God Save America

by Rev Michael Bresciani

The ACLU has championed many causes since it was founded in 1920 by Mr. Roger Baldwin. Some of the most notable causes or rulings the ACLU supported have to do with abortion rights, homosexual and lesbian rights and removal of prayer from the public schools. Some of its most notable positions were of lesser significance but created much more press because they bordered on the frivolous and were more a nuisance than a legitimate cause. They adopted positions against bible studies and prayer groups in public schools and the removal of manger scenes in public during the Christmas season. Can’t you hear the voices of many grateful Americans in a resounding…gee thanks?

Not to be mistaken for something that actually qualifies as the protection of our civil liberties is the new battlefield conjured up by the ACLU in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The three crosses adorning the city logo is a point of pride and history for the residents there but for the ACLU, they have given cause for it to rear its head and wield the battle axe. It has resulted in making “what ever happened to common sense” being the most oft used phrase in internet blogging history. But wait, it doesn’t stop there.

The latest fit the ACLU has begun; concerns prayer offered by the U.S. military’s chaplains. In short the ACLU thinks it should be stopped. Whew! That’s good thinking. I don’t know about you but the last thing I would want to have happen to me just before I went to battle for my country is to have my country tell me I couldn’t go to God in prayer. In particular they are trying to stop chaplains from praying in the name of Jesus Christ. In a volunteer force made up of mostly Christian men and women isn’t that an infringement of their religious freedom? In fact it is more than that.

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Rev. Peterson Blasts L.A. Mayor for Condoning Illegal Immigration

LOS ANGELES – Hispanics throughout Southern California have protested against federal legislation (HR 4437) to reform U.S. immigration policies and clamp down on illegal aliens. An estimated 500,000 Hispanics rallied in downtown Los Angeles. More than 40,000 students walked out of classrooms joined by school administrators and teachers. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke at the largest rally and endorsed the protest. This has riled Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND, who today blasted the mayor for encouraging illegal immigration and for being soft on lawbreakers.

Rev. Peterson said, “Mayor Villaraigosa’s handling of this week’s march was disgraceful. Instead of chastising students for breaking the law he chose to endorse lawbreaking.”

Mayor Villaraigosa told the protestors, “There are no illegals here today. The only thing that would be illegal is a law that would demonize and criminalize 11 million people. We come together to say that we are workers, not criminals.”

Rev. Peterson added, “We need real immigration reform now! A guest worker program is tantamount to amnesty. Illegal immigration is devastating the black community. Illegal aliens undercut contractors, lowering wages and forcing many blacks to abandon their trades. We’re demanding that Mayor Villaraigosa enforce the law.”

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Contact Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and demand that he enforce the law and stop condoning illegal immigration. Telephone: 213-978-0600, Fax: 213-978-0750, or E-mail: mayor@lacity.org

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1/3 of Those Using Status-Changing Program Not in U.S. Lawfully

By Jon Dougherty

An immigration reform group says new federal statistics show illegal aliens are elbowing out legal entrants in the use of a program granting resident status in the United States.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, government figures show one-third of new admissions into the U.S. are illegal aliens who are changing their status through an exemption in U.S. immigration law.

Photo: Illegal aliens overwhelm Border Patrol agent.

Initially approved by Congress in 1994 but suspended in 2001, Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act allows "qualified" immigrants to obtain legal residence in the United States without being forced to first leave the country and their families for as long as several years.

Despite the suspension, however, FAIR says illegal aliens continue to be given legal resident status under 245(i) because of the backlog of applications that existed when the suspension took effect.

Section 245(i) was initially supposed to be temporary, but Congress has extended it several times. A number of lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House and Senate – as well as the Bush administration – favor yet another extension. Legislation to extend Sect. 245(i) was introduced in the House last year.

"Illegal aliens aren’t just crashing our borders – they’re also storming our legal immigration system and displacing people who are playing by the rules and patiently waiting in line," says Dan Stein, executive director of FAIR.

An official with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, now part of the Department of Homeland Security, told WorldNetDaily anyone applying for an adjustment in status under 245(i) has to meet specific qualifications. The official said in some instances applicants were not required to be in the country legally to apply for the exemption.

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The ACLU loses case on the Ten Commandments

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2006 - The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals announced today that it would reject a request to rehear a Ten Commandments case out of Kentucky. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), who represents Mercer County, the defendants in the case, was pleased by the court’s 9-to-5 vote to not revisit the December 2005 ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Mercer County display.
 
”It’s very clear that the full appeals court believes that its three-judge panel ruled correctly in upholding the constitutionality of this display,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. ”This is an important defeat for the ACLU and other groups that are committed to removing our religious heritage and traditions from the public square. If this case is appealed to the Supreme Court, we stand ready to defend the display and remain confident that the constitutionality of the display will prevail.”
 
The December 2005 three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit voted unanimously rejecting the ACLU’s argument that the display, which includes the Commandments posted along with other historical documents in the county courthouse, violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
 
In that opinion, Circuit Judge Suhrheinrich said that the ACLU’s ”repeated reference to the separation of church and state’ . . . has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.” The court said that a reasonable observer of Mercer County’s display would appreciate ”the role religion has played in our governmental institutions, and find it historically appropriate and traditionally acceptable for a state to include religious influences, even in the form of sacred texts, in honoring American traditions.”
 
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is the nation’s leading national public interest law firm defending religious liberty. Led by Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, the ACLJ specializes in constitutional law and is based in Washington, D.C. The ACLJ is online at http://www.aclj.org/

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WASHINGTON, – Speaking to a group in Danbury, Connecticut, the Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), president of Washington, DC-based Faith and Action and a missionary to government officials on Capitol Hill, pointed to recent FBI analysis of Thomas Jefferson’s infamous “separation of church and state” letter to debunk the mythical “wall” that supposedly divides the two.

Schenck was speaking at a rally on the Danbury Green, not far from the ruins of the 18^th century church where the Danbury Association of Baptists met. It was in an 1801 letter to the Association that Jefferson coined the phrase, “wall of separation between church and state.” In 1947 the US Supreme Court incorporated the phrase into its majority opinion in a case called Everson vs. Ewing Township Board of Education. The first two drafts of the Jefferson letter, together with the one sent to Danbury are kept by the Library of Congress. The chief of the library’s manuscript division, Dr. James Hutson, has written extensively on the letter. Several years ago the FBI used classified technology to reveal margin notes and other material in the drafts that had been inked out by Jefferson.

“The results of the FBI analysis are staggering,” said Rev. Schenck, who met with Dr. Hutson to discuss his findings on the notes. “It changes the whole character and meaning behind Jefferson’s words. In my opinion, and I believe Dr. Hutson’s work backs me up, this letter was nothing more than political damage control. It was never meant to represent constitutional theory.”

Schenck pointed out in his Danbury talk that the Supreme Court took political spin and elevated it to constitutional doctrine.

“That is patently absurd,” he said.

Schenck’s talk has taken on added momentum after radio stations in Connecticut and Texas played it in its entirety. He will be taking his message to churches and other venues across the country over the next 18 months and is available for further comment.

Contact: Dane Rose, 202-546-8329 ext. 106; Rev. Rob Schenck, 703-447-7686 cell, both of Faith and Action

Source: Christian Wire Service

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Note: It is worth noting that you can not say Jesus Christ on the four major networks

As millions of Americans were attending Good Friday services and contemplating the highest ideals of self-sacrifice and love, the four major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) were busy filing federal lawsuits aimed at abolishing existing FCC decency standards. Specifically, these out-of-touch media elites are claiming that the First Amendment should allow them to use the "F-word" and the "S-word" during primetime or "family hour" programming.

These are public airwaves! They are to be used for the public good. How can vulgar and offensive language during "family hour" programming serve in the public’s best interests?

Sign our petition to the FCC.

http://www.crmail.org/public/lib.aspx?lid=3112

As we demand stricter enforcement of existing FCC policies, the media elites are working hard to tear down the few remaining standards of decency. We are not giving up! The Center is dedicated to gathering tens of thousands of petitions to send to the FCC to show our support for a more consistent and forceful application of existing obscenity and indecency standards.

We must take a stand now! Sign our petition to the FCC.

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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fl., April 17 /Christian Wire Service/ — Dr. Gary Cass, Executive Director of the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, responded today to four television networks’ challenge late last week to an FCC ruling that several programs had violated federal decency standards.

“As millions of Americans were in Good Friday services contemplating the highest ideals of self sacrifice and love, the major networks were carrying out their self-assigned ignoble duty of making the primetime airwaves safe for indecency. The networks argue that they have the right to use public airwaves to ‘drop the F-bomb’ and the ‘S-bomb’ in prime-time.

“These are, after all, public airwaves and are to be used for the public good. Can anyone explain how encouraging the public, and especially our children, to have even more vulgar and offensive speech is in the public interest?

“In the light of Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction and Bono’s ‘F-bomb’ at the Golden Globe awards, the Center, along with Coral Ridge Ministries, its parent ministry, is currently gathering tens of thousands of petitions to send to the FCC to encourage more consistent and forceful application of existing obscenity and indecency standards. The petition can be accessed at http://www.reclaimamerica.org/.

“Media elites in North Hollywood and Manhattan may think a more coarse and vulgar culture is enlightened, but this only proves how out of touch with America they have become! Potty-mouthed behavior by children usually wins them an extended stay in the corner and, in some cases, a thoroughgoing mouthwash with soap. Potty-mouthed networks deserve similar treatment via the FCC.”

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Dr. Gary Cass is Executive Director of the Center for Reclaiming America, a national grassroots organization with participants in all 50 states. Founded in 1996 by Dr. D. James Kennedy, the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ is a national grassroots outreach to inform, equip, motivate, and support Christians—to enable them to defend and implement the biblical principles on which our country was founded.

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By: Alan W .Duckworth

"But for how long? !" We send our brave men and women off to fight in a foreign land , while we allow certain anti Christian government officials to little by little chip away and remove the vary "GOD given" freedoms that we sent them off to defend!

We allowed the BIBLE to be removed from our public schools while we allowed the" theory" of evolution to be forcibly taught to our Children we look at incidents like Columbine and we hear a woman who’s lost a child in a school shooting say GOD how could you let this happen ? YOUR ANSWER : YOU SAID GOD WASN’T ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS ! It’s now more easily done to sneak guns and explosives into a public school , than it is to read a Bible there , and the A.C.L.U. won’t file a law suit for bringing a gun or bomb to school , but they sure will if you bring a Bible.

The American justice system , in the court room you are asked to swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth , "SO HELP ME GOD !"on the BIBLE , while The Ten Commandments have just been ordered out of the public court ."The same principles that you were just asked to swear to tell the truth by !" With the removal of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS on which the American justice was based , and our great country was founded ,YOU have just allowed the hope of all justice to be removed from the American court room !

When I was in school , we were taught to be loyal to our country .We stood shoulder to shoulder as young Americans, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance , the way it was originally designed , ONE NATION UNDER GOD , for those of you who don’t remember . " GOD & A FREE COUNTRY" That’s what our brave men & women of the armed services are fighting and dieing for !

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At least some are waking up to the Christian worldview and want to put prayer back into the schools.

From a post on the Religion Clause blog:

Today the Missouri House of Representatives passed and sent on to the Senate HJR 39, that would ask the voters to amend the Missouri Constitution’s bill of rights to protect school prayer. If passed by the Senate, the proposed amendment will then go to a vote of the people.

I remember over 45 years ago when we did pray before school started along with the Pledge of Allegiance. The next year it became silent prayer and a few years later, there was no longer any prayer. It gave me impression there was something wrong with Christianity and the school was discouraging us from Christianity.

I say make it a law to allow prayer for those who wish to pray. And maybe the immoral and violent trends in today’s public schools would lessen.

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(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), specializing in constitutional law, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in federal court in Sacramento, California on behalf of 47 members of Congress in support of the federal government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of our national motto, “In God We Trust.”

“We believe the court should dismiss this lawsuit which has no basis in fact and represents another flawed attempt to use the legal system to remove a legitimate reference to the religious heritage of our nation,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ.  “The nation’s history is replete with examples of acknowledgment of religious belief in the public sector.  And the Supreme Court has repeatedly referenced the national motto as a legitimate expression of our religious heritage.  It’s clear that the national motto is not only permissible, but constitutional as well and we’re hopeful that the federal district court will dismiss this frivolous lawsuit.”

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