Washington DC or Constitution?

Constitution-- Will it be saved?

Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture,
in 1986 shares thoughts on the U.S. Constitution,
stating it is a Heavenly Banner inspired by God for this nation.
That the federal government is trying to destroy it but at last
it will be saved but not in Washington.

 

American Culture: Christianity, Brad Pitt, and Freedom of Speech

Kneel or Perish

Secularists steamroll over cultural landscape, threaten Christian dissent 

By Ed Vitagliano

(American Family Association Journal)

 

In a letter to the editor of the News-Leader newspaper in Springfield, Missouri, Jane Pitt wrote that she was a Christian and planned to vote for Mitt Romney in November. They were comments that initially attracted very little attention. 

Pitt cited Romney's pro-life views and said he shares her "conviction concerning homosexuality." The letter stated that President Barack Obama "is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same sex marriage." 

That's when the roof blew off the house. It was made public that Jane Pitt is the mother of popular actor Brad Pitt, and a storm struck with all the angry contempt that has come to identify the intolerant left.

There were the usual news media stories accusing Jane Pitt of being "anti-gay," but the worst sort of vitriol assaulted her via Twitter. Crude sexual epithets were used to describe Pitt, she was told to partake in sexual acts in the most vulgar of ways, and outright death threats were hurled at her. 

Jane Pitt has since refused to comment any further on the episode, becoming yet another voice silenced by those on the secular left who hate Christianity. Mission accomplished.  

Cultural totalitarianism

All in a day's work, as the old expression goes. But what happened to Jane Pitt is not the result of recent work but that of a decades-long assault against the Christian foundations of our nation. 

It is not simply an effort to carve out a niche for atheists and other secular rebels who exist within the otherwise religious landscape, according to Peter Hitchens, conservative author of The Rage Against God  and the brother of the late, outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens.  

Instead, he said, this secular offensive is "a dogmatic tyranny in the making."  

Peter Hitchens is British, and since the U.K. and the rest of Europe are down the secular road just ahead of the U.S., it is worth heeding the warnings of Christians who are already experiencing the beginning stages of this tyranny.

  

Elizabeth Kendal, an international religious liberty analyst and advocate in the U.K., said in a recent blog that Christians in the U.K. and the U.S. are on the verge of seeing the triumph of a cultural totalitarianism that will drive believers to the fringes of a once free society. Already, she said, Christians are being vilified, fired and "dragged through the courts" for resisting the new ideology. 

"These British and American Christians are not being dismissed, expelled, sued, fined, struck off and closed down because of anything they have done," Kendal insisted. "Rather, it is because of what they could not do: generally they could not affirm that all cultures, beliefs or lifestyle choices are equally good." (Emphasis in original.) 

It is an all-hands-on-deck rebellion against Almighty God in an attempt to replace His laws with a man-centered, morally relativistic ideology that demands that all rivals kneel or perish. 

Hostility toward faith

Hitchens and Kendal are not "the-sky-is-falling" alarmists. Christians are under fire in the U.S., although legal battles are still being fought and all is not lost.

For example, in 2010 Jennifer Keeton, a Christian enrolled in a graduate counseling program at Augusta State University in Georgia, objected to counseling gay and lesbian clients in a manner that affirmed the homosexual lifestyle. 

School officials threatened her with expulsion if she didn't change her views. In order to remain in the graduate program, Keeton was told she could go on probation and embark on a "remediation" plan that included attending gay pride events and sensitivity training.  

When she refused, Keeton was expelled. She sued ASU, but this summer a federal district judge ruled in favor of the university.

A similar case involving Eastern Michigan University also wound up in court. Julea Ward, a graduate student in that school's counseling program, encountered problems when she was assigned a potential client who wanted help regarding a same sex relationship.  

Ward, a Christian, said her religious convictions would not allow her to affirm such relationships, but that she was willing to refer the client to a counselor who could.

The client complained, and EMU officials gave Ward an ultimatum: She could remain in the graduate program only if she changed her religious beliefs.  

Ward sued, and initially a federal district judge ruled in favor of EMU. However, in January the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals reversed that ruling and ordered a trial to commence. 

The appellate court stated, "A reasonable jury could conclude that Ward‚' professors ejected her from the counseling program because of hostility toward her speech and faith."  

Government interests

Even those Christians who own their own businesses are finding themselves squeezed by an oppressive ideology that permits no dissent.

Continued

The Atheist, the Soldier, and God

God is Busy 

Dinner Topics for Friday

A United States Marine was taking some college courses

between assignments. He had completed 20 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan .

One of the courses had a professor who

was an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in.

He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, "GOD, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform...

I'll give you exactly 15 min."

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am GOD,

I'm still waiting."

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him;

knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently.

The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked,

"What in the world is the matter with you?  Why did you do that?"

The Marine calmly replied,

"GOD was too busy today protecting America's

soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot.

So He sent me."

The classroom erupted in cheers!

America, Respect, and Patriotism

Immature Adults Protest Children Singing God Bless the U.S.A.

Yet these same childish parents could let children be taught to sing chants for Obama in school, treating him as if he were some kind of god, (which has been done) and nary a peep of protest. 

 Bravo for the parents who encouraged patriotism in their children. CD

Bert Atkinson Jr

To be perfectly blunt – these ‘adults’ that protested a kindergarten rally to sing a patriotic song are the reason our country has a failing economy. Apparently they had nothing better to do than to go to a park to yell at 5-year-olds.

You must be kidding me.

Remember a few weeks ago when a New York City principal banned children from singing God Bless the U.S.A. during a ceremony because she deemed the lyrics to be offensive?

Well, in the aftermath, a group of parents organized a protest at a nearby playground in which their kindergartners would sing the patriotic song, and even attracted Rep. Bob Turner (R – N.Y.).

“I thought it would be a great idea,” Rep. Turner said. “The kids were a delight.”

So this seems like a positive thing to do: Organize a peaceful protest away from the school in which children would be waving American flags and singing the song they were banned from singing. It would bring attention to the issue without finger pointing, bickering, and name-calling.

Unfortunately for the children involved (and anyone who has respect for America), several tasteless children adults were “shouting down the kids as they were singing,” Rep. Turner told Fox News Radio.

“You Republicans come go to a Republican area and do that, we don’t do that here,” one of the hecklers said. “This is ridiculous, this is sad. This is so crazy. This is sad.”

A Turner staffer can be heard off camera asking the protesters to stop – and to “let the kids sing.”

“The kids don’t even know what they’re singing,” the unidentified protester replied. “They got something you tell them to say. It’s ridiculous. It’s sad, sad, sad. You all are going to burn in hell. You all burn in hell. Shame on you. Shame on you.”

At one point, a tattooed protester cursed.

“You got a right to make noise, I got a right to make noise,” the protester said.”

If you are not proud to live in your country, what are you proud of?

I am baffled when people are not outwardly proud to live in America. We may bicker at each other, and we have the right to, but this is about respect for the youth of America. These parents organized a peaceful protest away from the school, and a bunch of rude children adults immaturely came down to protest the singing of God Bless the U.S.A.

To be perfectly blunt – these ‘adults’ that protested a kindergarten rally to sing a patriotic song are the reason our country has a failing economy. Apparently they had nothing better to do than to go to a park to yell at 5-year-olds.

Mothers Day 2012 Inspirational Quotes

Mothers Day 2012 Inspirational Quotes

By Gordon B. Hinckley

Read the scriptures to your children. You may not think they understand. They won’t understand everything you read. But they will develop within themselves a feeling, an attitude, a spirit that will be wonderful. And I don’t hesitate to promise you that the day will come, if you nurture your children and love and teach in righteousness, you will get on your knees with tears in your eyes and thank the Lord for His blessing you.

No other work reaches so close to divinity as does the nurturing of the sons and daughters of God.

Are you the kind of son or daughter your mother thinks you are? You know, if we would be the kind of boys and girls, sons and daughters, our mothers think we are, we’d all be pretty good.

God bless you, mothers. When all the victories and defeats of men’s efforts are tallied, when the dust of life’s battles begins to settle, when all for which we labor so hard in this world of conquest fades before our eyes, you will be there, you must be there, as the strength for a new generation, the ever-improving onward movement of the race.

There is nothing in all this world as magnificent as virtue. It glows without tarnish. It is precious and beautiful. It is above price. It cannot be bought or sold. It is the fruit of self-mastery.

You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out. It will not be the money you have made. It will not be the cars you have owned. It will not be the large house in which you live. The searing question that will cross you mind again and again will be “How well have my children done?”.

The true strength that is America’s, the true strength of any nation, lies in those qualities of character that have been acquired for the most part by children taught in the quiet, simple, everyday manner of mothers. What Jean Paul Richter once declared of fathers is even more true of mothers— and I paraphrase it just a little to make the point—

“What a mother says to her children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.”