Scott County Today

After years of futility, the pro-life cause in Tennessee has made some progress in its state legislature.

The Health and Human Services Subcommittee of the Tennessee House of Representatives, on a 20-7 vote in early April, approved a bill to restore the regulation of abortion to the state legislature.

The state senate had passed the bill the eight previous years, only for it to die in the subcommittee. The measure seeks to overturn a 2000 opinion by the Tennessee Supreme Court that invalidated all state laws restricting abortion.

This year’s measure has gained passage in the Senate and is awaiting a floor vote in the House. If approved this year, the proposal must gain passage by a two-thirds majority in both chambers in 2011 before going to voters in 2014.

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America’s radical leftists appear ready to flex their political muscle in the U.S. House of Representatives, promoting a bill that could soon make it illegal for ministers,  youth pastors, and Sunday School teachers to discuss the Bible’s position on homosexuality.

A vote is looming this week in Congress on a bill that would legitimize deviant forms of “sexual orientation,” and make it unlawful for a minister give his views on a subject that has long been a hot politial issue among leftists. A markup vote is expected Wednesday in the House Judiciary Committee on the Local Law Enforcement and Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.  The measure (H.R. 1913) would add homosexuals and transgender people to the list of classes federally protected from so-called “hate crimes.”
 
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The newest exhibit at the Creation Museum near Cincinnati is now open.

“Natural Selection is Not Evolution” clears up the differences between natural selection and what would be required for evolution to occur. The exhibit features a cave-like aquarium with Mexican tetras. The Mexican tetra is normally sighted in its surface-dwelling form, however, in the total darkness of caves, the same species of fish has lost what it does not need _ its eyes.

“Natural Selection,” a term used by evolutionist theorist Charles Darwin to describe a process by which small changes in plants and animals occur, is thought by many to be the primary mechanism for evolution. Many believe that evidence for natural selection is evidence for evolution because they think that with enough time (millions of years) natural selection could account for the larger changes required for molecules-to-man evolution.

The Creation Museum is located 7 miles west of the Cincinnati Airport. For more information, visit creationmuseum.org for more information, or call (888) 582-4253.