President Barack Obama told reporter Robin Roberts last week that his thinking has “evolved” into support for . . . → Read More: QUEERLY BELOVED: Mr. Obama rips into marriage]]> Exclusive: James Dobson says the family ‘will cease to exist’ if ‘gay’ matrimony prevails

 by James Dobson

President Barack Obama told reporter Robin Roberts last week that his thinking has “evolved” into support for same-sex marriage. His words conjure up imagery of a brooding, contemplative president, seeking the advice of friends and associates and finally coming to a new conclusion three years later. I don’t believe it for a minute. He stated as far back as 1996 that he was in favor of gay marriage and then flip-flopped on the issue when he ran for president. His new position sounds more like a political calculation in an election year.

The president’s evolution of gay marriage also lacks credibility because of his consistent support for the gay and lesbian agenda. He opposed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” for military personnel and ordered his Justice Department not to fight for the Defense of Marriage Act in court. Then on Monday, Obama declared that he now wants DOMA repealed. The president hasn’t opposed LGBT activists on any substantive issue since taking office. Now that he is seeking re-election and has been smoked out by Vice President Biden, he apparently decided it was time to reveal what he has believed about same-sex marriage all along.

The president’s statement also lacks internal consistency. He said he favors each state’s right to determine the definition of marriage – yet isn’t that precisely what the people of North Carolina did last week? Was their vote of 61 to 39 percent in favor of traditional marriage a fluke, or was it the result of the citizens of North Carolina making their own choice?

And speaking of states’ rights to define marriage, wouldn’t that wreak havoc on individual families? Imagine the chaos of a couple being married in Texas but not married in Arkansas, or being married in Arizona and not married in Massachusetts. Children in one state would be legitimate, but would be the product of unmarried parents in the next. And what about the jurisdiction of the federal and state courts? Could they continue to override the will of the people, as did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California? And what about inheritance issues from state to state? You would think the president of the United States would have thought through his position and its implications before impulsively making it known to the nation. If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

Finally, this story has been mishandled by the biased news media, as usual. Even Fox News, notably Shepard Smith, told its viewers for weeks that the nation was shifting dramatically in the direction of same-sex marriage. That is palpably untrue. North Carolina and 31 other states have now voted on the definition of marriage, and every one of them has affirmed it as being exclusively between one man and one woman. There have been no exceptions. Mr. Smith never acknowledged that fact and said instead that the president was at last on the “right side of history.” Really, Mr. Smith? Traditional marriage has been the cultural norm on every continent on earth for 8,000 years, even in Greece and Rome.

Mr. President, I hope you live to regret ripping into the institution of marriage, which has been foundational to the social order of all nations. It must continue to be protected in law and practice if the family is to survive in this shock-wave world.

I’m in Los Angeles as I write this article. Actually, I’m about 35 miles north of LA. It’s easy to understand why so many people dreamed of California. The Mamas and the Papas got it right:

On a winter’s day

I’d be safe and warm

If I was in . . . → Read More: Bankrupt California Can Be Saved by Following Puerto Rico’s Example]]> May 16, 2012 byGary DeMar

I’m in Los Angeles as I write this article. Actually, I’m about 35 miles north of LA. It’s easy to understand why so many people dreamed of California. The Mamas and the Papas got it right:

On a winter’s day

I’d be safe and warm

If I was in L.A.

California has become a nightmare. The beauty is still there in the majestic hills, the rolling meadows, and the breathtaking canyons. It’s too bad that the whackos have spoiled the state, turning it into an incubator for all that’s wrong with liberalism. It’s no wonder that California is one of the least business-friendly states in America. On regulations, employment, labor, hiring, tax code, and licensing, it gets an F and a D on ease of starting a business.

While getting ready for a business meeting, I turned to a news channel and saw California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and Art Laffer, Supply-Side advocate and author of Eureka!: The Way to Fix California, being interviewed by Larry Kudlow on “The Kudlow Report.” They were talking about how to fix California’s $16 billion budget shortfall.

Gov. Jerry Brown wants to trim some programs (a good idea) and raise taxes (a bad idea).

Laffer’s comment was on the money: “You can’t tax a state into prosperity.” Kudlow wanted to know how New Jersey could get its budgetary house in order without raising taxes but California couldn’t. Even Puerto Rico was able to do it.

When Luis Fortuno became governor in 2009 the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico didn’t have enough money to pay its bills. The first thing the new administration did was to cut 17,000 government workers, freeze all salaries, and cut government spending by 20 percent.

As expected there were protests in the streets. The governor held firm. He knew that a little pain now would result in great benefits in the future. He didn’t stop with cuts to government employee waste. He went on to cut corporate taxes and state income taxes.

Now that Puerto Rico is a tax-friendly region, businesses are moving in. As John Stossel reports, “Wal-Mart, CostCo, Coca-Cola, and pharmaceutical companies are moving to or expanding in Puerto Rico. Soon, they will provide thousands of new jobs.”

Gov. Brown wants the people of the California to vote for a “temporary” tax increase. The people who will vote yes will be voting to tax the other guy, spending will still go up, and the tax increase will become permanent.

What will businesses do if Californians vote for a tax increase “on the rich”? Move to more tax-friendly states. They might even try Puerto Rico.

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On Monday, Barack Obama attended a campaign fundraising event hosted by Blackstone’s chief operating officer Hamilton E James. According to Blackstone’s webpage,

“We operate one of the world’s largest private equity fund businesses.”

“Blackstone is a premier global investment and advisory firm that strives to provide solutions that create . . . → Read More: Obama Holds Out Hand for Campaign Funds While Holding Knife in Other Hand]]> May 16, 2012 byda Tagliare

On Monday, Barack Obama attended a campaign fundraising event hosted by Blackstone’s chief operating officer Hamilton E James. According to Blackstone’s webpage,

“We operate one of the world’s largest private equity fund businesses.”

“Blackstone is a premier global investment and advisory firm that strives to provide solutions that create lasting value for our investors, the companies in which we invest and society at large
Our portfolio companies employ over 700,000 people across the globe, making us a major factor in economies around the world. If our portfolio holdings and transactions were combined into a single company, it would rank as the equivalent of number 7 on the Fortune 500.”

While Obama was holding out his ‘I want your money’ hand to the private equity business world, his campaign was launching a new ad that attacked Mitt Romney’s record of when he worked for Bain Capital. And what does Bain Capital do? They do pretty much the same thing that Blackstone does – private equity. By condemning Romney for working in the private equity world he is condemning the entire private equity business world as well.

So let me get this straight, Obama condemns Romney for working in the private equity world at the same time he asks the same industry for money for his campaign. Folks, this is an example of a person that has no moral sense of value or decency for anyone else. His obvious hypocrisy should be a wake up call to all of his supporters as he really doesn’t care about them either, as so many of his socialist policies have proven. Obama has no problem taking your money with one hand while he holds a knife in the other with which he is about to plunge into your back.

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Another National Day of Prayer has come and gone, but it hasn’t stopped ill-informed judges from trying to rewrite our nation’s history. “A Colorado appeals court ruled last week that the state governors’ previous proclamations regarding the National Day of Prayer were unconstitutional as they implied a ‘government endorsement . . . → Read More: God-Like Panel of Judges Declares National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional]]> May 16, 2012 byGary DeMar

Another National Day of Prayer has come and gone, but it hasn’t stopped ill-informed judges from trying to rewrite our nation’s history. “A Colorado appeals court ruled last week that the state governors’ previous proclamations regarding the National Day of Prayer were unconstitutional as they implied a ‘government endorsement of religion over nonreligion.’”

This isn’t the first time wayward judges have displayed their ignorance of history and the meaning of the Constitution. Wisconsin U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb ruled that “the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience. . . . The government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual’s decision whether and when to pray.” She and the Colorado judges need a history lesson from the Founders who drafted the First Amendment and also called for national days of prayer and thanksgiving.

In 1789, the same day the wording of the First Amendment had been finalized, Congress called on President Washington to declare a national day of prayer and thanksgiving. The proclamation stated that “it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.”

John Adams, in his 1798 Proclamation, stated something similar:

[T]he safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and blessing of Almighty God; and the national acknowledgment of this truth is . . . an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.

Then there are the official documents that called for national days of prayer. On March 16, 1776, “by order of Congress” a “day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer” where people of the nation were called on to “acknowledge the over ruling providence of God” and bewail their “manifold sins and transgressions, and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease his righteous displeasure, and, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness.”[1]

Congress set aside December 18, 1777 as a day of thanksgiving so the American people “may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor” and on which they might “join the penitent confession of their manifold sins . . . that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance.” Congress also recommended that Americans petition God “to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consists in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”[2]

Here’s a proclamation from 1799, more than ten years after the Constitution was drafted, during the administration of John Adams:

[That April 15, 1799] be observed throughout the United States of America as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that the citizens on that day abstain, as far as may be, from their secular occupation, and devote the time to the sacred duties of religion, in public and in private; that they call to mind our numerous offenses against the most high God, confess them before Him with the sincerest penitence, implore his pardoning mercy, through the Great Mediator and Redeemer, for our past transgressions, and that through the grace of His Holy Spirit, we may be disposed and enabled to yield a more suitable obedience to his righteous requisitions in time to come; that He would interpose to arrest the progress of that impiety and licentiousness in principle and practice so offensive to Himself and so ruinous to mankind; that He would make us deeply sensible that “righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people [Proverbs 14:34].”[3]

National days of prayer and thanksgiving have been a part of our nation’s history before its founding, during its founding, and since its founding.

If the above judges don’t know this history, they shouldn’t be judges. If they do know this history and don’t account for it, they shouldn’t be judges.

[Editor's note: Please email or mail this article to your state and federal congressmen and women and Senators. Tell them you are tired of Christianity being systematically outlawed.]

Notes:

1. A copy of the original document can be viewed at www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/f0404s.jpg [↩]
2. A copy of the original document can be viewed at www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006494.jpg. The proclamation can also be seen in Gary DeMar, America’s Christian History (Powder Springs, GA: American Vision, 2005), 252. [↩]
3. John Adams, “National Fast Day,” A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1:284–286. [↩]

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Ministry says: ’They All had a Heart for this Generation
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By Michael Ireland Senior International Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

GARDEN VALLEY, TEXAS (ANS) – Five individuals associated with Teen Mania Ministries on board a flight to Acquire The Fire in Council Bluffs, Iowa were involved in a plane crash around . . . → Read More: Teen Mania issues statement related to May 11 Kansas Plane Crash]]> Monday, May 14, 2012

Ministry says: ’They All had a Heart for this Generation
’

By Michael Ireland
Senior International Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

GARDEN VALLEY, TEXAS (ANS) – Five individuals associated with Teen Mania Ministries on board a flight to Acquire The Fire in Council Bluffs, Iowa were involved in a plane crash around 4:30 p.m. May 11.

According to the ministry, the plane went down in rural southeastern Kansas, and three of the five on board died at the scene.

Teen Mania is asking for prayers for the families of Luke Sheets, 23 of Ephraim, WI.; Garrett Coble, 29 of Tulsa, OK.; and Stephen Luth, 27 of Muscatine, IA.

The ministry says all three were graduates of Oral Roberts University. Coble was a long-time friend of Teen Mania Ministries, having served on 15 Global Expeditions missions trips. He also served as a professor at Northeastern State University in Broken Arrow, OK.

Hannah Luce, daughter of Teen Mania founder Ron Luce, and Austin Anderson were also aboard the plane when it crashed and were able to walk to a nearby roadway and get help. However, both Hannah Luce and Anderson suffered severe injuries and were evacuated to hospitals in Kansas City and Wichita, respectively.

Luce is listed in serious but stable condition, suffering primarily from burns on 28 percent of her body. Sadly, Anderson succumbed to his injuries at 5:30 a.m Saturday, May 12 and went to be with the Lord.

Both Anderson and Stephen Luth were recently hired to the marketing staff at Teen Mania Ministries. Anderson had recently graduated from Oral Roberts University with a degree in business administration and had served two tours of duty with the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq.

Ron Luce (Photo via Wikipedia).

Ron Luce of Teen Mania Ministries described all those on board the plane as being committed Christians who had a passion to reach the younger generation with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ.

“We are so saddened by what has happened and ask for all those who have been touched by this ministry in some way to rally around the families of all involved in the crash, especially the four young men who passed away. Please lift them up in prayer, and ask for the Holy Spirit to surround them with God’s love and peace,” Luce said.

“They all had a heart for this generation, and were passionately pursuing God’s call on their lives.”

The mission of Teen Mania Ministries is to provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take his life-giving message to the ends of the Earth.

Since its founding in 1986, TMM has reached more than 2.7 million teens in the U.S., and sent teenage missionaries to more than 50 nations to share the saving message of the gospel. To find out more about TMM and its various ministries, go to www.TeenMania.com.

After a controversial campaign week when Barack Obama muddied the waters by endorsing homosexual “marriage,” he revved up a weekend effort to provide Mother’s Day e-cards to moms across the country.

He also issued a statement regarding Mother’s Day. But the result, . . . → Read More: Obama spoils even Mother’s Day]]> Women’s Forum chief says campaign message ‘pretty lousy’ greeting

After a controversial campaign week when Barack Obama muddied the waters by endorsing homosexual “marriage,” he revved up a weekend effort to provide Mother’s Day e-cards to moms across the country.

He also issued a statement regarding Mother’s Day. But the result, according to Independent Women’s Forum chief Sabrina Schaeffer, was a “pretty lousy Mother’s Day greeting.”

That’s because it was politicized, she said.

At the White House website, visitors had the option of sending out Mother’s Day e-cards to, according to the site, “help you show some appreciation for the mom in your life.”

Two templates were offered to be sent through email, Twitter, or Facebook. One touted Obama’s Affordable Care Act with the caption “Being a mom isn’t a pre-existing condition” and the other was offered as thanks to the 1.2 military spouses across the country.

This comes in the context of women’s issues as a political flashpoint. From the debate over Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Sandra Fluke to the rhetoric claiming conservatives are pursuing a “war on women,” Obama’s focus on women’s issues has been called pandering. Fifty-six percent of female voters supported Obama in 2008.

Today he gave the commencement speech at the all-female Barnard College in New York City.

While e-cards are new, many presidents have issued Mother’s Day proclamations over the years.

In a 211-word statement issued May 3, 1934, Franklin Roosevelt urged Americans to provide mothers everywhere with the affection they deserve. He called for the “customary display of the United States flag on all government buildings, homes, and other suitable places.”

Most other presidents have offered yearly Mother’s Day proclamations. Up until Bill Clinton’s second proclamation, every president urged the display of the flag. Every proclamation since then has urged “appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.”

But starting last year, Obama became the first president to cite his own political achievements in the document. The proclamations were reviewed at UC-Santa Barbara’s “The American presidency Project.”

In his 2011 proclamation, Obama wrote in a 625-word document, “We are striving to help mothers in the workplace by enforcing equal pay laws and addressing workplace flexibility as families balance the demands of work, child and elder care, and education.”

Most Mother’s Day proclamations pay homage to mothers and their importance in shaping the nation, such as Ronald Reagan’s 1981 address when he wrote of mothers: “They shape the character of our people through the love and nurture of their children. It is the strength they give their families that keeps our nation strong.”

But Obama repeatedly has promoted his political positions.

He has mentioned his Child Care Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the First Lady’s “Let’s Move!” campaign.

In his proclamation this year, Obama talked about his Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which, he writes, “continues to help women secure equal pay for equal work, and my administration continues to promote workplace flexibility so no mother has to choose between her job and her child.”

Obama also mentions his Affordable Care Act and the White House Council on Women and Girls.

The IWF’s Schaeffer told WND, “It’s unfortunate that the president used Mother’s Day as a way of furthering the ‘War on Women’ narrative. Sadly, this White House – and the White House Council on Women and Girls – helps fuel the insidious myth that women are a victim class in need of special protection from government.

“The Obama administration loves to tout the Lilly Ledbetter Act as a great accomplishment for women. The fact is, however, protective laws like this actually increase the cost of employing women – especially women of childbearing age – by creating the threat of lawsuits and uncertainty,” she said.

“Instead of recognizing women’s accomplishments, Mr. Obama continues to advance the notion that the workplace and society are openly hostile to women. And that’s a pretty lousy Mother’s Day greeting.”

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