Thanks to Vision Tennessee for bringing this to my attention.

As Paul stated, he received an “urgent appeal” from Planned Parenthood today that said they needed him to contact the 2006 Public Health Family Assistance Sub-Comm concerning SJR-127 which just passed the Senate.

Planned Parenthood is providing the means to allow everyone to contact the committee members. When you click the link it has a default text in the message box, which can be edited along with the subject line. Paul sent his own personalized email which you can read at the first link in this post, and below is the letter I sent:

Subject:
Please vote YES on SJR-127

As a Tennessean, I’m elated about SJR127, the proposed amendment to our Constitution that would remove the so called right to abortion for the women of Tennessee. Our state Constitution exists to help protect the people’s rights, including the rights of unborn children!!!

SJR127 has passed in the Senate, and I understand it will be up before the Public Health and Family Assistance subcommittee in the next few weeks. Please vote for this life affirming, morally sound bill.

While the Senators who voted for SJR127 are doing their duty to protect the lives of Tennessee’s unborn children, very little is being done to criminalize those who would seek to perpetrate this crime on those children.

SJR127 is not the complete solution, but it is a step in the right direction,

Please stand up for the rights of women AND UNBORN CHILDREN in this great state, and vote FOR SJR-127.

Thank you for your courage and leadership.

Please send your personalized email here and urge them to vote yes, and take a step in the right direction.

Thanks Paul for the heads up!

This is a picture from the surprise celebration for my parents 25th anniversary.

Yesterday marked my parent’s 25th wedding anniversary. My wife and I, and the two oldest of my younger sisters planned a surprise celebration for after church. They were actually able to sneak old pictures and wedding pictures out of the house without mom or dad figuring it out. It was great.

We had a potluck meal after church, decorated the place with balloons and had nice red table cloth and nice stuff like that. We also made mom and dad cut the cake (I was disappointed that we didn’t make them stuff each others face though).

I have been privileged to be raised by some wonderful parents and they have set an excellent role model for myself and Rachel, as well as for the rest of the children when they get married.

During the course of events my dad was asked to share some words of wisdom about how to make it to 25 years of marriage in a culture with such a high divorce rate as ours. Indeed, my dad has said before that of all the friends he had from his younger years, of all his peers, he is the only one that has made it this far. His words of wisdom were that you love each other no matter what. When the Bible says, husbands love your wives, it was issuing a command. There is no choice in whether or not you love your wife. He also said that it is a decision you make, you decide that divorce is not an option.

I think that in our culture today, we go into marriage with the idea that divorce is always an option if we become dissatisfied. Actually that idea fails to recognize that our Lord Jesus Christ only gave only one reason for divorce, and that was adultery. In other words the only acceptable divorce is if your spouse has committed adultery. The Bible gives no other case for divorce.

So, my mom and dad made the decision that there would be no divorce because God said so. That’s how they made it to 25 years, and also of course by the grace of God who enables them to keep the covenant that they made, and who enabled them to realize that they were making a covenant of such a nature that could not be so easily broken as our culture likes to think.

This is from the shoot in Peoria last weekend:

© 2005 David Price