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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Navy chaplain being booted from service
Commanders ruled Klingenschmitt's 'in Jesus name' too sectarian
WorldNetDaily: A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the U.S. Navy to dismiss Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who earned the ire of his commanders with his prayers "in Jesus' name," from his 16-year career as early as today. The result is that the U.S. Navy ordered him immediately to prepare for his dismissal from the service, which would happen by midnight tonight. To further punish him, his commander informed him that the chief of naval operations had contacted the Conservative Political Action Conference, where Klingenschmitt had been invited to deliver the invocation tonight, and had his invitation rescinded. [Read More]
ARRA Breaking News Update: Gordon Klingenschmitt has advised the ARRA editor that Last night he received orders to separate by 1 Mar 07, so this morning he signed the DD 214 ending his 16 year military career. Anyone wishing to call him for an interview may reach him at 719-360-5132 (cell phone). Read about Kingenschmitt's struggle to defend Chaplains'right to pray
Tags:chaplain, church, free speech, Gordon Klingenschmitt, military, religous freedom
Navy dismisses chaplain who prayed 'in Jesus' name'
"We are homeless, jobless, and we are in God's hands," says Klingenschmitt. A U.S. Navy chaplain who prayed "in Jesus' name" as his conscience dictated is being ejected from the military service "in retaliation" for his victorious battle to change Navy policy that required religious rites be "non-sectarian." "This fight cost me everything. My career is over, my family is now homeless, we've lost a million dollar pension, but Congress agreed with me and rescinded the Navy policy, so chaplains are free again to pray in Jesus' name," Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt told WorldNetDaily. "My sacrifice purchased their freedom. My conscience is clear, the fight was worth it, and I'd do it all again" . . .[Click for more] Tags:chaplain, church, free speech, Gordon Klingenschmitt, military, religous freedom
"Liberty Counsel is petitioning the high court to review the New Jersey lawsuit King v. Christie, a case that upheld a ban on [viewpoint orientation] change counseling and which Liberty Counsel says the court [repealed] last year by name.
"Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver tells OneNewsNow the Supreme Court mentioned the case when the justices reviewed NIFLA v Becerra, a California case challenging that state's controversial law that clamped down on crisis pregnancy centers.
"A second case, Pickup v Brown, was also cited by the court, Staver says.
"These were the first two change counsel cases that both went the wrong way [in lower courts] against our arguments," Staver says, "and last year the United States Supreme Court abrogated [reversed] both of them expressly by name.
"Liberty Counsel attempted to have lower courts reopen these cases and set the rulings aside but that request was denied.
"They have refused so far to do so," he says. "So we have asked the United States Supreme Court to do just that, and we're going to do the same thing with the other case out of California, the Pickup case in the near future.
"Liberty Counsel expects a response from the Supreme Court by the end of June."
It's clearly unconstitutional to ban private speech in a counseling session, especially if that speech helps someone return to God. Reparative therapy has helped countless people come to faith in Jesus Christ, and you can't ban consensual talk about religious freedom.
Speaker Pelosi makes Co-Ed Bathrooms her Top Priority
"House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat who represents San Francisco in the U.S. House of Representatives, is now the Speaker of the House."
Pelosi has vowed a 'low bill number' as top priority to punish Christian business owners if they refuse to allow co-ed bathrooms to transgenders in all public places (including churches) with NO religious exemptions.
"House Democrats are making promises to the LGBTQ community," reports CBN.
"Officials say they will prioritize anti-discrimination legislation that would establish widespread equal rights protections for LGBTQ individuals.
"Minority leader Nancy Pelosi said she would introduce the 'Equality Act' as one of her first orders of business.
"The act would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which already bars discrimination on the bases of race, color, sex, religion, and nationality. The Equality Act would expand those protections beyond the workplace. The bill would prohibit [trans]gender discrimination in retail shops, restaurants, health care, and social services, housing, applying for a loan, or participating in the jury selection process.
"Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill told The News Tribune the legislation will be given a 'low bill number,' meaning it will be one of the first issues addressed by Congress ... in November.
"The House bill has 198 co-sponsors, including two Republicans [who lost their seats]. However, no Senate Republicans have officially backed it. If passed by Congress, President Donald Trump would [be asked] to sign it into law."
For nine years I've been warning about this bad law, which now coming fast across YOUR Congressman's desk. We have GOT to petition Congress, and your voice is the only thing keeping some Republicans from joining Pelosi's effort to punish Christian Business owners if they don't open their bathrooms.
Friends, their version of tolerance now requires bankrupting Christian employers, or any public restaurant or retail store that refuses men full access to women's bathrooms. We must take action to stop ENDA from becoming law.
---------------- Dr. Gordon James Klingenschmitt is a former U.S Navy military chaplain is Director of the Pray In Jesus Name Project and a TV news anchor of PIJN NEWS. He is a former Colorado State Representative and contributes items to the ARRA News Service. Tags:Supreme Court, Legalize Christian Counseling, Gordon James Klingenschmitt, Praying in Jesus NameTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
Dr. Gordon James Klingenschmitt: "The United States is intensifying its pressure on the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Al-Jazeeranetwork reported on Sunday evening that the US administration has decided to immediately close all bank accounts linked to the PA or the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in banks across the United States," reports IsraPundit.
"The US is not confirming the report at the moment, but the State Department hinted last week after the closure of the PLO’s mission in Washington that there would be further steps against the Palestinian [Muslims who sponsor terror.]
"Earlier on Sunday, the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen television reported that the US ordered the PLO envoy to the US, Husam Zomlot, out of the country.
"According to the report, the visas for Zomlot and his family were cancelled, their US bank accounts were closed, and he was ordered to leave.
"The American authorities cancelled my visa and my family’s visa," said Zomlot, "and closed our bank accounts. We’ve been ordered to leave Washington immediately."
"Zomlot and his family have reportedly left the country, and are en route to Ramallah, the PA-based Ma’an news agency reported."
First he moved the Embassy to Jerusalem. Then he defunded the U.N.'s Muslim schools teaching Jew-hatred. Then he closed the PLO consulate. Now Trump has evicted their envoy from D.C. He's on a roll!
--------------- Dr. Gordon James Klingenschmitt is a former U.S Navy military chaplain is Director of Pray In Jesus Name, former Colorada State Representative and is a contributing author at the ARRA News Service. Tags:President Trump, freezes, Palestinian Bank Accounts, Gordon KlingenschmittTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
Anti-Jesus activists on warpath against VA Hospitals & Cities
by Gordon Klingenschmitt: Anti-Jesus activists threatened lawsuits in Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and New York this month to stop Christians from praying "in Jesus' name" or publicly expressing their faith. In Iowa, activist lawyer Mikey Weinstein declared victory over the Veterans Administration, claiming the agency caved into his demands to remove Christian symbols from the chapel in the Iowa VA hospital, and also promised to ban Christians who sing hymns (such as "The Old Rugged Cross") in the common-use area. Sadly, the VA also appears eager to silence Christian chaplains, depriving veterans who want Christian ministry in their time of need.
In North Carolina, the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue the town of Clayton after Councilman Bob Satterfield bravely prayed "in Jesus' name" to open a public meeting. "I know who I pray to, and if other people want to pray to that chair over there, they're welcome to. It was my turn to do the invocation, and I did it the way I know how," Satterfield said. But ACLU attorney Jennifer Rudinger fired back, threatening a lawsuit: "The law is pretty clear. The courts have ruled that it's legal to have an invocation at government functions, but it has to be non-sectarian." Actually, the courts have mandated no such thing . . . [Read More]
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Five Chaplains Lose Jobs For Praying “In Jesus’ Name”
Gordon Klingenschmitt, Christian NewsWire: Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is defending why his administration forced the sudden resignation of five Virginia State Police Chaplains because they prayed publicly "in Jesus' name." Police Superintendent Col. W. Steven Flaherty single-handedly created then enforced a strict "non-sectarian" prayer policy at all public gatherings, censoring and excluding Christian prayers, then accepted the resignation of five chaplains who refused to deny Jesus or violate their conscience by watering down their prayers.
House Republican Leader Morgan Griffith and Delegate Charles W. Carrico, (R-Grayson) both issued public statements defending the chaplains, questioning Governor Kaine's role in terminating the chaplains, and vowing to introduce legislation protecting police chaplains' right to pray according to their own conscience. . . . Citizens are urged to call Governor Kaine's office at 804-786-2211, to insist the chaplains be reinstated and the policy reversed . . . [Virginia Governor Tim Kaine Urged to Stop Persecuting Christians] Tags:chaplain, Christian, Christian Right, Gordon Klingenschmitt, Jesus Christ, prayer, Tom Kaine, VirginiaTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
1. What does this 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court really mean?
Title VII of US Code applies to discrimination on the basis of the term "sex" to male-female hiring decisions, but now that includes LGBT employees whose status is technically not the same as sex but the court is treating them the same for hiring and firing decisions by secular employers. However Justice Gorsuch was clear this does not apply to accessing opposite gender bathrooms, and it does not yet allow boys to compete in girls' sports, which the Trump Administration ruled violates Title IX equality in sports funding.
2. Will this Supreme Court decision apply to churches?
No. The First Amendment still protects Churches and religious institutions in their hiring decisions as it pertains to their inherently religious functions.
3. Will this Supreme Court opinion affect religious employers, like Catholic schools or Christian bookstores?
Probably not, but that's unclear, and they'll have to fight in court. The three cases decided by the Supreme Court yesterday involved a Skydiver, a funeral director, and a county judicial system employee, but not a Christian employer per se. But it does require secular businesses with no religious mission to not discriminate against LGBT employees.
4. Will this decision affect Christian bakers, photographers, and florists who don't want to perform gay weddings?
No. In the Masterpiece Cake Shop case from 2018 about the Christian baker Jack Phillips in Denver the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that governments may not be hostile to Christian business owners, and Christians don't have to participate in gay weddings.
>5. You were a Navy Chaplain, how will this decision affect the military?
It doesn't yet affect the military, but it will be cited by transgender activists as a reason to allow men to wear women's uniforms in the military. The Trump Administration has disallowed the recruiting new unstable gender-changers into the military, but has not fired transgender military members who are grandfathered in.
Background:
Justices Gorsuch and Roberts betrayed conservatives today, siding with the 4 liberals.
"In a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a lengthy opinion [about LGBT employment,] reports Liberty Counsel.
Holding that, "An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII," the High Court went on to write, "Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear. An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids."
GORSUCH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and GINSBURG, BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined. ALITO, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS, J., joined. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a separate dissenting opinion.
The opinion styled, Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, was written as a consolidated opinion with Altitude Express, Inc. v Zarda, and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver, said: "The majority opinion departs from the clear language of Title VII and is no less than legislation from the bench. While the case did not include a religious freedom defense, the Court expressly stated that religious employers will likely have a valid defense under the First Amendment and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act."
Two lower federal courts (Bostock and Altitude Express) disagreed on whether the plain wording of the word 'sex' in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act should include 'sexual orientation.' A third case (Harris Funeral Homes) ruled that the law should include 'gender identity.'
The majority opinion assumes that 'sex' in Title VII refers to biological male and female, and then states:
"From the ordinary public meaning of the statute’s language at the time of the law’s adoption, a straightforward rule emerges: An employer violates Title VII when it intentionally fires an individual employee based in part on sex. It doesn’t matter if other factors besides the plaintiff ’s sex contributed to the decision. And it doesn’t matter if the employer treated women as a group the same when compared to men as a group. If the employer intentionally relies in part on an individual employee’s sex when deciding to dis- charge the employee—put differently, if changing the employee’s sex would have yielded a different choice by the employer—a statutory violation has occurred. Title VII’s message is 'simple but momentous': An individual employee’s sex is 'not relevant to the selection, evaluation, or compensation of employees.' Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U. S. 228, 239 (1989) (plurality opinion).
"The statute’s message for our cases is equally simple and momentous: An individual’s homosexuality or transgender status is not relevant to employment decisions. That’s be- cause it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex. Consider, for example, an employer with two employees, both of whom are attracted to men. The two individuals are, to the employer’s mind, materially identical in all respects, except that one is a man and the other a woman. If the employer fires the male employee for no reason other than the fact he is attracted to men, the employer discriminates against him for traits or actions it tolerates in his female colleague. Put differently, the employer intentionally singles out an employee to fire based in part on the employee’s sex, and the affected employee’s sex is a but-for cause of his discharge. Or take an employer who fires a transgender person who was identified as a male at birth but who now identifies as a female. If the employer retains an otherwise identical employee who was identified as female at birth, the employer intentionally penalizes a person identified as male at birth for traits or actions that it tolerates in an employee identified as female at birth. Again, the individual employee’s sex plays an unmistakable and impermissible role in the discharge decision."
The majority opinion continued: "First, it’s irrelevant what an employer might call its discriminatory practice, how others might label it, or what else might motivate it. . . . Second, the plaintiff ’s sex need not be the sole or primary cause of the employer’s adverse action. . . . Finally, an employer cannot escape liability by demonstrating that it treats males and females comparably as groups."
Regarding the fact that Title VII did not include 'sexual orientation' or 'gender identity,' the Court wrote:
"We agree that homosexuality and transgender status are distinct concepts from sex. But, as we’ve seen, discrimination based on homosexuality or transgender status necessarily entails discrimination based on sex; the first cannot happen without the second. Nor is there any such thing as a 'canon of donut holes,' in which Congress’s failure to speak directly to a specific case that falls within a more general statutory rule creates a tacit exception. Instead, when Congress chooses not to include any exceptions to a broad rule, courts apply the broad rule. And that is exactly how this Court has always approached Title VII."
[Dr. Chaps' comment: This horrible decision will force Christian employers, including bookstores, bakers and schools, to hire those who hate Jesus and oppose traditional families, to sabotage our mission and the gospel. Will Churches be forced? We pray not.]
--------------------------- Dr. Gordon James Klingenschmitt, a former U.S Navy military chaplain, is Director of the Pray In Jesus Name Project and a TV news anchor of PIJN NEWS. He is a former Colorado State Representative. Tags:Gordon James Klingenschmitt, analysis, Supreme Court, LGBT Ruling, LGBT employment To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
by Gordon James Klingenschmitt:Two major victories for public prayer "in Jesus' name" were just declared in the Indiana and Ohio legislatures, but three new battles rage in Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina where legislators are considering banning "Jesus" prayers. In Indiana, the ACLU lost another lawsuit, when the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a bad ruling by a liberal judge who had ordered praying to Jesus was illegal on the floor of the Indiana House . . . [Read More] Tags:Gordon Klingenschmitt, Jesus Christ, prayer, religious freedomTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
by Gordon James Klingenschmitt: Members of the City Council of Tulsa, Okla., voted 7-2 to restore religious liberty, lifting a 20-year ban that had prohibited praying "in Jesus' name" before council meetings. When a liberal chaplain who had controlled the rotating schedule for visiting pastors began enforcing the "no Jesus" prayer policy, it blew up in the Tulsa World newspaper. The Rev. Danny Lynchard admitted, "The phrase 'in Jesus' name' made it a non-inclusive prayer," so religious leaders who did not comply were removed from the rotation. . . . [Read More] Tags:Gordon Klingenschmitt, Tulsa, Oklahoma, prayerTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
A Navy chaplain court-martialed for wearing his uniform during a public event in which he prayed in Jesus' name is declaring victory after a congressional conference committee agreed on a compromise rescinding Navy & Air Force policies that barred "sectarian" prayers. "This is a tremendous victory for religious liberty," said Lt. Gordon James Klingenschmitt. "Chaplains are free again to pray in Jesus name." The conferees, working out differences between House and Senate versions of the Defense Appropriation Act, are directing the secretary of the Navy to rescind a Feb. 21 directive titled "Religious Ministry within the Department of the Navy" and a similar Air Force policy enacted Feb. 9. Read More Tags:chaplain, Gordon Klingenschmitt, prayer, religous freedom
John Kerry Defends Giving Nuclear to Iran, Endangers Israel
by Dr. Gordon James Klingenschmitt, Contributing Author: The New York Timesreports President Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry is defending the idea of giving nuclear energy to Iran. "Secretary of State John Kerry sought Tuesday to rebut critics of a potential nuclear deal with Iran, making his case on Capitol Hill just a week before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is scheduled to deliver his broadside against the emerging accord in an address to Congress.
"Anybody running around right now, jumping in to say, ‘Well, we don’t like the deal,’ or this or that, doesn’t know what the deal is," Mr. Kerry said. "There is no deal yet. And I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce."
"At another point, Mr. Kerry asserted that Mr. Netanyahu had been wrong about the Obama administration’s policy toward Iran in the past. The prime minister, Mr. Kerry said, had denounced a 2013 interim accord to freeze much of Iran’s nuclear program, only to acknowledge belatedly that it was in Israel’s interest."
"Mr. Netanyahu, however, reiterated his criticism of the nuclear agreement that the Obama administration is now trying to negotiate, charging that it would do too little to constrain Iran’s nuclear program and would leave Tehran in a position to pursue the development of nuclear weapons when it lapsed.
"This agreement, if indeed it is signed, will allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state," Mr. Netanyahu said.I agree with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and I disagree with John Kerry. Giving nuclear energy to Iran is not a roadblock to weapons, rather it paves the road to nuclear weapons in the hands of militant Islamists who vow to wipe Israel off the map of history.
Netanyahu may get more help from Saudi Arabia than Obama
Just before Prime Minister Netanyahu's breathtaking speech to Congress, it was revealed that Saudi Arabia may help Israel defeat Iran's quest for nuclear weapons, even as the Obama Administration tries to help Iran.
"In private talks with European sources, the Saudis have expressed their willingness to cooperate with Israel on Iran, including use of Saudi air space by the IDF for a possible air strike," reports The Jerusalem Post, Rueters, and Israel's Channel 2 News. "Cooperation with Saudi Arabia would not come free, however. According to the report, the Saudi officials said they would need to see progress between Israelis and Palestinians before having enough legitimacy to allow Israel to use their air space.
"Arab governments, not only Israel, have been expressing concern over the development of a deal with Iran over its nuclear program," the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
"Talks with Iran over its nuclear program have instilled fear within some major Sunni states, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates that a nuclear arms race will break out in the region, and brought about speculation regarding the possible extension of a US nuclear umbrella to its non-nuclear-armed Middle East allies.
"According to the Wall Street Journal, concerned Arab states said that a nuclear deal allowing Iran to keep its nuclear-producing technologies would likely drive nations in the region to develop nuclear capabilities in order to match those of Iran's.
"An Arab official, according to the WSJ, said that the collapse of negotiations with Iran is preferable to a bad nuclear deal - a comment similar to those previously iterated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." I find it sad commentary that President Obama, VP Biden, and 60 Democrats boycotted Netanyahu's speech, and now Saudi Arabia may help Israel more than America. What has become of our political leaders? Israel is America's strongest ally in the middle east, and must remain so forever.
"The Obama administration is going all out to see that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated, but the campaign of veiled threats and anonymous leaks is backfiring: Instead of sinking in the polls, Netanyahu is rising..." reports Washington Post. "While White House officials were threatening Israel, the news broke that Obama’s 2012 national field director, Jeremy Bird, was headed to Tel Aviv to manage a grass-roots campaign to oust Netanyahu."
"Bird would not be working to defeat Netanyahu if he thought Obama opposed it. Can you imagine Karl Rove going to London while George W. Bush was in office to help conservatives oust Prime Minister Tony Blair?
"It further emerged that the group behind Bird’s anti-Netanyahu effort has received State Department funding and lists the State Department as a 'partner' on its Web site...
"Obama is clearly hoping that Netanyahu will lose the March elections and that a new, less hawkish Israeli government will be in place to back him on delaying sanctions before the March 24 deadline comes to pass."Obama is so disliked in Israel now, that his campaign against Netanyahu will actually help Netanyahu gain votes. Israeli's are fed up with Obama's support of Iran, and tired of being bombed with rockets by Muslim terrorists. I predict the Israeli elections in March will move them further to the right. Netanyahu's real challenge comes from hawks to his right, not from Obama on his left.
---------------- Dr. Gordon James Klingenschmitt is a former U.S Navy military chaplain is Director of Pray In Jesus Name. He is a Colorada State Representative and is a contributing author at the ARRA News Service. Tags:Sec. of State, John Kerry, President Obama, Iran, Nuclear Deal, Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Gordon James KingenschmittTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
Action Alert: House votes Wednesday on "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act."
by Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt: National Right To Life is reporting the U.S. House of Representatives will vote Wednesday May 4th on H.R. 3, the so-called "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." This act would permanently restore the recently abrogated 30-year old Hyde Amendment across all federal government functions, and "replace this leaky patchwork [of loopholes for many tax-funded abortions] with a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal funding of abortion and federal subsidies for health plans that cover abortion [except in the cases of rape or incest]."
Since we must never support abortion, even in the case of rape and incest, (to quote a friend, never kill a child simply because her father is a criminal), we must continue to petition Congress to FIX and then PASS this legislation. First, we must demand Congress FIX the bill by removing any loopholes for all abortions period, and second we must PASS this ban on federal funding of abortion with our tax-dollars everywhere permanently.
Why do your tax dollars pay for abortion? Because liberals confuse their so-called "right to kill their children" with an entitlement that Christians must pay the executioner's bill. Can you imagine if we funded marijuana with tax subsidies too? (Oh, wait, they do in Seattle.) I'm sorry, but your "right" to sin against God and neighbor A) is not a right, and B) should never be funded by government theft from us unwilling complicitors. If we fail to act, we are forced to aid and abet their murderous crime.
Well over 90% of abortions kill children merely due to "incovenience" of a pregnancy to the mother and father. As President Obama sadly admitted, if his own daughters someday welcome sex out of wedlock, "if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," so Obama would support tax-funded abortions, even of his own grandchildren.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (R-OH) ... did stand firm on at least one pro-life amendment to defund abortion in DC. unfortunately did not defund Planned Parenthood, the nation's #1 abortion provider, who will continue to receive $360 million per year to kill 363,000 innocent children as they did in 2008. Politifact, a fact-checking organization, confirmed the numbers in a Washington Times report: "Planned Parenthood’s annual reports show more than $2 billion in government income between 2003 and 2008. The GAO report could account for the expenditure of only $657 million of that amount, relying on information provided by Planned Parenthood in its own Single Audit Act reports. That leaves a huge question mark over the remaining $1.3 billion." Missing money, fraudulent reporting, billions spent on abortions?
Planned Parenthood does NOT provide mammograms as they claim. We know they helped kill 324,008 innocent children last year, while helping only 2,405 children find homes by adoption, a whopping 96% of their services are abortion-related (see chart below). But make no mistake, Speaker Boehner is under tremendous pressure from Democrats and is already being blamed by the liberal media, when Harry Reid (D-NV) and his Democrats threatened to shut down the government, unless we pay for abortions.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted last month to defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America [PPFA], the nation's largest abortion provider, who receives hundreds of millions of your tax-dollars to kill innocent children. Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) offered an amendment to H.R. 1 that would strip funding from Planned Parenthood, which passed by a 240-185 vote in the House.
The National Right to Life Committee said in a letter to Congress: "PPFA is the nation’s largest abortion provider, reporting 324,008 abortions in 2008. It appears that abortion accounts for roughly one-third of the aggregate income generated by PPFA-affiliated clinics. According to press reports, PPFA has recently mandated that all of its regional affiliates must provide abortions by the end of 2013.Please call the office of your U.S. House member and urge him or her to support the Pence Amendment and all other pro-life amendments to H.R. 1."
According to Jill Stanek of the American Life League, over 96% of Planned Parenthood's services facilitate abortions, compared to adoptions or prenatal care, as shown by this pie chart.-- That means for every one tax dollar given to Planned Parenthood, 96 cents facilitates killing innocent children.
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Christian leader dismissed over praying 'in Jesus' name'
ARRA Editor: Remember when we reported of Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was removed from the military service because of his prayers "in Jesus' name."If not, click to read varied postings. The trampling of Christian rights to pray in the name of their Lord continues. World News Daily has reported that a Christian leader has been dismissed over praying 'in Jesus' name.' Chaplain Danny Harvey recently was "involuntarily terminated," according to a letter from the Leesburg Regional Medical Center, Virginia. Harvey's supervisor had called him into her office, and ordered that not only would he not prayer further "in Jesus' name," but that he was to instruct his volunteer chaplains to follow the same restriction.
The hospital said it dismissed Harvey from his $48,000-a-year post not because he was praying in the name of Jesus Christ, "but [because] the official duties of a paid position were not being met. Those duties include being respectful of the different religious beliefs of our patients and the ability to lead them in their faith in their time of need." Hospital officials told a newspaper guidelines from the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education teach respect for all religions. Harvey said as a Christian chaplain, he routinely supported other faiths, such as Islam, expressed by patients by getting them access to someone who could help them directly with their needs. "There are some things I can't do as an evangelical pastor. For example, I can't offer certain things of the Catholic faith, including confession. I would get a Catholic priest," he said.
Harvey said the issue first arose several years ago when he was asked to pray over the opening of a new hospital unit. He was told he would not be allowed to include "in Jesus' name." He objected, and was ordered to take a diversity course, which he did. Then at a staff meeting in August, Havey closed with a prayer in the name of Jesus. "That's what sparked this issue. I have written documentation. I was pulled into the office on Friday and told 'Under no circumstances will you pray in this name again,'" he said. "I said, 'I can't abide by your wishes.' She also told me I should tell my volunteer chaplains they shouldn't pray in Jesus name either. About four or five days later, I was relieved of my duties." . . . [Read More] Tags:anti-christian, chaplain, Christian Right, Christian Values, Jesus Christ, prayer, religious freedomTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
A bill protecting the rights of each chaplain to have the prerogative to pray according to his own dictates of conscience passed the house! It is being blocked by Senator John Warner (R-VA), head of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Warner has bowed to military brass who say that they should have the final say as to what comes out of a chaplain's mouth. More than 50 chaplains have been punished by the military for using the name of Christ.Click here for statement from Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO).Let's watch our Arkansas Senators to see how they vote! Read Realted article addressingNavy Chaplain Found Guilty of Praying in Uniform Tags:chaplain, Gordon Klingenschmitt, prayer, religous freedom
Former New York Ed Koch: Israel is facing its “most dangerous and critical period,” and warned he may cross party lines in 2012 and vote against Pres. Obama. Koch said, “This is the most dangerous and critical period that Israel has ever faced and regrettably it does not have the support of the president of the United States.”
WASHINGTON (AP) - Showing no progress toward peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat alongside President Barack Obama on Friday and declared that Israel would not withdraw to 1967 borders to help make way for an adjacent Palestinian state.
Local Reader Comments: "Israel Embassy, 3514 International Drive N.W., Washington D.C. Phone # 202-364-5500. I will be writing (snail mail) a letter apologizing to Israel and letting them know that Obama does not represent me. There may be others who would like to do the same".
President Obama assaulted Israel yesterday, demanding the Jewish people forfeit all the land they earned when attacked by armies of Muslim terrorists in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmit (by email): "I say if we're turning back the calendar, Israel should reclaim the original Bible boundaries God gave Moses and Joshua beginning around 1500 B.C.: all land West of the Jordan river."
Move America Forward (by email): "Yesterday President Obama gave a speech to push his foreign policy goals on multiple fronts with his usual style of highflying rhetoric, but once again undermined one of our key allies. Obama infuriated us when he undercut Israel in one part of the address where he called on Israel to base negotiations with the Palestinians on the 1967 borders. Why is the Obama vision that only our friends and allies have to do all of the giving?"
An open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "We stand with your right to secure Israel’s borders without giving away additional land to your openly avowed enemies who do not recognize your right to exist. We recognize that former “land for peace” agreements such as the Gaza withdrawal that ravaged thousands of families from their homes, only served to increase terrorist attacks . . .
Tim Wildmon, American Family Association
Governor Mike Huckabee
James C. Dobson, Ph.D., Family Talk
General William G. “Jerry” Boykin, Kingdom Warriors
Bill McCartney, Chairman, Promise Keepers
Judge Roy Moore, Foundation for Moral Law
Jimmy Draper, President Emeritus, LifeWay Christian Resources
Rev. Rob Schenck, National Clergy Council
Dick & Rich Bott, Bott Radio Network
Jane Hansen–Hoyt, Aglow International
Rabbi Aryeh Spero, Caucus for America
Bishop Earl W. Jackson, STAND AMERICA
Pastor Paul Blair, Reclaiming America for Christ
Rev. Lou Sheldon, Traditional Values Coalition
Rick Joyner, MorningStar Ministries & The OAK Initiative
Mike & Mickey Gottfried, Team Focus
David & Janet Porter, Faith2Action
Aaron Fruh, Knollwood Church
Don Finto/Tod McDowel, Caleb Company
Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA)
Dr. Robert Stearns, Eagle’s Wings
Mathew D. Staver, Dean and Professor of Law, Director of Liberty Center for Law and Policy
William J. Murray, Religious Freedom Coalition
Raleigh B. Washington, President, Promise Keepers
Dr. Rick Scarborough, Vision America
Christie Glesener, Shofar International
Sue Alt, PeaceMakers International
Don Feder, Syndicated Columnist
Bart Peacher, Friends of Israel
Toward Jerusalem, Council II North America
Bill Federer, American Minute
Paul Keith & Wanda Davis, White Dove Ministries
Che Ahn, Harvest International Ministry
Mike & Pat Reed, Revision Ministries
Rey & Annie Dempsey, Kingdom Life Ministries
Hannele Pardain, Christian Friends of Israel-USA
Mark DeVito, Cornerstone Church
Dick Leggatt, Derek Prince Ministries-USA
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, The Pray in Jesus Name Project
Phillip L. Jauregui, Judicial Action Group
Bruce Johnson, Reedy Creek Baptist Church
Dan & Kay Newberry, Destiny Network Alliance
Les Lawrence, Elisha Vision Ministry
Debra Minotti, Ebenezer Emergency Fund USA
David Kubal, Intercessors for America
James Robison, LIFE Outreach International
Phil Burress, Citizens for Community Values
Chuck D. Pierce, Glory of Zion International
Mike Bickle, International House of Prayer, Kansas City Tags:Barack Obama comments, responses, Israel, To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Today in Washington, D.C. - July 21, 2010 - RINO Graham in Spotlight - Senate Leaders Reid & McConnell "Duke It Out"
Senate resumed post-cloture consideration of the House message to accompany H.R. 4213, the vehicle for an unemployment insurance extension which would add $34 billion to the national debt.
SCOTUS Nomination: Yesterday, the Senate voted 60-40 to invoke cloture on the House message to accompany H.R. 4213, following the swearing in of the new West Virginia Senator, Carte Goodwin (D). Also yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 to send the nomination of Elena Kagan to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court to the full Senate. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) betrayed conservatives and voted for Elena Kagan. Graham didn't even need to vote as evidenced by his "mush mouthed" statement defended his vote, "The Constitution in my view puts a requirement on me as a senator to not replace my judgment for his [the Presidents], not to think of the 100 reasons I would pick somebody differently, or pick a fight with Miss Kagan." Graham is apparently saying there are no good reasons not to confirm Kagan.
Graham's repeated efforts undermining fellow Republicans has caused some to focus on Graham. "CBS News originally reported the SCOTUS nominee to be an openly homosexual Lesbian, but later described her as a closeted Lesbian." William Gheen of ALIPAC stated, "I hope this secret isn't being used as leverage over Senator Graham, so today I think Senator Graham, you need to come forward and tell people about your alternative lifestyle and your homosexuality." Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt responded. "If Gheen's allegations are correct, it could logically explain why the Homosexual Graham supported the Lesbian Kagan, against the pleas of thousands of phone callers and faxers who demanded Graham filibuster Kagan." It is evident that Graham is in the spotlight again but it is primarily because of his own admitted unwillingness to do "due diligence" as a Senator. This combined with Sen. Specter changing from RINO to Democrat and with Graham's backroom deals with democrats has identified Graham clearly as the top RINO.
Democrat's Job-Killing Agenda: This morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell addressed this agenda: “For more than a year and a half, the President and his Democrat allies on Capitol Hill have pushed an anti-business, anti-jobs agenda on the American people in the form of one massive government intrusion after another. . . . As I stand here this morning, millions of Americans are struggling to find jobs — and yet all they see in Washington are Democrats passing massive bills that, at their core, seem to have one thing in common: more job loss.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took exception to this, and claimed that none of the major points made by Sen. McConnell is really true. But the counterpoints Reid employed in his response simply get the facts wrong.
Sen. McConnell said, “Later this morning the President will sign a financial regulation bill that was sold to the American people as a way of reining in Wall Street. Anyone who believes that didn’t read beyond the cover sheet. Because if they did, they’d discover instead a far-reaching government intrusion that was endorsed by Wall Street and opposed by Main Street.” But Reid took issue with this, proclaiming, “To think that banks, Wall Street, liked Wall Street reform is a stretch beyond our ability to comprehend.” Reid must have missed Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, telling a Senate subcommittee, “I listened to a speech by Barack Obama at Wall Street, and one of the points he made resonated with me because I’d said it myself. He said that the biggest beneficiaries of reform will be Wall Street itself.” While Citibank and J.P. Morgan also offered praise for the Democrats’ bill, but community bankers and small businesses are worried the bill will adversely affect them.
Sen. McConnell also noted, “As a result of the health bill, small businesses, student loan centers, tanning salons, medical device manufacturers, hospitals, and major American employers have all either laid off employees or are trying to figure out how not to.” Reid’s response was to assert, “Remember, any poll you see today, the majority of the American people support what we did here with health care.” But in July alone, 3 polls have come out showing that no more than 40% of Americans support the Democrats’ costly health care legislation. Two polls actually showed 35% or 36% support for the health care bill, and the one poll that showed 40% support, from PPP, showed 53% oppose it.
Sen. McConnell pointed out, “Just this week we read a report that during the process of the auto bailout, this Administration decided to shut down auto-dealers, without cause, effectively costing thousands of Americans their jobs.” Reid replied, “My friend says that we bailed out the auto industry. Well, isn’t that a good thing we did? . . . If it were up to them [Republicans], Ford Motor Company would probably be gone.” Did Reid forget that, as The Hill noted, Ford was “the only U.S. automaker not to take a bailout”? Not only that, The New York Times reported in April, “The Ford Motor Company had its best quarterly performance in six years, earning $2.1 billion, and now expects to return to profitability this year, executives said . . . .”
Clearly, Democrats don’t want to talk about the fact that their agenda has featured one job-killing piece of legislation after another: bailouts for auto companies, a massive takeover of the healthcare system that Americans never wanted, and now a burdensome financial regulation bill “that does nothing to reform the government-sponsored enterprises that many people believe to have been at the root of the financial crisis this bill grew out of; that was meant to rein in Wall Street, but which is now supported by some of Wall Street’s biggest banks; and that’s meant to help the economy, but which is expected to stifle growth and kill more jobs,” as Sen. McConnell described it today.
He explained, “Americans are tired of this kind of ‘reform.’ Job stifling taxes, regulations, government intrusion. These appear to be the three pillars of every Democratic legislative effort. They’re also the three things lawmakers can do that are guaranteed to kill more jobs. That's why it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that unemployment’s been scraping double digits since Democrats started ramming these so-called reform bills through Congress.”
The bottom line, Sen. McConnell said, “It’s almost as if it’s a prerequisite for any Democrat legislation: If it leads to more job loss, they’ll pass it.” These aren’t the reforms Americans wanted and this isn’t the kind of change they were looking for. Tags:US Senate, Washington, unemployment, jobs, SCOTUS, Elena Kagan, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnellHarry ReidTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
"I personally traveled with Alan Keyes across Iowa, and we met scores of Keyes voters. It's totally unfair these citizens' votes are now being withheld from the public," said Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt in a Keyes campaign press release. "This is tantamount to election fraud."
"I voted for Alan Keyes," said Siena Hoefling of Calhoun County. "It's ridiculous they didn't report my vote. Each precinct could have easily called or emailed the vote tallies to headquarters, so they should have been counted by now."
"I know for sure we reported votes for Alan Keyes to headquarters," said Ron Granzow, precinct chair for Windsor Heights. "I don't know why they wouldn't report his votes to the public."
"This resembles a 'communist-style' approach to electoral politics," said Stephen Stone, chairman of Alan Keyes for President. "In the former Soviet Union, political officials limited voters' choices in a way that created merely the illusion of democracy, without the reality. Any undue interference with free and open elections, of the sort we think we just witnessed, is un-American. . . . Alan Keyes has been an announced candidate for president since Sept. 14. Yet the state GOP chose to exclude him from the caucus process, claiming he 'announced too late' to be included, so that his name was not even mentioned on official lists of candidates or in reporting instructions. This disenfranchises Iowa voters." . . . [Read More]Tags:Alan Keyes, Election 2008, Iowa Caucus, RepublicanTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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Commanders ruled Klingenschmitt's 'in Jesus name' too sectarian
The National Right to Life Committee said in a letter to Congress: "PPFA is the nation’s largest abortion provider, reporting 324,008 abortions in 2008. It appears that abortion accounts for roughly one-third of the aggregate income generated by PPFA-affiliated clinics. According to press reports, PPFA has recently mandated that all of its regional affiliates must provide abortions by the end of 2013. Please call the office of your U.S. House member and urge him or her to support the Pence Amendment and all other pro-life amendments to H.R. 1." 
Senate resumed post-cloture consideration of the House message to accompany H.R. 4213, the vehicle for an unemployment insurance extension which would add $34 billion to the national debt. 
