Monthly Archives: November 2008

New administration to promote abortion abroad

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MSNBC is reporting that the incoming Obama Administration will rescind the executive order which prohibits foreign groups which receive U. S. aid from counseling women about abortion.

The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it.

“We have been communicating with his transition staff” almost daily, Richards said. “We expect to see a real change.”

Note that despite the plethora of problems facing us, the President-Elect’s team feels it necessary to meet with Planned Parenthood almost every day.

Online advertising cleaning up its act

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We applaud Connecticut State Attorney-General Blumenthal for his role in making popular site Craigslist see the light when it comes to advertising for illicit sex.

Craigslist, the classifieds website, said Thursday that it was taking steps to prevent people from posting classified ads for prostitution and other illegal activities after reaching a pact with more than 40 states and U.S. territories.

“It’s profoundly significant as a model to track down and crack down on illicit sex and other illegal activities,” said Connecticut Atty. Gen. Richard Blumenthal, who has criticized the site for some of the ads it allows and spearheaded the deal. “Craigslist has been very cooperative about acknowledging the problem and addressing it.”

Read more here.

Dutch Sheets and the election

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Popular author and teacher Dutch Sheets is one of the best-known proponents of governmental intercession in the US and, along with others such as Cindy Jacobs and Lou Engle helped popularize and promote spiritual warfare concepts in the 90′s and the beginning of this century. So I was interested to see Sheets’s take on the election of Mr. Obama. Sheets definitely places himself among those who believe it is great for America to have a black President – just not this particular black President. America, he believes, is being seduced and faces judgment – following the error of the Israelites who begged Samuel for a king.  Sheets says:

I have heard the argument that God cares as much about social justice issues (such as poverty and racism) as He does abortion, making a vote for Obama OK. I certainly believe God puts a very high priority on caring for the poor and I, too, have wanted to see equality demonstrated through a “minority” president. But to equate having a better income or the desire for a first black president, regardless of his positions on abortion and morality, to the issue of killing 50 million babies is not justice-it is a gross distortion of justice and great deception. I fear that we have been desensitized to this issue of abortion. I believe it kills babies and takes innocent life. I also believe it is blood sacrifice that empowers demons. Let’s not forget this in our noble attempts to be kind and conciliatory.

For African Americans I can easily see how it could bring healing to have a first black president, just as it would be for Native Americans to achieve this or for women if a woman were elected president. Again, I have wanted to see justice in this way. I am only saddened that the price for this healing ended up being Barak Obama [sic], a man that will set the cause of life and, most-likely, our God-given destiny as a nation back so drastically. (I also realize there are some who interpret any criticism of Obama as racism. Racism is so NOT what I am about nor what I live, that I will not even dignify any such accusations with a response.)

What does Sheets think we can expect as a result?

• More economic woes
• More violence in an already violent nation
• Disease and death (satan, who is responsible for these things will have greater inroads to our nation.)
• Natural disasters (weather-tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, drought; fires; earthquakes; etc.)
• Terrorism (they will fear us much less now)
• War, perhaps on our own soil
• Judgments relating to the Court. The stacking of the Supreme Court against the sanctity of life and God’s influence on America will occur, which will in turn cause the shedding of more innocent blood, more rejection of God’s laws and the stealing from us of our godly heritage-all of which will perpetuate a cycle of even more judgment.

You can read the whole thing here.

Obama and the Evangelicals

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How many did he really reach? Not as many as one might have thought in the months leading up to November 4.  Says Time:

And yet despite the inroads Obama made with religious constituencies, there is one voting bloc that remains largely unmoved by Obamamania: white Evangelicals. One-quarter of them voted for Obama on Tuesday — despite a warning from conservative columnist Janet Porter that they could be risking their eternal souls by doing so — an improvement on John Kerry’s dismal showing in 2004. But against a candidate like McCain, who is famously disliked by many Evangelicals, in a campaign in which Democrats engaged in a record level of outreach to Evangelicals, and at a time when the Evangelical community is expanding its consciousness to focus on traditionally Democratic issues like the environment and poverty, this would have been the year for a real shift of support to take place. So why didn’t that happen?

Interesting stuff – see more here.

Your daddy could be in the military for another hundred years!

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Watch this teacher, said to be from Asheville, North Carolina, verbally terrorize a young child. We should never wonder why people are so distrustful of, and disgusted by, the public schools in so many places across the nation. Over-the-top politicking and social engineering – it has to stop. (From a Swedish doumentary.)

Proposition 8 and Connecticut

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As mentioned earlier, Connecticut voters refused to approve a Constitutional Convention which could have overturned gay marriage in our State.  California voters, dare I say owing to their greater familiarity with both the style and the substance of the homosexual activist movement, appear to have handed a tremendous victory to pro-family forces across the nations.  Today’s Wall Street Journal says:

Proposition 8, which would establish marriage as a union between a man and a woman, passed with 52.1% of the vote, against 47.9% opposed, with 94.6% of precincts reporting. The approval marks a stunning upset in a $70 million campaign that just weeks ago looked to be running in favor of preserving gay marriage rights.

The passage of Prop 8, as it is known, would be a major victory for religious conservatives seeking to ban gay marriage in other states, and a crippling setback for the gay rights movement nationwide.

Indeed.  But what to do in States such as ours or Massachusetts, in which the right to gay marriage has been enshrined as a matter of State Constitutional law?  When the highest judges in the land, elected by none and accountable to none, can create such a right as God made the world – out of nothing – and the people have no remedy available to them, what can pro-family forces do?

The fact that a “liberal” State like California, known for its large and very influential gay population, has spoken against gay marriage speaks volumes.  As the FIC Blog points out today, some 30 states have already voted to protect marriage as it has been traditionally understood.

And what’s wrong with that?

Easy victories in Connecticut Congressional Races

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Democrats prevailed easily all over Connecticut yesterday:

District 1: Incumbent John Larson pulled in 70% of the vote, acing Joe Visconti.

District 2: Incumbent Joe Courtney topped Sean Sullivan, 66% – 32%.

District 3: Incumbent and Congresswoman-for-Life Rosa DeLauro grabbed 76%, while the GOP candidate, Bo Itshaky could only manage 21%.

District 4: In the only close contest, newcomer Jim Himes bested Christopher Shays, 51-48. This ends over two decades of service for Shays.

District 5: Incumbent Chris Murphy defeated David Cappiello, 59% to 39%.

Congratulations, Barack Obama

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Barack Obama in Hartford, February 2008

Barack Obama in Hartford, February 2008

It’s certainly appropriate to congratulate Senator Obama and celebrate his accomplishment because of what it means for the nation.  I applaud Sen. McCain’s magnaminous and heartfelt words in this regard:

This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.

I’ve always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Sen. Obama believes that, too.

But we both recognize that, though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation’s reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters.

America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States.

Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.

This great accomplishment aside, conservative columnists are looking with a colder eye on matters of policy.  We share their assumption that among other things abortion rights and the homosexual agenda will be advanced vigorously by a newly recomposed Federal government, even while the people (or, I should say, the People) push back.  These are not matters for celebration, but for concern, prayer, education, and action.

Christopher Shays defeated

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Congressman-Elect Jim Himes

Congressman-Elect Jim Himes

Also making national news tonight was the victory of Jim Himes over veteran Rep. Christopher Shays.  U. S. News & World Report introduces us to Mr. Himes:

The victor is Himes, 42, former vice president of Goldman Sachs. Himes, who has styled himself as bringing “a real-world perspective to Washington,” targeted Shays as a party-line candidate out of touch with voters. That stung the candidate, who built his career on his ideological independence. Called by the New York Times —which endorsed him—a “rare champion these days of Republican moderation,” Shays advocated increasing the minimum wage, expanding children’s healthcare, and reforming campaign finance. In fact, says Michael Sohn, his six-time campaign manager, it’s Himes who doesn’t think independently. “All he does is read off the talking points of the DCCC,” he says.

Shays had been the only remaining House Republican in all of New England.

Constitutional Convention measure is defeated

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Question 1, which called for a Constitutional Convention, was defeated in Tuesday’s election. Pro-family advocates had fixed their hopes on such a Convention, which could have provided a means to overturn the recent Connecticut Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage.

Statistics from the Secretary of the State’s Office [PDF], while still incomplete, showed that the question was being defeated handily.

The Courant admitted late Tuesday night that opponents of the measure had outspent its proponents by an 80-1 margin.

The opportunity to call for a Constitutional Convention is required to be offered to Connecticut voters every 20 years.  This particular chance having gone by the boards, it is now difficult to see what avenues may remain for those seeking to forestall homosexual marriage in Connecticut.