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May 11, 2008

When Justice Confronts A Great Political Hypocrisy:

65 San Diegans March & Confront One of San Diego’s

Greatest Political Hypocrisies During The March Against Poverty.

The Office of Congresswoman Susan Davis Looks Down Upon

The Poorest Neighborhood in San Diego, While She and Her Staff

Make Big Salaries and Do Nothing For The Poor!

(JHReport)  Sixty-five San Diegans gathered on Thursday, May 8, 2008, in the economically-challenged San Diego community of City Heights to kick off a two-part event called the “March Against Poverty.”  The March Against Poverty has been organized by San Diego City Council candidate James Hartline.  The event is part of Hartline’s overall vision of bringing about long overdue economic improvements to the long-neglected City Heights area.  With the large turnout for the first day of the two-day event, it is clear that San Diegans are ready to help increase public awareness of the terrible conditions that the poor and needy families in City Heights are living in. 

     While Hartline and his fellow marchers knew that they would see some of the most disenfranchised people in San Diego during the march, nothing really prepared them for one unbelievable encounter during the May 8th event.  In the midst of City Heights, Hartline and the other marchers brought attention to the area’s dirty slums, asthma-causing mold, extreme hunger and the devastating poverty that seems to engulf the community.  However, there was one situation that city council candidate James Hartline says is one of the greatest examples of societal and governmental hypocrisy that he has ever seen.

     The example that so shocked Hartline, as well as the others who attended the May 8th event, was the realization that Congresswoman Susan Davis, a politically entrenched Democrat representing the district, has an expensive high-rise district office in the midst of the horrific economic conditions which are plaguing City Heights families.

     For the past two decades, liberal Democrats have controlled District 3 and the City Heights area.  Incredibly, City Heights has gotten more polluted and even more financially devastated under the leadership of Democrats who claim to be more concerned about the social welfare of the area’s citizens, as well better stewards of the environment, than their Republican counterparts.

     What event leader James Hartline and the other sixty-five conscientious protesters discovered during their City Heights march is sure to shock the voters in Hartline’s district.  In the midst of the catastrophic pollution, extreme poverty, and gang-related activities of City Heights is this massive, disproportionately large skyscraper located at 4305 University Avenue.  Among the rundown discount stores, the dirty liquor outlets, the hopeless moms and the homeless drunks, stands this gigantic, steel and glass palace located at 4305 University Avenue.  Inside of this strange, bureaucratic tower is the district office for Congresswoman Susan Davis.

      “It is absolutely a societal abomination that Congresswoman Susan Davis has an elitist office in the midst of all of the poverty in City Heights and she is doing absolutely nothing about it,” says Hartline.  Even more shocking for Hartline is the realization that one of his opponents for the District 3 City Council seat, Todd Gloria, has sat in the same expensive high-rise office as Congresswoman Davis, doing absolutely nothing about the gross poverty and injustices occurring right outside of his government funded office.

     “This is one of the most pitiful examples of hypocrisy I have ever seen,” says Hartline.  “While City Heights families are lining up for bread in the local soup kitchens, Congresswoman Susan Davis and her district representative Todd Gloria have been getting rich off of their fat government salaries right in the middle of all this suffering.”

     Hartline points out that Todd Gloria makes it a point at every one of his candidate forums to let voters know that he lives with his homosexual partner in City Heights.  Giving the appearance that somehow Gloria and his gay lover have much in common with the suffering families of City Heights, the district aide to Congresswoman Davis has sought to paint a picture with the district’s voters of a man who has empathy with the City Heights families living in poverty.

     “Todd Gloria has conveniently forgotten to inform voters that he has worked out of an expensive government office in the midst of San Diego’s poorest families doing nothing about the poverty while he has collected a big, fat government paycheck,” Hartline declares angrily.

     “Both Todd Gloria and Susan Davis should be run out of City Heights,” declares Hartline. “It is time that good and truly concerned people be given the opportunity to help the people of City Heights.  These two are doing absolutely nothing about the horrific environmental pollution and poverty that is killing our people.”

     Among those participating in the May 8th March Against Poverty was Grossmont Union High School District boardmember Priscilla Schreiber.  Mrs. Schreiber, who has spent the past eight years as a member of the East San Diego County school board, was shocked that a politician would have an office so close to so much suffering, but appearing to do little, if anything, to alleviate that same suffering. 

     Mrs. Schreiber was not alone in her dismay regarding Congresswoman Davis.  A large contingent of mothers who are currently participating in a long-term program at the San Diego Rescue Mission joined Schreiber in their concern for the obvious lack of action on the part of the congresswoman.  Nearly a dozen women from the Rescue Mission, most of whom have very little in this life, gave up their afternoon to stand with the moms of City Heights.  Being aware of how difficult it is on poor families in the City Heights area, many of the Rescue Mission moms felt it was important to stand in the gap for their City Heights sisters who cannot put enough food on the table to feed their kids. 

      While dozens of working moms participated in the first day of the two-day March Against Poverty, San Diego pastors were conspicuously absent during the event.  Although hundreds of local San Diego pastors had been given invitations to stand with the suffering families in City Heights during the two-day event, not one pastor showed up for the May 8th kickoff of the March Against Poverty.

      For James Hartline, this is a reality which challenges his creative skills.   “We are just going to have to come to terms with the realization that taking care of the poor families in City Heights is going to have to be done without the help of the pastors who will not leave their comfortable suburban homes to help the poor in City Heights,” says Hartline.  “We will have to make it without their help.  And with the large turnout for this first part of the two-day event, we are convinced that God is moving upon the hearts of the right people to come help us in City Heights,” he adds.

      In addition to all of the overwhelming poverty that is unneccesarily plaguing City Heights, parents are now forced to forego buying basic food purchases at Albertsons, the only major retail grocery store in City Heights.  Albertsons is aware that they are the only store that many of the mothers in City Heights can easily get to, yet they continue to drastically mark up their prices on basic food items.  This is one of the most grievous examples of corporate greed being inflicted upon the poorer families in San Diego.

      James Hartline and the large contingent of concerned San Diegans will continue to march on behalf of the families in City Heights who are crying out for help in this time of great financial distress.  Up to this point, those cries for help have fallen on the deaf ears of the San Diego City Council and the mayor’s office.  “We are going to see that a financial revolution is created in San Diego,” says candidate James Hartline.  “We will not rest until justice is apprehended for those who are suffering in City Heights and if that means we have to march every week in City Heights, than that is what we will do.”

     Part Two of the two-day March Against Poverty will be held on May 15, 2008 beginning at 11:30am at the City Heights Retail Village.  The City Heights Retail Village is located in front of the Albertsons Grocery Store on the corners of Fairmount Ave. & University Ave., San Diego, 92105.

     A donor who believes in James Hartline’s vision to help the poor and needy families of City Heights has donated 200 t-shirts which are being distributed to participants of the two-day event.  T-Shirts can be obtained by calling James Hartline at 619-793-9661.

March Against Poverty, Part 2 of 2 Events, May 15, 2008 - starting at 11:30am

City Heights Retail Village, Fairmount Ave. & University Ave. (in front of Albertsons)

200 San Diegans will be participating during the two events.

For further information or interviews:

James Hartline

office: 619-255-9378

cell: 619-793-9661

I hope you have already seen “Expelled,” but if not, do not hesitate to see it with your family.

Rev. Michael Bresciani shares his thoughts on Expelled, which already is causing a furor in the academic world. As I walked out of the cinema with my family after seeing the film, I realized that it was a watershed event. Academic history would henceforth be delineated between the pre-Expelled era and the post-Expelled era.

I think one of the most striking, and revealing, things about the movie was when Stein took a tour through a Hitler-era “hospital” for the mentally retarded, where in fact, many inmates were “culled” as unfit to live, sent to cyanide showers and then incinerated, Hitler’s Endlösung of choice. It reminded me of many related things in today’s America and today’s Germany.  For example: Terri Schiavo and how Obama said he regretted voting to keep her alive; the German government’s modern day holocaust against home-schooled children and their parents, etc. But the lady guide’s response when Stein asked her what she would say to the people who once ran this death hospital was the most revealing statement about our prevailing post-modern relativist ideology. She said she was not qualified to judge them. She woulnd’t admit that what had been done was evil. Why should she? Public education in the West has eliminated the only criterion for moral judgements of this kind: God.  Darwinism was the driver of change.

It was decided at the Nuremberg trials that people have the duty to reject evil even when they are ordered to perpetrate it by their superiors. Many nazis were convicted on that criterion. Incredibly, that way of thinking seems to be widely rejected in today’s Germany.

But it isn’t only Germany, is it?

We’re all in this together.  The prevailing theory of origins and the attendant relativist — nay, nihilist — ideology that motivated Hitler and Stalin is still driving the dominant institutions of Western culture.  Western moral development was stopped, or rather reversed, in the late 1800s.

Comes Ben Stein and challenges us to move forward. His movie Expelled is long overdue. It has been said that God is not always early, but never too late.

Donald Hank

Expelled the Movie - Ben Stein Exposes Flat World Academics

by Rev. Michael Bresciani

Ben Stein’s ‘Expelled’ could  properly be called ‘Exposed the Movie’ because
it is a nerve rattling jolt to academicians who are ready to bounce or
ostracize anyone who so much as mentions or has a dream in the night about
the theory of intelligent design.

No movie review in history as far as I know starts with instructions about
how to watch the film. Expelled is a documentary and contains hundreds of
interviews and deep conversations with some of the most highly regarded
minds of the time. It has a rhythm and a depth that requires full attention
and you may want to forgo the popcorn, soda and other distractions.

You will also discover something radically different about this film from
the audience reaction. It has been reported that people applaud sometimes
throughout the film and in some theatres it ends with audiences rising to
give it a standing ovation.

I found myself applauding along with other theatre patrons when I saw the
film. It was proof solid for me that while Americans are being asked to get
the nonsense of religion out of their heads the idea of an omnipotent
creator God is still firmly planted in their hearts.

Frivolous lawsuits are being thrown at the producers of the film from
animation companies and John Lennon widow Yoko Ono. Neither suit seems to
have any foundation but the flak from every academic quarter is ample proof
that a nerve has been touched. Is the film fair, is it reasonable, and is it
intelligent? Not only is the answer yes, yes and yes but the film is yet
something much more, something rarely found in a documentary. It is
emotionally charged.

Ben Stein is marvelous in the film. Known more as a comedian he doesn’t poke
fun at anyone and rarely resorts to humor throughout the documentary. It is
clear from the outset that he is not arguing or contending with others views
but only imploring them to seriously ponder their own unquestioned
assertions. He does this with a straight face and the fewest words possible.
The result is obvious; these questions are no joke.

Near the end Stein is found quietly standing alone with his own thoughts in
the middle of a holocaust museum. His thoughts are narrated in the
background and they are perhaps the most profound moments of the film. Stein
has conducted himself discreetly and some might say masterfully throughout
the documentary so at the films conclusion nothing is lost.

The heart of the movie is easy to see. Academics have for a generation now
fed us the idea that the big bang theory and the subsequent lightning
hitting the primordial ooze is the only way to go when it comes to the
question of how life began.

The rapid rise in intelligence in this generation has caused completely
unforeseen phenomena that academicians are not prepared for.  It is not just
faith in God that makes the question bubble to the surface but our own
enlarged understanding of the complexities and vast intricacies of our own
universe. The admonition to question all authority that academics so
blithely espoused to young minds a generation ago has returned to bite them
on the butt. It is the intelligent that are questioning the not so
intelligent refusal of the intelligencia to give some credence to
intelligent design; not doing so is just dumb.

This generation understands that when science leaves the area of repeatable
and observable phenomena and relies on speculation and ‘prior philosophic
postulation’ to explain the origins of life they have entered the realm of
faith. Physical evidence for evolution remains spurious, sparse and suspect
at best so speculation is all that is left to explain what took place four
hundred million years ago. The evolution crowd has been thumping “The
Origins of Species” with evangelistic fervor that makes the best Bible
preachers look tame by comparison. This is what Expelled is about.

The implacability of the evolutionists is compared to the Berlin wall
throughout the film. Nazism and communism are also alluded to for the most
obvious reasons. A party line must be held and enforced for any kind of
fascism to have a reasonable chance to survive. The cost of fascism has
always been the loss of freedom. Expelled centers in on this by likening the
refusal to include the possibility of intelligent design to incarcerating
intelligence not furthering it.

Expelled hones in on the loss of academic freedom, jobs, tenure and respect
for many of those interviewed in the film but it also provokes the larger
question of the number of young minds lost to this generation because of
what is fast becoming rigid Darwinian dogma. Move over inquisitors here come
the evolutionists!

One of the highlights of Expelled is the interview with famed atheist
Richard Dawkins. It may be the only time you will ever see Dawkins visibly
perturbed and almost at a loss for words. Ben Stein managed to pull what
might even be considered an admission from Dawkins that some intelligent
designer may have created everything but that he, she or it would have to
have evolved first. The double talk aside it is a moment well worth the
ticket price alone.

Most movies are rated on a scale of one to five or in some cases a scale of
one to ten. I will not rate this movie at all. What I will do is rate the
‘must see’ element of the documentary. Whether you are an evolutionist or a
believer of “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen
1:1) if you consider yourself even nominally intelligent the must see factor
for Expelled on a scale of one to ten is twenty.

For a list of theatres playing Expelled or further information visit
http://laiglesforum.com/wp-admin/ Rev Michael Bresciani is a
columnist for many online conservative, news and Christian sites and
magazines. Visit The Website for Insight at http://laiglesforum.com/wp-admin/

 In Defense of the CS Lewis’s Pagan Prince Caspian

By Anthony Horvath

When they appeared in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, it was easy to look the other way in the face of the undeniable Christian imagery of Aslan dying and rising and conquering the White Witch.  Bacchus and Silenus, ancient pagan gods, dance with nymphs and dryads.  With Jesus so clearly figured, it was easy to ignore such things, but what to do when Bacchus and Silenus appear not once, but twice, in Prince Caspian, where such Christological imagery is not so obvious? 

Prince Caspian is the next book of Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia to be released as a movie.  It is due out in May.  Some Christians may raise the same concerns with CS Lewis as they did with the Harry Potter series.  With pagan gods prancing about in Prince Caspian, their warnings will generate attention.

Are we talking about the same CS Lewis whose writings were instrumental in the conversion of men such as Chuck Colson and Francis Collins and so many others?  If in fact Lewis is a closet Pagan we are confronted with the prospect that Paganism, witchcraft, Gnosticism, and more, likely infect every area of Christendom, as nearly all of Christendom claims Lewis as trustworthy.

Is it possible that the writings of the ‘apostle to the atheists’ actually smuggles in pantheism and Paganism?  There are some who believe exactly that.

I submit that there is an answer to this and that the answer has important implications for the Church.

It is common today to hear skeptics argue that Christianity is just a ‘borrowed’ religion, drawing its doctrines and miracles from other religions.  In fact, Lewis was persuaded to Christianity just because of such similarities. Though most similarities are strained to make the skeptic’s argument, no one denies that there are at least some similarities.  Do such similarities prove that there was ‘borrowing?’ Lewis has a different take.

He writes in his famous essay, “Myth Became Fact”:

“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.  The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.  It happens- at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences.  We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate.  By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth:  that is the miracle… To be truly Christian we must both assent to the historical fact and also receive the myth (fact though it has become) and with the same imaginative embrace we accord to all myths.  … God is more than a god, not less; Christ is more than Balder, not less.  We must not be ashamed of the mythical radiance resting on our theology.  We must not be nervous about ‘parallels’ and ‘Pagan Christs’: they ought to be there- it would be a stumbling block if they weren’t.  We must not, in false spirituality, withhold our imaginative welcome.” [Italics his]

Many quotes from Lewis could be produced on the subject that would help truly flesh out his position, but this quote contains the general outline of the answer.  The power of Myth, that is, the power of Story to communicate realities to the human psyche that are not easily grasped by the abstract reasoning is profound.  God created us this way.  We are poets, musicians, lovers, writers, painters, fighters.  Mystery thrills us and adventure calls us.  Our stories abound with daring rescues and the slaying of dragons.  Myth moves us, all the more when it is true, as young Caspian declares upon learning from his tutor that the ancient tales he had been taught were actually true.

In Lewis’s Prince Caspian, Bacchus and Silenus emerge at Aslan’s call at a time when Narnia had essentially fallen to sleep and the old days like forgotten dreams.  Bacchus and Silenus go on a ‘romp,’ singing, dancing, and delighting in Aslan’s arrival which drove all creation into feasting and festivity.  This is what the arrival of Bacchus and Silenus signify, not secret pagan sympathies.  That there was glory in a feast was the insight of the pagans; that the glory was best administered under the twinkling eye of the Master of the Feast is the transcendent insight of Christianity.  Paganism is not more than Christianity, but Christianity is not less than Paganism.

Having settled the question of whether or not Lewis is a closet Pagan let us turn our attention to one of several lessons Lewis wanted to convey by referencing Bacchus and Silenus and their joyful antics.  To be honest, when most people think of Christianity they don’t think of words like ‘adventure,’ ‘thrill,’ ‘feasting,’ and the like.  This is a stumbling block for many people, including Christians themselves.  Christianity may be true but does it satisfy?

To many, words like ‘sterile’ or ‘sanitized’ or ‘legalistic’ or ‘moralistic’ would be the words that actually come to mind.  Who wants to become a Christian if it means giving up drinking, smoking, and sex?  What is so appealing about heaven if it just means sitting in a pew for eternity?  Many people in church are bored out of their minds right now.  Who wants that experience forever?  “No thanks,” many say.

While these are clearly distorted views of what Christianity is all about, the Christian Church itself has played a large part in producing just such views by engaging in a ‘false spirituality’ that claims to be above the petty desires of the human soul.  Lewis calls us to a more robust understanding of what Jesus meant when he said that he came to bring life… and life to the fullest.  For Lewis, what is true certainly matters.  In Prince Caspian he suggests that truth is not found only in cold propositions but also in The Romp.  The Church would do well to consider what that might mean.

Anthony Horvath is the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries and Sntjohnny.com and the author the Birth Pangs series, which was reviewed on Worldnetdaily.com.

Mass Resistance reports that the principle of a MA high school is preparing to oppose any resistance to the Day of Silence.

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08b/day_of_silence/principal_letter.html

Our letter to this principle:

Hello Mr. Jones,

Could you let me know what would be considered hate speech at our school and what is not?

For example, would it be hate speech if a student were to state that the Day of Silence is political and disrupts the learning process?

Would it be hate speech to state that 70% of all AIDS cases in the US are homosexual males and that the US Department of Health opposes distributing blood from homosexual males?

Would it be hate speech to admit to a class mate that one is NOT a homosexual?

Would it be hate speech for a student to say “I am a heterosexual.”

Would it be out of place for my daughter to mention to a class mate that she has a boyfriend? Or should she say “a friend to whom I feel an attraction” or the like? Perhaps you can suggest a more suitable term. Or perhaps it would be best if she pretends that she has a lesbian girlfriend in order to maintain a “safe school” atmosphere.

Let me know so I can instruct my daughter NOT to say anything that is forbidden at our safe school. Also kindly let me know if it is still considered proper to BE a heterosexual while at school. Perhaps it would be safer for her to attempt a psychological “pole reversal” so as to please the administration.

I apologize for using the term “daughter.” Perhaps that too is hate speech at our school. Please let me know so I can reword all future correspondence with the gender-neutral “my progeny” or “my child,” although I fear that might imply that the child is my possession and not the possession of the state, which might also offend you personally, which certainly is not my intent.

Thank you,

Concerned Parent

ACLU admits students can oppose Day of Silence.

Here is what the ACLU says at their Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project web site:

Four Things You Should Know about Student Rights and Day of Silence

Here at the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project, we get calls and emails from students all over the country who have questions about things that have happened to them at school. Two things we’ve learned over the years are that many school administrators and teachers don’t have the slightest clue about students’ legal rights, and that some do know what students’ rights are but violate them anyway because they think they can get away with it.

Students and parents, you simply can’t be sure that your school will respect and uphold your legal rights. It’s up to YOU to educate yourself about what your rights are and hold your school to its responsibility to protect and enforce them.

That’s something you should always keep in mind, but especially during Day of Silence, an annual event designed to bring attention to the bullying, harassment, and name-calling LGBT students often experience in school. Here are four things you need to know about your rights as you mark Day of Silence this Friday, April 25.

1. You DO have a right to participate in Day of Silence and other expressions of your opinion at a public school during non-instructional time: the breaks between classes, before and after the school day, lunchtime, and any other free times during your day. If your principal or a teacher tells you otherwise, you should contact our office or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
2. You do NOT have a right to remain silent during class time if a teacher asks you to speak. If you want to stay quiet during class on Day of Silence, we recommend that you talk to your teachers ahead of time, tell them what you plan to do, and ask them if it would be okay for you to communicate on that day in writing. Most teachers will probably say yes.
3. Your school is NOT required to “sponsor” Day of Silence. A lot of schools this year are announcing that they aren’t sponsoring Day of Silence due to pressure from national anti-gay groups. But Day of Silence is rarely a school-sponsored activity to begin with - it’s almost always an activity led by students. So don’t be confused - just because your school is saying that the school won’t officially sponsor or participate in Day of Silence doesn’t mean that it’s saying you can’t participate.
4. Students who oppose Day of Silence DO have the right to express their views, too. Like you, they must do so in a civil, peaceful way and they must limit their expression to non-instructional time. They do NOT have a right to skip school on Day of Silence without any consequences, just as you don’t have a right to skip school just because you don’t like what they think or say.

Tim Gill, wealthy homosexual lobbyist, threatens freedom:

http://www.cbn.org/CBNnews/361991.aspx?option=print

 EU flag over Buckingham Palace creating a furor

By Donald Hank

No Union Jack is in sight atop the home of the royal family. But if the following web site is a reflection of the reality over there, things are really heating up.

Click here to see the blue flag (no, it’s not the Union Jack!) and read the comments

For those who haven’t been following this issue here, citizens of the UK have been denied the opportunity to vote on whether or not to allow their constitution, which dates back to the Magna Carta, to be replaced (superceded) by the EU Constitution.

That is because powerful politicians have signed on to various treaties over the years that, bit by bit, took away the sovereignty of the Brits, who would almost certainly nix the EU Constitution if they could.

How could this happen, you ask?

Look around you: Americans too have a long history of having policies shoved down their throats by politicians, some elected but many not. The Council on Foreign Relations acts in some ways like an arm of the government, setting policy, much of it highly unpopular, behind our backs. This trend heated up when we were forced to accept Most Favored Nations status for China. The people didn’t want this, would not have voted for it, but our leaders suddenly took the ball and ran with it, and next thing you knew, we had betrayed Taiwan and jumped in bed with the Red Chinese, their-and our-worst enemies in that region, and are becoming poorer every day as a result.

Next came NAFTA. You didn’t vote for it. But unelected zealots in the CFR pushed for it and eventually, they found a stooge to sign it and now you have a treaty that was touted originally as bound to favor the US, but wound up increasing our trade deficit, making us all poorer. Then there was an open-border policy, amnesty for illegal aliens, CAFTA, and now the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) and soon a truck route to deliver Chinese goods all over North America in Mexican trucks, and now the latest trick: a military partnership that grants Canadian military personnel authority over you and me.

What are we losing, you say?

Sovereignty, and economic power.

Why?

Because powerful people many of whose names are unknown to us, are deeply entrenched in high places, and they are protecting their own personal interests at the expense of citizens, enriching other nations, most of which are hostile to us, for their own gain but also out of a Marxist zeal to see our wealth redistributed to poorer countries.

The Great American Experiment has been hijacked.

Suddenly, Americans in the know feel a great deal of solidarity with the British, because we are all in the same boat.

The people who gave the world the Magna Carta now joins the people who founded the most powerful nation on earth in ceding their power back to a few powerful men.

But by the looks of the above-linked web site, the rich and powerful have not figured out how to make them like it.

Nor have our rich and powerful figured out how to make us like the three candidates they have foisted upon us.

Tom Cox ” fires” the GOP

Fellow conservatives and constitutionalists: Have you noticed as I have, that when you vote for the lesser of two evils for President, you still get evil?

 I have threatened to vote third-party in the past, but the fear tactics of the Republicans have pulled me back at the last minute. This year is different. I am watching the Constitution Party (CP) very carefully. If they nominate Dr. Alan Keyes as their candidate for President, I will vote for him, even if I have to write him in

 Keyes is the only guy in the whole field with the backbone and principles to restore the federal government to its Constitutional functions and limits. The Democrats and Republicans lost interest in the Constitution long ago, and are content to squabble over power until the nation goes down the drain.

 The Libertarians are OK on some issues, but they are clueless on national defense and sovereignty. Defending personal freedom is meaningless if our nation is attacked and destroyed.

 This was a great country, once, and it can be again, but only if we act soon. Stop choosing between evils. Check out the Constitution Party, http://www.constitutionparty.com/

 Tom Cox
Charlotte, TN

Apologetics Critical to Homeschoolers, All Christians, Says Academy

MEDIA ADVISORY, April 14 /Christian Newswire/ — Athanatos Online Academy offers course modules about the facts of the faith to supplement curriculums for churches, homeschool organizations, while remaining available to individuals.

The academy offers an Apologetics Certificate program as well. The academy home page is www.athanatosministries.org/academy.

The apologetics academy offers affordable, short term courses that are easy to plug in to existing programs.

Executive Director Anthony Horvath explains, “If you’re studying the conditions that led to the fall of Rome you’re also talking about the same context in which the New Testament came into its final form. Our courses on the creeds or the New Testament canon would help students see the relationship between Christianity and history. That is something we are convinced homeschooling families are interested in.”

Horvath explains that apologetics is consistent with the incarnation and a rejection of Gnostic ways of thought, “God didn’t have to come in the flesh. He is the one that stepped into history and challenged people to believe the miracles which they saw with their own eyes. God answered the problem of pain and suffering by entering into the human experience. He could have dealt with us apart from our senses, but he didn’t.”

Horvath argues that people are confused about apologetics, “Many people think apologetics and they think arm twisting. But apologetics can just be setting the facts straight. But apologetics also represents a way of thinking, too. Jesus said to love God with your heart, yes, but also with your mind. Homeschoolers understand this.”

The online academy is not about convincing nonChristians to become Christians but to equip Christians with the facts and evidences for Christianity so that they can more effectively minister to family, friends, and others that they meet. Horvath argues, “We need informed Christians because uninformed Christians tend to fall away completely- or at least their children tend to. It helps when you understand where Christianity fits into other areas of study.”

The academy’s courses are two to five weeks long and do not have a burdensome workload. Much of the reading material is available on the Internet but the academy aims to expose people to the writings of top Christian scholars, too.

The Academy is in session four times a year and the next session begins April 21st. The academy is enrolling now. Group rates are available.

The academy page is www.athanatosministries.org/academy

You may contact Anthony at 202-280-7971 or press@athanatosministries.org

This just in from Mass Resistance:

 1. GLSEN Conference at high school in Boston reveals empowered homosexual agenda targeting schools. Coming up: gay clubs in middle schools, transgenderism, and more. Unbelievable.

2. Uproar over homosexual curriculum in Lexington brings threat to superintendent. Three TV stations go to David Parker’s house for comment.

3. HELP NEEDED NOW! Don’t allow the Massachusetts Legislature to spend $550,000 in 2009 state budget helping homosexual activists target kids in the schools.

1. GLSEN Conference at high school in Boston reveals empowered homosexual agenda targeting schools. Coming up: gay clubs in middle schools, transgenderism, and more. Unbelievable.

On Saturday, March 29, the Gay Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held its regional conference at English High School in Boston.  GLSEN is a member of the tax-funded Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth, which funds its “gay straight alliance” (GSA) school clubs, the Day of Silence, and other activities.

Over half a million dollars in the upcoming state budget will be going to some of the most horrific homosexual programs in the public schools.  We got a glimpse of what to expect at the recent GLSEN conference. There’s a big push to start “gay” clubs in middle schools and normalizing transgenderism and cross-dressing to kids. GLSEN serves as a conduit to funnel taxpayer money into raw homosexual programs in the schools aimed at children.

GLSEN is an aggressive national homosexual activist group targeting schoolchildren across the country. At a recent GLSEN conference at Brookline High School, the pornographic Little Black Book - Queer in the 21^st Century was handed out to kids, causing a national uproar. In 2000, the infamous Fistgate episode took place at a GLSEN conference.

A full court press on kids

Like most GLSEN conferences, it was mostly middle school and high school kids bussed in from all over the state. About 300 people attended, with over 80% of them children.  The average age of all attendees appeared to be 15. Although it cost $70.00 for adults to attend, kids could get in for free or nearly free.  Most of the adults appeared to be homosexual activists, many of them schoolteachers.

There were speeches, performances, and 26 specialized workshops throughout the all-day conference, as well as lots of reading material freely passed out.

The overall theme was making kids comfortable with homosexuality and related behaviors one way or another, and encouraging them to establish a “gay identity”. Much of it was psychologically intrusive, meant for vulnerable and confused kids. And many of the kids there were sad to watch; a lot of them were obviously in need of some real help. Others were well-meaning kids who were being drawn into the movement by adults. They had become, as one person observed, “well- trained tellers of the lie.”

And it was very devious. As one workshop leader said about discussing homosexual sex in middle schools GSAs, “It’s not our main agenda, but we’ve got to keep it in the agenda.”

A LOT of material - must be seen to be believed

This meeting was so full of disturbing material that it’s too much for one email. It’s that bad So we’ll be posting much of it over the next several days. You’ll see it each day on the website.

Check out these postings from the Conference:

1. General observations: Who attended, GLSEN’s goals, etc.

2. Setting up homosexual clubs in middle schools

To be posted, one or more each day, starting tomorrow:

3. Making kids comfortable with transsexuality / crossdressing

4. PFLAG: Encouraging kids to “come out” and embrace a homosexual identity

5. Embracing bisexuality

6. Strategies to organize schools and intimidate officials: GSAs, Day of Silence, etc.

7. Teaching kids radical homosexual politics

8. Connecting kids with other homosexual groups & adults

It’s pretty overwhelming. The homosexual lobby is clearly poised to push the envelope as much as they can.

Remember, YOUR tax money is putting it into your public schools, targeting your kids. YOU must stop it. (See #3 below.)

2. Uproar over homosexual curriculum in Lexington brings threat to superintendent. Three TV stations go to David Parker’s house for comment.

As we reported in our last email, Lexington, MA, schools superintendent Paul Ash announced that he was going to institute a homosexual-affirming curriculum in the Lexington elementary school where David Parker’s children attend. Citing the latest federal court opinion in the David Parker civil rights case. Ash stated that he would not allow parents to opt-out or even be notified — even in elementary school.

This caused an outrage that has quickly spread across the country. Sunday night, a little-known Internet radio talk-show host in New Jersey posted Ash’s home address on a website, with the admonition that people go there and confront him.  Since then the local CBS, Fox, and NBC TV stations have been to David Parker’s house for a comment.

Read our full report here, with links to the TV and newspaper reports.

3. HELP NEEDED NOW! Don’t allow the Massachusetts Legislature to spend $550,000 in 2009 state budget helping homosexual activists target kids in the schools.

The horrible things you are reading about will continue unless it is stopped by citizens. And that means all of you.

We’ll get right to the point.  Over the next several days, the House Ways and Means Committee is poised to put $550,000 into the 2009 budget that will go directly to the Mass. Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth. GLSEN is a member of that commission.  Much of that money will go to GLSEN’s programs in your schools. All of it will go to very destructive ends.

Here’s how it looks now. Earlier this year the Governor released his budget recommendations. At this point there is “officially” $550,000 of direct earmarks for homosexual activism in the public schools, broken down this way.

7010-0005  Dept of Education . . . . . $200,000
“Programming to ensure compliance by schools with the Board of Education’s recommendations for the support and safety of gay and lesbian students”

4590-0250  Dept of Public Health . . . . . $350,000
“Commission on gay and lesbian youth”

(This does not include non-earmarked money, which could be up to a million dollars or more, but takes a little more time to uncover.)

You’ve heard a lot of talk about how the homosexual lobby is seeking $2.9 million for these programs.  In our opinion, that’s just a smokescreen. They know they won’t get that with the current budget problems. They just want to make sure they get their $550,000 intact. 

These homosexual activists SHOULD NOT GET ONE PENNY of taxpayer money for these destructive programs. But they’ll get it unless you stop them.

Let’s look at some facts.  At this minute, with a recession upon us, the Legislature is looking at a $1.2 billion budget shortfall. They’re talking about raising a ton of taxes -  corporate taxes, cigarette taxes, highway tolls, and more. Towns will be getting less for schools. And they’re having to cut all kinds of other legitimate programs. To fund homosexual activism is insanity.

Do something NOW - and keep it up every day.

The deadline is next Wednesday, April 16 for the House Ways and Means Committee to decide on the budget.

Every one of you must let them hear your voice. Tell them:

We don’t want one penny of public tax money spent on pushing homosexuality in our schools.  Parents and citizens are sick of it and won’t take it anymore - especially with a $1.2 billion budget shortfall this year!

DO NOT include $200,000 in item 7010-0005 (Dept of Education) for homosexual programs.

DO NOT include $350,000 in item 4590-0250  (Dept of Public Health)  for the “Commission on gay and lesbian youth”.

(And add your own comments, also!)

Who to contact:

1. You can call:

Rep. Sal DiMasi, Speaker of the House  617-722-250

Rep. Robert DeLeo, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee 617-722-2990

2. You can email the entire Ways and Means Committee by clicking HERE.

3. You can get to the other contact information of the Ways and Means Committee members by clicking HERE.

There is no such thing as a good person who does nothing in a day like today. Let’s stop pretending there is. A Christian who will not defend the culture is no more a Christian than a soldier who runs from a fight. He is a traitor, pure and simple.

Who would have ever dreamed that a sworn enemy, who has clearly stated his intent to destroy your children’s morality, would line up on the streets in battle formation by the thousands and hardly a single honorable and decent man could be found to even challenge him?

Christian soldiers, if you cannot help James Hartline, at least pray earnestly for him. Entreat God for the survival of our culture so that our children will not witness the death of America and the beginning of unimaginable debauchery in our schools and streets. If you think that is an exaggeration, read our article on the openly pornographic Folsom Street parade that took place in another part of California, and Laurie Higgins’ reports on the public performance of obscene play Angels in America in the Deerfield school district.

Donald Hank

An Urgent Campaign Alert

From James Hartline

Monday -  April 8, 2008

Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek.

 Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and

 Hur went up to the top of the hill.  So it came about when Moses held his hand up,

that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.  But Moses’

hands were heavy. Then they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and

Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. Thus his

hands were steady until the sun set.  So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

     For the past eight years, every battle that the Lord has asked me to fight, I have said, Yes!”  In faith, I have kept my promises to the Lord and I have obediently answered the call when He has asked me to go to battle for His cause.  Although I had never really contemplated the idea of running for office before, when the Lord called upon me to run for the San Diego City Council nine months ago, I again did what the Lord asked me to do.

     Running for office is a very difficult assignment.  It is a very tiring battle.  However, the Lord has been gracious to me.  Even though I have been fighting a deadly battle with AIDS and I am surrounded by those who have shown great hate towards me due to my very public Christian stand in the city of San Diego, I have stayed the course.  I have learned to obey God no matter what the cost, for my real reward is in heaven and not on this earth.

     We are on the brink of one of the greatest victories in the history of the modern day culture war.  Because there are six candidates in this race, instead of the usual two, the odds of our side winning have been greatly increased.  Additionally, in the 2004 election, 39,000 District 3 voters did not vote because they were dissatisfied with the radical homosexual candidates.  This time, they have a choice and we are seizing upon the moment by connecting to the 39,000 voters who did not vote in the last election.

     We are very close to wining a seat on the San Diego City Council and defeating one of the most powerful homosexual agenda machines in the nation.  Despite the closeness of this victory, I know that I will not win this race unless the Christians of San Diego rise up and help me. 

     I am fearful, so fearful, that this campaign victory will be lost, not because the opportunity wasn’t there, but because the Christians of San Diego simply would not give of their time and resources to help me.  Last week, I sent out nearly 300 invitations to Christians in the San Diego area, asking them to give me four hours of their time on Saturday to walk my district and talk to voters about me and my campaign.  Only four people showed up.

     Two weeks ago, I saw many gay activists walking the district to talk to voters about supporting the various homosexual candidates who are my opponents in this race.  Of all the things that I have faced as a public figure and Christian activist, there is nothing so frustrating or so discouraging as the sight of seeing a multitude of gay activists handing out literature for my homosexual opponents while I only have four Christians out of one million in the city of San Diego walking the district to help me.

     How have we come to a place in our society where homosexuals are more excited about winning the culture to their side than Christians are for winning the culture to our side?  What has happened to us?  Don’t Christians understand that their apathy and their unwillingness to help Christian candidates like me is a sign that we are going to suffer greatly because of our own inaction?

     If we win this campaign, the Christian Conservative movement in the United States will experience its greatest victory ever and the momentum for a tremendous political revival in America will commence.  If we lose this race because of lack of help or interest on the part of Christians, I really am fearful what God’s response will be.

     What if Aaron and Hur had decided that they would not help hold up Moses’ arms when he got tired?  The assured Israeli victory would have been thrown away.  That is what we are facing in my own campaign.

     Christians throughout America are watching my particular race in San Diego. They are hoping and praying that James Hartline will win the seat on the San Diego City Council, thus giving Christians everywhere in America great hope that real, Biblical change is at hand.  However, up to this point, I have begged and pleaded with thousands of San Diego Christians to help me.  Only five people have responded by regularly helping me.  Five people out of one million Christians in San Diego have regularly helped me in my campaign.  I have received dozens of emails from Christians in other parts of America who have told me that they would be helping me if they lived in San Diego. They simply cannot understand why Christian brothers and sisters in my own city will not volunteer their time to help me.

     The battle is before us.  If we lose this campaign because we could not get volunteers, how will God look upon us?  It was God that asked me to run.  It is what He wanted.  I answered yes to His call.  Yet, how many in San Diego are saying no to that same call?

     Yes, the battle is before us.  The victory is being handed to us, but will we reach out to grab it?  Only those who have told God that they want to be involved in the saving of our nation can truly answer that question.

Here are the upcoming James Hartline Campaign Events.  We need your help.  Will you help me in this battle to save our city?

We are going out every Saturday, from 10am - 2pm, walking the district and giving out campaign flyers to voters at their homes.  Our next district walk will start at Coco’s Restaurant - 2644 El Cajon Blvd.  San Diego, CA.  92104 at 10am.

San Diego City Council Rally for the persecuted Christians of China

Tuesday - April 15, 2008, 8:30am - 11:30am

202 C Street, San Diego, CA.  92101

James Hartline’s Campaign Walk Against Poverty in District 3

May 3, 2008 at 10am

We need 200 volunteers for this critical campaign event.

Call for more information

We will be going out 4 times and standing at several major intersections with large signs that read: “Vote for James Hartline, City Council District 3″.  These intersections will be located where there is heavy traffic in and out of District 3.  We need those who will give of their time to hold up these signs, have fun and, in the process, save our city.  We can add “John 3:16″ or another Bible verse with the signs to make these political/evangelical events.

We need those who can go into the senior highrise buildings to hand out flyers to the seniors.  Do you know anyone who is a senior that lives in these buildings?

We need those who will hand out flyers at shopping malls in the District.

We need those who will make campaign contributions up to $270 per person so that we can buy more door hangers, flyers and advertisements.

Make Checks out to

Hartline For City Council

P.O. Box 632763

San Diego, CA.  92163

Include, Name, Address, Occupation and Employer

Please Contact James Hartline to let him know that you will be willing to help him during this critical time to win a seat on the San Diego City Council and to help him save his city during this time when anti-christians are determined to destroy the Biblical foundation of our nation.

We only have eight weeks left until the vote!

James Hartline

Candidate, San Diego City Council

District 3

www.hartline08.com

Telephone: 619-255-9378

cell: 619-793-9661

 America, beware this ruse of the Left:

The Left often uses the ruse of foisting some totally unacceptable and obnoxious demand on us, and then when we resist, agrees to a “compromise,” which actually gives them 100% of what they originally wanted. Soft headed “conservatives” fall for this time and again, like ripe plums in autumn.

The latest developments in the Angels in America saga illustrate this.

Laurie Higgens reports that some of the parents who had reservations about the reading and/or performance of Angels in America, the obscene homosexual play we reported on in a previous issue, suggested just stressing the obscenity in their protest and giving the homosexuality a pass. A keen observer would know that doing so would be falling right into the trap. You see, the Left has no interest in foisting obscene language on children at this early stage in the demoralization of America’s children. The prize they covet is to mainstream homosexuality and make it ap