It’s A Wonderful Life

            Thanks, David Pardue, for chastising me for not sharing a story yesterday! I hope you want mind, but today I am actually going to repeat a story I passed along a couple of months ago.

            As all of you know, Steven Jobs tragically lost his battle to cancer (and its complications) yesterday. The first computer I was blessed with was a brand new MacPlus that the Austin Avenue Church bought for my Argentina work back in 1989. I loved that computer. Since then, I, along with virtually everyone else on the planet, have been positively impacted by Jobs’ genius.

            However, were it not for one decision, this would have never happened. In an IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE sort of way, I want you to imagine… what if?             Here’s the story I told back in August, which I have seen confirmed many times since:

            I read in the Tyler paper this morning something interesting. Star Parker wrote about an unwed mother, a college student, who decided to put her child up for adoption. The year was 1955—pre-Roe v Wade.

            You know her son today—his name is Steven Jobs.

            I think today we are all grateful to that young mother.

Freedom from Porn

Blogger Ryan Tate had a bone to pick with Apple CEO Steven Jobs. As WORLD MAGAZINE reported, Jobs had declared that he believed users of Apple products such as the iPhone and the iPad should be free from pornography.  Consequently, he pledged that Apple will diligently remove any app that contains explicit material.

This news irritated Tate, and he let Jobs know how he felt. Tate expressed belief that Jobs was anti-freedom and that Tate did not want “freedom from porn.”

Jobs responded in kind with a brief lecture. “You might care more about porn when you have kids.” Later, to another writer, Jobs wrote that his company carried a “moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.”

There were more critics who refused to be enamored with Apple’s decision. THE NEW YORK TIMES claimed that this move would cost Apple business, reducing their market share. This may prove to be true; however, MICROSOFT notably has announced that their new WINDOWS 7 mobile software will not permit software that “a reasonable person would consider to be adult or borderline adult.”

I take heart that these companies are taking bold stands against morally dangerous material. While I understand that God wants to change the human heart, I do not take for granted the blessing of living in a place where people self-regulate against moral pollution.