Another View of Ted Kennedy’s Passing

A few days ago I posted some rather generous (for a Conservative) thoughts about Senator Ted Kennedy’s passing entitled, “Senator Kennedy: What if …?” SlantRight.com is the flagship blog which I post at mostly because my son owns the domain name and he created the site for his Dad – me. I post often at other social blogging networks including a Blogger blog which is a mirror to the flagship.

On some of the social networks I received some pretty harsh language of which some of those utilize very descriptive objections to my generosity. I have attempted to take a stand of not speaking wickedly of the dead even when he was an evil Leftist.

The epithets I read really did not change my mind on Senator Ted Kennedy. As a Christian I thought it better to find something nice to say in this life and that God Almighty would be the Judge in the next life.

I have to tell you though. I was pointed to the Human Life International (HLI) statement release on Senator Ted Kennedy’s passing. The statement was written by Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer who is also the organizations President. I actually know little about HLI except that is pro-life and very Roman Catholic.

Fr. Euteneuer actually delivers a very eloquent statement yet also a very harsh statement about the Senator’s passing.

The reasoning utilized by Fr. Euteneuer has me wondering why the heck my thoughts of Ted Kennedy were generous at all. Read the statement.

JRH 8/29/09 (Hat Tip: Jim: Eye of the Culture Wars)

Obama Pleads With Gays, Vows to Be 'Champion'

Here is further evidence of the erosive attack on Biblical Christianity: President Barack Hussein Obama has vowed to be a friend of homosexual activism in changing the hearts and minds of Americans from traditional Christian views on homosexuality to the perverse acceptance of the alternate lifestyle. He made the promise to homosexual activists invited to the White House.

JRH 6/30/09

Ellie Defends the Left and Homosexuality

Below are a couple of comments left by Ellie (of Vox social network) concerning one of my many cross posts: “The Immorality of Homosexuality.”

Thank you for the link, I will have a look.

With all due respect, the parades are not proof of anything. It makes me sad (and a bit crazy, to be honest with you) that we liberals and secularists are painted as perverts. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I, like many liberals, am pro-military, and pro-authority.

It makes me sick to see thongs in public. I don't want to see people's private parts - whether someone's gay or straight. But gays don't have a monopoly on perversion - not at all. It's the bad stereotype of gay parades that makes all sorts feel free to act like they're porn stars. My gay friends hate it even more than I do. They are perfectly proper citizens.

I'm not touching the Bible - I have no interest in reinterpreting it. I respect other's wishes, I just wish you guys would speak to us liberals before you judge us.
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Way2K, are you kidding me? Craigslist? That is not a scientifc study.

The article says, "One study says this...and one study says that....". They are not mentioning what studies they refer to. That must be convenient to say the study is out there in the ether but to not actually reference which study it is.

Here is an example of a scientific study:

A difference in hypothalamic structure between heterosexual and homosexual men

And to explain why such published studies are important references, here is my favorite scientist discussing evolution vs creationism.

Thank you for listening to me rant, I can't think of a better thing than for our polarized citizens to talk to one another.

So because a person finds some statistics and posts them to a Craig's List link, the statistics are invalid? Hmm...

Besides it was only a cursory Google search that I found this link. I did not realize you were going to use the statistics as a scientific reference. Probably Googling those statistics will lead to the origination.

I do appreciate genial dialogue as opposed to the epithets that I receive for my stand with Christian morality.

Incidentally, contrary to probably most of my fellow Conservatives (and probably a significant portion of my fellow Christian Right brethren) I am not closed minded about many Slanted Left concepts. However, I do filter everything through the Bible as it is viewed via Charismatic, Pentecostal and Word of Faith views. I am also aware that many Christians both toward the Left (i.e. more relativist than Biblical) and toward the Right (intolerant Protestant traditional view points often equated with fundamentalism) would consider me archaic (Left) or heretical (Right). Nonetheless, the Bible is everything for me.

In saying that I have to say there is a good argument for both Socialism and Capitalism in the New Testament:

• Socialism – Acts 2:40-47.

• Capitalism – Matthew 13:44-52; 25:14-29.

I personally could find more of the Scripture supporting Capitalism than Socialism but the point is both concepts are in the New Testament. I also realize that theologians would not view these Scriptures in economic terms; rather the Biblical scholar or student would find the spiritual Truth that is the direct meaning. Nonetheless, the spiritual Truth may be the point; however the principle can be surmised.

There is evil in Socialism. When all the altruistic good of the collective is looked at through who decides what is the greater good for the collective, then abuse begins to occur. Hence Socialism too often leads to godless authoritarian Communism in which the one human (or ruling human group) decides the good for the many.

There is evil in Capitalism. When the individual (or the influential group of wealth) places greedy gain to the detriment of the mass of individuals then people are exploited for the benefit of a few.

The key for either the Socialist Left or the Capitalist Right to be beneficial for humanity is the Golden Rule: Do to others as you would have them do to you. Or love humanity as God loved humanity enough to give His one and only Son, that all humanity may have the God-Kind (Zoe) life. I am ashamed to say too many Christians fall short of the Christian ideal which does include me. I do have a tendency to get steamed over social issues like homosexuality and abortion because they definitely are not in line with the Bible. I become so steamed that I sometimes fall into the ditch of harshness.

So Ellie the biggest problem I have with the Left and alternate lifestyles is the anti-Biblical Christian path they tend to take.

Ellie now I will try the “scientific” data to which you refer.

The link to the research of Dr. Simon LeVay is fascinating stuff. LeVay’s hypothalamic studies have led to the speculation of a “gay gene.” LeVay’s thinking seems to be if there is a “gay gene” than the lifestyle of homosexuality is a normal biological part of human life.

It is the old “genetics versus environment” argument with those believing homosexuality developing due to one’s social environment is a learned lifestyle and thus reversible and not normal.

As you can expect the “science” that is in the tank to validate homosexuality has been initially excited about LeVay’s research. And those scientists (although a minority) who are Christian or social traditionalists seem to be big on proving the environmental hypothesis.

When it has looked like LeVay and/or other like minded scientists was very close to identifying a “gay gene” the social traditionalists are quick to point out it has not been proven. (SA this narth.com article) Then someone woke up among the homosexual activists. If homosexual friendly LeVay indeed discovers a “gay gene” proving biology over environment, then heterosexual parents might take advantage with a little genetic social engineering to remove any possibility of a “gay gene” to exist via abortion or other methods. This would effectively bring the modern termination of homosexuals as their so-called genetic brethren (and sistren) would slowly decrease.

Of course the American Psychiatric Association admits there is no “gay gene”. Many on the Right believe this APA reversal was due to regain a better reputation of objectivity. I believe the APA reversal was due to the headaches that genetic engineering would cause for the homosexual community.

Let me end by saying that I do appreciate dialogue without profanity. My experience is that my intransient stand with the Bible irritates the Slanted Left, homosexual activists, the pro-choice crowd and other such ideologies. That is okay as long as the Left understands that their views are often offensive to me. But hey, we all live in America. We all have Constitutional Rights of Free Speech as long as it does not cause immediate harm (e.g. falsely yelling fire in crowded area).

Thanks for your time Ellie.

A New American Revolution?

I am a bit surprised to find this kind of post on the ChristianNewsWire. CNW has published an article that calls for a Christian Revolution to end the influence of Secularism Humanism in the U.S. Government.

The call for the governed to rise up and overthrow the virus of Secular Humanism heavily implanted in the U.S. Government is from Gregory Thompson founder of America ASLEEP kNOw More. Thompson has correctly identified the path that has allowed a Secular Humanistic agenda transform America.

The Despotic Federal Government in the United States has betrayed the people and is not legitimate, causing more grievous injury to the people today, than was caused by the tyrants in England that precipitated the separation and signing of the original Declaration of Independence. …

… A return to Christian principles that are protected by a Constitution with the consent of the people is all that can save our country from total ruin, and Traitorous Tyrants are in place working to keep that from happening. A Communistic Secular Humanism has infiltrated the government, pulpits, education, courts, media, and Hollywood, and it puts our posterity at risk of slavery, death, and eternal damnation.

I basically agree with the tough language Thompson employs here. On the other hand a fighting revolution comparable to what America’s Founding Fathers went through is something Americans could not unite behind. I doubt that America’s Christians that strongly believe in Biblical Morality could even comprehend the thought of Revolution other than through the election process.

Frankly there is a difference between a secular nation abiding by Christian principles in its rule of law and a nation that forces the governed as a Christian nation. Face it Christianity in America is diverse and a Christian national government threatens Freedom of Religious thought and practice. This is not to mention the various religions that have a moral foundation that supports peace above violence or force a Christian moral pattern that may be diverse yet essentially identical to Christianity. I am thinking Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and many other “isms” other than Christianity. The one “ism” that is contrary to the others is Mohammedanism. Human Beings may have fought in the cause of their belief in Christianity and many of the other religious “isms,” but Mohammedanism’s whole deal is a monolithic take-over by first offering a peaceful conversion followed by force if peace does not work. Mohammedanism is systemically violent and violently intolerant of thought counter to Mohammedanism. This is in Mohammedanism’s so-called holy writings.

Christian Holy Writings and many other religious “isms” rely on the conversion of the conscience to accept the Creator or the other “isms.” (I say other “isms” for I understand that Buddhism or some practitioners of Buddhism do not believe in a personal God/Creator.)

The best revolution for America to get back on track with a moral balance is what many Conservatives fear: a Constitutional Convention. The fear is based on Leftists getting the upper hand at a Constitutional Convention forever abandoning Christian Foundations for Secular Humanism.

I sense a consensus can be built between the Left, the Right and Christians/isms that take the best of the three and abandoning the worst of three. Make no bones about, all three have a bad perception that will infringe on other individuals’ rights.

If no consensus can be found look to a civil war with the winners transforming government to whims as the rule of law while maintaining the illusion of a Federal Republic. The historical parallel may be the Roman Republic transforming into the Roman Empire.

JRH 3/3/09

McDonald’s Pro-Gay Stance Gaining More Protestors

Pro-Family Groups are mobilizing to publicize McDonald’s extreme support of the deviant moral lifestyle of homosexuals and transgenders. Expect the Mainstream Media (MSM) to ignore the publicity so watch your inbox or mailbox or paid ads (that might slip through the MSM barrier) to join with the majority of normal Americans in exposing the now anti-family values McDonalds.

JRH 7/19/08

Santorum: It’s Time to Mobilize AGAINST Gay Agenda

John R. Houk
© July 18, 2008

HumanEvents.com became the vehicle for a paid ad representing the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and written by Rick Santorum former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. The ad references the May 15, 2008 California State Supreme Court validating homosexual marriage over turning Proposition 22 from the year 2000. That Proposition in 2000 passed with 68% electorate voting to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

Santorum’s paid ad is timely since the same State Supreme Court voted unanimously to allow Proposition 8 to remain on the November 2008 ballot that AGAIN defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The thing I learned from the Santorum ad that I was totally unaware of is that the May 15, 2008 4-3 California State Supreme Court also made homosexuality and transgender oriented people the same as a RACE; ergo the majority of Americans that are people of faith (including Christians, Jews, Mormons, Muslims and so on) could be targeted as breaking the law under discrimination statutes when they preach against homosexuality.

Santorum’s ad is simply to mobilize the will of the majority of Americans against wealthy homosexuals who are an extremely low percentage of Americans utilizing their wealth to transform America into a Secular Humanist anti-religious nation that accepts homosexuality and transgenders as normal rather than deviant as defined by most of globes Faiths. (And my readers know I am no fan of the Muslim religion; however at least Muslims recognize that which is deviant and that which normal.)

YOU CAN READ SANTORUM’S MOBILING AD HERE.

JRH 7/18/08
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By Rick Santorum
National Organization for Marriage
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Dear Friend of Marriage,

My friend, I've never come to you with a more urgent message: Unless we act today, we will lose the battle for marriage--not a decade from now, not "someday," but quite possibly in the next few months.

How? Just weeks ago, a handful of out-of-touch judges overturned the will of the people in California by repealing Proposition 22, which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman and was overwhelmingly approved by the voters in 2000.

Four California judges endorsed two big, very bad ideas. First, they extended the internationally recognized human right to marry to include same-sex marriage. Not even in Massachusetts or in New Jersey could the courts stomach the idea that same-sex marriage is deeply rooted in our foundational American traditions of human rights.

The second big idea endorsed by the California court is even less promising: sexual orientation should be treated just like race under the California equal protection amendment, subject to "strict scrutiny." This is a ruling which, if left undisturbed, means that Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims who see marriage as the union of husband and wife, and view sexual activity as best confined to marriage so defined, are in the exact position as racists under California law.

Hollywood, academia and some in the medical profession launched a huge offensive over the past decade to change the attitude of Americans about the homosexual community.

They have succeeded in shaping the minds of young people against traditional marriage and intimidating and punishing anyone who offers a defense of marriage. A sophisticated network of wealthy gay activists are now trying to exploit this change in attitudes by spending millions on stealth campaigns to defeat pro-family state legislators and pass gay marriage laws.

They are pushing the battle first where the secular left is the strongest: deep in "blue states" including New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maryland and now even in my home commonwealth, Pennsylvania.

That's why I need you to act today. Use this hyperlink to help launch the National Organization for Marriage's 2008 State Action Plan, including a sophisticated issue ad campaign--radio, TV, and print ads to drive home the point: don't mess with marriage.

If we don't fight back, our children and grandchildren will get harmful and confusing messages about marriage, including this one: there's no difference between same-sex and opposite-sex unions and anyone who defends marriage is a bigot.

Make no mistake, gay marriage is not about letting Adam visit Steve in the hospital or letting them do what they want in private. Gay marriage is about using the power of government to propagate a new faith: Individuals who oppose gay marriage are hateful bigots and they and their faith community should be punished.

Why are they pushing so hard to push gay marriage laws through state legislatures?

Because, they want to drive a nail into the coffin of any possibility of a federal marriage amendment.

Because, once it is "normalized" in this way, they are counting on the courts and the culture to then spread gay marriage throughout the country.

Because they know that once they get government committed to the idea that traditional marriage is bigotry, like racism, they can use the power of big government to marginalize, stigmatize and repress people of faith in American life.

And because they believe people of faith like you and me have no way to fight back.

Their strategy is simple: Use the big money power of high-tech billionaires to get politicians to ignore the values and voices of regular Americans.

That means, folks like you and me who:

• Know marriage is the union of husband and wife;

• Don't want their hard-earned tax dollars used to subsidize novel family forms, and;

• Certainly do not wish their public schools to teach captive children that their parents and grandparents are evil discriminators for opposing gay marriage.

That's right, while we are tending to our jobs, going to church, and raising our families, a handful of wealthy gay men are plotting ways to use their giant fortunes to reshape the entire American political landscape in their own image.

Sound a little hard to believe? I thought so too, until I read the March 1, 2007 Atlantic Monthly article that documents the detailed plans and huge influence these men are having, led by one gay billionaire activist named Tim Gill.

The article is called "They Won't Know What Hit Them," and the subtitle pretty much says it all:

"Tim Gill has a mission: stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started. How a network of gay political donors is stealthily ... reshaping American politics."

That grabbed my attention, how about yours?

If so, I need your help to fight back.
And the best way I know is to help launch the
National Organization for Marriage's 2008 State Action Plan,
so that we can send a clear message to politicians:
don't mess with marriage. Use this hyperlink to make a
generous donation of $35, $50, or even $100 today.

These gay marriage activists know the marriage battle will be won or lost in state legislatures. And because they know that state legislatures are our farm team for the next generation of passionate pro-family leaders that's who the gay donors are targeting.

"[I]t's often just a handful of people, two or three, who introduce the most outrageous legislation and force the rest of their colleagues to vote on it," says Gill. "If you could reach these few people or neutralize them by flipping the chamber to leaders who would block bad legislation, you'd have a dramatic effect."

Their goal? "[P]unish the wicked," as Gill puts it. Or, "snuff out rising politicians who were building their careers on antigay policies, before they . . . achieve national influence."

Their chief cautionary example of such a villain is . . . --Yes, there I am again!-- "Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania."

Let's be clear here: by "punish the wicked" Gill means people like you and me who adhere to God's vision of what marriage is and what it is for.

By "outrageous legislation" he means laws that protect marriage as the union of husband and wife, and incidentally also protect faith groups from persecution by the government for our views of marriage.

In the last election cycle Gill pumped $15 million into defeating the good guys. According to the Atlantic Monthly he succeeded seventy percent of the time.

"In 2000, he gave $300,000 in political donations, which grew to $800,000 in 2002, $5 million in 2004, and a staggering $15 million last year, almost all of it to state and local campaigns."

Danny Carroll, for example, used to be speaker pro tem of the Iowa House, a rising pro-family star who had guided a state marriage amendment to passage in the Iowa House (the first step to putting it on the ballot).

Then he was targeted by rich gay activists for his leadership on marriage.


Carroll never even knew why he lost, until the Atlantic Monthly reporter pointed out to him all the $1,000 out of state checks:

"I'll be darned," said Carroll. "Denver ... Dallas ... Los Angeles ... Malibu ... there's New York again ... San Francisco! I can't--I just cannot believe this," he said, finally. "Who is this guy again?"

Who is this guy?
Can we afford to let Malibu, Beverly Hills, Manhattan,
and San Francisco control our country and our children
and grandchildren's minds? That's why I need you to
support NOM's 2008 State Action Plan immediately.

And remember: it doesn't stop with gay marriage.

When the gay marriage money comes in and "flips" a state legislature, they flip it on ALL the values issues that concern families like ours; Abortion, religion in the public square, abstinence education--not to mention a whole lot of tax and spending issues too.

In Pennsylvania, Gill money helped the Democrats gain control of the House by only one vote.

What happens if we permit this tiny minority to reshape marriage? The next step is to use the new law to suppress the liberties of Christians.

Already:

• A Christian adoption agency--Catholic Charities!--has been shut down by the government because it will not do adoptions for gay married couples.

• A volunteer fireman, who risked his life to rescue friends and neighbors in need, was told his services were no longer wanted--because he signed a petition supporting marriage as the union of husband and wife.

• A father was arrested for trying to prevent a public school from teaching his son that gay marriage is normal.

• In New Jersey, a Methodist organization just lost part of its state tax exemption because it refused to permit civil union ceremonies on church-owned property.

How can this happen in the United States of America?

One thing I've learned to trust after 15 years on the front lines: When things look the darkest, God raises up new reasons to hope.

For those of us who are Christians, despair is a vice, and for us hope is not only a natural emotion, it's a theological virtue.

We are each called to "faith, hope and love." It is the fuel for our battles with the forces of hate who seek (in the name of tolerance!) to silence God's own truth.

And so with great hope and excitement, I learned about the launch of The National Organization for Marriage's 2008 State Action Plan. Will you give a generous donation today to help ensure the plan succeeds?

This is the start of something really big and new--and not only on the marriage issue. It's a whole new model for getting politicians to do the right thing on traditional values.

I know politicians--believe me!--and nothing gets their attention like the possibility of a competent, well-funded campaign to let voters know how they really vote! Listen to Maggie Gallagher, NOM's new president, talk about the real disconnect between the polls--which show 60 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage--and the politicians:

"Politicians think they can get away with ignoring what voters think on marriage. Unless that changes, gay marriage activists are going to push blue state legislators to pass gay marriage, whether the people in their state want it or not."

So she and some other folks have pulled together a brilliant team to head up NOM's 2008 State Action Plan to take on the coming marriage and religious liberty battles in the states where it will be fought.

Think about the success of the gay marriage movement: If 2 percent of the population funded by a handful of rich men can work a revolution in culture, what could 60 percent of the population--or the most committed quarter--do with the right tools and strategy?

We can take Gill's strategy and flip it against him: use it to protect marriage by creating the real possibility of political risk--that politicians SHOULD feel when they vote against their own constituents' voices and values.

The National Organization's mission is to "protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it." The team they've brought together to accomplish this mission is extraordinary. Princeton Professor Robert George, Chairman of the Board, is a national treasure, a consistent and powerful intellectual defender of life, marriage and the natural law. Maggie Gallagher, NOM's president, is one of the most powerful, consistent voices for marriage in the country.

I got to know Maggie well during the battles over the Federal Marriage Amendment; Maggie helped me equip senators to speak on marriage. You may know her from her syndicated column that appears in the New York Post and many Pennsylvania papers as well.

Brian Brown, the dynamic young executive director (the father of five kids under the age of eight!) spent five years reviving and running the successful Family Institute of Connecticut, so he knows what it is like to fight for marriage deep in blue-state territory.

But don't take my word for it alone: Dr. James Dobson personally donated $25,000 to the National Organization for Marriage. Why?, "It's not just marriage that is at stake, it's absolutely everything," Dr. Dobson said on a recent Focus on the Family broadcast in which he invited Maggie Gallagher and Prof. George to speak about the National Organization for Marriage.

On the October 10 Focus on the Family radio broadcast, Dr. James C. Dobson urged pro-family Americans to do something about it.

"This has been an ongoing struggle that burns in our hearts," Dr. Dobson says. "And now, marriage is really on the brink, and I don't know how to emphasize that more."

Let's get the good fight going!

Gay marriage activists have to depend on a handful of very wealthy men, because they cannot count on the broad support of the American people. They know politicians who listen to your views and values will vote for marriage as the union of husband and wife.

Together, with God's help, there is no limit on what we can accomplish.

But we cannot do the work without the tools.
Your generous gift today will help make sure we have
the resources to get the word out. Use this hyperlink
for a generous donation of $35, $50, $100 or even more.

We need your help to put NOM's 2008 State Action Plan to work for your values, including:

• To launch a billboard campaign targeting state legislators who promised to vote for marriage and then broke their word. (For an example, click here.)

• To develop radio and TV ads and launch a sophisticated new media campaign to let the American people know the real consequences of gay marriage.

• To create a national grassroots email database of voters (segmented by state) who care about marriage and its related religious liberty issues, for state as well as national campaigns.

• To provide protection--legal, moral and media--to individuals targeted by the gay lobby for their courageous stands for marriage.

Our goal? Passionate, pro-family advocacy--with real muscle to back it up so the politicians can ignore our values no longer.

But there is one big problem. The gay millionaires are writing big checks. But most Republican donors are afraid to take on this issue, afraid their businesses and their pocketbooks will suffer if they take on the gay lobby. All this, at a time when citizens and legislators in California, Florida, Rhode Island and other linchpin states are facing their most important opportunity to defend marriage, right now!

So we are going to have to do it without the millionaires. It's just us this time, fighting against the latest legislation from the bench in California and other acute challenges to marriage in America.

We urgently need your gift for NOM's 2008 State Action Plan:
$5 or $10 a month (think: one less Big Mac a month!) would make a huge difference. But we need your donation right now, whatever you can give. A one-time donation of $35, $50, $100, or even $1000, if God has given you the gifts to afford it, would go far to giving us the ability to fight for marriage, state by state, battle by battle.

And don't forget: we need your prayers, too. To thank you, I'd like to give you a gift in return: Everyone who pledges a monthly gift to NOM's 2008 State Action Plan, no matter how large or small, will get a free CD of the Focus on the Family October 10 broadcast on gay marriage and what it will mean for churches and other Christian organizations throughout this country. One-time donations of $100 or more, or monthly donations of $10 a month, will receive a free copy of my book, It Takes a Family.

Won't you help right now?

God bless you,

Rick Santorum

P.S. Send your monthly gift for $5 dollars or one-time gift of $35 today--for the cost of just one less Big Mac a month, you can help save marriage and prevent persecution of people of faith!

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Santorum: It’s Time to Mobilize AGAINST Gay Agenda
John R. Houk
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CA Homosexuals Might Get Their Marriages Overturned by Proposition 8

On May 15, 2008 the California Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision struck down a people’s initiative in 2000 that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Mystically four State Supreme Justices found that California’s State Constitution made the people’s initiative unconstitutional in 2008.

On July 16, 2008 the California Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a homosexual activist challenge of Proposition 8 appearance on the November 2008 ballot. I am betting the Justices of the California Supreme Court are elected rather than appointed (Really it’s a good bet). The unanimity to shoot down the homosexuals in July is in stark contrast to a close decision for the homosexuals in May.

Proposition 8 proposes amending the state's constitution to provide that the only kind of marriage that will be valid or recognized in California will be a marriage between one man and one woman.

I am betting Proposition 8 on November 4, 2008 will pass thus overturning the California Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision in May. And the homosexual activists KNOW IT.

In Bennett v. Bowen, No. S164520 the homosexual activists that had big buck homosexual organizations on the legal team (including the ACLU of course) went down in flaming defeat with the unanimous decision.

This is what Christian influenced OneNewsNow.com says about Bennett v. Bowen:

The California Supreme Court has ruled that the marriage protection amendment will remain on the state's November ballot.

Following the California's Supreme Court ruling that legalized homosexual "marriage" in that state, activists sued to keep the marriage protection amendment off the November ballot. However, they failed in their attempt on Wednesday when the court ruled in favor of Proposition 8's inclusion on the ballot.

Glen Lavy with the Alliance Defense Fund says the homosexual activists trying to keep the amendment off the ballot showed their contempt for the will of the people and the democratic process by filing such a baseless lawsuit. "I would have been shocked if the court had prevented this amendment from going on the ballot," he comments. "The lawsuit was frivolous. There was no basis for the arguments. It would have been ridiculous for the court to rule in their favor," Lavy contends. Matt Staver of Liberty Counsel represented the Campaign for California Families and argued in defense of the amendment. "[We] really didn't know which way the court was going [on this particular issue]," he says. "But the good news is they've rejected the argument by same-sex advocates to remove the marriage amendment from the ballot.

"Now the secretary of state is free to print all the information to notify the voters and, in fact, the voters will speak in November," the Liberty Counsel founder continues. "And when they speak, I believe they'll pass these 14 words. These 14 words will overrule the 4-to-3 decision of the California Supreme Court and restore marriage as the union of one man and one woman." Those 14 words are: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." According to Staver, passage of Prop. 8 would invalidate all same-sex marriages performed in California prior to the enactment of the amendment.

The legal Christian perspective is confident Proposition 8 is something the California Supreme Court can’t touch if passed.

Not so fast though, a blog dedicated to legal reasoning has this to say about Bennett v. Brown:

The California Supreme Court, which approved same-sex marriage in a landmark ruling in May, has refused to remove a proposed ban on same-sex marriage from the state's November ballot.

The state's highest court cleared the way on June 16 for state voters to weigh in on a ballot initiative, Proposition 8, which would outlaw same-sex marriage under the state constitution.

On June 20, LGBT-rights advocates asked the state supreme court to block the vote and pull the measure from the ballot, saying it would destroy fundamental rights that can't be curtailed by popular initiative. Bennett v. Bowen, No. S164520.

Under the supreme court's May 15 ruling, the court relied on state constitutional rights of privacy and equal protection to allow equal marriage rights to same-sex couples. The suit argues that repeal of those rights requires revision of the state constitution, which can only be done by a two-thirds vote of the state Legislature, before going to voters.

Same-sex marriages have been taking place throughout the state since June 16, when the original decision became final. If Proposition 8 is approved by voters and same-sex marriage is outlawed, the California Supreme Court is likely to be faced with the legal question of whether the existing same-sex marriages are valid and a renewed challenge to the constitutionality of Proposition 8.

The one-page order signed by Chief Justice Ron George, denies, without explanation, the request to pull the measure from the ballot. The order was unanimous. (The National Law Journal Legal Pad LA)

The author of this article (Pamela A. Maclean) speculates that the California Supreme Court will again enter the legal fray of difficulties with a passage of Proposition 8. So it might still be the will of the voters versus the will of judicial system.

JRH 7/17/08

PCUSA Denigrates Jesus Christ

The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (PCUSA) is a prime example of what is known as Progressive Christianity. The PCUSA has totally abandoned Biblical Christianity to merge with Secular Humanist ideology thus further elevating Secular Humanism to the status of religion.

Secular Humanism is silently becoming the State Church due to the deception of the word “secular” in its ideology. The PCUSA is a prime example of abandoning and attacking Christianity in merging with the religion of Secular Humanism.

There are some members of the PCUSA which are shocked by the recent changes in the denomination. The PCUSA in duly unchristian fashion is preemptively taking steps against Congregations who try to leave by asserting that their Church property is PCUSA property.

JRH 7/12/08

McDonalds Fully Supports Homosexual Agenda

Today is Independence Day. Independence Day in America has become a time of outdoor and/or family get-togethers and enjoying fireworks displays.

This is all good because it is a rare time that most Americans put aside political differences for a day of fun and entertainment.

Unfortunately I suspect it is a day that most Americans do not comprehend the blood, sweat and personal sacrifice that American Revolutionaries experienced in gaining the freedom of self-governance from a then one of the most powerful nations in the world – Great Britain.

The Brits certainly looked upon the upstart Revolutionaries as political gnats daring to with stand British sovereignty and a threat to the colonial system of economics that benefited the British Empire.

Ergo the Brits of the day decided to squash the pipsqueak American colonials by any means necessary to preserve British honor and economics (certainly an overstated simplification on my part but you get the idea).

What the Brits did not understand is that American colonialism developed under two premises: Individuals and groups seeking a better economic life unattainable in the Mother England AND religious refugees that honored God but not necessarily accepted by the State Church of England.

The first marked the embracement of individualism the later laid the foundation for Christian morality in colonial America.

Secular Humanism and its spawn such as homosexual activist are attempting to negate the Christian heritage that America was founded upon.

And now Secular Humanist offshoot activists like the homosexual rights groups are doing everything in their power to convince Americans and the rule of law that homosexuality is a normal lifestyle that deserves validated equal protection under the American rule of law. In doing this agenda homosexuals have also done everything in their power to discredit Biblical Christianity as an archaic group of bigots who are prejudiced against their gender-bending deviancy.

That is the key by the way: Biblically homosexuality is deviant behavior that should be abhorred in the same category as pornography, pedophilia, prostitution and other sexual deviancy that has manipulated the First Amendment beyond its intent with concurrence of a Leftist Judiciary and NOT the American voters.

With this in mind I compelled to support (and ask others to support) the American Family Associations (AFA) war of exposing billion dollar corporations who actually pump money into the coffers of deviant homosexual activist organizations who goal is to transform American perceptions of right and wrong or what is moral or immoral based on Secular Humanisms concept of moral relativity.

The unabashed support of the Homosexual Agenda by the McDonalds Corporation is the latest task of the AFA. Read about it HERE.

JRH 7/4/08

Colorado SB200 Makes Christianity Discriminated and Illegal to Practice

Here is a huge irony. Homosexual Activists must have been studying Mohammedan history. How can I say this? The Homosexual Activists have taken the Mohammedan concept of dhimmitude and have successfully lobbied into Colorado State Law the dhimmification of Christianity pertaining to homosexuality in the State of Colorado.

From the Mohammedan perspective dhimmitude is a community law that makes non-Mohammedans second class citizens with nearly zero political rights. Colorado’s SB200 is the beginning of this dhimmification process in relation to empowering homosexuals as a moral class of people while making it a criminal offense to proclaim the immorality of homosexuality outside of the walls of Christian Churches.

Thus the Arabic concept of dhimmi or “protected” is a hypocrisy entering American society. Christians can proclaim Biblical truths inside the walls of a Church however if open campaign to condemn homosexual immorality is preached outside a Church or published and sold by for profit companies it is now criminal.

If Colorado’s SB200 is not successfully challenged in a federal court it is a concept that Homosexual Activists will infect the rest of America as a difficult to cure political disease. According to James Dobson SB200 is written in such a way that a grassroots Initiative process to overturn the State Congressional legislation is not possible. I don’t understand how that is possible so I hope Dobson is inaccurate on that assertion.

This is also an example of the power of well funded minority activism overriding the will of the people. Dear God in Heaven do not let this political disease stand or infect the rest of America.

Homosexual Activists can continue to do rallies anywhere in Colorado preaching their disgusting agenda. If a Christian protests he, she or they can be tossed into jail or fined or both under SB200.

The key word in an article written by Bob Unruh is “marginalized.” The State is making a law restricting the free practice of religion and proclaiming homosexuality a valid style simultaneously. Dear friends that is Unconstitutional according to the First Amendment of the Federal Constitution. It marginalizes Christians by regulating the practice of where they can practice religion and where and how a Christian can practice Freedom of Speech.

JRH

Obama promises 'gays' 'strongest possible bill'

Well there is no doubt whatsoever the agenda for American Society if Obama is elected President. In an interview with a Homosexual rag, Obama promised the moon for the Homosexual Lifestyle.

God have mercy on America if voters place Barack Hussein Obama in the Office of President and a probable Democratic Party dominated Congress.

One extra comment: Sally Kern for Vice President!

JRH 4-11-08

Help the AFA Battle the Homosexual Agenda

I have been a stalwart opponent of the Homosexual Agenda in America. I often have been called a bigot or prejudiced because I stand with the Bible that says homosexuality is a sin. I have even been told by homosexuals that Biblical scriptures concerning homosexuality are either outdated barbarism or are misinterpreted by traditional theologians – meaning the Bible does not condemn homosexuality.

That is part of the Homosexual Agenda: Calling Holy Scripture medieval and irrelevant or delude people with revisionist thinking that the Scriptures do not condemn homosexuality as a sin.

I believe the punishment prescribed in the Old Testament for homosexuals is covered by Grace in the Redemptive Act of Jesus Christ. Thus repentance and forgiveness covers the Old Testament Law concerning the penalty for homosexuality in this life.

Nonetheless Grace does not absolve homosexuality as a sin. Regardless of what homosexual revisionist propaganda might to tell you, the classic example of God Almighty’s displeasure with Homosexuality is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Today’s sodomy laws (mostly struck down by a Left leaning judiciary) are derived from the city of Sodom. Thus even the secular government comprehends the punishment of Sodom of Gomorrah were the result of sex sins of which homosexuality was one of many.

In the New Testament the classic condemnation of Homosexuality (here specifically male homosexuality and Lesbianism) is found in Romans chapter one.

The point is this, the practice of Homosexuality is wrong and stretches way beyond what is acceptable of Freedom of Choice and Conscience. The Homosexual Agenda with the allegiance of the Left and Secular Humanists, has been slowly chipping away at the American abhorrence of homosexuality. Hollywood and Television are the main source of propagating cultural acceptance of a depraved lifestyle.

The American Family Association has been a huge watch dog at fighting back the inroads of the Homosexual Agenda. To the certain dissatisfaction of Homosexual activists the AFA has been successful. The best example is that of the Ford Motor Corp. giving in to most of the AFA demands concerning financial support of Homosexual causes.

Now the AFA is setting its sites on McDonalds that has bought into the Homosexual and Secular Humanist delusion of the concept of diversity.

Another example of the AFA fighting the Homosexual Agenda involves the city of Eureka Springs, AR. The heritage of Eureka Springs is a small town for shopping, Bed and Breakfast establishments and most of all Christian entertainment. The most notable of the Christian Entertainment has been the Eureka Springs Passion Play which ranks as one of the best Outdoor productions in the world. I mean it is almost like a pilgrimage to go and watch the Passion Play in Eureka Springs.

In recent years an incredulous display of local Pastoral apathy has taken place. For some Satanic reason homosexuals began to move to Eureka Springs in sufficient numbers that when local elections were held, homosexuals gained control of the local government of Eureka Springs. The new paradigm the homosexual City Council is to de-emphasize Christian tourism and promote Gay Pride tourism. This is a slap in the face of God.

The AFA has put together a 28 minute DVD exposing the counter-culture of the Homosexuals invading and taking control of Eureka Springs. If you live in a small town or a Morally Christian neighborhood, it would behoove you to purchase the DVD to have knowledge of how the Homosexual Agenda may target you.

Keep up the Fight AFA!

JRH

Defending Family Values and Representative Sally Kern

Here is an update on the courageous battle State Representative Sally Kern (Distr. 84 Republican) is fighting against the homosexual agenda in the State of Oklahoma.

JRH 4/2/08

Repudiate Homosexual Indoctrination in Public Schools

What if homosexuals staged a huge promotion of that sexual lifestyle choice, and no one came to see it? That's exactly what a coalition of organizations is proposing for April 25, this year's "Day of Silence," which is sponsored in public schools across the nation to promote homosexuality. "'Day of Silence' is about coercing students to repudiate traditional morality. It's time for Christian parents to draw the line – if your children will be exposed to this DOS propaganda in their school, then keep them home for the day," he said.

This is another example of the State battling Faith and Christian American foundations in particular. Talk about a joint agenda, this is the will of atheists, homosexuals, secular humanists, moral relativists and Leftists in America and in Western Society. The agenda is to scrap Judeo-Christian based morality. I am certain many of those agenda persuasion sorts are unaware of the damage to social mores this is causing. The more the government removes Judeo-Christian values from our society the more our society becomes untrusting, dishonest, violent, thieving and hedonistic. Is that an America we wish to live in?

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Obama Actively Supports Immoral Homosexuality

A majority of Americans view Homosexuality as an immoral practice; however Homosexual Agenda Activists have been slowly eroding that majority. Of the majority that views Homosexuality as immoral, growing numbers ironically are beginning to view that Homosexuals should equal rights as Heterosexuals. For me this is a moral/immoral American paradox that I feel is highly influenced by a Secular Humanist agenda of removing and denigrating Christian Values as the bedrock of American society.

Even I, a confirmed homophobe, am beginning to wonder where to draw the line on what is acceptable and unacceptable according to the U.S. Constitution on the Freedom of thought or expression.

I clearly believe the creators of the American Constitution would be horrified at the acceptance of Homosexual and Alternate Lifestyles acceptable in American Society today. It is also clear a significant majority of the Founding Fathers including the Liberals favorite – Thomas Jefferson – would be abhorrent that black slaves have received full manumission with an ever growing enlightened equality of Constitutional civil rights.

As much as I hate to say it, the Left has done some great things for America along the lines of civil rights. That is the greatness of the American Republic style of Democracy. The right thing always seems to manifest even if it is difficult road.

Nonetheless for every good thing the Left has accomplished there also seems to be a price that degenerates America’s moral absolutes causing a slow whirlpool of sinking values that in the late 20th century and early 21st century seems to weaken the nature of what has made America great by blurring what is good and what is wrong.

That “blurring” is the elimination by the Left of Christian Morality as the standard of right and wrong in American society. The blur is even now increasing because of the push for multiculturalism to override what has been America’s National Motto: E Pluribus Unum – Out of the many, one.

The Multicultural push by the Left will create a divisive America in which citizens will demand their cultural heritage to supersede the Constitutional Rule of Law; e.g. Sharia Law by Muslims, Relativism by atheists, the establishment of multiple languages such as Spanish or Arabic to be a part of legal documentation or public signage and so forth.

E Pluribus Unum will be eliminated in favor of a divisive and ultimately an inward destructiveness of Ex plures, divortium - Out of the many, division.

I write all this to make this observation: The Barack Hussein Obama campaign website has an open letter [In case of removal click HERE] to the homosexual activist organization – LGBT – “assuring them he believes in ‘full equality’ for homosexuals and stating that, unlike Sen. Hillary Clinton, he advocates the complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.” (WND)

Since a majority of Americans consider homosexuality to be an immoral lifestyle, a vote for Obama is a vote for immorality. Does America need more immorality?

JRH

Moral Relativity in America

Here is an example of Leftist Judges establishing Secular Humanism as a religion in America. A father in Massachusetts in 2005 was upset that the Public School sent home reading material for his son promoting the acceptance of homosexual behavior.

The Father file a civil suit against the Public school which was dismissed in Federal Court and in the Appellate Court ruled that teaching homosexuality did not violate parental rights. Now the Father is taking his cause to the Supreme Court.

Another family became upset with a Public School in 2006 because it sent home reading material for their second grader about two homosexual Kings that were lovers. This family joined the Father of the five year old in the Law Suit which is on its way to the Supreme Court.

On paper this Law Suit is about Parental Rights VS what the Government can instruct children in Public School.

The reality is different. It is about establishing the value and moral system of Secular Humanism in America. That makes a system that calls itself “secular” a religious system.

Leftists have interpreted the First Amendment’s intent of NOT establishing a State religion as Separation of Church and State. The phrase “Separation of Church and State” is found no where within the United States Constitution in the original document or the first 10 Amendments that has come to be known as the Bill of Rights.

Leftist Courts have used the illusion of Separation of Church and State to slowly erode Christianity from any connection in government on the local, State and Federal level. These Leftist Christophobes have changed Community Nativity Scenes that have been found on public grounds because it violates the Separation of Church and State myth. Leftist Courts have begun telling the Government to remove references to Judeo/Christianity from public buildings because it violates the Leftist interpretation of the First Amendment. The primary public property removals usually relate to the Ten Commandments or Crosses at Public Memorials. These representations of Christianity are symbols of values and morality; thus Leftist Courts are refuting Christian values and Christian morality in the name of the delusion of the Separation of Church and State.

Secular Humanism has emerged as a religion that places faith in the objective evidence of human discovery (facts derived by the validation of Science). Secular Humanism glorifies humanity as self-existent rather than created by God. In other words values and morals are relative to what feels good for humanity in the sense realm. Thus what is normal like a male and female is the foundation to producing progeny. The progeny learning their roles in life from the examples set by male and female parents.

Since it feels good to a group of humanity to have same gender sex, Secular Humanist morals and values would dictate that children acquired (obviously not produced from the same gender) can learn what is normal from same sex cohabitation.

In Secular Humanism, values and morality are measured on a sliding scale rather than a paradigm that fixes normality, values and morals.

Faith in Secular Humanism has probably led to the greatest degeneration of Western Society. Violence, promiscuity (homosexuals and heterosexuals), community trust, the disintegration of the cohesion of the family which leads to mutual disrespect between human individuals and on and on.

In essence Secular Humanism is a religion.

The First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Judicial Branch of Government has basically ESTABLISHED Secular Humanism as the Religion of the Land. The Judicial Branch’s extra-Constitutional legislation has overstepped it’s purpose. The Congress is the Legislative Branch which exists to create law and the parameters of a fiscal budget within the confines of the Constitution. The Presidential Administration is the Executive Branch which exists to manage the Government and enforce the Laws enacted by the Legislative Branch. The Judicial Branch exists to adjudicate civil and government law. The Judicial Branch interprets law and provides clarity to gray areas of law.

Legislation is not the Judicial Branch’s jurisdiction; yet that is exactly what Leftists in the Judiciary have done by ESTABLISHING Secular Humanism as the religion of the Land. Thus forcing the traditional religion of the Land too often being in contradiction of the unconstitutional Established State religion of Secular Humanism.
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Moral Relativity in America
John R. Houk
© February 26, 2008

Hat tip to Jim Phelan.

ELCA Offers Validation to Homosexuality

The largest Lutheran Denomination in America has joined Episcopalians and the United Methodist Church in humanistic fashion decided that homosexuality is not a sin. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has decided not to defrock Pastors that are open homosexuals.

The resolution vote was 538-431 at the ELCA annual meeting.

Fellow Christians we are talking about Protestant Churches that are considered mainstream global churches or at least American Churches. It is this lack of Biblical morality that is diluting the foundations of American society. America is slowly transforming under the influence of slanted Left thinking of Secular Humanism which is the larger movement of the homosexual activists.

Christians need to organize even in the face of ridicule and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ that delivers from the darkness of moral ambiguity and translates a human spirit into the Light of Jesus Christ: Redeemed by the Resurrection of the Lord and transferred into the Kingdom of the Father’s dear Son.

Mohammedan Moral Police are Hypocrites

Victor Davis Hanson busts the chops of the incipient hypocrisy of Mohammedan complaints about the West vis-a-vie so-called pure Mohammedan moral culture.

In honesty the immorality that is allowed in the West due to abused Freedom of Speech, Choice, Religion, Thought and so on; is a valid complaint. The ever growing prurient attitudes of accepted vices are truly disappointing. Some vices are pushed as relatively moral according to Secular Humanistic standards of moral relativity.

I am embarrassed that the Mohammedans accusations are often correct. On the other hand Victor Davis Hanson points out the very thing Mohammedans accuse of the West are degradations that exist in their own society; they are just hidden or ignored due the power of the elites in Mohammedan society.

Materialistic shopping sprees of decadent luxurious items by oil rich royal families or families of oil rich dictators occur frequently. Homosexuality is as rampant in the Middle East as it is in the West, it is merely hidden. If it is discovered, then the poor devils are executed. Many Middle Eastern nations (Saudi Arabia in particular) still cut off hands for thievery (unless of course you are a member of the ruling elite – royal or republican). The drug trade that destroys the lives of the addicted is booming in the Middle East and the illicit drugs are marketed by some of the most notorious supporters of Sharia Law morality – Islamist terrorists.

Incidentally it is the same Islamist terrorists that receive monetary donations from Mohammedans that live in the West (Europe and America). In the USA the most notable Mohammedan organization that supports these illicit terrorists is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (read about CAIR’s actions HERE and HERE). Iranian client Terrorist Hezbollah (yes Hezbollah has attacked Americans directly) has America-Mohammedan Shi’ite organizations in America, particularly in Dearborn Dearbornistan, Michigan.

Homosexual Activists VS Biblical Morality on U.S. Surgeon General

Homosexual Rights groups wish to deny Dr. James Holsinger’s nomination as Surgeon General because his personal beliefs are traditional Christian Morality pertaining to marriage.

Since when do personal beliefs disqualify any person from a job? If that was the measuring, the majority heterosexuals and Christian Biblical moralist would ban homosexuals from a significant number of jobs that affect the family (e.g. school teachers, daycare workers, and public leaders and so on).

This is a classic example of homosexual agenda hypocrisy aimed especially at Biblical Morality. If H.R. 1592 and S. 1105 were the law of the land Dr. Holsinger would be disqualified for his beliefs being incitement to hate crimes.

O MY GOD!