Fishbowl America Round-Up for July 12th:

• Redford Pins Hopes On Obama Victory - If Barack Obama doesn’t win November’s presidential election in the United States, “you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye”, the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night.
• Israeli Police Accuse Olmert of Fraud, Widen Probe - Israeli police accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of fraud on Friday and said a probe into alleged bribe-taking had been widened to look at whether he made duplicate claims for travel expenses.
• Vice President Hagel? - Sen. Barack Obama is heading to Iraq later this month

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Gay activists were rightly that Barack Obama’s pledge to expand faith-based funding would benefit homophobic initiatives. The campaign tells Pam Spaulding, however, that Senator Obama would not tolerate such activity: “A source with Senator Obama’s campaign has now confirmed to Pam’s House Blend that under no circumstances will funds from the program will be granted to FBOs for proselytizing or reparative therapy. Under the Obama plan, MCC congregations, LGBT-welcoming Methodist and Unitarian congregations, and other affirming churches will have access to funds to do much-needed work in communities large and small of great importance — HIV/AIDS education, for instance, ...

The Evangelical movement has been undergoing a bit of an evolution. While family values once dominated their agenda, the younger generations are expanding their horizon by getting involved in the anti-war movement, cleaning up the environment and taking on more universal social responsibilities. Horrified by the 21st century and the prospect of change, more ardent evangelicals are speaking out against those damned whipper-snappers. Take, for example, Joel Belz’s recent column in World magazine: …Maybe we need to go to work and do a better job of explaining to them why we’ve put the emphasis where we have for the last ...

Recently, this writer was honored to be nominated for the Brave Nation Young Activist Award. However, I think I might have just received a distinction more prestigious. For along with my "reason-challenged" pals Pam Spaulding and Wayne Besen, I have been chosen by the oh-so-reasonable Peter LaBarbera as the 10th of the "20...good reasons why Christians (or anyone) should never feel guilty about a single-minded focus in countering the homosexual/transsexual activist and pro-abortion lobbies." Check it out: A list that really only brings one question to mind: Does this mean we're entitled to some of the big ...