American Heritage Ministry
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“The Christian Point Of View”
February 27, 2010
Vote In This Pole!
If you have been following this E-Newsletter, you know about the major Case in Santa Rosa County, Florida, concerning the Federal Lawsuit between the ACLU, the Santa Rosa County School Board, and Liberty Counsel. Recently, the Federal Judge prohibited the Christian Educators Association from intervening in the case. The Santa Rosa Press Gazette is currently taking an online poll considering this ruling. I am asking everyone to use the link below, and vote against the judge’s decision. The poll is available on their home page.
Click here to cast your vote: http://www.srpressgazette.com/
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Bad Editorial
Today the Santa Rosa Press Gazette publishe an Editorial titled, “What happened to individuality?” You can read the Editorial here: http://www.srpressgazette.com/opinion/bodycopy-9682-class-moments.html . The following VIEWPOINT is the response by American Heritage Ministry’s President, Rev. Wayne P. Riddlebaugh.
Protecting The Individual’s Rights
This is a response to the OUR VIEW editorial, “What happened to individuality?,” published February 27th. Rather than simply give commentary, I want to directly respond to specific quotes from their editorial.
They call the prayer case here a “polarizing topic.” This could not be further from the truth, as the citizens in our county overwhelmingly support the teachers and students rights to FREELY EXERCISE their beliefs, which is what the First Amendment actually states.
They mention the court cases in 1962 and 1963. Remember, courts make decisions, not laws. Actually, those decisions went AGAINST 118 years worth of Supreme Court decisions that upheld religious influence and Christianity in our public schools. The 1844 case of Vidal v. Girard’s Executors made this declaration in their unanimous ruling: “Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the [school] – it’s general precepts expounded, its evidences explained and its glorious principles of morality inculcated?”
Using the Press Gazette’s own reasoning; why should we still be arguing these principles over a matter that was settled 166 years ago! This same Supreme Court decision actually addresses the rest of the Press Gazette’s comments as errant, such as; “we should not expect the education system to teach morals, ethics, and principles to our children.” WRONG. I encourage everyone to look up the above court case and read the entire decision. You will see how the Supreme Court of the United States ruled about how students were to be educated in our public schools!
Finally the editorial wants us to believe that our children’s education is being put, “on the line,” for maybe up to 10 years. What, are the teachers going to quit teaching? Of course not! What a preposterous statement. Our students are actually getting a better education. They are being taught, in addition to their regular classes, that the Constitution of this great nation is the most important document that they should learn. They are being taught that the original principles contained in it are what makes America great, and that they ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! It is because of the actions of the School Board and Superintendent that we are in this fight, and if it takes the rest of our lives … the Constitution IS worth the fight!
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Miller Named Among Most Conservative in the House
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Jeff Miller (R-Fl-01) was named one of the top conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives today by the National Journal. Miller ranked as the twelfth most conservative Congressman, with a conservative voting score of 92.3%. Miller’s rating is the highest among Members of Congress from Florida.
“I’m honored to be recognized by such a respected publication as one of the top conservatives in Congress,” Miller said. “I am very proud of my voting record, and I am confident it reflects the values and beliefs of the majority of Northwest Floridians.”
Published since 1969, National Journal is the leading weekly publication on politics, policy and government. Each year, the National Journal publishes a survey of the voting records of each Member of Congress and ranks them accordingly.
A panel of National Journal editors and reporters initially compiled a list of 92 key congressional roll-call votes for 2009 and classified them as relating to economic, social, or foreign policy. Roll-call data was drawn from the Congressional Record and Congressional Observer Publications. The ratings system was first devised in 1981 under the direction of William Schneider, a political analyst and commentator, and a contributing editor to National Journal, who continues to guide the calculation process.
More info can be found at www.house.gov/jeffmiller or www.nationaljournal.com.
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Gays in the Military? Take our Poll
The stated purpose of the constitutionally upheld current law prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the military is to protect “high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”
In codifying the long-standing Defense Department regulations, the military relies on three key areas as the basis for the current law – Recruiting, Retention, and Readiness. It found these three elements critically essential to a strong national defense, especially in time of war.
President Obama and liberal members of Congress now strongly urge repealing current law for a new “LGBT Law,” allowing for open and practicing homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders to serve in the military.
Click this link to take the poll! Should open homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders be allowed to serve in the U.S. Military?
Related information:
- Military leaders to speak out this week in hearing - Please pray that our military leaders will stand firm in defending current law prohibiting openly-active gays from serving in our military.
- AFA has established a dedicated webpage with extensive resources to help you understand and debate this issue.
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Obama's amazing disrespect for the American people
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
President Obama has once again intentionally misled the American people. In a meeting dubbed the "Sham Wow Summit,"
he promised to listen to new ideas, but allotted twice as much time for the majority party's views as for Republicans. But that was just one of many misrepresentations.
Please see below. - Mat
At a place called Blair House, the President's official guest quarters across the street from the White House, Barack Obama played host to a select small group of legislators to find "common ground" for passage of a healthcare reform bill.
Well, that was the White House's version, anyway.
As we now know, that's not what happened. In reality, the so-called "summit" was an elaborate magic show, complete with sleight of hand, illusion and elaborate misdirection - all designed to resuscitate the once-thought-dead ObamaCare bill.
This political theater took place in the space of seven and a half hours. The President had already destroyed the credibility of the meeting on Monday by publishing his Trillion Dollar plan that looks, coincidentally, a whole lot like the discredited Senate version of ObamaCare - including abortion funding!
We were expected to believe that legislators could deal with over two thousand pages of a bill that amounts to a government takeover of an estimated 16% of our economy in just a few hours! Unbelievable!
Of course, the President never had any intention of finding "common ground." In fact, the invitation to the summit came with a PS: If you don't go along with me, I have "reconciliation" ready in the wings!
In other words, "the fix was in." And from what we can see, this eleventh-hour attempt to ram socialized medicine down the throats of the American people is more dangerous than any that has gone before.
++There was more to this "Hail Mary" than met the eye.
There was an even more telling activity going on behind the scenes this week. Utilizing the same technologies and strategies that propelled him into office, Obama's cohorts launched "One Million Voices for Healthcare Reform: A Virtual March on Washington."
This scheme was almost as elaborate as its title. Here are statements from its organizers:
"The nation's leading progressive [read, radical left] organizations are joining forces for A Virtual March on Washington" to send Congress one million messages urging action on health care reform. This is designed to be the single largest action yet in the health care fight.
"The Virtual March on Washington: A Million Voices for Change"
campaign is bringing together some of the largest progressive organizations in the nation including, MoveOn.org Political Action, Progressive Congress Action Fund, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), and Service Employees International Union (SEIU)....
President Obama, who has failed to effectively govern throughout his first year in office, has re-hired his campaign staff to try to regain the popularity he enjoyed while running for office!
The highly orchestrated political theater we witnessed on Thursday would be merely pathetic if it wasn't such a dangerous and dishonest abuse of presidential power.
++We must NOT cave in to this manipulation!
We must act NOW to counter this outlandish strategy. The next few weeks will be crucial as members of Congress are being pressured to accept the Obama/Reid/Pelosi reconciliation plan. We cannot allow the only messages Congress hears to be from the "Obama for President 2012" crowd!
The pressure is mounting as ultraliberal activists redouble the use of corrupt "Chicago-Style" politics of coercion and bribery that have so dramatically overshadowed Capitol Hill for the last year.
Here's just one measure of their audacity: When the American people cried, "Foul!" over the Cornhusker Kickback, the President then decided to extend the exorbitant bribe that bought Senator Ben Nelson to the ENTIRE SENATE!
Now, we have a sort of "Omnibus Kickback" on the table - all of it paid for by you and me, the hapless American taxpayers!
Amazingly, when Obama's team heard the uproar over certain Senators getting bribes, they thought it was because all the other Senators wanted one, too! What a low view of our nation this administration must have. This is outrageous!
++We cannot allow Congress to be bullied and bribed into silence.
I need thousands of patriotic Americans to respond to this challenge with a massive PHONE CAMPAIGN to flood Congress with a crystal clear message: "NO TO OBAMACARE!"
I'm asking every member of the Liberty Counsel team to counter this last-ditch liberal scheming and once again press hard on Members of the House and Senate with personal phone calls - and concentrated prayer.
++Despite the Left's deceptions, WE are the majority!
A recent Rasmussen poll found that 58% of likely voters opposed the Reid/Pelosi legislation, and 61% wanted Congress and the president to scrap their socialist reforms and start from scratch.
It is clear that the American people wanted a reboot of the entire process. Instead, the President took the worst parts of both the House and Senate bills and crafted his own version. Now we're getting more of what HE wants - including provisions he explicitly promised would never be included!
Do you remember his televised speech to both Houses of Congress on healthcare, in which he looked straight into the camera and said with emphasis, THERE WILL BE NO FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTION in our reform?
Well, according to National Right to Life, the so-called "President's Plan" includes provision for public funding of abortion on demand in three distinct ways. It goes even further than the Senate bill did!
And here's another broken promise: The President's Plan is so expensive that he is now calling for increased taxes for those making well under $250 thousand per year.
I'm sure you remember his hollow campaign promises on not raising taxes.
++These insolent, elitist central planners must be stopped!
The sheer arrogance of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi axis of power defies logic. These ideologues dissemble, bribe and continue to invent cunning new schemes to pass their pet bill, all the while knowing that a majority of Americans strongly disapprove!
Now more than ever, Chicago-style politicians, socialists and radical abortion advocates need to understand that WE ARE NOT GIVING IN TO THEIR PRESSURE and we will not be silenced until ObamaCare is declared, "Dead: Do Not Resuscitate!"
++Say a resounding "NO!" to reconciliation and to ObamaCare.
Let's make Congress do something they haven't done in a long time... listen to the voice of the American people!
Join our intense Liberty Counsel PHONE CAMPAIGN! We're going all out to protest ObamaCare's special perks, backroom deals, bribery, lies and the scandalous way in which the process has been handled.
Here's what I'm asking you to do...
#1 - Call your Senators and Congressman!
Stop the Obama/Reid/Pelosi machine's head-long push for healthcare "reform" once and for all. Even if you have done so many times before, help us continue flooding congressional offices with protests until the liberal coalition finally gives up.
The next few weeks will be the most crucial time since this battle began. Even with the Left's arm twisting campaign taking place, there must not be any doubt in our elected officials' minds that their careers will not survive a vote for the so-called "President's Plan" or any other version of ObamaCare.
#2 - Continue to pray that this unbalanced, anti-life bill -
whatever version it has morphed into - will be
completely derailed with no chance of returning!
We refuse to pay for abortions! We will not allow our taxes to be increased to pay for special interest perks! We will not allow the trickery and deceit that has become the norm from the Obama/Pelosi/Reid power axis to continue!
Together, we can send a powerful message to the 111th Congress!
Help us counter the left's "virtual march." Join thousands of like-minded Americans who will make Congress and the Obama Administration realize that we are fully awake to their trickery and strongly oppose their underhanded efforts to pass ObamaCare. Make your calls as soon as possible!
God bless you,
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
P.S. There are still a number of legislators "on the fence"
regarding ObamaCare. Some know that a "yes" vote will be political suicide for their careers. More need to know!
Let them understand that we are holding them accountable if they vote "yes" on ObamaCare. Also, please consider sending this message to 10-20 of your like-minded friends.
Thank you for taking action with us!
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Cicero ….. 55 B.C.
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