NOMINAL SDA: WORDLY CONFORMISTS

NOW President Kim Gandy joined Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) at a May 12 news conference criticizing the FDA's decision to block easier access to emergency contraception. Photo by Lisa Bennett

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., stands next to President Bush as he signs the bill he sponsored. On Monday, July 24, 2006, the President signed into law:
H.R. 42, the "Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005," which prohibits restrictions on displaying the U.S. flag on certain residential property.

"The work which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity she will have to do in a terrible crisis under most discouraging, forbidding circumstances. The warnings that worldly conformity has silenced or withheld must be given under the fiercest opposition from enemies of the faith. And at that time the superficial, conservative class, whose influence has steadily retarded the progress of the work, will renounce the faith and take their stand with its avowed enemies, toward whom their sympathies have long been tending. These apostates will then manifest the most bitter enmity, doing all in their power to oppress and malign their former brethren and to excite indignation against them. This day is just before us. The members of the church will individually be tested and proved. They will be placed in circumstances where they will be forced to bear witness for the truth. Many will be called to speak before councils and in courts of justice, perhaps separately and alone. The experience which would have helped them in this emergency they have neglected to obtain, and their souls are burdened with remorse for wasted opportunities and neglected privileges." {5Testimonies 463.2}