Paul Ryan Faces Left-Wing Religious Attack

August 11, 2012 By 4 Comments

REP. RYAN, ANNOUNCED TODAY AS MITT ROMNEY’S GOP TICKET MATE, IS CONSERVATIVE, PRO-LIFE CHRISTIAN.

The Obama re-election campaign huddled today with “progressive” religious leaders as they coordinate a line of attack against conservative Catholic congressman Paul Ryan, Republican Mitt Romney’s selection as his ticket-mate.

The Democrat-aligned religious leaders are critical of the budget proposals Rep. Ryan has championed on Capitol Hill, which, they charge, will exacerbate the sufferings of the nation’s poor.

They also portray Ryan as a secret admirer of Ayn Rand, who famously authored “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead;” who was, at once, a strong defender of capitalism and an avowed atheist.

Of course, it is hard for left-wing religious leaders to play the poverty card against Ryan when they are supporting a Democrat president on whose watch the ranks of the nation’s poor has grown by more than 6.5  million.

As to Ryan’s affinity for Rand, there are many faithful Christians, including yours truly, who share her belief in limited government and individual rights, but who absolutely do not share her disbelief in God.

What amuses is that the Obama campaign actually believes that the left-wing religious attack on Ryan it is plotting can somehow win Christian evangelical votes to the Democrat column this upcoming November.

That’s no more likely than Obama returning the poverty rate, the jobless rate and (while we’re at it) gasoline prices to where they were the day before his inauguration.

Because the faith espoused by religious leaders carrying water for the Obama campaign is quite different than the faith practiced by Christian evangelicals.

No true Christ follower would support abortion-on-demand, like the left-wing religious leaders who stand with Obama. Nor would authentic Christians give their blessing to same-sex marriage. Nor would they endorse government-mandated contraceptives-on-demand for single women.

The Scripture advises believers that, during the early years of Christianity, there were “false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in damnable heresies.”

The left-wing “religious” leaders who have joined the Obama campaign in its planned attack on Ryan are the false teachers of whom the Scripture warned. And the day surely will come when the Lord holds them accountable for the heresies they espouse.

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RINO Author Attacks the Religious Right

August 6, 2012 By 3 Comments

AUTHOR SAYS RELIGIOUS RIGHT WOULD DRAG AMERICA BACK TO THE TIME OF ”THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS”

Mike Lofgren used to be a Republican. Then he “retired” last year – so he claims – from a staff job on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee doing grunt work for GOP lawmakers.

Nowadays, Lofgren gets paid to bash the party of Lincoln (and Reagan), which has been taken over by the “religious right,” he laments, in his just-published, oh-so-cleverly-titled book, “The Party is Over.”

“Religious cranks ceased to be a minor political nuisance in this country in the 1970s,” writes Lofgren, “and grew into a major element of the Republican rank and file.” Today, he reckons, these “religious fundamentalists” make up the GOP’s “largest single voting bloc.”

It’s because of “the rise of religious right,” claims Lofgren, and “its insertion into the public sphere by the Republican party” that “(a)ll around us now is a prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility to science.”

The author’s supposed proof: That “the American people poll more like Iranians or Nigerians than Europeans or Canadians on questions of evolution, scriptural inerrancy, the presence of angels and demons, and so forth.”

So, in Lofgren’s mind, only the 15 percent of Americans who, according to polls, believe that man transmogrified from monkey are receptive to science.

And only the 17 percent who, according to polls, dismiss the Bible as a book of fables and legends, and the 14 percent who refuse to accept that there is spiritual warfare going on between angels and demons are intellectual.

Lofgren’s views are those of the secularist left – with which the supposed Republican clearly identifies – which is culpable for much of the social decay this nation has suffered over the past half-century.

That includes the devaluation of marriage, the breakdown in families, the slaughter of the unborn, the decline in educational achievement, the increase in violent crime and the coarsening of our popular culture.

The rise of the religious right that began in the 1970s, that Lofgren decries, actually is an equal and opposite reaction by God-fearing Americans to the misguided public policy to which the secular left has condemned this country over the past half-century.

From the presidential reign of Lyndon Johnson to Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to, now, Barack Obama.

Author Lofgren warns that the religious right aims to create an American theocracy. Its leaders “would drag us back,” he fears, “to the Salem witch trials.”

But that’s not the America the religious right envisions.

It’s a nation that honors God, defends traditional marriage, promotes family values and holds sacred the sanctity of life.

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Companies Pay No Price for Offending Christians

July 10, 2012 By 2 Comments

MICROSOFT CO-FOUNDER BILL GATES AND CEO STEVE BALLMER HAVE COME OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE.

So Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer each donated $100,000 each to defeat Referendum 74, a state of Washington  ballot measure that would overturn  a law, passed by the state’s “progressive” legislature and governor, that would allow same-sex marriages.

What both the Microsoft co-founder and CEO are telling those of us who use the software giant’s products, who object to homosexual couplings, who consider it an abomination in the eyes of the God, is that they couldn’t care less about our religious sensibilities.

If we don’t like their politics, too bad. We’re welcome to purchase our next operating system from some company other than Microsoft.

That’s the attitude of not only Gates and Ballmer, but executives of all too many Fortune 500 companies that promote causes and organizations that most social conservatives, most evangelical Christians, find objectionable.

Indeed, the list of corporations that have gotten in bed with gay rights activists on same-sex marriage includes not only Microsoft, but also Starbucks, Boeing, Google, Nike, Time Warner Cable,Aetna, Xerox, Goldman Sachs, Viacom and Alcoa.

There is a similar, unholy relationship between Fortune 500 corporations and Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider. While few companies directly fund the death dealers, many indirectly support its agenda through such seemingly innocent organizations as the Girl Scouts and the YWCA..

Indeed, the Girl Scouts have partnered with Planned Parenthood to “bring information-based sex education programs to girls.” The YWCA has hooked up with the abortion “rights” organization to co-host workshops on youth pregnancy and prevention.

The list of corporations complicit in Planned Parenthood’s slaughter of innocents include Alcoa, All State, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Dell, Dove, Lockheed Martin, MetLife and Motorola.

I know  there are some, if not many, who count themselves evangelical Christians or social conservatives or both, who have misgivings about signing on to boycotts, for one reason or another.

Well, I will not presume to suggest that they ignore their misgivings; that they no longer drink Starbucks coffee or wear Nike sneakers or use AT&T as their cellular service provider.

I will only say that, as for me and my house, we will not give one dollar more to such corporations for them to use in support of causes – like same-sex marriage and abortion – that we find morally repugnant.

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Starbucks Blows Off its Pro-Family Customers

March 26, 2012 By 14 Comments

STARBUCKS SAYS SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A 'CORE VALUE.'

Starbucks held its annual shareholders meeting last week, during which the Seattle-based coffee company affirmed that support for same-sex marriage is one of its core values.

Following the meeting, the National Organization of Marriage announced a “Dump Starbucks” protest campaign.

“The majority of Americans,” said NOM President Brian Brown, “believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. They will not be pleased to learn that their money is being used to advance gay marriage in society.”

Brown’s remarks, and NOM’s protest campaign, fomented predictable yelps of outrage from the LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, Aesexual) community, which considers opposition to same-sex marriage prima facie evidence of bigotry.

But it also elicited unexpected criticism from certain leaders within the evangelical community, who think that Christians ought not join NOM’s protest campaign.

“It’s not that I’m saying a boycott in and of itself is always evil or wrong,” blogged Dr. Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

“It’s just that, in this case (and many like it),” he continued, a boycott exposes us to our worst tendencies. Christians are tempted, again and again, to fight live the devil to please the Lord.”

Well, I respectfully disagree with Dr. Moore. I believe that NOM, whose stated mission is “to protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it,” is standing in the gap for those of who are not homophobic, but who believe that God intended marriage to be exclusively between man and woman.

I had no idea Starbucks had waded into the same-sex marriage debate. As a customer, I do not expect the coffee company to embrace my point of view on the issue. I do, however, expect the company to be neutral.

As Brown suggested, I am deeply offended that Starbucks is using the money I have spent on its lattes to support public policy that offends my religious sensibilities. Just as I am deeply offended that the Girl Scouts are in bed with Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion providers, while they are asking me to buy their cookies.

Well, I am no longer buying Girl Scout cookies, though the girls actually selling the cookies know nothing about the organization’s tacit support for abortion. And I will no longer buy my lattes at Starbucks, though the baristas working there have nothing to with  the company’s misguided core values.

Companies like Starbucks, organizations like the Girl Scouts, don’t care if they offend the faith community. That’s why neither will get another dollar from me.

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Jimmy Carter Reminds Us of His Evangelical Roots

March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS RELEASED A NEW STUDY BIBLE.

The late, great Bob Bartley won a Pulitzer Prize for his Wall Street Journal editorials deconstructing the hapless presidency of Jimmy Carter.

During a conversation I had with Bartley, some years after Ronald Reagan denied Carter a second term in the Oval Office, the WSJ editor told me he really had no animus toward the Democrat.

It’s just that he thought Carter would have made a much better missionary than leader of the free world.

I’m reminded of that conversation with news that the former president has just released a study Bible. It draws upon the 685 or so Sunday School lessons the Southern Baptist reckons he has taught over the years. It also includes his “personal reflections.”

With the media’s paranoia about the political influence of the evangelical community – particularly within the Republican party – it is often forgotten that Carter’s 1976 run for the White House was the impetus that got the evangelical community to take its Christian values from the church to the voting booth.

Carter, the Plains, Ga.peanut farmer who served one term as governor of the Peach Tree State, unabashedly campaigned as a “born-again Christian.” And, as he told CNN last week, he “tried to put into (his) services as president the teachings of Christ.”

Indeed, evangelicals might still be faithful to the party of Carter had it not strayed so far from the traditional values he represented when he was elected back in 1976.

Evangelicals didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left them.

It supports abortion-on-demand. It supports repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between a man and woman. It supports stem cell research involving destruction of human embryos.

It opposes sexual abstinence programs for under-age youth. It opposes public aid to faith-based social service providers. It opposes any mention of God or creation in public schools, while the exaltation of Darwin and evolution are perfectly acceptable. It opposes a crackdown on hard core pornography on the Internet.

Those are the kind of public policy positions for which the Democratic Party stands in 2012. And, in the minds of most evangelicals, they hardly represent the teachings of Christ of which Jimmy Carter spoke.

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Renewed Scrutiny of Obama’s Faith Life

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

OBAMA MADE RARE CHURCH VISIT TO SHILOH BAPTIST IN NATION'S CAPITAL

Pastor Franklin Graham was on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” yesterday. He was asked his opinion of President Obama’s faith life. “He believes in Jesus Christ,” Graham replied. “So I accept that.”

But then the son of Billy Graham, who has prayed with every president going back to Harry Truman, later added, “I have no idea what he really believes.”

The mainstream media seized on Graham’s honest remark as evidence of some sort of political jihad against Obama by the Christian evangelical community. But the president’s actions since moving into the White House are what raise questions about his true religious beliefs.

For one thing, Obama rarely bothers to attend church. The Huffington Post reported that the First Family makes an “occasional” appearance at a number of historic local churches in the Nation’s Capital, or sometimes drops by Evergreen Chapel, the church Ronald Reagan built atCamp David, the president’s weekend retreat.

Perhaps Obama can be forgiven his irregular church attendance – his mainstream media apologists note that he is no different than the 57 percent of Americans who spend their Sundays somewhere other than a church pew – but his policies are what trouble many true believing Christians.

Indeed, since his historic inauguration, some three and half-million abortions have been performed in this country. Yet, the professed Christian in the Oval Office has made no effort whatsoever to stop – or even reduce – the slaughter of the unborn. Instead, he has cast his lot with the abortion industrial complex.

“I am pro-choice,” Obama has stated. “I believe in Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion-on-demand, that denied the humanity of the unborn.

Then there’s the president’s “evolving” position on same-sex marriage. When he was running for the White House four years ago, Obama stated, unequivocally, “I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and I am not in favor of gay marriage.”

Four years later, as the president seeks re-election, he has not yet thrown his support behind same-sex marriage, but he no longer stands by his previously-held view that marriage should remain exclusively between a man and a woman.

Yes, President Obama professes belief in Jesus Christ. But his views on abortion and same-sex marriage – among other defining issues – are anything but Christian.

 
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Santorum Victim of Reverse Religious Bigotry

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

SANTORUM CAMPAIGNED IN THE BUCKEYE STATE THIS PAST WEEKEND.

Rick Santorum has recently emerged as the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. As such, the preferred candidate of Christian evangelical voters has become the target of President Obama’s reelection campaign.

While stumping in Ohio this past weekend, Santorum told supporters that the Democrat president is out of step with the mass of Americans.

“It’s not about you,” said the former Pennsylvania senator. “It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs.”

The president is driven by “some phony ideal,” said Santorum. “Some phony theology. Oh not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”

Obama’s surrogates immediately pounced on the GOP front-runner’s remark, which they characterized as an attack on the president’s religious faith.

I can’t help but think that those remarks are well over the line,” Senior Obama Campaign Advisor Robert Gibbs harrumphed n “ABC This Week” yesterday. “It’s wrong. It’s destructive,” Gibbs added, for good measure.

But it’s the Obama campaign that was “wrong” in this case, as reported by Jan Crawford for CBS News.

The president’s attack dogs hit Santorum hard, she attested, “for something he didn’t really even say.” The Republican wasn’t commenting on Obama’s religion, wrote Crawford, he “was criticizing the president’s liberal environmental views.”

The Obama reelection seeks to portray Santorum, a Christian evangelical, as some sort of religious extremist, which is an insult to the millions of Americans who share the former senator’s faith.

Such reverse bigotry has no place in the presidential race. The Obama reelection campaign owes Santorum an apology.

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Christie Punts on Same-Sex Marriage

February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

JERSEY GOVERNOR HIDES BEHIND VOTERS

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pulled a Nicole Scherzinger today.

The former Pussy Cat Doll front woman, a judge on “The X Factor,” a singing competition airing on FOX, was at the center of the most controversial moment during the reality show’s first season when she could not bring herself to choose between two contestants, tearfully punting the decision to the viewing public.

Christie, a Republican, pulled the political equivalent when he vetoed a bill that would have allowed homosexual couples to lawfully wed in Garden State while, at the same time, calling upon Jersey’s Democrat-legislature to put a referendum on same-sex marriage on the state’s November ballot.

“I am adhering to what I’ve said since this bill was first introduced,” Christie stated, in his veto message. “An issue of this magnitude and importance, which requires a constitutional amendment, should be left to the people of New Jersey to decide.”

Please.

Christie is dressing himself up as a populist, who seeks only to do the people’s will. But the reality is the governor is trying to serve two masters – the homosexual lobby and the Christian evangelical community.

His wishy-washyness certainly hasn’t won him the favor of Jersey gays and lesbians.

The governor’s veto, said Jersey Assemblyman Tim Eustace, one of two openly homosexual members of the state’s Legislature, “makes it clear, in uncertain terms, that he doesn’t think my family, and thousands of others, are equal in the eyes of the law.”

The Garden State’s social conservatives can’t be especially pleased with the governor either.

Not when his veto statement declared that he is “adamant that same-sex couples in a civil union deserve the very same rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples – as well as the strict enforcement of those rights and benefits.”

If Christie, a Roman Catholic, actually feels that way, he should have just manned up and signed the Jersey same-sex marriage bill.

He would have lost the political support of this Christian evangelical. But at least I would have respected him for standing on principle.

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