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State of the Union Analysis
2) Justice Samuel Alito is an Answer to Prayer
3) San Francisco Teachers Refuse to Display Rainbow Flag
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State of the Union Analysis
Last
night's nationally televised State of the Union speech by President
Bush, provided the American people a clear snapshot of how divided our
national leaders have become. The most telling moment was when
our President addressed the growing menace of Social Security
entitlements and Congress' failure to address his reforms last
year. Democrats stood and cheered and cameras candidly caught Ms.
Clinton sneering as she could not contain her exuberance that she and
her forces had successfully derailed the President's efforts at reform.
I
cannot remember ever seeing such open hostility and incivility during a
State of the Union speech. More telling is the fact that while
the Democrats scoffed at the President's reforms, they offer nothing in
exchange, ignoring the approaching train wreck if Congress doesn't act
soon.
The
President showed strength and resolve in addressing the war on terror,
but I was very disappointed in his failure to address more social
concerns. The Federal Marriage Amendment, which Social
Conservatives have made their number one legislative agenda for this
year, was nowhere to be found in the President's remarks.
This is
an unconscionable error for a President who was reelected on the
strength of Values Voters, driven to the polls largely by this
issue. At present, there is still no protection for traditional
marriage from the liberal judges who continue to reverse election
results in states where the overwhelming majority of citizens have
voted to ban same-sex marriages.
The President's silence on this issue mystifies religious
conservatives, as it could be a winning issue for him. Poll after
poll reveals that a majority of Republicans, Democrats, and
Independents all agree that marriage should be preserved as a union
between a man and a woman. State marriage amendments are
consistently being passed by overwhelming margins.
Justice Alito
is an Answer to Prayer
Still,
something is happening in America that many
Christians and people of faith may be missing. God is answering the
prayers of many faithful and often unseen men and women of faith, who
have quietly, methodically and persistently prayed for revival, for
years. I fear that because so much looks so wrong about America,
amplified by a liberal press that disdains Christianity,
that many people of faith have given up on the system that God
is using to bring National renewal.
It
appears likely that we now have four votes on the Supreme Court that favor
the end of abortion in America.
Why?
Because
in 2000 God intervened in Florida,
and by a vote of the Supreme Court, a pro-life President was elected
who has now appointed what appears to be two
conservative jurists to the Supreme Court. What would the court look
like today if Al Gore had won the election in 2000; or what if Values
Voters had stayed home in 2004?
The two
new Justices were approved because Values Voters have been turning out
in growing numbers for two decades, placing an increasing number
of godly men and women in the Senate, who like the men of Issachar in
Scripture, "Understand the times and know what to do." More
men and women meet for prayer and Bible study in the Senate and House
than in any other time in the past 100 years. Men like Senator Tom
Coburn and Senator Sam Brownback, both members of the Judiciary
Committee, who distinguished themselves during the hearings, standing
for life and family. These two men are unashamed to announce that they
believe they were "called" to serve the people as elected
representatives and do so as men of faith.
The
same can be said of a growing number of men and women in the House of
Representatives. God is moving in our land, and that's why the God
haters are getting increasingly shrill in their personal attacks on our
President and good men like Justice Samuel Alito. This is a war for the
soul of the nation and the world. We must not shrink back.
I
believe that Judge Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States of America
is an answer to prayer. Liberals still control the court, but it
appears that we are on the verge of seeing dramatic changes in America.
No longer is it a given that a small, well-financed body of hard core
leftists will get their way in our Courts. Partial-birth abortion, gay
marriage and a host of other assaults on decency in America
are now drawing their last breath.
As we
move into the 2006 elections, the Church must not fall back.
Conservative Pastors and Priests, along side conservative Jewish Rabbis,must stand up in their places of worship,
and call the people of God out of their complacency and into the
polling places, voting their values, not party affiliation. Now is the
time to take our country back from those who disdain Biblical values
and make a mockery of God's standards while pretending to be devout in
their faith during election season.
San Francisco Teachers
Refuse to Display Rainbow Flag
There
are signs everywhere that the people of faith are finally awakening
from their slumber. In San
Francisco, five courageous teachers have laid
it all on the line and said that they will not lay down and give the
children over to the radical homosexual agenda.
Five
teachers in San LeandroHigh School have
refused to submit to the school district's order to display a rainbow
flag poster in their classrooms, citing their religious convictions
that homosexuality is wrong. For stating their core beliefs, based on
their religious convictions, they face immediate suspension and firing.
Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute maintains that the
school district is demonstrating intolerance toward the five teachers.
Hooray
for the teachers. Only when more men and women will put their personal
careers and reputations on the line for Christ, like Judge Roy Moore of
Alabama,
will we ever see this nation totally restored. But the good news is
that every day we are hearing more stories of such courage.
What
about you? Will you stand up? Will you speak up? Will you get involved?
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