Scrolling around...July 5th, 2012

Dave Miller: A stunning reminder: the darkness lives in me
I had a shocking conversation with an old friend recently. He told me that his wife, whom I had known as a vibrant, passionate, committed Christian, had abandoned her family, her faith and embraced a life of sin with wild abandon...

Estimated 30 million lives sacrificed for 5 million ‘test tube babies’
...“If 5 million babies have been born as a result of in vitro fertilization, then at least six times that many human lives have been aborted in the earliest and most vulnerable stages of development in the womb,” said Dr. Thomas W. Hilgers in a statement to LifeSiteNews...

Cern announces discovery of Higgs boson 'God particle'
It has taken nearly 50 years and cost £2.6bn. Now, at last, the Higgs boson particle has been found - and a new chapter in our understanding of the universe can begin...

Photoshopping a Fetus: Denying the Obvious
"… the more we treat fetuses like people-including them in our family photo shoots, tagging them on our Facebook walls, giving them their own Twitter accounts-the harder it will be to deny that they are people when the next, say, personhood amendment comes up, with legislators and activists arguing that 'the unborn child' inside a pregnant woman's womb should have the same rights as the living among us."...

The Few, the Proud…the Diverse
...I have no problem believing that homosexual Americans have sacrificed for their country. I’m equally certain that alcoholic Americans have also done so. It is their sacrifice as Americans that should be honored. What is the point of celebrating their behavior as homosexuals, or as alcoholics, if not to promote homosexual or alcoholic behavior? The one is as absurd as the other...

Woman, children beheaded in Afghan "honour killing"
A 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded overnight in Afghanistan's east, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a rapidly growing trend of so-called honour killings...

More than 1 million in U.S. still without power 5 days after storm
More than 1 million homes and businesses in a swath from Indiana to Virginia remained without power on Wednesday, five days after deadly storms tore through the region...