CAP: Condoms and Corsages in Bisbee!

In this issue:
	(1) Condoms and Corsages in Bisbee (2) Religious Freedom Squelched in NM (3) Making Our Days Count (4) Legislative News

(1) Condoms and Corsages in Bisbee

This year, the prom at Bisbee High School had a new theme: condoms. That's right - the Bisbee school board voted to give each student attending prom two condoms. Young people respond to expectations. If they didn't, why would we bother with high school in the first place? And now it's clear that the Bisbee school board expects students to be sexually active on prom night. This decision tells high school students that prom night is about recreational sex! Everyday young men and women struggle to make responsible decisions in a sex-saturated culture. They don't need elected officials - who should know better - telling them that condoms are as much a part of prom night as corsages. Click here to learn more about this outrageous decision by the Bisbee school board.

(2) Religious Freedom Squelched in NM

The New Mexico Civil Rights Commission ruled this week that Christian photographers do not have the right to apply their sincerely-held religious beliefs to their business. The photographers declined a request to take pictures at a same-sex "commitment ceremony" because of the ceremony's conflict with their religious beliefs. The same-sex couple complained to the commission that they were "discriminated" against on the basis of their sexual orientation in violation of the state's antidiscrimination laws. Our friends at the Alliance Defense Fund will be appealing the commission's decision in state court. This incident is a prime example of how religious beliefs can lose out to state antidiscrimination laws when those laws are broadened to include behavior-based groups like "sexual orientation."

(3) Making Our Days Count

If you are not one of the hundreds of concerned Arizonians coming to Making Our Days Count with Tony Snow on April 29 at the Arizona Grand Resort, it's not too late! Sign up now! Sponsorships are still available, and dinner tickets are only $75 each. Click here for full details.

(4) Legislative News

You can tell how busy our week was by the breaking news updates and action alerts we sent out! Also this week, the Senate Health Committee passed HB 2823, Jesse's Law, by a vo te of 4-2. The bill remedies some of the problems encountered by Jesse Ramirez and his family when Jesse's feeding tube was removed prematurely after a serious car accident. Thankfully, Jesse is recovering, and you can wa tch the video of his sister Marlene telling his story to the committee (make sure you click on "HB 2823" at the bottom of the list to go straight to the bill). I encourage you to take a minute and wa tch the video of Senator Linda Gray's moving testimony on the partial-birth abortion bill, in which she testified that adults should never try to justify the killing of defenseless newborns. Please continue to pray for both the partial-birth abortion ban and the marriage amendment as these new bills move through the process.