The makeup of a society is a group of people with common territory, interaction, culture and infrastructure.  Culture is the complexity of religion, knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, morals and customs.  One of the key platforms that affect and mold culture in any given society is media.  In modern society television, newspapers, radio, magazines, movies, advertising and social media have become the major sources of information and education. They also are powerful forces of cultural transmission and socialization.  Some may debate that mass media plays a central role in social construction.  Regardless, media is a powerful instrument to inject vision, direction, ideology and even propaganda into a nation.  It would be safe to conclude that whoever controls “mass media” controls cultural mindset and beliefs. 

The last prayer Jesus Christ uttered before He was arrested and sent to the cross was that we would be united for the cause of sharing the good news that He is the Son of God.  Jesus prayed in John 17:20-21 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.”  When believers focus on preaching the Gospel, great things happen.  When we recognize that we are all made wonderfully different but with one cause, to lead people to an eternity with God, petty differences become less important as we fix our eyes on “the mark, the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus”.

WASHINGTON, December 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After losing at a lower court, a counseling student at a public university in Georgia who was threatened with expulsion because she express discomfort with counseling homosexuals, is pleading her case before an Appeals Court this week.

 A legal complaint filed on behalf of Jennifer Keeton accuses Augusta State University of placing Keeton on academic probation after she refused to comply with faculty instructions that she must, in their words, “alter her beliefs” on homosexuality and “gender identity.”

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is representing her. The ADF’s media office told LifeSiteNews.com the court had placed a gag order on the case, forbidding either side to discuss the proceedings.

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