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Superbowl and Texas, the den of depravity
Posted by Joel in Religious News on November 18, 2010
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It’s the seedy side of the Super Bowl. While thousands of fans flock to whichever city each Super Bowl is held, so do sex traffickers. The problem of sex trafficking is already huge in Texas. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The state may account for 25% of all human trafficking victims, with thousands women and children trafficked in and through the state each year. Not all of them are forced into sex slavery. Some are forced into other work. But Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says the problem is big- and getting worse. He’s convened a Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force which is now focusing its efforts on making sure Super Bowl 2011 in Arlington doesn’t signal open season for sex trafficking.
A pretty eye opening statistic, if you ask me.
Related articles
- Sex Trafficking Survivor Wins Freedom Award For Fighting Slavery (humantrafficking.change.org)
- Hate Human Trafficking? Call Your Congressman Nov. 17 Regarding HR 5575 (oklahomawomen.blogspot.com)
Why the Fuss? The Tim Tebow Ad
Really? That was it? What – 30 seconds? Even NOW – the National Organization for Woman – did have a problem with it:
More on Focus on the Family and Tim Tebow
Yesterday, I posted on the Tim Tebow commercial which will air during the Superbowl – and while I had no problems with it, I questioned the ability of the organization’s money management. A kind commenter pointed us towards a press release about the situation.
Tim Tebow Defends Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad under Fire
College football superstar Tim Tebow is standing fast behind a pro-life ad developed by Focus on the Family and set to air on CBS on Super Bowl Sunday. Although the ad has not been released, abortion advocacy groups are already demanding that it be scrapped, since it likely features the story of how Tebow’s mother chose life when doctors were urging her abort her now-famous son.
Tim Tebow Defends Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad under Fire.
Sunday Thoughts – 2/1 SuperBowl Sunday
Posted by Joel in Devotional on February 1, 2009
Is the game on yet? What game? Why are people going crazy over a little game that is supposed to be played this afternoon? Who’s playing? Steelers, I guess, and whoever is going to loose.
I wish people would get this excited over God and Church services. Okay, maybe not showing up to Church in groups, wearing body paint with signs of “John 3.16.” Of course, it would be nice to pull into the parking lot and see a few tailgaters who couldn’t wait until the doors opened so they camped out. Now, wouldn’t that be something to see…
We are heading to church service this morning and tonight and no will not have a tv in the fellowship hall to watch the Superbowl. Personally, I am not a big fan of the whole sporting thing – I like golf, soccer, and hockey, but I barely watch those for more than 5 minutes. I would rather be in church than at a sporting event.
Sunday is like the Superbowl of the week.
I hope that this day finds each of your well and in God’s presence. For me, we are getting ready to head out for our morning routine. While we are getting ready, we listen to Elvis Gospel, in the car it’s bluegree, and for a few minutes before service starts, it’s country gospel. Of course, we stop at McDonald’s for our normal breakfast – 8 hashbrowns, 1 sausage mcmuffin with cheese, 2 iced mochas (this morning it is nonfat), and 1 spirit. The drive-thru attendant remembers us now, and is sharing with us her life in the Lord. We’ll have to invite her to our tent revival this May.
Let’s keep Christ ahead of us today, and look only upon Him no matter the situation. I have found that by looking upon Him, I miss a lot of things that would otherwise pull me down. If I take my eyes off of Him, I see too much – but If I continue to look upon Him, then I see all that I need to see.
The song below is sung by the Isaacs – can you guess why I like it?
