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2014-12-17T09:53:22-07:00

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What About People Who Want You to Kill Them?

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 9:53 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Euthanasia is the practice of killing another person. It is murder. One question that orbits around this debate is based on the “difference” between euthanasia and, say, a drive-by shooting. Many — certainly not all, but many — of the victims of euthanasia ask to be killed. So, people whose brains have marinated in relativism and other addlepated lines of reasoning ask, Doesn’t that make euthanasia “different.” The quick and obvious answer is no. It does not. It someone asks... Read more

2014-12-05T09:24:29-07:00

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Vatican: World Faith Leaders Pledge to Work to Stamp Out Human Trafficking

Last updated on: December 5, 2014 at 9:24 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Photo source: Reuters, via Vatican Radio We call it “modern slavery.” “It” is the business of buying and selling people. Pope Francis hosted a group of religious leaders from many faiths who signed a pledge against modern slavery. Signatories included representatives from the Shai and Sunni Muslims, Buddhism, Orthodox, Jewish and Anglican faith traditions. I once did something similar to this. I hosted a luncheon for Oklahoma’s faith leaders, including many Protestant denominations, Orthodox, Catholic, Buddhist, and Muslim. I think... Read more

2014-12-17T09:49:44-07:00

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The Murder of Innocents is Wrong and Every Human Being Knows It.

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 9:49 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Human rights. Does that phrase refer to unalienable human rights that are ours by virtue of the fact that we are human beings? Or, does it refer to laws and rules that can be shifted and changed by the whim of legislative bodies or the flick of a dictator’s will? What are human rights, and where, if they exist as a separate entity, do they come from? Thomas Jefferson, Deist that he was, got it exactly right when he... Read more

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2014-12-17T09:50:33-07:00

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Mary Knew.

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 9:50 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Mary Did You Know is a pretty song. I rather like it myself. But it is based on the false premise that there is a question as to whether Our Lady knew that the Baby she was carrying was the Messiah, the Son of God, the Lord of Lords, Christ the King. Here’s the short answer to that question: She knew. Here’s how I know she knew. When the Archangel Gabriel spoke to Mary, he asked — not told, but... Read more

2014-12-17T10:01:25-07:00

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Euthanasia: The False Light

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 10:01 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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I want to have a detailed discussion of euthanasia. I think this is an important point at which faith and public life meet. It is also a worthwhile discussion for Advent. If we are awaiting the day when we either go to Christ or He comes again, then we need to consider what we want our lives to reflect. One of the many ways in which Christians are blessed is that the burden of “deciding” when to kill ourselves... Read more

2014-12-17T10:04:38-07:00

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The Immaculate Conception: The Door Opening on Our Salvation

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 10:04 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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The Immaculate Conception is the door opening on our salvation. It is God the Father, preparing the way for the birth of God the Son by first preparing a holy mother for Him. The idea that God chose to enter the world as a helpless baby, born to a young girl and her carpenter husband in a backwater province of a conquered nation goes against everything we know and believe about what makes a person important. We live in a... Read more

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2014-12-17T10:05:04-07:00

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Advent: Come Lord Jesus

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 10:05 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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The Bible ends with a poignant verse. Come Lord Jesus, cries in a voice that resounds in the heart of every Christian. Two thousand years ago, the conquered children of Israel looked forward to Him, even though they didn’t fully understand Who He was, and they certainly misunderstood what He would do. The prophecies of the Christ begin in Genesis when God tells the serpent He will set enmity between the serpent and the Woman, that she would crush his... Read more

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2014-12-17T10:05:34-07:00

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The Family Drug Addict and Thanksgiving

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 10:05 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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I don’t know what it is about the holidays. All I know is that the family alcoholics/drug addicts cannot stand the happiness that might happen at this time of the year. So, they rouse themselves from their self-absorption and go to work, manufacturing crises and doing everything in their power to pull the rest of the family into the traumas of their own devising. They won’t stop until you stop them, or until they’ve made such a mess of... Read more

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2014-11-19T10:07:17-07:00

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Book Review: Accepting the Lordship of Christ, Gay Style

Last updated on: November 19, 2014 at 10:07 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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To join the discussion about Gay and Catholic, or to order a copy, go here. I know a lot of people who are gay and Catholic, on both sides of the altar. Contrary to the media yammerings, being Gay and Catholic is something of a commonplace. I’ve never personally known someone who was Catholic and gay who hated the Church the way that we hear they should. What I have seen is a number of people who are doing just... Read more

2014-11-18T06:13:59-07:00

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Looking at 18 Years in the Rear View Mirror

Last updated on: November 18, 2014 at 6:13 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Gwin Faulconer Lippert, a reporter at KTOK Radio, a local station here in Oklahoma City, did this interview with me last night. It’s a retrospective on my career in the legislature, which ends officially tomorrow. I plan on taking my family out for Pizza at the Hideaway restaurant here in OKC. Just us. It’s about personal family memories. I woke up this morning, thinking “this is my last day in office.” It kind of got to me. Then I... Read more

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