I think it’s a foregone conclusion that I did not vote for Pres. Obama. Yes, I do pray for him. No, I don’t hate him nor do I fear him. He is a man. The office he holds deserves my respect but his views on babies I do not respect and in fact I denounce. Killing unborn children is wrong.
However, I do know some folk, who despite being pro-life, voted for Obama for a number of other reasons. I wanted to quickly take a look at some of those reasons so as to better understand where we’re at…
In the wake of the Tiller murder Dr. LeRoy Carhart, an abortion provider and associate of the late Mr. Tiller, had this to say:
Nebraska abortion doctor LeRoy Carhart called on the federal government Monday to treat all activities by “anti-choice domestic terrorists” as hate crimes after last week’s fatal shooting of Dr. George Tiller.
“This is the equivalent of Martin Luther King being assassinated,” he said of the killing of one of the nation’s best known late-term abortion doctors. “This is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania and any other major historic event where we’ve tolerated the intolerable for too long.”
Wait a minute… did he say “major historic event where we’ve tolerated the intolerable?”
How many lost their lives at Pearl Harbor? At least 2,390. Tomorrow, around 4,000 little lives will be lost through abortion. Mr. Carhart is helping to kill nearly 1 million little boys and girls every year.
I do not advocate the murder of abortion providers but I will not step away from the fact that abortion providers are killing babies.
MLK Jr. said,
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
My stance has and will continue to be peaceful and in this vein of thinking!
Did the violence of some in the civil rights movement deter the overall goal of those who wanted real change, peace, life, and equality for ALL in this country? No. MLK Jr. pushed forward and so will the pro-life cause.
Reality is abortion is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania and any other major historic event where we’ve tolerated the intolerable for too long.
This picture was taken yesterday and appeared on the Huffington Post.
Yep, that’s me at the Supreme Court, taking a stand for LIFE – for the unborn. I have been doing this for a few years now and I am honored to be apart of Bound4LIFE.
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No, I don’t know a lot about the new SCOTUS nominee… yet. But I am working on it. She is believed to be pro-choice but yet she is also catholic. (Not sure how that works).
Anyway, I think most people have a working knowledge of the 3 branches of our government but, just in case you missed it in school, indulge me for just a moment.
There are 3 branches of Government…
Legislative – Create Law
Executive – Enforce Law
Judicial – Interpret Law
Now, most people understand the difference between # 1 and # 3. However, a few don’t. So let me say it like this. Policy making and law creating is not the job of the Courts – any of them. Yes, that means the Supreme Court as well.
But this is apparently lost on Pres. Obama’s nominee:
Before joining Bound4LIFE – and crying out for the ending of abortion - I had a lot to pray or you could say, I could pray long prayers. Not that it was out of pride, I just needed to say what I was feeling and such. But when I started praying at the Supreme Court, with LIFE tape on, the words started to escape me. Yes, because of the LIFE tape, I have to be silent… but that is the power of it.
The hours of silence drained the words out of me, until I could feel what I was praying. Deep started crying out to deep and what could have taken some time to pray now could be articulated with tears. God, in the silence, revealed himself. I was changed. Waiting with him, before him, in him changes you. Prayer became more. More than words and hopes. I found someone in the waiting. A man of strong emotions. Of unfathomable passions. A man of tears and a man of joy. A God who I wanted to see but now I could feel Him see me, with eyes like a burning fire.
Intercession to be sure is verbal. But intercessors are connecting with God not through words and actions but through emotions and agreement. Words can only take you so far then comes the breaking point. Most people get to the edge but then retreat because of the need to fill the void of quietness. They feel useless unless they can get loud or can articulate what is goign on inside of them. They pray and read hoping to somehow put into words the prayers burning inside of them all the while not realizing that the inexpressable is expressing, through them. The bible calls it groans that words can not express. These groanings are nothing less then eternity breaking in upon the soul of man.
We need to learn to wait on him. Wait and pray. Pray and listen. Listen and respond. Respond and agree. Agree and wait.
Let the groans, prayers, intercessions of Jesus be birthed in you. And don’t worry how to express it. You don’t have to figure everything out. Just pray.
A pastor is serving time in jail for protesting abortion. (I wonder what what would happen if a bunch of atheists protested outside a church building). What about free speech?! To make matter’s worse the jury was shown video evidence that clearly exonerated him but the jury simply did not care. They wanted to prove a point. So justice was asked to leave the courtroom. Guilty till proven innocent.
A pro-life African-American pastor has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for sharing a pro-life message outside local abortion centers. Walter Hoye was previously found guilty of violating what pro-life attorneys call an unconstitutional city law designed specifically to target him.
Oakland officials had enacted the law, which has been heavily criticized as an unconstitutional limit on free speech.
The ordinance prohibits contact within eight feet of women entering abortion businesses without their consent.
However, Hoye will be forced to pay a $1,130 fine and has been ordered to stay away from the abortion business and no longer help women find abortion alternatives.
Allison Aranda, a staff attorney with the Life Legal Defense Foundation, a pro-life law firm representing Hoye in the case, says an appeal is forthcoming.
“It is absolutely incredible that in America an individual can be sentenced to jail for engaging in peaceful free speech activity on a public sidewalk,” she told LifeNews.com Thursday afternoon. “We will appeal.”
The firm is also challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a lawsuit asking it to be struck down.
Hoye is an African-American pastor who feels a special calling to work for the end of abortion because abortion centers specifically target the black community.
As part of his efforts, he stands in front of an abortion center in Oakland with leaflets offering abortion alternatives and a sign reading, “Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help.”
Aranda previously told LifeNews.com that the jury convicted Hoye despite a video tape the defense presented at trial showing that prosecution witnesses conjured up phantom patients whom Hoye had allegedly harassed.
The tape also showed that Hoye had not threatened two abortion facility escorts or its director, as had been alleged.
“This is a miscarriage of justice and we will appeal this verdict,” Aranda said.
“After speaking with several jurors after the verdict was read, it is clear that the court’s failure and outright refusal to instruct the jury regarding the key elements of the crime led to the erroneous conviction of Rev. Hoye,” she added.
LLDF attorneys say the “clinic escorts” are upset by Hoye’s presence and they surround him to impede his movement, block his sign with large sheets of blank cardboard, and make raucous noise to drown out his quiet offers of assistance.
Because their actions didn’t deter Hoye, the Oakland city council approved the new law. The penalty for illegally approaching a person to talk or hand out a leaflet is one year in jail and/or a $2,000 fine.
At the pre-trial hearing, Hoye’s LLDF attorneys cross-examined the victims.
The escorts admitted that Hoye never used force against them, threatened them, or blocked them. They proudly testified that they routinely block Hoye to prevent women from seeing his sign.
Just when you thought California couldn’t get any crazier… In the wake of Proposition 8 the state Legislature of California approved a resolution on Monday declaring that voters alone did not have the right to adopt the gay marriage ban.
Funny thing is – they do. The legislator’s just don’t like that idea. Keep in mind the voters approved this measure not once, but twice.
The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Proposition 8 tomorrow. Let’s pray that they will be given wisdom and revelation.
The following letter was sent yesterday to Secretary Clinton in response to her remarks that human rights would not be a priority for her visit to China. Besides the horrific practices of abortion, infanticide, and genocide that have killed millions of children and mutilated scores of women. China is known for it’s persecution of Christian’s and it’s intolerant view toward political dissenters — any dissenters actually. This letter is downright amazing. Please pray for Congressman Wolf, whom sent the letter, and for Secretary Clinton. Also, pray for China where justice, freedom, and human rights are no where to be found.
Dear Secretary Clinton:
I write to share my dismay, also voiced by a number of leading human rights organizations, at your comments during your recent Asia trip indicating that human rights will not be a priority in your engagement with China. These statements come on the heels of the U.S. failing to participate in the United Nations review of the human rights record of China, among other worst offenders. Both are deeply troubling commentary on this administration’s commitment to human rights, and are undoubtedly disheartening for scores of Chinese citizens, including the imprisoned Catholic bishops, persecuted house church leaders and repressed Tibetan Buddhists.
Certainly there is a place for pragmatism in diplomacy. It may be that the Chinese government, when confronted with its gross human rights violations, would dismiss U.S. concerns and tell us not to interfere in their “internal matters.” But we need look no further than the Sharanskys and Solzhenitsyns of recent history to know that it is equally pragmatic to believe that bold, public proclamations on the importance of liberty, freedom, and the absence of repression are cause for great hope to those political prisoners who languish behind bars.
In short, words have power. They have the power to inspire, or deflate; they have the power to give vision or to stifle hope. But for words to inspire the hope for a day when the Chinese people can worship freely, where the press is not censored, where political dissent is permitted — they must first be spoken.
Silence is itself a message. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” America has always been a friend to the oppressed, the persecuted, the forgotten. Has our allegiance changed?
Words are, of course, strengthened by policy, and policy is shaped by personnel. You have a number of important decisions before you in this regard: Will the new U.S. ambassador to China be singularly focused on good bilateral relations, and increased trade — or will that diplomat tirelessly work to ensure that our embassy is an island of freedom in a sea of repression? Will the assistant secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor be someone known and trusted by the human rights community? Will the new ambassador for International Religious Freedom worship with the underground church and press the Chinese government to respect this first freedom?
This administration is young and finding its sea legs. My hope is that the solid rock of freedom will be your foundation, rather than the sinking sand of repression.
I urge you to change course, lest this country itself be changed.
I am reminded of a story told by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel which speaks to this very point: “One day a Tzadik came to Sodom; He knew what Sodom was, so he came to save it from sin, from destruction. He preached to the people. ‘Please do not be murderers, do not be thieves. Do not be silent and do not be indifferent.’ He went on preaching day after day, maybe even picketing. But no one listened. He was not discouraged. He went on preaching for years. Finally someone asked him, ‘Rabbi, why do you do that? Don’t you see it is no use?’ He said, ‘I know it is of no use, but I must. And I will tell you why: in the beginning I thought I had to protest and to shout in order to change them. I have given up this hope. Now I know I must picket and scream and shout so that they should not change me.
Well, it has been a while since I have blogged or even had a website to blog on. Nevertheless, here we are. You might have noticed that I have a new look and I would like to thank my friend and comrade Craig Kuhns for helping me out with this great new look.
Ok, I am back at it, in full swing, and ready to go! I will be posting here regularly but I also blog full-time (as in everyday) for Bound4LIFE. So make sure to read that blog as much as possible. (as in everyday)
You may say, “What?! You blog everyday?”. Yes, I do. In fact, I have become a huge fan and have grown a fond appreciation for blogging, micro-blogging, vlogging and social media.
My desire to blog and blog often comes from 3 truths:
Through blogs anyone can be a voice for change and revolution
Without vision people perish
Grass-roots and community are the life blood of this justice movement
More on all of this later but for now let me say, I look forward to building a community here and allowing all my faithful supporters and new friends to catch a glimpse of what I am doing.
This picture was taken yesterday and appeared on the 