Christians don't follow Jesus

I've recently read several op/ed pieces where several authors continue to harp on the abortion issue. One area of attack their attacts focuses in on Catholic politicians who don't toe the line as Bishops and the Pope would have them do. These columnists who take the Pro Life position point to Bishops who ask priests not to give Communion to Catholic politicians who are Pro Choice.
To me, these Bishops and the Pope himself are not following in the footsteps of Jesus.
Why do I say this?
Look at the Gospels. No where in any of the Gospels is it recorded that Jesus went after secular rulers and secular law. One could say Jesus was the first advocate for the separation of Church and State. Not even when John the Baptist was imprisoned and then beheaded did Jesus protest. But Jesus did go after the religious leaders of his day, especially singling out those who made a big show of how moral they claimed to be.
It was because he went after the religious leaders of his day that they went after him and used secular law to have him crucified.
This is why I say all so called leaders of all the World Religions who strive to prove how holy they are in the political arena are not following in the footsteps of Jesus.

Abortion by any other name

Here are my thoughts on abortion - original as far as I know.
While I am and have been a Catholic for over 65 years of my 65 years of life, I don't agree with the Church nor do I agree with its efforts to make abortion illegal.
As far as abortion is concerned, I regard it as something which results from bad choices. No need to list all the bad choices made to result in a woman wondering if she should or should not have an abortion.
But what I would like to point out is how a rose by any other name is still a rose. Same with abortion. Call it an abortion when a woman decides to have an abortion or call it a miscarriage if God is the abortionist if you want - but the result is the same.
In my view, a human does not come into existence until it has both a heart beat and is breathing. In other words, it is not human until it is born and takes its first breath.
Looking at it from a legal standpoint, if we were to decide a human exists at the point of conception as John McCain believes, then we need to do several things.
One: the woman and those performing the abortion should be arrested and tried for murder, then executed or face life in prison, depending on the laws concerning murder.
Two: we would need to eliminate birthday parties and start having conception parties. Kids would like this because they could drive and drink at an earlier age by nine months, and adults would be able to have sex with them at 17 years and three months after their birthday. Conceptual Day would always be a guess.
What's my point? I am sick of people who try to show how moral they claim to be by being against abortion.
Afterthought. Jesus had little use for the "good" people of his day.

Random House is a Coward

Once again American business has submitted to pressure from Muslims.

Here I am talking about the great publishing house, Random House, who cancelled publication of a new novel from Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina, a fictionalized story of one of Muhammad's wives. Why? Because it might "incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment" of Islamists.

The book publishing industry is supposed to stand up for freedom of expression. I guess that doesn't apply to freedom of expression involving anything Muslim.

No other religion is granted the ability to censor the written word as is the Muslim religion. I guess that is because no other religion has violently attacked this country for so called religious reasons.

If the USA is ever again to be regarded as "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" this nonsense must stop.

New Vampire Novel

"The Vampire Valkyrie" takes off where "The Dancing Valkyrie" concluded and resumes the tale of young female vampire who just may become the most dangerous vampire in vampire fiction to date.
The new novel,"The Vampire Valkyrie," by Adirondack author Pete Klein, is the story of a young woman who is an erotic dancer at a topless club she owns in Schenectady, NY.

Indian Lake—August 5, 2008 — A vampire like no other, "The Vampire Valkyrie" continues the tale of Mary Hoffman, aka Erica, the Dancing Valkyrie, who fights to protect her erotic dance club and her girls from mobsters who want to control her and her club - or kill her if she resists.
A Schenectady City Councilwoman wants to pass legislation to close down or strictly limit the operation of adult businesses, an a upstate crime boss wants control of Mary and her club and a New York City crime family seeks to discredit the upstate crime boss through Mary and her club. Many people die, both the innocent and the guilty, as a result of Mary's determination to save herself, her girls and her club, while wondering if she should stop being involved with humans and just kill all who infringe upon her freedom as a vampire.
The new novel is now available at www.lulu.com/ravenwolfpublish and will soon be listed in Books in Print, Ingram's database in the US; and Bertrams & Gardners, Nielsons Bookdata in the UK and at most popular online book sellers from Japan, the US and Canada, and the UK, France and Germany.
Klein says, "When I found Anne Rice and her vampire novels, I felt someone was finally seeing beyond the cli' ches that had developed over the years. But I wanted to probe deeper by developing vampires, not demons, created by God for whatever reason God might want to create vampires. They would have to be of flesh and blood. They would have to be a unique creature not yet captured or studied by humans. Mary was the result, a vampire more deadly than any vampire I have read about in books or seen in the movies - deadly but strangely moral in the ways of a vampire."