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A monstrous human rights abuse, but the international media would only care if the roles were reversed.
“No Christians Allowed: Muslim UN Officials Block Syrian Christian Refugees from Getting Help,” by Dale Hurd, CBN News, December 4, 2019:
LONDON – Christian Syrian refugees have told CBN News that they have been blocked from getting help from the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, by Muslim UN officials in Jordan.
One of the refugees, Hasan, a Syrian convert to Christianity, told us in a phone call that Muslim UN camp officials “knew that we were Muslims and became Christians and they dealt with us with persecution and mockery. They didn’t let us into the office. They ignored our request.”
Hasan and his family are now in hiding, afraid that they will be arrested by Jordanian police, or even killed. Converting to Christianity is a serious crime in Jordan.
A clear pattern of discrimination by the United Nations refugee agency in Jordan against Christians. And it appears to be one reason that while tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim war refugees have been settled in the United States and Britain, only a small number have been Christian.
And the two governments that could stop this persecution of Christian refugees – the US and Britain – have done little to nothing about it.
A Former Archbishop of Canterbury Says “Enough”
Lord George Carey is suing Britain’s home office alleging that “politically correct” officials have been “institutionally biased” against Christian refugees. He also wants to find out why out of 60-thousand Syrian war refugees accepted into the United States and Britain in 2014, almost none were Christians.
Lord Carey’s attorney, Paul Diamond, explains the case:
“You have this absurd situation where the scheme is set up to help Syrian refugees and the people most in need, Christians who have been “genocided,” they can’t even get into the U.N. camps to get the food. If you enter and say I am a Christian or convert, the Muslim U.N. guards will block you [from] getting in and laugh at you and mock you and even threaten you.
Christian Refugee Viewed as the Enemy by Muslim UN Officials
Another Syrian refugee, Timothy, who told us he became a Christian after seeing Jesus in a dream, said he was also blocked from entering a refugee camp by Muslim UN officials.
“All of the United Nations officials, most of them, 99 percent, they are Muslims,” Timothy explained from Jordan, “and they were treating us as enemies.”
Diamond says, “Sunni Muslim officials have blocked the way. They’ve laughed at them, threatened them, said ‘You shouldn’t have converted. You’re an idiot for converting. You get what you get,’ words to that effect.”
Carey says by doing nothing, western governments are complicit in what calls “the steady crucifixion of Middle East Christians.”
“And no simple measures are taken by both the British and the American government,’ Diamond says, “It would be simple just to open up a refugee camp for religious minorities, for Christians, Yazidis, whatever they are, and they’d be safe. But no one does that.”…
Swedish attorney Gabriel Donner who represents Christian asylum seekers, says Sweden is now deporting up to one-third of Christian refugees back to Muslim nations where they are likely to be imprisoned or killed….
President Trump told CBN News in 2017 that Christian refugees would be given priority. But Muslim governments officially classify Christians as security threats, causing their asylum applications to western countries to be rejected….
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Editors Note: Lunenburg County VA will vote on a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary resolution on Dec 12th, 2019.
Open Letter Supporting Lunenburg Virginia's Second Amendment Sanctuary Resolution
Lunenburg, Virginia – -(AmmoLand.com)- To whom it may concern,
I, Andrew Havens, a citizen of these United States for America and of the Commonwealth of Virginia, resident of Lunenburg County, Virginia, do hereby declare my full support for a resolution declaring Lunenburg Virginia a Second Amendment Sanctuary County.
While such action should not be necessary, I contend it is absolutely necessary for the following reasons:
A majority of politicians either currently in public office or slated to be sworn into public office on 8 January 2020 have made it known they fully intend to propose and pass unlawful legislation further restricting the rights of citizens of the commonwealth.
Said rights are God-given, guaranteed by both the Constitution for the United States of America and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These rights belong to the citizens by birth.
At no time has anyone elected, appointed or otherwise employed by the citizens of this commonwealth or this nation been granted authority to restrict or amend any of our God-given rights.
Such actions constitute a usurpation of authority and are therefore treasonous. Treasonous actions such as these are subject to immediate disqualification and removal from any public office and criminal charges filed.
Our constitutions – federal and state – were meant as limiting documents. The intent then and now is to limit what those selected are empowered to do in service to us citizens. In no way shape or manner were they ever intended to grant unlimited power and authority to any group or individual.
The resolution before the Lunenburg Board of Supervisors merely acknowledges our rights as citizens to stand up and claim what is rightfully ours – our birthrights.
I commend the Lunenburg Board of Supervisors for their brave stand against tyrannical politicians determined to run roughshod over our rights as citizens.
We citizens must also stand with the Board and other citizens in Virginia as well as our nation and demand not only such actions stop but the restoration of our birthright in the liberties intended by Almighty God and guaranteed by the founding documents of our nation and states.
In this informative video, Patriot Nurse discusses the gun sanctuary county movement in the news, highlighting the game of chicken being played by the Virginia Governor and Attorney General versus the people of Virginia. In times past, our forefathers recognized that their rights were not safeguarded by words on paper alone, but by their own ability to defend those rights against tyrants in every generation. From Bacon's Rebellion, to the American Revolution and the War for Southern Independence, Virginia has been the battleground and the bellwether for the people's tolerance of tyrannical oversteps.
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With his petition to the AG, Jones seems afraid that Second Amendment supporters are going to come down to Norfolk and “disproportionately harm” his constituents. At least that’s the excuse he’s using instead of coming flat out and admitting he doesn’t want you armed. (Jay Jones/Facebook)
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)-“A Democratic state delegate has asked Attorney General Mark Herring (D) for a formal opinion on the Second Amendment sanctuary declarations being passed in a growing number of conservative counties across the state,” the Virginia Mercury reported Dec. 2. “Del. Jay Jones, D-Norfolk, said a legal opinion could help clear up confusion on an issue that has ‘become a flashpoint across our state.’”
“The bills passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by the governor are binding for our entire Commonwealth and its citizens,” Jones complained in his letter to Herring. “The legal precedent we would set by allowing communities to selectively ignore those laws at will is alarming and indicative of the same mindset that nearly one hundred and fifty years ago led this country to dissolve into a civil war.”
See where he’s going with this? The people who want the Second Amendment upheld are the same people being painted as rightwing extremists, potential domestic terrorists and, the most damning smear of all, racists. And yes, of course, Jones played that card.
“Given the recurring incidents of gun violence in Norfolk and its surrounding areas, violence that has repeatedly been shown to disproportionately harm communities of color, it is my firm belief that it is incumbent on me as their elected representative to request action from your office on this matter,” Jones proselytized.
Just to be clear—rather than face up to the truth of who is doing the killings in his district, Jones is blaming the “disproportionate harm” committed by his Norfolk constituents on residents of counties like Tazewell, where the Board of Supervisors not only overwhelmingly passed a sanctuary resolution, but went a step further and passed a Militia resolution, both to overwhelming citizen approval. Who is kidding who?
But targeting them goes in hand with other proposed Intolerable Acts the Democrat majority is imposing. The prefiled anti-“paramilitary” edict is aimed squarely at that part of the population that believes in the Second Amendment as the ultimate check and balance retained by the people. So is the credit card gun purchase flagging bill, which postures to be about “homegrown violent extremists and other perpetrators of domestic terrorism.”
It’s curious that Jones, a politician virtually guaranteed his seat based on district demographics is complaining about Virginians in peaceable places like Tazewell County, rated “among the safest counties in the USA with 1.00 per 1,000 residents crime rate compared to national 4.69 per 1,000 average.” By comparison, Norfolk’s crime rate “was higher than in 85.2% of U.S. cities.”
It’s doubly curious that the man he’s complaining to, Mark Herring, who admitted to wearing “blackface” in college. While it’s tempting to excuse that as mere cognitive dissonance, what’s really going on is cynical manipulation of emotions by professional political con artists intent on swindling citizens out of their birthright. If there's one thing they are sincere about, it's getting more power.
They're doing that here by tarring those adhering to “the supreme Law of the Land” as “lawless,” and smearing those who advocate for the right of all people to keep and bear arms as haters.
For his part, Herring says “These laws, when they get passed, they’re going to be followed.”
We shall see.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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Richmond, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- Democrats in the Commonwealth of Virginia are threatening communities that declare themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries.
On Wednesday, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said that localities could face “consequences” if law enforcement officers don't enforce the new proposed gun laws.
“There's not going to be retaliation. That's not what I'm about. I'm about making Virginia safer,” Northam told reporters. “If we have constitutional laws on the books and law enforcement officers are not enforcing those laws on the books, then there are going to be consequences, but I'll cross that bridge if and when we get to it.”
Since the November election, Democrats have been proposing sweeping new gun control legislation. The Democrats, backed by Bloomberg money, took control of the Virginia legislature. Most of the state remains pro-gun.
Over 80 counties that have been feeling the threat of the proposed gun control bills have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries. These counties have stated that they will not enforce laws that infringe on their citizen's right to bear arms.
The overwhelming Second Amendment Sanctuary movement has shocked and angered Democrats in the Virginia Commonwealth because of the supporters' belief in the sanctity of our Bill of Rights and the real nature and size of this organic grassroots movement by everyday citizens.
Congressman Gerry Connolly went even further than Gov. Northam. He pushed for prosecution of police officers that refuse to enforce the proposed unconstitutional laws.
“I would hope they either resign in good conscience, because they cannot uphold the law which they are sworn to uphold, or they're prosecuted for failure to fulfill their oath,” Connolly told the Washington Examiner. “The law is the law. If that becomes the law, you don't have a choice, not if you're a sworn officer of the law.”
Democratic Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin proposed cutting off state funds to counties that pass Second Amendment sanctuary ordinance. He wants to do what is tantamount to blackmail to force these localities to enforce gun laws that violate their citizen's rights.
“They certainly risk funding, because if the sheriff's department is not going to enforce the law, they're going to lose money. The counties' attorneys’ offices are not going to have the money to prosecute because their prosecutions are going to go down,” McEachin said.
McEachin said that the Governor could call in the National Guard to enforce the new gun laws. He would turn Virginia into a police state to satisfy the anti-gun lobby's thirst for gun-control.
“And ultimately, I'm not the governor, but the governor may have to nationalize the National Guard to enforce the law,” McEachin said. “That's his call, because I don't know how serious these counties are and how severe the violations of law will be. But that's obviously an option he has.”
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring doubled down on enforcing the new gun-control measures. He played off counties passing Second Amendment sanctuary ordinances as a stunt by gun-rights groups. He implied that what these counties do is inconsequential and will have no bearing on the enforcement of new state gun laws.
“So, when Virginia passes these gun safety laws that they will be followed, they will be enforced,” Herring said.
Groups like Gun Owners of America think that these Democrats are hypocrites. They point to the Governor's support of immigration sanctuaries. GOA Executive Vice President Erich Pratt thinks Northam is acting more like a dictator than a governor.
“Gun-grabbing Democrats like Gov. ‘Blackface' Northam crow about how gun owners need to follow the law. But it is Northam and his minions who violate the ‘Rule of Law' every day,” Pratt told AmmoLand. “Consider Northam’s support for bogus laws that would imprison Virginians for simply possessing common firearms that are still legal to own and possess in all 50 states. He is running roughshod over the rights protected in the Constitution.”
“And he despises the fact that county supervisors and sheriffs would be so impertinent as to declare their counties as Second Amendment sanctuaries. Meanwhile, he has vetoed legislation to dismantle immigration sanctuaries, thus protecting people who have broken the law to enter the country.”
“Northam can’t have it both ways. He’s either for sanctuary counties or he’s against them.”
“Is the Governor going to follow Rep. Gerry Connolly’s suggestion to arrest local sheriffs who don’t want to assist Northam in stealing private firearms without compensation and in violation of the Fifth Amendment? Or is he going to pursue Rep. Donald McEachin’s proposal to activate the National Guard to assist his ‘legal' theft of firearms from local citizens?”
“Governor Northam’s declaration of war against gun owners is really an attack upon the God-given rights of law-abiding Virginians and upon the state and federal Constitution that he swore to uphold.”
“Gun Owners of America has been mobilizing its activists to urge their supervisors and sheriffs to resist the Governor’s dictatorial actions. And we do not relent until the despotic threat from Richmond has abated.”
A showdown is brewing in Virginia. It could shape not only the future of gun rights in the commonwealth but the future of gun rights nationwide. The citizens of Virginia are standing up to what they see as tyrannical moves by the Democrat controlled state government.
These citizens encourage law enforcement officials to uphold their oath to defend the constitution of the United States and of Virginia.
About John Crump
John is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the former CEO of Veritas Firearms, LLC and is the co-host of The Patriot News Podcast which can be found at www.blogtalkradio.com/patriotnews. John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and is currently working on a book on leftist deplatforming methods and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss, on Facebook at realjohncrump, or at www.crumpy.com.
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only
prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of
freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to
consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.” – John F Kennedy
1. Accomack County to vote on a resolution on December 18
2. Contact Alexandria about becoming a Sanctuary
3. Brunswick County will vote on their discussion on December 11
4. Buckingham County to discuss/vote on their resolution on December 9
5. Caroline County to vote on their resolution on December 10
6. Charles City County to vote on their resolution on December 23
7. Grayson County has moved its meeting location
8. Correction to “day” listed for Hampton meeting
9. Contact Harrisonburg City Council to pass a 2A Sanctuary resolution
10. Henrico County needs to be urged again to pass a resolution. They are meeting at a new location on a new date
11. Contact Hopewell City Council to pass a 2A Sanctuary resolution
12. Isle of Wight has a new location for their meeting
13. Contact Loudoun County about not supporting the Constitution!
14. Matthews County to vote on their resolution on December 17
15. Mecklenburg County to vote on their resolution on December 9
16. New Kent slipped under the radar – they became a sanctuary on November 27!
17. Poquoson City Council to vote on their resolution on December 9
18. Prince Edward County to vote on a resolution on December 17, a new location
19. Prince George County to vote on a resolution on December 10 – updated information/time
20. Prince William County to vote on a resolution on December 10 – new supervisor vows to repeal any resolution
21. Richmond County Board of Supervisors to discuss/vote on their resolution on December 12
22. Roanoke City – let's try this again, they didn't listen, meeting on December 16
23. Rockingham County to vote on a resolution on December 11 – new location and time, email address correction
24. Rocky Mount City Council to meet on December 9 – ask them to become a sanctuary
25. Stafford County Board of Supervisors to meet on December 17
26. Surry County voted and passed a vastly watered-down resolution – contact them to make it stronger
27. Vinton Town Council to meet and discuss a resolution on December 17
28. Waynesboro City Council meeting on their resolution changed to January 13 and new location
29. Sanctuary locality map (Lead Image)
30. Sanctuary coverage
1. Accomack County to vote on a resolution on December 18
The Accomack County Board of Supervisors is meeting on Wednesday, December 18, at 5 pm. It is not clear if a resolution is on their agenda. Whether it is or is not on the agenda, let's have a huge turnout and urge that the resolution be passed! I cannot emphasize enough how important turnout is for that meeting.
December 18, 5:00pm
Board Chambers located in the Accomack County Administration Building
23296 Courthouse Avenue
Accomac, VA. 23301
2. Contact Alexandria about becoming a Sanctuary.
Urge the city of Alexandria to become a 2A Sanctuary!
Alexandria City Council
“Group” phone contact: 703-746-4500
Group / Individual Emails: Not published
Mayor: Justin M. Wilson, webmail, 703.746.4500
Vice Mayor: Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker, webmail, 703.746.4500
Councilman: Canek Aguirre, webmail, 703.746.4500
Councilman: John Taylor Chapman, webmail, 703.746.4500
Councilwoman: Amy B. Jackson, webmail, 703.746.4500
Councilwoman: Redella S. “DEL” Pepper, webmail, 703.746.4500
Councilman: Mohamed E. “MO”, webmail, 703.746.4500
3. Brunswick County will vote on their discussion on December 11.
I am being told that the Brunswick County Board of Supervisors is going to vote on a resolution on Wednesday, December 11 at 7:30 pm. Whether they have it on the agenda or not, we need to urge them to pass a 2A Sanctuary resolution!
Location:
Board Meeting Room of the Brunswick County Government Building
228 N. Main Street
Lawrenceville, VA 23868
There is no contact information for the Supervisors, so just email the County Administrator, Dr. Charlette T. Woolridge, in support of the Board of Supervisors passing a Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution.
4. Buckingham County to discuss/vote on their resolution on December 9.
The Buckingham County Board of Supervisors is going to vote on their resolution on Monday, December 9 at 6:00 pm.
Location:
Peter Francisco Auditorium County Administration Complex
13360 W James Anderson Hwy
Buckingham, VA 23921
There is no contact information for the Supervisors, so just email the County Administrator, Rebecca S. Carter, in support of the Board of Supervisors passing a Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution.
5. Caroline County to vote on their resolution on December 10.
The Caroline County Board of Supervisors is going to vote on their resolution on Tuesday, December 10 at 6 pm.
Location:
Community Services Center Auditorium
17202 Richmond Turnpike
Milford, VA 22514
Clayton Forehand
Board of Supervisors
Title: Board of Supervisors – Madison District
Phone: 804-314-3214
cforehand@co.caroline.va.us
Jeffery M. “Jeff” Sili
Board of Supervisors
Title: Board of Supervisors – Bowling Green District
Phone: 804-633-9084
jsili@co.caroline.va.us
Jeffrey S. Black
Board of Supervisors
Title: Board of Supervisors – Western Caroline District
Phone: 540-424-0264
jblack@co.caroline.va.us
Nancy Long
Board of Supervisors
Title: Board of Supervisors – Port Royal District
Phone: 540-621-9277
nlong@co.caroline.va.us
Floyd W. Thomas
Board of Supervisors
Title: Board of Supervisors – Mattaponi District
Phone: 804-572-1593
fthomas@co.caroline.va.us
Reginald L. Underwood
Board of Supervisors
Title: Board of Supervisors – Reed Church District
Phone: 804-572-0636
rlunderwood@co.caroline.va.us
6. Charles City County to vote on their resolution on December 23.
The Charles City County Board of Supervisors to vote on their resolution on Monday, December 23, at 7:30 pm.
Location:
Charles City County Courthouse
Charles City, VA 23030
7. Grayson County has moved its meeting location.
Due to expected crowd size, the Grayson County Board of Supervisors has moved their meeting to:
Grayson County High School Auditorium
110 Blue Devil Dr
Independence, VA
The meeting is on December 12 at 6 pm.
8. Correction to “day” listed for Hampton meeting.
Corrected listing:
There is word that the Hampton City Council is going to consider a 2A Sanctuary resolution on Wednesday, December 11, at 6:30 pm.
Whether the resolution is heard or not, we should flood the room and urge them to pass such a resolution!
Council Chambers
22 Lincoln Street
City Hall
Hampton, VA 23669
-Mayor Deanna R. Reed
Deanna.Reed@harrisonburgva.gov
– Vice Mayor Sal Romera
Sal.Romero@harrisonburgva.gov
10. Henrico County needs to be urged again to pass a resolution. They are meeting at new location on new date.
The Henrico County Board of Supervisors is having a special meeting on Tuesday, December 10, at 5:30 pm. We don't know if a Sanctuary resolution is going to be discussed or not. But let's show up and ask them again, if not. NOTE: new location.
Location:
Belmont Recreation Center
1600 Hilliard Road
Henrico, Virginia 23228
11. Contact Hopewell City Council to pass a 2A Sanctuary resolution.
Contact your Hopewell City Council members and urge them to pass a 2A Sanctuary resolution.
Jasmine E. Gore, Mayor
City Contact: (804) 446-0009
Email: jgore@hopewellva.gov
Patience Bennett, Vice Mayor
Email: pbennett@hopewellva.gov
Johnny Partin, Councilor
Email: partinward3@gmail.com
Brenda S. Pelham
Contact: (804) 720-8619 (cell)
Email: pelhamward6councilor@gmail.com
12. Isle of Wight has a new location for their meeting.
As is the trend with the massive turnouts, the Isle of Wight Board of Supervisors has moved their Thursday, December 12 7:30pm meeting to:
Windsor Town Center
23361 Courthouse Hwy
Windsor, VA 23487
13. Contact Loudoun County about not supporting the Constitution!
A vote to make Loudoun County a 2a Sanctuary failed recently. We need to show up at the next meeting and let the Board of Supervisors know that we are displeased with that failure.
The vote was:
Higgins – Aye
Volpe – Aye
Randall – Nay
Meyer – Nay
Umstaddt – Nay
Saines – Nay
Bouna – Abstain
Buffington – Abstain
Letourneau – Absent
The next meeting is on Wednesday, December 11, at 6 pm.
Location:
Board Room, First Floor, Government Center
1 Harrison Street, S.E.,
Leesburg, VA 20177-7000
14. Matthews County to vote on their resolution on December 17.
The Matthews County Board fo Supervisors is going to vote on their resolution on Tuesday, December 17 at 1 pm.
Location:
17 Church Street
Matthews, VA 23109
15. Mecklenburg County to vote on their resolution on December 9.
The Mecklenburg County Board fo Supervisors is going to vote on their resolution on Monday, December 9 at 7 pm.
Location:
Goode Bank Building in the Board of Supervisors meeting room
350 Washington Street
Boydton, VA
Someone told me the meeting was in the County Courthouse, but I cannot confirm that.
16. New Kent slipped under the radar – they became a sanctuary on November 27!
Things have been moving so fast, that I missed that New Kent County is now a sanctuary! Count of sanctuaries is now 46!
17. Poquoson City Council to vote on their resolution on December 9.
The Poquoson City Council is going to vote on their resolution on Monday, December 9, at 7 pm.
Location:
City Council Chambers
500 City Hall Avenue
Poquoson, VA 23662
18. Prince Edward County to vote on a resolution on December 17, a new location.
The Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors has moved their December 17, 7 pm, meeting to:
Prince Edward County High School Auditorium
1482 Zion Hill Road
Farmville, VA 23901
19. Prince George County to vote on a resolution on December 10 – updated information/time.
Prince George Board of Supervisors will be voting on the 2A Sanctuary resolution on December 10, 2019 at the:
County Administration Bldg.
6602 Courts Drive
Boardroom
Third Floor
Prince George, VA
Please plan to be there by 6 p.m. – there is another local issue on the agenda that might draw crowd (related to school funding). There is plenty of parking all around the Administrative building. It is NOT a court or a school – legal carry is allowed.
VCDL EM Leyla Myers has a large roll of stickers and she will be there early.
The resolution will be voted as part of the Consensus Agenda – it is 7 p.m. when they vote – and there is not going to be a public hearing for this resolution. But during the work session, which starts at 6 p.m., there is a time for public hearing – you can just show up and sign up when you get there – give the sign up sheet to the clerk. If you don’t sign up, but wish to speak, you can wait until they ask if anyone else wishes to speak. If you show up at 7 p.m. – they will not be taking any comments.
25. Stafford County Board of Supervisors to meet on December 17
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors is going to hear and maybe vote on their resolution.
The Board of Supervisors will meet on Tuesday, December 17, at 3 pm in the County Administration Building at:
1300 Courthouse Road
Stafford, VA
The public can speak at the beginning of the meeting. Each person has 3 minutes. You may carry.
26. Surry County voted and passed a vastly watered-down resolution – contact them to make it stronger
The resolution that Surry County passed was extremely watered down. There was no need to do that. Contact the Board of Supervisors and tell them to pass the VCDL model Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution:
Amendment Sanctuary resolution: https://www.vcdl.org/resources/Resources/Model_Resolution.docx
Judy S Lyttle jslyttle@surrycountyva.gov
Kenneth R Holmes krholmes@surrycountyva.gov
Giron R Wooden gwoodensr@surrycountyva.gov
Michael H Drewry mdrewry@surrycountyva.gov
John Seward jms@surrycountyva.gov
27. Vinton Town Council to meet and discuss resolution on December 17
The Vinton Town Council is going to consider a 2A Sanctuary resolution on Tuesday, December 17 at 7 pm. Need a turnout!
Location:
Vinton Municipal Building
311 S. Pollard St
Vinton, VA
28. Waynesboro City Council meeting on their resolution changed to January 13 and new location
I'm getting conflicting information on the Waynesboro meeting on their resolution. It was Monday, January 9. I'm told that it is now January 13, 2020 at the Kate Collins Middle School. At this point, I suggest everyone going to the meeting call and verify the location: (540) 942-6669.
Or, better, just go on Monday and urge the City Council to pass the resolution!
29. Sanctuary locality map is filling in nicely: See lead image.
About Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL):
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right.
Virginia Democrat Legislation wants to send in the National Guard to enforce New Laws! This will definitely warm some people up.
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A video posted by the BBC shows 6-year-old primary school children being told to write gay love letters to promote diversity.
The clip features kids from Bewsey Lodge Primary School imagining themselves in the role of Prince Henry, who wants to profess his love for and gay marry his man servant ‘Thomas’.
“This school teaches children about LGBT relationships from an early age,” explains the BBC, “This class of 6 year olds is learning about gay marriage…all ages take part in LGBT lessons.”
Teacher Sarah Hopson explains how the children, “going to go out into that world and find this diversity around them, and they’ll find that at a young age as well. And the more they can be accepting at this age, you’re not going to face it further on because the children will be accepting now and will be accepting this diversity around them.”
The school has received numerous awards for its stance against “homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying” and follows the Personal, Social, and Health Education (PSHE) program, which lists “Diversity and equality (in all its forms)” as one of its key goals.
The program teaches children about “sources of support and reassurance” for “diversity in sexual attraction and developing sexuality,” the “difference between sex, gender identity and sexual orientation,” recognition of “diversity in sexual attraction,” understanding “accepted terminology” on LGBT topics, and the “need to challenge” “sexist, homophobic, transphobic and disablist language and behaviour.”
Parents of children being taught similar ideas at a school in Birmingham, almost all of them Muslim, were recently banned from protesting outside Anderton Park school against the LGBT indoctrination of their children.
The Law of Attraction states that your positive or negative thoughts control your reality. Doreen Virtue and Melissa Dougherty explain why they no longer believe in, use, or recommend the Law of Attraction. They show in scripture what the Bible says about God supplying our needs, and the dangers of relying on Law of Attraction principles.
You can write to Melissa at Instagram.com/melissa_dougherty77 and Doreen is at Instagram.com/DoreenVirtue through the Instagram message system
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You can contact Melissa through her YouTube channel:
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Let me interject here in this repost from Capstone Report with a few points of observation.
First, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) absolutely, 100% unequivocally lied in their press release about Dr. Lopez’ termination. There is zero doubt of that now.
Second, it is clear that SWBTS had no idea who they were messing with. Lopez apparently has guts-of-steel, is legally represented, and has hired professionals (so I hear) to represent him through this matter. He has audio and correspondence and has just released it like a big, fat bombshell on SWBTS.
Third, for the love of all that is good and pure, please do not overlook the fact that SWBTS was bending under the pressure of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). The ERLC is every bit the festering, liberal, cancerous sore we’ve told you they are. The ERLC, run by a Democrat, is getting conservatives fired from SBC seminaries. It’s pretty crazy.
Fourth, and this is my prediction: SWBTS is going to have the living daylights sued out of them. Lopez absolutely has cause for damages, but probably would not have if SWBTS had not sent out that libelous press release attacking his character. That single-handedly damned themselves. SWBTS will claim in court that this is an “ecclesiastical matter” to have the suit dropped (the SBC always does), but that will be an uphill battle for them to demonstrate. Personally, I think they’re going to end up paying a fortune to compensate Dr. Lopez and admit their error.
Fifth, in ten years of reporting on the Downgrade in the SBC, this particular issue has more capacity to split the SBC than anything else I’ve seen. I pray it does; it needs to split.—JD
[Capstone Report] Judge for yourself: Who is telling the truth? Audio, transcripts and emails released.
Tapes verify Lopez told that ERLC held him in low regard.
Dean allegedly on tape told Lopez that Southwestern didn’t want the attention his writings on sex abuse would bring to the seminary and if he continued such public teaching that Lopez would likely need to find other employment.
Provost says seminary holds to biblical sexual view.
Was Lopez’s real sin a violation of the SBC’s 11th Commandment in angering the powerful ERLC?
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What you need to know about the scandal at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary involving Professor Robert Lopez and SWBTS administration..
A dispute between an employee and employer can be messy. It is especially messy when employer and employee tell different stories of what caused a termination. This is true of the case between Southwestern and Robert Lopez. Here’s what we know:
Lopez was very involved in fighting the gay agenda. According to the American Family Association, “Lopez had been active in writing and speaking about the dangers of the Equality Act and abuse in the gay community. And he had drafted and submitted a resolution to the SBC supporting counseling to help lead people out of homosexuality. These were all apparently giant no-nos for the SBC, which according to Lopez has embraced the ‘Revoice’ ideology. Revoice is a radical movement to promote normalization and acceptance of LGBTQ terms within the church—creating a slippery slope which many believe will lead to full-blown acceptance of homosexuality.
Lopez claims he was fired because of his insistence he would obey God rather than men and continue to teach against the sins of homosexuality. SWBTS claims he was fired because of curricula changes and internal issues including complaints from faculty and students.
The transcripts and tapes prove a key element of the allegations. Specifically, SWBTS provost Randy Stinson mentions the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) was unhappy with Dr. Lopez.
According to a transcript and audio allegedly of Stinson, “Then, I happen to be around some folks from the ERLC, where your reputation is not good there with those folks. So now there’s a growing concern of mine in terms of a failure to relate constructively to another major entity of the SBC. Which in turn compounds the problem of failure to relate constructively to this institution.”
Why was the ERLC unhappy? Lopez attributes this to his longstanding and public differences over how Christians should view sexuality. What other issue would the ERLC have against Lopez? Would they even know Lopez were it not for his opposition to Revoice and similar theological issues?
Lopez claims the disputes between himself and the administration centered on the ability to share his personal testimony at conferences, other speaking events and through essays or interviews.
According to the voluminous story revealing the transcripts, emails and other data is this summary statement worth quoting: “All the statements, interviews and publications that generated conflict regarded LGBT issues and sex abuse issues. There is literally no record Lopez can find of sustained conflict with the administration of any other kind.” However, Stinson in the transcript tells Lopez the content isn’t the issue. This becomes the crux of the dispute—Southwestern wants to make the dispute with Lopez into administrative procedures, but Lopez is correct that everything the administration objected to involved his ministry on LGBTQ issues.
The Greenway Administration is on tape telling Lopez the school didn’t want the attention his speaking about sex abuse in the gay community would bring to the seminary. That’s a major and stunning admission. The tapes show the school claiming biblical orthodoxy on the issue, but not wanting attention that would come to it if its professors spoke up in defense of biblical sexual standards.
According to the transcript of the September 13 meeting, “Dean Mike Wilkinson: The other thing is the article you wrote. Here’s the expectation of the administration. I think they were [inaudible 00:19:17] that you getting off social media was a good thing, that from that point, you were going to focus on the drama club and your courses, your academic work, and not be involved in other areas. [inaudible 00:19:37] I know that they don’t want that attention coming here. Robert Lopez: “I can’t give it up.”
Mike Wilkinson: “And I understand that. It’s probably going to come down to if that’s an area where you really feel like you need to fight, understand what I’m saying here because I’m not giving you an ultimatum, but it may come down to if that’s an area you want to fight, they’re not going to want to have that fight take place from here.”
In one part of the transcript, the Provost tells Lopez this whole issue is not about content and that the seminary holds a similar view on sexuality to Lopez’s stance.
However, Stinson then redirects the conversation back to the view of an outside entity—the ERLC. From the transcript, Randy Stinson: “I’m not asking you to deny your Christian testimony. I’ve never done that. I’ve never told anybody else to deny you that. So this isn’t about your Christian witness in my mind. It is about your just relationship to this administration. Repeatedly. And even your relationship to another entity of the SBC.”
Stinson indicated he wanted Lopez’s work to be reviewed based on several criteria. These included how SBC entities, leaders and others within the denomination might feel about Lopez’s writings. According to the transcript, “Randy Stinson: There are multiple factors…Who the audience is. The venue. What’s being said. How is it being said? [crosstalk 00:32:19] If it is going to be received poorly by the entity that pays the bills here, in terms of SBC.”
There is a lot more in the transcripts. Pages and pages. Read it and decide for yourself. Who is in the right? Lopez? Southwestern? Both? Neither? Share your thoughts.
TAKEAWAY: Why would it matter what the ERLC thought of a professor working at Southwestern? Is Russell Moore that powerful?
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published at Capstone Report, title changed by P&P]
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Fairfax, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- A week after he told voters that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect “a magazine with a hundred clips in it,” 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden offered supporters more of his singular brand of anti-gun nonsense. While attending a private campaign event in Seattle, the former vice president reportedly called for a ban on 9mm pistols.
According to an article from the Seattle Times, Biden was in town to attend two private fundraisers, one of which was at the home of “a top Amazon executive.” The posh soiree set attendees back a princely $2,800 per-person. The other fundraiser was held at the home of a local philanthropist. That staider event offered donors a relative bargain with a $500 minimum price tag.
While speaking to attendees of the latter event, Biden claimed that he supports the Second Amendment. The 77-year-old then went on to ask “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?”
Biden also shared his tired and inaccurate claim that because there is a shot-shell restriction for migratory bird hunting, “We protect geese from Canada more than we do people.”
.@JoeBiden in New Hampshire: “We don't have the courage to take on the NRA? We protect geese more than we protect, no joke you can only have 3 shotgun shells when you go shooting for geese, we protect geese more than our kids”
In targeting 9mm pistols, Biden has called for a ban on one of the most popular firearms in America. According to ATF’s Firearms Commerce in the United States FY 2019, there were over 3.6 million pistols manufactured in the U.S. in 2017. This was more than 1 million more guns than the next most popular category of firearms, rifles. Further, over 3.2 million handguns (including revolvers) were imported in to the U.S. in 2017.
In its annual report on the U.S. firearms industry, Shooting Industry reported that 9mm caliber pistols are the most commonly produced pistol and have been for many years. In 2017 alone, there were more than 1.7 million 9mm pistols produced in the U.S. Cumulatively there are tens of millions of 9mm pistols in the hands of law-abiding Americans.
The 9mm pistol is the choice of the nation’s leading civilian law enforcement agency, the FBI. Moreover, 9mm pistols are used by countless other federal, state, and local civilian law enforcement agencies. Biden alluded to the 9mm handgun’s military applications, but these agencies are not tasked with waging war on the public, but rather defending the public. This defensive application is the same reason that millions of Americans have chosen a 9mm pistol as their self-defense firearm.
The landmark Second Amendment U.S. Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller concerned a complete prohibition on the ownership of handguns in Washington, D.C. The opinion made clear that the Second Amendment at a minimum protects the right to acquire and possess firearms “in common use at the time” for lawful purposes such as self-defense.
It is impossible to square Biden’s statement with the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment. Many types of firearms, such as the AR-15, are “in common use” for lawful purposes like self-defense and therefore protected under the Second Amendment. The 9mm pistol is not just “in common use” for self-defense. As the production statistics indicate, it may be the most common firearm in use for self-defense. Therefore, it is not permissible under the Second Amendment for a jurisdiction to prohibit 9mm pistols. The law-abiding 9mm pistol-owning residents of the D.C., Chicago, and a handful of Chicago suburbs are a testament to this fact.
Biden’s political career is an ongoing spectacle of anti-gun incompetence. However, his high-profile gaffes can serve an instructive purpose. Biden is emblematic of a political class that cannot be bothered to learn the most rudimentary information concerning firearms and the right to keep and bear arms. Despite nearly four decades in the U.S. Senate and eight years as vice president, he is still a complete ignoramus on the subject. Biden and his cohort don’t want to know anything about guns, gun rights, or gun owners. Rather, they prefer to mindlessly indulge their anti-gun prejudice at every opportunity.
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CHRISTIANS: WHY WE SHOULD AVOID BETHEL, HILLSONG, ELEVATION, JESUS CULTURE & GETTY MUSIC
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The Israeli government has begun to react to the terrorist murders by inflicting some mild economic pain on the Palestinian Authority, but it is hardly enough.
Israel collects taxes on all the goods that arrive in the country for delivery to the Palestinian Authority, and then transfers, with its usual scrupulosity, those taxes to the Palestinian Authority. In March 2018, President Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act, which withheld all American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority as long as it continued to pay stipends to imprisoned terrorists, or to the families of terrorists who were killed. On July 2, 2018, the Knesset followed suit, and passed by a vote of 87 to 15 (with the far-left Meretz Party and the Arab MKs naturally opposed) its own “Pay For Slay” bill. By its terms, the Israeli government is to withhold from the amount of taxes it transfers the exact amount that the Palestinian Authority provides either to imprisoned terrorists or to the families of dead terrorists.
For some reason, the Israeli government did not immediately implement the bill, but began to do so in February 2019. The family of Khalil Yusef Ali Jabarin, the terrorist who murdered an Israeli named Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four, stabbing him in the back, will receive NIS (New Israeli Shekels) 1,400, or $400 a month, for the next three years, from the Palestinian Authority, as part of its policy of funding what they call “martyrs” for the Palestinian cause. Withholding that sum — $400 a month — from the PA is not going to have the slightest effect on discouraging terrorist murder. Israel needs to cause real economic pain both to the PA, which incites such terrorism, and to the families of terrorists. The PA’s terror-reward budget for 2017 and 2018 amounted to NIS 1.2 billion, or $336 million, for each year, according to its Finance Ministry’s website. $4800 less, in a total pay-for-slay budget of $336 million, is a derisory amount.
The Israelis have to adopt a very different mindset. They could, for example, charge the PA for the full cost, running into millions of dollars, of collecting and transferring those taxes. Instead of a deduction in the taxes transferred equal to the amount given to the family of Khalil Jabarin, they could decide to withhold ten, or fifty, or a hundred times, the amount that his family will receive from the PA. That should get the attention of Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinians are already reeling from the ending of all economic aid to the PA from the United States, the ending of American aid to UNRWA, and the closing of the PLO office in Washington. They will whine and complain no matter how little or how much is withheld by the Israelis, so why not provide the PA with something to really harm them economically, while reminding the world that even if these measures hurt, they are as nothing compared to the anguish felt by the families of Ari Fuld and other victims of “Palestinian” terror.
While Mahmoud Abbas is loudly proclaiming to the world the damage this new Israeli policy will cause the “impoverished Palestinians,” Prime Minister Netanyahu might suggest before the cameras of the world that Mahmoud Abbas and his two “businessman” sons could easily make up for these steeper cuts in the tax revenues by contributing to the PA part — “giving something back” in the literal sense — of the $400 million fortune they have somehow managed to accumulate. That fortune is a very sore point among many “Palestinians” who despise the Abbas family’s corruption, and Netanyahu’s remarks will find favor among them, and leave Abbas speechless with impotent rage.
When there is another terrorist attack, and another promise by the PA to pay the terrorist or his family, the Israelis should again increase the amounts to be withheld. Not 100 times, but 200 times the amount given by the PA to the terrorist (if alive), or to his family (if he is dead), ought now to be withheld, with the threat that, with each subsequent terrorist attack, and commitment by the PA to pay that terrorist stipend, there will again be a doubling of the amount of taxes withheld by Israel. When the Pay-For-Slay program stops, then the deductions from taxes transferred will also stop. It’s a very simple calculation. How much economic pain can the PA take?
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“You cannot bring the words terror and Islam together. If you keep doing it, then we are condemning those who do it.”
This is a familiar sleight-of-hand. It is Islamic jihad terrorists who bring terror and Islam together. When they do that, Erdogan says nothing. But when non-Muslim foes of jihad terror point out that there are some Muslims who bring terror and Islam together, Erdogan cries “Islamophobia” and pretends that the non-Muslims are responsible for the equation. Erdogan is by far not the only one who employs this tactic.
A Muslim cannot be a terrorist and Islam does not produce terrorists, the Turkish president said on Dec. 5, once again rejecting the term “Islamic terrorism”.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said racism, discrimination and Islamophobia have spread like poison ivy in countries once seen as cradles of democracy.
Erdoğan’s remarks came at the inauguration ceremony of the Cambridge Central Mosque which he attended with first lady Emine Erdoğan and a group of high-level Turkish officials….
Erdoğan said workplaces, homes and places of worships of Muslims and foreigners are targeted by racists and fascist almost every day.
“Muslim women are abused only because they are wearing headscarves” in Islamophobic attacks, Erdoğan said, adding Jewish, black people and whoever looks different are targeted in similar attacks.
Especially attacks targeting places of worships have reached “incredible dimensions,” he added, recalling the mosque attack in New Zealand, church attacks in Sri Lanka and synagogues in the U.S….
“You cannot bring the words terror and Islam together. If you keep doing it, then we are condemning those who do it,” he added.
A Muslim cannot be a terrorist; Islam does not produce terrorists, Erdoğan underlined.
“We do not accept the Islamic terrorism etiquette, [a term] some insistently try to keep popular.”
Erdoğan said Turkey has been fighting ISIL more effectively than any other country, noting that 3,000 terrorists were neutralized only in Syria’a Al Bab town.
Erdoğan said he rejects any distinction of “good or bad” terrorist and all terrorists of ISIL, FETÖ, PKK/YPG, even Neo-Nazis are “bloodthirsty vampires”.
Speaking about Europe’s first eco-friendly mosque built in Cambridge, Erdoğan said the mosque will be the “best response to rising Islamophobia”….
Also attending the ceremony, British singer Yusuf Islam said the Cambridge Central Mosque will promote understanding.
Underlining that he became Muslim more than 40 years ago and his conversion was a “spiritual step forward”, Islam thanked the Turkish president and Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate for assistance in building the mosque….
The road to building Europe’s first eco-friendly mosque began back in 2008, when the capacity of local churches and houses was unable to meet the worship needs of local Muslims….
More than 10,000 people and groups donated money for the landmark purchase, with Turkish groups donating most generously. The Qatar National Fund also was among the donors.
Abdal Hakim Murad, together with Islam (also known as Cat Stevens), sought support for the project from Erdoğan, who was then Turkey’s prime minister….
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Imagine the outcry if some Representative addressed the Ku Klux Klan. The outrage would be universal and he or she would be made to resign immediately. But although this is very much the same thing, no one will take any particular notice of this.
“Rep. Rashida Tlaib Keynotes ‘American Muslims for Palestine’ Conference Devoted to Destroying Israel,” by Samantha Mandeles, Legal Insurrection, December 5, 2019:
Tlaib: “I’m incredibly proud to be here. The incredible work that all of you have done have opened doors for myself, somebody like me to serve in the United States Congress.”
Now we know why AMP wanted to cleanse the audience of media who could report accurately on what was going on: The AMP conference was an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic hatefest, and the keynote speaker was Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, who has worked with the group on many occasions.
Though it has a long history of opaque funding, staff overlap with now-shuttered ‘charities’ found to be connected to terrorist groups, and persistently disseminating classic anti-Semitism, AMP managed to maintain its connections with ‘intersectional’ social justice activists by hijacking the language of human rights and claiming to fight for “oppressed peoples everywhere” (in the words of AMP speaker Linda Sarsour).
[Screenshot from AMPs Palestine Convention Facebook page, November 2019.]
You can read more about AMP and the groups it works with in some of my earlier posts:
As in the past, AMP’s 2019 Palestine Conference was chock full of historical falsehoods and thinly veiled anti-Semitism. This is shocking to precisely nobody; this year’s speakers’ roster featured some of the most noxious anti-Israel agitators active today, including ‘intersectional’ activists:
Students for Justice in Palestine founder and UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, who has called for an intifada in the U.S. and is well-known for infusing lessons with anti-Israel propaganda
Columbia University professor Joseph Massad, who infamously wrote an article for Al Jazeera in which he charged that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis in exterminating non-Zionist Jews during World War II
Despite the behavior of her fellow AMP speakers, when Rep Tlaib took the stage at the annual Palestine Conference, she gushed about her pride in being invited to keynote, saying:
I’m incredibly proud to be here. The incredible work that all of you have done have opened doors for myself, somebody like me to serve in the United States Congress.
As Rep. Tlaib continued, she demonstrated a favorite rhetorical trick of the ‘intersectional’ far-left: “movement hijacking“—the appropriation and exploitation of unrelated social justice causes (frequently by BDS supporters) in order to subsume those causes within a broader left-wing movement in which anti-Israel activists are then revered as leaders.
I would remember the history here in this country…still, the oppression of our black brothers and sisters. Every time I saw the different color license plates, the dehumanization at the checkpoints, everything. So interconnected…So when you think about the border, you gotta understand how interconnected it is with the oppression, of what’s happening in Falastine, the oppression that’s happening to our people. When I see…like, the police going after, killing innocent people, innocent, treating African American brothers and sisters like they’re disposable, I think of Filastine and what happens to our brothers and sisters in the occupation.
Tlaib’s remarks echoed longstanding efforts by anti-Israel activists to stoke racial tension against Israel by falsely accusing it of being responsible for local police shootings of blacks in the U.S. As we documented, that campaign went into overdrive during the Ferguson riots, after the Michael Brown shooting in the summer of 2014.
You can watch Rep Tlaib’s entire AMP speech here and below.
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JASPER, Ala. —An Alabama sheriff’s office says that it “won’t bow” to the bidding of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) after it received a letter requesting that Sheriff Nick Smith cease promoting prayer on social media as it favors religion over non-religion.
FFRF contacted Sheriff Nick Smith of the Walker County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 26 to advise that a citizen had expressed concern that Smith’s office “has a pattern of calling on citizens to pray during times of tragedy.”
“We write to encourage your office to use more inclusive language when posting on social media,” it wrote.
“It’s at this very trying time that we, as a county, should fall to our knees and pray fervently for mercy and peace,” Smith urged. “Now is not the time to place blame. Not on the deputy, not on the young boy, and most definitely not on his parents.”
“Instead of wasting our breath condemning and judging, we all need to use it to cry out for God to place His hand on this young boy, and return him home to his family [and] to bring peace and calm to a deputy who is absolutely broken,” he continued.
“As your sheriff, I’m responsible for speaking for my department, and all I ask is that you pray. Pray hard, and pray from the deepest parts of your heart, because there are two good people that need it now more than ever.”
FFRF said that while it found it commendable for the sheriff to support those in mourning, “a senseless and tragic death is not an excuse to disregard the Constitution, which prohibits government entities like the sheriff’s office from promoting religious activities.”
“By couching its posts in specific religious terminology, the Walker County Sheriff’s Office is excluding a significant portion of the community,” it also asserted. “[B]y calling on a God to intervene, the sheriff’s office is sending a message to nonreligious citizens that they are outsiders within their own community and that their participation in the healing process is not valued.”
FFRF told Smith that he is free to personally turn to religion in trying times, but he “cannot encourage others to do the same.”
“Observing a strict separation of Church and State excludes no one and honors the First Amendment,” the organization contended. “It is not the government’s job to promote religion over non-religion.”
However, T.J. Armstrong, the community relations officer with the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, took to social media (his personal page) on Tuesday to note that Smith would not be backing down.
“We consider it a great honor to be considered and to have received a wonderful letter from the ‘Freedom From Religion’ organization. Proud to have a sheriff that won’t bow to political pressure or the devices of the enemy!” he wrote.
“As our Chief Deputy Anthony Leach quoted from Matthew 16: ‘Jesus turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.'”
Armstrong also told local television station CBS 42 that he doesn’t see the department promoting a singular religion by calling the community to prayer.
“I believe that when we ask people to pray, people see our hearts and they see that compassion and they respond to that,” he stated.
As previously reported, while some state that God and government must remain separated, others note that the nation was founded by many who believed that America could not expect to be blessed if it failed to acknowledge and honor Almighty God.
“[T]he safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him, but a duty whose natural influence is favorable to the promotion of that morality and piety without which social happiness cannot exist nor the blessings of a free government be enjoyed,” he wrote.
James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, similarly called for a national day of prayer on July 9, 1812.
“I do therefore recommend the third Thursday in August next as a convenient day to be set apart for the devout purposes of rendering the Sovereign of the universe and the Benefactor of mankind the public homage due to His holy attributes; of acknowledging the transgressions which might justly provoke the manifestations of His divine displeasure; of seeking His merciful forgiveness and His assistance in the great duties of repentance…”
President Abraham Lincoln also proclaimed a national fast day in 1863.
“[I]t is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord,” his proclamation read.
“[I]nsomuch we know that by His Divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people,” Lincoln said.
As Trump continues selling American’s best weapon systems to the Saudis and offering them military training on mainland U.S. military bases, the Saudis continue to be the largest funders of terrorism globally. A recent terrorist attack against U.S. military personnel on U.S. soil, which had been planned by a group of Saudi airmen trainees, is only more evidence of the irredeemable culture of the Arabic world.
THE DEATH OF U.S. TROOPS
AT THE HANDS OF ALLAH
Florida Terrorist Inspired by al-Qaeda, Fort Hood Shooting (David Wood)
Shortly before he opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani (a Saudi Air Force officer) tweeted a message to the American people. In his tweet, he quoted both Osama bin Laden and Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki (of al-Qaeda fame). Since the al-Awlaki quotes were taken directly from al-Awlaki’s “Message to the American People,” Alshamrani clearly read about Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s attack at Fort Hood. Hence, we have a connection between the Pensacola terror attack and the Fort Hood Massacre. The officer from Saudi Arabia was inspired to attack a navy base by al-Qaeda jihadis and a prior attack on a U.S. military base. Oddly enough, he was invited to the U.S. to learn to fly jets provided to Saudi leaders by the Trump Administration. David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) discusses this most important topic in US news.
The suspect who opened fire at NAS Pensacola on Friday morning used a handgun, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said during an afternoon press conference.
The sheriff said that four people are confirmed dead, including the shooter, and eight more are injured.
FBI INVESTIGATING
Six Saudi Muslims arrested near Naval Air Station after jihad attack, three of them filmed the massacre
There needs to be a thorough and realistic reevaluation of this training program of foreign nationals. But that probably will not happen; it would be “Islamophobic.”
“Six Saudis are arrested over Pensacola naval base shooting including three who FILMED the attack by countryman who killed three and wounded eight before being shot dead – as FBI probes terror link,” by Andrew Court and Snejana Farberov, Dailymail.com, December 6, 2019:
The Air Force trainee who killed three and injured eight when he opened fire at a naval base in Florida assailed the United States as ‘a nation of evil’ before he went on his shooting rampage, AFP reports.
The man, first identified by NBC News as Saudi national Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, opened fire inside a classroom at Naval Air Station in Pensacola early Friday morning. Police quickly responded to the scene and he was shot dead.
US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said the suspect was a second lieutenant attending the aviation school at the base.
Meanwhile six other Saudi nationals were arrested near the base shortly after the attack, as investigators began to probe a terror link.
Three of the six were seen filming the entire incident as it unfolded, a source told The New York Times on Friday evening….
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Florida: Naval Air Station jihad murderer was Saudi aviation student, member of Saudi military
Giving Saudi nationals flight training on a Naval Air base. What could possibly go wrong?
“NAS Pensacola shooter identified as Saudi aviation student; possible terror motive being investigated,” by Adam Ford, DISRN, December 6, 2019:
The gunman who killed at least three people and wounded seven others before being killed by deputies in a Friday morning shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola has been identified as a Saudi national and member of the Saudi Arabian military who was in the U.S. for aviation training. His name is Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, according to NBC News. The shooting is being investigated as a possible terror attack.
The assailant opened fire in a classroom building killing at least three and wounding seven others.
Two deputies engaged and dispatched the shooter, both of them sustaining gunshot wounds during the shootout…
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Three of the 9/11 jihadis gave their addresses as Naval Air Station Pensacola, site of latest jihad murders
“Jizya or Jizyahis a per capitayearlytaxation historically levied in the form of financial charge on permanent non-Muslim subjects (dhimmi)of a state governed by Islamic law in order to fund public expenditures of the state, in place of the Zakat and Khums that Muslims are obliged to pay.”
Accused Of Stealing $500,000 From Charity
PENNSYLVANIA: MUSLIM STATE REP. MOVITA JOHNSON-HARRELL CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT, PERJURY, BUYING LUXURY CLOTHES & PROPERTIES WITH MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY MONIES PUT IN HER “NON-PROFIT FUND”
No, Movita Johnson-Harrell is not a jihadi. And corrupt officials of all creeds can be found more easily than anything else in this world. The reason why this story is worthy of posting at Jihad Watch is because it is another indication of the dangers of identity politics. Movita Johnson-Harrell became a state representative because she is a Muslim. She was a symbol of the Democratic Party’s commitment to “diversity.” No one knew or cared whether she would be an honest or competent state representative. In that, her story is similar to that of Mohamed Noor, who was only on the Minneapolis police force because he was a Muslim, despite numerous indications of his incompetence. A woman is dead in that case. In this one, Medicaid and Social Security disability funds were diverted into Movita Johnson-Harrell’s coffers. Why don’t we go back to supporting candidates based on their merits, not on their religion, ethnicity, race, or gender? Ohm that would be “racist”?
“Pennsylvania lawmaker charged with stealing over $500K from nonprofit she founded,” by Mark Scolforo, Associated Press, December 5, 2019:
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Prosecutors charged a state representative from Philadelphia on Wednesday with enriching herself by stealing money from a nonprofit organization she founded to serve the mentally ill and poor who were fighting addiction.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office accused Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell of perjury, tampering with public records, theft and other charges. Shapiro said a plea deal was expected to be worked out.
Court papers said the theft went on for years as Johnson-Harrell converted the charity’s funds into investment properties, vacations and luxury clothing. Shapiro said Johnson-Harrell personally spent more than $500,000 from Motivations Education & Consultation Associates, diverting Medicaid and Social Security disability funds.
The 53-year-old Democrat won a special election in March in a west Philadelphia district.
Johnson-Harrell, the first female Muslim member of the House, came to office with the intensely personal story of having endured the shooting deaths of her father, brother, cousin and 18-year-old son. She campaigned on a platform of ending gun violence, and is active in an anti-gun violence foundation named for her son Charles, who was shot to death in 2011.
She turned herself in to police Wednesday in Philadelphia. Through her lawyers, she released a statement saying she will resign from her $89,000-a-year House seat later in December….
I’m no preacher, nor a pastor’s wife. But I know how to pray. And the so-called prayer that was delivered from a podium inside the Pennsylvania statehouse in Harrisburg on Monday was offensive, insulting, and anything but Christian.
Freshman Rep. Stephanie Borowicz (R., Clinton County) had the audacity to stand before a government body and utter the most divisive prayer I’ve heard in a long time.
State Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell (D., Phila.), who has been Muslim for 42 years, was among those listening. With the newly elected representative were 55 friends and family members, many of them Muslim as well. They had gathered to see Johnson-Harrell sworn in as the first Muslim woman in the Pennsylvania House.
There was no ignoring Johnson-Harrell’s presence in the chamber. She had arrived dressed in full Islamic garb and with a copy of the Quran that had belonged to her late son, Charles Andre Johnson, a 2011 victim of gun violence. Many of those with her were similarly attired, their heads covered and wearing bright orange ribbons for gun-violence prevention in memory of Charles.
It was to have been Johnson-Harrell’s big moment. But her excitement quickly turned to something else after Borowicz rose and began to speak.
I wasn’t there to see it, but I can only imagine how Johnson-Harrell felt as Borowicz began calling out the name of Jesus. She did this over and over again — 13 times in a minute and a half. (I watched the prayer on YouTube and kept score.)
(On the same day that the House swore in its first Muslim women member Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, D-Philadelphia, freshman Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, R-Clinton County, stepped to the House rostrum to offer a prayer proclaiming her Christian beliefs and how the nation has forgotten Jesus and asking for forgiveness.)
But Borowicz, who was elected in November, ignored the diverse crowd, declaring, “At the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord.”
The wife of a pastor at a Christian church, she strangely brought up George Washington — a president who will always be remembered for holding Africans in bondage. At the time of his death, he owned more than 300 human beings.
She also threw in the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln and Gov. Tom Wolf, and went so far as to thank God that President Donald Trump stands “behind Israel unequivocally.”
Thank God for the discreet arm tap by House Speaker Michael Turzai (R., Allegheny County) that brought the so-called prayer to a merciful end.
By then, though, the damage had been done.
A special moment had been forever marred by a junior representative’s appalling attempt to foist her limited religious perspective on a crowd of various religious views.
Afterward, Johnson-Harrell told me that she was outraged but that Borowicz “could never steal my joy.”
Johnson-Harrell said that because she had grown up Muslim — her mother converted when Johnson-Harrell was 10 — she was used to that kind of thing. Her concern was more for her guests and other members of the House who had witnessed it.
“It blatantly represented the Islamophobia, xenophobia, and bigotry that exists among some leaders,” Johnson-Harrell wrote to me on Facebook Messenger. “It was planned and meant to be insulting to me and my guests and was done in the name of Jesus, which is blasphemy.”
Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell speaks at the CAIR-LA 23rd Annual Banquet, Saturday November 2, 2019 at the Hilton Anaheim.
“EVERYTHING I’VE DONE IN MY LIFE HAS BEEN FOR MY CHILDREN” “DIVINE INTERVENTION” FROM ALLAH
About Rep. Stephanie Borowicz
Dedicated to restoring transparent, accountable government and replacing establishment politics with solid conservative principles, Stephanie Borowicz was elected as the first-ever woman to serve and represent the people of the 76th Legislative District in November 2018.
During the 2019-20 session, Stephanie has been appointed to serve on the following House committees: Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Health, Human Services, State Government and Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness.
Faith, family, patriotism, personal responsibility and a strong work ethic were impressed upon Stephanie at an early age. As a mother, former fourth-grade teacher, and pastor’s wife, Stephanie understands the importance of eliminating wasteful spending, increasing funding for local schools and fighting to reduce taxes for families, seniors, farmers and job creators.
With an uncompromising belief in the original intent of our state and federal constitutions, Stephanie is deeply committed to protecting our God-given rights and freedoms from intrusive government overreach, which includes safeguarding our Second Amendment liberties and protecting the sanctity of all human life.
A graduate of Vanguard University and former president of a nonprofit organization, Stephanie lives in McElhattan with her husband, Jason, and their three sons, Braden, Jacob and Micah.
The 76th Legislative District includes all of Clinton County and the Centre County communities of Benner, Boggs, Burnside, Curtin, Haines, Howard, Liberty, Marion, Miles, Snow Shoe and Union townships and the boroughs of Howard, Milesburg, Snow Shoe and Unionville.
THE DEMOCRATS ARE UNRAVELING OVER THEIR SHAM IMPEACHMENT
BY DR. STEVE TURLEY
The Democrats are utterly UNRAVELLING over their SHAM impeachment efforts; I mean, absolutely unraveling! We’re going to look at the signs that the pressures of a fraudulent impeachment are beginning to take their toll on the Democrats, and why things are only going to get worse. You’re going to love this!
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The sheriff of a county in Virginia says he’s ready to deputize thousands of citizens if the state legislature passes laws restricting the Second Amendment.
At a board meeting Tuesday where a resolution was passed declaring Culpeper County a “constitutional county,” Sheriff Scott Jenkins said he will vigorously defend the “God-given” right of citizens to own firearms.
“The right to bear arms—some believe that the Second Amendment gives us that right, when in fact it’s a God-given right. If you don’t believe in God, it’s a law of nature that every creature can defend their lives from threats,” Jenkins said.
Furthermore, Jenkins added he is prepared to deputize numerous citizens if that’s what it takes to comply with new gun laws.
“If the legislature decides to restrict certain weapons I feel harms our community, I will swear in thousands of auxiliary deputies in Culpeper,” the sheriff stated, according to The Culpeper Star-Exponent. “There’s no limit to the number of people I can swear in… Personally, I don’t think some of the bills that are proposed will pass, I don’t think we’re that far left in Virginia.”
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms,” Jenkins added, citing Virginia-based Founding Father Richard Henry Lee’s perspective on the Second Amendment.
County Supervisor Jack Frazier, who recommended labeling the region a “constitutional county” rather than a “sanctuary county” to distinguish from liberal “sanctuary cities,” said he wanted the proposal to send a message to legislators.
“I am hoping that by standing by our neighboring counties that this will send a message to our governor, legislators and the folks in Richmond that the people of Culpeper County know best as to how we can protect ourselves and our families,” Frazier said.
A county resident and US Navy veteran also told the local paper he feared for his rights after Democrats took control of the state’s General Assembly.
“When I see bills being introduced to the House of Representatives in Richmond that you can’t even train your kids on how to use a gun, that’s a little much. I’m just bound and determined that they’re not going to take my rights away,” expressed retired service member Charles Evering.
“The Board of Supervisors implores the Virginia General Assembly, the United States Congress, and other agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States Government vigilantly to preserve, uphold, and protect the rights of the citizens to keep and bear arms under the Constitutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States by rejecting any provision, law, or regulation that may infringe, have the tendency to infringe, or place any additional burdens on the right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms.”
The proposal mirrors similar pro-Second Amendment resolutions recently passed by other Virginia counties, including King George, Orange and Fairfax counties.
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Within Muslim circles, Monzer Taleb is heralded as a popular motivational speaker. But it wasn’t long ago that his name and likeness were brought up, during a terrorism trial dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. On Friday, December 6th, Taleb will be headlining a group of radical Muslim lecturers and clerics, including an imam, Izhar Khan, who was charged by the US Justice Department with helping to finance the Taliban, at the Mehfil restaurant’s banquet hall in Sunrise, Florida. This article is meant to alert the public as to what is taking place right in their backyard.
According to his Facebook page, Monzer Mustafa Taleb is a special instructor at Bayyinah, an Arabic studies institute based in Dallas, Texas. Bayyinah is the brainchild of Nouman Ali Khan, a Muslim preacher who, in September 2017, was accused of manipulating his female followers into sex and sham marriages and offering them hush money to keep quiet about it.
In the course of the US government’s prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), in 2007 and 2008, a video was submitted into evidence showing Taleb participating at an event sponsored by the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) as the lead vocalist of a singing troupe called Al-Sakhra. Both HLF and IAP were functions of an American Hamas network led by then-global head of Hamas Mousa Abu Marzook. On the video, Taleb sings, “O Jew, O coward… I am from Hamas and have never cheered for anyone else besides her… And she is the one which marches with the light of Muhammad… towards Jihad.”
In addition to his singing gig, Taleb ran the multimedia wing of the InfoCom Corporation, a now-defunct web hosting service company established by HLF co-founder Ghassan Elashi and his four brothers. Following trials taking place in 2004 and 2005, InfoCom and the Elashi brothers were convicted of money laundering and fundraising on behalf of Hamas.
Over a decade later, Taleb is still promoting Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups. In August 2014, Taleb posted a graphic on his Facebook page depicting four characters, three of which are famous superheroes; the fourth is a masked Hamas militant with the name, GAZAMAN. The caption under the figures reads, “A SUPERHERO ALWAYS WEARS A MASK.” In 2015, Taleb posted a video showcasing five Palestinian flags, three of which are from groups – Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – named on the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).
In December 2017, Taleb attended the Dallas, Texas ‘Rally for Jerusalem, Capital of Palestine’ event, where he filmed himself and others stepping and stomping on an Israeli flag. This past June, Taleb posted onto social media that the Jewish state “should be relocated to Germany or elsewhere.”
Izhar Khan is the imam of Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen (MJAM), located in Margate, Florida. In May 2011, Khan was arrested and spent the next 20 months in a Miami federal detention center for his alleged participation in a terror financing scheme to ship $50 thousand to the Pakistani Taliban for the specific goal of murdering American troops overseas.
As stated by the US Justice Department, “Izhar is a Pakistani Taliban sympathizer who worked with [his father Hafiz] and others to collect and deliver money for the Pakistani Taliban… Izhar… provided and attempted to provide material support and resources… knowing and intending that they be used in preparation for and in carrying out… a conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim persons in a foreign country.”
Besides Khan, there are a number of other imams featured at the December 6th banquet, representing their respective radical mosques.
Representing the Nur-ul-Islam mosque at the banquet is Nur-ul-Islam imam Roshan Ali. A past member of the mosque’s Islamic Affairs Council and ex-Vice President of the mosque’s children’s school, Nur-ul-Islam Academy (NUIA), Raed Awad, was the Florida representative for the Holy Land Foundation. The homepage of NUIA’s website previously contained a link to islamway.com, which, according to the US Justice Department, “included pages devoted to violent jihad” and “included a section urging Muslims to contribute money to Hamas.”
Representing the Islamic Foundation of South Florida (IFSF) at the banquet is IFSF imam Sultan Mohammed. IFSF’s former Youth Group leader, Abdur Rahman al-Ghani, used his Facebook page to label Jews “demonic,” refer to the US as the “World’s Number One Terrorist Organization,” and claim Muslims “will overtake the World.” IFSF co-founder and former director, Mohammed Javed Quereshi, is credited with introducing “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla to Islam, prior to Padilla joining al-Qaeda and plotting to set off a radiological bomb in the US.
Representing the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR) at the December 6th banquet is ICBR imam and prayer leader Mohamad Zahed. ICBR’s mosque was built using $600 thousand in seed money from the Global Relief Foundation (GRF), an al-Qaeda-related charity that was shut down by the US government in December 2001. One of ICBR’s founders, Syed Khawer Ahmad, was a website designer for Hamas. From October 1999 through September 2001, ICBR published on its website a violently anti-Semitic essay, titled ‘Why can’t the Jews and Muslims live together in peace?’ It described Jews as “people of treachery and betrayal” and “enemies.”
The sponsor of the December 6th banquet is the Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Humanity (BASMAH). It is the group’s 2nd Annual Banquet for the Rohingya Refugees. BASMAH’s Director of Donor Development is the founding imam of ICBR, Ibrahim Dremali. In October 2000, Dremali spoke at a rally, where the crowd burned Israeli flags and shouted for “Zionist blood.” Dremali told them “not to be sad for those who were martyred and to not be afraid to die for what they believe in.” Dremali has spent time on the federal ‘no-fly’ list, and in October 2010, Dremali and his then-wife, Safaa Eissa, were arrested for marriage fraud.
This banquet in support of Rohingya Muslims is no innocuous fundraiser. It includes documented terror supporters and imams of radical mosques, whose reality is much more about promoting hatred than humanitarian help. The event should only be viewed as a threat to society and a threat to our nation. Viewing it any other way is unreasonable and makes us vulnerable to future acts of terror (bankrolled by banquets such as this).
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
Why teach students when you can indoctrinate them instead? Big Brother had his telescreens, the Chinese have their social credit system, and Heritage High School in Wake Forest has their ‘Diversity Inventory’ for 10th graders.
Heritage High School English teacher Melissa Wilson, (mwilson2@wcpss.net) who makes $4,121 a month, was suspended without pay from Sept. 12 to 18, according to Lisa Luten, a spokeswoman for the Wake County Public School System.
Heritage High School
1150 Forestville Rd, Wake Forest NC 27587
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SCHOOL “DIVERSITY INVENTORY” PRIES INTO STUDENTS’ SEXUALITY, FINANCES, RELIGION
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As students in one North Carolina high school were headed back to class last August, they were forced to participate in a demeaning “diversity inventory” which required them to answer personal questions about their gender, sexuality, religion and financial well-being and those of their neighbors in an effort to make them aware of their respective privilege.The disturbing assignment occurred in a 10th grade English class at Heritage High School in Wake Forest. Teacher Melissa Wilson asked her class to fill out a “Diversity Inventory” worksheet which asked the teenagers to reveal highly sensitive and personal information.The worksheet was formatted as a grid. Students were first asked to fill out information on their own “gender,” “race/ethnicity,” “age,” “sexuality,” “ability,” “religion,” and “socio-economic status.” Then they were asked to provide this information for “most of my close friends,” “my teachers” and “my neighbors,” among others.
In case simply writing down this personal information wasn't enough, Wilson then asked her students to go and stand under signs that corresponded to their reported sexuality.
The North Carolina Values Coalition reports that “Students were traumatized” by the exercise and “Some were even brought to tears.”
“At this morning's meeting, one parent said that her student had been experiencing PTSD from the incident,” the report continues. “Another student didn't attend school on Friday, and is so scared to return to Wilson's classroom environment that they told their parent they hoped the hurricane would distract everyone from this incident. Another parent's child Facetimed them in the middle of the classroom to tell them how uncomfortable they were with the assignment. Another student had a friend who had recently shared very private information about themselves to a select number of their peers, and went white when the teacher asked students to now stand and reveal their private identities.”
“We also learned that this was not a once-time incident. Ms. Melissa Wilson apparently has given this assignment in the past,” the NCVC reported.
Parent Dina Bartus described the effect that the assignment had on her son. “He actually broke down and started crying because he said, ‘I felt so uncomfortable, but felt so on the spot that I had to do it.’ He said the pressure was just incredible, and my son doesn’t cry easily, so it really really bothered him,” the mother described.
Bartus shared a photo of the assignment on Facebook and it quickly went viral.
The teacher also added her own commentary to the assignment. “When some kids were kind of hesitant to do it she [the teacher] said, ‘Hey, it’s OK because I used to be a Catholic and now I’m an atheist and I’m bi-sexual,’ Bartus added. “So, needless to say, my son was a little shocked that this was happening in what’s supposed to be an English class.”
The mother emailed the school principal to demand that her son be removed from Wilson’s class. She had to contact him twice before she received a response.
“It’s hard enough going to high school without having your teacher call you out and lump you into a category — and not a category like ‘do you like football or baseball?’ A category of, ‘who do you want to have sex with?’ That’s unacceptable,” Bartus said.
After numerous parents aired their concerns, the school released a statement noting that “the principal reviewed the activity and resource and directed the teacher to discontinue the lesson immediately.”
“The Diversity Inventory worksheet in question is not a district-provided resource. We will continue to work with educators on how to effectively lead important conversations connected to identity, culture, and other sensitive topics as appropriate,” the statement continued.
Melissa Wilson, the teacher who forced her students to complete the diversity inventory, was suspended without pay from her job for five days, but has now returned to teaching students.
Parent Dina Bartus doesn’t think these consequences were sufficient. “I don’t think she belongs in the classroom, or at least with minors,” she said.
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And this assignment seems to be illegal.According to the 20 U.S. Code § 1232h.Protection of Pupil Rights, subjection (b) states:
(b)Limits on survey, analysis, or evaluations No student shall be required, as part of any applicable program, to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that reveals information concerning—
(1)political affiliations or beliefs of the student or the student’s parent;
(2)mental or psychological problems of the student or the student’s family;
(3)sex behavior or attitudes;
(4)illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, or demeaning behavior;
(5)critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships;
(6)legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians, and ministers;
(7)religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or student’s parent; or
(8)income (other than that required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program or for receiving financial assistance under such program),
without the prior consent of the student (if the student is an adult or emancipated minor), or in the case of an unem
Miss Wilson's assignment seems to violate the Protection of Pupil rights subsection
(b) (3) on surveying "sex behaviors or attitudes" where her inventory asks for "sexuality;"
it seems to violate (b) (5) “Critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships" where she asks for the identity traits of "my teacher" "my close friends" and my doctor;
it seems to violate (b) (6) “Legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians, and ministers," where her inventory asks for the identity traits of the students doctors;
it seems to violate (b) (7) “Religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or the student’s parent" where it asks for the religion of the child and their parents;
and it seems to violate (b) (8) “income" where it asks for their socio-economic status.
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Complementarianism was a bad idea, forged in the heart of weak-willed men who, lorded over by the threat of monstrous women, tried to find a more polite way of saying, men should lead. Ideas founded upon the sands of rhetorical weakness will eventually collapse into a heap of a thousand misplaced notions.
To the devil’s hell with complementarianism.
It was a failed experiment. We should stick to a better term, a Biblical term, a justifiable notion…patriarchy.
Patriarchy is defined as an organization with male leadership, and that’s exactly what the Bible explicitly commands of the church and of the home, and it requires no large amount of Scripture to justify it. And it takes no small amount of Scripture-twisting to negate it.
God Almighty established the Patriarchy when he set the twelve tribes of Israel by male headship. Do we shirk from the reality that God Himself used the word Patriarch to describe Abraham in his Sacred Writ (Hebrews 7:4)? Do we avoid the holy term as sinister because it makes modern-day feminists howl with indignation?
That God established male headship over the Covenant people of Israel and the Covenant people of the church is indisputable.
There are 66 Books of the Holy Bible. The volumes were written by approximately 40 men over the course of 1500 years. Not a single woman was inspired of the Holy Spirit to pen the Text.
There were twelve judges who ruled over Israel. One, Deborah, was a woman. Unlike the other eleven judges, the Scripture curiously does not mention that God appointed her (Judges 4:4). Her role was that of offering private counsel rather than public instruction (Judges 4:5-6). God used Deborah’s role in the position of judge to mock weak-willed, sissified men (Judges 4:9). In fact, the entire account was meant as a rebuke to Barak, who let her lead, much to his shame and divine scrutiny.
There were 19 kings of Israel and 20 kings of Judah. They were all men. There was one woman who served as queen without a king, Athaliah. She was the daughter of Jezebel and used her power to establish the worship of Ba’al. She was the first of the Monstrous Regiment of Women that would make people tremble before a woman outside of her rightful place, cleansing the kingdom via the murder of all the rightful male heirs to the throne. Her name means “afflicted by God.” It’s hardly the example one might use to suggest women should be in leadership. In Hebrews 11, the author replaces Deborah’s place in history among the judges with Barak, indicating that he was God’s (flawed but anointed) rightful judge.
There are 17 prophets in the Bible listed among the various books. All are men.
Jesus chose 70 (or by some accounts, 72) witnesses to send out with the Gospel. History records their names, and not a woman was among them. Likewise, of 12 Disciples, Jesus chose not a single woman. If you add Paul to the list of those appointed by Christ to lead the New Testament church, that means out of up to 85 ecclesiastical appointments, Jesus chose not a single woman to lead.
The New Testament records precisely zero female pastors or elders in the New Testament, while the names of male pastors are mentioned frequently in the Pauline epistles.
There is no early church record of female pastors in the centuries following Christ, and the first prominent female leaders we see in church history are two prophetesses, Maximilla and Priscilla, who were suicidal hussies who founded a cult and were anathematized by virtually the entire universal church. Consider this in comparison to the “Apostolic Church Fathers” who – as you might suspect – include a list of only men.
Either the post-apostolic church was ‘misogynist’ or they just followed the example of Christ. We would suggest that Jesus built his church (Matthew 16:18) exactly how he wanted it, and it did not include female leaders.
This is not to say that the New Testament does not include the names of many women who played peripheral roles on the sidelines who were important supporting characters. In fact, 57 women are named in the pages of the New Testament. Rather than prove the point that women should lead it defeats it; out of 57 women named in the New Testament, not a single one was a pastor or elder.
Women followed (Luke 8:1-3). Jesus was friends with women (Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus in particular). Jesus was surrounded by older women who cared for him (his mother, his aunt, Joanna, Chuza, Susanna). His female converts were some of the most faithful and the most reckless (Mary Magdalene). But far from proving the point that women must lead in the church, these women are not mentioned anywhere in the Book of Acts as leading anything. Their absence in Acts is not misogyny on Luke’s part, for he was the one who named them in his Gospel.
Israel was Patriarchal. The church is Patriarchal. God designed them both.
There is a slow, dripping stream of estrogen into the American evangelical church. It has softened us. It has made us weak.
The fact is, men do not want to follow women, because it is unnatural. Men want to follow men. For that matter, godly women want to follow men. There is no quicker way to divorce men from the church than to place a woman at the front, and tell them to submit to them as unto an elder (Hebrews 13:17).
Christian men are already passive enough, that we need not emasculate them more by demanding them to obey and submit to women, as the Scripture commands the church submit to its elders. Over time, making men listen to women preach is like making them pee sitting down; sooner or later they will get used to it, see the appeal, and go with the flow. And what comes out of a female preacher’s mouth is usually not better than what happens comes out the urethra.
The only way a person can claim that it is God’s will for a woman to be in a position of leadership in the church is to ignore the facts presented in the Scripture about God’s will for leadership in the church. It is right there, printed in black and white. For the act of female preaching – a role of the pastorate – to be done, there must already be present a theology that amounts to waste from a full bladder. Ultimately, that preaching will be odorous, toxic, and fetid.
Female preaching in the church is not only disallowed in the epistles, but it is disrespectful and disinterested in the Bible from the onset. It is unbiblical, uninteresting, frivolous, spurious, and is usually little more than prattling nonsense. This is not because women are not capable of handling God’s Word. It’s because women are are capable of handling God’s Word already know better than to preach in the Sacred Assembly.
“DON’T MESS WITH ME!”~SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE LOSES IT WITH REPORTER, THEN CALLS TRUMP A COWARD AFTER CLAIMING SHE’S A GOOD CATHOLIC, DOESN’T HATE ANYBODY, PRAYS FOR TRUMP
She then returned to the podium to call Donald Trump a “coward” not helping child victims of gun violence, dreamers and caring about man-made climate change while also accusing him of violating his oath of office.
“As a Catholic I resent your using the word ‘hate’ in a sentence that addresses me – I don’t hate anyone,” said Pelosi.
“I still pray for the president, I pray for the president all the time so don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that,” she snarled.
“Nancy Pelosi just used her Catholicism to defend impeaching President Trump. Apparently, she can’t be bothered to use it to defend preborn children,” remarked Jack Posobiec.
“PRIVACY” SEARCH ENGINE DUCK DUCK GO HATES US; PARTNERS WITH TWITTER
IN CENSORSHIP OF CONSERVATIVES
SARAH CORRIHER REPORTS
A closer inspection of DuckDuckGo (the search engine) was needed, as the last video about them triggered an outrage mob, which ironically came from a company that purports to defend our rights. DuckDuckGo is not the small-time free speech bastion that you might think it is. It is part of the Big Tech cartel that seeks to eliminate arbitrarily-defined “hateful content”. In other words, Christian and conservative opinions.
Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN), a Tennessee-based non-profit evangelical Christian organization committed towards standing with Israel and fighting antisemitism, has been removed from the AmazonSmile program, which enables Amazon customers to donate a percentage of their purchase to their favorite charity.
PJTN President Laurie Cardoza-Moore told JNS that “all of a sudden, we began being inundated with e-mails from supporters whose AmazonSmile donations to Proclaiming Justice to the Nations had been repeatedly rejected. They were being instructed to choose another charity, despite wanting to support PJTN.” After reaching out to Amazon for an explanation—assuming it was a technical glitch—the retail giant informed PJTN that customers would no longer be able to donate towards the organization using the AmazonSmile platform, following the listing of PJTN as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The SPLC, whose website says that part of its mission is to monitor domestic hate groups in the United States, has PJTN listed on its “hate map” as being one of 36 Tennessee-based hate groups. SPLC specifically accuses PJTN of being “anti-Muslim.”
Amazon employs 566,000 people worldwide. The company clearly does not lack for personnel to study non-profit groups and to advise Amazon as to which ones qualify for its customers to use the AmazonSmile platform, which allows them to donate part of their purchase to a favorite charity.
But Amazon chose not to do that work itself. Instead, it handed over the decision making as to which groups are to be considered “hate groups” to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has a grand total of 254 employees. That means that for every employee of the SPLC, Amazon has more than 2,000 of its own. Is the SPLC so very good at its job that mighty Amazon, with its 566,000 employees, is right to rely on the 254 employees of that outside group? For years, the SPLC presented itself as beyond reproach, an organization of selfless do-gooders at a non-profit. But in recent years, defectors from the group have painted a grim picture of an organization run by scam artists – its head a “flimflam man” — who have arranged colossal salaries for themselves, in some cases have been guilty of sexual harassment of fellow employees, have exhibited racist attitudes, and have been thoroughly unmasked for these and other offenses in numerous damning reports.
Here is some of what Jessica Prol Smith, of the Alliance Defending Freedom, discovered about the SPLC:
For years, former employees revealed, local journalists reported and commentators have lamented: The Southern Poverty Law Center is not what it claims to be. Not a pure-hearted, clear-headed legal advocate for the vulnerable, but rather an obscenely wealthy marketing scheme. For years, the left-wing interest group has used its “hate group” list to promote the fiction that violent neo-Nazis and Christian nonprofits peacefully promoting orthodox beliefs about marriage and sex are indistinguishable. Sometimes, it has apologized to public figures it has smeared, and it recently paid out millions to settle a threatened defamation lawsuit.
These shameful secrets are no longer hidden in shadows. The New York Times, Politico, NPR and a host of other mainstream publications are reporting on the corruption and widening credibility gap. The SPLC dismissed its co-founder in March, and its president has resigned amidst numerous claims of sexual harassment, gender discrimination and racism within the organization — a parade of disgraces that vividly force the conclusion: The SPLC is hollow, rotten and failing at the very virtues it pretends to celebrate.
Morris Dees, co-founder of SPLC, was dismissed for many reasons. A multimillionaire from his work as a direct-mail marketer before founding SPLC, Dees was reportedly more concerned with fund-raising than with litigating; he had not tried a case in more than a decade, and other than raising money for himself and others, took little part in the SPLC’s day-to-day operations. During his tenure, there were accusations of gender discrimination and racism in hiring and promotions, as well as sexual harassment. The SPLC’s president, Richard Cohen, apparently resigned for much the same reasons — charges of race and gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and other, unspecified offenses. Both Cohen and Dees had been receiving very large salaries, way out of whack with non-profits of similar size.
The criticism comes from many corners. There’s the Current Affairs editor who seems sympathetic to the center’s progressive mission but decries its “hate group” list as an “outright fraud” and a “willful deception designed to scare older liberals into writing checks to the SPLC.”
There’s the retired investigative journalist who helped research and write an eight-part series on the center’s “litany of problems and questionable practices” in the mid-1990s. His Washington Post opinion piece reads with a thinly veiled message: We nearly got a Pulitzer Prize for TELLING YOU SO.
But perhaps most damning of all are the indictments leveled by former employee Bob Moser in The New Yorker. He remembers being welcomed to the “Poverty Palace” and recounts the heart-sinking reality of it all — being “pawns” in a “highly profitable scam.”
Stephen Bright, a Yale law professor and former director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, has long questioned what he calls the center’s “fraudulent” fundraising.
“The chickens have had a very long trip, but they finally came home to roost,” Bright said.
“Morris is a flimflam man and he’s managed to flimflam his way along for many years raising money by telling people about the Ku Klux Klan and hate groups,” he said. “He sort of goes to whatever will sell and has, of course, brought in millions and millions and millions of dollars.”
While the SPLC funded some good work, Bright said, he had long heard complaints about race discrimination and sexual harassment from the center’s former attorneys and interns.
The SPLC has been thoroughly discredited during this last year, yet Bezos has not said a word. Could it be he still doesn’t know about the scandalous goings-on at SPLC, or is that he doesn’t care? Perhaps he’s been busy, swallowing up yet another industry, but he really ought to give Amazon’s reliance on SPLC for deciding which are the “hate groups” to be banned from AmazonSmile more of his attention. And then he might decide to cut the cord.
Given all this, here’s what Jeff Bezos ought to do to spare himself further embarrassment. He ought to read what Tim Moser, the former employee of SPLC, wrote about the organization in The New Yorker. He should read the eight-part series by an investigative journalist on the “problems and questionable practices” at SPLC. He ought to find out what The New York Times, Politico, and NPR have reported about SPLC, which has led many to conclude, with Ms. Smith, that the SPLC “is hollow, rotten, and failing at the very virtues it pretends to celebrate.” And he ought to interview Yale Law Professor Stephen Bright, to find out why he calls Morris Dees a “flimflam man.”
What were the charges, not specified at the time, that forced SPLC co-founder Morris Dees to resign in disgrace? What were the charges that led President Richard Cohen to quit the SPLC? What have close observers of the SPLC discovered about how it has been run, to their dismay and horror?
Jeff Bezos should take a day or two out of his busy schedule of insensate empire-building in order to learn more about the SPLC, on which he has chosen to rely for the identification of “hate groups.” He needs to do more than read what Moser, Bright, and a dozen others who have either worked for SPLC or been close observers of the organization, have written. He needs to talk directly with them, so that he will realize the full extent of the SPLC’s transgressions, can ask them probing questions, and learn more about those “flimflam men” at the top, who have lately been exposed as being guilty of gender and race discrimination, among many other sins.
Bezos should also investigate SPLC’s readiness to label as “anti-Muslim hate groups” those who do not preach hate of any sort, but are simply islamocritics. The SPLC long ago consigned Jihad Watch to the outer darkness. When it included Maajid Nawaz, the founder of the Quilliam Foundation, on a 2016 list of “anti-Muslim extremists,” the SPLC was sued by Nawaz, who won a $3.4 million dollar judgment against the group. That has not stopped the SPLC from continuing to describe Jihad Watch, AFDI, and similar websites as being “hate groups.” SPLC describes, with its wonted tone of hysteria, Robert Spencer as that “notorious Muslim-basher and pretend expert on Islam.”
An email request by JNS [Jewish News Service] to SPLC asking for an explanation about their listing of PJTN went unanswered as of press time.
When asked by JNS what would cause the SPLC to label her organization as being anti-Muslim, Cardoza-Moore responded, “Proclaiming Justice to the Nations exists to fight the oldest hate on earth: antisemitism. We were given no explanation as to why we were blacklisted. If our work highlighting antisemites like [Reps.] Ilhan Omar [D-Minn.] and Rashida Tlaib [D-Mich.] got us on the list, we’ll wear it as a badge of honor. Despite the financial penalties that we are facing with AmazonSmile, will not be silenced for fulfilling our biblical responsibility to defend the State of Israel and Jewish people in the face of growing global antisemitism.”
She added that “sadly, the SPLC lost its way long ago, becoming a tool to shame any organization that doesn’t share their extremist agenda.”
Cardoza-Moore said that initially, she thought it was a joke that PJTN had been placed on the SPLC list of hate groups alongside the KKK. However, she said that “I have now learned that this political witch hunt against those who don’t share SPLC’s extremist liberal views has been adopted as a religious doctrine by Amazon. This could dramatically affect our ability to raise funds and function as a nonprofit organization.”
She added that it appears that Amazon “has become the nation’s new moral compass powered by the subversive Southern Poverty Law Center. Charities should not be persecuted in this way; this has to stop.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to JNS via email that PJTN had been dropped, saying in a general statement that according to their policy, “organizations that engage in, support, encourage or promote intolerance, hate, terrorism, violence, money laundering or other illegal activities are not eligible.”
Just as a matter of interest, perhaps Amazon would care to tell us if CAIR is eligible to receive donations through AmazonSmile. If it does, would Bezos be willing to consider the evidence that CAIR just might be an organization that “encourages or promotes intolerance, hate, terrorism, violence”? And while we’re at it, have any of the many pro-BDS groups that many of us believe encourage “intolerance, hate, terrorism, violence” been banned from participating in the AmazonSmile program?
The statement [from Amazon] mentioned that since 2013, Amazon has relied on the SPLC along with the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (of the US Department of the Treasury) to make its determination on which organizations are eligible for the AmazonSmile program.
Cardoza-Moore says that as a result of being dropped, she is calling on her donors to bypass Amazon in order to help support Israel and combat antisemitism.
“We have asked our donors to continue supporting PJTN directly instead of through AmazonSmile. Nobody will silence us, even when we stand up against giants like Amazon; we know that we have truth and justice on our side,” she said.
“Our answer to this hateful blacklisting will be to continue building more PJTN chapters across the United States and beyond. We will continue to fight antisemitism and defend the State of Israel, wherever and whenever necessary,” she continued. “We will endeavor to reach more people than ever because our message is needed now, more than ever.”
A statement from PJTN said that in recent months, the organization has led the struggle against the BDS movement in the United States with a wave of state resolutions, and has exposed textbooks used in public schools that it says are indoctrinating children with inaccurate historical information and bias that do not reflect American values.
In 2016, JNS reported that PJTN drafted the state of Tennessee’s anti-BDS resolution, which passed in the General Assembly, making it one of the first states to pass such state-level legislation against BDS.
So PJTN, unbowed, continues to be active in its campaign against the BDS movement. And its donors will now simply find other, more direct ways to support it, now that PJTN has been banned, so absurdly, from the AmazonSmile program. Many people, as they find out more about Amazon, and its continuing reliance on the discredited SPLC for its determination of which groups promote “hatred” and “intolerance,” may want to express their own displeasure with that malevolent and powerful Amazon, and take their business elsewhere.
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