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Till with his mother
The Justice Department announced in late May that
underpinnings $ of Souther segregation and helped launch the civil
nights movement. His death and susegent news coverage preceded Rosa Park's
ramab bus by two months and was cited as one of
| the incidents that dramtically ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
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shortly before his bratal
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NNPA Editor-in-Chief
WASHINGTON (NNPA) -
After initially
not have authon
the 1955 death of Emmett Ti , a
14-year-old African-American
_ who was beaten, shot in the head;
and thrown into the Tallahatchie
River near Greenwood, Miss. for
allegedly whistling at a White
woman, the United States Justice T
Department reversed. itself this
week and announced that it will
work with a District Attomey in
Mississippi to see: . if further
Prosecutions are warranted.
Two White; men - Roy
Bryant and his half-brother, J.W.
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Carolina, Inc. and. were granted all
the rights and privileges .of the.
national organizaton. «
Last month, April 24, 2004, the
founding members
introduced to the public and were
pinned with their 100 Lapel Pins at
the annual forum for the 100
BLACK MEN OF EASTERN
NORTH CAROLINA, INC. with
Buder W. Lewis installed as.
President, Clarence Goss, Jr. as
Vice-President, On das
Theadbrer Stephan ?"? po as
S¢crefary, o\Joe Shambley as
Membership °. Chairperson, "_Joe
Daniels as Fund Raising
Chairperson, Edward Newton as
Mentoring Chairperson, _Jesse
Hinton as Education Chairperson,
Maurice Jordan as Event
Chairperson and Mr. Farris Dixon,
Public Relations.
Looking back on the 100...
The o100 Black Men ? concept
originated in 1963 when a group of
black men living in New York in
Clinton
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history, there may be new
material about Northern Ireland
and the Middle East, in which
Clinton was deeply involved.
There will surely be plenty about
what Hillary called the "vast
ight-wing conspiracy" against
og husband, oincluding the
pseudo-scandal of Whitewater.
Some talk of "score settling ?.
In fact, if Clinton rather than his
ghostwriter is in charge of the
nartative, the bits about his early
career in Arkansas could be the
most entertaining.
But whatever the content, the
mere name of its larger-than-life
declaring that it did h
to investigate
brothers
that Ts y
Milam " admitted taking young
Till, who was visiting ofrom
Chicago, from his great uncle Ts
ome around 2:30 am. on
August 28, but initially denied
harming him. An T all-White,
all-male jury in Mississippi
acquitted the two men.
Four months © later, the
ers admitted to writer
William Bradford Huie that the
had indeed murdered Till,
Writing in. oLook ? vw
had told him: oWell, when he
[Emmett] told me about this
White girl he had, my friend,
here. That's what we got to fight
coming together resulted in the
formation of the One Hundred
Black Men of New York, Inc.
Over the years it has been
instrumental in propelling the
advancement of over 60,000.
Black Americans, young and old
2
were alik
The original founders wanted
to develop a local organization for
the purpose of pooling their
resources and implement
ams designed to improve the
quality of life for Blacks and other
minorities. They also wanted to
insure the future of their
communities by aiming an intense
number of resources towards
youth development. Some of
these these members were
successful men from various
fields of business and industry
and included such notables as
David Dinkins, the fromer Mayor
of New York, alonf with
Livingston Wingate and Andrew
Hatcher to name a few.
In 1976, Dr. William Hayling
formed the 100 Black Men of
New Jersey. It was this organizing
author will ensure the impact of
My Life.
The timing of publication has
been crucial - and explains why
Clinton's editor took to
sleeping overnight at his home
in Chappaqua, New York, to
make sure his undisciplined
charge finished the, job, so the
book could appear next month.
Any later, and publication
might have stolen the thunder
of John Kerry's coronation at
the Democratic convention in
the last week of pul. Or the
book could have been delayed
until after the November 2
election - by which time the
country's attentions might have
wows Acosta, Assistant
B) General for the Civil Rights
i Division, said in announcing the
decision on Monday. oThis brutal
" murder and
_ Muscarriage of justice ou a
| Mation and helped galvanize
Support for the
~ American civil rights movement.
. We owe it to Emmett Till, and
aoe I just looked at him
and I sai
d I said, Boy, you ain Tt never
going to T see the suh come up
nee
And he didn Tt.
oThe Emmett Till case
-stands at the heart of the
- American. civil
_ movement, ?
rights
R. Alexander
Attorn
grotesque
modern
we owe it to ourselves, to see
whether after all these years,
some additional measure of
justice remains possible. ?
Untl now, the Justice
Department had declined
repeated requests from Till Ts
mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and
Congressman Bobby Rush, who
represents her district in Chicago,
to reopen the case. Mobley died a
year ago at the age of 81.
In February, Rep. Rush
filed a bill in Congress asking
that body to. formally request
Attomey General John Ashcroft
to re-open the case, A
Department of Justice
spokesman told the Chi
Tribune at the time that othe
Statute of limitations...barred the
zine, department from investi ting
_Hute. recalled that }.W. Milam
the case further. ? .
.. After receiving research and
a legal opinion from the
_m Legislative Counsel for the
t this war Ts about down. '
House of. Representatives and T
the "Congressional Research
attempt that was: followed in
succession by the formation, of
ndanapos St Lous, igh
Atlanta, = the Sa
Francisco/Oakland Bay . Area,
oNassau/Sajfol and Sac to, In
New ." Jersey, Los Angeles,
Indiatiipols, Louis, Pittsburgh,
Atlanta, Bay area, Nassau/Sajfol
and = to then formed a
national organization called the
100 Black Men of America, Inc.,
which Dr. Hayling was the
founding president.
On May 27, 1987 this. newly
formed
introduced itself to the natifh by
holding its first "_ national
conference in Atlanta. With it Ts
joint mission to improve the
quality of life and enhance
educational opportunities for
Afnican-Americans, m ts of
the 100 serve as a strong force for
overcoming the cultural . and
financial obstacles that have
limited the achievements of
African-American youth,
1986, the individual chapters of
Organization. _ then T
Service, Rush wrote to Ashcroft
on February 27 and pointed out
that 18 USC 3282,.-a federal
law, states, oan indictment for
any offense punishable by death
may be found at any time
without limitation. ? The 1964
Civil Rights Act and another
federal statue contain similar
ey language.
Moreover, Rush noted that
several civil rights cases that were
more than 30 years old, including
the bombing of the Sixteenth
Street Church in Birmin
Ala. and the murder of NAACP
leader Medgar Evers in
Mississippi, were prosecuted with
the help of the Justice
Department.
Congressman Rush sent
Ashcroft a second letter on April
20. He wrote, oEmmett. Till Ts
mother, Mamile Till-Mobley,
similarly = made numerous
requests to the " Justice
Department and the Federal
Bureau of Investigations to
investigate her son Ts murder.
Unfortunately, she received only
indifference and silence as a
father telling response. I would
ope that the Justice Department
would not ra a member of
Congress the same way it treated
Mrs. Till-Mobley 50 years ag
"with indifference and silence. ?
Neither letter had been
answered as of this week,
according to Rush Ts office.
Recently, Congressman
Charles Rangel and Sen. Charles
Schumer, th New York
Democrats, joined Rush Ts call for
a Justice Department
investigation.
oEmmett Till Ts murder
akes Root in Eastern
particularly = young African-
American males. The Organization
has made outstanding progress,
proving that Blacks can, and do,
excel in corporate and community
leadership.
_ Nayionally, the 100 has also
proven that training and support
provided for thousands of youth
each © year has improved
Opportunities to stabilize their
learning enviroriment, become
self supportive and become
empowered to control their own
destinies. During the 90 Ts, the
changing times ght on new
challenges as well as yielding
many unanticipated opportunities.
In response to these forces, the
National Chairman, Thomas W.
Dortch, Jr. has unveiled and
aggressive plans to more T tight
focus the organization in its Welln
ongoing development. The plan
ated, FOUR FOR THE
FUTURE, " focuses on four areas
deemed critical to insuring the
future of our youth and
community at large. Since that
time, the organization has began
seared into the minds of all
Americans the hate and violence
of racism. in the South, ?
said at a news conference. oBut
because of the efforts of the
Black Press especially, the crime,
not solved in the courts, raise the
consciousness of Americans and
triggered the Civil Rights
Movement. ?
Rep. Bennie Thompson
(D.-Miss.), issued a Statement
Monday saying, oToday Ts
decision is also a testament to the
contributions of Congressman
Bobby Rush (D-IL.) who has
been invaluable in the effort. ?
In an interview with the
NNPA News Service last month,
Congressman Rush said, oThe
federal government has the
resources, it has the authority and
should have the will to re-open
this case. Emmett Till cannot and
will not rest in peace. Mamie Till
Mobley cannot and will not rest
in peace until there Ts justice. We
cannot rest in peace. ?
Mobley shocked the world
when she held an open-casket
funeral for her disfigured son.
More than 600,000 people
marched pass the casket and
millions of others will never
forget the ghastly photo of Till
ago that appeared in Jet magazine.
In an interview with
Emerge magazine, Mobley told
this writer: oI think about what
he must have suffered. I will ask
the Lord why did he have to
suffer? If they had just shot him,
that could have been much easier
to bear. And in one of those
question sessions, the Lord
showed me, revealed to me, the
way he [Till] looked was the
to channeled all its resources
towards youth ~ "_ "mentoring,
anti-violence, education,
economic development, "_ and
health and wellness programs,
although these areas had always
been part of the "100 movement.
"In 1995, the organization fully
outlined a long-term strategy for
addressing these critical areas.
The Nut and Bolt Issues of the
100
Since their mission statement
aims to improve the quality of life
of our communities, and enhance
educational and " economic
Opportunities for all African
Americans, 100 Black Men
chapters across the nation, via
their strategies being focus in the
areas of (1) Mentoring, (2)
Education, (3) Health and
ess intiatves and (4)
Economic Development
Programs, young people who
have been coming in contact with
the o100 ? are gaining a much
needed competitive edge.
With a mission to improve the
quality of life of our citzens and
ification of race hatred.
This is what race hatred looks like
Rangel ~ race hatred is ugly. ?
Rush is also appealing to
Congress to award a
Congressional Medal of Honor to
Till Ts mother posthumously ofor
her courage, but also for her
commitment to y Ne
Both Milam and Breant are
dead. But Carolyn Bryant,
wpposedly the object of |
Till Ts interest, is believed to be sti
alive. By all accounts, she did not
accompany the men on the ni
they kidnapped and murdered Till.
According to Till Ts . great
uncle, Milam and Bryant did not
come to his home alone. At least
another voice was heard once Till
had be taken from the house. i
anyone is prosecuted as a result o
thi inquiry, more than likely it will
be that person, many close to the
a
~_ The Till investigation might
be hampered by the lack "rs
transcript of the murder trial. Like
many controversial cases involving
the deaths of African- Americans
in the South during that period,
such as Medgar Evers, the
transcript is missing from court
files. In Evers case, however, his .
widow, Myrlie, had kept a copy of
court proceedings.
fore Mobley died, she had
made peace with her son Ts death.
She told Emerge, oThe Lord
spoke to me and said that Emmett
didn Tt belong to me in the first
ace, that I had been chosen to
his mother while he was on
earth and that he came. here with a
specific purpose. He Ts done what
he came to do. ?
Carolina
enhance educational opportunities
for African-Americans, the o100 ?
membership in Greenville upon
taking its national oaths vow to
continue to serve as a strong force
for overcoming the cultural and
financial obstacles that have plague
the achievements of
African-American youth, locally
with a particular emphasis on
young Afncan-American males...
The future is TODAY
The o100, ? realizing that youth
today _ represent
communities will be tomorrow,
acknowledge that between now
and 2005, more than half of all new
entrants into the work force will be
minorities and at the same time,
one half of all jobs will require a
more educated workforce. There
scope 1s global. They feel that if
America behind in producing
more young minority men
women for the workforce in the
coming "_ décades, "- America's
economic ability to co in the
global marketplace will severely
compromised.
They feel that they must be
committed to the intellectual
Precedent With Attack cone onemt f
shifted to T. an - incomin;
Democratic president, and T
Clinton's. memoirs would be
ancient history.
But the deeper question is,
now Bill Clinton has his life
back, what will he do with jt?
In 2000, Al Gore, anxious not
to be tatred with the Clinton. most effectively gets
scandals, barely allowed his
boss to put a foot on the
campaign trail. The earnest
Kerry, however much he risks
being lost in the Clinton dazzle,
is unlikely to make the same
mistake.
The former president will not
win over wavering Republicans,
for whom he is still
Bubba-cum-Beelzebub. But he
remains the Democrats T
brightest, star, and the: party's th
most potent fundraiser, For
African Americans and other
core constituencies, he is a
talisman. Victory in..2004, it is
Said, will go to T the side that
ctit ets out the
vote. And no one can do that
like Bill Clinton,
But his longer-term future is a
mystery. Clinton is only 57,
three years younger than Kerry.
Thanks to speeches at up to
US$100,000 ($167,000) a go,
and now the book, the $5
million-odd (§8.3 million) legal
debts from Whitewater are a
distant memory, For the first
time in his: life, he is rich. But
en: again, money never: much
interested him, -
Since leaving office, he toyed .
with - but, rejected - offers of a
talk show. He briefly had a joint
television commentary slot with:
his old sparring partner Bob
Dole. It has ben tae he
might be UN Secretary General,
Mayor of New York, global
anti-Aids supremo, cr even
Kerry's running mate. Who
knows? All that is certain is that
after the travails of authorship,
Bill Clinton is back.
- INDEPENDENT
based upon the following ts
of respect for fanily, sprinliy,
justice and integrity. The Vision
Statement The 100 Black Men of
our diverse talents to create an
environment where our children
ate motivated to achieve, and to
Le our people to become
sel sufficient shareholders. in the
economic and social fabric of the
oer we serve
Their Phi y: "What They
See is What They Will Be" and
invite thise who share the same
goals to contact them. The
President can be reached at (252)
355-6152 or he cam be emailed at
bwl148@aol.com
Iraq isn't another Vietnam - it's
much worse. The images of
abused prisoners demonstrate not
just American depravity, says the
pitjosop her John Gray, but the
of w wat as a mora
=a .
Misguided from the start, the war
in Iraq is spiralling out of control.
Any legitimacy the occupying
forces may ever have possessed
has been destroyed, and: there are
signs that Iraqi insurgents are
coming together to mount a
movement of resistance that could
render the country ungovernable.
With even more damning images
ikely to find their way into the
ic realm in the near future, the
hited States is facing an historic
defeat in Iraq - a blow to
American
more
than it » in Vietnam, an
far in its global implications.
leper i ble Snplcaton
of currently available evidence is
that the use of torture by US
forces was not an aberration, but a
sanctioned at the highest
U there were
setious breaches of discipline, and
the blank failure to understand
that they had done anythi
ything Py pee of Russian firepower
wrong displayed by some of the
abusers does not speak well for
the levels of training of sections
of the US military.
Abuse on the scale
suggested by the Red Cross
report cannot be accounted for
by any mete lapse in discipline or
the trailer-park mentality of some
American recruits. It was
inherent in the American
approach to the war. American
oaditary intervention in Iraq was
based on neo-conservative
fantasies about US forces being
greeted as liberators. In fact, as
could be foreseen at the time, it
has embroiled these forces in a
brutal and hopeless war against
the Iraqi people. From bei
a8 passive recipients of
American goodwill, they are now
viewed as virtually subhuman, If,
as seems clear, British forces are
innocent of anything resembli
the systemic abuse that
to have been practised by the
Americans, one reason is that
they do not share these attitudes.
The resistance mounted by
the sia insurgents can be
compared to the anti-colonial
liberation struggles of the 1950s,
but the closest with the
intractable ict now under
way arte found in Chechnya,
which remains a zone of anarchy
and terror despite the ruthless
and tematic use of torture
for more than a decade. It was
the prospect of an intractable
guerilla conflict that led many
soldiers in the Pentagon to
express deep _ reservations
re the war. When the
cian Laden launched the has
invasion of Iraq, US forces rae
lunged into a of conflict
for which they are supremely ill
uipped.
o A the wake of Vietnam
and Somalia, American military
doctrine, has been based on
"force protection" and "shock
and awe". In practice, these
strategies mean killing anyone
who appears to pose any t
to US forces and overcoming the
enemy through the use of
overwhelming firepower.
Effective in the early stages of
the war when the enemy was
Saddam and his regime, th
appears deeply counterpeoductive phen,
as in Iraq today, the enemy
comprises T much of the
population. As Douglas Hurd has tha
observed, filling the hospitals and
mortuaries is not the best way to
win hearts and minds. The effect
has been to make the conflict
more savage. It is in
circumstances such as these that
torture becomes routine. In Iraq
Over the past year, as in
Chechnya, and before that in
Algeria where the French fought
a similar dirty war, anyone could
end up a victim of torture.
n subjecting "_ randomly
selected Iraqis to abuse,
American forces are following a
well-trodden path, but the type
of torture that has been practised
some distinctive features.
Unlike the Russians or the
French, who inflicted extremes
of physical pain as well, US
forces in Iraq appear to be
relying mainly on techniques that
ocus
on the application of .
intense psychological pressure. In
order sparc up detainees they
have swept up from the streets,
they have used disorientation,
sensory deprivation and sexual
humiliation. These are all forms
of abuse that would damage any
human being, but leading naked
Iraqi males around on dog leads
and covering their heads with
women's underwear look like
techniques designed specifically
in ofder to. attack the prisoners T
identity and values. The result is
t an. indelible image of
o4
as been
Islamic
American depravity
imprinted on the enti
world.
It remains unclear how
these techniques came to be used
in Abu Ghraib prison. What is
evident is that from the start of
the war on terror the Bush
administration has flouted or
circumvented international law
on the treatment T of detainees. It
unilaterally declared members of
terrorist organisations to be
i combatants who are not
entitled to the protection of the
Geneva Convention. _ " The
detainees held =f Guantanamo
Bay fall into this category, and so
apparently did the Taliban and
-Qa'i ; who were
captured in Afghanistan. Bein
beyond the reach of international
law, they were liable to torture.
* In Trag, + the Bush
administration evaded
international law by a different
route. They outsourced security
duties at Abu Ghraib and other
American detention facilities to
prvate ia map not covered
y w and not regula
by the Ceneva Convention. In
effect, the Bush administration
deliberately created a lawless
threes in which abuse
ractised with ity.
Practx A aap ty
who watched video stills of the
sexual abuse of Iraqi women by
US personnel in a closed session
on Capitol Hill in Washington last
week have described _ the
behaviour they witnessed as
un-American, Maybe so, but it was
of American ieadership. The
torture of Iragis by US Personn
is an applicetion of the Bush
administration's strategy in the war
on terror.
Tossing aside international
law and the norms of civilised
Dehaviout in this way is
self-defeating. Not so 7
the clash of civilisations Se
crass and erroneous theory, but
after the recent revelations it is
becoming a self-fulfilling
0 . In toppli the
Anedcca dowthedin coment
Western regime, not unlike the
Stalinist Soviet Union in its
militant secularism. In doing so,
they empowered radical Islam as
the single most importan t political
force in the country.
The immediate beneficiary
of the torture revelations is {i
to be Iran - a fact that seems to
have been grasped by Ahmed
Chalabi (the Iraqi émigré that the.
neo-conservatives believed would
dengan, Country to American-style
democracy), appears to be
forging links with the Iranian
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culture of secrecy, decepetion. and
intimidation. Victims who came
forward with abuse claims were
ignored or paid off, while accused
Ptiests were quietly transferred
from parish to parish or sent for
brief periods . of psychological
counseling. Another scandal in the
Roman Catholic Church was gay
priest. But for American Catholics,
the revelations about the Rev.
_ Mychal Judge that followed his
» death provided another startling
~ and unfamiliar image to confront
" " " that of an openly gay priest.
_ Greetings: Judge's life as a Catholic priest
I know you must think that the who was open about his
issue, of homosexuality keeps homosexuality was a tatity in the
rearing its ugly head, everywhere
you turn you hear people talki
about gay martiages. Church folks
let me tell you where it seem to
have started first. In the church,
That is why judgment will first
begin in the house of God. - .
Consider this, the Roman Catholic
church have for decades kept
horrific tales of abuse out of the
public eye through an elaborate
. church, and the overwhelmi
talking positive attention he received
he died rekindled a centuries-old
discussion about ordaining gay
men. Tremors also are spreadi
to gay~ priests of other
denominations, even those that are
more open to homosexuals, such
as the Episcopal Church in the
New York Diocese, which ordains
Bay ptiests and recognizes their
committed relationships. Other ,
Episcopal dioceses do not.
is a part of me world-wide
includes the ican Church in
Canada and the Church of
England in Britain. Celibate, and
active gays and lesbians are
welcome as members. Since 1979,
the ordination of celibate
homosexuals has been permitted This
(Bishop Righter is the best known
cxangh) he Episcopal Church
had a traditional policy of not
ordaining practicing homosexuals.-
Presbyterians decided _that
Presbyterian ministers may
perform same-sex union services
as long as they reflect the church's
"understanding .. that these
ceremonies .do not constitute
as defined in the Book of
Order." They also decided that a,
church session may accept a gay
person as a candidate for ministry,
even though a sexually active gay |
man or lesbian cannot be
ordained.
Church folks have we forgotten
about the image of God, have we |
not looked into the mirror to see |
ourselves. Why????, Have we |
strayed so far away from the image .
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of Him that created us. The image
of God is both male and female
y union
between male and female where
the creative power of God, His
life-giving. His self-giving and His
moral nature are perf
expressed. This is only possible in
a heterosexual union. When God
created T a partner for Adam He
created Eve - not another, Adam.
is means that perfect
partnership requires some level of
difference as well as a level of
similarity so great that Adam could
cry out loudly, "This is now bone
of my bones and flesh of my
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flesh". Heterosexuality is the
normal method of human bondi
and the one for which our bodies
and emotions are designed.
If God had intended the human
trace to be fulfilled both
heterosexual and homosexual
martiage. He would have designed
our bodies to allow reproduction
through both means and made
both means of sexual intercourse
healthy and natural. Homosexual
anal intercourse carries a high risk
of disease, this is tecognized in
Scripture where gay men. ate said
to receive in their bodies the due
penalty for their error (Romans
talking about DISCIP
both!
discipline their children
Proverbs 13:24 says that
1:27)
ding People if we are to survive this we
must follow the instructions of God
and live by the Words
be presgcamea that proceedeth out
of
His mouth. Let us not walk into
that seem right way, because the
end of that way is death. On that -
path that leads to righteousness
there are few travelers but on that
path mat leads to destruction there
are many, many, many travelers.
CHOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM
YOU WILL SERVE. Tomorrow
might be to late.
Apostle Hawkins
tion of a New Generation
~ APARENT'S RESPONSIBILITY
What Ts wrong with these methods of modem
we've been discussing? The facth that they completely deny
the way of TRUTH God explains to us in Scripture!
Remember the proverb we read earlies.
importance of orod and reproof T ? in raising a child who will.
not bring shame to his parents. God says that a proper level
| of control must be maintained over children, This verse is
parenting
It talked about the
LINE "corporal punishment "and
INSTRUCTION. God COMMANDS that
parents use
parents who fail to physically
actually HATE them. That their
concern for themselves exceeds their concem for the long-term well-being of their children. That may rankle
modem parents. But remeber, it is GOD--the Creator of heaven
instruction. Rather than dismissing it offhand, shouldn Tt we try to
Unlike so many raising teenagers today,
kids. oHonor thy father and mother T is
break it
routinely without second thought. You may think the fault lies with the teen
written, oMake sure kids honor
children the sanctity of the law? No teen will respect co
directed at them (it is not
to respect.
This is a point that was made in a Plain Truth article 36
The article stated, oToday's leaders failed their duty-
purpose of life. Why? Because they themselves did n
because they in turn had never learned it People
Generation, ? March 1966)
Later the article said, oThe trouble is socie
NO REAL PURPOSE TO LIFE?
What about you
and earth, of mankind "who gave this
UNDERSTAND it?
God has keen interest in maintaining parents T authority over their
the Fifth Commandment "just before oThou shalt not-kill. ? Teens
themselves, since the law is
their father and mother ?). But who teaches
mmandments they were not brought up their parents
years ago. It should convict us today all the mote.
-they did not teach the younger generation the real
ot the purpose of life. Society never taught it in school
simply don Tt know why they were born! ? ( oThe Beat
ty has taught its children T directly of indirectly THAT THERE IS
Do you understand the purpose of life well enough to teach and CONVICT
your children of it? Are you willing to learn?
give your teenager!
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