Dear Friend, This Early Edition of InfoQuest* brings you important news bits and Action Alerts! Pass it on! CONTENTS: (1) Parkinson's Disease and Fetal Tissue (2) Disney Peddling Porn? (URL) (3) Biology Text Books Promoting Known Lies! (URL) (4) New Federal Public School Regs. Eliminate Truth! (5) Pennsylvania Gambling ALERT! (Information Applicable to All States in Our Republic!) (6) Join Judeo-Christian Value Patriots Today! (7) Thank You! ==================== ==================== (1) Parkinson's Disease and Fetal Tissue ...An attempt to treat Parkinson's patients with fetal tissue from abortion has failed -- and actually made some patients worse. Researchers had hoped to cure Parkinson's by injecting cells from aborted babies into patients' brains. Half of those in the study actually got worse with uncontrollable movements of their arms. Daniel McConchie with the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (cbhd.org) calls the technique "morally bankrupt." "Scientists are continuing to want to push research using controversial and unproven methods when there are other methods, including adult stem cells, that have much greater promise," he says. According to Family News In Focus, one author of this latest study conceded the failure will likely lead researchers to abandon fetal cells for adult stem cells. http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/22003h.asp For more info go here: http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest/abortion.htm ==================== ==================== (2) Disney Peddling Porn? A pro-family organization has leveled serious charges against The Walt Disney Company, claiming that the Mouse House has set up for itself a sordid side business: pornography. More details: http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/262003c.asp For more info go here: http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest/boycotts.htm#Disney ==================== ==================== (3) Biology Text Books Promoting Known Lies! TEXAS GROUPS ENGAGE IN BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK BATTLE A Texas group is fighting to get outdated material removed from biology textbooks in the state's public high schools. More details: http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/262003f.asp For more info go here: http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest/creation.htm =============== (4) New Federal Public School Regs. Eliminate Truth! IQ* Note: This news is applicable to much more than 2nd Amendment "uneducation." Please study this information with this in mind! Thanks. Tuesday, August 26, 2003 With Labor Day just around the corner, millions of kids will be heading back to school. But whether you realize it or not, what they may be taught could have a tremendously negative impact upon your gun rights. H.R. 1078, introduced by Rep. Roger Wicker (R-MS), would set up Presidential Academies to train educators in teaching civics and history. That certainly sounds innocuous enough. What's the problem with that? The problem is that by further centralizing the training process for teachers, radical educators will find it much easier to excise Second Amendment rights and other important principles from this nation's classrooms. The Feds have already imposed curriculum standards on the nation's government schools with previous legislation. The result was the publication of "guidelines" which are reflected in an anti-gun textbook called We the People. The guidelines and We the People are so busy teaching multiculturalism and environmentalism that they have no time for teaching the Tenth Amendment, which severely limits what the federal government can do. Is that a surprise to anyone? If kids are never taught there are limits to the federal government's power, then we shouldn't be surprised when tomorrow's leaders don't have problems passing gun control legislation. We the People does mention the Second Amendment in the section on historical development. But it gets the student to start questioning the wisdom of the amendment, asking the student whether the right to keep and bear arms is still as "important today" as it was in the eighteenth century and to decide what "limitations" should be placed on the right. It's bad enough that the major news media, along with TV shows and movies, present a one-sided view of the right to keep and bear arms. Kids growing up today are bombarded with anti-gun sentiments and viewpoints, with few facts and little information to the contrary. It has often been said that today's children are the leaders of tomorrow. One trembles in considering the perspectives these future leaders will hold when it comes to the Bill of Rights and, specifically, the Second Amendment. Anti-gun propaganda has already taken root in much of our nation's curriculum. But rather than reversing this process, H.R. 1078 writes a blank check so that teachers can be trained in the "key events, key persons, key ideas and key documents that shaped the institutions and democratic heritage of the United States." Right away, we are in trouble, because America was not founded as a democracy, but as a constitutional republic. The reason our firearms freedoms are supposed to be secure is that a fifty percent vote of citizens, legislators or judges cannot do away with them. If the U.S. were a pure democracy, our liberties would only be secure as long as a majority of the people were in agreement. There is no doubt that as control over education becomes more and more federalized, the ideas which children are learning become more and more radical. This agenda has already been seeping into curriculum standards for years. But if H.R. 1078 passes, radical educators will begin instructing teachers in a soon-to-be-funded Presidential Academy. While H.R. 1078 is currently in the Select Education Subcommittee, its companion bill (S. 504) has already passed the Senate. But with your help, we can protect our rights by protecting our children's education. Let's keep H.R. 1078 from passing. ACTION: Please urge your Representative to oppose H.R. 1078, a bill which will contribute in dumbing down the next generation of Americans -- at least as far as our constitutional rights are concerned. You can contact your Representative by visiting the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send him or her a pre-written e-mail message. ----- Pre-written message ----- Dear Representative ________________, If H.R. 1078 is enacted, educators will be encouraged to teach that I do not have an individual right to keep and bear arms. It will establish Presidential Academies on teaching civics and history which will use anti-gun texts like We the People -- the textbook that conforms to the federal guidelines on teaching civics and history. This book encourages students to start questioning the wisdom of the Second Amendment, asking the student whether the right to keep and bear arms is still as "important today" as it was in the eighteenth century and to decide what "limitations" should be placed on the right. This kind of discussion treats the Second Amendment as though it were not protecting a God-given, individual right. But the individual rights view is exactly what our Founders intended and what the American public still believes today. An ABC News Poll in 2002 found that almost three-fourths of all Americans believe that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the rights of "individuals" to own guns. We already have too much Federal involvement in education, and the results have not been good. As control over education becomes more and more federalized, it seems that the ideas which children are learning become more and more radical. Please vote against H.R. 1078, a bill which is decidedly anti-gun. Sincerely, --- Gun Owners of America is in Washington fighting for the Bill of Rights and your Second Amendment freedoms every day. Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org To subscribe to free, low-volume GOA alerts, go to http://www.gunowners.org/ean.htm on the web. For more info go here: http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest/Civil_Defense.htm ==================== (5) Pennsylvania Gambling ALERT! (Information Applicable to All States in Our Republic!) Help Keep Pennsylvania Free of Casino Gambling! A NEW SLOTS BILL COULD BE IN THE SENATE AS EARLY AS SEPTEMBER! How you can help: Step 1. Contact your State Representative and Senator Today! 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Download bulletin inserts (PDF) to keep your church informed. http://www.pafamily.org/PAGE%20Insert1.pdf Refer your pastor and other church leaders to this site. http://www.pafamily.org/ad.html Want to keep updated? To keep abreast of this and other hot issues in Harrisburg, subscribe to the E-Alert . http://www.pafamily.org/ealert/subscribe.php ==================== ==================== (6) Join Judeo-Christian Value Patriots Today! Dear Friend, I implore you to learn about and Join the John Birch Society today. Take just four minutes or more to visit this website: http://www.jbs.org Only together, through Action, will we preserve our Freedom and Safety! ==================== ==================== (7) Thank You! Dear Friend, Thank you so much for being a part of the InfoQuest* Family! Your correspondence is most welcome and encouraged! Erich <><