The business is only one week old, but already it's drawing protests in Vacaville. In fact, those against the new Secrets Boutique lingerie shop are videotaping customers going in and out of the store, then plan to put that tape up on the Internet. Holding a sign saying "Smile, You're on YouTube," protestors have a small camera set up and have been gathering in front of the store on East Monte Vista Avenue since it opened on the frontage road of Interstate 80 just west of the Nut Tree.
News 10 ReportWall Street Journal debate on “panty hose”; many managers asking that they be worn during work hours as regular dress attire. Required to wear panty hose at the Mid-American Insurance Company (President Jim Holt) Panty Hose in Kansas. Have dress codes really changed so that woman can work in the office without panty hose? What if you office manager made a ‘dress code’ requirement for panty hose? Is it like requiring a neck tie for men? The reason for woman to not wear is they are “too hot” and they “itch”. Men talk the same about neck ties; they are too hot and they are uncomfortable. The article was in the Wall Street Journal and today’s “Good Morning America”. Are bare legs too racy to wear to the office?
A well-connected authority in the evangelical world said in an interview this week that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama could get up to 40 percent of the evangelical vote. The fascination with the charismatic Illinois senator combined with evangelicals’ effort to not be seen as an appendage of the Republican Party could swing evangelical voters in Obama’s favor, predicted Mark DeMoss – a prominent public relations executive whose clients include Focus on the Family, Franklin Graham, and Campus Crusade for Christ – to Beliefnet.com. “I will not be surprised if he gets one third of the evangelical vote,” DeMoss said in the interview. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 40 percent.”
Christian Post ArticleA new report issued by the
American Textbook Council says books approved for use in local school districts for teaching middle and high school students about Islam caved in to political correctness and dumbed down the topic at a critical moment in its history."Textbook editors try to avoid any subject that could turn into a political grenade," wrote
Gilbert Sewall, director of the council, who railed against five popular history texts for "adjust[ing] the definition of jihad or sharia or remov[ing] these words from lessons to avoid inconvenient truths." Examiner NewspaperAn analysis of cohabitation, marriage and divorce data from 13 countries, including the USA, shows that living together has become so mainstream that growing numbers of Americans view it as an alternative to marriage. The National Marriage Project study of a sampling of Western European and Scandinavian nations, Australia, Canada and New Zealand found that cohabitation elsewhere is far more common and indeed viewed as an option to matrimony. The study found that anywhere from 15% to 30% of all couples identified themselves as living together, compared with about 10% right now in the USA.
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