A brand new country music star, Matt Kennon, has made headlines with hit single, “The Call.” CountryMusic Television played the music video for “The Call,” which is now making its way across the nation via the Internet.
Playing his guitar, Kennon sings about the lives of two individuals that would have ended very differently way if a phone call had not been made at the time of great need.
The first is a young, despairing Marine at the point of reaching for his gun to commit suicide. His cell phone rings. It is a friend, asking him to join in a motorboat outing. The girl the Marine likes will be there and she is excited to learn that he might join the fun. He changes his mind about suicide and joins the outing.
The second is the story of two 18-year-olds who “had let a kiss go too far” in the backseat of a car. The young man pressures his girlfriend into scheduling an abortion. As she sits weeping in the “clinic,” her phone rings. Her boyfriend asks her not to have the abortion; tells her he’s bought a ring and wants to marry her. Kennon’s own birth mother planned to abort him, but her doctor said she was two weeks past the legal limit. His birth father never intervened – and actually tried to sell Kennon on the adoption black market for $10,000. Kennon considers his adoptive parents to be his real parents; that he has been very blessed from the day they welcomed him into their lives. He grew up playing drums and singing at Bethel Christian Church in
Conyers, Georgia.
Hear the song and see the video at CMT or check it out here: You’ll be glad you did!
(H/T to Peter Smith of LifeSiteNews: New Country Music Star Born As Pro-Life Ballad Climbs the Charts)
What you SHOULD Know About Jack
Am sharing with you Wesley J. Smith’s recent comments on what you can expect NOT to know about Jack Kevorkian after viewing HBO’s film You Don’t Know Jack. Mr. Smith is a lawyer, associate director of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and author of the well-known blog Secondhand Smoke.
[I’ve added my own comments, in red bolded type.]
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I have embedded the trailer for the upcoming puff HBO bio of the murderer Jack Kevorkian, entitled, You Don’t Know Jack, at the bottom of this post. Before viewing it, take a look at a few of the key aspects of Kevorkian’s “career” that I have listed below. Anyone want to bet whether the movie will bring these facts up?
1. Before assisting the suicides of disabled, terminally ill, and the non sick despairing, Kevorkian went to most prisons where executions are conducted asking to experiment on condemned prisoners. […because these prisoners have no intrinsic value, or are less than human?]
2. He never limited his killing practice to people with terminal illnesses. About 70% were disabled. Five of Kevorkian’s patients were not sick upon autopsy. [Note that an autopsy cannot diagnose depression or other mental illness.]
3. Kevorkian took the kidneys from one assisted suicide victim–a man with quadriplegia–and held a press conference offering them “first come, first served.” [What does this say about the motives for assisting in suicide in cases where organs are later harvested?]
4. Janet Good (played by Susan Sarandon), conspired with Kevorkian in his reign of lawlessness, even planning to help kill a patient and then, with Kevorkian, rush the cadaver into a hospital, so organs could be procured. (They never carried out the plan). She committed assisted suicide and her autopsy showed that her pancreatic cancer was not near the terminal stage.
5. Kevorkian did not care much about alleviating the suffering of patients, (he once said he couldn’t remember their names) but rather called it “a first step, an early distasteful professional obligation” toward obtaining a license to engage in human experimentation, writing further:
What I find most satisfying is the prospect of making possible the performance of invaluable experiments or other beneficial acts under conditions that this first unpleasant step can help establish–in a word, obitiatry–as defined earlier.” [Kevorkian liked to coin terms. Obitiatry is the word he invented to describe experimenting on people as part of the practice of human euthanasia.) [Kevorkian treated his victims like LAB RATS. Where‘s PETA when you need ‘em?]
6. Kevorkian wanted to experiment on the brains and nervous systems of people he was euthanizing, writing in his 1991 book Prescription Medicide:
If we are ever to penetrate the mystery of death–even superficially–it will have to be through obitiatry…But knowledge about the essence of human death will of necessity require insight into the nature of the unique awareness of consciousness that characterizes cognitive human life. That is possible only through obitiatric research on living human bodies, and most likely by concentrating on the central nervous system [He clearly wasn‘t interested in the victims‘ human dignity, or in the dignity of their passing.]
Jack Kevorkian is a dangerous nut who should be shunned, not celebrated. But you won’t see any of this in the movie, because HBO, the producers, and Pacino don’t know Jack. And the worst part is that they–and the popular media generally–don’t want to know Jack. They have a story they want to tell and facts would just get in the way.
[And they want to push the idea that people have a right to die when they so please. But our lives are given us by our Creator, who knows best when our lives should end.]