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Archive for April 9th, 2009

Obama’s Christian Appointee to Faith-Based Program Says New Testament Teaching on Homosexuality Is ‘Not True’|CNSNews

April 09, 2009 By: admin Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

Advisory Council

President Obama has named to his faith-based advisory council a self-professed Christian who holds that the New Testament’s teaching that homosexual behavior is unnatural and wrong–which is found in St. Paul’s letter to the Romans–“is not true.”
The appointee, Harry Knox, has also said that Obama’s decision to invite the Rev. Rick Warren to say a prayer at the Inauguration “tainted” the ceremony and that Pope Benedict XVI is a “discredited leader.”
Harry Knox, a professed gay Christian who is director of the religion and faith program at the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual rights group, was named to President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships on Monday. The advisory council gives federal grants to faith-based organizations.

Why Facebook and Twitter are glad they’re getting older|cnet

April 09, 2009 By: admin Category: Tech Comments Off

Growing Older

Facebook and Twitter users have wrinkles, torn hamstrings and many, many fillings. And increasingly, they’re beginning to complain about chillblains, varicose veins, and the Social Security system.
In just the last two months, the number of Facebook members over 35 has doubled. And the biggest demographic grouping isn’t 12-18. It’s 35 to 44.
While ComScore reported this week that 10 percent of Twitter users are between 55 and 64. That’s the same percentage as are 18-24. In fact, the majority of Twitter users are 35 or older.
And here’s Reuters telling us that 18- to 24-year-olds are 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter.
Which might mean that young people are groping their way back to some sort of physical bonding experiences. While older people, thinking that, perhaps, they are younger people, are diving into social networking like large Chicagoans on their first trip to a Kauai beach.


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