Day: May 9, 2012

GROVE CITY, Penn., May 9, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — In their new book, Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President, Christian college professors Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter challenge claims about Thomas Jefferson made in the New York Times Best Selling book, “The Jefferson Lies” by David Barton.

In “The Jefferson Lies” and his talks about it, Barton claims that Thomas Jefferson

• included all the words of Jesus and miracles from the gospel of Matthew in what is often called the Jefferson Bible,
• personally helped finance the printing of the first “hot-pressed” Bible in America,
• did not question the Trinity until after he left the presidency,
• chose to include Christian language in his presidential documents by signing them “in the year of our Lord Christ,”
• increased the number of divinity professors at the University of Virginia which he founded as a “transdenominational” school.

Continue reading “Press release: Getting Jefferson Right exposes Barton’s distortions of Jefferson”

According to the Washington Post, a CA Senate committee voted to refer CA Senate Bill 1172 to the full Senate for a vote. SB 1172 would require practitioners of sexual orientation change efforts to get written informed consent from adult clients and prohibit such interventions for those under 18.

The bill defines SOCE as:

“Sexual orientation change efforts” means psychotherapy aimed at altering the sexual or romantic desires, attractions, or conduct of a person toward people of the same sex so that the desire, attraction, or conduct is eliminated or reduced or might instead be directed toward people of a different sex. It does not include psychotherapy aimed at altering sexual desires, attractions, or conduct toward minors or relatives or regarding sexual activity with another person without that person’s consent.

Continue reading “CA Senate committee passes bill to ban sexual orientation change efforts for minors”