"It's a Wonderful Life,"

Like anyone else at Christmas time, after Christmas Eve dinner my family sits down to watch George Bailey try and lasso the moon, Clarence earn his wings, and Mary Hatch put together the perfect honeymoon.

But, I often wonder. There was such a difference in the world when George Bailey wasn't born. Mary grew to be an old maid. Henry drowned at 9, falling through the ice. The druggist, Mr. Gower, was arrested for poisening some little kid. The town was a moonopoly owned by old man Potter- nothing but shacks, bars and houses of ill-repute.

Such a big gap because of one person... and we're missing one-third of this generation. I'm not entirely sure how to explain how overwhelming that idea is.
Food for thought, mostly.

It just amazes me that we'll never be the world we should, because 48 million people have been aborted. As Clarence said, "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"

As we celebrate the birth of Christ, let's also celebrate the gift of life we've been given. And let's use that advantage to defend the right of others to live. It truly is a wonderful life.

May God bless you all this Christmas season.

Copenhagen and a can of worms.

Global warming. Whether or not you believe it's caused by man, or that it even exists, is up to you.

However, leaders seem to agree that the core of the issue is population growth. Our carbon footprints are causing the glaciers to melt, you know. China will probably be the first to bring up the topic, since they seem to have no qualms about the amorality of population control.

"The Chinese newspaper China Daily quotes Zhao saying that China's population program has made a great historic contribution to the well-being of society. China has reduced the number of births by 400 million since instituting its one-child "family planning" policies, and this has resulted in 18 million fewer tons of CO2 emissions per year, Zhao continued." [lifesitenews]

China seems to think it's a "blind spot" which leaders don't like to discuss, but that "population and climate change are intertwined," and so it is a necessary discussion at this conference.

How will other world leaders react? Some may shy away from it. Most likely what will happen is increased spending for "family planning" andn pushing contraceptives.

My suggestion to the world? If you don't want people baby-making, stop selling sex like 25-cent suckers. If we didn't live in such a sex-driven world, a population boom wouldn't be occuring.

Think about it. 54.8% of children born to women between 20-24 are out of wedlock. [child trends databank]
Teenage birth rates are higher than ever.
Remove the scorn from bearing illegitimate children, and guess what? People are going to have babies.
Tell people if they take a magic pill, they won't get pregnant. Show sex on TV and put it in music and advertisements and everywhere. People are going to start copulating like crazy. Sex is first and foremost for pro-creation, and some people find that out the hard way.

If people waited until they got married to reproduce, the birth rate would surely be affected. Maybe we should stress chastity and the idea that having sex leads to children. Maybe we shouldn't stuff sex in people's faces and inject it into society. If sex is portrayed as good and having children is bad, there's something seriously wrong with the world we're living in.

But I digress.
Living in America I should have no reason to fear a one-child, one-family rule ever coming about. But it's not just about America. The freedom of women to reproduce all over the world may be affected because human life is just too costly for the environment.

I'm confused though. If we want to keep the environment protected for the future generation, shouldn't there be a generation to inherit it?