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OnceAlwaysaMarine on Sunday, July 19, 2009 4:22:51 PM
ISRAEL ASKS FOR A KING, IS OBAMA OUR SAUL?
1Samuel 8-1- "When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges for Israel. (Vss. 3-20)-But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice. So all the elders came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have."
But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased the LORD. And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."
Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."
During the presidential campaign, I first became aware that black Christians had sold out their Christian values for the vainglory they succumbed to for the sake of having a black man (any black man) be elected President. Moreover, it soon became more alarmingly evident to me that such vanity wasn't merely limited to the average parishioners of these churches, but was supported, and even championed by their pastors. Many blacks who were loathe to look any further into who Barack Hussein Obama really was than that he was “one of us,” and claimed to be a church-going Christian, couldn’t help but begin to have sneaking suspicions, once sound clips of the goings on at Trinity United Church of God began to be made public, that something was definitely very un-Christian about the pastor of a church using the kind of radical and hateful rhetoric that Obama’s “Christian” pastor had been found to be making from the pulpit. In spite of that, and with the “blessings” of their own church leaders, these black “Christians” remained steadfast in their sycophantic support for “the black man.”
Like a swarm of angry killer bees, every so-called “leading black preacher” and politician rallied to the support of Jeremiah Wright, providing excuses and explanations for his blasphemous ranting under the cover of “the black” church and its role in the community as being unappreciated by white people. There was never any question about Wright’s claim: “GodD**n America…that’s in the Bible!” Therefore, there was nothing (according to the silence coming out of the black church) un-Christian about such hate-filled “sermonizing.” They knew what Wright was teaching and preaching was anything but Christian, but they denied it; those sitting in the pews, and those standing in the pulpits.
Black “leaders” and pundits were interviewed by the Obama media (NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS) to explain the context by which Rev. Wright should be understood as simply symbolic and typical of the best of the “Black Church Experience.”
Democrat strategist, Donna Brazile, as a panelist on ABC’s Sunday morning talk show, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, was one of the most egregious apologists for the damnable behavior of the anything-but-Christian comments and sermons of Jeremiah Wright; willingly, by her comments, throwing the entire community of African-American churches under the Obama/Wright bus. After one particular appearance of hers on a Sunday morning, I was compelled to email to her (and to post on my Townhall blog) a response to her profane statements tying ALL black Christian churches to Jeremiah Wright by claiming on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC March 16, 2008 “Wright [is] one of the more moderate black preachers.” The first paragraph of that letter: “An Open Letter to Donna Brazile” reads like this:
“To The Dishonorable Ms. Donna Brazile
That you would go on a Sunday morning talk show and sacrifice the reputation of the entire community of pastors of black American churches in a desperate attempt to save face for Barack Obama and his crazy, race-baiting, America-hating pastor, is LOWDOWN. How could you fix your mouth to tell that LIE on national television; that Jeremiah Wright is typical of the African-American church when he stands in the pulpit and curses, "God**n America"? You are a liar. I have been active in the African-American church for 48 years, and I have never heard, nor would countenance, such blasphemy coming out of the mouth of a preacher on Sunday morning and from the pulpit. Where is Jesus or the Holy Spirit amidst all this anger and hatred? Not in Trinity! Jeremiah Wright attempts to draw a parallel between America and the Rome of Jesus' day. Did Jesus curse the Romans? Did He pray for God to damn them? Or did He sacrifice His life to save all of us from the wrath of God, the Romans too?”
The Dallas Morning News ran a story on its website on March 19, 2008:
“Dallas-area black clergy defend Rev. Jeremiah Wright's message”
“The Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery commentary about America went beyond the usual political discourse but reflected long-held frustrations that African-Americans often release at churches and other social settings, local black pastors say.
Many black Dallas pastors view Mr. Wright as a longtime hero and mentor, defending his message and bridling at what they call media misrepresentation of it.
"I have preached at Trinity [Mr. Wright's church in Chicago] and he has preached here," said the Rev. Tyrone Gordon, pastor at St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas. "One thing I said to the church on this past Sunday is that a lot of us are taking it personally because it is an attack on the whole black prophetic experience.” [Unquote]
My personal response to this as a black man having been involved in the church for nearly 48 years—“…please…”
Again quoting that same article:
Mr. Obama tried to shed light on Tuesday.
"Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear," Mr. Obama said Tuesday. "The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and, yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America."
The denials continued as Barack Hussein Obama, the supporter of Infanticide, member of a racist theology, and student of godless Marxism, was ALONE given a pass to quote Scripture and cite the teachings of Christ with impunity and black Christian approval.
Mr. Obama was the only candidate in the race who was given a pass as he openly incorporated direct references to the Holy Bible scripture in his speeches and campaign appearances, including Matthew 25, and made references to the teachings of Jesus Christ on being one's "brother's keeper" and "as ye have done unto the least of these," even though both of these scriptures expose the height of his own hypocrisy as he is neither his brother's keeper [his brother being ignored by him as he lives in Kenya on $1 per month], nor is he concerned about "the least of these" [innocent live-born babies whose mothers want to screw but don't want to be "punished" with the consequences of their screwing].
Since being elected into office, Barack Hussein Obama has taken on the role of a Crusader; but against Christianity, and Christian values!! One of the first acts he signed after taking office was to rescind the ban that President George W. Bush had placed on U.S. taxpayer's money to fund overseas abortions. "The Mexico City Policy," which was instituted by Ronald Reagan and reinstated by George W. Bush after the Clinton years, banned U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding international organizations that provide or promote abortion.
The anti-life assault begins
The election of Barack Obama as president, Catholic Insight stated in a November 3, 2008 press release, would turn out to be a disaster for the advance of a pro-life culture.
On the most important cultural issue of all, the equality and dignity of all human beings before God, President Obama represents the greatest threat today. His leadership is being hailed as a sign of hope across the world and welcomed with open arms. He has a 100 per cent approval rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the U.S.'s leading pro-abortion organization. That rating is based on a record of consistently voting against the unborn.
Obama has told Planned Parenthood he regards so-called choice as "a fundamental issue" on which he will not yield. He voted against an Induced Infant Liability Act in the Illinois legislature in 2002; this would have given legal protection and medical assistance to babies born from botched abortions. He also voted against banning partial-birth abortion in the Senate in October 2007.
Inauguration
January 20, 2009 Barack Obama is sworn in as president of the United States of America. His original birth certificate is not available. He calls himself a "person of faith," without specifying what faith he means. It is not Christianity as founded by Jesus and entrusted to his Apostles.
In his inaugural address, Obama neglects to mention the American founders' emphasis on life and liberty as the first of the inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence. Five minutes after Obama becomes president, the White House website changes from pro-life to pro-abortion.
Policies
January 21 The president is at work selecting members of his staff and cabinet while Congress, where Democrats have a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, sets to work developing policies and legislation to advance the agnostic-atheist attack on the Judeo-Christian foundations of law and order.
In Congress, Obama receives assistance from numerous Catholic politicians who have scuttled Catholic moral teaching in favor of "political correctness," i.e., various aspects of modern hedonism and the culture of death. While the overriding focus of attention during the first 50 days is the economy, the bailout of banks, various "stimulus" packages and the housing credit and unemployment crises, the anti-life agenda was set in motion from the beginning.
President Barack Obama got busy striking down barriers to abortions as soon as he stepped through the doors of the White House. Here is just a small list showing how fast he started putting his agenda to work:
January 23 Obama overturns, by executive order, the Mexico City Policy of previous presidents that forbade the funding of abortions and abortion groups outside U.S. boundaries. (No TV cameras or press were present for the signing on a late Friday afternoon when news services were shut down. Hundreds of millions of dollars will go to support abortions in poor countries, especially in Asia, Africa and South America.)
- Appended to the statement announcing the end of the Mexico City Policy, Obama declared: "In addition, I look forward to working with Congress to restore U.S. financial support for the UN Population Fund." (That funding was halted in 2002 when a State Department investigation showed the Fund supported China's coercive one-child-per- family policy through forced abortions and sterilizations.)
January 27 A Congressional committee debates the Prevention First Act (PFA), which, if passed, would hand over millions for "family planning" methods, attack freedom of conscience rights for health providers and financially pave the way for the proposed Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would strip all states of the ability to restrict abortions and homosexual activism. The Prevention First Act was introduced by Senate Democrat majority leader Harry Reid (Mormon, pro-abortion) on January 6, 2009. The act claims to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortion and is based on the premise that contraception prevents abortion. (In reality, contraception is the gateway to abortion.)
- Susan Rice, Obama's new ambassador to the UN, pledges support for the convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Already, the CEDAW committee has tried to bully 93 countries into making abortion legal.
- The administrator of the USAID foreign assistance program, pro-lifer Kent Hill, is replaced with Alonzo Fulgham, the CEO of the agency, who announces that the reversal of the Mexico City Policy is being implemented immediately. Fulgham issues a formal notice informing field offices worldwide.
- The director of the UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), pro-abortion Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia), welcomes Obama's restoration of $50 million to the UNFPA's coffers and its coercive population control plans. "Access to reproductive health (a code word for contraception, sterilization and abortion) is the core of equality for women and girls," she says. The funding had been suspended since 2002.
January 29 The UN children's agency UNICEF launches its annual report, stating: "Having a child remains one of the biggest health risks for women worldwide." It recommends global financing for "family planning" and "reproductive health services" as the primary way to reduce maternal deaths. It then admits that the statistics on worldwide annual deaths are subject "to a high degree of uncertainty."
- The Democrat-led Senate, by a 59-39 vote, rejects national medical coverage in the SCHIP program for unborn children and their pregnant mothers. This, pro-life sources say, will lead to more abortions.
February 5 Obama's new group of 24 faith-based advisors includes Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Washington-based Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism, which was a sponsor of a 2004 pro-abortion march by Planned Parenthood and NARAL. Other pro-abortion members are added later.
February 6 The Senate refuses to remove a discrimination clause against the religious use of university facilities benefiting from the stimulus bill.
February 19 The federal government is drafting guidelines that will be put in place once Obama approves federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.
February 25 As feared by pro-life groups, the Omnibus Appropriations Bill cuts funding for abstinence education by $54 million, while giving more money to Planned Parenthood programs. This leaves only $95 million for national programs. This money disappears later on.
- Time magazine, in attacking opponents of the FOCA bill, is accused of many inaccuracies, non-sequiturs and misrepresentations. Time has described the bill as "mythical." Yet, Obama announced his intentions to sign such a bill in 2006, again in a July 2007 speech to Planned Parenthood and once more on January 22, 2008 on the Roe v. Wade anniversary.
February 27 The Obama administration prepares to rescind conscience rules for health care workers. Obama officials tell the Chicago Tribune that, for the Provider Conscience Law and other regulations protecting medical personnel against involvement in abortions, they are opening a 30-day public comment period, after which they will rescind the law. Pro-abortion groups have long desired to coerce all medical personnel and hospitals into providing contraception and sterilizations and committing abortions. As one writer put it, "This is a declaration of war on all who oppose the killing of the unborn."
March 4 The president has begun consulting his top defense advisors on how to lift a ban on gays serving openly in the military.
March 5 The Senate, by a 55-39 vote, rejects an amendment to stop funds from going to the United Nations Population Fund.
March 6 Obama shuts out pro-life groups from attending today's White House health care summit, called to discuss how health care reform should be implemented. Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, however, are invited to attend. Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards, called for including access to abortion in any health care reform plan.
- U.S. bishops launch e-mail campaign to "maintain widely-supported pro-life policies" and oppose FOCA (Freedom of Choice Act). It is a follow-up to the postcard campaign begun in January.
March 9 Obama eliminates eight-year-old limits on federal money for the use of embryonic stem cells for research - which kills newly conceived embryos - by presidential decree, in a room packed with scientists. "As a person of faith, I believe we are called to care for each other and work to ease human suffering," the President said, (forgetting that human embryos are killed in the process).
Nowhere in the world has embryonic stem-cell research produced a single therapy or treatment. Meanwhile, adult stem-cell research has over 70 therapies to its credit so far. The President's Executive Order also removes the HHS Secretary's duty to pursue funding for adult stem-cell research.
- This ends ability of pro-abortionists, including President Obama, to say they are "pro-choice" because they no longer allow health officials a choice to oppose or disapprove.
- The HHS administration announces the intention to abolish the "final rule" (protection of conscience for health workers opposed to abortion, contraception, IVF, etc).
It should be noted at this point, that ALL Republican-proposed amendments to protect health workers and hospitals opposed to being forced to provide abortions under a nationalized healthcare plan, being proposed for inclusion in the current $1.5 trillion dollar Obama "Healthcare Bill" being rushed through Congressional passage, have been rejected and voted down by Democrats who hold the majority, and therefore, have enough votes to kill all Republican attempts to include such protection! If this "socialized federal government-run healthcare" passes, for the 1st time in American history (and from now on) NO healthcare worker will be allowed NOT to participate in providing & performing abortions!
Summary
The facts of the first 50 days of the Obama presidency seem overwhelming. According to the 55-page pro-abortion document, "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration," $4.5 billion in federal funding will be disbursed at home and abroad to "advance reproductive rights." This document is posted on , Obama's official website for his transition team.
Obama's Steps for the First 100 Days projects the end of the Mexico City Policy, the Hyde Amendment, the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, the Weldon Amendment, restrictions on emergency contraception (Plan B), the termination of all abstinence-only programs and a reversal of the recent HHS regulation protecting pro-life physicians and institutions. By Day 50, many of these had been accomplished already. Any present obstacles to so-called abortion rights not covered by removing these restrictions, such as the ban on partial birth abortion and state laws requiring parental notification, will be covered by the passage of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) or perhaps by many acts or regulations each embodying one particular aspect.
I draw the attention especially to the coercion which is built into many of these measures. A combined United States-United Nations assault on the freedom of poor countries to determine their own domestic policies on population is already underway.
At home, the Obama regime will take on more abusive, tyrannical features as it seeks to destroy the rights of people to disagree and dissent. All along, this has been the implication of the new legislated rights to kill and to overthrow the natural moral law in family and sexual matters introduced 40 years ago.
The president and his advisors will be making some 7,000 appointments that will influence policy; they will be pro-abortion ones, said one commentator, with the exception being the ambassador to the Vatican. What resistance the Christian community will be able to offer remains to be seen.
March 10 The end of the first 50 days. Except for publicity about the new financing of stem cell research and a mention of the overturning of the Mexico City Policy, adoring liberal daily newspapers have not mentioned Obama's new Death Culture.
March 11 The Obama administration opens an e-mail address for public comments to respond to the decision to dump the Provider Conscience Clause. The e-mail window will close on April 9, after which a simple Executive Order can eliminate the protective shield against discrimination for pro-life health care personnel.
- Obama establishes a White House Council on Women and Girls and appoints pro-abortion Chicago lawyer Tina Tchen as Executive Director. Tchen served as Vice-President of NOW (National Organization for Women). The new Council will examine all federal laws to see how they affect women, especially from the point of view of feminist "rights" supporters.
March 12 The United Nations Annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting continues in New York. The US delegation (Ellen Chester) states that "sexual and reproductive health and rights" will be a priority with them from now on. Their delegation considers abortion to be part of "reproductive health," even though in the past that interpretation was voted down by the majority.
- The Obama administration publishes a proposal in the Federal Register to rescind the pro-life protections for health care personnel in it’s entirely.
- The Senate stimulus bill contains a bailout package for Planned Parenthood.
- The Democrat-led Senate rejects by a 55-39 vote an amendment to stop US taxpayer funding of the UNFPA. The UNFPA backs policies of forced abortion and sterilizations, as in China.
March 17 President Obama's first federal judicial nominee (to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals) is pro-abortion US district Judge David Hamilton. The President is also bringing back the judicial reviews of the American Bar Association whose members regularly take a pro-abortion stand.
March 24 All during these weeks the media's entire attention is drawn to the President's economic measures running into the trillions of dollars. Barely a word about the "other" cultural agenda filters through in the media.
March 26 A mandatory national (Obama) youth corps is called for in GIVE (Generations Immigrating Volunteerism and Education Act - H.R. 1388) passed by the House (321-105) and by Senate (79-19). Note: In the USA, classroom indoctrination is now found in "Hate" and "Sexual diversity" training in 3, 500 units by Lesbian Straight Education Network (GSLEN).
March 27 In Mexico Hillary Clinton states that emphasizing and promoting abortion is a key issue in President Obama's foreign policy from now on. Clinton received the Margaret Sanger award from the abortionist Planned Parenthood group, two days after she visited the Catholic Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Mexico.
March 28 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Dem) approves of including abortion in national health plan.
March 30 House of Representatives, with only eight nay votes, passed Bill H.R. 20 (S 304). It requires all new mothers, their spouses and children, to be evaluated for post-partum depression. This Mother's Act seeks to re-classify the natural process of pregnancy and birth as a mental disorder requiring psychiatric treatment and medication. The bill is promoted by the pharmacy industry.
- Another new bill introduced is the Prevention First Act (H.R. 463), promoted by Louise Slaughter (D., Rochester N.Y.). It requires all hospitals receiving federal funds to provide "emergency contraception," and all insurance plans to provide coverage for contraception.
- State Department's new top legal advisor is Harold Koh, pro-abortionist, until now Yale Law School Dean; "trans nationalist," i.e., he believes that American law and values must give way to current international trends, as they do in Europe. For example, Sharia law should apply in America. This office shapes foreign policy in the Courts and in international treaties. He is also Obama's first choice to fill an opening in the Supreme Court.
April 2 An amendment to keep the rights of conscience and protections for health care providers was defeated in the Senate, 56-41. Sixteen Catholic Senators (out of 25) voted against it, despite appeals by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the US Bishops Conference, and Rockville Bishop William Murphy to support it.
- These individuals included: Mark Begich (D., Alaska), Chris Dodd (D., Conn.), Ted Kaufman (D., Del.), Richard Durbin(D., Ill.), Tom Harkin (D., Iowa), Mary Landrieu (D., La), Susan Collins (R., Maine), Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.), John Kerry(D., Mass.), Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.), Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), Kristen Gillibrand (D., N.J.), Jack Reed (D., R.I.), Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), and Patty Murray (D., Wash.).
- The nine Catholic senators who voted for the amendment were: Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska), Mel Martinez (R., Fla.), Jim Risch (R., Idaho), Sam Brownback (R., Kansas), Jim Bunning (R., Ky.), Dave Vitter (R., La.), Mike Johanns (R., Neb.), George Voinovich (R., Ohio), and Robert Casey (D., Pa.).
- The Obama administration is now free to repeal the protections by Executive Order.
- Nina Fedoroff, advisor to Hillary Clinton, claims the world faces overpopulation.
April 7 President Obama, speaking in Turkey: "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation." He also stated: "We convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world-including in my own country." Comment by George Neumayr: Obama expresses his deep sympathy for Islam and his rejection of Christianity. His enemy is not Islam abroad but Christianity at home.
April 8 Vatican informally rejects three suggested Obama ambassadors over their pro-abortion views. Vatican denies all. Insiders give names such as Prof Kmiec and Caroline Kennedy.
April 9 Time for objecting to the overthrow of Provider Conscience Regulation ends. A national poll of Americans finds a strong majority (87%) want to keep protections in place. 340, 000 people had sent e-mails.
- President Obama has nominated pro-abortion Ron Welch as Assistant Attorney-General for legislative affairs. He will also participate in the Senate confirmation process for federal judges and US attorneys.
- The President signs executive order for embryonic stem-cell research under the slogan "science should triumph ideology."
April 14 Pro-life advocates try to derail the Senate confirmation of Governor Kathleen Sebelius as HHS Secretary because of her strong support for abortion, including late term abortions (she is later confirmed..
April 15 The Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security (Secretary Janet Napolitano), issues nine-page report, which registers the pro-life movement among "right-wing extremism in the Unites States." Those concerned call the document "outrageous," describing the tying of conservatives and opponents of abortion to foreign terrorists as a radical deceit.
April 16 Mexico City. Speaking on protecting the so-called right of women to choose abortion, President Obama stated:"…[W]e must work to find common ground to expand access to affordable contraception, accurate health information and prevention services."
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates states that the Obama administration will move cautiously in shifting policies to accepting homosexual activists serving in the military.
April 17 HHS Secretary Janet Napolitano apologizes for footnote tying opponents of abortion to terrorists. Pro-lifers are angry about this smear tactic tried earlier in the State of Missouri.
- The media remain exclusively concerned with: economic bailouts, credit cards, President Obama's foreign policy (reaching out to Cuba, Venezuela), CIA policies, the use of torture, Bank of America's underhandedness, and automobile rescues and management.
April 22 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will not appeal the ruling of federal judge Edward Korman that the MAP (Morning After Pill) be made available to 17-year-olds without prescription.
April 23 Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton admits before the House Foreign Relations Committee that as far as the new government is concerned, the term "reproductive health" includes abortion. "The Obama government will promote abortions overseas." "We are now an Administration that will protect the rights of women," she also added: "The 20thCentury reproductive rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race." (Note: Margaret Sanger was a radical eugenicist and racist of the 1920's and the 1930's who lived and worked in New York City and promoted abortion as a means of controlling the population of black babies being born in America through Planned Parenthood).
- The Administration's new International Ambassador, Melanne Verveer, White House Director for Foreign Women's issues, confirmed President Obama's commitment to population control as outlined, she claimed, at the UN Population Conference in Cairo 15 years ago.
April 29 The President urges Congress to pass federal "hate crimes" legislation (H.R. 1913) "to protect citizens from violent acts of intolerance." The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of 2009 grants the federal government authority to punish crimes that appear to be motivated by "hatred" of a person's sexual orientation. H.R. 1913 "serves only to punish individuals for the beliefs, opinions or convictions held at the time an act is committed" (Liberty University law professor Shawn Akers). " As such H.R. 1913 does not punish criminal intent, but criminalizes thought." The House approved H.R. 1913 and voted 249-175 for the inclusion of sexual orientation as a protected right. Here, as in other countries, no definition of sexual orientation is provided. (This bill, by the way, is currently being introduced for passage by Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid.) If passed, this law will open the door for pastors, and others, to be arrested and charged with "hate crimes" for preaching against homosexuality.
April 30 Abortion advocate Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL, "celebrates" the end of the first 100 days of the Obama Administration as a "milestone in these challenging times."
- Freedom of speech, thought and religion are now under attack. False "rights" are about to triumph. The Culture of Death is seeking to destroy the Culture of Life. In this it will fail because of the secret power on the side of Life, which will conquer even despite the mass apostasy of its Protestant and Catholic Christian followers.
Sources: Americans for Truth; the American Life League; the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute; the Culture of Life Foundation; LifeNews.com; LifeSiteNews.com; the National Post; the Population Research Institute; Time; United Families.org; The Wanderer; WorldNetDaily.com, Zenit.org.
Father Alphonse de Valk is a historian by profession and presently the editor of Catholic Insight magazine.
On another key issue, the integrity of the traditional American family, in 2004 Obama called the Defense of Marriage Act an "abhorrent law" and added: "The repeal of DOMA is essential ... For the record, I opposed DOMA in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from 'marrying.'"
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Senate Democrats announced on Monday that the Senate would consider a homosexual "hate crimes" proposal as an attached amendment to the annual defense authorization bill, and will likely vote on the bill tomorrow.
In addition to adding "sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability" to the list of federally-protected classes, S.909, also known as the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also expands the reach of hate crimes law by eliminating the restriction that such crimes disrupt federally protected activities.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Monday he would introduce S.909 as a bipartisan amendment to the defense authorization measure, thereby easing passage of the hotly debated bill.
Last year the Senate approved hate crimes legislation also as part of the military bill, but it was never reconciled with a similar House-passed bill, and met with opposition from the Bush White House. However, Obama expressed support for the legislation in April, urging the House to quickly pass its version.
Critics have warned that the bill is bound to chill religious free speech against homosexuality, saying that similar laws in other countries have facilitated the prosecution of Christians who criticize homosexuality, particularly in Canada and the U.K.
In his every action as President, Barack Hussein Obama has rejected and undermined Christian values and their influence and authority in America, since being elected. He even went so far in his most recent speech to Muslims to state that "America can be considered to be one to the largest Muslim countries in the world." This, after making the earlier statement that, "America is not a Christian nation..."
He is the only President in American history that has bowed to a Saudi king and kissed his hand; and when he refers to the Quran he calls it "The Holy Quran."
May 7, 2009-National Prayer Day. Every President has been a part of this day since 1952. But yet this year Obama was not a part of this.
"We are disappointed in the lack of participation by the Obama administration," Shirley Dobson, chairwoman of the National Day of Prayer Committee, said in a statement. "At this time in our country's history, we would hope our president would recognize more fully the importance of prayer."
Some evangelicals said they were not surprised by Mr. Obama's decision.
"For those of us who have our doubts about Obama's faith, no, we did not expect him to have the service," said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America. "But as president, he should put his own lack of faith aside and live up to the office."
Referencing a remark the president made at a recent press conference in Turkey that Americans "do not consider ourselves a Christian nation," she added: "That was projecting his own beliefs, but not reflecting what the majority of Americans feel. It's almost like Obama is trying to remake America into his own image. This is not a rejection of Shirley Dobson; it's a rejection of the concept that America is a spiritual nation and its foundation is Judeo-Christian."
This is complete lack of respect by the President. He can take time out of his day to go eat a burger on air so we know if he likes ketchup or mustard(who cares) but yet he can't be a part of AMERICAN TRADITION. In fact, Barack Obama has proven nothing but complete disdain for this country and it's values since day one. I, personally, cannot recall his having said one good thing about America. In every one of his overseas speeches he disparages American contributions and apologizes for what he perceives as it's injustices. It has come to be somewhat expected every time he speaks in a foreign country, especially those that are either Islamic or Communist.
Yet even today, black Christian pastors and their congregants are determined to ignore all of this. Some black churches have even gone so far as to erect "altars" to Barack Hussein Obama on their church bulletin boards. One can hardly step foot into a black church without seeing some display of Obama-worship; photographs, newspaper clippings, and such posted on the walls of the church.
Even now, black pastors and their members pretend to not see what is happening, and the war that is being waged against Christians, right here in this country, and that it is being led by none other than Barack Hussein Obama himself. And since there is no outcry from among the heathens who run the media in this country; all the reporting being geared towards aiding Obama and the Democrat agenda to completely "remake' this country into something more resembling of Sodom and Gomorrah than the God-fearing country it once was, they continue to pretend not to see. They fear the wrath that will come from their criticizing the black "Saul" Obama, more than they fear the wrath of God for the sin of omission they are guilty of for not speaking out against his anti-Christian policies. So they go along, to get along.
Those who have no respect for either the authority of the Holy Bible, or the great preachers that preach it, have no problem with its messages being bastardized and usurped by one who is intent on distorting its message to fit their reprobate culture of death and homosexuality being elevated to a respectable lifestyle deserving of “marriage rights”…
...and their Mainstream Media leg-tingling Fifth Column is all-too-eager to promote this blasphemy; turning a blind eye and a gleeful accommodation to the destruction of all things we as Christians hold sacred.
... But for black people who have read the Bible, understand the commandments of God, and have called themselves devoted Christians for their entire adult lives, there is no excuse that stands up to the scrutiny of God's words, and that does not expose their hypocrisy at remaining silent on these issues.
Despite all of the evidence about the true character of this “black man” that contradicted all that the Word of God makes clear, and instead of living their Christian principles when it meant the most, many black pastors and the members of their congregations failed to side with Christ when they put all their faith in a man and made Barack Hussein Obama (because of his being a “black man”) their Golden Calf—their Saul—their graven image.
And as he continues now to show his true colors, some of these same black pastors and the members of their congregations are coming to awaken to the awful and damning truth that in supporting this apostate politician, they supported to assuage the lusts of their personal and carnal banality, they, indeed, allowed color and racial vanity to trump their pretense of following the principles of Christianity.
But to look at some of their faces today, one can see the guilt and shame that some of them are now feeling as we all witness the destruction he is wreaking upon this nation, and the outright contempt he has for all Christian Americans; not just white ones. I can see it in their eyes. They know that the Truth of God’s Word was speaking out against him and exposing him all along the way.
"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness..."--Romans 1:18