Finally, The Truth About Abortion “Rights”

Published 10 July 2009 The Bigger Picture Leave a Comment
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            We have all known it was true.  Jesse Jackson, no relation to King Michael, even started his political career stating nearly the exact words.  He was specifically concerned that abortion would be legalized genocide for the black community.  He took the opposite position on the promise of having a voice in the Democratic part in the 70s.

             This week abortion “rights” champion and official Supreme Court nap taker, Ruth Bader Ginsburg finally said what we all know.

             Justice Ginsburg reportedly said, “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

             Ah, the voice of reason and love finally goes public.  I thought it was about a woman’s right to choose.  I thought it was about the health of the mother.  Please do not tell me now that it was always about keeping the unwanted people groups in check.

             Perhaps the most disturbing thing about this comment is that it blows out all the theories we have been fed about how compassionate liberals are.  Finally we can see that they are the elitist we suspected they were.  The most amazing thing is that there is no national outrage over the caustic remarks.

             The most horrifying thing about Justice Ginsburg’s statements is the flippant way we now view the murder of fellow human beings.

             At least now we can put to rest the niceties of the politically correct world we live in and get to the heart of the matter.

             Let me make sure you understand the significance of this change in rhetoric.  Abortion is not about women’s rights.  Abortion is not about protecting the health of the mother.  Abortion is about feminism.  Abortion is about controlling the cycles of life.

             Above all, however, abortion, by the admission of one of its legal champions, is about controlling “growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”  Forget the ending of a sentence in a preposition, this is an amazing admission.  The champions of freedom are closet bigots. 

             I would feel redeemed, but there is too much blood on the ground from the millions of murdered babies.  It still cries out for redemption!

Here We Go Again! Dogs Verses Humans

Published 9 July 2009 Just Having Fun! Leave a Comment
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            Okay, you animal rights activists get your guns loaded.  That is if you own guns, but most likely you do not since guns kill animals.  I just cannot sit back and watch us go through the Michael Vick silliness again.  Maybe I am just worn out from the Church of Michael Jackson I have been attending for over a week now.  Maybe I am just struggling with watching the socialization of America for no reason.  Maybe I am turning into Nancy Pelosi and therefore cannot think intelligent thoughts for more than a couple of seconds—kind of like a fish, hmmmm, I haven’t thought of that.  Maybe Nancy is a fish.  That would explain a lot.

             I digress.

             I am sure Steve McNair was a nice guy and this blog is not aimed at him personally.  Look beyond that at the issue I am really after.

             Watching the news reports on the murder suicide of Steve McNair, another fine American family man celebrity, and that girl whose name we cannot remember because she killed our hero, I was taken back by the mind doctors who wanted to explain away this behavior on childhood problems.

             The question was asked and lightly dodged regarding why Steve McNair would be having an affair; we used to call that committing adultery.  He had issues with intimacy, blah, blah, blah.  What happened to this idea—stay home with your wife and live according to accepted moral norms.  You commit adultery you open the door for bad things to happen. 

             There was no outrage at how a person could do something as despicable as kill another person.  There was no outrage that a husband, with children, would so blatantly destroy his family and his children with such outrageous behavior.

             From that story the news went to the latest dog fighting ring in the Midwest.  The reporter came back from the report wondering how humans could be so cruel.  She was outraged that someone would fight dogs and kill the losing dogs.

             Again, I do not hold to cruelty to animals.  I agree with it being illegal to fight animals.  I think it is a moral crime as well.  My family has several dogs we have gotten from the pound, thus saving their lives.

             I think, however, that outrage over killing some animals while taking the killing of humans as something that stems from childhood issues is the outrage here.  We heard the same thing in the defense of King Michael.  He had a tough childhood.  Best I can tell he was still having his childhood, therefore we should not blame it.

             It was his father.  I think the best answer for this defense, is grow up and get over it!

             As for the outrage of killing dogs, are we so far gone that we can watch people die everyday and still dedicate our lives to defending animals.

             Grow up and get over it.

Introduction from my new book which is out soon

Published 30 June 2009 Christianity , Europe , IHRG's Work , Olympics and other Major Sporting Events Leave a Comment
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Introduction to the Work of the IHRG

“Helping the helpless find justice—with you”

 

            Our work began from a bigger work that makes a huge difference in America.  While working for the American Center for Law and Justice (“ACLJ”) I realized that we needed to create a Christian religious freedom organization that concentrated primarily on Europe.  No one else was doing this; no one was giving the same standard of care to protecting religious freedom in Europe.

             I worked for 15 years with the ACLJ, working on cases from student-led Bible clubs on public school campuses in America, to pro-life cases, to the use of public buildings by religious organizations, and a number of other religious freedom issues.  During those years I was blessed to work with some of the most gifted attorneys in America and the world.  I was able to learn how to protect religious freedom through the legal systems of America and a variety of other avenues.  This included using the media to make sure that the discrimination and ultimately the persecution does not occur in darkness. Often the best solution to a problem involving religious freedom is simply to make the problem known.  No one wants to be considered a bigot.

             Pursuing my vision for Europe, the ACLJ set up the European Centre for Law and Justice (“ECLJ”).  I headed up their office in Strasbourg, France for over a year.  The ECLJ continues to concentrate primarily on political solutions to the problems facing religious people and institutions in Europe.  It is a valuable work, but it seemed to me that there was also a need for legal strategy along the lines that exists in America.

             So we stepped up and began to use the model we had learned and developed in America in Europe.  In these pages you will see the effects of this work.  You will see how we are working with some incredible people to do incredible things.

             I have had the pleasure of working with some of the greatest attorneys in the western world—both in America and around Europe.  It is always amazing to me that there are men and women who will take their vocation and make it their calling.

             I have made friendships and developed relationships that have changed how I view the world.  I have been given the honor of working with Christian lawyers from Russia, England, Norway, France, Germany, Greece, and a variety of other countries around Europe.  I have been permitted to look into these cultures in ways a tourist never gets to see.  Often they have invited me into their homes to share time with their families.  We have committed to pray for each other.  We are committed to work together to bring change to Europe where it is so vitally needed.

             After over twenty years in ministry, as a church planter, an associate pastor, and an attorney working for ministries, I have learned that it is not always the big things that make the biggest difference.  It is often the small things that make the biggest difference.  It is often a young girl standing firm in the face of great persecution.  It is just as likely to be someone you have never heard of doing nothing more than continuing to do what God has put before them.

             I am not called to proclaim the Gospel message in foreign lands.  I understand that we are all called to share our faith in the places where God leads us, but I am talking about going to a foreign land for the sole purpose of serving as a missionary.

             At the same time, I am called to be a door keeper.  Our ministry keeps the door open in various places so that missionaries, pastors, and church planters can proclaim the Gospel message without fear of being arrested.

             There is a time coming when our work will not be able to keep the doors open for the proclamation of the Gospel.  There is a time coming when men and women will again be asked to pay the ultimate price for their faith in the western world.

             My calling is to hold that day off for as long as we can so that as many as can are able to easily hear the word that Jesus, God become man, has come to set them free from the futility of modern life.

             The same Jesus who turned the world upside down two thousand years ago is still working to turn the world upside down again.  It is not ours to judge the work; it is only our responsibility to do what God has called us to do.  It is our responsibility to use the talents He has given us to bring about whatever He wants it to bring about.

             It is an honor for me to serve in this ministry.  I never would have believed that God would use me in such a dynamic way to bring change to such a large area.  When I first decided to attend law school I had no idea it would lead here.

             Placing one foot in front of the other, I have arrived here.  Being as faithful as I knew how to be at what was placed before me, I have arrived here.  I am not the right one to judge the work of our ministry.  I do believe, however, that we serve as a great encouragement to a large number of people in America and Europe.  I believe we are making a difference, keeping the door open for the proclamation of the Gospel in America and Europe.

             Whether or not we ever bring the change we are fighting to bring about, we are doing what we believe we are called to do.  The victory is not ours, it is the Lord’s.  We will leave the heavy lifting to Him.

             It would be easy to take the judgment of man and decide that some of these matters are not important enough to make a difference.  It is more difficult to see the real impressiveness of the smallest obedience which leads to great breaks in the most difficult lands.  There are countries in Europe where Christians are beginning to experience more than discrimination.  There are places where these simple people of the ancient faith are facing persecution—the loss of their freedom, the loss of their families, the loss of great amounts of money—for nothing more than being true to their Christian faith.

             These people are our clients, and some of the people who work along side us at the IHRG.  These people really are modern heroes of the faith.  Faithful like the saints whose commitment is recounted in Hebrews 11—men and women of whom the world is not worthy.  They have counted the cost and stood when many of us would have found the price to stand too high.

             In many cases, they have laid aside their own dreams and ambitions and done the hard work the Lord has asked of them.  They are struggling forward without the benefit of seeing the end of their labors.  Many of them will find the day ends without seeing the objects of their faith.

             Yet, everyday they stand in the face of persecution.  I know there are many more standing than just those mentioned here.  Their courage is a source of strength for us as well.  These reports are meant to encourage you; to let you know about men, women, and children who are standing for their faith without regard to the price that has to be paid.

             These stories are not the end of the battle we are fighting around the world for religious freedom.  These examples are merely the beginning.  We need to see hundreds more standing strong for their faith without concern for their own wellbeing.  It is time we returned to New Testament Christianity.  A Christianity where believers are more concerned with the wellbeing of the church than they are with their own wellbeing.

             These are by no means the only ones out there fighting for the faith in Europe.  These friends of mine are not the only fighters.  There are many we have not met yet.  There are many we have yet to connect with in the ministry.  Their work is just as valuable as those whose stories are retold here.  These are the ones we have seen first hand.

             This is their story.  Without them our work would be meaningless.

Germany’s Continuing Battle Against Home Schooling–the Schimdt Family Story

Published 19 June 2009 Christianity , Europe , IHRG's Work Leave a Comment
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with Richard Guenther 

Hans and Petra Schmidt live in Bavaria, Southern Germany.  From their home, they have been teaching their children, Josua and Aaron, for 9 years, with great success.  Were they in America this would be considered an appropriate way to educate their children.  Unfortunately for the Schmidt family, they are not Americans.  Since they are Germans and are educating their own children in Germany, the Schmidt family is considered to be violating the law.

To date the Schmidts have been forced to pay nearly 13.000 Euros ($18,300) in home schooling fines.  Like most German home school families, they have a very modest income.  Needless to say, the position of the government against them pushed the Schmidts to their limits.  When the family could not pay all 26 of their fines the government placed a lien on their home.

During this time there were talks with the chief district administrator.  These talks were entered into by the Schmidts in hopes of arriving at some type of settlement that would permit them to finish educating their children at home without being forced into bankruptcy by their own government.  At the same time the children were tested by the school authorities.  Testing both children showed that they have extraordinary academic abilities.  The tests also showed the children to be social competent.  This is critical as the Germans still hold to the disproven belief that home school children are socially retarded.

The oldest son, Josua,, who is 16, was tested at a local high school and scored very high.  As a result, Josua was awarded his high school diploma.  These exams are required of all students upon completion of their last year in high school.  This shows that the Schmidts have done an excellent job of educating their children at home.  As he is through with high school, Josua is no longer subject of the compulsory school attendance.

Aaron, age 14, has just successfully completed an internship at the big Stuttgart zoo. He is still subject to the mandatory school attendance laws. The authorities are attempting to force the parents to place him in school.

At the beginning of this year, the family court set out to take the custody for Aaron from the parents.  The sole reason for this was that the Schmidts continue to home school Aaron, something that is illegal in Germany. Pursuant to this attempt to remove Aaron from the family home legal proceedings began early this year. Aaron is 14 years old.  He is looking to complete his school education in another two years.

Mr. Schmidt has a heart and passion for the disadvantaged.  So he works in a handicap workshop where the handicapped are trained in a vocation. Both parents are  devoted Christians and have it in their hearts to preserve their two boys from the secular, anti-Christian culture in Germany. They believe that sending their boys to school would be traumatic for the whole family.

Working with the IHRG, Armin and Gabriele Eckermann, both lawyers with the German Home School Association SchuzH, are helping develop the legal strategy to challenge this case in the courts.  Johannes Hildebrandt has agreed to help the Eckermanns and is taking the case as it goes into the court of first instance. He is a successful lawyer in family issues and in addition to his law degree, holds a degree in social development of children.  He saw Melissa Busekros returned to her family, defending her successfully in the courts

The International Human Rights Group is standing with these lawyers and the Schmidt family.  We are doing everything in our power to protect this family and see that they are permitted to educate their children according to the dictates of their own beliefs—something that is guaranteed by the German Constitution and the European Court on Human Rights.  We will be there all along the way to stand with them. 

Your prayers are an important part of this battle.  Without your prayers we cannot stand as strong.

How The Arrest Of Evangelists At Oslo’s Independence Day Parade Was Discriminatory

Published 14 June 2009 Europe , IHRG's Work Leave a Comment
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I have seen a lot of discrimination up close and personal.  As an attorney, I have represented evangelists for years after they have been threatened with arrest for sharing their faith in public places.  This is amazing considering that there is very little other activity that authorities care about in public places.  You can sale almost anything.  You can play music that borders on obscene, but do not read from a Bible or tell people how to become Christians.

 In Europe this is becoming even truer—Europeans are afraid to confront Muslims and the homosexual community in public places, but it is slowly becoming open season on Christians.

 In Oslo, Norway the discrimination currently seems to be limited only to large gatherings like parades.  Normal days come and go with no arrests.  Let there be a big event, like a Pride Parade or a parade celebrating independence and the rules are suspended.  The rules are not suspended because of any great theory.

 Before the Pride Parade in 2007, Petar Keseljevic and I spoke on the telephone regarding what his rights were in public places in Oslo.  I informed him that he had a right to be in public areas as long as he did not block the ability of people move along the sidewalks.  He should be careful not to block any vehicles.  Finally, he should not speak directly to individuals; rather he should speak to the group as a whole about the principles of eternal life he was sharing.

 For several days before the parade Petar asked local politicians and local police departments if he could get a permit that would allow him to be on the sidewalks during the parade.  He was told repeatedly that no permit was necessary for public speaking in public places. 

 After all, the logic went, Norway is a democratic country.  We permit free speech and religion.

 Yet, when the day in question arrived, Petar was arrested.

 The next year there was no point in asking whether he needed a permit.  So, on Norwegian Independence Day 2008 Petar and Larry Keffer showed up and began to share their faith.

 First they were merely asked to move somewhere away from the Palace of the King and Queen.  They complied, but because this was a day with a large public gathering they were arrested.

 Never mind the fact that one a couple of occasions Petar and Larry were accosted by “standers by.”  Both of these incidents occurred while the police were present, watching the evangelists work.  There were only two arrests—the evangelists.

 The discrimination in question took place when the police decided to target only Christian speech.  We are quickly moving toward a world where anything offensive is not permitted.  At the same time, we are moving toward a world where Christian speech is, by definition, offensive.

 This is a discrimination we cannot live with.  This would mean that only secularism or other, less insistent religions are acceptable.

 The European Convention on Human Rights and Norwegian law guarantee free speech and religious freedom to all people.  Yet, when the message is New Testament Evangelical Christianity those rights are suddenly not guaranteed.

 Not only were Petar and Larry arrested, but the Oslo Criminal Court ruled that they were rightly arrested.  The appeals court agreed, as did the Supreme Court.  Now, their fate is in the hands of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

 This level of discrimination is just beginning for Christians in America and in Europe.  It is deep rooted and the roots are growing deeper as both Continents grow more and more secularized.

 If we are uncomfortable with this level of discrimination we are going to be even less happy with the levels to come.  Eventually, we will be going from discrimination to persecution. 

 Then we really are in trouble!

Religious Tolerance Begins At Home

Published 5 June 2009 Just Having Fun! , Talking Politics , The Bigger Picture Leave a Comment
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Religious tolerance is a good idea, but religious freedom requires participation from two groups.  Furthermore, I am all for showing respect to moderate Muslims and as soon as I find one I will show respect!  I just read Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt.  I have to confess that I cannot listen to him speak because his cadence is too contrived for me—even more than Bill Clinton’s. 

 The difference between Clinton and Obama is I was never convinced that Clinton believed what he was saying—I think Obama really believes what he is saying.  Of course, with Obama it is usually what he is not saying that is more important than what he is saying.  It is easy for him to believe what he says, because in spite of all the words there is seldom anything of substance in his statements. 

 This is not a consequence of his race, or even of his political beliefs—I believe it is what is at the core of the man—nothing that is not for Obama.  This is a man who has finally kept a campaign promise—he took his wife to New York for a date because he promised her when all this was over he would do it.  I, for one, am left to wonder why he did not do this in between the time he won the election and the time he took office.  That way it would not have cost us at least $24,000 dollars.

 I would like to take my wife on a date night like that—maybe I can be king next!  If not, then I have a piece of advice for the current ruler—park the damn plane.  It is to be used for company business.  Date nights are on your own!

 Continuing on his roll, Obama kept another campaign promise this week—as to negotiations with Iran he has announced that “we are willing to move forward without preconditions on the basis of mutual respect.”  Remember in the campaign when Obama promised to meet with all the world’s tin pan dictators without preconditions.  Oh, but then there was the debate when he said that was not what he said.  Well, at least now that he has anointed himself king we can know what he really meant.

 What he really meant was WITHOUT PRECONDITION.  After all, why should we squander all the “mutual respect” Americans have for Iran and the crazies at the helm.

 While in Cairo, our leader decided to promote the Islamic faith that has made America so great.  After all, Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Koran.  Muslims built our tallest building, long before they brought them to the ground violently.

 I was happy to learn from Cairo that Islam is responsible for the Enlightenment and the Renaissance.  They probably started that when they were trying to overthrow the Christian Europe of the Middle Ages and establish more enlightened Muslim reigns like the one in Modern Saudi Arabia.

 This regime is so progressive and religiously tolerant that they will not allow churches to be built in their country.  They will not allow Bibles to be brought into their country.  They will not allow women of western culture to express their culture of not covering up their faces in submission to the man’s world.

 Before we begin to blames anyone let’s remember, it is the “colonial” aspirations of some nations that is the real root of the problem.  America, after all, is known for its taking over of other lands.  I am reminded of the words of an Obama advisor who told the Europeans at the UN in the build up to the Iraq war that America is not a colonial power.  The only land we have ever asked for is enough land to bury the dead who have fought for freedom in foreign lands.

 Of course, that type of colonialism is probably offensive to everybody.

 I have a message for Mr. Obama—it is not religious freedom when only one side grants it.  Western countries are not allowing their courts to sentence people to death and carry out the sentence merely because those people have a contrary religious belief.  That is only happening in Muslim countries, under Muslim law.

 It is nice to declare, in your meaningless dribble, that “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

 I am sorry, “Say what?”  Religious tolerance and racial equality?  Wake up, oh dear king!  There is no religious tolerance to be found in Islam.  There is no racial, or sexual, equality.  There is oppression and intolerance.

It is not enough that we say they are tolerant, they have to be tolerant.  They have to quit beheading Christians for being Christians.  They have to speak out against such injustice.  They have to quit killing their daughters for sexual impurity while rewarding their sons for the sexual abuse.

Until then there is no religious freedom—not because the west will not grant it.  We continue to grant it to our own harm.

No, there is not religious freedom because Islam cannot grant it.  It seems that it might be against their theories of ruling the world with one religion and one religion only.

And I do not even have to get to their treatment of the Jews to verify the truth of my statements.  It is not enough to say something; history alone shows us what the truth is.  One man, with an unknown agenda, does not write history.  He might play a role, but so far the role is not in keeping with truth or reality.

My Newest Cause Celeb, Let Michael Be!

Published 20 May 2009 Just Having Fun! , The Bigger Picture Leave a Comment
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            I know we all think that our football players are the smartest people ever born, but it is simply not true.  Get over it.  We seem to be confused when we find out these heroes do not have great moral character.  We cry when they fail us, after all, they are supposed to be superhuman.  They can run fast, they can hit hard, and sometimes they even sound intelligent when they speak.

             So, what are we to do when they really slip up and do something evil, like fight with a few dogs, treat them cruelly, and then kill them?  Do not get me wrong, I do not believe in cruelty to anything including animals.  I think it is beneath us as humans.

             Having said all that, it is time to bring some reality back to the world.  If the greatest crime we can find to care about is cruelty to animals, then we need to wake up and have a cup of coffee.  The world is passing us by and we are missing some pretty good stuff.

             What does it say about our culture when the greatest football player of his day becomes an instant villain for killing some dogs?  What of the millions we are killing each year through legalized abortion?  What of the starving children around the world?  What of real problems that really matter?

             We have prisons so full we cannot put real criminals in them, but we demand “justice” for Michael Vick.  Steve Taylor summed it up best when he sang, “you save the whales, you save the seals, you save whatever’s cute and squeals.  But you kill that thing that’s in the womb, would not want no baby boom.”

             If you feel strongly enough about this issue that you are voicing an opinion that sounds like we need to do more to destroy Michael Vick, then I have a thought for you.

             Shut up, until you can find a cause that really matters!  Maybe in the silence you can learn what it really means to be a human, created in the image of God!

             That is all I have to say about that.

The need to prevent the legal discrimination evangelists

Published 10 May 2009 Christianity , Europe , IHRG's Work , The Bigger Picture Leave a Comment
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            Sure, many of us find them irritating and wish that someone would tell them to shut up.  Even the most Christian among us finds himself wishing that the Gospel message were kept within the walls of the Church—or at least some of the proponents of the message.  After all, the Gospel message should not be offensive.  Is it not true that Jesus is all about love and love is always a good feeling?

             These arguments, and a variety of others, are the types of arguments we hear all the time for why the street preachers of our world should not be there.  Even if we can find validity in these arguments, this is not reason enough to tolerate the killing of free speech.

             The more the culture war rages the more we should be willing to protect the right of the speaker—even when we personally disagree with the subject of the speech.  One of the guarantees in the free speech market is that a free society means that we will often hear things in public with which we disagree.

             The measure of a truly free society is how much they respect dissent.  Dissent is the heart of western culture.  While we might argue that we should accept the discrimination because it is good for the church and the church only thrives in troubled times, but we have to realize that this cannot be God’s way.

             Why would God create a system that only works everyone turns against it.  The problem is not that God’s system does not work.  The problem is that human nature is such that man has a hard time giving in to God’s will.

             Sure, historically the church thrives under persecution.  It is one thing to understand the truth of the historic evidence; it is a completely different thing to understand that we do not have to accept the historic model as the only way the Church can thrive.  We have to learn to thrive in peace and prosperity.

             The voice of the evangelist on the street is important to more than the church.  It is important to the growing number of people in our culture who have no interaction with Christian—any where.  It is also important because those voices crying in the wilderness are not always gentle.  Thus, they remind us that there is more to life than the safety of our Christian hiding places.  We have to interact with the world if we are going to be salt and light to them.

             We have to work to keep society free, including keeping society free to preach the Gospel message in its simple most direct form.  This is a form that is often not compatible to the politically correct world we are living.

             At the same time, we have to realize that this means there will be plenty of speech we disagree with from the Gospel preachers and the secular preachers.

             A second measure of the rightness of society is how we treat the weak amongst us.  This means tolerating the things the majority do not want to tolerate.  It is undoubtedly a better world when we have the influence of the Gospel being experienced on the streets and sidewalks of any community and any country.

             Ask those who live in a closed society if they want the right to speak in public and they will assure you that freedom is a good thing.  Freedom in the face of persecution leads to events like the fall of the Iron Current and the martyrs who have given, and continue to give, life the Church.

             We cannot, however, look to that lack of freedom and declare it to be the better way.  If we truly believe that we will all move to lands with no freedom to live in the better way.

             One final reason to prevent the discrimination is that the freedom we enjoy in the west is not a bloodless freedom.  Throughout Europe and in America men and women have fought and sacrificed their lives and their limbs that we might have the right to say anything we believe in public.  For us to walk away from that right is to profane the sacrifice of God’s greatest creation—mankind.

             And that means that we do a disservice to every man and woman who has sacrificed for freedom.  That is perhaps the greatest profanity a human can utter on this earth.  I for one want to find the better way.  The way where freedom does not mean the Church ceases to be relevant.

And Now The Consequences…

Published 1 May 2009 Christianity , Talking Politics , The Bigger Picture 5 Comments
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I know, I know, Obama becoming president was an historic moment and one we should all be proud to have lived to see.  That is true; from slavery to the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement to President is a great move forward for the history of race relations.

Having said that we are now going to see why it is that Christians must vote their conscience instead of some enlightened feel good position.  If we are not going to live out our faith in the voting booth, then we should not kid ourselves about the value of our faith.  Faith is the evidence of things not seen.  Evidence is something you can see, feel, and touch.  Evidence is what puts criminals in jail.  Faith that does not influence the voting booth is not faith at all.

Electing extreme left leaning liberals, like Obama, might make you feel like an enlightened white person, or a loyal black person.  Unfortunately, as Christians we are not called to be enlightened in the things of this world.  We are called to be different from the causes of the day when those causes defy the moral code God established from the beginning of the Universe.

I am a one issue voter.  I know there are other issues that matter, but they will take care of themselves eventually.  From the beginning of recorded history God has been firm on one thing—He does not believe in murder, in any form.

Many liberals understand this principle in a limited fashion.  They do not believe in killing the guilty through capital punishment, the death penalty.  They do not believe in cruelty to animals which leads to the killing of animals—it is not murder to kill an animal regardless of how much we love Bugs Bunny.  They believe war is murder and are against that.

It seems liberals have the high road when it comes to believing in the sanctity of life.  If you believe that you are sadly mistaken.

It is on the issue of abortion that their strict moral structure dies. 

 That is how I define a liberal—they believe in murdering the innocent and protecting the guilty.  I am pro-life, I believe in protecting the innocent and the guilty.  No abortion, no death penalty!

In the next few weeks dear Mr. Obama will be appointing a nominee to fill Justice Souter’s seat on the Supreme Court.  Fortunately for you and me Mr. Justice Souter is a “conservative” turned liberal justice and his vote will not be changed by the new nominee.  Unfortunately for you and me the person appointed to his seat will likely be even more liberal and extremely young in Supreme Court Justice Years—they are the opposite of dog years.  Justices live longer than most people and seldom walk away from the job.

Suddenly all of the reasons why Christians vote for abortion are going to matter.  If we truly are a Christian nation then we need to figure out why we are tolerating legalized murder.  Same-sex marriage, sure it matters, but abortion is murder and we have become surprisingly accepting of abortion—even if only through the politicians we support.

I am voting my conscience!  Always have, always will.

No More Mister Nice Guy, Janeane Garofalo Will Need A Brain Transplant To Rise To The Level Of Stupid

Published 17 April 2009 The Bigger Picture 1 Comment

 

            Now Janeane Garofalo is being identified as a liberal actress.  If any of you are watching the current season of 24 you know that labeling this lady an actress is beyond nice—it is delusional.  With that said, she does, every now and again manage to appear to be acting by putting that I am mad at the world and you are all wrong look on her face.  I think it is one she borrowed from the ever adorable Rosie O’Donnell—remember her.

 

            Proving her brilliance Janeane lectures us on history.  Well not really.  Here is her statement to the nuts at MSNBC.  “Let’s be very honest about what this is about.  [sic]  this is not about bashing Democrats.  It’s not about taxes.  They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about.  They don’t know their history at all.  It’s about hating a black man in the White House.  This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.  There is no way around that.”

 

            Thank you for that fine history lesson Professor Garofalo.  Remember, your liberal friend Forrest Gump says “stupid is as stupid does.”  I would say that any time you lecture the proper statement is “stupid just spoke.”  You are like a box of anti-chocolates, we always know what we are going to get—stupid statements made with anger, hatred, and venom.  Maybe we should call you the liberal snake lady.

 

            I know now I will be labeled anti-homosexual because I am saying something bad about the statements of a homosexual activist and that makes the label feel good.  It also makes most people be quiet so they don’t have to face the venom.  Well, I have my snake bite kit so bite away.

 

            Not bad for a “racist” with a dysfunctional brain, eh, Janeane.  Wait, I am confused oh great stupid one, am I a racist or a homophobe.  I guess with all my brain dysfunction I could be both.  But isn’t the brain dysfunction a handicap that means I have higher protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Which means, you are discriminating against the handicapped.

 

            Shame on you, Professor!

 

            So, the Boston Tea Party was not a protest against the tax policies of Britain and the lack of representation in the government of the colonies.  If that is true, then my public school teachers lied to me and you should be attacking them.  Maybe they are all teabagging rednecks too.

 

            And then the professor declares that we are racist because we disagree with the policies of Obama and his socialist cronies in Washington.

 

            Herein lays the problem, any disagreement with liberals means that you get a label.  This is a shift in word definition.  I remember a time when we could intellectually disagree with each other on matters of religion and not be an Islamphobe.  I remember when we could support biblical sexual relationships and not be labeled a homophobe.  I remember when we could disagree with a black person on a matter of public policy and not be labeled a racist.

 

            Of course, these thought processes are much too complex for liberals, because you have to think about the issues instead of destroying the person presenting them.  Janeane, the liberal, probably feels real intelligent since she mingles with the Hollywood crowd.  And we all know they are representative of America.

 

            I have one last question.  Who gets to be the center of attention at a party full of narcissists?  I bet it ain’t Janeane!  Lighten up girl, we should be able to discuss these matters without you displaying your stupidity every time you speak.

 

            Make another appointment with your therapist, tell her your teabagging redneck friends sent you back—the brain transplant does not appear to be working.

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