Laigle’s Forum

You deserve some good news

By Donald Hank

Recently Joseph Farah suggested that despite the bad batch of presidential candidates from which to choose, he is optimistic, because he believes our institutions are changing in a positive way. I believe he is on to something. Last year WND’s hardcopy periodical Whistleblower dedicated an entire issue to abortion. Despite the dismal reports it contained, eg, that more unborn babies had died in abortions since Wade-Roe than in Hitler’s and Stalin’s murder sprees combined, the whole tenor of the issue was upbeat. The good news was that it was becoming increasingly difficult to find doctors to perform abortions. This in turn, I think, was certainly due to the excellent work done on the front lines by ordinary people writing letters to legislators and newspapers, attending rallies or carrying posters and picketing at strategic locations throughout the US. There had always been a lot of controversy over those posters with graphic photos of dead fetuses and their body parts, which are certainly hard to look at and take us way out of our comfort zone.

But oddly, many of the people who hated these posters and the truth they display so graphically were the ones who wound up giving ground on the issue of abortion. These included prominent Democrats and even some of the pioneers of the abortion movement.

The truth, resisted so fiercely for so long, had ultimately sunk in and had had a devastating effect on the abortion industry. So much so that no matter who becomes president, they will have to contend with an increasingly mighty backlash against abortion, and the prospect of giving ground or losing popularity.

Likewise, in one of our recent articles, we saw how author Ryan Sorba’s speech at Smith College was curtailed by a bunch of howling lesbian termagants.

Someone who saw this article emailed me in a pessimistic tone suggesting the world may be coming to an end or the like because of this incident. I told this emailer not to worry, that things like this fix themselves when the public becomes aware of how their rights are being threatened.

I was thinking back on things that had happened in the past that would cause people gloom but that were corrected when the news came out, and not by coincidence, but precisely because the news came out and was presented in an objective way that showed how the event in question was a threat to this or that right.

For example, consider last summer’s failed amnesty bill that was killed by the grassroots in an elitist Senate that was suddenly overpowered by regular people like you and me. Or look at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), an issue that came to a head when the presidents of the US, Mexico and Canada met secretly in Canada. The public outcry was so great that ranking officials have recently declared the SPP a dead issue. Of course, that means that it will morph into something else, which in turn will have to be exposed to the sunlight.

The good news is that the public outcry against supranational enterprises of this type has helped chip away at the stealthy effectiveness with which they had once succeeded almost unopposed. Laigle’s Forum played a part with some of our articles beginning back in June 2006 with a 3 part series containing: an original column entitled The supranational movement; our translation from the HazteOir web site (in Spain) entitled The call effect in Spain, and our translation (from the Portuguese) of Olavo de Carvalho’s scholarly expose Behind the subversion, and later others, including my column at WorldNetDaily entitled Europe’s frog stew and a column entitled The EU is an evil empire.

But getting back to the riot at Smith College, here is why I am no longer worried that our First Amendment may not survive the homosexual onslaught:

Today there was this video at ABC News that shows a sea change.

Now don’t be surprised if ABC has taken it down by the time you click. But the damage has been done, and not to our side, but to the homosexual cause. This video is the first report I have ever seen presented at a mainstream news site (I assume it aired on TV) in which the reporter actually show objectively how homosexual bullies deny people their rights, muzzle opponents and squelch debate.

What really stunned me was that, with a candor and balance I have never seen in the mainstream news, the reporter tells us that a member of the American Psychiatric Association had tried for 2 years to organize a symposium discussing why people become gay and whether a gay can “go straight,” but that the gay community had staged a protest so vigorous that the symposium had to be cancelled. Until this time, the public had not been privy to the fact that the gay agenda is directly opposed to free discussion. The report concludes:

“He [the organizer of the symposium] wishes people would stop shouting and start talking.”

I have been outspoken about homosexual issues in the past and was never intimidated by these activists. I like to think this is because I have always taken my orders from my Commander-in-Chief, who said I was to love sinners. My theory is that perhaps those who shy away from confrontations, or give in to “gay” marriage demands, for example, are those who down inside really do hate, resent or fear gay people and are afraid these untoward feelings might surface in a confrontation (as they did, for example, when Michael Savage told a homosexual caller: “you should die of AIDS”). At any rate, for whatever reason, by and large, the media, including most of the “conservative” media, have always been particularly gutless in countering or even questioning the gay agenda.

But ABC has started a trend that, in my perception, is new. It was long overdue.

I also suspect that Ben Stein’s expose of academic intolerance has actually shaken more than a few consciences, just like those pro-life activists who mightily smote the national conscience, and his film Expelled may in fact have influenced ABC’s reporters.

At any rate, for whatever reason, ABC did the right thing in suggesting that the screaming stop and the talk begin.

Thank you, ABC!

My point is that no matter how bad our next president is or how much he or she differs from the grassroots in terms of viewpoint, politicians are not omnipotent. They rely on a certain degree of popularity to carry out their agendas. You and I still decide whether they get that.

And God decides whether or not they succeed.

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We had previously reported on the Holmen church-and-state issue where a national atheist organization tried to sue to have a religious symbol removed. Here is Anthony Horvath’s latest report:

http://sntjohnny.com/front/holmen-star-church-and-state-issue-coming-to-a-boil/294.html

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/

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

This just in from Nancy Goettman: 

Alan Keyes to announce break with GOP in Hazleton, PAApril 13, 2008

  HAZLETON, Penn. - Former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes has chosen April 15 to make a major announcement of his intentions, following indications he has broken with the GOP.

A life-long Republican who has increasingly cited the party’s failure to match conservative rhetoric with actual performance in the political arena, Keyes said he will reveal his reasons for departing the GOP at a press conference scheduled for 8:30 pm ET, at the Best Western Genetti Inn in Hazleton, PA.

The event will be video-streamed live at Keyes’ website, http://www.alankeyes.com/.

Keyes added that he is looking to the Constitution Party as a possible home for his future efforts in politics, including a potential run for president in the 2008 general election.

“No other ‘third party’ is as well-established as the Constitution Party,” said Keyes. “They’ve been around since 1992, and have built a significant grassroots presence among patriotic, Constitution-minded citizens - with a registered membership of over 350,000. Conservatives have a home in the CP that they can find nowhere else, given the decline in the Republican Party’s credibility as a voice and vehicle for conservatism.”

Regarding his potential third-party candidacy for president in the fall, Keyes said, “I believe people deserve a choice. They certainly deserve a conservative choice - something neither John McCain, Hillary Clinton, nor Barack Obama can offer voters. All they can offer is empty promises based on liberal track records.”

Symbolic of Keyes’ break with the Republican Party is a caricature of the GOP logo - upside down - on the front page of his website.

The Constitution Party will hold its nominating convention April 23-26 in Kansas City.

According to Dan Smeriglio, a Keyes supporter who is helping to arrange the event, the former Reagan administration diplomat chose to make his announcement in Hazleton because of the town’s strong stance on illegal immigration.

“I understand a good portion of his speech next week will center on illegal immigration,” Smeriglio said. Smeriglio and a group he represents, Voice of the People USA, have been vocal in opposing illegal immigration since Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta introduced the Illegal Immigration Relief Act in 2006 - thrusting Hazleton into national prominence in the movement to stem illegal immigration.

Keyes - who has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard and wrote his dissertation on constitutional theory - served as Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, as well as Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, where he represented U.S. interests in the UN General Assembly.
 

Stand your ground

By Helen Valois

Deputy Grassroots Coordinator

“You’ve convinced me that you are going to help put Hillary Clinton
or Barack Obama in the White House.”

This is how a friend of mine tried to wrap up a political discussion last weekend.  The circumstances were unusual, even if the comment was not.  Usually, you’ll find a lone Keyes backer being numerically outgunned by a bunch of RINOs.  In this case, the sole McCain supporter found himself faced with an enthusiastic and well-informed circle of Keyes people.

It is interesting that he had nothing to say about our arguments themselves.  A good guy at heart, he conceded the moral and civic points that we raised.  Then, disappointingly, he fell back on the same old “lesser-of-two-evils” approach that the Republican leadership has been serving up for decades now.  The idea that the only way to win is to concede defeat at the very outset, by backing a candidate who doesn’t stand for conservative principle in the first place, has itself come to fruition in the presumptive nomination of John McCain as the Republican candidate for 2008.  Is this not, in and of itself, enough to convince us at last of the wrong-headedness of this approach?

This type of thinking constitutes textbook “enabling behavior,” in the vernacular of popular psychology.  Just as the wife of an alcoholic is supposed to “save the family” by calling in sick for her hung-over husband, we conservatives are being pressured to “save the White House for Republicans” by facilitating the socialist mentality.  “What are you trying to do, get me fired?” the husband demands, if she mentions any qualms.  It is easy to see that, if he did lose his job, the fault would be his own and not hers.  Why then can we not see that it is up to the politician to earn the conservative vote, and not up to the conservatives to put into office a politician who has chronically failed them? 

The pressure to be political enablers needs to be staunchly resisted.  The once-great Republican party has, in nominating John McCain, crossed the line from viable to suicidal, and many well-intentioned Americans know it.  That is why they are saying they will not vote for him, even at the cost of not voting at all.  Yet to allow the RINOs to effectively disenfranchise us is not acceptable, either.  So, where do we go from here?

Before we look ahead, let’s look back.  The Republicans are the heirs of the Lincoln legacy, but what does that truly mean?  During the era of slavery, there was a party - the Democrats - that refused to stand against the ungodly and un-American evil of its time.  There was another party - the Whigs - that let its opposition to slavery be watered down to the point of irrelevance.  It was in this context that a third party known as the Republicans providentially arose.   

Lincoln didn’t make it his life’s objective to rehabilitate a dying political party.  During the nineteenth century crisis of the Republic, he saw to it that American identity and sovereignty - as well as the dignity and life of every American - was, in principle, preserved.  There were challenges, and unspeakable sacrifice, but Lincoln’s cause was ultimately the cause of God Himself, and it was God who saw it through.

In our own time, we have again seen the American mission assaulted not only from without, but also from within.  Socialism renamed “liberalism” has been foisting an ersatz version of our country’s character upon us, while the existing party structure has proven unable or unwilling to stand in the gap.  God, however, is still able to achieve His designs for this world, and it is with Him that we must finally cooperate.

Alan Keyes, as you know, has ended his lifelong affiliation with the Republicans.  This is a step the Ambassador has not taken lightly, and neither should any of us who are considering a similar move.  He has chosen to seek the presidential nomination of the Constitution party, and he asks that you prayerfully consider supporting him in this path.

Many of you took the time to respond to the questionnaire we sent out regarding whether or not Alan ought to go third party.  The overwhelming majority of responses were in favor of his doing so.  You wrote:

• Alan has always been the best choice, and the Constitution Party is an exciting, hopeful option for the millions of disappointed Americans who do not know another choice exists.
   
• I will vote for Dr. Keyes based on his life’s work and not on his party affiliation.
   
• I have always voted Republican, but today we have no “life” protection under their party.  It is a fearful thought to envision life under the domination of any current (major party) candidate.
   
• Either way, I am supporting Alan Keyes for President of the United States of America.  I have voted for him before and I will continue to vote for him until elected.
   
• As a Republican it is hard not to fall in line, but if Alan Keyes joins the Constitution Party and runs as its candidate, I will not only vote for him; I will switch my party affiliation.
   
• Understanding all that he stands for, I will vote for Alan Keyes no matter what!
   
• We the people have no choice in this election.  As soon as Alan Keyes makes it formal and runs on a third party ticket, I will be joining that party with him.  True patriots have no choice.

Dr. Keyes has frequently noted that he is running for President because principled conservatives are being offered no way of participating in politics in this country without violating their own beliefs.  To say that Alan is the “best choice” expresses this fact, yet inadvertently masks another reality.  As Americans and as believers, we recognize that there are things that lie beyond the reach of our own decisions.  Keyes truly is the choice about which we have no choice; a vote in acknowledgment of that which cannot - strictly speaking - be voted on in the first place.  We too hold certain truths to be self-evident.  Among them are the fact that the lesser of two evils is still evil, and that if John McCain fails to be inaugurated next January, he and the Republican leadership will not need to look beyond the frames of their own mirrors in determining exactly who is to blame.
 

A reminder

Please donate what you can to help, as Alan travels to Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to announce his future plans - at a press conference to be streamed live on Tuesday at 8:30 pm ET - and as he also travels with his staff to the Constitution Party Convention a week later in Kansas City.

Thanks so much for your financial support!

You can contribute by going to www.alankeyes.com/donate.php

Commentary by Don Hank 

HILLARY and McCain in defense of Americans: You aren’t bitter, just bigots

 UPDATED AT:

http://laiglesforum.com/2008/04/14/help-fight-homo-elitists-in-school-uk-betrayed-more/

The James Hartline Report

Breaking News!

April 11, 2008

San Diego City Council To Declare A Day of Honor For

The Gay and Lesbian Times Porn Newspaper

Gay and Lesbian Times is one of San Diego’s biggest

promoters and advertisers of the gay porn industry.

The James Hartline Report invites you to go to

the San Diego City Council on April 15, 2008

to stop this madness!

Take Action:

     If the San Diego City Council hasn’t already crossed the point of insanity, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 will surely be the day when they do cross their insane point of no return.   From honoring the abortion industry in San Diego by declaring Reproductive Choice Day in San Diego to declaring ACLU Day in the City of San Diego, the San Diego City Council has repeatedly beaten down San Diego voters with their constant parade of insane decisions.

     Thousands of dollars is wasted each year on these ridiculous proclamations. While the city council cannot get itself out of debt, it can find the time and money to honor scores of radical leftist organizations and businesses.  This time, the council is preparing to honor one of San Diego’s most notorious porn-promoting newspapers.

     Lesbian San Diego City Councilwoman Toni Atkins has sponsored a bill to declare Gay and Lesbian Times Day in The City of San Diego.  The vote to honor this porn-promoting publication will occur on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 during the morning council session.

     The Gay and Lesbian Times is one of the biggest promoters of gay pornography in the city of San Diego.  The classified section of the Gay and Lesbian Times includes advertisements for male prostitution, employment in the gay porn industry and the sales of explicit and disgusting gay pornography.  The online website for the Gay and Lesbian Times classifieds reveals advertisements like the following ones:

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and

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and

Rent Boy (a male sex escorting service).

     Additionally, Uptown Publications, the corporate publisher of the Gay and Lesbian Times also produces Rocket Magazine which contains some of the most filthy, anti-christian and anti-catholic advertisements imaginable. Rocket Magazine has actually featured advertisements for sex toys including a dildo that features Jesus hanging on the cross

     The James Hartline Report is urging all San Diegans to join San Diego City Council candidate James Hartline on April 15, 2008 as he speaks out against this horrific and disrespectful honoring of the porn-promoting Gay and Lesbian Times.

Remember, when they declare Gay and Lesbian Times Day in the city of San Diego, they are doing so in the name of every Christian in San Diego, as well as moms and dads and their children.

     James Hartline is also urging all citizens to join him for a Prayer Rally at City Hall at 8:30am on April 15, 2008, where he and other like-minded citizens will be praying for political revival in his city.

You can contact the San Diego City Council and tell them to vote NO on honoring the Gay and Lesbian Times and their obsession with the porn industry by going to www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/

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GOP! YOU’RE FIRED!

by Tom Cox, Save America Summit

Ronald Reagan started his political life as a Democrat. When he realized the Democratic Party was wandering to the far left, he became a Republican. He’s supposed to have said something like, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.”

I can identify fully with that position. I’ve been a Republican for almost twenty years, but no more. After two terms of a president who ran as a conservative, but governs as a liberal, I’m done with the Republican Party and their stinking pachyderm mascot.  

I voted twice for George W. Bush. I bought the GOP’s line that a conservative/Constitutionalist has nowhere else to go, and that not voting for Bush was, in effect, voting for Gore or Kerry. I hit the limit of my capacity for self-deception with the apparent success of RINO McCain, a dim bulb in a decrepit chandelier of lackluster “front runners” for the GOP nomination.

Enough. As the Republican Party abandons its core values of Judeo-Christian morality, fiscal prudence and respect for the Constitution, it has abandoned me.

At home, we have federal tax dollars being tamped down bottomless rat holes by a federal government that makes LBJ’s “Great Society” look positively tight-fisted.

The expansion of government into what passes for “public education,” these days, is a sop to the powerful teachers’ unions, who will expand their membership, and ratchet up their contributions to the Democrats. The school systems are hooked on federal funds (read: “taxpayers’ money”) that they receive in exchange for bureaucratic micromanagement of their already-failed methods and processes.

The colossal prescription drug welfare program will be a money sink to make New Deal make-work projects seem positively frugal, but this hold-up of the taxpayers will get a big thumbs-up from the multinational pharmaceutical companies - who will donate to the re-election campaign funds of lawmakers who pass laws to help them line their pockets.

Our “War on Terror” (which is like calling World War II a “War on Blitzkrieg,” or a “War on Kamikazes”) has blood and treasure flooding the sands of Afghanistan and Iraq, but we can’t seem to identify the enemy, despite its best efforts to identify itself - the fascist dogma of Islam, a totalitarian socio-political system masquerading as a religion. What hope do we have of winning a war, if we don’t know who we’re fighting?

We have thousands of miles of unprotected national borders to our north and south, with a perpetual tidal wave of foreigners pouring through them daily. Border Patrol agents who try to do their jobs wind up in prison, and illegal aliens wind up on welfare.

There is a lot more, but the above is enough to make my case for firing the Republican Party. When you throw in John McCain, who thinks conservatives and Constitutionalists are unwashed rubes at best, or troublemakers and insurrectionists at worst - well, even an unwashed rube like me gets the message.

The conservative/Constitutionalist core of the Republican Party has been treated in the last few decades just the way Democrats treat American Blacks - as a voting bloc that can be catered to and lied to just enough, leading up to an election, that they will reliably vote with the bloc, and then be ignored and/or abused until the next election cycle is coming.

Democrats worship abortion, which kills Black babies at a much higher rate than their proportion of the population. Democrats perpetuate the failed public school system that does its best to keep Blacks ignorant and isolated from the opportunities America offers to those who help themselves to a better life through productive work.

And yet, the Blacks keep coming back to the Democratic Party, because they buy the fear and loathing that the Democrats are selling. “Republicans are racists! They’ll re-institute Jim Crow, throw poor people in debtors’ prison, and appoint Klansmen to the Supreme Court!”

Conservatives and Constitutionalists keep voting for Republicans, because — well, because they buy the same boogie man story, with different characters, but the same, scary plot.  ”Just imagine what a Democrat president and Congress would do to the country! They’ll socialize medicine, impose racial quotas that hurt whites, spend the country into poverty, leave our borders, defenseless, appoint incompetent federal judges, take away our firearms, abolish free speech, blah, blah, blah.”  

Wait a minute. Didn’t a Republican president already do a lot of that, with or without a Republican majority in Congress?

I’m done with the Republican Party. I’m moving up to the Constitution Party, where I feel much more at home. If the Republican Party left you, I suggest you check the Constitution Party out, at their Website: http://www.constitutionparty.com/. Send those pachyderms packing. Their walking papers are long overdue.

Tom Cox
Charlotte, TN

ASIF is ba-a-a-a-ack!

And he is still on his damage-control jihad. Notice what he says about truth. Truth-o-phobia is a malady affecting millions, nay, billions, starting with the Left but also affecting Muslims, by their own confession, as you can read with your own eyes. No wonder the two are such close allies in their joint jihad against Western culture.

But in his latest message, he makes some good points. If you were a Muslim and basing my opinion on the USA on Hollywood, what would you think of us?

There is something both groups can do.

Click here and scroll to near the bottom for Asif’s comment and our response. Then add your own. Be nice but firm.

SEND this link to your pastor…

…but protect your ears.

The silence may be deafening:

Click here for Dr. James Kennedy’s stirring message to our apostate churches.

JOHN McCain to taxpayers: Now you can pay your neighbors’ mortgages too

It is so sweet of John to have thought about his fellow Americans in these difficult times. Now, instead of just having to deal with our own finances and grappling with soaring gas and food prices, we can lend a hand to our neighbors by helping them pay their mortgages. I can’t wait to get started.

Might I say that I too have had hard financial times, many of them.

Know what I did each time that happened? Foolish me, I rushed right out and didn’t buy a house because it never occurred to me that the government would bail me out if I couldn’t pay the mortgage!

I could kick myself now for being so brash.

When will I learn my lesson: that bad decisions are for me to make and the government to fix?

Donald Hank

McCain’s plan would benefit the government and original lender by giving them certificates for part of the loan’s original value. If the homeowner sold for more, he or she would benefit along with the government and the original lender.

“It is built on the reality that homeowners should have an equity capital stake in their home,” he said. “Homeowners would end up with a 30-year mortgage and an equity stake in their home. The new lender would receive a federal guarantee of the mortgage.

“And the taxpayer gets a benefit if the sale value ever recovers,” he said.

Read more here.

Marx in the schools

Must Buy Book: Whoever Controls the Schools Rules the World

by Gary DeMar

Its been said that “the philosophy of the classroom in this generation will be the philosophy of life in the next generation.” Our earliest founding fathers understood this. That’s why, after building homes and churches, they established educational institutions like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth. Today, most Christians have adopted the false premise that facts are neutral. They believe it doesn’t matter who teaches math, science, and history, because facts are facts. The humanists took advantage of this type of thinking by gradually shaping and controlling education in terms of materialist assumptions.

Whoever Controls the Schools Rules the World shows how education can be used as a vehicle for social change from Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler to secular humanism and radical Islam. Our worldview opponents understand that education is where the war of ideas is fought. If Christians are serious about securing the future for our children, they must understand the nature of the war we are fighting.

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JUST in from Athanatos Christian Ministries

On the Sixth Day God Created Your Brain:  Apologetics Academy Says “Use It”

Athanatos Christian Ministries has launched an online academy designed to introduce learners to the great wealth of evidences and arguments for the Christian faith. The central feature of the academy is an apologetics certification track though all are welcome and many would benefit from the courses offered.

The website of the academy is http://www.athanatosministries.org/academy.html

Apologetics is more than answering endless objections about the faith.  It is also having a firm grasp of the truth.  The more you know about the foundations of the Christian faith, the more you know about the living savior who established it.

That is why ACM has launched an online academy with an apologetics certificate program that does not merely rely on dealing with why people think Christianity is false, but rather why people think it is true.

The apologetics certificate requires about 15 courses and takes just 12-18 months to complete.  You do not need to be in the certificate program to take courses.  The next session is set to begin April 21^st.   Courses are affordable and last between 2-4 weeks.

Executive Director Anthony Horvath says, “Among the courses we are offering is an introduction to Biblical Greek.  The idea is to give people wider access to information that will help them learn more on their own.”

He continues, “Another course is our development of the New Testament.  Instead of fighting out the Da Vinci Code type conspiracies all the time, learn how the New Testament came together just one time and you’re immune to such conspiracies forever.  An ounce of real knowledge dispenses with a pound of false accusations.”

The Athanatos Online Academy has different goals than traditional institution.  Horvath says, “We are not about making people jump through hoops just to get a grade.  We assign work and readings that are really relevant to the Christian faith or its defense.  We aim to use material that is widely available on the Internet but, especially for those in our apologetics certificate program, we also want to expose people to the writings of prominent Christians, including contemporary scholars like William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, and Peter Kreeft, to name a few.”

The Academy was recently featured on the ChristianPost.com.  Other courses include the historicity of the resurrection and the problem of pain.

For interviews or more information contact Anthony Horvath directly at director@athanatosministries.org.  The Academy’s website is www.athanatosministries.org/academy.html.

FROM a reader:

Worried about school taxes — no matter where you live?  Noticed the high drop-out rates in schools — no matter where you live?  Wonder why so many police officers are needed to be “resource officers” in schools — no matter where you live? Wonder why students reach college and/or the job market deficient in “basic skills” — no matter where you live?  Wonder why education costs so much and always needs much more money in the budgets every year — no matter where you live? This from New York State might answer some of your questions. How much will your district get in “help” from your state budgets — and how will the money be spent?

Joan B.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04102008/news/regionalnews/teachers_buy_albany_105793.htm
Teachers ‘Buy’ Albany

INDOCTRINATE U

Click here to see the trailer.

BOB Smith not running?

Former U.S. senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire says that he never agreed to be a presidential candidate for the Constitution Party.

Smith - who now lives in Florida - told the Associated Press yesterday that he plans to focus his time on his family.

Read more here.

 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 appear attractive to children.

The acceptance of obscenity and explicit sexual portrayals in literature and the arts is the next step.

But Americans have been taught the insidious lesson of “reaching across the aisle” a la John McCain, and appeasement — compromising with evil for the sake of peace. We need to unlearn this behavior as quickly as possible to survive as a free nation.

Laurie Higgins writes:

A parent who objects to Angels in America suggested that those who object to the play should “downplay” the issue of homosexuality, to which I responded as follows:

“The homosexual piece is downplayed at our great peril. At the Saturday meeting, I think I was the only person who addressed the homosexuality. I will not retreat from this because virtually everyone else is. Almost everyone I talk to says that they don’t care about the homosexuality; it’s the language and sex they care about. I think that’s both a strategic and moral error. If Angels is pulled from the curricula just because of the graphic sex and obscene language, then the faculty is free to continue to introduce resources that normalize homosexuality as long as the resources aren’t graphic and obscene.

If no one stands with me, I will stand alone because, to borrow shamelessly the words of Martin Luther, ‘I can do no other. God help me.’ ”

DOES it take a village?

Click here to get an idea:

http://suncanaa.com/2008

Have you checked out Amercianshavehadenough.org yet?

http://americanshavehadenough.org/

IT IS POLITICALLY INCORRECT to suggest, or print news item that suggests, that Islam is weakening. The Left likes Islam because it opposes Christianity, the arch enemy of the Red Revolution and the immorality they are pedaling. That’s why the left-leaning Dutch government and media try to show the public that Geert Wilders is a trouble maker who should be ignored. But that just made everyone all the more anxious to view the movie Fitna, which was a smashing success, and did not result in the expected violence. Why? I suspect it is because Muslims saw that their violent response to cartoons mocking Islamo-fascism and the murder of Theo Van Gogh, whose film highlighted Islamic violence, backfired. The love of truth and freedom still smolders under the ashes of Western civilization.

Further, the argument started to emerge that if Muslim groups, such as the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), threatened violence or demanded Islam’s critics be silenced, then that was merely more support for Wilders’ thesis that Islam is violent and cruel to the core.

Laigle’s Forum led the charge with that argument and kept the Fitna site (notice the comment by Asif and Laigle Forum’s response) available to readers even after it was pulled by LiveLeak.com.

Some have said that the response to Fitna proves the West is hopelessly cowardly. But the truth is, the lack of violence so far also tells us something of the war against Islamic fascism, and this overshadows the lack of cogent arguments by somnolent Westerners. Muslims are starting to see that strapping on bomb belts isn’t helping their cause. Terrorist recruitment is in fact getting more difficult these days.

Maybe the next article will help explain why.

MUSLIMS leaving Islam in droves

Ex-Muslim Magdi Allam’s very public baptism on Easter Sunday made headlines, but he is just one among legions converting from Islam around the world.

April 3, 2008 - by Andrew Walden

Pope Benedict’s choice to publicly baptize the most prominent Muslim in Italy, Egyptian-born Magdi Allam, highlights a quiet worldwide exodus from Islam. In recent years, millions have moved on. With this high-profile action, Pope Benedict demonstratively blesses this massive conversion from the highest levels of the Church.

Interviewed by al-Jazeera in 2006, Ahmad al-Qataani, leader of the Companions Lighthouse for the Science of Islamic Law in Libya, explains the decline:

Read more here

WE DON’T NEED TO SETTLE FOR MC-BAMA

America has 3 leftwing candidates, and many conservatives have fallen into line on the GOP side, resigned to holding their nose and voting for pro-amnesty McCain of McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Feingold fame.

We don’t have to settle for this. Not by a long shot: