Short takes for March 8 2004

The Waco Trib reports that the Council of Girl Scouts serving the Waco area partnered with Planned Parenthood in a sex education event. The Bluebonnet Council is also reported to have honored the local Planned Parenthood chief executive as a “Woman of Distinction” (role model?). Two troops have withdrawn and some parents are up in arms about the association of two such disparate groups. Some defenders argue that PP is not “about abortion.” And McDonald’s is not about burgers, I guess. Sure they do other stuff, but? Any association with Planned Parenthood should be controversial. It is a wicked organization, even if only part of what they do is evil.

Some prominent youth leaders are calling for a greater emphasis on parents. Southwestern Seminary’s Richard Ross, author Josh McDowell and other national leaders in youth ministry are questioning the exclusive focus on teenagers that characterized student ministry over the past 60 years. McDowell notes that parents are 300 times more influential than the church in the lives of students. Amen. Parents need help but must be primary in educating and discipling their children. Churches have not always honored that priority. See the Call at http://youthworkers.net/parents.

Sorry, it’s still on the front page. People from around the world have flocked to San Francisco in the past few weeks to obtain marriage licenses for their same-sex unions. San Francisco’s mayor compares his own flouting of the law with the Civil Rights movement. It’s a bad, self-exalting comparison from a man who will not likely face any consequences for his actions. Let’s vote issues this year. Those who agree with Mr. Mayor should not be elected to lead those who don’t want to see this anarchy repeated in their own town.