ADOPTION, “SAFE” SEX AND THE GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER
June 2nd, 2006 by Peter
Several items of interest to FIC members appear in today’s Courant. The adoption bill which we criticized in our Mar. 3rd blog has been vetoed by Gov. Rell:
But at the same time, Rell said, she needed to protect the rights of women whose children are currently up for adoption, but who may not have their adoptions finalized until after the bill takes effect and the privacy protections were lifted. Rell said she was also concerned about those mothers who may now be pregnant and intend to give up their child for adoption only to find out later that the confidentially rules they believed were in place had changed.
Rell said she worried about the “chilling effect” that the bill would have on future adoptions.
Mayor DeStefano’s community services administrator has promised that the task force won’t focus on abstinence, because that “doesn’t work.” There’s a message about sex that the teens will hear loud and clear.
Cohen doesn’t mention the wave of violence that has come over our capital city—16 people were shot within 50 hours in Hartford over Memorial Day weekend—but the misguided policies that he decries have helped to produce the crisis that state officials must now face. And while Gov. Rell expresses her support for women who choose adoption, Atty. Gen. Blumenthal undermines that choice with his attack on the “Choose Life” license plates. The proceeds from the sale of those plates go to crisis pregnancy centers which help facilitate adoptions.
Connecticut is certainly in great need of prayer. How fortunate, then, that this Sunday marks one of the biggest prayer events to take part in our state in years:
As many as 5,000 Christians from across the state will join a global prayer movement as an event called “When Connecticut Prays” convenes in Hartford Sunday.
The Hartford meeting is part of a “Global Day of Prayer,” during which 500 million people around the world will pray for the world and its leaders and for an end to suffering of all kinds, organizers say…
Rick McKiniss, pastor of Wellsprings Church in Kensington, expects to bring about 150 people to the convention center. He said social and technological change is enabling religious people to exchange ideas and work together in ways that had not been possible before.
“This is the Connecticut celebration of a global event with more than 150 nations,” McKiniss said. “Our goal is to pray together for the Lord to bless the nations of the earth. The kingdom of God is what the world desperately needs.”
The event, which is free, begins at 6:30 pm at the Connecticut Convention Center. We hope to see as many of you there as possible! Click here for more information.
