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UK POLICE TARGET SCHOOLCHILDREN AS YOUNG AS FOUR WITH TAX PAYER FUNDED, TRANSGENDER PROPAGANDA

by LIAM DEACON21 Aug 2015884

(Read below for USA examples) Police and local government agencies in the United Kingdom are distributing a “pioneering” document for “empowering teachers to encourage and support” transgenderism in schools at the “earliest stages” after a four-year-old child identified as transgender.

The “School Transgender Guidance” document has been distributed to all schools in the Cornwall area, and been named as “best practice” by the UK government’s Department of Education. It says transgenderism can potentially be identified in those as young as two, and discusses powerful, irreversible and controversial treatments for prepubescent children.   MORE

Do you know your legal rights for the upcoming school year?

August 21, 2015

 

Dear Friends,

With a new school year already underway for many of us, and just about to start for others, I wanted to make sure you were aware of the resources and help that are available from PJI.  (This would also be a great e-mail to forward to your youth pastor, friends who are educators, friends with kids, and just about anyone else!) 

Students have always been one of our top priorities at PJI, so it’s hard to fit all of our resources and recent successes into one e-mail.  Here’s a quick list of what you need to know going into the school year:

• This past school year, PJI won two significant federal lawsuits on behalf of student evangelists.  This means students should feel more confident than ever to share their faith on campus and invite their friends to church!  Click here for more details and video about these cases.
   
• Our two major resources for students, parents and teachers are now fully online!  You can visit our website and download my book, Reclaim Your School, and our shorter booklet on students’ rights, completely free of charge. I’m humbled to say that these two resources have helped countless families and even led to the creation of new student ministries.  Make sure you’re as informed as you can be!

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Top Ten Things Parents Hate About Common Core

From The Federalist.com By Joy Pullmann  SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is the year new national Common Core tests kick in, replacing state tests in most locales, courtesy of an eager Obama administration and the future generation’s tax dollars. It’s also the first year a majority of people interviewed tell pollsters they’ve actually heard of Common Core, four years after bureaucrats signed our kids onto this complete overhaul of U.S. education.

Common Core has impressed everyone from Bill Gates to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. So why do 62 percent of parents think it’s a bad idea? For one, they can count. But their kids can’t.

1. The Senseless, Infuriating Math

Common Core math, how do we hate thee? We would count the ways, if Common Core hadn’t deformed even the most elementary of our math abilities so that simple addition now takes dots, dashes, boxes, hashmarks, and foam cubes, plus an inordinate amount of time, to not get the right answer.

There are so many examples of this, it’s hard to pick, but a recent one boomeranging the Internet has a teacher showing how to solve 9 + 6 the Common Core way. Yes, it takes nearly a minute.

Despite claims to the contrary, Common Core does require bad math like this. The Brookings Institution’s Tom Loveless says the curriculum mandates contain “dog whistles” for fuzzy math proponents, the people who keep pushing ineffective, devastating, and research-decimated math instruction on U.S. kids for ideological reasons. The mandates also explicitly require kids to learn the least efficient ways of solving basic problems one, two, and even three grade levels before they are to learn the traditional, efficient ways. There are ways for teachers to fill in the gaps and fix this, but this means a kid’s ability to get good math instruction depends on the luck of having an extra-savvy teacher. That’s especially a downer for poor and minority kids, who already get the greenest and lowest-quality teachers.

2. The Lies

The American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess recently wrote about Common Core’s “half-truths,” which Greg Forster pointedly demonstrated he should have called “lies.” These include talking points essential to selling governors and other state leaders on the project, such as that Common Core is: “internationally benchmarked” (“well, we sorta looked at what other nations do but that didn’t necessarily change anything we did”); “evidence based” (“we know there is not enough research to undergird any standards, so we just polled some people and that’s our evidence“); “college- and career-ready” (“only if you mean community-college ready“); “rigorous” (as long as rigorous indicates “rigid”); and “high-performing nations nationalize education” (so do low-performing nations).

3. Obliterating Parent Rights

Common Core has revealed the contempt public “servants” have for the people they are supposedly ruled by—that’d be you and me. Indiana firebrand Heather Crossin, a mom whose encounter with Common Core math turned her into a nationally known activist, went with other parents to their private-school principal in an attempt to get their school’s new Common Core textbooks replaced. “Our principal in frustration threw up his hands and said, ‘Look, I know parents don’t like this type of math because none of us were taught this way, but we have to teach it this way because this is how it’s going to be on the new [standardized] assessment,” she says. “And that was the moment when I realized control of what was being taught in my child’s classroom — in a parochial Catholic school  —  had not only left the building, it had left the state of Indiana.”

Go HERE to read the rest of the story.

Immigration

The following has been presented to over 100 Hispanics from Dreamers (under 21) to those that are adults and has been well received. 

First I agree with the many who quote 30 to 40 million as the number of illegal immigrants.  Pew says 11 million, and CAPS says 20 to 38 million. Second I believe that Obama's main way to transform America is by allowing a flood of immigrants not only from Latin America but from Muslim Countries where he is allowing millions of Muslims but NO Christians come into our country.  Also millions have come in via tourist visas and just never left.  Google it yourself, don't shoot the messenger.  Before I would even start the proposals below I would stop all immigration with a one to three year moratorium. And what I am proposing will need refinement but these are the basic components. 

There are also several presuppositions that we must consider.  As a country we have not enforced our immigration laws.  We can not just blame the government for the past 35 years but we also have to blame we the people who elected the government.  So in a way we are all guilty.  We have never built the proverbial wall.  Remember China has a 13,000 mile wall started in the 7th Century BC.  Surely we could build a little old wall 1,933 miles.  So bottom line we, everyone here in the United States are responsible for the massive influx of illegal immigrants, because we elected the government and did not demand that they act.  Thus we bear some moral responsibility because of our lack of action not to mention just basic human moral responsibility.  Because of our inaction we have created an environment where many of these people have come here with a tacit understanding that they will not be deported because of our current policies.  Yes it has gotten far worse under Obama but this has taken place for the past 35 years. 

Second, it would be a humanitarian disaster to send all of these people back to their home country, especially considering that up to one-third of the children do not even speak Spanish.  It would be a humanitarian disaster akin to the Cherokee trail of tears.  It is also just plain un-Christian.  We have to take responsibility but fix the problem. 

Now what to do?  First, I would build the frik**en wall.  While building I would station enough troops and security on the border that illegal immigration would drop to near zero and I would beef up our tracking of people that come in with visas and deport those that overstay their visas.  Second, I would immediately make every illegal immigrant that wants to have any hope of staying here in the United States, register, and get a temporary residential card.  We would also give different status based on the amount of time you have lived in this country.  For example, if you have lived here over 8 years and are paying taxes then you get a permanent residential card.  If you have lived here 8 years or more then I would change one law, and that is if you have one of the new temporary residential cards you can apply for citizenship just like anyone else, with the exception that you do not have to leave the country to do so.  You would also get in line behind every single person that has applied legally up to this point.  I would fortify the citizenship test to teach even more civics and the reason why American culture is better than the one they fled from. (or else they would not have come here illegally.)  And they must pass an English language test.  If you have lived here 8 years or less then we will have to have evaluate your situation on a case by case basis.  I would also promote voter id nationwide so that only US citizens vote.  For practical reasons we may have to divide this up into shorter time periods with increasing criteria just because of the number of people.  

Overall and in parallel with this I would implement a workfare program much like Clinton (yes, I actually like a few things he did) where there is job training and a set time to get off of welfare.  I would also make every single welfare recipient prove that they are American Citizens, or that they have the temporary residential card mentioned a above. 

Next, I would deport every single convicted felon that is an illegal immigrant.  I would then look at all recent illegal arrivals, starting with today and going back 8 years, and if they are on our welfare system I would make sure they are on the workfare program and if they do not get off of welfare then I would provide them free air fare back to their home country.

Of course there may be many changes and refinements to this proposal.  But overall these are the kinds of practical solutions that I believe are humane, fair, and that will protect the future of America.   

 

Obama Deserves Impeachment Over the Iran Deal

 

By Andrew C. McCarthy

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/421600/print

By lying and withholding information about the agreement, he gives aid and comfort to America’s enemy.

The president “must certainly be punishable for giving false information to the Senate.”

One can imagine hearing such counsel from a contemporary United States senator on the receiving end of President Obama’s “full disclosure” of the nuclear deal with Iran. But the admonition actually came from James Iredell, a champion of the Constitution’s ratification, who was later appointed to the Supreme Court by President George Washington.

Iredell was addressing the obligations the new Constitution imposed on the president in the arena of international affairs. Notwithstanding the chief executive’s broad powers to “regulate all intercourse with foreign powers,” it would be the president’s “duty to impart to the Senate every material intelligence he receives.” Indeed, among the most egregious offenses a president could commit would be fraudulently inducing senators “to enter into measures injurious to their country, and which they would not have consented to had the true state of things been disclosed to them.”

A little over a year ago, I recounted Iredell’s cautionary words in Faithless Execution. They echo an instructive illustration offered by James Madison, the Constitution’s principal author: If the president were “to commit any thing so atrocious” as to fraudulently rig Senate approval of an international agreement, he would “be impeached and convicted.”

Is the Iran Deal the Worst Political Blunder of All Time?

Interestingly, the perfidy in Madison’s hypothetical involved summoning into session only senators favorably disposed toward a formal treaty that the president wanted approved. That was more plausible in the late 18th century: Under the Constitution, a treaty may be approved by “two thirds of the senators present” for the vote; and back then, senators coming from far and wide could not fly to the nation’s capital at the drop of a hat.

The hypothetical is telling as we consider Obama’s Iran deal. The Constitution makes treason a ground for impeachment, but it seems to have been outside Madison’s contemplation that a president would actually be so insidious as to use his foreign-affairs power to give aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States. On that score, note that as soon as Obama’s deal was announced, not only was Iran’s foreign minister vowing to continue funding jihadist terror; the regime’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was also extolling the continued Iranian call for “Death to America.”

Obama’s Iran Deal Is the Opposite of What He Promised the American People

Madison could not fathom a president who undermines the Constitution’s treaty requirements by the ruse of labeling a treaty an “agreement” or a “joint plan of action.” Still less could he imagine a president who resorts to chicanery in communicating the terms of an international agreement to the Congress. Such duplicity must have seemed inconceivable.

Christians Are Financing Their Own Destruction

(How the Church is losing the Culture)

Until the Pastor speaks out from the pulpit on the Biblical principles on the events and issues of the day we will lose our country and our children to those that do not fear God.

• The War of Independence would not have happened without the First Great Awakening. [1]
• The British targeted the Black Regiment preachers (Called that because of their black robes.) as a danger to the tyranny of British rule because they were preaching, based on Biblical principles, on the events and issues of the time, taxes, education, laws, public policy, good government and the military.[2] (Please go to these sites in the footnote and listen to the short video and read the information provided.)

If those preachers in the 1700s had not preached, from the Bible, from the pulpit, the Biblical principles relating to the issues of the day we would still be under tyranny.  Without preachers preaching doing the same today we will soon be under tyranny.  

[This article is not supporting Dominion Theology but merely that we need to be Salt and Light. Politics and current issues and candidates should not dominate the pulpit but should certainly not be avoided.]

Evangelical Christians have a huge problem they pay 30% to 40% of their income in taxes to others that undermine their own values and beliefs.  75% do not vote or vote against Christian principles and as a result billions of their tax dollars are directed by politicians into many programs but especially education programs that indoctrinate their children against their own values.[3]   And the pastors are silent.  Billions of tax dollars also go into public subsidies for Hollywood for TV and Movies in the form of tax incentives to promote promiscuity and homosexuality as normal lifestyle choices.  Between just these two of many areas, count up the number of hours your children spend in school and watching TV and movies.  And the pastors are silent.  Your children go to church for 1 to 3 hours a week yet they attend school, TV and movies on average 70 hours a week.  If you Tithe you give 10% to church and if you pay taxes you can be paying up to 40% in taxes to a government that you did not vote for.   And without your participation in the political process that money is spent to undermine your values rather than reinforce them.    And the people and the Pastors are silent.  "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray.." Jer_50:6 (NKJV)

Who are the rulers and Kings of America?

 “We the people” are the kings (the authority - I Tim 2:2) and rulers of the United States of America according to the Constitution.   The power of America comes from our Creator, to the people, to the Constitution, to the elected officials.  This is unique in human history.  The pastor is the spiritual leader of “We the People” and it is time “We the evangelical people” raised our voices. There has been a misconception by many that our President is like the King in the Bible but that is not true.  We do not have a Caesar “We the People” are the Caesar.  And of course we should obey all lawful commands of those that we put in authority, and be good citizens. 

The Bible says, ¹³ “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”  Matt 5:13 Being “Salt and Light”, means involvement in the community, not just preaching to the community but being part of it, voting in it, contributing something back to it and certainly having some small say in how all your tax dollars are spent.   Also in the Bible, Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life…” John 14:6 The pastor must speak the whole truth to the people.

Union Halls vs. the Churches

The liberals gather in the Union Halls of America, the conservatives gather in the churches.  The Unions give hundreds of millions of dollars to liberal, socialist, and progressive Democrat candidates[4], the churches give nothing to either side.  In fact most pastors are even afraid to speak out about the “truth and life” on many of the issues of the day.  The reasons are many: lack of conviction, fear of losing the democrat members of their congregation, not wanting to be involved in the dirty business of politics, believing that being involved in politics is somehow not part of a pastors responsibility, fear of the IRS, confusion on who the King is, or fear of something else.  Most do not talk about abortion because a third to half of their members have now participated in some way or another in abortion[5] and it is a hard topic to breach.  Most do not talk about divorce because again a third to half of their people are now divorced and it is also a difficult subject to address.  Many don’t talk about the sin of homosexuality (the church loves homosexuals, adulterers, liars, and sinners, just not their actions.) because they are afraid of the press, the negative publicity, the PC crowd, the thinking we have already lost this issue, and it is a difficult, unsavory subject.  Another major reason is that for the young people of the church homosexuality is the new civil rights movement (thanks to their brain washing by their schools and TV shows) and they take offense at any lack of acceptance of it[6].  Another barrier affecting those 35 and under is the, “dictum that an opinion can only be tolerated if it does not "oppress" (read: offend) anybody, pretty soon this dictum will be the only opinion allowed to exist.”[7] This is the result of most church young people spending 6 to 7 hours a day under the control of a liberal, socialist, progressive, democrat controlled school system (Please read these footnotes if this seems like too strong a statement.[8]), funded by church members dollars, that is indoctrinating young people in to a new worldview that is diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Bible. 

The public school systems promote a non-Christian world view that promotes evolution, socialism, abortion, promiscuity, and homosexuality and thus, undermines the family.  (As a Christian this author loves everyone, but I do not accept everyone’s moral choices.  Like adultery, homosexuality is a bad moral choice according to the Bible, but we love the Homosexual.) We are talking about billions and billions of conservative dollars funding an educational system that is diametrically opposed to a Christian World View.   If you the conservative reader is not convinced of these facts then this author would say open your eyes and take the initiative to google, and do some basic research.  (Just click on the references in the footnotes to start.)

Christians are funding their own destruction, and the pastors are silent! 

“When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.” [9] Most citizens cannot make a clear argument for why a pre-born child is a child, and whether or not homosexuality is genetic (it is not) or a moral decision they have no facts just propaganda.

Without knowledge a people perish.  

The battle is for the minds of America and the World. Conservative pastors have been preaching “the way” but have stopped short of preaching all “the truth and the life”.  Yes Jesus might come back today, but he may wait another thousand years.  What are we to do in the meantime… we must be salt and light in our communities and that means some involvement in politics because politics is simply people organizing themselves.   This author has attended faithfully a church for 16 years yet never heard the topic of abortion addressed from the pulpit. The author has attended a second church where like the first church nothing was done on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday and in a year there has been no preaching on abortion.  The Pastors are silent about the American Holocaust like they were during the German Holocaust.  

How effective is this indoctrination? 

One of the most amazing examples of indoctrination is that people in the United States have been indoctrinated to the point where they are willing to kill their own flesh and blood.   No, they do not have to be forced, threatened, or tortured into killing their own family.  They do it willingly.  The World War II (1939 -1945) German Holocaust was carried out by the world’s most powerful army.  People were rounded up by force, put on trains, put in prison camps, and murdered in mass, by an overwhelming evil military force.  The American Holocaust has been carried out by brain washing Americans into killing their own children before they are born and spreading a culture of death.  People, both men and women, are literally convinced that they are just stopping an inconvenience, a mistake, until after they actually have the abortion, and then many know the truth.   If they still have a conscience they know that they have killed their own flesh and blood, because there is no doubt that the life inside the mother is now dead, and if they had not killed the pre-born baby they would have had a living breathing baby.  Some survivors of abortion come to God in true deep contrite repentance accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and God certainly forgives them and they truly have the guilt, burden and sin washed clean away from their lives.  Others commit suicide, others carry a deep guilt to their grave, and others have their consciences seared and feel nothing.   Abortion has even become easier, and more available with the free abortion and morning after pills that are available in Obamacare.  How long will the pastors keep silent? The battle for the heart and soul of America is in the hands of today’s pastors except many have taken themselves out of action and are unwilling to speak from the pulpit for pro-life candidates.

Until the Pastor from the pulpit speaks out on these issues and for Godly candidates we will lose our country to those that do not fear God.   Unless the Head Pastor, not a guest pastor, says it from the pulpit, few in the congregation will hear it.  This must be from the pulpit and from the pastor to be truly effective.

How can Pastors change the political spectrum and stop the funding of their own destruction? 

Pastors will only have to preach and teach the truth on the Life of a Child from conception and marriage between one woman and one man.  That is it.  They can do this legally, openly, powerfully and with the funds of the church for now.  In Canada, and England it is illegal to speak against homosexuality as a sin.  It is only a matter of time before this happens here in America. [10] 

Today Pastors can still point out the differences between the party platforms of the Democrats and the Republicans.[11]   They can clearly state that the church is neither Republican nor Democrat but that the platforms as they stand, stand in stark contrast to each other.   This is education.   There are many social liberal Republicans, country club Republicans, RINO Republicans, but the Republican platform today still speaks for itself and unless it changes, represents a stark contrast to the Democrat platform.  The Johnson Amendment in 1954 to the 501c(3) tax code, illegally and in violation of the first Amendment, tried to stop pastors from preaching about the morality of candidates from the pulpit.  Pulpit Freedom Sunday[12] and the Alliance Defending Freedom[13] organization are all about the true freedom of the first Amendment and it is time that pastors stopped being afraid, especially mega church pastors that are afraid of losing the half of their congregation which votes Democrat.   Our church members must be lovingly, gently and persuasively be taught the “truth and the life”.  

Below are excerpts from both of the 2012 party platforms, you can click on the pdfs to read them in detail.   If this comparison is not night and day, good and evil, choosing life or death then we are all blind.  [14]

The political platforms speak for themselves and are a stark contrast to each other.   

So is the Bible: ¹⁸ I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. ¹⁹ This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live ²⁰ and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Deuteronomy 30:18-20 New International Version (NIV)

From Wallbuilders: http://wallbuilders.com/2012platform.asp - This can be used as a bulletin insert!

 California Republican Party Platform (2012 – 2016).  - THE RIGHT TO LIFE 

 The California Republican Party is the party that protects innocent life because we   believe life begins at conception and ends at natural death.   We support laws that protect unborn children from partial birth, sex selection, and tax-payer   funded abortions, and abortions performed as a form of birth control or on minor girls without   their parent's notification and consent.

We believe that the question of abortion is a matter that should be left to the people through   their elected representatives, not usurped by the United States Supreme Court, and believe that   Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be reversed.

We support adoption as an alternative to abortion and call on lawmakers to reduce the   bureaucratic burden placed on adoptive couples.

As a part of respecting the sanctity of life for disabled persons, we oppose efforts to legalize   assisted suicide or euthanasia.

We support a comprehensive ban on all human cloning.

The California Republican Party supports ethical stem cell research that focuses on cures not   destroying innocent human Life.

California Republican Party Platform (2012 – 2016). - FAMILY

The California Republican Party affirms the family as the natural and  indispensable institution for human development.  A strong and healthy family unit is the heart of the home – a safe surrounding where family  decisions are made, children are raised, and morality is taught. The family is a foundation upon  which American society has grown and prospered for over 200 years. We support the twoparent family as the best environment for raising children, and therefore believe that it is important to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. We believe public policy and education should not be exploited to present or teach homosexuality as an acceptable "alternative" lifestyle. We oppose same-sex partner benefits, child custody, and adoption. 

California Democrat Party Platform - Abortion

Preserve confidential, unrestricted access to affordable, high quality, culturally sensitive health care services, including the full range of reproductive services, contraception and abortion, without requiring guardian, judicial, parental, or spousal consent or notification;

California Democrat Party Platform - Family

Support nondiscrimination and equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people in all aspects of their lives; and,  We support the LGBT community in its quest for the right to legal marriage as well as the respective clergy religious freedom to solemnize marriages in accordance with their beliefs.[15] 

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ACTION - Signing the Life at Conception Petition should be the minimum goal of every church going person and pastor reading this article.  http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlacaafb_petition.aspx?pid=fb170&npla=IFH14

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[1] http://www.great-awakening.com/?page_id=12; http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=24548

[2] http://brr.wallbuilders.com/; http://www.blackrobereg.org/history.html; http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/charles-finney.html 

[3] Half are not registered to vote and approximately half that do vote, vote against Christian principles http://www.providenceforum.org/yourvotematters, https://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/13-culture/18-how-people-of-faith-voted-in-the-2008-presidential-race#.UwUkU_ldWSo

[4] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304782404577488584031850026

[5] 56 Million Abortions since 1973 times 2 parents =~ 100 million times 4 grandparents = 400 Million people.  This is more than the population of the US because some have had multiple abortions. But this shows the overwhelming impact of abortion.

[6]http://www.amazon.com/Primetime-Propaganda-True-Hollywood-Story-ebook/dp/B004MMEIMS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393363512&sr=8-1&keywords=by+BEN+SHAPIRO;  http://www.amazon.com/Bullies-Culture-Intimidation-Silences-Americans-ebook/dp/B008GULMDK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1393363512&sr=8-2&keywords=by+BEN+SHAPIRO;  http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/10/61-of-young-republicans-favor-same-sex-marriage/ https://www.barna.org/barna-update/culture/618-america-s-change-of-mind-on-same-sex-marriage-and-lgbtq-rights#.Uwe3SfldWSo

[7] http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=3812; http://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/young-political-correctness-on-campus-chills-debate-1.4262227  ; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/opinion/29iht-edlet29.html?_r=0 ; Indoctrination: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America  By: Colin Gunn. http://www.christianbook.com/indoctrination-public-schools-decline-christianity-america/colin-gunn/9780890516850/pd/516850?dv=c&en=google-pla&kw=homeschool-0-20&p=1167941&gclid=CKH4ud_L27wCFQlhfgod4TcAdA

[8] https://www.barna.org/barna-update/culture/618-america-s-change-of-mind-on-same-sex-marriage-and-lgbtq-rights#.Uwmtf_ldWSp; http://www.religiontoday.com/news/study-shows-public-schools-indoctrinate-even-christian-kids-1298515.html; http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v8/n4/is-public-school-option;  http://exodusmandate.org/?page_id=37 

[9] http://www.newsweek.com/how-ignorant-are-americans-66053

[10] Ottawa, Ontario – The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Biblical speech opposing homosexual behavior, including in written form, is essentially a hate crime.  http://christiannews.net/2013/02/28/canadian-supreme-court-rules-biblical-speech-opposing-homosexual-behavior-is-a-hate-crime/   

A Christian street preacher was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God.   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html

[11] Constitutional Protection for Pastors: http://www.cwfa.org/images/content/pastorsguide07.pdf

[12] http://www.speakupmovement.org/Church 

[13] http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/

[14] 2012 Democratic Party Platform 2012 2012-National-Platform.pdf. 2012 Republican Party Platform 2012GOPPlatform.pdf 

[15] http://www.cadem.org/admin/miscdocs/files/2012-CDP-Platform-Final.pdf

People Fear PC More Than They Fear God.

Fear in this context means an awesome respect of a powerful being.  I have been reading some of the online “discussions” on the recent Supreme Court ruling on Gay marriage.  I have read many reasoned loving articles warning what the Bible says on the subject.  And all of the responses that disagreed with that position were harsh, strident, self righteous, and many used profane language.  The responders all thought they were absolutely right, while not accepting the fact that there was absolute Truth.  The responders universally were more fearful of not being politically correct than engaging in a discussion about the Bible.  PC was the god they feared not the true and living God of the Bible.

The responders argued with a profane religious fervor, and claimed the absolute moral high ground because of course they were absolutely tolerant.  None of the responders used logic and none would engage in a reasoned and logic based discussion.  In their thinking there was no way there could be another point of view.  They were all absolutely devoted to their deity, PC Tolerance, and anyone who disagreed with them was called their words for their new devil, homophobe, islamophobe, racist, misogynist, and the worst of all intolerant.   Their new god, political correctness, is tolerant for everything the Bible says is detrimental to man’s relationship to God, and intolerant of everything that God says is right and good. In this new religion, to violate PC is sin.  And those that commit PC “sins” deserve swift and crushing punishment here on this earth.  The PC god’s punishment, is usually profane, vindictive character assassination, being ridiculed out of relevance, marginalized, cast out of employment, and destroying your business.  You see it was not “love wins” but violent relentless hate for righteous that won.  It was this violent hate that scared its opposers from speaking out.  A perfect storm.

Dred Scott and What if?

The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision (1857) said that African Americans were not human nor US citizens.  These democrat Judges were as wrong as wrong can be (as Evan Sayet would say).  The Dred Scott decision has gone down in history as the worst decision in the history of the Court.  Have we done it again?  

What if there is a God.  What if there really is such a thing as right and wrong, or even sin.  What if Jesus rose from the dead.  What if an all powerful God could preserve his book, the Bible, so that it was a true representation of His will.   I know that is a lot.  But if there is a God He might have some opinions.  

True Christians desire that all might be saved and go to heaven.  They are to speak the truth in love. They believe that they are armed with the loving Truth and it would be a sin not to warn someone that their life was in danger.  It would be immoral to know a river had washed out a bridge and not do everything possible to keep other drivers from driving into the raging torrents.  It is immoral for Christians not to speak the truth in love, even if it is very unpopular.  The ten commandments are the start of Western Civilizations law.  The word of the Lord on this subject is very clear.  So do we throw out 6,000 years of Old Testament history where marriage is between a man and a woman?  Do we throw out 2,000 years of New Testament where marriage is between a man and a woman?  Do we make Government God?  Because that has not turned out well for Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Mao's China, where they killed 120 Million of their own people.  Last week the Government made itself God.  Not a good direction as history has proved.  The Dred Scott decision was one of the causes of the Civil War. 

Do we just blindly accept the brain washing of Hollywood that has had 20% to 30% Gay characters relentlessly on television?  Most people think that there are 20% to 30% gay people in the United States because of Hollywood, but the Gallup Poll says there are 1.7% Gay men and 3.7% LGBTQ combined in America.  Do we repeat like a mantra, "Well they were born that way", when not a single AMA study has shown any genetic connection.  And this author has been told repeatedly by Gay people that they were abused as children.  Do we as Christians now shut up and allow people to drive their proverbial cars into the raging torrents only to drown?  Or are we compelled to speak the truth in Love?  Some people label speaking the truth as hate.  

A Christian speaks the truth because of their love of people and the desire to not see them drown in the torrents of deception that has overtaken our country today.

I choose Love.  

Gay Marriage and the Declaration of Independence

How should we treat Homosexuals? We should treat them with love and respect and equal pay, and be willing to tell them the truth no matter what the cost because that is what love does. 

Today's ruling (5 to 4) on Gay marriage defies logic and the Constitution.  The danger today is that the ruling was made with NO defense of the rule of law and no valid justification from the Constitution for what was ruled.  Why did the court do this?  Because of the Worldviews of the Justices.  (Please read "Who we Are" on the menu for a discussion on Worldview.) The ruling makes a mockery of the Constitution, the rule of law, common sense, and destroys States rights. "Scalia wrote. "But the Court ends this debate, in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law."   Justice Clarence Thomas pilloried the majority opinion as "at odds not only with the Constitution, but with the principles upon which our nation were built." Kennedy and the Court's liberal wing are invoking a definition of "liberty" that the Constitution's framers "would not have recognized, to the detriment of the liberty they sought to protect.  Along the way, it rejects the idea—captured in our Declaration of Independence—that human dignity is innate and suggests instead that it comes from the Government," Thomas said. "This distortion of our Constitution not only ignores the text, it inverts the relationship between the individual and the state in our Republic. I cannot agree with it." See article on the dissent here.  

Worldviews develop with a major first step, which is deciding if there is a God or if there is not a God.  And second if there is a God, is Jesus God?  And third is deciding if the following quote from Jesus is true where He said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" in Jn 14:6.  And last deciding if people have a free will to choose or if their actions are determined by outside forces.  Your answer, "Yes" or "No" on each of these points take you in radically different direction on how you think and what laws you implement.  I believe that 5 of the Justices by their actions and rulings would have answered No to each of these questions. 

So I would propose based on the actions of the Justices over their lifetime that maybe 4 have some belief or respect of God and 5 have little to no belief or respect of God.  Yes I know they are all culturally Catholic and Jewish by heritage on the court but that does not mean they actually believe in God, that is a personal decision and we can not know their hearts only their actions.  And their actions do not line up with the Judeo/Christian God of the Bible.  There are also NO Protestants or Evangelicals on the bench which means over 70% of our country's worldview is not represented by the Supreme Court. 

Was Jesus Involved in Politics?

Should Christians be involved in Politics?

Many of us understand that we need to serve others with love and compassion, but the question remains: Is politics an area where we need to also serve people? Many Christians will say that Jesus wasn’t involved in politics. He also did not tell His followers to join any specific political party or movement. But if we look at Jesus Christ’s stand in His day, we will see that He took quite an extreme political position. He basically challenged the existing order by announcing a new government – that is the Kingdom of God – and He Himself as head of it. At the time of Jesus, the Jews were living under the government of the Roman Empire. People could worship the gods of their choice, so long as they also worshiped the Roman Caesar, who was seen as their god. Refusing to worship Caesar (the Emperor) was seen as an act of treason, which was punishable by death. That is why so many early Christians were persecuted by the Roman State, not because they were involved in various religions, but because the Roman authorities saw their religion as a threat to the state. The official religion of the day was Emperor worship, this meant that it was a political offence to not worship the Roman state. Christians were burned at the stake and eaten by wild animals because it was perceived that they were involved in crimes of treason. Jesus Christ stated that He, and not Caesar, had all authority in heaven and earth. His disciples understood that God’s Laws took precedence over Caesar’s laws. In other words, He challenged the political and spiritual authority of the most powerful government in the world at that time.  (Click below for the rest of the article.)

- See complete article at: Frontline

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Who We Are

This is a talk that I give to college students.

First!  America is not a place, America is not a race, America is an idea.  And it is a revolutionary idea that had never been seen before in the entire history of the world.  America's prosperity and unlimited opportunity is available to anyone, and I mean anyone no matter what your background, who learns the American idea.  Check out this short Bono video on the "American Idea", it is mind boggling.  And to quote Bono, "It is not a Left Right issue but a Right Wrong issue."  We also add that America is not a race because today there are many voices that say, "People of color can not succeed in America because of their race."  Throughout the history of America people of all kinds of races have succeeded because they learned the American idea.  To do this they also had to ignore the "race baiters" who are trying to promote themselves, get political power, and make money by making themselves the power brokers for some "race of people".  The KKK were Democrats, I know big surprise, who tried to do this for white people.  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (Democrats) do this today for African-American people.  The Democrat group La Raza does this today for Hispanic people.  All the race baiters of today and yesterday are all Democrats. By the way Martin Luther King was a Republican, I know hard to believe, but look here. There are many voices today that want to tell you that you can not achieve the American dream, because of your race, or because you are poor, or because society is against you.  Well I am here today to tell you that is BU**Sh**.  Anyone can achieve the American dream if you learn and believe in the American idea.  And our overall goal today is to make you, "Curious Seekers of the Truth", who ask questions, do independent research, and arrive at your own opinions based on sincere effort.  

Oh and to blow your mind, of the Republican Presidential candidates there are two Hispanics, one woman, one African-American, and a person from India.  And the democrats have 2 old white men and a very old white woman. But you did not know that because all you have ever heard up to this point is that Republicans are old white country club racists, and Democrats are the party of diversity.  Ok, I know you most of you did not even know this because of the biases discussed above, but now back to the American idea...

The foundation of the American Idea is found in the Declaration of Independence, where it says 

 "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws and Nature and Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind required that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. ... We…appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name and Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States. ... And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. 

WOW!!! Who would have thought that 4 mentions of God would be allowed in our public schools today and right there in our Declaration of Independence.  How about the all of the State Constitutions also mention God, read about it here and here.  But of course few if any of you have ever read these words. Because the 95% Democrat controlled school system is just not "No God" but "Anti-God" today. Yes they have a bias and I have a bias but you must determine for yourselves what is the truth.  So God is an important foundation to the American Idea.  Note I am not saying what religion or denomination you should belong to only that the entire American idea is founded on this the most important founding document of the United States of America which is founded on the concept of God giving us our rights, judging our intentions, and protecting us by His Divine Providence. Why all this talk about God.  Well the Democrats who as a whole do not believe in God (read on below) try and make Government their God which is big enough to control everything so that they can bring about their vision of utopia.  If you have only heard for all of your schooling the NO GOD or ANTI_GOD point of view then you have only received HALF an education AND YOU WILL NEVER LEARN THE AMERICAN IDEA.  And see below what happens to a country that has a low view of the value of life, and a very exalted view on the power of Government. 

So to level the playing field you all should know something about libertarian (little "l") conservatives or as one Democrat said to a few of us, "I like you guys you are Progressive Republicans."  So as a whole we dislike Elite Republicans and we dislike Elite Democrats. We dislike Country Club Republicans, and we dislike Country Club Democrats. What do I mean by elite? Those politicians who are no longer statesmen, and stateswomen, but are acting in the best interests of themselves to keep their power, and support the lobbyists and corporations that gave them money to get them in power and not "we the people". They practice crony capitalism, which instead of an even playing field for all companies favors companies that gave them money. They also do not uphold the founding principles of our Constitution and defend the Bill of Rights. Recently 167 Republicans voted against the policies of the Speaker of the House John Bonner. Many called this block of voters tea party Republicans. Unfortunately we use to have a block of Democrats called Blue Dog Democrats and they were certainly closer to Tea Party people then any Democrat today, but alas there are few Blue Dog Democrats today.

Yes, we come to you with a bias and our own Worldview, but we would challenge you, that you have only heard the other sides bias and Worldview pounded into your heads for most of your life from school, television and the media.  80% of the news media vote Democrat, 95% of California Professors donate to the Democrat Party, they have a worldview and spin the news and information to fit it.  We want you to make informed decisions for yourself and to learn the American idea so you can be wildly successful.  We want you to understand that California's, loosing jobs, loosing businesses, not having enough dams for water in the dry times, high housing prices (government restricts building), high gas prices ($2.77 is the price in other states), bad roads, bad anything else is the fault of Democrats because except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election, and the Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970. (ref) I mean really how can it be the rich white country club Republicans fault when in California there are almost no rich white country club Republicans and Democrats have run the State for 45 years.  YES 45 years.  Most of your parents have only experienced Democrat rule.  Why is California the 2nd WORST state in the nation for doing business, I would suggest that 45 years of one party rule might be a plausible explanation. (Ref)  Yet many of you until today blamed the evil Republicans.

The Elite group of Republicans and Democrats support big Federal spending policies that put our country further and further into debt. Today the debt from the Federal Government alone is $18 Trillion which is $50,000 for every person in the United States.  This is in fact the older generation borrowing from the younger generation to make themselves richer. (Think about it old people die and young people are stuck with the bill.)  And the national debt is on top of student loans for young people, which today have reached unsustainable levels of $1.2 Trillion. This elite group of whom most all are Democrats and some are Republicans support a loose monetary policy for the Federal Reserve on top of the Federal Government borrowing from the next generation. What is this policy called? Quantitative Easing. (QE) Why is it so important because it pumps Trillions of dollars into the hands of the Elite.  Here is a definition from Investopedia:

To carry out QE central banks create money by buying securities, such as government bonds, from banks, with electronic cash that did not exist before. The new money swells the size of bank reserves in the economy by the quantity of assets purchased—hence "quantitative" easing. Like lowering interest rates, QE is supposed to stimulate the economy by encouraging banks to make more loans. The idea is that banks take the new money and buy assets to replace the ones they have sold to the central bank. That raises stock prices and lowers interest rates, which in turn boosts investment.  http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/03/economist-explains-5 

Freedom yields Innovation yields Prosperity

50 year old cartoon - great lesson

The Road to Serfdom in 5 minutes...