Sean Penn: One Sick Puppy

I found this via Drudge:

Hollywood activist SEAN PENN has a plastic doll of conservative US columnist ANN COULTER that he likes to abuse when angry. The Oscar-winner actor has hated Coulter ever since she blacklisted his director father LEO PENN in her book TREASON. And he takes out his frustrations with Coulter, who is a best-selling author, lawyer and television pundit, on the Barble-like doll. In an interview with The New Yorker magazine, Penn reveals, “We violate her. There are cigarette burns in some funny places. She’s a pure snake-oil salesman. She doesn’t believe a word she says.”

Imagine a Conservative doing that with a Streissand doll! Or a doll of one of the women hosting Air America. They’d be calling for a federal investigation. How Misogynistic! How cruel! How meanspirited are Conservatives. Yet, Sean Penn does it and I bet he gets lauded by the left.

BTW, Ann Coulter wasn’t in charge of blacklisting people. She only wrote about it in her book. Blacklisting was done in Hollywood in the ’50s. Penn needs to get his facts straight in addition to visiting a psychiatrist.

Linked to Outside the Beltway

Taking the Battle to the Frontlines

Hats off to Ron Luce for leading a rally into the belly of the beast in the fight for our culture and youth, San Francisco:

“Battle Cry for a Generation” is led by a 44-year-old Concord native, Ron Luce, who wants “God’s instruction book” to guide young people away from the corrupting influence of popular culture…

After stops in Detroit and Philadelphia in the next few weeks, Luce wants to unleash a “blitz” of youth pastors into the communities to do everything from work with the homeless to find new ways to bring others to Christ. He challenged youth leaders to double the size of their groups in the next year…

Military metaphors abound in Luce’s descriptions of the struggle. He tells young people of how “an enemy has launched a brutal attack on them.” At a pre-Battle Cry rally Friday afternoon on the steps of City Hall, Luce told his mostly teenage audience that “terrorists of a different kind” — advertisers — were targeting them and that they were “caught in the middle of the battle.”

“Are you ready to go to battle for your generation?” he asked, and the young people roared “yes!” and some waved triangular red flags flown from long, medieval-looking poles.

Luce’s approach has been praised by conservative leaders from the Rev. Jerry Falwell to Fox News commentator Sean Hannity. Much of the statistical backing for the horrors Luce sees on TV is provided by the Parents Television Council, which is funded by conservative foundations such as the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

This is the type of thing that is really needful. Too often, Evangelicals tend to rest in their churches. Or those of us in the culture war tend to just shout at the other side. He’s sitting here and he’s taking the fight to an area that for many years has been a cultural sewer.

The left’s mad at the excitements, its mad at the military metaphors. The tolerant left is mad that they’d even show their face in San Francisco:

And then he plans to return to San Francisco next year to chart their progress.

That’s bad news to Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, “they’re loud, they’re obnoxious, they’re disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco…”

Earlier this week, the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution condemning the “act of provocation” by what it termed an “anti-gay,” “anti-choice” organization that aimed to “negatively influence the politics of America’s most tolerant and progressive city.”

Let the irony of that resolution sink in for a moment. The most tolerant city in America who uses its Board of Supervisors to condemn a religious group visiting its city.

Imagine if a resolution were passed by a city where liberals met condemning them for trying to negatively influence the city? There’d be all kinds of outrage, but the left is beating its chest and telling us how appropriate this resolution is.

This is an outrageous invasion of San Francisco. Shakespeare’s Sister opines:

To which I can only say, Guilty as charged. As a card-carrying progressive, I don’t find the merest shred of obligation to be tolerant of people who have declared a war on me and my ideals…Being tolerant doesn’t require that we demur to a group of people who “declare war” on us—something around which one would think the proponents of a doctrine of preemption would be able to wrap their minds.

My response is one of incredulity. Do you think the left hasn’t declared war on traditional society, for better or for worse? They sure as heck as have. The Culture War is a defensive one, provoked by an attack on the values of god-fearing Americans.

Tell me, if you feel no obligation to tolerate “people who have declared a war on me and my ideals” explain how its right for the left to force organizations that believe in God and morality such as the Boy Scouts to except homosexuals and atheists?

Indeed, I’d like to know why there have been attempts to force Christian Clubs to allow anyone as a voting member?

Pat Buchanan called it a culture war in 1992, and its become accepted terminology. We face a clash of cultures, between one that supports traditional values that are at the bedrock of our culture and decency, and one that seeks to tear them down and destroy them. It is a battle between those who value innocent human life, and those who will send us down the road of degradation and depravity. Its a battle between right and wrong. The problem with our friends on the left is that they’re wrong and they’re failed social experiments have left the lives of millions, broken and battered, and homes torn apart from one coast to the other.

It is a battle we can’t afford to lose, because if we do, America will eventually lose its freedom.

Onward the Church Goes

From CNSNews courtesy of Instapundit news of Christianity spreading in Afghanistan from a Christian webmaster.

The majority of emails are negative and many are abusive, coming from Muslims who felt that Rahman and other apostates — including Andaryas himself — should be severely punished.

But there also are many messages of support, he said.

And then there are emails coming from Afghans wanting to know more about Christianity, asking where they can get a Bible in the Dari or Pashto language, or sharing the news that they had become believers in Jesus Christ.

Among the most stirring messages are those from Afghan Muslims marveling about a faith for which a man was willing to die and wanting to study the Bible further.

“I strongly believe God is using this situation for His glory,” Andaryas said. “One man’s bold step has shaken the world.”

You have to remember this. Martyrdom and death cannot stop the church of Christ. The blood of the martyrs has caused the church to grow. I think there’s going to be a lot of curiosity about someone who’s willing to die for his faith, but doesn’t try and kill for it. (A rare thing in Afghanistan and a terrorist infested middle East.) Its all being used for the Glory of God.

Linked to Persecution Blog’s Abdul Rahman News Carnival

A Wise Course

The story’s been in the news about the pastor shot by his wife. Fox has the Church’s reaction:

The preacher’s wife charged with murder in the death of her husband wanted his congregation to know “she was sorry for everything she has done,” said a friend who visited her in jail Sunday…

The congregation held its first Sunday services since the shooting death and were warned by elder Robert Shackelford not to speculate about why their popular, young minister was killed…

“Perhaps over time we will better understand why this has happened,” Shackelford said at an adult Sunday school class. “Be very cautious about what you say or even what you think…”

Shackelford urged the congregation to pray for the children, their grandparents and Mary Winkler. “Mary is a member of this church family,” he said, adding that forgiveness is a cornerstone of their faith.

“If we don’t have forgiveness, then we don’t have anything,” Shackelford said.

Church elder Wilburn Ashe reminded members that only a few facts about the killing were known for sure — Matthew Winkler is dead, his wife is in jail, and their children are without their parents.

“Those children have got a good home that they’re in, but it’s not mama and daddy,” Ashe said.

The church must hold together, he said, and not be torn by speculation and loose talk about the slaying.

“We’ve got to do two things,” Ashe said. “We’ve got to remain close to God and we’ve got to remain close to one another.”

I think the Church is taking exactly the right tact on this issue. Its biblical and it shows love, which is sometimes lacking in a situation like this. They definitely are in need of our prayers as they go through this.

It’d be so easy for church members to make this a lot worse through church gossip or rumors, but so far, this is holding together very well, and we’ll learn in a few months the whys of what happened, but the most important thing right now is mourning and prayer over a very sad situation.