Rambling Disgust with European Anti-Semitism

John R. Houk
© September 3, 2009

European history is rampant with anti-Semitism stretching from the farthest reaches of the West to the farthest reaches of the East. Misguided Christians were taught to hate Jews for being Christ-killers. Even though Jesus descended from mother Mary (as son of man) has a Jewish pedigree and the nature of the Early Christian Church has its direct roots in practicing Jews who believe Jesus the Son of God is the Messiah promised by Moses.

Amazingly secular Europe that is less Christian and more humanistic is re-visiting anti-Semitism again. What has causes this new hatred toward Jews? Is it the old Christian prejudice based on “Christ-killers” or the extreme myth of sacrificing Christian babies for their blood?

NOPE! Most indigenous Europeans have forsaken the practice and influence of Christianity in favor of the moral relativity of Secular Humanism.

One does not need a statistician or a scientific survey to make an educated guess for the existence of European anti-Semitism. The migration of large chunks of Muslims to European nations has both re-instilled hatred for Jews and to view any Israeli act of self-preservation as an act of aggression against oppressed Arabs who want to be called Palestinians.

Europeans and the Middle East even extrapolate myths from actual occurrences in other geographical areas. The classic case for that is the FBI bust that caught public officials and Orthodox Rabbis in corruption in New Jersey and New York. A significant amount of the culprits were of a Jewish ancestry whether observant or not. All the crimes were related to public corruption and money laundering to gain an illicit buck. The part that stands out to anti-Semites is that one of the Jewish culprits was part of an organ harvesting ring - Levy Izhak Rosenbaum.

Rosenbaum is the only one of the 44 arrested in which his involvement was money for organ harvesting. After a quick perusal of the list of 44 I could pick out roughly 16 that appear to have a Jewish heritage by name association (mind you it’s just a guess). This would mean over half of those arrested were of the typical ethnic melting pot of America.

This brings us back to reemerging European anti-Semitism. The largest circulated daily newspaper in Sweden is known as Aftonbladet. Freelancer Donald Boström wrote a scathing notorious blood libel that the Rosenbaum organ harvest crime is an example of why the IDF needs to be investigated for harvesting organs from unwilling Palestinians. The blood libel of harvesting Palestinian organs is like one of the propaganda lies perpetuated by Arab-Islamic terrorist organizations.

Match this blood libel with the fact that Sweden has between 400,000 and 500,000 Muslims out of a population of roughly nine million Swedes with a huge anti-Semitic bias.

The website Honest Reporting details the total lack of proper journalistic investigation by Donald Boström. Both Boström and Aftonbladet editors have admitted there is NO verification of the anti-Semitic story. Even so Aftonbladet has backtracked a little by claiming the story falls under editorial freedom of the press. The problem is the original Aftonbladet story was not on an editorial page. It was written as factual reporting.

Yossi Klein Halevi places European anti-Semitism in stark terms. His article “Incite to Murder” is a must read.

JRH 9/3/09

Gay Bucks Buy Northeastern State Legislators

Apparently sexual deviancy has the big bucks in the Northeast. Already three Northeastern States have passed into existence same-sex marriage laws. It should be noted though those laws were not decided by voters as much as they were enacted by State Legislators.

State Legislators have been receiving campaign donations from the sexual deviant crowd. This is coupled with the unfortunate reality of the lack of a presence of any well financed of Biblical Morality organizations. The organizations that are in place have depleted their financial coffers fighting other issues. The Roman Catholic Church is the biggest financially endowed Christian organization and that group has failed to step up to the plate to battle the immorality of same-sex marriage.

If you want to see the moral degradation of what Northeastern legislators are supporting you should view this link to the sexually prurient group that that does a morally degrading homosexual block party in New York. Be forewarned though, IT IS NOT A PRETTY SITE TO READ OR VIEW: http://www.folsomstreeteast.org/

The big bucks represented by these sick immoral hedonistic sexually explicit homosexuals are what New York State legislators are paying attention to. According to the New York Times (of all rags) New York’s duly elected State legislators are imminently preparing to enact a law legalizing same-sex marriage in the State of New York.

If you encounter a homosexual who vainly attempts to disabuse the Bible of Biblical Morality by informing you that God’s Word does not condemn homosexuality as immoral, then you can laugh at his tongue in cheek face.

Here are some examples from a Calvary Bible Church website from 2004:

After reading the Biblical texts that address homosexuality you might wonder how anyone could call themselves a Christian homosexual or why some mainline denominations now give approval to homosexual behavior. The Scriptures have not changed, so how, you might wonder, do they justify the sin of homosexuality in light of what the Scriptures say?

There are several approaches homosexuals use to explain why the Scriptures don’t mean what they say. First is to say that the reason Sodom and Gomorrah were judged is that the men of Sodom were not practicing hospitality. This is a desperate interpretation that disappears into vapor when one reads what Jude has to say about the reason God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Jude, after explaining how God judged angels who did not keep their proper domain says in Jude 7, “just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.” Here Jude describes the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah as “indulging in gross immorality” and going after “strange flesh” or flesh of a different kind – the men of Sodom were homosexual and wanted to have homosexual relations with the angels.

A second way the Scriptures are twisted by homosexuals is by saying that the laws against homosexual activity in Lev. 18:22; 20:13 are only for the priests. It is argued that these texts appear in the holiness code for the priesthood (Lev. chs. 17–27) and therefore do not apply to those who are not priests.

The problem is that the holiness code also forbids other immoral acts such as incest, fornication, harlotry, adultery, and bestiality. You can quickly see the problem their argument creates. If homosexuality is acceptable because it is found in the holiness code that only applies to the priests then the other immoral acts mentioned only apply to the priests as well, which means incest, fornication, harlotry, adultery, and bestiality are acceptable, also.

A third way the Scriptures are twisted by those who argue that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality is by trying to argue that the Apostle Paul didn’t condemn all homosexual activity. He only condemned homosexual activity among those who were born to be heterosexual, for they would be contradicting their created nature. They argue that Paul assumed that some people would be born with a homosexual orientation and those people would be sinning if they had heterosexual relationships because they would be perverting the way God made them.

Of course the fallacy with this argument is that God doesn’t make anyone a homosexual. Homosexuality is not genetic, but a learned behavior, a sinful choice that people make. Granted, everyone is susceptible to some sins more than others, but a strong desire to commit a particular sin, doesn’t mean God made you to sin in that way. Some people like to lie, others like to steal, but this doesn’t mean God created them that way. It means they have a strong desire to sin in those areas but it does not exonerate their sinful behavior.

A fourth way the pro–homosexual advocates twist the Scriptures is by using the misogynist argument. The misogynist argument says that in biblical times women were treated cruelly and were oppressed. They say that men during that time felt it was important to show dominance over women in every area. They argue that the Apostle Paul was conforming to the cultural standard of the day so naturally he taught that heterosexual relationships were mandatory. Since we live in a different culture where women are not treated like cattle and oppressed, Paul’s teachings don’t apply.

The problem with this argument is that the Bible sets a very high standard for the respect and care of women and requires husbands to treat them as co–equals in salvation and equal in worth. There is no law, ancient or modern which honors women like the Bible. Husbands are commanded to love, cherish, nurture, honor, protect, provide for, love their wives as their own body, help their wives grow in the Lord and love their wives as Christ loved the church who gave himself up for her. Hardly a misogynist agenda, especially when you consider that the Apostle Paul, who was the most outspoken in condemning homosexuality, also was the most outspoken about how husbands are to love and honor their wives. Granted, men have sinned against God in every age by not loving and honoring their wives, but their wicked behavior towards their wives is not sanctioned in the Bible.

The reason homosexuals are so desperate to try and explain away the Bible’s universal condemnation of homosexual behavior is that men, in their selfish desire to satisfy their lusts, have always sought to justify their sin. God has placed within man an awareness that he exists, but men, wanting to sin with a clear conscience, either deny God, deny the Bible is the Word of God, or twist the Scriptures to conform to their own lusts. Yet, in doing this they open the door for every other sin. (You should read the article from start to finish – it is informative.)

From a Biblical Morality view homosexuality is definitely a deviant perversion regardless of the faith abandoning sciences of the American Medical Association (SA THIS) and American Psychiatric Association (SA THIS).

The scientific community in its quest to validate a morally reprobate lifestyle such as homosexuality has been working feverishly to prove that homosexuality is biological-genetic as opposed to learned from the environment. The environment case would validate God’s Word and the genetic case would validate Secular humanism.

The irony of this scientific quest is that some homosexuals realized an emerging problem. That problem is that the discovery of a specific gay gene might prove to be a scientific way for normal parents to make sure that their child is genetically enhanced to wash away all inclinations toward homosexuality. Oops! The quest to genetically validate sexual deviancy might lead to genetically ending sexual deviancy.

Upon this realization the pro-homosexual scientists have attempted to connect genealogy to environment. This obscurant attempt to validate the homosexual gene stipulates that environment is the leading cause that activates that gene.

PLEASE! One doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that empirical data is being manipulated to appease the big buck homosexual organizations in their quest to invalidate Christianity as the foundation of the moral standards of America.

Thus it is not surprising that the American Psychology Association has publically acknowledged there is NO gay gene.

Still the well financed Homosexual agenda is succeeding in the Northeast in validating homosexuality via legalizing same-sex marriage. I wonder if there would be a greater outcry from normal heterosexuals if they and lawmakers were aware of the Homosexual agenda already implemented by many large businesses and corporations. Homosexual agenda influenced subservient businesses are actually persecuting Christians who take a stand not to participate in management mandated diversity seminars (i.e. code for forced homosexual acceptance).

Here are few examples:

Professor Janis Price of DePauw University, Indiana, placed issues of a magazine on a table in the back of her classroom. One of her students was offended by an article that was critical of how homosexuality was being handled in public schools and complained to the administration. Price was accused of providing her students with intolerant material. She was suspended and her salary cut by 25 percent.

Albert Buonanno, a Christian employee of AT&T Broadband, was fired in February 2004 for refusing to go along with a mandatory company policy demanding acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle.

Rolf Szabo lost his job at Eastman Kodak after he refused to go along with the company's "diversity" program, which required he give support to homosexuals in the work place who wanted to come out.

Motorola actively promotes a similar agenda through mandatory "homophobia" workshops and homosexual sex-ed courses. One employee told author David Limbaugh that "this push is causing a great deal of tension among employees and the 'quiet anger' of some who disapprove of the homosexual lifestyle because of their religious beliefs."

Episodes such as these are happening by the hundreds across America, every day of the week. According to medical, social science and especially legal experts, what is being called "diversity" is actually a dangerous new movement by a small group of activists to make the homosexual lifestyle appear as normal and healthy as the heterosexual lifestyle, even if that means deliberately hiding any information to the contrary.

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Fitzgibbons recently served as an expert witnesses in a case involving an Ann Arbor Michigan high school student whose Christian viewpoint was deliberately excluded from the schools "Diversity Week" celebration. Part of the week's festivities involved a panel of six clerics from different denominations who were assembled for a discussion about "Homosexuality and Religion." No one on the panel represented the Judeo-Christian view of homosexual relations.

Betsy Hanson, an 18-year-old Roman Catholic student, requested that a representative of the Catholic Church be part of the panel. Her request was denied by school officials who claimed her religious views would convey a negative message and would "water-down" the positive religious message that they wanted to convey.

Hanson and her mother decided to sue and Detroit Federal Judge Gerald Rosen ruled in their favor. "Isn't this cultural hegemony, where you're only going to present one view to the exclusion of others?" the judge demanded of the school's attorneys. "Don't you think that smacks of government and religious totalitarianism? Isn't that how we got to book-burning in Nazi Germany back in the 1930s?"

Fitzgibbons believes schools and school psychologists should be held liable when they actively promote the homosexual lifestyle while withholding vital information about mental and physical risks.

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Although doctors are obligated to provide informed consent to their patients, educators are not, he said.

However, in schools where a school psychologist is involved in these groups, then Fitzgibbons said they have the requirement to provide informed consent about the dangers of the lifestyle.

"If they don't, and a child experiences some of the medical illnesses that are so highly prevalent, particularly among men involved in same-sex relationships, that school psychologist is liable, the principal is liable and the school superintendent is liable. Just as when a doctor makes a mistake at a hospital, the hospital is also liable."

Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, has been sending out letters to 2,500 schools across the country who are relying on the "safe-school" programs devised by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network warning them of potential legal liabilities for the tort of negligence "if it is proven that homosexual activist organizations were granted access to students under the school's responsibility and that students suffered physical or mental harm. Under the right circumstances, state authorities could also bring criminal proceedings," he writes, citing Ohio Revised Code 2907.04, 2919.22 and 2919.24. (Excerpted from intro of the Catholic Education Resource Center 6 Part essay entitled, "Homosexuality: The Untold Story — The phantom gene”)

Yeah, I am willing to bet this Roman Catholic study receives very little attention from the Mainstream Media. I also doubt that Northeastern (and now New York State) legislators have viewed this alternative yet mainstream view of homosexuality.

JRH 5/21/09 (Hat Tip: Solid Snake email)

Homosexual Agenda Indoctrinating America’s Future

As anyone who reads here once in awhile is aware, I am a huge supporter of Biblical Morality through the filter of Christianity (I would include Judaism but frankly I have an incredible lack of knowledge of Jewish theology). An old post that I placed from AFTAH demonstrates my attitude toward homosexuality vis-à-vis Biblical Morality.

In simple terms homosexuality is the practice of either reprobate minds or deceived minds outside the box of Biblical Morality. Clearly no one is perfect; nonetheless one should strive to lead a Biblical moral life even if they miss the mark (one, two ok … many times).

I just finished an article from OneNewsNow.com entitled, “Parents fight homosexual indoctrination of kindergarteners”.

Can you imagine THIS? A government managed public education forum that is often prohibited from even mentioning the name of Christ, Bible, God or Christianity is openly indoctrinating children to accept homosexuality as normal. This is occurring to kids who may not even be able to read and write let alone comprehend the right and wrong of homosexuality and gay marriage.

I am sure there are parents in California who could care less about this indoctrination. I am also certain there are a huge amount of parents that are horrified that the government is teaching their children concepts no matter if parents agree with it or not on a social or moral back drop. After all even Left coast California has consistently voted for the definition of a marriage as between a man and a woman. Homosexual activists have been bankrolled to spread their agenda to the Courts to overcome the will of the voting people.

California’s Proposition 22 (2000) was ratified by the voters to the tune of 61% to 38% defined marriage as between a man and woman. The State Supreme Court struck that down.

In spite of a well financed homosexual campaign to message voters into accepting homosexuality as normal, the people passed California Proposition 8 to rule out same-sex marriages. The percentage was less than 2000’s 61% but it still passed with 52% of California’s voters.

There is no surprise that the homosexual agenda, secular humanist agenda and Leftists in general immediately went to California’s State Supreme Court (CSSC). The CSSC is scheduled to make a decision concerning the State Constitutionality of Proposition 8 somewhere between June 1 and 3, 2009.

By indoctrinating the young, the homosexual agenda is attempting to plow the stage with future American voters brainwashed to vilify Christian Biblical Morality. This is a classic instance of the failure of morality in America of the proper interpretation of the First Amendment as relating to religion (i.e. primarily the Christian doctrines of the Founding Fathers) and government.

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. (Bill of Rights)

The proper interpretation is that Congress is NOT able to make LAW establishing a STATE CHURCH nor can Congress prohibit the FREE EXERCISE of religion (again the Founding Fathers had in Christianity in mind). There is nothing in the First Amendment stipulating that religion (again the Founding Fathers’ thought is Christianity) should not be involved in government especially as religion pertains to moral foundations in a community.

One of the greatest foundations that the Left has melted away in America is the ability of schools to inculcate the religious morality of the local community. This melting has been the precursor to school violence like Columbine and teenage suicide.

You know what? The Left and the homosexual activists are aware of the old Christian proverb: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” In the case of the Left it is ‘Give me your children they will be God-hating moral relativists for life.’

This is the reasoning for indoctrinating children at such a young age concerning homosexuality. If the Courts does not pop into line with the homosexual agenda, then a generation of indoctrination will produce a future homosexual-friendly voter base.

Can you say, “Subtle, sick and evil?”

JRH 5/18/09

Do YOU Want Socialist and Secularist Transformation?

Without Googling the direct quote, can you name the person that spoke of Americans not dominated by Leftist ideology and altruism as Americans embracing their guns and religion?

That person spoke of those voters as if they are irrelevant to American society and American growth as a nation.

That person insinuated that guns and religion Americans need to be a part of a government motivated transformation in America.

That transformation includes transforming Biblical morality into Secular Humanist or relativist morality. Hate Crimes legislation that have been pushed the last seven years or so under a Republican President friendly to Christianity have been unsuccessful. Now Hate Crimes legislation under a voter elected Democratic Party Congress and President is on the verge of passing. If indeed the Hate Crimes legislation does pass and get signed this is the kind of transformation that will give Leftist activist Courts the power to criminalize Biblical Christian speech on such issues as homosexuality, abortion, Islamic culture and so forth are preached and/or written about.

This will place America on a difficult to change road of social transformation that places the backbone of American culture – Guns and religion – into the realm of criminality. This will place America into a transformation that vets as normal behavior (regardless of the Biblical ramifications) homosexuality, transsexuals, pornographers, child pornographers, pedophiles, bigamists (can you say multiple wives?) and many other vile behaviors which I choose not to do the mental exercise to find.

This person programming Americans about social transformation then will begin to program Americans about a socialist transformation.

This means the innovation that comes from capitalism will be transformed into a government controlled stagnation.

Now here is where I might differ a bit from Conservative purists. I believe in the 21st century that economics is so difficult for what might be called the working poor that strategies to secure a financial future or any kind of medical care is beyond the grasp of planning. The working poor often live from pay check to pay check capable of only planning for the next week rather after retirement. And I am aware this is not the case of all the working poor who may comprehend strategies to save for the future and merely need budget help to do so. I sense this awareness is the exception rather than the rule in the 21st century. In the 20th century it was probably the reverse in which a majority of the working poor were aware of savings and planning. However, Democratic Party and Republican Party both have utilized government dependence for the working poor so often I doubt there is anyone under the age of 70 that remembers strategy to pinch pennies to manage a modicum financial independence in retirement. I doubt there is any working poor that knows how to effectively gain medical benefits without some kind of outside aid of luck to work for a company that offers medical benefits to their low paid under skilled employees or to work the government for some kind of medical aid.

I hear the Conservative purists gasp and rail on what they would call Leftist thinking. Many might even proclaim that “I was a working poor and worked my way into the middle class.” Again I say the working poor still is in need of aid. If you were once the working poor and you have advanced to the middle class or better, then that is fantastic. You comprehended capitalistic strategies to move up the scale. I also do not believe that the upward mobile should bare the brunt of taxation for the working poor that do not have a clue. Yet should we punish the clueless working poor with abject retirement poverty or the lack of medical aid in the richest nation in the world?

In the 21st century a low income bracket should have a mandated tax (beyond Social Security) that simultaneously pays for a projected retirement and present time medical aid. Conservative purists can view that tax as investment. Perhaps the retirement fund can be moved to a more traditional capitalistic plan for the future as the working poor becomes the middle class. Also this retirement fund can be used as some kind of present time medical insurance (much as is available to Medicare patients today). If the working poor becomes upwardly mobile or acquires private insurance in traditional ways then this tax should be lowered according to an upward mobile income bracket.

This allows the working poor to not be trapped into poverty as an outright Welfare State would surely promote. This would also take away much of the socialistic burden of the middle class or better. Thus capitalism rolls on.

O yes, who is that person trying to transform America into a socialistic godless secular humanist nation? We all know that is President Barack Hussein Obama.

JRH 5/12/09

ACLJ files amicus brief to protect the National Day of Prayer

I received an e-newsletter from Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). Sekulow is taking on (or I guess sent an Amicus Brief) the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) who has a law suit to terminate the National Day of Prayer, which is today.

The FFRF is obviously an organization that is in step with the secular humanist agenda of terminating Christianity in America. I realize the FFRF bills itself as an atheistic and agnostic organization promulgating the delusion of separation of Church and State; however I doubt the efforts of the FFRF focus on other religions in America other than Christianity and Judaism.

This places the FFRF right up there with the reprobates focusing on ending Biblical Christianity as the foundation of the rule of law in America.

Read the Jay Sekulow e-newsletter defending the National Day of Prayer to get an idea of the evil of FFRF using Leftist activist Courts to attempt to perpetuate their Secular Humanist agenda.

JRH 5/7/09
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ACLJ files amicus brief to protect the National Day of Prayer

Jay Sekulow
May 7, 2009
ACLJ E-newsletter

The National Day of Prayer - a longstanding American tradition - is today. I hope you'll be able to participate in it this year ... and, indeed, for many years to come.

But it's in question - because of a federal lawsuit.

In fact, the ACLJ is currently representing 31 Members of Congress (including Rep. J. Randy Forbes of Virginia, who chairs the Congressional Prayer Caucus) in a crucial lawsuit attacking the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer. We have filed an amicus brief with a Wisconsin federal court asking the court to dismiss the case.

Our argument is very clear: The National Day of Prayer is deeply embedded in the tradition and history of this country, and such a proclamation and observance does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Sadly, this lawsuit - brought by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a Wisconsin-based organization - is another twisted legal attempt to remove prayer from public life. It specifically challenges the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law giving the President the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer.

A day set aside for prayer for our country is a time-honored tradition - dating back to the late 1700s. From the time of our Founding Fathers to the present day, such proclamations and observances reflect the nation's rich history.

There is no constitutional crisis here. We are hopeful that the court will take the only action appropriate in this case and DISMISS this lawsuit.

Our brief states that since our country's inception, nearly every president has issued proclamations calling the nation to pray for a variety of purposes. In addition:

''Despite the long history of official government acknowledgment of the role of religion in American life, there are still those who, like FFRF, seek relentless extirpation of all religious expression and reference from public life.''

We argue that there are numerous legal decisions ''including Supreme Court precedent'' backing the constitutionality of the observance.

You can read the entire brief here. Also, we have an entire section of our website dedicated to resources about prayer, including: public prayer, praying at school, and prayer in the workplace.

Thank you so much for your support. We'll keep you posted as developments unfold.
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Christian Songwriter Ray Boltz Embraces Homosexuality

Here is a story about Ray Boltz – Huge Christian Contemporary Musician – giving into the dark side of homosexuality.

It is old news but it is the first time I have read it. The article I read it from is an online magazine called The Voice.

For some reason the article isn’t dated; however a quick perusal of the comments suggests The Voice published the story on or before September 24, 2008.

Boltz out himself publicly to a Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender rag called the Washington Blade.

Boltz says he turned to Christianity to try to overcome homosexual tendencies when he was a young teenager. He eventually married as a Christian heterosexual and produced four kids which are adults now.

Apparently he outed himself to his family which obviously has led to a divorce for Boltz claimed he was living a happy normal homosexual life.

Sadly and Certainly Boltz has provided more ammunition for homosexual activists to attack Biblical Morality which is definitely anti-homosexual lifestyle.

JRH 3/23/09
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Christian Songwriter Ray Boltz Embraces Homosexuality

By Sherea Atkins
September 2008
The Voice Magazine


A contemporary Christian songwriter Ray Boltz has embraced the homosexual lifestyle during his coming out journey. His songs were inspiring, patriotic, and encouraged many. Boltz authored 16 albums and enjoyed a nearly 20-year recording career. However, in a lengthy interview with the Washington Blade - a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender newspaper – Boltz exposed his true lifestyle.

Boltz is a household name for many evangelical Christians, particularly for hits like “Thank You,” “Watch the Lamb,” “The Anchor Holds,” and “I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb.”

Boltz garnered a handful of Recording Industry Association of America Gold-certified albums, three Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and 12 number one hits on Christian radio. Boltz is regarded as one of the better-known singer/songwriters in contemporary Christian music. But after the release of his last album in 2002, and his last tour in 2004, he retired from the music industry and moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

On December 26, 2004, Boltz disclosed to his wife of 33 years and his four adult children that he was gay. According to Boltz’s own words in The Washington Blade, “It’s hard to say I came out because I didn’t have all the answers. I just admitted what I was struggling with and what I was feeling. It’s hard to go, ‘This is the point where I accepted my sexuality and who I was,’ but I came out to them and shared with them what I’d been going through.”

Boltz’s marriage to his ex-wife was, as he says, largely a happy one. It produced four children — three daughters and a son who are now between 22 and 32 — but family life and going through the motions of being heterosexual wearied Boltz. He describes himself as entering a serious state of depression. He was in therapy for years, taking Prozac and other anti-depressants, and was oftentimes suicidal.

Boltz told The Blade, “I’d denied it ever since I was a kid. I became a Christian, I thought that was the way to deal with this and I prayed hard and tried for 30-some years and then at the end, I was just going, ‘I’m still gay. I know I am.’ And I just got to the place where I couldn’t take it anymore … when I was going through all this darkness, I thought, ‘Just end this.’”

This month the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) announced Boltz would be giving two concerts at MCC venues in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., with proceeds to benefit the new direction of Boltz’s musical career. MCC sees its mission being social as well as spiritual by standing up for the rights of minorities, particularly those of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBT).
Though he’s open to performing, Boltz says he doesn’t plan to let this issue take over his life.

“I don’t want to be a spokesperson, I don’t want to be a poster boy for gay Christians, I don’t want to be in a little box on TV with three other people in little boxes screaming about what the Bible says, I don’t want to be some kind of teacher or theologian — I’m just an artist and I’m just going to sing about what I feel and write about what I feel and see where it goes,” he told the Washington Blade.

Boltz declined to go into specifics about the first time he was with a man, but says he has been dating and lives “a normal gay life” now. He went on to tell the Washington Blade, “This is what it really comes down to: If this is the way God made me, then this is the way I’m going to live. It’s not like God made me this way and he’ll send me to hell if I am who he created me to be … I really feel closer to God because I no longer hate myself.”
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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

Early Christian Existence Returning

Academics and Western intelligencia are labeling the days we live in as a post-Christian era. The meaning conveyed is that the haven of Christendom no longer views itself as Christian. The implication is that the West is a secular society abandoning all aspects of the Christian faith. Indeed many in the West – particularly in Europe – view Christian morality and values as archaic and mythological to a viewed reality evolving humanistic thought which is egalitarian and tolerant of all lifestyles post-Christian society deems acceptable.

Because of this Christianity is back on the footing of the early Church prior to Roman Emperor Constantine (circa 300’s A.D.). Indeed Academia has abandoned the Christian calendar of measuring time. A.D. (Anno Domini) has been renamed C.E. (Christian Era) and B.C. (Before Christ) is now B.C.E. (Before Christian Era). Anno Domini is Latin for the English “year of our Lord.” Thus you can understand why a Secular Humanist Christian rejecting Academia rejects the traditional measurement of time utilizing “A.D.”

In Europe this anti-Christian attitude is becoming ingrained into the minds of Europeans. The days of Christian persecution (thus far non-violent) have become a matter of practice in criminal and civil law in Europe. It is the nomenclature of society that if Christian faith offends it must be squelched even if it deprives a Christian Believer of Freedom of Speech. Thus Christian cannot preach Christian morality pertaining to homosexuality. Thus Christians cannot warn of the evils of the violent religion of Islam. Indeed European society has become so anti-Christian that it looks the other way when members of the Islamic religion preach violence against Jews, Christians and Western Society in general.

The irony of tolerating Islamic vitriol is that a significant amount of Muslims in Europe wish to have a double standard rule of law. This means one rule of law for indigenous and inherent Europeans and Sharia Law for Muslims.

HELLO! Sharia Law is the absolute opposite of even Secular Humanistic morality. Sharia Law calls for the snuffing out of homosexuals and retrograding civil rights of women.

For me that is incredulous! Christians are being prosecuted in Europe for standing for their Christian faith because it is particularly offensive to Muslims who view that Mohammed is the final authority of what faith should be. The very Secular Humanists that fear Christian Morality as a myth are validating Islam that is still living in a medieval mindset of violence as enforcement of belief. And Allah forbid a Christian or a Jew denigrates Islam in favor of an alternate faith. Honor for Allah must be maintained.

European government officials look the other way for this mindless Islamic attitude and prosecute people religious or non-religious that wish to maintain the culture of their heritage.

A classic example of this is the Dutch persecution of Geert Wilders for producing his movie “Fitna.” Fitna is a movie short documentary utilizing imagery of present day Islamic influenced atrocities and matching them with Mohammedan scriptures of the Quran. Evidently exposing the truth is incitement and hate-speech according to the Dutch government and Muslims in general. Not to mention the so-called Religion of Peace has threatened Geert Wilders’ life for this truthful portrayal of Islam.

The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) provides other recent examples of persecution of Christians in Europe. The CADC warns that anti-Christian mentality is taking root in America. Christians in America can choose to sit on their laurels and await vilification or do something the American Left and Muslim-American organizations would fear; i.e. become active politically and socially in standing up for your Christian faith before it becomes illegal to do so.
JRH 2/5/09
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Coming to America!

Christian Anti-Defamation Commission
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Coming to America! Silence of Christ’s Lambs
 
When trying to predict where America is going, often all you have to do is look across the pond at “post-Christian” Western Europe. America is typically a decade or two behind them on social issues, that is, unless we act now.

Stories are coming in from Europe of Christians being fired from their workplace or who are intimidated to be silent. If one dares to extend Christian concern or act in a way faithful to their religious convictions they will pay with their job.

Praying Nurse Disciplined
A nurse in Britain, Caroline Petrie, was suspended after she simply asked a patient if they would like prayer. The patient refused and later reported Petrie. The patient said that she was not offended by the offer, but she reported Nurse Petrie because she was afraid someone else might be offended. So Petrie has been ordered to attend disciplinary meetings because someone might be offended.

Previously Petrie was forced to stop giving out Christian prayer cards to patients who asked for them because the relative of a patient objected. As a result, Petrie had to take an equality and diversity course.

Petrie said, "My concern is for the person as a whole, not just their health. I was told not to force my faith on anyone but I could respond if patients themselves brought up the subject [of religion]."

Counselor Conflicted
Another Brit, Gary McFarlane, a counselor for Relate Avon Corporation, was dismissed from his job because he expressed concern over the possibility of having to give sexual advice to homosexual couples. MacFarlane never refused to counsel a same-sex couple. He only expressed concern at the possibility because of a conflict between his Christian faith and homosexuality.

McFarlane believed that it was due to his Christian faith that he was fired from Relate Avon. "If I were a Muslim, this would not have happened. But Christians seem to have fewer and fewer rights," McFarlane said.

A British employment tribunal has ruled in favor of a McFarlane, but said that “The claimant was not treated as he was because of his Christian faith, but because (the company) believed that he would not comply with its policies.”

Minister Muzzled
A minister and radio talk show host is taking legal action after he allegedly was fired for offending Muslims by defending Christianity on air.

Rev. Mahboob Masih, a minister in the Church of England, claims he was unfairly dismissed from his position of host of a radio program in Glasgow. The action taken against him, Rev. Masih claims, was a case of religious discrimination.

After a lively religious debate about a prominent Muslim, who, according to Rev. Masih, belittled Christ, the radio station management accused Rev. Masih of not being balanced enough on air.

Rev. Masih reluctantly made an on-air apology in an attempt to defuse the situation, but refused to comply with a request from a senior station official to deliver an apology in person at the Central Mosque in Glasgow. Now he is appealing to the decision to fire him to the labor board.

No Place for Faith at BBC
Another radio talk show host in England, Jeremy Vine, is a Christian and believes that Christ is who he says he is, but doesn’t think he could say it on his BBC show.


The Radio 2 host says society is becoming increasingly intolerant of Christian views. It has become “almost socially unacceptable to say you believe in God.”

Mr. Vine is a practicing Anglican, but does not discuss his faith on air. “One of the things that I think, which may sound bizarre, is that Christ is who he said he was,” he said. “I don’t think I’d put that out on my show; I suppose there’s a bit of a firewall between thinking that and doing the job I do.”

The BBC did a self audit in 2007 and determined that there is an institutional anti-Christian bias.

This is only a snap shot of what will come in America if we continue to allow our first amendment liberties to be undermined by hate crime legislation and stand idly by while Christian discrimination goes unopposed.

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Coming to America!
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Biblical Morality: I’m Just Saying …

I am what homosexuals refer to as a “fundie”; i.e. a Christian Right (Bible Believing) fundamentalist. Since the Mainstream Media (MSM) has successfully demeaned Christian fundamentalists as the Christian version of Islamic terrorists, I tend to eschew that appellation.

I am extremely comfortable with being a member of the Christian Right that upholds Christian Biblical morality. I am extremely uncomfortable with the money that is behind a homosexual agenda to indoctrinate Americans that it is ok to practice this perversion.

Secular Humanism that is so pervasive in American society has watered down morality for heterosexuals so much that no one thinks twice about adultery, fornication and keeping a family together. This is such a standard procedure in America that divorce is flippant direction to do go because the morality of marriage has been diluted by the common usage of pre-marital sex. Indeed one can view this dilution on one of the largest propaganda tool America possesses – Left leaning Secular Humanist television entertainment.

Because of this I can understand the sense of hypocrisy homosexuals have against anti-homosexual heterosexuals, those of the Christian persuasion in particular. A pleased to say that divorce rates of 50% plus for Americans is staggering deception promulgated by the manipulation of statistics (check HERE and HERE). For example the common statistic you would find would be on a site like DivorceRate.com.

At DivorceRate.com you can read the oft skewed report of America’s Divorce which goes something like this:

The divorce rate in America for first marriage, vs second or third marriage
50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.”

The two links above DivorceRate.com demonstrate how the data is misconstrued.

I pray my brief justice does justice. From what I’ve read the statistics are unequal compared by year and by the total couples married. Given that criteria the divorce drops compared to the popular versions placed in the public as the absolute truth.

Here is small example of good debunking of Secular Humanist data:

A spokesperson for the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics told me that the rumor appears to have originated from a misreading of the facts. It was true, he said, if you looked at all the marriages and divorces within a single year, you'd find that there were twice as many marriages as divorces. In 1981, for example, there were 2.4 million marriages and 1.2 million divorces. At first glance, that would seem like a 50-percent divorce rate.

Virtually none of those divorces were among the people who had married during that year, however, and the statistic failed to take into account the 54 million marriages that already existed, the majority of which would not see divorce.

In the other link debunking the divorce myth in America it points out that 49% of those co-habiting (i.e. living in fornication) end up separating. This is sad for it is people willing and openly disregarding Biblical Morality. It is so common no one thinks about it.

It is also sad that those that identify themselves as Christians have the same rate of divorce rate as those that regard themselves as a secularist. Of those Christians that have comparable divorce rates to secularists, it is the Biblical Morality crowd that has higher rates than traditional mainline Churches. Christians have the same or a little higher divorce rate than atheists and agnostics.

This is where the homosexual agenda wants to lead America: a common place of acceptance of the perversion already given validation by the secular minded American Medical Association (AMA) and American Psychiatric Association (APA).

I am gratified to discover there is exists an organization called the National Psychiatric Association (NPA). It claims to be the standard among psychiatrists implying that the APA has slipped. The NPA lists homosexuality as a mental disorder and underlines for emphasis.

I do hammer on homosexuality as wrong as many Biblically based Christians do; however to bring balance it is time to also harp on sins such as adultery and co-habiting fornication. What is worse: a practicing homosexual or overt non-marital co-habitation among heterosexuals?

I have to admit I have too been de-sensitized to acts of co-habitation or adultery. I have caught myself thinking “you fool” for the adulterers and telling myself “to look the other way” concerning co-habitation.

Really though the practices are all wrong: adultery, fornication and homosexuality. Because of the normalizing of adultery and fornication in America, heterosexual secularists that find homosexuality abhorrent and Biblical Christians that find homosexuality abhorrent, dump on the now very public and very open agenda of accepting homosexuality as a normal phenomenon.

This brings me to the Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) article I just finished reading. This AFTAH article is praising a hotel chain for finally pulling the plug of a homosexual event to be held in one of their hotels. The homosexual event was labeled, “Obama Inauguration Pig Sex Orgy.”

Apparently AFTAH had been hammering the hotel chain to cancel the homosexual event. Evidently there was initial resistance from the hotel to cancel the “Obama Inauguration Pig Sex Orgy.” Eventually the parent company of the hotel succumbed to the pressure of AFTAH (thank God) and issued a directive for the hotel to cancel the pig sex orgy.

I don’t EVEN want to dwell on what a homosexual pig sex orgy entails. The very thought is repugnant!

The thing that provoked a little more thought about homosexuals is a written comment sent in about a pig sex orgy. Here is the quote:

I have mixed feelings over this… I know what these pig sex orgies are and they need to be held on someone’s farm or ranch deep in the woods. I am a gay man and find them pretty disgusting! It seems this event was planned to shock the fundies [Christian fundamentalists] and add legitimacy to their hedonist cause. I don’t care what anyone does sexually but a little discretion would be called for.

Most people only get their news about gays from this type of reporting. Unfortunately, the reporting is true. It is time for all members of the gay community to take a look at themselves and how they portray themselves.

by: paulko @ Sat Jan 17, 2009 at 07:39:48 AM CST

You see there are heterosexuals that go to sex clubs, prostitutes and striptease joints. Those heterosexual practices are as hedonistic as the homosexual pig sex orgy.

Straight up friends: DO NOT retreat from repudiating the homosexual agenda; however let us get some gumption and repudiate heterosexual perversions as well.

JRH 1/19/09

CADC Rebuts Newsweek Pro-Homosexual Stand

I missed it but apparently the periodical Newsweek came out with an article that essentially validates the homosexual lifestyle. Now that is not surprising since most of Mainstream Media (MSM) is Leftist in nature and the Left tends to support Secular Humanism and Secular Humanism is in a same-sex marriage with the Homosexual Agenda.

I found an excellent rebuttal to the author of the Newsweek article – Lisa Miller – who uses journalism to suggest that Biblical Scripture does not condemn homosexuality because the Bible is a “living document.” “Living document” is Left-speak for Constitutional Law and Judeo-Christian Scripture should be interpreted relative the values of the present rather than the letter of the original meaning.

Dr. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) rebuts Miller in what he calls A Running Commentary on Newsweek’s Pro-homosexual Cover Article.

READ Dr. Cass’ defense of the REAL Biblical stand on homosexuality.

JRH 12/14/08

U.S. government: We know parenting better than you

The Democrat Party led Congress is exploring the concept of sending the government into family homes to measure the well being of children. Of course the target is the poor or families in which one or both parents have a job that keeps them away from home (e.g. Military Personnel).

I don’t know about you but this sounds like Soviet style government management of how citizens raise their children. I realize there is a utopian angle to protect children from abuse and neglect; however it is also the toe in the door to expand government controlled behavior, social standards and religious/non-religious morality. In other words the dream of Secular Humanism to tell Biblical Christians what is acceptable or unacceptable in raising and training their children.

Are the Democrats turning America into Amerika?

JRH 7/24/08

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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A Special Message from Rick Santorum

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!

Contributions or gifts to the National Organization for Marriage, a 501(c)(4) organization with QNC status, are not tax-deductible. The National Organization for Marriage does not accept contributions from business corporations, labor unions, foreign nationals, or federal contractors; however, it may accept contributions from federally registered political action committees. Donations may be used for political purposes such as supporting or opposing candidates. No funds will be earmarked or reserved for any political purpose. The first $5.00 of your annual gift keeps your membership status active for an additional year.
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A Special Message from Rick Santorum
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