Note: This archive version of the e-newsletter is in ASCII text. To view this in Rich Text Format/HTML (with pictures & links), use the Contact page to send an e-mail to request that edition. Dear Friend, The InfoQuest* for Truth E-News Service is back up and running! Thank the Lord! You know it's bad when your CPU is emanating a burning plastic smell! Well, the IQ* system has been upgraded to serve you even better! [Side note: I learned that you should never run McAffee software and Norton software together on your PC - choose one or the other - otherwise, you'll get those pretty blue screens of death!] In this edition of the InfoQuest* for Truth E-Newsletter, we'll cover everything from prayer requests, to the origin of Easter practices, to Christian Comedy, Mars, Rocking for Life, Judeo-Christian Girl Scouters, and Eye-Opening Remarks from 10 Commandments Judge Roy Moore and more!!! CONTENTS: (1) Prayer Requests (2) Easter? (3) Christian Comedy! You'll Be Crying Laughing!!! (4) Life on Mars? (5) Rocking for Life! T-Shirt Time! (6) Judeo-Christian Girl Scouters! (7) 10 Commandments Judge Roy Moore + FREE Copy of the IQ* RADIO INTERVIEW! ==================== ==================== (1) Prayer Requests OnlineArchive.org Use Permission Received Please pray for Kelly McGinley's sister, Vicky, who is dying from lung cancer. A few weeks ago, I reported that a woman from my church, Gale, who is pregnant and who has 10 children with her husband, Ed, was being tested for cancer. Please keep Gale, Ed, and their children in your prayers. Kelly McGinley had a web page created to educate us all on health issues and natural remedies for cancer and other diseases: http://www.retakingamerica.com/health_page_main.html ==================== ==================== (2) Easter? What's Biblical and What's Not? Bunnies in the Bible? OnlineArchive.org Use Permission Received "Origins of Easter: Why I Worship Jesus and Hunt Bunny Rabbits" http://www.kneeprints.org/downloads.htm See attached PDF! See also the InfoQuest* for Truth Occult Page http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/occult.htm#Easter_Errors ==================== ==================== (3) Christian Comedy! You'll Be Crying Laughing!!! OnlineArchive.org Use Permission Received Comedy Bits from past Randall Terry shows http://www.randallterrylive.org/demo.htm ==================== ==================== (4) Life on Mars? OnlineArchive.org Use Permission Received Creationist Says NASA's All Wet, Mars Never Inhabited Claims Life Unique to Earth, Despite Scientists' Speculations http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/292004e.asp By Allie Martin March 29, 2004 (AgapePress) - A former evolutionist who is now a biblical creationist says the recent discovery that water once covered part of Mars does not prove that life once existed on the red planet. Recently scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have displayed photographs from two unmanned crafts exploring Mars. Some of these images show, according to the scientists, that water once covered part of the planet. NASA's scientists say that discovery proves that life could very well have existed on Mars. But Dr. Grady McMurtry, president of Creation Worldview Ministries, says the discovery that water once existed on Mars is not surprising. "If you think about it, in Genesis, chapter one, verse two, the Earth is created with water on the surface. There's no reason to believe that Mars would not have been created by God in the same basic process," he says. Creation Worldview Ministries holds seminars and conferences to equip Christians to defend the biblical account of creation. The ministry's leader says the fact that water once existed on Mars fits into the Genesis account of life's origins, but the other conditions that make Earth suitable to house God's living creations do not exist on the fourth planet from the center of our solar system. "The reason that you don't have liquid water on the surface of Mars today is, of course, it's much smaller than the Earth, has a lot less gravity, and has a minimal atmosphere. While on Earth, certainly water is very important to life's existence, water does not equal life," McMurtry says. The creationist asserts that scripture absolutely negates the idea of extra-terrestrial intelligent life. He says, "In the New Testament, of course, it says that Jesus Christ came here, and died once for all. Now, God is the only one that can use the word 'all' and mean it, so there are not people who can be redeemed anyplace else. There are not other life-forms someplace [that are] like us." McMurtry believes NASA will use its discovery to push for more missions to Mars, exploration that he says will cost billions of dollars and only serve to increase an already oversized bureaucracy. +++++++ See Also: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/alien.asp ==================== ==================== (5) Rocking for Life! T-Shirt Time! http://stores.yahoo.com/americanlifeleague/ Tuesday April 27, 2004 - Wear Your Pro-Life T-Shirt Day! http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/312004h.asp ...Rock for Life, a youth project of the American Life League, is announcing the second annual National Pro-life T-shirt Day. On Tuesday April 27, thousands of young people across the United States will participate by wearing T-shirts with pro-life messages to their high schools, colleges, and wherever else they travel that day, thus publicly expressing their support for the sanctity of all human life. Rock for Life's director, Jason Scott Jones, calls the national event a day of healing for a generation that has lost a third of its members to the genocide of abortion. See Also: The InfoQuest* for Truth Abortion Page http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/abortion.htm ==================== ==================== (6) Judeo-Christian Girl Scouters! OnlineArchive.org Use Permission Received http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/232004h.asp ...Donna Coody disbanded her seven-year-old daughter's Brownie troop and took her nine-year-old daughter out of another Girl Scout troop because she was upset over the organization's involvement with Planned Parenthood. But Coody did not want her daughters and other girls in Crawford, Texas, to miss out on camping trips and other scouting activities. So she is starting a troop affiliated with the Christian-based American Heritage Girls. http://www.ahgonline.org/ American Heritage Girls was founded in 1995 by a Cincinnati-area woman and her friends who were unhappy that the Girl Scouts accepted lesbians as troop leaders and banned prayer at meetings. What started with 100 girls in Ohio has turned into a nonprofit group with 2,800 members in 22 states. Troops must be chartered by a church or Christian school and troop leaders must sign a statement of faith, but girls do not have to be religious to join. [AP] +++++++ See Also: InfoQuest* for Truth Scouting Alerts! http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/homosexual_myths.htm#Scout_Alerts ==================== ==================== (7) FREE Copy of the IQ* RADIO INTERVIEW! & 10 Commandments Judge Roy Moore! FREE Copy of the IQ* RADIO INTERVIEW: "The Federal Marriage Amendment Is A Trojan Horse!" 45 minute audio. Just reply to this e-mail to request a FREE Windows Media Audio File or a FREE MP3 File! Any of the files can be played on the FREE Windows Media Player! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp These files are large, so I'd recommend that you only ask if you use TV cable internet, a DSL line, or a T1 line. If you use telephone dial-up, it could take over an hour to download the file. Choices: 7MB Windows Media Audio File 11MB Windows Media Audio File (sounds crisper) 8.2MB MP3 File 16.4 MB MP3 File (sounds crisper) Just reply to this e-mail and tell me which file you'd like me to e-mail to you! It's that easy! Thanks to Arlan D. for creating these files! +++++++ 10 Commandments Judge Roy Moore! Moore Slams Marriage Amendment By Ami Eden http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=eden20040301109 Religious and social conservatives pushing for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage have an unlikely critic: Roy Moore. http://www.morallaw.org/ In an exclusive interview with the Forward, Moore, who was removed from his post as chief justice of Alabama last year after defying a federal order directing him to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the state courthouse, criticized efforts to pass a federal marriage amendment. Moore, viewed by many religious conservatives as a hero, complained that an amendment would represent a misguided intrusion into legal territory historically left to the states and warned against the unintended consequences of attempting to define morality through constitutional measures. "I don’t think you can make a constitutional amendment for every moral problem created by courts that don’t follow the law of their states,” said Moore, who is currently waging a legal appeal to get his chief justice job back. "If you do, you pretend to do what God has already done and make it subject to the courts. I think it’s a problem to establish morality by constitutional amendments made by men when the morality of our country is plainly illustrated – in Supreme Court precedent and in state-law precedent and in the common law – as coming from an acknowledgement of God.” Moore warned that an amendment could eventually be mistaken as the source of morality and then be reinterpreted down the road by judges or legislators. For example, he said, the amendment being pushed by conservatives simply defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, leaving the door open to future officials who could argue that the measure does not prohibit incestuous unions. For more details on the interview with Moore, please read the upcoming, March 5 issue of the Forward. +++++++ VIEWPOINT: Right-Wingers Urging Judge To Take On Bush By Ami Eden March 5, 2004 http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=20040304101 With the Democratic primaries all but over and Ralph Nader pledging to run for the White House, only one piece of the November electoral lineup remains unsettled: Will President Bush face an independent challenge from his right? Speculation is rampant on the Web and among dissatisfied conservatives that Roy Moore — who grabbed national headlines when, as chief justice of Alabama, he had a 5,300-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed in the rotunda of the state courthouse — is considering a run. Moore, as it turns out, is available, having been thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel after he defied federal court orders directing him to remove the monument. But for now, Moore told the Forward, he is focused on waging a legal battle to get his job back in Alabama. Too bad. For starters, a Moore candidacy likely would cancel out Nader's potential impact and generate some entertaining campaign moments. More important, however, candidate Moore would help fuel and frame the burgeoning debate on the role of religion in the public square. Often portrayed as a cartoonish mix between George Wallace and a fiery televangelist, Moore in fact offers a consistent, albeit extreme, critique of the prevailing conception of the law and the role of government officers in enforcing it. But while many conservatives joined him in waving the banner of states' rights when it came to defending his mammoth monument, few are expressing similar jurisdictional concerns while pushing for a Federal Marriage Amendment. In contrast, Moore is at least consistent, insisting that an amendment would represent a misguided intrusion into legal territory historically left to the states and warning against the unintended consequences of attempting to define morality through constitutional measures. "I don't think you can make a constitutional amendment for every moral problem created by courts that don't follow the law of their states," Moore said, in an exclusive interview with the Forward. "If you do, you pretend to do what God has already done and make it subject to the courts. I think it's a problem to establish morality by constitutional amendments made by men when the morality of our country is plainly illustrated — in Supreme Court precedent and in state-law precedent and in the common law — as coming from an acknowledgement of God." Moore worries that an amendment could eventually be mistaken as the source of morality and then be reinterpreted down the road by judges or legislators. For example, he said, the amendment currently supported by conservatives simply defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, leaving the door open to future officials who could argue that the measure does not prohibit incestuous unions. Still, beneath Moore's seemingly restrained constitutional views rests a radical legal philosophy, reflected in his belief that the proper response to the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court to mandate gay marriage is for the governor to simply refuse to enforce the opinion. Moore has consistently offered a similar defense of his refusal to remove his monument, insisting that he swore an oath to the Constitution, not to federal judges, so it would be unlawful for him to bow to an order that violated his understanding of the law. "A higher court can order a different result, but it can't order a lower-court judge to violate his conscience," Moore said. In other words, if a federal court judge — or, for that matter, any member of the Supreme Court — wants to break his back removing a two-and-a-half-ton monument, fine, but he can't make Roy Moore do it. As Moore sees it, his problem wasn't that he took a stand, but that his fellow Alabama justices, the state's Republican governor and its Republican attorney general all folded in the face of a federal court order, even though they agreed that Moore's monument constituted a lawful acknowledgement of God. "When we have judges who would blindly follow the orders of others, we have the same situation that Germany had in 1939 when they put the Jews to death," Moore said. "They were following the orders of higher courts. Are we not becoming like they were by following blindly?" Well, no. The theory is sound, but the context is off by at least six decades, 4,500 miles and 6 million victims. Even as the culture wars rage on several fronts, and Red and Blue voters gear up for the presidential election, most Americans still feel a sense of shared community and belief in an orderly status quo that leads them to defer to a legal chain of command headed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But this consent of the governed cannot be taken for granted. Moore's vision is certainly gaining ground among religious conservatives, fed up with what they see as several decades' worth of unlawful judicial decisions eroding American values. And now, Moore is receiving an unwitting boost from shortsighted liberals who think the best way to secure gay rights is to urge government officials to take the law into their own hands and perform same-sex marriages. So, while a Moore run in 2004 seems unlikely, it's not too late for 2008. +++++++ See Also: InfoQuest* ALERT Defend Morality Law And State Rights! http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/Federal_Marriage_Amendment.htm