Pro-Life Documentary, "The Drop Box," wins Best of Festival Award at Christian Film Festival3/2/2013
If you were one of the approximately 25,000 people who watched the Jubilee Awards in person or on live-streaming and saw 22-year-old Brian Ivie receive $101,000 for his profound homage to the power of the Gospel in reaching out to lost and "unwanted" children, then you watched history in the making. You saw with your eyes the blessing of God on a rag-tag movement of independent Christian filmmakers who are working outside the Hollywood machine and changing the world.
. . . I deified movies for 21 years of my life, and I made them my god, and it failed me. I'm done with that story. I'm done with that idol. And . . . in the fear of God, I will steward this investment, because I would rather tell the plainest truth with $100,000 than the most sophisticated technological lie with ten million dollars or one hundred million dollars. —Brian Ivie Ivey's documentary, "The Drop Box," follows a South Korean pastor, Lee Jong Rak, who has taken in and saved nearly three dozen orphans all of whom were abandoned because of their disabilities. (click here to see videos of Brian's acceptance speeches) (click here to see clips from "The Drop Box") Planned Parenthood recently announced it was retiring the phrase “pro-choice.” That term has defined their deadly movement for decades and now they’re abandoning it. It’s plain to me, after all this time, society is finally beginning to understand that “choice” is nothing more than a clever and deceptive catch phrase for death.
Why did Planned Parenthood change its strategy? One claim is that “pro-choice” no longer resonates, particularly with the younger generation. Pro-abortion rhetoric isn’t working for a number of reasons—the most prominent being the success of our collective pro-life efforts. The Millennial generation is emerging as passionately pro-life. In fact, those under the age of forty have been most impacted. They’re not blind to the fact that they’ve lost 55 million of their brothers and sisters to death by abortion—sacrificed on the altar of so-called “choice.” Another argument Planned Parenthood gives is that “pro-choice” doesn’t reflect the complexity of making decisions regarding “reproductive health” (you’ll notice they can’t bring themselves to use the A-word). In other words, they still refuse to acknowledge abortion is a life-or-death decision. They know it’s a losing battle for them to admit the truth that they’re promoting death. (read more) The head of a conservative student organization at DePaul University has been sanctioned by the university and could be expelled after he released the names of vandals who destroyed a pro-life flag display.
Kristopher Del Campo, the chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter, was found guilty by the university on two counts – “Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others” and “Judicial Process Compliance.” “Instead of supporting a student whose free speech rights were violated, DePaul University bullied Kristopher Del Campo for daring to expose the 13 vandals,” said Young America’s Foundation President Ron Robinson. “They put him through a Soviet-style show trial.” Free speech and conservative groups said they are shocked that the university is punishing the victim of a crime. “Simply publishing the names of the students who confessed to vandalizing YAF’s display does not place them at ‘substantial risk of physical harm,” wrote Pete Bonilla, of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education in a letter to the university’s president. “The 13 DePaul students named in the public safety report admitted not only to vandalizing YAF’s display but also planning to do so,” he wrote. “Students who purposefully vandalize the works of other students should not expect to be shielded from the public consequences of their actions.” (read full article) |
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