny stuff! When I was about 15, my band was Van Halen and I was infatuated with both Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth. Their posters graced my bedroom walls and I would often write short stories about being "hooked up" with DLR or Eddie (depending on what mood I was in..light or dark!) and hanging around with the other band members. And man, I was pissed off when Eddie married Valerie Bertinelli! So, for those of you who have movie star or rock star crushes, these pics will show you some cold, hard truth...beauty is only skin deep and & "hotness" fades, especially when there are massive amounts of alcohol & drugs involved! Eh, I still love 'em, though; and VH deserves to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame IMO.

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