Monday, August 10, 2009

American Policy in Honduras: Democracy works if you VOTE OUR GUY IN

Honduras Wins!... Castro, Chavez, Obama, Ortega Fail to Prop Leftist Thug Back Into Power

Freedom Wins!... Obama and Marxist Leaders Fail to Reinstate Leftist Thug Zelaya

(Michael Ramirez)

Despite their best efforts, Barack Obama and regional Marxist thugs were not able to force Honduras to reinstate former Leftist President Mel Zelaya.
IBDeditorials reported:

In a quiet victory for a tiny democracy, U.S. buttinskies have stopped trying to restore a dictator to power in South America. Tiny Honduras is winning its fight for freedom.

In a welcome about-face, the State Department told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Richard Lugar, R-Ind., in a letter Tuesday that the U.S. would no longer threaten sanctions on Honduras for ousting its president, Mel Zelaya, last June 28.

Nor will it insist on Zelaya's return to power. As it turns out, the U.S. Senate can't find any legal reason why the Honduran Supreme Court's refusal to let Zelaya stay in office beyond the time allowed by Honduran law constitutes a "military coup."

This marks a shift. The U.S. at first supported Zelaya, a man who had been elected democratically but didn't govern that way. Now they're reaching out to average Hondurans, the real democrats.

Sure, the U.S. continues to condemn Zelaya's ouster and still seeks mediation of the dispute through Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. But no U.S. sanctions means Hondurans have won.

What will be the future of the Religious Right?(Get back to the Bible)


What will be the future of the Religious Right?


Aug. 8--As membership in most Christian denominations decreases and many conservatives lament what they see as the advent of socialism in the U.S. many are wondering about the future of a movement that changed the face of American politics.


The Religious Right, also known as the pro-family movement or the values movement, is undergoing some changes: changes that indicate that people's beliefs about religion and politics aren't what they were 30 years ago when the movement began.


"I think that the country is becoming increasingly secular and is probably moving a little farther to the left," said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association, a Tupelo-based organization that has been a leading voice within the movement.


A 2008 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life suggests that for the first time in a decade a slim majority of Americans believe that churches should keep out of political matters. That spells trouble for a movement whose primary purpose has been to shape public policy to conform to biblical teachings.


Born in turmoil


The genesis of the Religious Right can be traced to the cultural and political turmoil of the 1960s, when the Vietnam War and the sexual revolution caused many to question traditional morality.


In the late '70s and early '80s conservative, evangelical Christian leaders like the Rev. Jerry Falwell began asserting their influence in the political arena. Their efforts were supported by people like the Rev. Don Wildmon, founder of the AFA, who spoke out against indecency in popular culture.


Although the Religious Right was made up largely of Protestant evangelicals, conservative members of other denominations also found meaning in the movement's message. For example, many Catholics heard echoes of their own tradition's strong, anti-abortion rhetoric.


The Religious Right evolved into a formidable cultural institution, raising awareness of the issues that fell at the confluence of religion and politics.


"You can't deny that within the Christian tradition the movement has spoken to a large part of the collective, moral conscience," said Sarah Moses who teaches religion and public policy at the University of Mississippi.


"To some extent they've kept religion alive in the public square."


As happens with long-lived movements, however, the Christian Right is starting to show its age.


"We're losing some of our generals," said Tim Wildmon, referring to the 2007 death of Falwell and the recent retirement of James Dobson as president of Focus on the Family.


Wildmon's father, along with people like the Rev. Pat Robertson are still looked to as the movement's venerated elders, but recent political defeats and changing cultural attitudes about religion have led some to wonder if a new type of figure might best serve to lead the movement forward.


Broadening platform


The Religious Right has traditionally confined its focus to a limited platform of issues centered around "family values." Those issues have ranged from promoting traditional marriage to aggressively combating the abortion industry.


Some within the Religious Right, however, feel that recent sex scandals among high-profile evangelicals, such as the Rev. Ted Haggard, as well as among Republican politicians, like Gov. Mark Sanford, R-SC., who form much of the movement's base, have squandered a lot of capital.


"We've lost on the issue of family values as a Republican Party," said Fox News commentator and Mississippi native Angela McGlowan.


"If you're going to preach family values then you'd better live by example."


Many share McGlowan's disillusionment over the close relationship between the Republican Party and the Religious Right.


The Rev. Roy Ryan, a retired United Methodist minister from Tupelo, said the association has become so close that "people wonder if you're a Democrat, how can you be a Christian?"


Tupelo author and dentist Dr. Ed Holliday considers himself both a part of the Religious Right and a political independent. He has attended the Values Voter Conference in Washington, D.C., and is part of the local leadership for Mission Mississippi, a Christian organization devoted to creating dialogue between blacks and whites. He's concerned that the perceived identification of the GOP with the Religious Right limits the movement's reach, particularly among blacks.


Holliday sees the Rev. Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Washington, D.C., as someone who might help change the demographics of the movement.


Jackson, who is black, is a registered Democrat but his theologically conservative message is interspersed with strong currents of social justice.


Jackson represents what many are calling a new breed of evangelical, people like the Rev. Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life" who while remaining theologically conservative demonstrate an understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by a global society.


McGlowan is a fan of Warren's and believes that if America is going to change for the better, "we cannot go to politicians, we have to go to spiritual leaders. Not 'religious' leaders, but true spiritual leaders."


Always prevailing


Ryan said although he has disagreed with the Religious Right's approach for decades, he believes it has a place in American society.


"Those of us who were more liberal-leaning in the '60s and '70s were doing what we could to influence public policy so we shouldn't have a problem with others doing it," he said. Overall, it's the strident tone invoked by many within the movement he said most offends him.


Moses of Ole Miss said many today see the Religious Right as "fighting against the general tide of American thought, which includes tolerance and moderation," and the future of the movement must "translate its values into a language that can be spoken more effectively in the public square and used to build wider coalitions."


Wildmon said those who proclaim the death of the Religious Right are speaking prematurely. Despite the fact that abortion is still legal, evolution is taught in public schools and school-sponsored prayer isn't allowed, he said the movement has also won some substantial victories.


"If you look at our opposition to gay marriage, it's 30 wins and no losses when it's been put to a vote of the people," he said, adding, "Just because Roe v. Wade hasn't been overturned doesn't mean that the principle of protecting human life isn't worth fighting for."


McGlowan said the Religious Right may need an overhaul but the cause is still worthy and there's no room for complacency.


"If we quit, we deserve what we get," she said. "We cannot lose faith. Our relationship with God must guide us. The Christian, Religious Right will always prevail."


Contact Daily Journal religion editor Galen Holley at 678-1510 or galen.holley@djournal.com


To see more of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.djournal.com. Copyright (c) 2009, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, Miss. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.



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BACK TO THE BIBLE

Now that we have everybody in Washington claiming to be a Christian and the Leading Political Fundamental Christians busted for Adultery, Greed, Graft, Lying, Cheating Stealing, and acting like a "witness for the Religious Right Movement"...,

CAN WE GET BACK TO THE BIBLE?

When did Jesus Run for Office?
Never.
When did Jesus tell his folowers to run for office?
Never.
When did Jesus say Christianity would conquer the World and America was the Land of Righteousnees and Godliness?
Never.
When Did Jesus tell His disciples to accumulate wealth, prospeperity, kill your enemies, and hate your aversaries and raise the banner of Life Liberty and justice for all?
Never.

In fact, as the House built on Sand as now felt the tide come in, I wonder, where DID YOU PUT YOUR FAITH IN?

Religous Right? Conservatism? Democracy? Politics? James Dobson? Glen Back? President Obama?

Who are you?

Me, I know who I am.
In every election, in every success and failure I know who I am and I will not be misled.

Why?

God can see the future, God knows the past, he even invented Hamsters and watching the Hamsters run in the Wheels right now spinning and running as fast as they can, and going no where, He knows what will happen soon.

Oh not the Political Revolution or soon outbreaks of violence people are being deceived into doing, not the lies and deceptions the Land Of TV wants to make people into Last Days Warriors for the Battle of Armageddon into,

No, He sees the one, the only one who will walk into the Morass of mankind deceived in these last days and not let the people declare Him to be King, but choose to Die for the Ones everyone wants to hate.

In a time when the gospel of God should be the word on the lips of the People called by his name, another gospel I hear:

Us, versus Them.

We the People.....(ahh sorry no me) You the people can choose who you will serve.

We the The members of My House, we Choose the Fear of the Lord
We choose the Love of the Lord
We choose the Way of the Lord
and we we go astray we don't go to politicians for answers.

We go back to the Bible and Jesus.

If you really want to be a political person, review history, and then go ahead, as for me and my house, I would rather walk away with God alone then stand in a land as Divided as America is.

We were judged, and America still hasn't realized it yet...........,

God help us now.

Michael James Stone

(Fear Mongering)Federal Government at War with US Citizens; (Are you being decieved by the Spirit of Anti-Christ) ~ Bible Prophecy Today


(Fear Mongering) Federal Government at War with US Citizens; Goal to Institute Socialism Without Firing a Shot ~ Bible Prophecy Today

Since Left, Right, Middle and those who revolve in the world of politics are about creating a World they can live in, rather than turn to the Lord and acknowledge the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who is coming to judge the quick and the dead, we'll highlight the sin in the post with a parathetical and label the Spirit behind the Reason of the Post:

The Anti-Christ, and the spirit which is at work in the world is set to divide and to create a environment of Justification for Behavior contrary to the Spirit of God within you, is out to distract, divide, and deceive you.

It is a War for your Soul.

How you react is the Victory or defeat for the God of Politics, the Principality at work in the heart and soul of Christians to turn them from Jesus and BACK INTO political power.

This is a type of spiritual fornication whereby a person exercises authority they think they have over another tyo promote gain contrary to dictates GOD has decreed for a person.

Like denying salvation to a person, or condemning someone God never told you to. That is false.

In this case, the Body of Christ is being Judged by God in who it responds to seeming defeat of principles, whihc is no defeat, but a Question of Authority.

Whose?

Yours or Gods?

Who told you to become a Political advocate to save a Point of View, when if you save a soul you save a nation, one person at a time.

You cannot legislate, religion, morality or God. They are personal and between God and You.

He will not allow you to do so and when you try you will look foolish every time a new election occurs.

This is a ploy of satan, decieve you into doing opposite of what God wants you to do.

Look up, for you salvation draws nigh.

Most people assume 'they' will be raptured, even if they are highly distracted by personal finamcial gain, and political power: That is the Real Humanist Agenda.

Not the easy to see socialism people fear, but the opposite backlash of Ubber patriotism that makes Haters out of God's people and the Power behind the Principalities of this World laugh at you as you take your Mind of Chrsit and put in into HIS agenda.

World Politics has one party and one system about it.

It's called the gospel, Go do it.

Michael James Stone

Sin is sin by any name:(Marriage) Polyamory: The Perfectly Plural Postmodern Condition~Albert Mohler, Jr

Polyamory: The Perfectly Plural Postmodern Condition

Once a sexual revolution is set loose, it inevitably runs its course through the culture. While the current flashpoints of cultural conflict are focused on same-sex marriage and gender issues, others are biding their time. As Newsweek magazine makes clear, some new flashpoints are getting restless.




Polyamory, reports Newsweek, is having a "coming-out-party." Polyamory is the current "term of art" applied to "families" or "clusters" comprised of multiple sexual partners. As Newsweek explains, this is not exactly polygamy, because marriage is not the issue. Advocates of polyamory argue that their lifestyle is not "open marriage." Indeed, they define their movement in terms of the moral principle of "ethical nonmonogamy," defined as "engaging in loving, intimate relationships with more than one person - based upon the knowledge and consent of everyone involved."


Legal theorists and opponents of same-sex marriage routinely (and rightly) make the argument that the legalization of homosexual marriage will, inevitably, lead to the legalization of polygamy. Once marriage is redefined to allow for same-sex unions, any determination to maintain legal prohibitions against polygamy will be seen as merely arbitrary. At the same time, once strictures against adultery were eliminated in the culture and in the wall, something essentially like polygamy was inevitable.


The article in Newsweek, written by Jessica Bennett, presents polyamory as a growing movement that now involves persons in the cultural mainstream. As the magazine reports: "Researchers are just beginning to study the phenomenon, but the few who do estimate that openly polyamorous families in the United States number more than half a million, with thriving contingents in nearly every major city."


The movement now claims a number of recognized books, logs, podcasts, and even an online magazine entitled "Loving More." According to Newsweek, actress Tilda Swinton and Carla Bruni, the First Lady of France, have emerged as prominent spokespersons for nonmonogamy. As should be expected, the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University now features a "polyamory library."


Jessica Bennett suggests that the contemporary polyamory movement has roots in utopian movements of the 19th century:


The notion of multiple-partner relationships is as old as the human race itself. But polyamorists trace the foundation of their movement to the utopian Oneida commune of upstate New York, founded in 1848 by Yale theologian John Humphrey Noyes. Noyes believed in a kind of communalism he hoped would fix relations between men and women; both genders had equal voice in community governance, and every man was considered to be married to every woman.


But it wasn't until the late-1960s and 1970s "free love" movement that polyamory truly came into vogue; when books like Open Marriage topped best-seller lists and groups like the North American Swingers Club began experimenting with the concept.


The term "polyamory," coined in the 1990s, popped up in both the Merriam-Webster and Oxford English dictionaries in 2006.


In one sense, the polyamorous defy easy categorization. The movement includes couples who openly and with full knowledge of each other engage in sexual relationships with others. Some are involved in group sex and others experimented with bisexuality. The Newsweek article introduces readers to a new vocabulary. The most revealing word is "polyfidelitous" - which means that the multiple partners keep sexual activity within their own self-identified cluster.


Interestingly, Bennett observes that the movement "has a decidedly feminist bent." If men can have multiple wives or female partners, then, the logic goes, women must have the same in order to achieve "gender equality." Bennett quotes Allena Gabosch, director of an organization known as the "Center for Sex Positive Culture," suggesting that polyamory sounds scary to people because "it shakes up their worldview." But, she insists, polyamory might well be "more natural than we think."


Perhaps the best way to understand this new movement is to understand it as a natural consequence of subverting marriage. We have largely normalized adultery, serialized marriage, separated marriage from reproduction and childbearing, and accepted divorce as a mechanism for liberation. Once this happens, boundary after boundary falls as sexual regulation virtually disappears among those defined as "consenting adults."


The ultimate sign of our moral confusion becomes evident when virtually no one appears ready to condemn polyamory as immoral. The only arguments mustered against this new movement focus on matters of practicality. Polyamory is certainly not new, but this new movement is yet another reminder that virtually all the fences are now down when it comes to sex and sexual relationships. What comes next?


Adapted from R. Albert Mohler Jr.'s weblog at www.albertmohler.com.
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R. Albert Mohler, Jr. is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. For more articles and resources by Dr. Mohler, and for information on The Albert Mohler Program, a daily national radio program broadcast on the Salem Radio Network, go to www.albertmohler.com. For information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to www.sbts.edu. Send feedback to mail@albertmohler.com. Original Source: www.albertmohler.com.

Israel bombs Gaza tunnel (Everyone going underground)

Israel bombs Gaza tunnel

Palestinians have used tunnels to smuggle supplies between Rafah and Egypt [GALLO/GETTY}

Israel has bombed a Gaza tunnel along the border with Egypt.

No casualties were reported in the raid on Monday, which targeted a tunnel under the town of Rafah.

The tunnel was suspected of being used to smuggle explosives into Gaza from Egypt, an Israeli military spokeman said.

Many Palestinians say the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt are a vital conduit for essential supplies, which have been made more scare by Israel's blockade of the territory.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said the air raid was in retaliation for mortar and rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel.

"We aren't ready to accept rocket fire at our communities," he said on Monday.

Rocket attack

Two mortar rounds were fired at Israel's Erez border crossing with Gaza a day earlier, exploding 300 metres from the border, but not injuring anybody.

A rocket was also fired from Gaza on Saturday, exploding in open ground on the Israeli side of the border.

It is not clear who fired the rockets, but some small fighter groups in Gaza say Hamas has been trying to stop them firing at Israel, which controls the delivery of fuel and food aid to the territory.

But such raids by Israel have occurred less frequently recently, with Monday's attack the first of its kind in two months.

Hamas has been calling on Israel to lift its blockade and open the border crossings, but Israel says Hamas must first release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, whom it has held for three years.