Why marriage matters to civilization, and particularly to Judaism

“When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.

This revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened male-female love and sexuality (and thereby almost alone created the possibility of love and eroticism within marriage), and began the arduous task of elevating the status of women.”

Read the rest of the story here.

Hollywood Casino in Columbus, Ohio

"Was happy to see in the Columbus Dispatch that the gambling profits had been lower than hoped for at the Hollywood Casino. Apparently, Columbus' reputation as a fat city is helping their restaurants turn a profit which balances the gambling losses.

Gambling destroys a lot of lives, and keeps money from creating good. It is a tax on the poor and low income, who disproportionately get sucked in (the rich have the stock market for gambling). Churches, liberal and conservative, mainline and fundamentalist, fought this for years. They are the ones who get to pick up the pieces. http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/10/25/columbus-prostitution-arrests-made.html"

What a lame comment—Obama on Thatcher

"She stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered." —Obama on Margaret Thatcher's passing.

So that’s what she did?  Set an example for women?   So did Sarah Palin—who had no husband’s shirt tails to power like Hillary.   So did Jan Brewer—who stood up to the President.  So did Sgt. Kimberly Munley who brought down the Ft. Hood terrorist in “work place violence.” A lot of thanks they’ll get.

“I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.”
Speech, Feb. 8, 1984

Compare Obama’s comment to John Boehner’s. “Margaret Thatcher, a grocer’s daughter, stared down elites, union bosses, and communists to win three consecutive elections, establish conservative principles in Western Europe, and bring down the Iron Curtain. There was no secret to her values – hard work and personal responsibility – and no nonsense at all in her leadership.”

If enough people note Obama’s lame tweet, he’ll probably have to put out something more comprehensive and truthful.

 

Where’s the vigilant media we used to have in this war?

Reading about the Americas who recently died in Afghanistan, including civilians, I saw no mention in the article that this has been Obama's war for over 4 years, and that more Americans have died there under his administration than 8 years of Bush. But then, the origin of the news was the Washington Post, part of the POM, protect Obama media. You'd have to read the readers' comments to even find out Obama is President--after sifting those blaming Bush.  Afghanistan heated up in early 2009 and Obama diddled and fiddled around, not providing the troops asked for. I think they knew our peace prize prez was weak and it gave them a real boost. By the time he acted, it was too late. Now it's his war.

Sharing the un-wealth of health

It would have been easier and cheaper—but that’s not the Democrat way

The Columbus Dispatch yesterday had one of those health insurance tear jerker stories--single man, no family, too young for Medicare, and apparently too rich for Medicaid. His surgery had already been covered up to $30,000 by a state program, but he's getting bills for the rest (didn't say what that was--it was rotator cuff surgery). And he will be covered by Obamacare if Gov. Kasich takes the federal carrot, which will be used up in a few years. And even with the explanation which this poor young journalist tried to paste together from an extremely complex law, looked to me wouldn't cover his situation anyway.

Why didn't Obama go for that small window of people who fell through the cracks of the other government health care programs--Medicaid, VA, S-CHIP. Thousands will be hired to "help" people sign up and comply with the new regulations; where were they when millions didn't know which government programs to use? Millions of young people just did not want to pay the employers' co-pay so that's why they didn't have insurance--now the young will be hardest hit. Many others were wealthy enough to self insure.

But covering just those who needed it, he couldn't take over 1/5 of the economy.  He had a crisis—the high unemployment and a temporary recession—so he used it to grab the health care industry and institute many new taxes.

Plan B for children, brought to you by the party that thinks IDs for adults is racist

So. Why do you suppose the abortion industry is pushing Plan B on young girls? Certainly isn't for their health, is it? It's against the law for men to be having sex with young girls. Then they can just send them to the drug store. Mom and Dad will be in for a surprise when either the abortion or baby (these drugs must be used exactly as directed) or the venereal disease arrives for their daughter not yet old enough to drive.

Have you figured it out? This will actually create more pregnancies (more sex does that), and that means more money for the abortion industry. An ob/gyn who does abortions can make more money before noon on one day than he can in a month of delivering babies which require months of pre-natal care. 

For as long as stats have been kept on contraception, the more it is available, the more sex happens and babies are conceived and the more STDs infect women.

Brought to you by the same party who thinks an ID for adults to vote is racist.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/judge-orders-fda-plan-b-pill-women-ages-article-1.13084

www.nydailynews.com

If there is no bread on the table, there are no crumbs on the floor—Gay marriage

The so-called gay marriage event/law will eventually pass--nothing in the progressive movement of the last 100 years hasn't. You can see politicians rushing for the bandwagon. But I believe they will be getting an old worn out pair of shoes, scuffed, run down, out of fashion and tossed aside because no one but they and a few nuns and priests from the 70s seem to want it. And if gender doesn't matter, neither does age or number or consanguinity. If there is no bread on the table, there are no crumbs on the floor.

They could have lobbied and demonstrated for something new and fresh, free of the hundreds of laws now circling marriage, but instead they wanted what they really can't have--God's blessing and ours. Marriage is not respected today by the young, or even by most Christians who either shack up or serially marry--which seems to guarantee more divorce and remarriage. Marriage today is just one more lifestyle of choice. Our birth rate in the U.S. is below replacement rate and almost 41% of children are born to unmarried women, up from 18.4% in 1980. That's a good indication that marriage doesn't matter much. The state doesn't care about love--it has an interest only because families with children make better citizens and pay more taxes and will fight for their country (family) if need be. Those laws will have to go too since gay couples are by definition infertile and will need donors or AI--and new custody battles involving egg donor, sperm donor and partner. Should be a cottage industry for lawyers.

God will be the judge

of those who support the murder of the unborn with “legal, safe and late” abortion.  Like Obama voters.

“[Investigators] found jar after jar after jar of fetal remains and specifically severed feet in jars,” he explained in front of a panel following the compilation of the Grand Jury Report. “They found medical waste bags just strewn everywhere.”

Williams also outlined that several babies had been found with their spinal cords severed. It was believed that Gosnell birthed a number of babies alive, then “snipped” the back of their neck with scissors in order to kill them.

One of Gosnell’s employees, Adrienne Moton, testified against the abortionist last month, admitting that she had “snipped” the necks of ten children.:

Kermit Gosnell trial

Studying achievement, rather than failure

"Black men are overrepresented on revenue generating intercollegiate sports teams. In 2009, they were only 3.6% of undergraduate students, but 55.3% of football and basketball players at public NCAA Division I institutions (Harper, 2012)."

It would probably be called a racist comment if a sports announcer said this, but it appears in The Black Male College Achievement Study.

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/equity/sites/gse.upenn.edu.equity/files/publications/bmss.pdf

Obama wants your retirement funds!!

Obama is after your retirement funds.  Right now it's a $3 million cap.  Actually, I could have had this much if I had gone back to work sooner (returned to work when my youngest was a senior in high school) and if I had worked to age 65.  This in one of the lowest paid professional fields--librarianship.  Look out liberals.  He's coming after YOU.  My final 14 years as faculty at Ohio State University, I socked away the maximum allowed and did without trips to Spain, Bahamas, and Mexico like the Obama girls have enjoyed.  Now he even wants that!  Yes, punish people who are frugal and invest for old age.  Find new and inventive ways to hurt the American economy.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/05/Obama-Budget-to-Target-Success-by-Capping-Retirement-Accounts-at-3-Million

How can legalization of same sex marriage affect my own marriage?

Writes Stella Morabito on April 6:  This is #6 of her 10 points

[Same sex marriage]  is the vehicle by which all civil marriages may soon be abolished, including yours. When children are no longer considered central to state purpose, marriage becomes nothing more than a contract between any two (or more) people. A reversal of DOMA could give force to an emerging movement called "singlism," which argues that the state should cease recognition of marriage because it is discriminatory against those who do not have partners.

Furthermore, the un-defining of marriage is only one part of a package deal that includes the transgender push for the un-defining of gender. This is already happening under the radar through laws that define gender identity only on self-perception: seeing yourself on any given day as male, female, both, or neither. If that goal is achieved, the reduction of your "marriage" to social and legal gibberish will be complete. And as we become more isolated from family bonds in the eyes of the state, the state becomes freer to define our humanity.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/ten_qa_on_same-sex_marriage_canards_and_evasions.html

TB is making a strong comeback

There is now a TB strain that is totally drug resistant (TDR-TB) to add to the extensively drug resistant (XDR-TB) strain, identified in 2006, and the Multidrug-resistant TV (MDR-TB), which emerged in the early 1990s.  Those in the U.S. and Europe who have any of these difficult to treat strains of the old disease that was once thought conquered, have recently been in South Africa, but it has also emerged in India (2012), Iran (2009) and Italy (2007). 

In the U.S. MDR-TB accounted for 1.3% of the 10,528 cases of TB in 2011, and there were 6 cases of XDR-TB.  One woman who returned to TN from South Africa with XDR-TB had a strain that took 2 years to treat, including 90 days in isolation.  Eventually, she was cured.  Most people in the U.S. who have TB are foreign born, or were born into communities where the foreign born live.  Others at risk are homeless (aka undomiciled in NYC), substance abusers, and people with HIV.

Emerging Infectious Diseases, March 2013

JAMA, March 20, 2013

So incest is like homosexuality? It will never happen, liberals claimed—just about a week ago.

Columbia professor David Epstein [who used to write articles about Sarah Palin, not complimentary] pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted incest [Attempted?  It went on for 3 years.] on May 10th, the Columbia Spectrum reported.

Epstein, who is still employed at the university, was originally charged with felony incest after it was discovered he was having what appeared to be a consensual relationship with his daughter, 24, in December.

Hormones now available over the counter for teens

The war on women has moved to the war on teens.  No woman should be self-prescribing a medication with toxic ingredients that amount to a year's worth of contraception in one dose. It's pretty silly to worry about plastics in baby bottles or beef and chicken laced with hormones, and then ingest this pill loaded with hormones ready to act on a not yet mature teen reproductive system.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/05/pro-life-groups-slam-morning-after-pill-ruling-girls-will-be-exploited/

http://www.webmd.com/drugs/drug-17833-levonorgestrel+oral.aspx?drugid=17833&drugname=levonorgestrel+oral

These instructions obviously were written during a time when children needed a prescription for this drug.  Also, the instructions are rather complicated. Teens should be reporting the assault to the police, not browsing the shelves at CVS.

SIDE EFFECTS: Nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain, tiredness, dizziness, changes in vaginal bleeding, breast tenderness, diarrhea, or headache may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.Tell your doctor immediately if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: lower abdominal pain.A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, seek immediate medical attention if you notice any of the following symptoms of a serious allergic reaction: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.In the US -Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.

The March job numbers

663,000 people left the workforce in March and only 88,000 jobs were added, but somehow the Obama administration paints a happy face on this because by destroying the will to work in so many Americans, Obama somehow wins. It's too late to blame Bush so I suppose now it will be the sequester he agreed to in order to raise taxes.

Obama's former economic advisor Austan Goolsbee called it a "punch in the gut." The stock market agreed. I call it another failure of his policies. The "recession" was over before the first stimulus dollar was out the door in 2009, and still he can't make the formula of higher taxes + more regulation + more government take overs work. That's why he's dancing on the Sandy Hook graves--it's all he's got.

Friday Family Photo—Easter in Indianapolis

I had my 2nd eye surgery a week ago Wednesday. Now I'm as blind with glasses as I used to be without them. I've always been able to see my mother when I looked at my hands; now I see her when I look in the mirror.

Does she or doesn’t she?

                  

Do you remember the first time you colored your hair—not to experiment over the bathroom sink, but to have it done professionally?  From the 1950s to the 1970s, the number of American women coloring their hair rose from 7 percent to more than 40 percent, so when I was young hair coloring was just a bit edgy, or for the elderly.

I had my brown hair with a few strands of dull gray “high lighted” with blonde probably in the mid to late 80s, because I recall the children  were grown and gone.  I was being picked up in Rockford at the bus by my parents and I was sort of concerned about what my mother would say.  She said nothing.  So finally I asked her what she thought of my new hair color, and she took a closer look.  She said it looked just like my hair did when I was a child so she hadn’t noticed—that’s sort of the image she had of me.  Dad didn’t notice either.

So I continued.  Depending on whether I had a curly perm or straightened it, sometimes it looked blonde, sometimes highlighted. Then in the late 90s I switched to light brown, over all color, but occasionally had it high lighted, like this photo from 2002—which looks completely blonde but which was actually high lights a bit over done.  A few times I tried to do it myself to save some money, but the mess and the poor results were not worth the savings.  One time a professional got it way too dark and there was nothing I could do.  It was sort of a dark, reddish brown.  I just had to live with it.

                        

When I turned 71, I decided to let it grow out and see what it looked like.  My kids don’t like it at all—makes them feel older, and I noticed immediately that people treated me different, as though I were more frail and less intelligent.  Oh well.  It saves about $500 a year.  See the Easter post (Friday family photo) for the results.

A terrible threat

We must not let the Democrats take back the House.

Pawn Stars slot machine at Hollywood Casino in Columbus

"Love their show. Hate the casino that Ohioans voted down several times. When Penn National moved it out of the Arena district to the depressed Hilltop, it passed. Construction workers got jobs, prostitution increased, but usually these places bring in their own people for the best paying jobs. This is just glamorized organized crime regardless of whom they bring in for entertainment. Columbus will pay in social costs down the road. I think the excuse was we could keep all that money in the state.

                   

When was the last time you checked your shut off valves?

Check your shut off valves. We're remodeling 2 bathrooms; toilets and shut off valves will be replaced. And while we're at it, we'll have our other shut off values also replaced. A neighbor with an identical unit the same age (1977), had one break a few days ago at night, and the damage wasn't found until morning. It will be some extra cost we hadn't planned on, but will be worth it.

Highline Classic

Choose your weapon—cell phone or rifle

Distracted driving, aka talking texting on a cell phone, is estimated to cause 333,000 total injuries, and 2600 fatalities annually. (JAMA, vol. 309, no. 9. p. 877)  In 2010 there were 358 murders involving rifles. (Wikipedia)  Gun violence has been dropping for 20 years (DOJ, Bureau of Statistics), while cell phone deaths have been increasing. The President is proposing new federal restrictions on gun ownership, which won't affect criminals at all, only law abiding citizens. And he is giving away cell phones.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/guntime1.html

So the government is actually killing people with free cell phones! The federal government gives away "Obama phones," a misnomer since the program was begun under Reagan in 1984 (Lifeline) with land lines so the poor would have a phone, and Bush expanded it to cell phones in 2008. Mean old nasty Republicans who didn't care about the poor.

Who remembers

I remember eating at the Woolworth's in Dixon, Illinois when shopping with my mother. I checked on line and it opened in 1914 and closed in 1988.  Which means she may have eaten there when shopping with her mother.  This photo is not that store—it wasn’t that large, but I think they all looked similar.  The Dixon store had a bad fire (according to Lee Co. history) in 1943, and was rebuilt.  As I recall, there was also a Woolworth’s in Champaign, Illinois.

How long?

This image was used at an advice column to illustrate a reader’s problem with her housemate who doesn’t take out his garbage.  How long before the advice columnist is accused of being anti-Muslim?

http://www.amydickinson.com/post/47101378108/piles-of-garbage-cause-temporary-insanity

Why I don’t contribute to the University of Illinois—Bill Ayers

Terrorist Kathy Boudin who killed 2 policemen and a Brinks guard teaches at Columbia University and terrorist and Obama buddy Bill Ayers has retired from teaching education at the University of Illinois (Ayers raised her son). When the U. of I. sends me an appeal for money, I return it with a note about Ayers and why I'm not giving them money. I hope Columbia graduates do the same.

The same progressives who want Americans who haven't hurt anyone to disarm, welcome these gun toting educators who actually killed people into the classroom to teach young Americans.

How to create a new housing crisis

The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) evolved to the mess that gave us lower standards for mortgages and the meltdown of 2007. Now Obama wants one of his own and is pushing loosened standards for credit and home ownership again. Now all we need is packaging the loans and selling them. What a concept.

http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2013/04/obama-administration-wants-to-loosen-home-loan-availability-for-people-with-weak-credit.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/blog/morning-edition/2013/04/obama-urges-banks-to-loosen-credit.html

The education of poor and minority children hijacked again

It's no wonder McDonald's is asking for a Bachelor degree for their cashiers if the schools are teaching that we have a racist, sexist, homophobic society instead of teaching kids math, science, reading, grammar, and speaking in complete sentences. This is a travesty for poor and minority children to have their education hijacked by social change agents. http://www.examiner.com/article/teacher-training-program-focusing-on-white-privilege-exposed-wisconsin

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Maybe they are looking for management material to hire from within?

I watched Wendy’s train a young man in a jobs program about 20 years ago. He started with wiping tables and sweeping floors, and his trainers sat in a booth and checked his work. Then he moved to the kitchen where he prepared orders then eventually got to cashier. I thought he was developmentally disabled when he started, but in a year’s time, they’d brought him up to bachelor degree level.

Maryland Teen testifies about her gun rights

http://gunssavelives.net/blog/fifteen-year-old-young-lady-leaves-maryland-anti-gun-politicians-speechless/

Obama is out campaigning on the graves of the Sandy Hook children again.  He ignored all the dead children killed in Chicago in 2012.  "You owe it to the children who died at Sandy Hook, . . ." President Obama on the campaign trail. What about the 107 black children who died in Chicago in 2012, the city with very strict gun laws, a city with no civilian gun ranges and bans on both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, Mr. President.

Our handsome president has a slight deformity

Sequestration did not cause a rise in poverty!

Poverty at highest levels since the 60s and the sequestration that Obama agreed to is to blame? That's ridiculous. The standard for poverty has widened, and deepened, so now with a low income, the redistribution scheme called the war on poverty that gave them food stamps, housing, WIC, EITC, Medicaid, college support, TANF, bringing the income of a single mom with 2 children to about $60,000 can hardly be called poverty.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302997/U-S-sees-highest-poverty-spike-1960s-leaving-50-million-Americans-poor-government-cuts-billions-spending.html

More income inequality under Obama?  That’s a no brainer.  The more wealth you transfer to the lower income from the middle class, the less likely they will be to move themselves up the income and career ladder.  Then more in the middle class slip into the low income group.  It’s almost as if it was done by design!

Better check your math. . .

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/04/02/millions-could-get-surprise-tax-bills-under-obamacare-if-they-dont-accurately-project-their-income/

If marriage doesn’t matter. . .

One of the reasons gay marriage has such strong support among the young is they don't believe marriage matters anyway, so why not let it not matter to everyone? When was the last time you attended a wedding where the couple hadn't either been living together, or had 1 or 2 children accompany them? The wedding isn't a commitment; it's just another party. Fewer and fewer weddings are held in churches--check any bride's magazine.

A “hippie chic” ceremony at Ohio Stadium and reception at Dock580

Georgian style mansion

$9900 wedding place near San Diego

Conservative values; yet they vote for politicians who will kill brown babies and bless gay marriage

Interesting to watch and listen to the black Republicans/Conservatives on the Beck show tonight tell about their growing up years on the plantation--they thought George Wallace was a Republican; they thought the KKK was a Republican organization; they thought if you were born black you must be a Democrat. Hosted by Dana Loesch, a conservative talk radio host, CNN contributor, and guest host at TheBlaze TV .

Our falling fertility rate

"Chinese women have a fertility rate of 1.54. Here in America, white, college-educated women—a good proxy for the middle class—have a fertility rate of 1.6. America has its very own one-child policy. And we have chosen it for ourselves." Replacement rate is 2.1.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578270053387770718.html

Take responsibility? Not going to happen.

On racism—Dr. Ben Carson

http://bureaucraticslave.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/white-liberal-democrats-resort-to-their-centuries-old-playbook-by-lynching-dr-ben-carson-a-black-man-i-just-wanted-to-be-clear-a-time-honored-family-tradition-of-the-leftist-jacobin-poli/

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/02/13/the-stoning-of-dr-ben-carson

http://www.mofopolitics.com/2013/04/01/ben-carson-white-liberals-are-the-most-racist-people-there-are/

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/02/16/hannity-special-dr-ben-carsons-plan-for-saving-america/

Two step campaigning—he’s a master

Monday Memories—the Senior project

                

When I was in high school we had to write a 25 page report as a senior paper in American history class. I chose to analyze the 1956 presidential election between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, using  the popular news magazines, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report.  They had run against each other in 1952, so it was a rematch.  I must have talked my mother into subscribing to all of them, because there were no copy machines in 1956, and I think I cut up the magazines for the election articles.  I collected the articles in the summer hoping I'd have that topic approved (it was).

I see that Dr. Deandre Poole got his PhD in 2009 writing on those three magazines' treatment of Obama in the 2008 election (I think we can guess what that was).  Dr. Poole plans to turn his dissertation into a book. Why didn't I think of that? It's not a tough project. Poole is the genius who had his students write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper and then stomp on it. A Mormon student refused and was threatened with suspension. Why the whole class didn't walk out I don't know. Poole, active in the local Democratic Party, has been put on leave from his intercultural communications class at Florida Atlantic University; not for being stupid, but for his safety.  I seriously doubt anyone planned to hurt him, but FAU sure got some heat.

http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/national/Florida-Atlantic-University-Jesus-stomping-stirs-outrage-among-Floridians

New Wendy’s flatbread grilled chicken sandwich

If you get it on Asiago bread ($3.99), it will be 530 calories, instead of 370 for Smoky honey mustard ($3.49).  Looks tasty.

Sliced chicken breast (all-white meat) grilled right in their own kitchens
Spring mix of 9 different types of fresh greens
Fresh tomatoes hand-sliced

http://flatbreadgrilledchicken.aboutwendys.com/

Sports injuries and injuring for sport

Kevin Ware's injury yesterday was called gruesome and horrific by hardened sports reporters. Coaches and players openly cried and fell on the floor. The audience screamed at the sight. Yet. Unborn babies who could live outside the womb, are sliced and diced everyday trying to push away the instrument that chops their flesh and bones. For that we are told it's a woman's choice. It's a right. And there are meanies and fanatics trying to stop the pain and agony the babies experience.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/sports/ncaabasketball/kevin-wares-gruesome-injury-shakes-and-rallies-louisville.html?_r=0

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2013/03/31/kevin-ware-joe-theisman-broken-leg-injury/2040749/

At book club today we're discussing "The Girls from Ames" a non-fiction piece following a group of 11 women from their pre-school friendships to their 40s. The first to have an abortion (p. 85) was Kelly, who with her boyfriend decided she wasn't ready to parent in college. When I read that I wondered if she knew that an abortion during a first pregnancy puts a woman at higher risk for breast cancer. By the last chapter we have a description of her breast cancer (p. 282) and worries about deformity and whether she's still attractive to men.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120217/LIFE/302170010/-Girls-from-Ames-author-dies-tragically

Rejoice.

Being a Christian photo.

I love the Grammarly.com advice

Government take over of health care is increasing costs for all

Health and Human Services head Kathleen Sebelius (I'm embarrassed she an Ohioan—our former governor’s daughter) now admits the government take over of health care will raise costs for everyone. She underestimates, in my opinion; apparently she doesn't see those "subsidies" as costs to us, only as “rich benefits” to the formerly uninsured. Regulation is affecting every facet of the economy and raising costs even more. Insurance costs are soaring, and the big kick in hasn't even started yet. California increase 60%. Washington 51.9%. The young voters who supported Obama will really be kicked in the teeth. What a mess. http://www.humanevents.com/2013/03/27/hhs-secretary-finally-admits-obamacare-is-raising-insurance-costs/

Things could have been different—lives could have been saved.

"The only thing that would have changed the outcome, potentially change the outcome, is something that so many people don't want to hear and that's self defense. That if someone there had a concealed carry, if someone had been armed, they might have had a fighting chance."
-Sen. Rand Paul, on gun control legislation.

Friday family photo—my horse

Not mine—but cute.

              

Just me and my horse, 1952, on a trail ride.

Martin Luther on John 3:16

"This is our Christian Creed, and in conformity with it we confess: “I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered and died.” Let heathen and heretics be ever so smart; hold firmly to this faith, and you will be saved. It follows, then, that whoever believes in the Son of man, who was born of Mary, who suffered and was buried, will not be lost but is a son of God in possession of eternal life. Devil, sin, and death will not be able to harm him; for he has eternal life."

          

Leading from behind—the politicians on gay marriage, polygamy and legalizing pedophilia

Obama consistently supported traditional marriage and DOMA in public statements up to shortly before the 2012 election. So did Rob Portman and Hillary Clinton until the last few weeks. Used all the same words conservatives use. No one on the left called Obama or Hillary a bigot, hater or homophobe. Portman, of course, was different, he is a Republican and always was a target for hate. Politicians have led from behind, cowering, on marriage. TV and movies led the way.

Some states have no age limit for marriage if the child has parental consent. Sharia Law says girls as young as 12 can give informed consent. NAMBLA wants laws on age of consent thrown out so they can molest young boys without getting into trouble with child authorities. This can of worms will only get bigger and squishier.  Let’s see how long politicians will resist polygamy.  It’s big on reality shows like Big Love and Wife Swap. 

Legalizing  molestation of children has already begun—today’s school sex education materials is what the FBI warns about in hunting down perverts. Planned Parenthood gets money to indoctrinate children into become their life time customers in the PREP program. "PP follows the same business model as a drug dealer: Young children are encouraged to masturbate and explore their bodies with mirrors to introduce them to sexuality. Hichborn says of the graphic pictures used to “educate” pre-pubescent children, “If a dirty old man showed these things to a ten year old in a park, he would be arrested. But when Planned Parenthood shows them to kids in a classroom, it gets government money.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/27/obamacare-funnels-75-million-to-planned-parenthood-to-push-sex-on-kids/

The haters and bigots swing into action

Dr. Ben Carson, a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, has been "uninvited" as a speaker to graduating medical students at his own university. Too conservative. Also, he is black and with his own money funds a scholarship program for poor black children. Reminds me of when the open minded librarians protested that Laura Bush, a former librarian and then First Lady, would be a speaker at ALA (2006). Each year the ALA sponsors the completely phony, trumped up Banned Books Week. Then they try to ban a speaker, the most famous librarian in the country.

Is "bullying" wrong no matter who the victim is? Or is it only wrong if the victim is gay, obese, skinny, unfashionable, nerdy, or a minority? What if the victim is bullied, shunned and called names because she is Catholic, or he is Baptist, or she is old, or he is white, or they believe in traditional marriage, or they don't want to pay for behavior which they consider sinful, like an abortion?  Is it bullying when powerful, wealthy people threaten to take away various amendments of the Bill of Rights from the masses yet retain them for their private use? Is publishing names and addresses of people who have broken no laws, indeed, followed them to the letter, bullying? Intimidation, bigotry, terrorizing, telling lies, and fomenting fear and suspicion is a behavior dependent on the intent of the perpetrator, not the morals or beliefs or race of the victim.

Laura Ingraham debates a Know Nothing from Boston University

A student who apparently was involved in a condom distribution demonstration at Boston University was up against the much more experienced and knowledgeable (and Catholic) Laura Ingraham last night on Fox. I’m a Lutheran and even I could spot this activist’s fallacies for why the BU rules should be flaunted even though she could go to any college/university she chose. It’s the same as Sandra Fluke and Georgetown.

1.  She tried to base her cause on statistics about how many Catholics use contraception (the figure she gave was much higher than any I’ve heard) and therefore the church was out of step.  Try telling that to a policeman the next time you’re going 75 in a 35 mph zone and because everyone else was doing it the law must be wrong. Or when you get caught cheating on a test and your excuse is everyone cheats.

2.  She tried to argue that the Catholic church ruling on contraception was recent and therefore to her that seemed a good argument that it didn’t need to be followed by the university. Usually, young people say a rule is too old—she’s saying it was a recent ruling.  Wrong again. Humanae Vitae ( Of Human Life)  written by by Pope Paul VI and issued in 1968 (long before this young lady was given life by her parents) reaffirmed the teaching of the church.

http://www.lauraingraham.com/

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life.
by Thomas Jefferson written to Thomas Jefferson Smith, Feb. 21, 1825

1.  Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
2.  Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3.  Never spend your money before you have it.
4.  Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5.  Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6.  We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8.  How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
9.  Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

I expect to read more now

Second cataract surgery yesterday.

The 1942 Stuart Chase playbook for a strong, centralized government

Stuart Chase worked for President Roosevelt. According to Wikipedia, Chase, born in 1888, was an American economist and engineer trained at MIT. His writings covered topics as diverse as general semantics and physical economy. Chase's thought was shaped by Henry George, Thorstein Veblen and Fabian socialism.  In 1942 he wrote a little book called "The Road we are Traveling."  He summarized the causes and outcomes of WWI and the Great Depression.  He wanted a new system of government that was socialism, but not called that (we were at war with 2 socialist countries), and which wasn’t capitalism because he believed that created the Depression.  So he named it System X.  If you look through the list (download from internet), you see we have it.

1. Strong, centralized government.
2. Powerful Executive at the expense of Congress and the Judicial.
3. Government controlled banking, credit and securities exchange.
4. Government control over employment.
5. Unemployment insurance, old age pensions.
6. Universal medical care, food and housing programs.
7. Access to unlimited government borrowing.
8. A government managed monetary system.
9. Government control over all foreign trade.
10. Government control over natural energy sources, transportation and agricultural production.
11. Government regulation of labor.
12. Youth camps devoted to health discipline, community service and ideological teaching consistent with those of the authorities.
13. Heavy progressive taxation and hidden taxes on nations wealth.

page 95

                        

Will rich gay men marry and share their assets in a divorce?

I don't believe a lot of gay men are going to rush out to marry their lovers--they are the wealthiest demographic in the US and also big in the art, music, interior design, literature, film and political fields. How many have added the boyfriend to the will or mansion deed?  Some have, and nothing has prohibited that.  But just look around at the trophy wives or the girl friends (a certain golfer comes to mind) of men.  Do you really think gay men want the expense of lawyers and alimony?  Why hand over their assets to someone who is the equivalent of a rich man's mistress?

What gay marriage has done in states that have recognized it (like Massachusetts) is create over night a new lower class--kind, loving, respectable people can now be bullied and ridiculed as bigots and homophobes with a simple redefinition of a word. In those states, churches are losing freedom of speech and religion; parents are losing control of their right to transmit their values to their children. Adoption will not be about what is best for children, but about pleasing adults.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/real_bullies_the_homosexuality_is_normal_movement.html

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/julyweb-only/gay-marriage-religious-freedom.html

It’s not like the courts have never been wrong

7 million Californians voted to support traditional, historical and life giving marriage.  The California court then denied them their vote. Over 30 other states have also voted to uphold the purpose and meaning of marriage.   If the Supreme Court upholds the California decision, it doesn't change the truth of history or of all major religions and all governments of all civilizations. Abortion may be legal, but it is still wrong for children and families and someone always dies.  Slavery at one time was legal in the U.S., but it was morally wrong even when upheld by the courts. Marriage is not just about love, it is not about government benefits and it is not just about a specific couple you know or who are related to you. If it were, you could marry anyone, of any age, and in any number, and expect recognition by the government.

What comes next?

After gay marriage legalization, the fight will be to legalize what used to be called pedophilia, but will be redefined, and then polygamy and polyandry. The law already allows (in some states) someone younger than 16 to marry with parental permission. Once same sex marriages are OK, so will young teen boys and older men; if it's OK for young girls and older men, why not? The man-boy love advocacy group is pushing for this. And our society has been softened up for several years with a reality TV show called Big Love to accept polyamory, or multiple partner families in a formal relationship (with benefits).  Our president’s father was a polygamist and his mother was only 17; is it such a huge step to see groups demanding that it is just about love for a 30 year old man with 3 “husbands” to want to take on a teen boy?

If this is about love and government benefits, what difference is the number? And although it may be awhile, there will be no compelling reason to forbid incestuous marriages--in fact, you'll be called a bigot and a sibophobe if you call it that.

The three branches of government

It's not true that homosexuals can't marry.

             

They can marry someone of the opposite sex, and many do.  On the other hand, there is a long list of restrictions for anyone who wants to marry--your state will be different than Ohio, but Ohioans can't marry a sibling, a step-parent, or a cousin, or a first cousin once removed (the daughter or son of your cousin), or someone under age. Ohio has an odd law--Ohio law does not recognize same-sex marriage, but its adoption law permits a “step-parent” in a same-sex union to adopt a “stepchild.”

Many states allow first cousins to marry if they are of an elderly age and no longer able to conceive. In some states, you can't marry an in-law. You can't get married if you are already married, no matter how long you've been separated.  And if you want to marry a sex offender and you have young children, there's going to be a residency problem if you plan to live together (plus you should have counseling, imo).

Some state laws won't allow a marriage if either party has a venereal disease--or rubella, sickle-cell anemia, and tuberculosis.  If you are a felon, you probably can't marry another felon because of that messy "association" rule.  You can't marry a person who legally can't give consent due to mental retardation, illness, drunkenness, etc.  If you are an alien, getting married doesn't give you residency or citizenship. You'll also need paper work--sometimes a birth certificate, sometimes your divorce papers, and yes, you'll need ID to show your residency and citizenship. Most states have waiting periods after you obtain the license and before you can marry--5 days in Ohio. Second thoughts, I guess.   And you'll need to find a proper, licensed person to marry you who knows how to file the paper work or you won’t be legally married.

Marriage through out history has not been about love, or even society’s approval.  For thousands of years marriages were arranged for the good of the family and community.  Most restrictions on marriage in modern society are for the safety and well-being of children. A homosexual union does not produce children, which after all, is the purpose of marriage and why all civilizations from earliest history have recognized marriage as important for the well-being and continuation of society.  It's for the next generation.

What Can I Do to Help Stop Common Core in Ohio?

From the Ohio Common Core Facebook Page

“As we can tell so far, Ohio is way behind the 8 ball on this one. We need to get moving fast.
1. Find friends in your district that feel the same way you do. Start researching; pick different areas of CC so you are not trying to do it all.
2. Stay tuned to this page [Facebook], we try to post the best articles and documents we can find. As more starts happening in the state, we will update here. (Website soon to come!)
3. Gather talking points and talk to your principal and teachers. Speak respectfully and ask them to question. Don’t be upset with them, they have been snookered just as we have.  Leave them with the feeling we are all in this together, for the sake of our children. Yes, some merits to CC, but not at the great costs, loss of privacy, loss of teacher/district/state control.
4. Attend school board meetings and ask questions. Encourage your school board to invest as little as possible on CC .  Five states rejected it and 13 have pending legislation to stop it. Educate them on problems with CC and NO, we don’t have to accept it. As a state we can stop it!
5. Write letter to editor of local papers.
6. Write letters to your state reps and senators - requesting this be stopped. We can stop it and cut our losses now, because the financial costs in the long run will be much greater.
7. Write an Opt-Out letter for your child. 

“http://truthinamericaneducation.com/uncategorized/ccss-parent-opt-out-form/

China’s one child policy has aborted 336 million babies

To put the numbers in perspective, the 336 million deaths in China are:

• More than the entire population of the world at the time of the Crusades (c. 1100 AD).

• Equal to the entire combined populations of the United States and Australia.

• More deaths than were caused by (in millions): the Bubonic Plague in Europe (100), the Great Chinese Famine (45), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (40), the HIV/AIDS pandemic (25), the Holocaust (13), the Soviet famine of 1932-1933 (8), the Russian famine of 1921 (3), and the American Civil War (.8).

• More than all the people killed in the 10 ten deadliest wars in human history (Based on highest estimates (in millions): World War II (72), World War I (65), Mongol Conquest (60), An Lushan Rebellion (36), Taiping Rebellion (30), Qing Dynasty conquest of the Ming Dynasty (25), Conquests of Timur (20), Dungan Revolt (12), Russian Civil War (9), Second Congo War (5.4))

• More than all the children that will be born in the world over the next ten years.

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2013/03/22/china-admits-to-the-greatest-slaughter-in-human-history/

Ohio State will host journalists who served in Afghanistan

I see there will be female journalists speaking at Ohio State on Afghan women in April. They spent the last three years in Afghanistan. Their presentation is co-sponsored by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies; the School of Communication; the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; the Women's Place and the Middle East Studies Center. I wonder if they'll mention that G.W. Bush freed more women in a few months in Afghanistan than Lincoln did slaves in our bloody civil war? Probably not. Or that more American military were lost in Afghanistan under Obama in 4 years, than under Bush in 8 years. Probably not. It is, after all, the liberal media speaking at liberal academe. If you tell people the truth, it could shut down your speaking tour.

CBS apology to our military and Vietnam Vets

CBS' apology was pretty poor in my opinion--"to those who were offended" for denigrating Vietnam veterans in Amazing Race. They never apologized for what they did or the thought, planning and evil behind it. The competitors had to sit through a musical number celebrating Communism in order to get a clue they needed to continue, and CBS planners put a checkpoint at a Communist memorial park built around the wreckage of a downed B-52. I think the MSM is beyond repair.

Here's how an apology works. I'm sorry I did xyz, I was wrong. Forgive me. NOT: I'm sorry your feelings are hurt.  And forgiveness does not mean reconciliation.  The one to whom you apologized is under no obligation to be your friend, especially not if it’s as limp as “I’m sorry you were offended.”

Starbucks doesn’t want our business

“At the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message to anyone who supports traditional marriage over gay marriage: we don’t want your business. After saying Starbucks wants to “embrace diversity of all kinds,” he told a shareholder who supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company.”
http://joemiller.us/2013/03/starbucks-ceo-no-tolerance-for-traditional-marriage-supporters/#ixzz2OV038xIq

I think that’s good advice from Starbucks.  You should always know how and where your money is invested.  It should reflect your values.  I don’t invest in tobacco, alcohol or viaticals (investing in life insurance policies of dying people). I don’t support any investing which is anti-life, or anti-creation. And since Starbucks doesn’t want me, I’ll respect their wishes.

Have a blessed Palm Sunday

Appendicitis during a pregnancy

Although I don’t think an abortion was suggested, my husband’s mother had an appendectomy during her pregnancy with him.  He was very tiny when born.  I think I weighed more than twice his birth weight, and with his head in the palm of her hand, his toes touched the crook of her elbow.

Shades of the 60s!

I remember seeing these tight, patterned pants on campus when I was in college.  Although I think they wore socks.

I guess it’s in again.  Ah, the bold, strong American male.

http://www.zegna.com/us/home.html

Ermengildo Zegna.

You got those tax hikes, now what?

Democrats got their massive tax hikes, and are indiscriminately cutting rather than carving with the sequestration they wanted. Creating new job losses so they can blame Republicans (ran out of the Bush excuses after 4.5 years) No reduction in the deficit, however.

The problem is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. And no one has a solution; putting younger workers on a self-directed plan while raising the retirement age will be stomped to death by Democrats (not because it is bad, but because it will work), and Republicans will scream at reduction in benefits for current recipients.  No one said Republicans were conservative about spending on themselves.

Get ready for a third world experience—or medical care

Obamacare is three years old, but what terrible tantrums this oversize, clumsy youngster is having. Premiums going up, employers shrinking their work force, doctors retiring early, and young people who might have become doctors are selecting a different career route. The insurance exchange official (Chao) in charge is hoping it won't be a third world bureaucratic experience. And we're hoping we haven't been downgraded to 3rd world medical care, but wouldn't that be "fair" in the president's eyes?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2013/03/22/cms-on-obamacares-health-insurance-exchanges-lets-just-make-sure-its-not-a-third-world-experience/

Domestic violence and Sharia Law

In April 2009, the Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA)  made a ruling entitled ‘Domestic Violence’. It’s available on-line.  It has been around for three years, and I can’t recall any American politician or feminist speaking out for the rights of women trapped in Sharia Law. It is a consensus of leading Muslim scholars in the world today on the rights of women.

This fatwa represents the absolute authority of the sharia over all understandings of human rights as they apply to women and the family, specifically including international human rights conventions and covenants.

The fatwa upholds the right of a husband to beat his wife.

This fatwa also upholds the right of a husband to rape his wife, for it is not 'domestic violence' for a man to insist upon his conjugal rights.

The fatwa also upholds the right of a male guardian to contract the marriage of a virgin female .

The right of women to move around freely in public without a supervising male is rejected as contrary to sharia law.

The fatwa upholds sharia law's non-reciprocal approach to divorce, which make it easy for man to divorce his wife, but hard for a women to obtain a divorce, except through a difficult legal process.

http://markdurie.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Domestic%20Violence

Change in Hourly Wages for men and women

“The economic struggles of male workers are both a cause and an effect of the breakdown of traditional households. Men who are less successful are less attractive as partners, so some women are choosing to raise children by themselves, in turn often producing sons who are less successful and attractive as partners.”

Source: "Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education," David Autor and Melanie Wasserman

Friday Family Photo—sort of

Today I turned on 610 a.m. and got dead air.  It was Glenn Beck so overcome with grief about his dog Victor that he couldn’t speak.  Glenn gets a lot of hassle from the lefties for his tears (progressives don’t cry), but you’d  have to be awfully hard hearted not to tear up a little on this one. He prepared his children by watching Roma Downey’s “The Bible.”  They talked about faith and love.  He wanted to bury Victor but was afraid what would happen to him if the family moved, so he will be cremated.

At first I thought I would never be able to remember all the dogs I wept over—because dogs that live outside just don’t live long. And their awful deaths! 

Lassie, 1944 (killed on my grandmother’s farm near Franklin Grove while we were in California during WWII)

Large stray we had for a few weeks in Alameda—he was sick; if we  named him, I don’t remember it. I’m guessing he’d been abandoned by another military family and my mom took pity on him. 1945

Laddie, 1946 (hit by a Greyhound bus when he followed us children to town, Forreston)

Jerry, 1948 (hit by a car in front of our brick house on the high-way in Forreston)

Pretty, 1948  (black and white small collie mix who had puppies under our neighbor’s porch; I think she was given to a farmer just in case she had more pups)

Curly, 1949  (one of Pretty’s pups we got to keep who disappeared when my brother and I were on a trip with Mom and grandparents)

Zero, 1949 winter (large ugly hound who “followed” me home from school one day which was against the rules; disappeared)

Lady, 1950-52 (a beautiful Dalmatian that didn’t like my mom until she learned that is who fed her regularly—died of skin cancer, buried behind the garage at 4 South Hannah)

Polka-dot, 1952-1963 (Dalmatian mix, our only indoor pet—after 1958; died of old age, I think)

        

Gay marriage fantasies—I don’t think it is the benefits

It's interesting that more young people, liberal and conservative, Christian and non-, have become more favorable about gay marriage--but not so much for traditional marriage, the one promoted in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and all civilizations from the beginning.  They’ve fallen for that “rights” argument—the carrot of government benefits.  Ha!  Marriage in the last 20 years for young adults is becoming more and more optional, with the children walking down the aisle with mom and dad, if they marry at all.  All the government studies in the world that show their own children are less likely to thrive haven’t budged their opinion that shacking up is more fun and economical.

I know a lot of older couples (male and female) living together, who I assume know about all those wonderful government perks gay marriage proponents  seem to seek.  Yes.  She ran into her 1950s boyfriend at the reunion, but they don't want to give up her alimony, so they have a commitment ceremony spoken by a preacher who got her license on the internet and see a good lawyer to protect their assets which will go to the children.  Or her husband died 30 years ago, she's got a good pension, they keep their homes separate, but are always together, on trips, outings and social events. Or they don't marry because of consanguinity or they were formerly in-laws. And of course, there's always his kids can't stand her kids, so for peace and inheritances, they avoid the marriage thing. Or, the worst.  He divorced her after her stroke which left her brain injured so she could get Medicaid and he comes to visit her in the nursing home with his girlfriend with home he shares his wife’s home.

Social security?  Oh really?  Ask any widow in her 50s who hasn't worked in 25 years. Or ask someone with a teacher's pension like me. There is nothing for us.  Also, they might want to talk to a woman, not divorced, whose husband left her for a younger more buff version of herself, and she found out the hard way there is no legal requirement for support while married and he doesn’t care if the house goes into foreclosure or the utilities aren’t paid.

It’s not all Obama’s fault

Other administrations have also contributed to the deficit.

Thanks you, Mr. President

Understanding Mary

The last few mornings I’ve been watching “Catholic Canvas” on EWTN which is an explanation of the art of the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican museums. I had known about the restoration of the frescoes, but the restoration of the tapestries is less known (at least to me).   The cape that appears to surround God in the most famous panel of Michelangelo (God reaching to touch Adam’s finger with his other arm around the baby Jesus), says a doctor, is a model of the human brain.  My minimal understanding of perspective puts me in awe of the “foreshortening” of his style, where the viewer looks up and the figures move into our space, with arms and legs and clothing hanging down.  Michelangelo knew his Bible and Christian theology. But you can’t watch much EWTN without a lot of “Mary,” adoration and stories completely unfamiliar to Protestants—at least this Lutheran.  We Lutherans give Mary a lot of attention at Christmas as an obedient, chaste young woman, and some at Easter as a grieving follower of Christ, but otherwise, not so much.  I was looking up a quote of St. Leo today, one of the few Popes ever elected who was not a Bishop, who had to deal not only with barbarian invaders of the Roman empire, but terrible fights within the church.  I came across this interesting item about Mary as the Mother of God.

Pope Leo wrote many letters and instructions in his lifetime. 140 of these letters and numerous sermons he preached exist to this day. He is known as one of the prime witnesses for the Primacy of the Pope and his authority to lead the Catholic Church. This was a controversial fact and in great dispute in his day. One of his greatest writings is known as the "Tome of St. Leo" and was a defense of the belief that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. This defense of the Incarnation of Jesus also had implications on the Church's understanding of Mary. The Church Council of Ephesus had debated the identity of Jesus and it's discussion was based on the role of Mary, was she "Christokos", i.e., the mother of Jesus the man, or was she "Theotokos", i.e., the mother of God. The sway in the Council was about to declare that she could only be the mother of the human part of Jesus, but this would imply a split in the reality of Jesus. For this to be a fact, Jesus would have only been human until his birth when at that moment the divine took form in the newborn human. Thankfully, the people of Ephesus intervened and refused to allow the Bishops to conclude their vote. They had a powerful attachment to Mary as she had spent her last years of life on this world in their city. The Council was deadlocked until delegates from Leo arrived and announced by his letter that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. This belief, would later become a formal part of our Nicene Creed. When the letter was read the delegates declared that truly "St. Peter speaks though Leo."

http://www.stleo.com/Patron.htm

Today all Christians  agree on the Nicene Creed; those on the fringes who do not may still argue about the divinity and humanity of Jesus. That he was born human and became divine is just one of the many heresies still floating today. Thank you, Pope Leo, for battling both the outside evil and the inside fighting.