Yesterday National Lutherans For Life commended the Board of Regents of Concordia University, River Forest, IL, for voting unanimously not to award an honorary doctorate to former senator Paul Simon. “It was the right decision to avoid honoring someone whose views on the God-given sanctity of human life are inconsistent with the Word of God.”
The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne signed a law requiring girls under 18 to get parental or judicial consent before getting an abortion. ‘‘The decision to terminate a pregnancy and essentially a life is so serious that parents should give their consent,’’ the governor said during the signing ceremony.
The Telegraph reports that a forthcoming biography of David Geffen, the homosexual activist film and music billionaire, is causing panic in Hollywood. Geffen is a founding partner of the film studio DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Geffen is part of a group of influential homosexuals known as The Velvet Mafia which includes powerful figures in the fashion, film and music industry, and artists and designers. Their combined influence is said to shape their industries and the book by Tom King, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, looks set to name those involved.
New polls indicate that women voters are beginning to abandon Hillary Clinton, stripping her of her most important voting base for her Senate contest.