Culture
A Primer on the Illuminati
Written by William H. McIlhany
Type “Illuminati” into an Internet search engine and you will wind up with an impossible aggregation too numerous and contradictory to be useful. A search on Ask.com yields 1.4 million entries, while the same at Google produces 12 million entries, and at Yahoo gives 33 million entries! A small percentage of these deal with genuine historical documents and reliable research by reputable scholars, but the vast majority, unfortunately, deal in fanciful fiction (of the sci-fi or mystery-action-adventure variety) or misinformation and deliberate disinformation posing as fact and serious scholarship.
If anyone needs more evidence as to how we live in a topsy-turvy age of moral turpitude, two recent news stories provide it. One is out of the Marple Newtown School District in suburban Philadelphia, where a school decreed that a Bible couldn’t be read during show-and-tell. Then, across the country in Alameda, California, there is a mandatory new curriculum that draws an equivalency between normal marriage and the faux variety.
Forgive us for being a bit late in reporting this, but this entire month has been dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. So dedicated by whom, you ask? Why, by the president of the United States in an official White House proclamation. June is officially "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month" in America. How you observe or even celebrate it is up to you, even though this sort of thing was still against the law not too many years ago.
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch on June 3 signed legislation establishing marriage “regardless of gender” in the the Granite State, immediately after both houses of the General Court (Legislature) of New Hampshire passed the measure. Before final passage, the state Senate rejected an appeal for a nonbinding referendum on same-sex marriage, and the Senate president removed a prominent Republican from a committee of conference.
Every so often there is a case in which parents refuse to submit their child to medical treatment, citing religious beliefs. The most recent example is the saga of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old Minnesota boy stricken with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After undergoing a round of chemotherapy that, understandably, made the boy quite sick, the family ceased the treatments, saying they would pursue alternative therapy in accordance with an American Indian religion known as “Nemenhah.”
