ACLU wants to make Christianity a crime

In a court case in Florida, which was really a waste of taxpayer money, the ACLU lost on Thursday, Sept. 17.  They filed a lawsuit against the high school principal and athletic director of Pace High School in Santa Rosa County for the blessing of a meal on school property.  The ACLU charged that the prayer violated a court order and accused the men of criminal contempt, which has a punishment of up to 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine if those accused get convicted.

At a luncheon on school property to thank financial supporters of a new athletic facility at the school, the principal, Frank Lay, asked athletic director Robert Freeman to bless the food.  When this was made known to the ACLU, they filed suit based on a 2008 court order agreed to by the school district stating that the school district would not allow any endorsements of religion in its schools by teachers or administrators.  Even though no students were at the luncheon, the ACLU felt the order had been violated.

Judge Casey Rogers, who was also the judge who handed down the 2008 court order, presided in this case.  She ruled that the men did not violate her court order, stating that Freeman was just following the orders of his boss, and that Lay did not mean to violate the order since it had been the tradition of the school district for 20 years to offer prayers.  However, the judge did scold the men about being careful about such actions in the future.

A large number of supporters of the men, including students, church members, and church groups, showed up outside the courtroom holding up signs and wearing T-shirts.  At times they prayed aloud and sang hymns.

The trial took place on National Constitution Day, a day in commemoration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787.  Matthew Staver of the Liberty Counsel, which represents clients whose religious freedoms are violated, represented the men and is quoted as saying, “I was deeply moved while sitting in the courtroom on National Constitution Day and hearing allegations that honorable men should be treated like criminals over blessing a meal. …I have witnessed the day where someone who blesses a meal would be treated like a criminal – not in communist countries – but in America! This case has made clear the radical agenda of the ACLU – to criminalize Christianity.”

Organizations like the ACLU and individuals who oppose Christianity have time after time claimed that Christianity promotes hate and violates the Constitution.  But the truth of this matter is that those who oppose anything that resembles Christianity are the ones who are full of hate and are violating the Constitution and are just projecting their feelings on us to try to justify their own hatred and evil actions.

Sources:

• Christian News Wire
• Catholic News Agency
• Liberty Counsel

Hidden agenda of teachers who sex male students

Almost every week it seems there is a new report of a case where a female teacher is having sex with a male student. Is it because these types of cases are increasing? Could it be that it has been going on for a while and the teachers are starting to be careless about hiding it? Is it because there is expanded coverage in the news of these situations?

I have a couple of theories of why we’re seeing more of this happening in our schools and ultimately I think there is a goal behind what’s going on. I haven’t researched any statistics on these theories, but based on what I’ve seen and heard about that goes on in society and in higher education circles, I’ve drawn some conclusions.  But I also understand that an overwhelming majority of education professors and teachers in school systems care a lot about kids and would never harm them. 

One thing is obvious. Our society has brought porn out into the mainstream and it’s seen as acceptable. As a matter of fact, we’ve gotten to the point of thinking that viewing pornography is normal, whether you’re a man or woman. We’re getting to the point where no sexual fantasy or desire is forbidden. Our society has bought into Alfred Kinsey’s views of what sex and sexuality should be.

Books like “How To Make Love Like A Porn Star” make it to the bestseller’s list and both kids and adults spend time downloading porn from the internet. Now, it’s the “in thing” to have women install stripper poles in their bedrooms by calling it “good exercise”. So we end up with a society where a large number of our people are walking around with perverted minds, thinking about who they’re going to pounce on next. Our young women now believe they have to act like the women in the music videos and porn flicks to get a guy to like them. But like I said before, that’s the obvious thing.

My second theory is that there are a few people on the fringes of society that have access to education majors as their professors in our colleges and universities who believe it’s okay for adults to have sex with children. Taking into account that the majority of young people entering college are not very good at critical reasoning and carefully thinking about what they believe and why they believe it or about the consequences of their actions, they are–for lack of better words– naive and gullible. So my suspicion is that these ultra-liberal professors, who are in the minority (but they want to be in the mainstream), introduce concepts to them that make them question and rebel against certain morals they grew up learning.

I suspect some education majors are being taught by some of their professors that sex and sexuality are normal for any age. According to them, parents are much too overprotective of their children and stand in the way of their children’s maturation process because they want to keep them dependent so they can retain control over them instead of letting them grow up. Then they may point out how great the Greek and Roman empires were and how it was normal for adults in their society to have sex with children. The professors then proceed to talk about how wealthy families would choose mentors or tutors for their children to teach them about everything, including sex, and how the lessons on sex would actually be the mentor having sex with the child. They also tell their students it was normal for the man of a household to have sex with children who were his servants.

The goal for teaching these warped values is to have the age of consent for sex to be continually lowered until it no longer exists. They believe that all individuals, whether child or adult, should be free to have sex with anyone, whether child or adult. Our age of consent laws are standing in their way. So they have chosen the route they think will be more easily accepted in our society and that is to send female teachers into our school systems who are willing to have sex with boys. Since boys are known in our society to be more sexually active and curious, these ultra-liberals figure they make easy targets and there will be some sympathy in the general population for the teachers.

Then if there are enough incidents of teachers sexing their male students, the authorities will eventually get to the point where it’s such an epidemic that there will no longer be an interest in enforcing or keeping age of consent laws. Then once these laws are done away with, pedophilia will be non-existent since it will be perfectly fine for adults to be with the children they lust after, whether they are gay or straight. Sex will be as free as they wanted it to be back in the 60’s.

So that’s my theory in a nutshell.  Why do I suspect these things?  I had a professor of sociology in the early 90’s who was ultra-liberal and taught about his desire to have age of consent laws repealed, using Greece and Rome as his models.  In his opinion, pedophiles were not criminals but normal people and it was society at large, that established age of consent laws, who were violating the pedophiles’ rights. Since morals in our society are getting worse instead of better, if he taught that type of garbage back then, I suspect things are worse now in universities.  However, like I said before, I believe these types of professors and teachers are in the minority and I hope to God they stay that way.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

“Abstinence-only is not working,” says “Grey’s Anatomy” actress

Elena Garcia has reported in the Christian Post that Grey’s Anatomy actress Kate Walsh appeared before a congressional panel on Thursday in D.C. and on CBS’ The Early Show on Friday on behalf of Planned Parenthood to spread the message that abstinence-only education has failed teenagers.  She urged congressional leaders to stop funding abstinence-only education so the money can be re-directed towards sex education classes approved by Planned Parenthood. 

Walsh cited the recent study that 1 in 4 teen girls has an STD, which, in her opinion, proves that abstinence-only education is a waste of time and money.  Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council begs to differ.  He claims that abstinence-only education has proven to be a very effective method to encourage teens against taking sexual risks and quotes statistics that show that it has reduced teen pregnancies by 67%.  Perkins went on to say that it has been shown that using contraceptives while participating in risky sexual behavior does not lower the risk of getting an STD.

Teaching about abstinence is not the only thing being discussed in the majority of U.S. schools, according to Kristen Fyfe of the Culture and Media Institute, an organization that monitors the media.  Ms. Fyfe highlighted the fact that abstinence-only programs receive 1/10 of what other sex education programs get from the government and attributes the rise in STDs to kids being exposed to sexual messages at every turn.

I believe Mr. Perkins and Ms. Fyfe make some good points.  Teenage years tend to be the years when people rebel against authority and are willing to try all types of risky behavior.  When you add other factors to the mix such as parents not communicating regularly or openly with their kids, not disciplining their kids, and giving their kids unfettered access to the internet, you have a recipe for disaster.  If undisciplined kids come home to an empty house after school and they’re the type who don’t feel loved, they’re going to look for love in the wrong place.  It’s no wonder that there have been reports of kids having after-school sex parties or drug parties.  Teens need parents who show their love by spending time with them and who are open to discussing any topic, including sex, that a teen wants to discuss.  And of course it always helps if the parents have a strong relationship with God to the point of talking about practical applications from the Bible for their kids’ lives.

“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”  Deuteronomy 6:6-7

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

College students fall short in American history

The American Civic Liberty Program and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute recently released documentation showing that college students are graduating with less knowledge about American History than their freshmen peers who recently graduated from high school.  The reports tested the students on their knowledge of democracy, U.S. history, basic principles about the U.S. economy, international relations, and U.S. government.

Fifty colleges participated in the study which tested 14,000 students.  In eight of the most prestigious universities (three of them Ivy League) who took part in the study, freshmen had higher test scores than seniors who were about to graduate.  None of the tested institutions of higher learning scored higher than a D+.  You can read more in this CBN News article by Paul Strand.

It is no secret that the majority of university faculty are liberals who have anti-American sentiments.  It is believed that this trend began during the Vietnam War and Civil Rights eras of our country.  I imagine that if the students were tested on World History the results would probably be worse.  When I was in college during the late 80’s and part of the 90’s, I had a few professors of history and social sciences attack the Constitution as a document that was only established to preserve the rights of protestant white male landowners.  Since they felt this was the case, they thought the Constitution was an oppressive tool to keep others down.  Many of the founding fathers may have been racist, but the Constitution was a document that allowed enough latitude for the oppressed to be able to change and update laws to preserve human rights.

Hopefully this downward trend of knowing U.S. History will change.  Not being aware of important historical facts can continue to have a negative impact on how we conduct business, how we relate to people who are different from us, how our courts and government systems work, and on how we relate to other nations.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord– 

Practices and pitfalls of college life

This is a post to my Christian brothers and sisters who are graduating from high school this spring. First of all, congratulations! You survived high school! Your hard work paid off. A lot of you have the whole summer to enjoy and prepare for your college life. As you’re enjoying your brief time off from academics, I’d like to share some things for you to think about over the summer before you head to the university. College life can be wonderful if you make the best of it. You make new friends, get involved with new organizations, you begin a life that is more independent of your parents, and your mind is challenged. However, there’s also a negative side to it that I hope you can discuss with your parents or people you trust at your church.

Here are the temptations and spiritual attacks you might face when attending college (especially if it’s a secular college):

• Pressure to abuse alcohol and drugs will become more intense.  If you think the pressure was strong during high school, you’ll find out high school pressures were a cake walk compared to college with all of the partying that goes on.  There’s nothing wrong with wanting to spend time with friends in a social setting, but you might want to be careful of the environment that you socialize in.   The spirit in you is always willing to resist the temptation, but the flesh is weak so stay prayerful and try to meditate regularly on God’s word.
• Pressure to commit sexual sins increases.  Since all types of fornication are promoted and encouraged in our society, you may find the college campus is the hotbed (no pun intended) of all kinds of sexual experimentation and pornography.  Some people may not accept you or will ridicule you if you don’t participate in their perversions.  Both women and men may prove to be more sexually aggressive than what you saw in high school.  Even homosexuals are looking for opportunities to convert normal people to their lifestyle more openly.
• You might have professors who hate God and attack the Bible.  In some cases if they discover you are a Christian, they may try to make you believe that you have chosen the wrong major and that Christians have no business going into the field you’ve chosen.  Because of this, if you ever write a paper or do a project that expresses your Christian beliefs, they might give you a lower grade. Therefore, if you ever write a paper like this, make sure you have plenty of valid, well-reputed sources to back your opinions. If you do have solid sources and a well-written paper but your grade is unfair, try to reason with your Professor to give you a better grade. If he or she is still adamant, go talk to the dean of the department. If that doesn’t work, talk to the President of your institution. If all of this fails, talk to your parents to see if legal action can be taken. The American Center for Law and Justice and the Christian Law Association are good organizations to contact.
• False religions are rampant and they actively recruit on college campuses.  You may encounter every type of religion from atheism to satanism on campus.  This is why it is so important to know God’s word, pray regularly, find a strong, stable church if you’re away from home, and stay in contact regularly with godly parents and trusted leaders from your church at home for guidance.
  • One of the most aggressive false religions on campuses is the International Church of Christ (Boston Movement).  Here are a few of their practices:
    • They try to isolate individuals from family and friends by assigning you someone from their organization (usually a college student) to “disciple” you.  In other words, they call it accountability but they are trying to control who you associate with and in many cases who you live with.  If you do something they disagree with, they report you to church leaders and try to make you feel guilty by twisting the scriptures for not following their man-made doctrines.
    • They teach that you can lose your salvation at any time, which is another form of mind control.  The scriptures tell us that salvation is eternal life.  Eternal is the adjective that describes our new life in Christ–that means it lasts forever.  Jesus said he that genuinely comes to him, he will in no wise (under any circumstances) cast them out (John 6:37).
    • They teach salvation is only through their church and that one must be baptized in their church to be saved.  The scriptures say all we have to do is believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved (John 3:16; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9).
    • They claim that they are the only true church of Jesus Christ because they have Christ’s name in the title of their church.  If a church has any other name in it, like St. Mark or St. Matthew, it is not a true church according to them because that means the church is following a man and not Christ.  If that were the case, I guess the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) are true Christians since they have Christ in their title.
    • For more on this cult, go here.

My prayer is that this information will help you in some way become a stronger Christian before you start college.  Many of the things I’ve discussed come from my own experiences.  Unfortunately, I was raised in a spiritually dead church and college was a spiritual shock to me.  But on the positive side, when I saw my beliefs being attacked it made me want to learn God’s word for myself instead of relying on what people in church told me.  College overall is a positive thing, but you have to know how to stay focused on things that strengthen you spiritually and academically to get what you should out of it.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–