Senator Ruben Diaz; the hero of traditional marriage in New York State

In the end, his advocacy for marriage prevailed. This courageous representative is a Democrat with a heart for all of the poor, including our first neighbors, children in the womb. He is Pro-Life. He is a Protestant Minister with a thriving ministry. He is a true representative of the people and understands his obligations to discharge his public office with integrity and for the common good. Because he stood up – and stood out - the effort to amend New York State's Domestic Partnership Law to force the legalization of ‘homosexual marriage’ failed by a bi-partisan vote of 38 to 24.

God bless Senator Diaz, who is also a minister with a thriving congregation. No wonder, he is truly a man of God. We need a man like him in Connecticut!
Read the entire article on Catholic Online.

Babies can remember as early as 30 weeks

From Focus on the Family Citizen Link:
"Preborn babies log memories as early as 30 weeks of age, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Researchers in the Netherlands have found that, at 30 weeks, preborn babies have a memory of 10 minutes. At 34 weeks, they can remember events for four weeks. The findings, which help explain central nervous system development, were published in the July/August issue of Child Development. The scientists studied about 100 healthy pregnant Dutch women, measuring changes in how their babies responded to repeated stimulation. After receiving a number of stimuli, the babies no longer responded to the stimulus. This change in response is called "habituation."
In the United States, abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy — unless limited by state law."
But we knew that, didn't we? So many studies show that newborns recognize their mother's and father's voices at birth, so clearly learning begins before birth. Unborn babies learn to relax when Mom's soap opera music is on, as they know Mom will be relaxed. We just never pinpointed when this memory begins. Surely it develops gradually with the developing baby's brain.
There are many studies on this, all bad news for the abortion lobby. They liked it better when we could call a 30 week old baby a "blob of protoplasm". The more the public knows, the harder they have work to be able to lie to women.
Did you ever hear the story of a famous orchestra conductor who, when reading the score of a cello concerto he had never seen, was stunned to find he knew the piece by heart? His mother was a cellist, who was practicing the same concerto while pregnant with him. Decades later, the imprint was still fresh.
"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you".
Well, it seems that before our babies see the light of day, they know us and God.
This reminds me of Regina Doman's lovely book "Angel in the Waters" where an unborn baby talks with his guardian angel, and the angel guides him into the world to meet his mother.

I have a friend who once overheard a child whisper to a baby, "Do you remember what God looks like? I'm starting to forget."
Have we forgotten?

The baby who would be born

In anticipation of Obama's signing of the ominous omnibus spending spree, and it's deadly secrets, I thought that this article might serve to remind us WHO is really in charge of the world.
God will not be mocked, He is still sovereign, and it's wonderful to see His power in a story like this. This was sent to me by a reader.
Sometimes, God gives us what we want even when we don't know enough to ask for it. This single mother thought she couldn't endure another child with a kidney defect like her first two, so when her contraception failed, and a child was conceived, she had him aborted at 8 weeks, or so she thought. At 19 weeks, she felt a flutter and discovered the abortion wasn't successful. Now she has a nearly perfect newborn son and couldn't be happier.
Miss Percival said: "I just couldn’t believe that this child had got through it all and looked so perfect.
"He may need an operation but as only one of his kidneys is affected he can survive. I still struggle to believe just what he has fought through. Now he’s here I wouldn’t change it for the world."
Read the entire story here at the Telegraph UK.