KIM EXPOSED~WHAT KIM IS: THE REAL KIM JONG UN IS A MONSTER OF A DICTATOR WHO BRUTALIZES HIS PEOPLE

WHAT KIM IS 
BY DAVID CLOUD
SEE: https://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/19-24.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

(Friday Church News Notes, June 15, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – 
The following is excerpted from “What Kim Is” National Review, Jun. 9, 2018: “Let’s remind ourselves of whom, exactly, President Trump [met in Singapore]. For Kim Jong-un is no ordinary man. The Dear Leader occupies the summit of a hierarchical system of some 25 million people whose lives are controlled by his central government in Pyongyang. Some years ago, Christopher Hitchens described the ruling juche ideology this way: ‘It is based on totalitarian “military first” mobilization, is maintained by slave labor, and instills an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia.’ … Kim, his father and grandfather, and the regime they direct have given no indication, ever, that they recognize the dignity and worth of human life. Some 36,000 Americans died fighting off the North and its Chinese ally between 1950 and 1953. The North Korean government caused a famine in the 1990s that killed somewhere between hundreds of thousands and more than 1 million people. Another hundred thousand or so are imprisoned, right now, in the North Korean gulag where slaves are starved, beaten, tortured, and killed. Even high-ranking officials are subject to ‘liquidation’ by sickening methods, including execution by a firing squad of anti-aircraft batteries. … What Kim Jong-un is, is a monster. And that monstrousness informs his statecraft. It influences the means he adopts to remain in power. It leads him to deceive, dissemble, brutalize and build a nuclear deterrent. … Singapore is an opportunity for Trump to size up an adversary. At best it will inspire Kim to take verifiable steps toward disarmament. … But as you watch the proceedings, do not allow the following to happen: Do not permit the smiles and handshakes to obscure the evil reality of Kim Jong-un–or the memory of his victims.”

TEL AVIV’S BIGGEST EVER GAY PRIDE FESTIVAL~250,000 IN ATTENDANCE GLORIFY PERVERSION

250,000 ATTEND & CELEBRATE PERVERSION

TEL AVIV’S BIGGEST EVER GAY PRIDE FESTIVAL 
BY DAVID CLOUD
SEE: https://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/19-24.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

(Friday Church News Notes, June 15, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – 
Tel Aviv’s 20th annual Gay Pride Parade on June 8 was the biggest ever, with more than 250,000 in attendance. The Times of Israel reported, “Israelis and visitors celebrate freedom and tolerance at 20th annual event in self-styled ‘most gay-friendly city’ in world. Cafes, stores, and lamp posts were decked with rainbow flags across Tel Aviv, with tens of thousands of tourists visiting Israel specifically for the event. … Perched on high heels and wearing a black skirt which is attached with a rainbow flag, a marcher calling himself Aldifrost, 30, sketched a few dance steps, shaking his long wavy and colored hair. ‘Tel Aviv is the big city of gays!’ he exclaimed, saying he was attending for the 10th year. ‘I come here to party and display my drag-queen show.’ … Floats moved through the closed streets of downtown throughout the afternoon, including one sponsored by the British Embassy, and decorated under the theme of ‘Love is Great Britain.’ The UK ambassador to Israel is David Quarrey, an openly gay man” (“Over 250,000 revelers flood Tel Aviv,” The Times of Israel, Jun. 8, 2018). Since 2002, Jerusalem has hosted its own Gay Pride Parade. Last year, 22,000 people participated. The theme was “LGBTQ and Religion.” This is clear evidence that though Israel is back in her land, she is back in the spiritually dead condition prophesied in Ezekiel 37:8, which precedes her conversion — “And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.” Israel is back in the land to prepare the Third Temple which will be occupied by the Antichrist as prophesied in Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12. 

POLICE STATE NEW JERSEY: LIBERAL GOVERNOR MURPHY ASSAULTS SECOND AMENDMENT, SIGNS SIX GUN CONTROL LAWS~GUN GROUP SUES TO OVERTURN LAWS JUST SIGNED

New Jersey Governor Murphy Assaults 
Second Amendment
BY CHRISTIAN GOMEZ
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

New Jersey, home to one of the nation’s toughest gun-control laws, just became even more hostile to the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners. On Wednesday, New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy signed a total of six gun-control bills into law.



The legislations are:



• A-1181 — Requires the seizure of firearms belonging to people that mental health professionals have determined pose a “threat” to either themselves or others.



• A-1217 — Officially, the “Extreme Risk Protective Order Act of 2018,” allows for a temporary court order prohibiting a person that the courts determine to be a “threat” or significant danger to either themselves or others from possessing or purchasing a firearm.



• A-2757 — Requires background checks for all private purchases of firearms.



• A-2758 — Codifies regulations defining “justifiable need” in order to obtain a legal handgun carry permit.



• A-2759 — Prohibits individuals from possessing ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.



• A-2761 — Lowers the maximum capacity of magazine ammunition from 15 to 10 rounds for all firearms, except for firearms with .22-caliber magazines.



Regarding the first two measures (A-1181 and A-1217), what is to guarantee or protect the rights of the minority, namely law-abiding gun owners, from having their firearms wrongfully confiscated? Can a partisan, one-party-controlled government really be entrusted to make non-partisan, or non-politically influenced decisions of who is deemed a “threat” or “danger”?



In the Soviet Union and in eastern-bloc communist satellites, state-controlled doctors and courts were regularly used to diagnose political opposition and Christians as being “mentally ill” or a “threat” to the “people,” as “represented by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”



Individuals who harbored anti-government sentiments, expressed criticism about the Communist Party, or who believed in God, the Bible, or Christianity were given psychiatric evaluations by the state and even forcibly sent to psychiatric wards and mental asylums where they were subjected to unspeakable abuses, medical experimentation, and other heinous acts.



If this sounds far-fetched, consider that Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s The View, described Vice President Mike Pence’s evangelical Christian belief that Jesus speaks to him as “mental illness.” Could the beliefs of Christians be used against them in order diagnose them as suffering from “mental illness” or posing a threat?



Christians in New Jersey may have to watch more carefully what they say or post on social media.



What about people who belong to conservative organizations, such as this publication’s parent organization, The John Birch Society? The radical leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, which was regularly cited as a legitimate source by the Obama-era Department of Homeland Security, lists The John Birch Society, Eagle Forum, Constitution Party, Oath Keepers, Tenth Amendment Center, and other likeminded conservative organization as “extreme antigovernment groups.”



Yet, radical Marxist-Leninist organizations — such as the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RevCom), Workers World Party, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation — that openly call for the violent overthrow of capitalism and the U.S. government, as well as the disarmament and abolition of local police departments — are nowhere to be found on the SPLC’s list of “extreme antigovernment groups” or “hate groups.”



Considering the partisan Democratic Party-controlled state of both the New Jersey legislature and the executive branch, it would not be farfetched to find the SPLC providing its hypocritical and lopsided so-called “intelligence” as a basis for law-enforcement investigation, as it did during the Obama administration.



Furthermore, the imposition of background checks for all private sales of firearms makes it harder for law-abiding private gun owners to sell their firearms to other law-abiding citizens.



The codification of regulations defining a “justifiable need” in order to obtain a carry permit, further reduces the ability of law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms.



These curtailments and abridgments of one’s rights essentially boil down to nothing less than a total assault on the Second Amendment. They may also be a glimpse of the type of far-reaching gun-control measures Democrats would like to impose nationwide if and when they regain overwhelming majority controls of both branches of Congress and eventually the presidency.



In response to New Jersey’s new egregious anti-Second Amendment laws, the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC), which is New Jersey’s oldest and largest pro-Second Amendment organization and an affiliate of the National Rifle Association (NRA), has filed suit in federal court to overturn the new laws.



ANJRPC Executive Director Scott Bach told PR Newswire, “This unconstitutional law will be ignored by criminals and madmen, and affects only law-abiding citizens,” adding, “It turns one million people into criminals with the stroke of a pen, limits self-defense, and takes away property lawfully acquired.”



Bach summarized the new laws and ANJRPC's suit: “Buy it yesterday, ban it today, go to prison tomorrow — it's the Jersey way, and the goal of our lawsuit is to boot this law, which makes no one safer, into the trash heap of history where it belongs.”



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SEE ALSO:



NJ Governor Murphy Signs Gun Control Package with Big Consequences 



NJ Governor Murphy Signs Gun Control Package 



with Big Consequences

https://www.ammoland.com/2018/06/nj-governor-murphy-signs-gun-control-package-with-big-consequences/#axzz5Iat6oKyp

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Gun Group Sues To Overturn NJ Magazine Ban, 



Minutes After Being Signed By Governor



BY SCOTT BACH



republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:





New Jersey – Before the ink from Governor Murphy’s pen was dry on newly enacted legislation banning firearms magazines above ten rounds, Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC) filed suit in federal court to overturn the new law.





“This unconstitutional law will be ignored by criminals and madmen, and affects only law-abiding citizens,” said ANJRPC executive director Scott Bach. “It turns one million people into criminals with the stroke of a pen, limits self-defense, and takes away property lawfully acquired,” continued Bach. “Buy it yesterday, ban it today, go to prison tomorrow – it’s the Jersey way, and the goal of our lawsuit is to boot this law, which makes no one safer, into the trash heap of history where it belongs.”





ANJRPC’s lawsuit highlights the many constitutional infirmities in New Jersey’s magazine ban. A federal court in California recently enjoined the operation of a similar magazine ban and ANJRPC believes New Jersey’s ban will meet a similar end – especially if the case reaches the United States Supreme Court. A link to the complaint in the case is available on ANJRPC’s website at www.anjrpc.org



This lawsuit was filed in cooperation with the National Rifle Association. “We thank the NRA for its incredible support and guidance, which made this new lawsuit possible,” said Bach.



Any New Jersey resident interested in joining ANJRPC in the lawsuit should contact us at strikeforce@anjrpc.org, especially those who have ever been burglarized, robbed, attacked, or even threatened by a gang or by multiple criminals at the same time, in a documented incident.



PLEASE SUPPORT THE LAWSUIT! 




At the same ceremony where he signed the magazine ban, Murphy also signed the other five bills in the anti-gun package passed by the legislature last week: two misguided mental health bills, an attack on right to carry, elimination of private sales, and a redundant ban on ammunition that is already federally prohibited.



Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs will soon be providing detailed legal analysis on each of the bills that were signed into law, beginning with the magazine ban. Please watch for upcoming alerts with the analysis.



Please forward this email to every gun owner you know, and if you don’t already receive alerts from Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, please subscribe to our free email alerts for the latest Second Amendment breaking news and action alerts.



Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol ClubsAbout Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC):





The Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs is the official New Jersey affiliate of the NRA, and is New Jersey’s oldest, largest, and most effective Second Amendment advocacy organization.






















































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SEE ALSO:

https://www.ammoland.com/2018/06/nra-backs-motion-to-halt-new-jersey-magazine-ban/#axzz5JFkC5loH





AND:

https://www.ammoland.com/2018/06/new-jersey-democrat-reinstituting-racist-practices-to-discourage-gun-ownership/#axzz5JFhd5ai4

INSPECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT IS A SLAP ON THE WRIST & A SLAP IN AMERICA’S FACE

INSPECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT IS A SLAP ON THE WRIST & A SLAP IN AMERICA’S FACE
The long awaited Inspector General’s report has been released. Inspector General Michael Horowitz paints a picture of Former FBI Director James Comey as a loose cannon , who “deviated” from bureau and Justice Department procedures while fumbling the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Also, claiming the Democratic, Trump despising Comey was not motivated by political bias.

Question is, if James Comey wasn’t motivated by political bias….how do you explain the environment of the FBI agents and DOJ’s political bias surrounding the former FBI Director? At the very least, I know they aren’t Russians, but will the intelligence fixers Strzok and Page face prison for attempting to quote “Stop Trump” literally attempting to usurp the Democratically elected Presidential election of Donald Trump?

FBI Director on IG Report: ‘We’re Going to Hold Employees Accountable’???
FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY’S 
FULL 19 MINUTE SPEECH:

DINESH D’SOUZA & ROGER STONE INTERVIEW


DEPRAVED NETFLIX ANNOUNCES ANIMATED “DRAG QUEEN” SERIES: “THEY’RE QUEER, & THEY’RE GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD”~CARTOON “DRAG TOTS” ATTEMPTS BRAINWASHING OF KIDS TOWARD BECOMING “BABY DRAG QUEENS”

BOYCOTT NETFLIX NOW!
NETFLIX ANNOUNCES ANIMATED 
“DRAG QUEEN” SERIES: “THEY’RE QUEER, & THEY’RE GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD”
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: https://christiannews.net/2018/06/13/netflix-announces-animated-drag-queen-series-theyre-queer-and-theyre-going-to-save-the-world/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

“Netflix has sunk to a new low.” That’s one of a number of comments of concern following the popular movie outlet’s presentation of a teaser for a new cartoon series called “Super Drags,” which centers on the fictional tales of drag queen superheroes.
“They’re here, they’re queer, and they’re going to save the world. Super Drags, a new animated series coming soon,” Netflix announced on social media on Thursday.
The accompanying trailer for the series includes in-your-face animated close-ups of the partially bare rear-end and breasts of one of the characters as they suit up for their mission. The video then cuts to the logo for the show, with “Super Drags” written partially in rainbow colors and displayed inside of a heart.
“During the day, they work in a department store and deal with their uptight [expletive] boss. By night, they tighten up their corsets and transform into the baddest SUPER DRAGS in town, ready to combat shade and rescue the world’s glitter from the evil villains,” a description on Netflix’ YouTube channel also reads. “Get ready, because the SUPER DRAGS are going deeper than you think.”
The five-part series was reportedly created by Anderson Mahanski, Fernando Mendonça and Paulo Lescaut and produced by the Brazilian Combo Studios. Executive Producer Marcelo Pereira praised the Netflix partnership in a statement to CosmoNerd, jesting, “When Nostradamus said that the world would be saved by super heroine drag queens, no one believed, just us.”
“Thanks to Netflix, we can take the Brazilian animation and primarily the LGBTQ representation to the 190 countries that have access to the service,” he said. “… And dream of a world where gays can bust the bad guys, not the other way around. Thank you, Netflix, for making us believe.”
Homosexual and transgender advocates have praised the series, with the outlet SYFYWire remarking that the trailer teaser “combines everything we love in this world.”
“This is truly a perfect gift to kick off Pride Month,” it opined.
However, others have expressed disgust over the announcement, with some pondering canceling their Netflix service.
“This garbage @netflix is pushing something normal people don’t want,” one commenter wrote. “Also, being a cartoon, it will draw kids in, and we have enough problems with society currently.”
“Squeezing breasts and [behinds] … apparently can’t talk about drag without involving sex. Not really something that should be aimed at kids,” another lamented.

“I won’t ever allow my children to watch this filth. How dare you promote this garbage and give $50mm to the crony Obamas #cancelnetflix,” a third opined.
In his book, “The True Christian,” the late Anglican preacher J.C. Ryle, who often preached on holiness and separation from the world, declared, “[T]hey who are taught and called of God may soon be distinguished from the sleeping children of this world. These have no leisure for vain amusements; their eyes are fixed and their thoughts are engaged upon the narrow path they have to tread and the crown they hope to receive; they have counted the cost and come out from the world; and their only wish is that they may finish their course with joy.”
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SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT DRAG SHOWS FOR KIDS, ADULTS, ETC:
RECENT:
https://ratherexposethem.org/2018/06/st-paul-minnesota-library-system.html
FULL CATEGORY: 
https://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/search?q=DRAG&max-results=20&by-date=true
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Children’s Cartoon ‘Drag Tots’ to Feature 

‘Baby Drag Queens’ Voiced by Cast of 

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

EXCERPTS:
A new animated series akin to “The Powerpuff Girls,” but featuring cartoon “baby drag queens” voiced by cast members of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” is set to appear on the World of Wonder’s WOW Presents Plus this month, being at least the second release in 2018 featuring animated cross-dressing men.
“Drag Tots” tells the story of four pint-sized drag queens who attend grammar school, and navigate through adventures with the aid of a talking unicorn head, played by homosexual drag entertainer RuPaul himself.
“Baby drag queens attend grammar school in this new animated series for kids and grown-ups of all ages!” a description of the show outlines. 
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Drag Tots! A New Animated Series Coming to WOW Presents Plus on June 28th

DRAG QUEEN CHILDREN TV SHOWS (Friday Church News Notes, June 22, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – 

The following is excerpted from “Drag Queen Children TV Shows Coming to America,” Christian Post, Jun. 11, 2018: “At least two new animated television shows about drag queens, one featuring children characters, are set to debut in America, drawing high concern from conservative commentators. World of Wonder released a trailer in May about ‘Drag Tots!,’ a show about toddler drag queens coming June 28th, featuring transgender model RuPaul. ‘In a world on the brink of chaos, where fear is the rule of the land, the voices of a generation have banded together to give our planet what it needs…BABY DRAG QUEENS!’ proclaims a preview on YouTube. On May 31, Netflix announced the animated ‘Super Drags,’ with a teaser preview that is yet to be given a release date stating: ‘By night, they tighten up their corsets and transform into the baddest SUPER DRAGS in town, ready to combat shade and rescue the world’s glitter from the evil villains. Get ready, because the SUPER DRAGS are going deeper than you think.’ … Rod Dreher observes, ‘Netflix is turning drag queens into animated superheroes, and RuPaul’s streaming service is turning drag queens into child superheroes. You might think–I certainly hope you think–that your child will not be exposed to this filth. The thing is, your child, and all of us, have to live in a world in which this is normal, and in which the popular culture thinks that dressing little boys up like sexually provocative women is not only permissible, but a sign of cultural progress.’ Dreher pointed to other such efforts, like the ‘Drag Queen Story Hours’ that have been held in libraries across America. They have been adapted by other countries as well, including the United Kingdom, with activists defending the idea of drag queens reading to children.”

EMERGENCY: TOMMY ROBINSON TRANSFERRED TO MUSLIM PRISON, FACING CERTAIN DEATH

Emergency: Tommy Robinson Transferred to Muslim Prison, Facing Certain Death
Tommy Robinson’s Life Is In Danger. They Want Him Dead | Stefan Molyneux
According to his right-hand man Caolan Robertson, Tommy Robinson has just been transferred from a relatively safe situation in a prison with a small Muslim population into a prison with a significantly larger Muslim population, “filled with people who don’t like him,” where he has already been placed into general population.

Within the new prison, Tommy’s life has already been threatened. It has been reported that inmates were screaming threats at Tommy and banging on their cell doors throughout the night. Apparently “a hit” has also already been put out on Tommy – which mirrors what happened last time he was incarcerated.

Despite being assaulted and threatened multiple times while in jail previously, Tommy Robinson’s life is being endangered one again. Pulled from the streets and imprisoned within hours, where there is now a significant chance he will be given the death penalty.

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EMERGENCY: TOMMY ROBINSON TRANSFERRED TO MUSLIM PRISON, FACING CERTAIN DEATH

Muslim inmates already chanting death threats against Robinson

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:



Exclusive: Tommy Robinson is being shipped to a high-security, Muslim-majority prison in which he’ll be released to the general population despite inmates already making death threats against him, according to Robinson’s spokesman Caolan Robertson.







Robinson’s transfer comes not long after thousands of UK residents protested the his arrest and imprisonment for reporting on a Muslim grooming trial.



You can also watch the exclusive interview below with Caolan Robertson along with the rest of Wednesday’s broadcast of The Alex Jones Show:

GUN RIGHTS ARE WOMEN’S RIGHTS!~INFOWARS REPORTER MILLIE WEAVER & KAITLIN BENNETT GO TO THE RANGE TO SHARPEN THEIR FIRING SKILLS FOR SELF PROTECTION

GUN RIGHTS ARE WOMEN’S RIGHTS! 
Infowars Reporter Millie Weaver goes to the gun range with Kaitlin Bennett to talk woman’s rights and gun rights. Bennett is the Kent State student whose controversial pictures of her open carrying her AR-10 on her college campus went viral.
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LIBERAL DELAWARE SLEAZE: CREEPY JOE BIDEN CONFRONTED AT BOOK SIGNING OVER TOUCHY BEHAVIOR WITH LITTLE GIRLS

LIBERAL DELAWARE SLEAZE
Video: Creepy Joe Biden Confronted at Book Signing Over Touchy Behavior
CREEPY JOE BIDEN CONFRONTED AT BOOK SIGNING OVER TOUCHY BEHAVIOR

‘What about the girls you molested on C-Span?’

BY ADAN SALAZAR
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/video-creepy-joe-biden-confronted-at-book-signing-over-touchy-behavior/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Former Vice President Joe Biden was confronted during a book signing event in Delaware Sunday over allegations that he inappropriately touched young girls during Senate swear-ins.
“Biden had been talking at The Grand in Wilmington about his son Beau Biden’s horror over Lewes, Del., pediatrician Earl Bradley, who was convicted of raping and molesting children as young as infants, when the man in the second row stood up and shouted at the former vice president,” reported USA Today Monday.


Mike@Fuctupmind


A question for Joe Biden, from @PGHowie2
10:08 PM – Jun 10, 2018
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Activist Howie Caplan was the man who yelled at Biden, asking, “What about the girls you molested on C-SPAN at the Senate swearing-in?”
Biden shot back warning Caplan he wasn’t in a Trump-friendly crowd as people began booing.
“This is not Trump world,” Biden told him.
Caplan was later escorted out of the building by security.
The same scene played out in New York last April, where Caplan again asked the ex-VP why he “molested all those girls on C-SPAN.”
“It’s all on YouTube. You know you did it, everybody’s seen it!” Caplan shouted during the Global Institute of Long Island University event.
In recent years footage of Biden inappropriately touching girls has plagued his career, to the point that even The Washington Post had to ask “What are we going to do about Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?” as the Democrat party considered running him as a contender in 2016.
The former Delaware senator is also on camera as he repeatedly makes improper remarks to girls as young as six, telling them, “No dates ‘til you’re 30,” revealing what’s on his mind as he meets children.
Despite his reputation as a serial molester, Biden has still entertained the notion that he could challenge President Trump in 2020.

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BIDEN SAYS HE WOULD HAVE ‘BEAT THE HELL OUT’ OF TRUMP IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR DISRESPECTING WOMEN~BUT HE HAS DEMONSTRATED PREFERENCE FOR YOUNG DEFENSELESS GIRLS & WOMEN, GLOBALISM, OFFICIATING AT SAME SEX “UNIONS”

WHOOPING COUGH OUTBREAKS CONTINUE NATIONWIDE DUE TO FAILED PERTUSSIS VACCINE

WHOOPING COUGH OUTBREAKS CONTINUE NATIONWIDE DUE TO FAILED 
PERTUSSIS VACCINE 
BY BRIAN SHILHAVY
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Once blamed on unvaccinated children, few today deny the fact that fully vaccinated children are spreading whooping cough as outbreaks continue across the U.S.



One of the latest outbreaks has occurred in North Carolina, where Carteret County health officials have warned parents to be on the lookout for whooping cough.



Kim Davis, the Nursing Director for the Carteret County Health Department, was interviewed by WITN and readily admitted that all the cases have been in fully vaccinated children, and that the vaccine does not offer protection:





Every case that we’ve had, that we’ve seen so far, has been vaccinated. So you can’t take for granted that just because your child’s been vaccinated for pertussis that they don’t have the capability of contracting it.1





The pertussis vaccine is supposed to protect against whooping cough, and even though health officials now acknowledge that the vaccine is not effective, it is still required.



Stacia Strong of WITN in North Carolina reports:





Health Department officials also tell us that it is required for children to get vaccinated for pertussis… 1





When one of the modern, post-pertussis vaccine outbreaks of whooping cough occurred in Los Angeles in 2010, there appeared to be a healthy debate in academia and the media about the cause of this whooping cough outbreak.



In a PBS News Hour broadcast titled Whooping Cough Returns to California After Decades of Decline in March of 2011, reporter Joanne Faryon of KPBS in San Diego interviewed “two of the world’s leading whooping cough experts” who had differing opinions about why whooping cough was returning among “highly vaccinated communities around the world.”



Dr. James Cherry of UCLA stated that it was due mainly to “increased awareness” while Dr. Frits Mooi of The Netherlands Center for Infectious Diseases Control stated:





We found really a kind of new mutation in the bug.2





Dr. Cherry also stated that:





…the increase is also due in part because of something called waning immunity. Immunity to whooping cough does not last a lifetime.2





What neither scientist stated, however, was that the cause of this new whooping cough outbreak was due to the small percentage of the population not vaccinated with the pertussis vaccine. The debate was on the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of the vaccine.



2013: Time to Blame the Unvaccinated for Whooping Cough Outbreaks



All of that changed in 2013, however.



Perhaps faced with the pressure to remove the failing pertussis vaccine from the CDC childhood vaccine schedule, which is only available as a combo vaccine together with diphtheria and tetanus (DTaP), and is administered in a 5-dose series at 2, 4, 6, and 15–18 months and 4–6 years old, representing many millions of dollars in revenue, the small percentage of the population not vaccinated with pertussis was targeted as a cause of whooping cough outbreaks.



Several studies concerning the pertussis vaccine and whooping cough outbreaks were published in 2013 and the following years addressing the problem, and one of those studies, widely published and circulated in the corporate-sponsored “mainstream” media, blamed the outbreaks on unvaccinated children, in spite of all the evidence that linked the outbreaks to a failed vaccine.



An article published in the Los Angeles Times by reporter Mary Macvean on October 5, 2013, represents what the corporate-sponsored media was now reporting as to the cause of the 2010 Los Angeles whooping cough outbreak.



The title of the article was Unvaccinated children helped fuel whooping cough outbreak, data show.



Some excerpts from the article:





Children who did not get vaccinated against whooping cough contributed to the 2010 outbreak of the illness, when more cases were reported than in any year since 1947, researchers say.



Researchers who looked at the geography of the cases suggest that clusters of “nonmedical exemptions” to immunizations were one of several factors in the California outbreak. They reported their findings Monday in the journal Pediatrics.



The researchers from several institutions, including Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the California Department of Public Health, found 39 clusters with high rates of non-immunization and two clusters of pertussis among children entering kindergarten from 2005 through 2010. More cases occurred within the non-immunized clusters than outside of them, the scientists said.



From 2000 to 2010, California’s “nonmedical exemption” rates more than tripled, to 2.33%, with some schools reporting rates as high as 84%, the researchers said. Both those clusters and the high pertussis clusters “were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density, lower average family size, lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities,” higher incomes and other factors, the researchers wrote.



It is estimated, they wrote, that more than 95% of the population must be immunized to prevent outbreaks. (emphasis added)3





The “researchers” of this study played with the statistics to find a small percentage of increase in a very small population subset to justify their conclusions that unvaccinated children were at least partially to blame for the whooping cough outbreak in Los Angeles.



The statement that is the key here to justifying a reason to increase vaccination rates for an ineffective pertussis vaccine is the statement: “It is estimated, they wrote, that more than 95% of the population must be immunized to prevent outbreaks.”



Besides the fact that the theory of “herd immunity” lacks scientific basis, government vaccine proponents, using their own published guidelines, have stated that herd immunity for whooping cough requires only 90% vaccination rates—not 95%.



90% is what is published in the Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020 National Immunization Goals, for example.



Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder and President of the National Vaccine Information Center, in her article Recently Vaccinated Kids Are Spreading Pertussis Everywhere, explained how the CDC’s own numbers show that the concept of “Herd Immunity” in regards to whooping cough is a myth:





The CDC now quietly admits on its website that “the bacteria that cause pertussis are always changing at the genetic level” and there is “waning immunity” from the vaccine and that ”an increase in reported pertussis cases began to rise in the U.S. in the 1980’s, when more than 94% of kindergarten children had received 4 to 5 whole cell pertussis-containing DPT shots.



Today, 94% to 98% of kindergarteners have 4 to 5 acellular pertussis-containing DTaP shots, plus 88% of children aged 13 to 17 years have gotten an additional Tdap booster shot.4





The Pediatrics study in 2013 apparently just arbitrarily increased that rate to 95% to justify vaccinating children with a failed vaccine, because over 90% of the children in the U.S. had already been vaccinated with the pertussis vaccine.



Note that the 2013 Pediatrics study did not deny that the vaccine had lost its effectiveness. From the same LA Times article quoted above:





An earlier study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) vaccine loses some effectiveness after the fifth of the five recommended doses.



That, too, was part of the reason for the outbreak, the Pediatrics scientists say. They also list the cyclical nature of pertussis and improved diagnosis as reasons for the high numbers.3





Nevertheless, the corporate-sponsored “mainstream” media began running stories blaming unvaccinated children for the whooping cough outbreaks.



In 2018 Virtually Nobody is Blaming the Unvaccinated Anymore: Failure of the Pertussis Vaccine Universally Accepted World-wide as Vaccinated Population Spreads Whooping Cough



Fortunately, for those who took the time to ignore the corporate-sponsored “mainstream” media spin starting in 2013, blaming the small unvaccinated population for whooping cough outbreaks, there were plenty of other studies being published clearly showing that the pertussis vaccine was a failure.



As more and more studies were published, many of them outside the U.S., it became obvious that not only was the vaccine a failure, but there is strong evidence that modern day whooping cough outbreaks are actually caused by the pertussis vaccine itself.



A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013 showed that pertussis was developing immunity against the current pertussis vaccine. A researcher from the CDC participated in the study:





Researchers in other countries have found evidence that circulating strains of Bordetella pertussis have adapted to the acellular vaccine, and researchers today reported similar findings for the first time in U.S. kids, based on genetic analysis of isolates from hospitalized children.



Infectious disease experts have been eyeing waning immunity from acellular pertussis vaccines as a contributor to increasing numbers of cases of pertussis (whooping cough) in several countries, and evidence is mounting that another factor fueling the outbreaks could be that the bacteria are adapting to the vaccine.5





A study published in Australia in 2015 linked the ineffectiveness of the pertussis vaccine to changes made in the vaccine in 1991.



The older pertussis vaccine prior to this time, known as acellular pertussis vaccine, was notorious for its serious adverse effects, including encephalitis (often diagnosed as “autism”) and death.



Barbara Loe Fisher writes that when the federal vaccine injury compensation program was enacted into law in 1986, giving pharmaceutical companies legal immunity to injuries and deaths caused by vaccines, the largest amount of compensations awarded in the new “vaccine court” in the following years were for the pertussis vaccine:





Congress created the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) in 1986 as a social contract between government and parents, who are required under state vaccine laws to give their children federally recommended vaccines in order to attend school.



I remember walking the halls of Congress in 1982 with other young parents of DPT vaccine injured children asking for a congressional investigation into the safety of the old whole cell pertussis vaccine.



We did not understand why federal health agencies had not required drug companies to make that crude vaccine less toxic.



We wanted to know why our babies did not have access to the less reactive new split cell pertussis vaccine in the DTaP shot that Japan was giving their children using technology developed in the 1970’s.



Children who become brain damaged after receiving pertussis-containing vaccines … are especially being targeted in a blatant effort to rewrite history and cover up vaccine risks and failures.



Perhaps that is because, among the $3 billion dollars in federal vaccine injury compensation awarded over the past 27 years under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the majority of awards for children have been for pertussis-containing vaccine injuries and deaths.





The newer pertussis vaccine is now universally seen as ineffective, and there are some studies pointing to a link between whooping cough outbreaks and pertussis mutations adapting to the current vaccine, as researchers admit a new vaccine is needed.



For more information, see:




See also Dr. Viera Scheibner’s (PhD) excellent historical review of the pertussis vaccine, showing clearly that the pertussis vaccine was never responsible for “eradicating whooping cough”: Pertussis Vaccine Failure is not Just Modern but Historical: Vaccine has Never Been Effective



Should We Return to the Older Pertussis Vaccine?



Some DPT vaccine developers/defenders like Paul Offit are calling for whole cell DPT to be brought back for infants because, they say, DPT has a superior record of effectiveness and the alleged cases of DPT encephalopathy were bogus anyway.



In other words, the switch to acellular should never have been made.



In answer to this claim, Barbara Loe Fisher states: “Nothing could be further from the truth.”



Fisher told Health Impact News:





Whole cell pertussis vaccine in DPT was not only the most reactive vaccine (second only to smallpox vaccine) that has ever been routinely given to children, but it also was the one first responsible for putting pressure on the B. pertussis microbe to evolve to evade the vaccine beginning at the latest in the 1970s (according to some researchers, evolution began in the late 1950s).



Even in the infant monkey study by Warfel et al published by FDA in 2014, it was clear that both whole cell and acellular pertussis vaccine did not prevent infection and transmission in vaccinated monkeys—the only difference was that the monkeys given whole cell DPT cleared the infection more quickly than those given acellular pertussis.



Of course, FDA spun it to the public a different way—that acellular vaccine was the only one that failed to block infection and transmission.





In a 2016 commentary written by Fisher, Pertussis Microbe Evolves to Evade the Vaccine As Experts Argue About Why, she referenced medical literature that explains that pertussis whooping cough has been circulating in highly vaccinated populations, whether they have coverage with whole cell DPT or acellular DTaP.



There were researchers studying DPT vaccine effectiveness in the 1970s and 80s reporting widespread vaccine failures/waning immunity, including Trollfors in 1984, when looking at populations with very high DPT vaccine coverage among children.




There is another study just published which confirms that acellular vaccine is not to blame for what looks like a resurgence of pertussis in the U.S. Published in March of 2018 in the journal Translational Medicine Science, the title of the study is: The impact of past vaccination coverage and immunity on pertussis resurgence.



Researchers looked at whooping cough outbreaks in Massachusetts 1990-2005 and said they “found little evidence that the switch to the acellular vaccine contributed to the Massachusetts outbreaks.”



Essentially, they blamed outbreaks on waning immunity of both vaccines.



Fisher believes that bringing back the older whole cell pertussis would be a national tragedy. She told Health Impact News:





Bringing back whole cell DPT must not succeed. It would be a tragedy for this country to bring back the highly reactive and ineffective whole cell pertussis vaccine for infants.



Although acellular pertussis vaccine can still cause encephalopathy, it does so less frequently than whole cell pertussis vaccine, a fact proven in many acellular pertussis vaccine studies pre-licensure and post-licensure (after 1996).





The U.S. Government is NOT Looking Out for Your Health



Shortly after President Donald Trump was elected to office, he met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long time proponent of vaccine safety.



There were reports that Kennedy would head up a new commission on vaccine safety. (See: Trump Appoints Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To Chair Vaccine Safety Commission.)



There were also reports that President Trump had serious questions about vaccine safety and the link between vaccines and autism.



However, more recently, Stat News has reported that Bill Gates has made several visits to the White House to discuss a “universal flu vaccine” with the President.



Did something change the President’s mind regarding vaccines once he took office?



A similar phenomenon happened with the Obamas after they took up residence in the White House. President Obama made campaign promises to label genetically modified food and promote transparency in the nation’s food supply.



However, once in office, he promoted pro-GMO policies that benefited biotech companies—NOT the American public.



Likewise, first lady Michelle Obama launched an organic garden project at the White House shortly after they took office, complete with a composting system and beehives.



But as time went on, the first lady promoted programs that held up the official USDA stances on food and Big Ag. (See: How First Lady’s Organic Garden Became a Junk Food Campaign.)



If one wants to be truly healthy and make informed decisions about one’s health, do not look to government agencies or politicians for help, as it could cost you dearly.



Hope for Whooping Cough: Mega Vitamin C Therapy



In conclusion, I don’t want to leave our readers without hope. There are alternatives to what Big Pharma and Big Ag offers Americans.



Dr. Suzanne Humphries, once a pro-vaccine medical doctor, now educates people about how to be truly healthy.



She has written a guide to help families deal with whooping cough naturally with very valuable advice: Vitamin C Treatment of Whooping Cough—Where Vaccines and Antibiotics Have Failed



We are very grateful to doctors and health professionals like her and others who have dedicated their lives to the truth, even to the sacrifice of their careers, so that others can benefit from their experience and knowledge in the face of persecution against those who would seek to silence them.




Note: This article was originally published in Vaccine Impact. 



References:




1 Ten confirmed cases in Carteret County whooping cough outbreak. WITN Apr. 25, 2018.
2 Whooping Cough Returns to California After Decades of Decline. PBS News Hour Mar. 16, 2011.
3 Macvean M. Unvaccinated children helped fuel whooping cough outbreak, data show. Los Angeles Times Oct 5, 2013.
4 Fisher BL. Recently Vaccinated Kids Are Spreading Pertussis Everywhere. The Vaccine Reaction Feb. 12, 2016.
5 Schnirring L. Researchers find first US evidence of vaccine-resistant pertussis. University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Feb. 7, 2013.

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA: LIBRARY SYSTEM HOSTING “OVER THE TOP” STORY HOUR FOR LITTLE KIDS WITH MEN, WOMEN “STRUTTING THEIR STUFF” IN DRAG~THEIR RESPONSE TO TRUMP NOT CELEBRATING JUNE AS LGBTQ MONTH

Sexualizing Children Dehumanizes Them

LIBRARY SYSTEM HOSTING “OVER THE TOP” STORY HOUR WITH MEN, WOMEN 
“STRUTTING THEIR STUFF” IN DRAG 
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: https://christiannews.net/2018/06/11/library-system-hosting-over-the-top-story-hour-with-men-women-strutting-their-stuff-in-drag/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
SAINT PAUL, Minn. — A library system in Minnesota is raising concern as it recently announced that it will be hosting three “over-the-top” drag story hours in June and July, billing the event as being geared toward families and suitable for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and teens.
“Come meet some fabulous drag queens and kings at the library! They will read stories, sing songs, and strut their stuff for an over-the-top story hour. All ages welcome,” a press release from the Saint Paul Public Library system reads.
The events coincide with homosexual and transgender pride month, and is being held in conjunction with the organization Flip Phone, which features a number of risque photos on its social media pages. The story hours are stated to feature two drag performers each, which include women dressed as men, also known as “drag kings,” at some events.
“Drag pushes people to break boundaries and explore creativity,” remarked Flip Phone Founder Chad Kampe. “At a very young age, we are taught to embrace our differences. Drag not only provides an opportunity to embrace who we are, it allows for us to broadcast and share who we are with the world.”
The first event was held on Monday evening at the Rondo Community Library and featured drag performers Utica and Sasha Cassadine, who read stories, sang songs, and danced with the children in attendance. One of the stories read was “Julian Is a Mermaid,” a book about a boy who wants to dress up like a mermaid after seeing three women do so.
The children also gathered around one of the men dressed in drag for a group photo.
The story hour is additionally scheduled to be held on June 16 at the Riverview location and on July 11 at the George Latimer Central Library. The Saint Paul library system has further created a page on its website that includes recommended books, movies and online resources as a “primer to drag culture,” such as the movie “Kinky Boots,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and the book “Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big?”
It also features recommended homosexual and transgender themed books that the library finds suitable for children ages 0-6, such as “Daddy, Papa and Me,” “I Am Jazz,” “My Two Moms,” and “Worm Loves Worm.”
Some local residents and others have expressed concern about the story hour, writing messages of opposition on the system’s social media pages.
“I would sue your library if I ever walked in with my children and they seen such disgusting things. This is shameful. This is sick!” one commenter wrote.
“I want my tax dollars back,” another stated.
Flip Phone had stated that the library was being “mega-trolled,” but most remarks of opposition are no longer viewable. It is unclear as to whether or not they were deleted by library staff.
“This agenda is just coming on so strong,” one mother told the outlet Intellectual Takeout. “A very sad day has arrived when we are handing our children over with their innocence and their pure minds and filling them with such confusion.”
American statesman Daniel Webster once warned, “If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
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Tony Yang
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DRAG “READING MATERIALS” AT THIS LIBRARY:
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EXCERPTS: “Just when you thought the cultural left (or whatever we call it these days) had gone too far, the Saint Paul Public Library, and other publicly funded libraries across the country, announced their idea of “summer reading” and entertainment for our children: a drag queen show.” 
“In addition to Drag Story Hour, patrons can find a selection of staff-recommended materials on the library’s website for Pride, including a fun primer on drag culture with recommended DVDs, books, and online resources. Learn more at sppl.org/webelongtogether.”
Please write to your mayor and city council, and state legislators, too. And copy the head of St. Paul Library. Her name is Beth Burns 651-288- 0411 | beth@thefriends.org
Here is the staff directory. 
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP & KIM JONG UN SIGN HISTORIC PAPERS AT SUMMIT IN SINGAPORE

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP & KIM JONG UN SIGN HISTORIC PAPERS AT SUMMIT IN SINGAPORE
Sentosa Island, Singapore
BEFORE: President Trump Participates in an Expanded Bilateral Meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un
President Donald Trump IMPORTANT Press Conference at Singapore Summit
Mike Pompeo, State Department Press Briefing

Greta Van Susteren

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What’s next after the historic Singapore summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? The leaders agreed to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, but the document they signed contains few details. Greta Van Susteren is in Singapore, where she talked to President Trump immediately after the meeting.


SBC LEADERS FLOAT IDEA OF BETH MOORE AS NEXT DENOMINATION PRESIDENT

When Southern Baptists get together for their annual meeting June 12 in Dallas, J.D. Greear and Ken Hemphill are on the ballot to become the denomination’s next president. But now a third name is being floated—Beth Moore. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, suggested on Saturday that electing a woman to the presidency would send a well-needed message to Southern Baptist women. (SEE: https://churchleaders.com/news/326893-could-beth-moore-heal-the-sbc-as-president.html)
SBC LEADERS FLOAT IDEA OF BETH MOORE AS NEXT DENOMINATION PRESIDENT 
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/05/sbc-leaders-float-idea-of-beth-moore-as-next-denomination-president/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Beth Moore, who is best known as Lifeway’s Cash Cow of Bashan, the extremely popular women’s teacher whose increasingly wild-eyed prophetic visions have gained prominence in a wide berth of evangelicalism well outside the SBC (especially in charismatic circles, as she coalesces with other egalitarian prophetesses like Anne Voskamp, Joyce Meyer, and Christine Caine), may very well be promoted as the next president of the SBC after the upcoming term of JD Greear.

Beth Moore – Lifeway’s Cashcow of Bashan
Greear, who is seen as the favorite for the 2018 SBC election, holds to a modified Complementarian position that is, for all intents and purposes, Egalitarian. Also a Continuationist and a #woke Social Justice Warrior, the megachurch satellite campus pastor is well departed from Southern Baptist historic orthodoxy on a number of points. This will unlikely stop the young, popular and charismatic mega-pastor for winning the June election handily, as the SBC reels in shock from the firing of perhaps the oldest and most prominent standard-bearer of SBC conservativism, Paige Patterson, in a cultural bleed-over of the #metoo movement into the denomination in what is an increasingly speculative and questionable decision of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Executive Board. Greear has presented himself as a fully “woke” and politically savvy public relations specialist, who along with certain other leaders in the SBC (like Russell Moore, Albert Mohler, Danny Akin, Matt Chandler and other New Calvinists), are intent on rebranding the denomination in the name of saving it. One such overture to “saving the denomination” in recent days has been talk of electing a female president, which has received no shortage of support in social media. The name for such a female leader of the country’s largest Protestant denomination that has risen to the top of discussion is none other than the recently woke prophetess, Beth Moore.
Following on the heels of a conference that should have been seen as spitting in the face of the #MeToo Movement, MLK50 – a conference venerating a man who literally trafficked in female prostitutes – many SBC leaders began to vocalize the need for leadership chosen not by the content of their character, but the color of their skin. In true Marxist Intersectionality fashion, these same leaders started to include women in the long list of underrepresented minorities who had to be placed at the top tiers of leadership if the SBC was to survive the impending tide of cultural opinion. JD Greear, on May 25, posted a video in which he called on the SBC to place women at the highest levels of leadership. He stated:
Our failure to listen to and honor women and racial minorities and our failure to include them in proportionate measures at top leadership roles have hindered our ability to see sin and injustice and call it out.
The politically correct virtue signaling of Greear did not go unnoticed. Soon, names began to surface of women who could take the top leadership spot in the SBC. In the last several days, one name, in particular, seemed to echo throughout social media. That name is Beth Moore.

Dwight Marxissic
Dwight McKissic – or Marxissic, as he is known among the discernment community – is the African American race-baiting pastor who supported Hillary Clinton and leftist-progressives, and who most notably designed a resolution at the 2017 SBC meeting to condemn the so-called “alt-right,” simultaneously orchestrating mainstream media outrage at SBC messengers who originally balked at the politically motivated propaganda. SBC leaders, eager to avoid any negative media attention, scrambled to pass an amended form of the resolution, pleading with messengers to consider how it would look in the press. Currently, Marxissic is planning a resolution with Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President, Danny Akin, which will yet again focus on racial reconciliation. Akin, who founded an Affirmative Action department at SEBTS called “The Department of Kingdom Diversity” and hosted a “Malcolm X Read-In” for seminary students this year, has joined Marxissic to denounce “White racism” and demand social justice, which eerily seems like something out of the 1970s United Methodist playbook or that of any of the mainstream liberal denominations that have experienced severe, anti-Gospel mission drift in the latter 20th Century. It was McKissic himself who similarly floated the idea of nominating Moore as president of the SBC.
McKissic wrote:
If I thought Beth Moore would accept the nomination or be agreeable to being nominated, because of her qualifications and the current context the SBC finds herself in…I would nominate her for SBC President.
Of course, the SBC has never considered a female president of the SBC because it has always fallen to the role of pastor, and eldership is limited to male leaders. The position also requires a good deal of preaching, which has always been seen by the denomination as a job for men, in light of the prohibition against women teaching in the church. With the promotion of so many female preachers by SBC’s retailer, Lifeway, one could have guessed it would only have been a matter of time before the Convention as a whole would see little problem with that gross and profane departure from orthodoxy.
McKissic went on to explain his reasoning:
The SBC is a parachurch organization—not a church. Therefore, there is absolutely not one Bible verse, or SBC constitutional bylaws prohibitions, nor any BF&M 2000 prohibitions against a woman serving as SBC President. Tradition, sexism, fear and other non-biblical factors would probably prevent any woman, including Deborah, Mary the Mother of Jesus, Lydia, Junia or Priscilla, or Lottie Moon from being elected President of the SBC; but, I repeat…there is not one Bible verse or SBC constitutional prohibition.
Therefore, I could vote for a qualified woman with a clear conscience for President of the SBC. The I Timothy 2:12 passage is reference to local church leadership, not parachurch leadership. The statement on gender roles in the BF&M 2000 does not prohibit female leadership in the SBC Convention or entity life. To impose I Timothy 2:12 as a prohibition on a female SBC President would be tantamount to imposing Genesis 9:25-27, as a prohibition for a Black, Asian, or Hispanic SBC President. Neither Scripture is addressing prohibitions in parachurch offices. Historically, though, they have been used or misused to draw such erroneous conclusions.
The problem with Marxissic’s theory, other than his use of Deborah – an Old Testament political judge who served as God’s judgment upon a leadership-weak nation – and New Testament Saints (who were NOT appointed to spiritual ecclesiastical authority, even by the Lord Himself), thus demonstrating massive hermeneutical failure and tragic inability to reason, is that the issue of Complementarianism vs Egalitarianism is one of ecclesiastical authority and not one only of eldership within the local church.
There is another problem with Marxissic’s theory; the SBC, although not a local church, is ecclesiastical. How do we know this? The SBC – officially, legally, and on-the-record – calls itself an ecclesiastical authority.
For example, just this year the SBC’s North American Mission Board (NAMB) argued in court that a lawsuit against it should not proceed because of a “ministerial exemption” due to the “ecclesiastical abstention doctrine” (source link). In other words, the SBC entity claimed to be ecclesiastical. Regarding the lawsuit of Will McRaney, NAMB attorneys argued according to the Baptist Message:
On the matter of the “ecclesiastical abstention doctrine” (which prevents a court from interfering in decidedly church issues such as theology), [the judge] affirmed the U.S. Supreme Court position that churches have the “power to decide for themselves, free from state interference, matters of church government as well as those of faith and doctrine.” However, regarding NAMB’s claim that “adjudicating McRaney’s defamation claim would require the Court to decide matters of internal church governance,” he said he “disagrees.”
Furthermore, all local SBC churches needing proof of tax exemption as a religious institution fall under the “umbrella 501(c)3” of the Southern Baptist Convention, meaning that the only recognition many churches have with the federal government as a house of worship is their legal identity with the SBC, which is recognized as a “church.” Baptist autonomy aside (and the attitude of Greear and McKissic seem to be “to hell with Baptist polity” anyway), like it or not, the SBC is ecclesiastical.
On top of these inconvenient truths, the fact is the presidency of the SBC is, in nature, pastoral. These are men who – like all SBC entity heads – make doctrinal decisions (like IMB President, David Platt, approving tongue-speakers to serve as missionaries or former SBC President, Ronnie Floyd, deciding to partner in prayer with IHOP). The office itself is one of the highest authority, and one prohibited to women. Welcome to complementarianism.
Many of the SBC blogger-class seconded the notion of McKissic that the office should not be limited to men, and that Beth Moore would be a suitable candidate for the position, including bloggers at SBC Voices, Dave Miller, Brent Hobbs, and AlanCross.
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Beth Moore accuses SBC of systemic sexism.


AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM: IN CRISIS & CONFUSION~”REVOICE” CONFERENCE, THE S.B.C., “GAY CHRISTIANITY” & DRAG QUEENS

AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM: 
IN CRISIS & CONFUSION 
BY ED DINGESS
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/07/american-evangelicalism-in-crisis-and-confusion/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
We are witnessing nothing short of a full-on gospel crisis in American Evangelicalism today. Just as the homosexual movement has rapidly deteriorated into the full-blown confusion we see around the psychological disorder and delusion of gender dysphoria; we are witnessing the exponential demise of what was once a clear, focused, gospel-centered movement. When everything in evangelicalism is a gospel issue, nothing is. And this is precisely what is happening in modern evangelical Christianity. A few examples are presented in this post and then a plea for some sanctified common sense follows.
Social justice is all the rage these days. Even within the reformed camp, the balance between social concerns and the gospel is shifting much more quickly than one would have previously imagined. Social justice has, for all intents and purposes, eclipsed the pure gospel of historic Christianity so much so that we no longer know where the gospel story concludes, and its impact on me as a new person in Christ, in my culture, begins. We can see this in a variety of movements that have and are competing for the attention and the money and the time of Christians, week in and week out. Abolish Human Abortion argues that the church isn’t being the church unless it works to feverishly put a stop to the murder of unborn babies. The unborn babies are your neighbor, says AHA, and you are commanded to love your neighbor and protect the defenseless. If you are not picketing abortion clinics and opposing abortion in just the right way, then you are not loving your neighbor. For AHA, ending abortion is a gospel issue. The Gospel Coalition is cranking out one social issue after another and they are all gospel issues. From Tim Keller’s highly controversial and questionable philosophies outlined in his Generous Justice to the most recent pet, outlawing American Football, TGC has turned every social concern into a gospel issue. Many prominent Southern Baptists leaders, a denomination of which I happen to be a part, has its political arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee, devoted almost exclusively to social issues. From its website we read the following: The ERLC is dedicated to engaging the culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ and speaking to issues in the public square for the protection of religious liberty and human flourishing. And of course, these issues, ranging from social justice to racial reconciliation, from sex trafficking to immigration, are all gospel issues. The ERLC, TGC, and AHA all want your attention, your time, and your money in order to carry out their agenda. But there is more.
Many of these movements, if not all of them, contain varying degrees of components associated with liberation theology and are incredibly confused about the nature of Christianity, personal holiness, and the mission of the church. This is especially the case as it relates to the relationship of the church and the world, not to mention, the content of the gospel. Now, in case you are skeptical of my thesis (and healthy skepticism is encouraged) that what you are witnessing in Evangelicalism is in fact, liberation theology sporting a fresh coat of paint, note this comment from J. Daniel Salinas concerning the book, An Inquiry into the Possibility of an Evangelical-Liberationist theology: Chaves, the Brazilian professor at the Baptist University of the Americas, argues that later developments in both North American evangelicalism (NAE) and Latin American Liberation Theologies (LALT) have drawn them theologically closer than ever before.[1]
The matter of liberation theology is itself indelibly linked to hermeneutics. This can be seen in how groups such as AHA, TGC, the ERLC, and Racial Reconciliation interpret the biblical text. Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez wrote: “The theology of liberation offers us not so much a new theme for reflection as a new way to do theology. Theology as critical reflection on historical praxis.” As Samuel Escobar points out, “This critical reflection was the result of a new political alignment (praxis) of some Christians in Latin America during the 1960s and their critical way of reading the history of the church in that region.” Liberation then offers up a new way to do theology and along with it, a new hermeneutic, a modified gospel, an alternative mission of the church, and it defines the relationship between the church and the world. The old adage comes to mind: if it is new, it is not true and if it is true, it is not new. Is it too much to suggest that what we see taking place right now in evangelicalism, among the new Calvinists, some in the reformed branch, and especially in the Southern Baptists is a new way to do theology? Social concerns are informing how theology gets done rather than theology informing how the church gets things done. Liberation theology begins with the marginalized, the poor, the oppressed, and their concerns, and it shapes theology by insisting that exegesis submit to those concerns above all others. And this is how you end up with the proverbial tail wagging the dog problem. Don’t forget, Liberation theology fills those words with new meaning so that even the most orthodox of doctrines, such as male leadership in the church, is now viewed as complicit in the oppression and marginalization of women. Critical thinking is indispensable and the church neglects it to its own peril.
Returning to the Southern Baptists political arm, the ERLC, in reading the mission statement of this committee, one has to wonder if it should even exist in the first place: The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission exists to assist the churches by helping them understand the moral demands of the gospel, apply Christian principles to moral and social problems and questions of public policy, and to promote religious liberty in cooperation with the churches and other Southern Baptist entities.
First, it is the local elders’ duty to help their communities understand the moral demands of the gospel. That is accomplished through preaching, teaching, and discipleship. The same is true for applying Christian principles to moral problems. The statement reveals its overtly political agenda when it turns to “social problems,” “questions of public policy,” and “to promote religious liberty.” In order to defend this mission statement, biblically anyway, one has to change the mission of the church so that it includes culture shaping, involvement in politics, and one has to believe that the church must work for religious liberty. But when one reads the New Testament Scriptures, writings that took place in a largely oppressive and intolerant setting, they do not find anything like these objectives there. More about this below when the subject of pure religion is addressed.
One of the most recent and highly visible areas of focus for these leaders is the topic of racial reconciliation. These men are operating on the basic premise that there is a rift between Christians of different racial classes in society. They begin by uncritically accepting melanin as a legitimate way to classify race and from there they carry their message forward with great enthusiasm and passion. Now, because racism is all the rage in the culture, and because no one wants to be called a racist or seen as doing anything whatsoever that any minority group could use to accuse one of racism, these leaders want to appear to be on board fully and completely. So, they are walking the politically correct line. With this in mind, they are working tirelessly to convince the church that they have a problem that needs to be addressed. The solution to this problem includes everything from the SBC repenting for past racism on an annual basis now for several years, to convincing white Christians that they are the bad guy, having been raised in a predominantly white culture and having unwittingly adopted racists attitudes of which they are naively ignorant and incapable of recognizing. Some are even going so far as to advocate for affirmative action in pastoral staffs, and even extend that point of view to the recommendation of books and conference speakers. “There should be people in those positions who look like me,” they argue. The argument is not based on biblical exegesis, but instead, on principles directly coming from black liberation theology. In fact, recently an article appeared over at Core Christianity that was, for all intents and purposes, denying the sufficiency of Scripture on the issue of racism. I don’t measure a man’s ears when I decide to read his book or attend a conference or submit to his leadership as an elder. I am not going to pay attention to his skin tone either. It is that ridiculous and the sooner we start seeing that truth and looking at the issue that way, the better off we will be in my opinion.
Coming back to the article over at Core Christianity, the title of the article was a sure attention-getter: “Good Doctrine isn’t the Answer to Racism.” The racial reconciliation argument continues to lose exegetical debates, making it necessary to retreat and come up with new strategies. The article begins with the claim, “Just because doctrine is right, good, and true does not mean it is healthy.” Andrew Menkis argues that doctrine, in order to healthy, must be lived. Menkis, in his own attempt to jump on board the racial reconciliation train and project just the right appearance and perhaps “make his contribution,” confuses Christian doctrine with Christian praxis. The word doctrine is derived from the Greek didaskalia. It simply means, teaching, instruction, that which is taught. Doctrine is a teaching. For example, the idea that doctrine should be lived out is implied in the teaching itself. When Menkis makes the claim that he makes, that just because the doctrine is right, good, and true does not mean it’s healthy, he is making a false statement on the one hand and a very basic category error on the other. If it is true that doctrine must be lived in order to be healthy doctrine, then Menkis’ doctrine is in the same boat as all other doctrines. That means that Menkis’ own doctrine about doctrine being lived is itself not a healthy doctrine. A question for Menkis might be, “If good, right, and true doctrine isn’t healthy, what is it?” If something is not healthy, then that means, logically speaking, that it is unhealthy. This means that good, right, and true doctrines can be unhealthy. This reasoning is specious. Living doctrine isn’t doctrine. The actual application of doctrine to daily life is not doctrine. Christian doctrine, in many, many cases is meant to be lived but not always. For example, the doctrine that all those in the body of Christ are in fellowship with one another is not a doctrine itself that can be practiced. It is a doctrine that describes our new status in Christ. We call it the doctrine of reconciliation. Jews and Gentiles have been reconciled to God through Christ in one body by the blood of Christ. I cannot live that. I cannot live the doctrine of justification. I cannot live the doctrine of regeneration. Menkis, in his attempt to project the appearance that he is on board and in his ambition to “make a contribution” to the topic, has made himself look rather silly in my opinion. This is the kind of foolishness that you end up with when you abandon sound hermeneutical principles in preference for methods that begin with the core values and principles of pagan society.
Pure religion begins with the gospel of Christ which is itself the power of God to save and regenerate the human heart. To Nicodemus, Jesus said, you must be born afresh, anew, from above, all over again. According to James, religion that is pure, that is undefiled, is religion that includes ministry to widows and orphans and to keep oneself pure from worldly influence. This hearkens back to 1:22 where James says be doers of the word and not hearers only. But my “not doing the word” does not make the word itself unhealthy nor does it mean that the word itself does not have the cure to my problem. The word is always intended to be applied or lived where there is application to be made. The proof that God has invaded my life can be seen in my care for others, especially widows and orphans and in my refusal to pattern my life after worldly principles derived from society. The church must have a vigorous ministry in place to care for widows and orphans. In some cases, this means providing food for care, medical needs where appropriate, etc. The same is true for orphans. It could mean financial support for orphanages, investing time in visiting the children living in these arrangements, or, in some cases, it could mean adoption. God directs the heart. James tells us to look after people in need during their time of affliction. But Paul also reminds us of the practical aspects of this ministry. Paul gives us criteria with qualifications before placing a widow on the list in 1 Timothy 5. That we care for widows and orphans with some qualifications is undeniable. But how we do that will vary from person to person or church to church.
The mission of the church is to preach the gospel, baptize converts, and to make disciples. The gospel is that Christ came and died to save helpless sinners from their hopeless condition. To baptize converts is to practice the public confession that one has indeed bound himself to Christ as Lord and Savior. To make disciples is to make students of the commandments of God. Disciple-making entails teaching men to observe everything that Christ has commanded. This is the mission of the church. Nowhere in Christ’s commandments are we told that we must fight for religious freedom, shape the culture in which we find ourselves, or influence civil government to adopt Christian principles. It is through the use of a hermeneutic of liberation that such nonsense finds its way into the mainstream. The source is not Scripture, but instead, the personal ideologies of men who have gained a platform of influence. They need to be corrected by other godly, strong leaders or removed from that platform.
The relationship of the church with the world is the last component of the three basic elements that make up pure religion. The gospel is first, the mission is second, and the relationship of the church with the world is the third component of pure religion. In Romans 13 and in 1 Peter 2, the church has her instructions for how she is to relate to the civil government. Whatever philosophy you might have on this topic, you would be well-served to make sure it is grounded in these passages of Scripture. What are these instructions? First, every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. That is pretty clear. Why? Because every authority is from God. Every civil government is established by God according to Paul. And to that government, we must submit. Whoever resists the authority opposes the ordinance of God. Of course, taken in the context of Scripture as a whole, when the civil law contradicts the divine law, divine law is the greater of the two. Peter’s instructions are identical to Paul’s instructions. Peter says that we must submit ourselves to every human institution for the Lord’s sake. This applies to a king or to someone the king might send. Peter commands us to honor the king. This is not an option. It is a commandment. The word honor, from the Greek timaō means to show high regard for, to revere. Yet, many of the social causes and issues that the church and these leaders specifically find themselves obsessed with are issues that fly in the face of these instructions. This means that Christians should avoid vilifying our government leaders, president and all, publicly. We must submit to, honor, and respect our government leaders. The objection is sure to come that our leaders are godless men who support all sorts of immoral legislation and policy. This is true. But it is not any truer than it was for the government under which Paul and Peter and the rest of the early church operated. In fact, modern American government is morally superior to Rome from a this-world perspective. If you doubt that, then perhaps you should do some reading on the practices of ancient Rome. What is puzzling is that most of the leaders involved in these movements are also involved in completely ignoring the clear NT mandate regarding how the church ought to relate to the secular authority. In fact, their agenda seems to require a certain rebellion against the secular authority. Such insurrection is not the fruit of Christian living we see in the first-century church.
The evangelical church, to include its reformed branch, is in a full-on crisis today. That crisis is due in large part to elements of a hermeneutic of liberation theology finding its way into the community. Men have gained access to the celebrity platform and ascended to a place of influence who do not hold to the historic positions handed down by the reformers. Movements like liberation theology, black liberation theology, the seeker movement, and the emergent church have all worked in varying degrees to weaken the hermeneutic of the conservative Protestant churches. The intensity of the war for truth has increased exponentially just within the last 5 years and more so even within the last year. Christian leaders must do a better job of examining the foundational teachings of men before enabling their influence. It is not evil to examine these claims to make sure they reflect the teachings of Scripture. Nor is it evil, when those claims are lacking in biblical support, are incredibly weak, or outright contrary to Scripture, to correct these men. If we continue to embrace worldly practices, such as obsessing over offending one another, then truth will truly suffer as a result. We should always remember that God is an ever-present witness in what we do and why we do it.
In closing, we should remember some of the very last words of one of the greatest Christian soldiers to have fought in this War, the Apostle Paul:
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. (2 Tim. 4:7-8)
[1] J. Daniel Salinas, “Review of Evangelicals and Liberation Revisited: An Inquiry into the Possibility of an Evangelical-Liberationist Theology by João B. Chaves,” Themelios 39, no. 1 (2014): 142.
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Same-Sex Attraction and the Continued Collapse of American Evangelical Christianity

EXCERPTS:
Summary
  • There is no science to prove that SSA is genetic.
  • There is no science to support the view that SSA cannot be changed even by the conscious efforts of the individual.
  • SSA attraction is a perversion of the fall. It is not physical or biological. It is a component of the human person and as such is not morally neutral.
  • Opposite sex attraction is very good according to Gen. 1:31. It’s opposite is very bad.
  • Col. 3:5 clearly teaches that there are evil desires as do many other passages in the NT. Desire is not morally neutral.
  • Romans 1:24-28 describe homosexual desire as a degrading, shameful, disgraceful passion that leads to unnatural sexual activity.
  • 1 Cor. 6:9-11 denies the idea that homosexuals should still identify themselves as homosexuals after conversion. They should see their homosexuality in the past tense and identify themselves as washed, sanctified, and justified.
  • SSA is difficult to change because people do not desire to change it. The only thing that can change any human desire is for a competing desire to present itself as more desirable.
  • People only stop being same-sex attracted when another desire that conflicts with it takes over. In this case, a desire to please God, to glorify God is sufficient to kill same-sex attraction.
  • If your desire to please God is not enough to cause you to hate same-sex attraction, then you either do not desire to please God or the Bible is false, and Christianity is a lie.
  • If the gospel of Christ, applied by God the Holy Spirit to the human person is not enough to deliver one from the sin of SSA, then again, the Bible is false and Christianity should be abandoned.
  • My conclusion is that the SSA proponents are American Liberal and Evangelical Christians with a very low view of God, of sin, of the power of the gospel, and a very high view of man.
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Revoice Conference: Connecting the Dots from Russell Moore to Drag Queens, RuPaul

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet the words of knowledge. –Proverbs 14:7



On July 26, 2018, the Revoice Conference convenes at Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri. The loud and clear call of this conference is ‘the Church must change to accommodate the inclusion of the “gay Christian.” On the surface, the intended outcome resides in the conference’s stated purpose:



“Supporting, encouraging, and empowering gay, lesbian, same-sex attracted, and other LGBT Christians so they can flourish while observing the historic, Christian doctrine of marriage and sexuality.”



While in reality, the underlying goal is to repurpose the Church by adapting it for a use exponentially differently than has been orthodox Christianity for 2,000 years.



First of all, some pertinent background information will widen the scope of what’s lurking behind it. Secondly, a closer look at one of the scheduled presenters will shed some light on “who” will be speaking at the conference. And finally, the calamitous connection with Russell Moore.



The Man behind “Revoice” – Dr.Nate Collins



Dr. Nate Collins is the founder of Revoice. He “has served as an instructor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary” (where he received his Ph.D.). In September 2017, Collins author the book All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality.: (source)



On his blog, allbutinvisible, he addresses the meaning of the phrase “Gay Christian:”



First, the way the word “gay” is most commonly used today is to refer to an orientation identity, and not to a specific pattern of behavior that Christians would think of as sinful. In other words, when most people hear the word “gay”, they don’t think of actual behavior, but instead a pattern of desire. I would say that these desires are inevitably experienced at some point as fallen desires, but that the sanctifying work of Christ can redeem some of them (the nonsexual ones). By analogy, nonstraight orientations are like a disability… in other words, the phrase “gay Christian” is more like the phrase “blind Christian” than “prideful Christian.”



After thirteen years of marriage and three children, Collins’ still self-identifies as “Same-Sex Attracted” (SSA).



Revoice Presenter – Branden Polk



Branden Polk, per his Twitter account, describes himself as a “Reader, writer, musician, lover of Jesus, poet, philosopher, and friend” (do note the order of importance). Additionally, Polk is the CEO and Founder of Arrowhead Advising. Arrowhead Advising Servus include both coaching and counseling to individuals and businesses with strategic means in “making a difference in the world.”



Allow me to introduce you to one of his good friends, Todrick Hall. Todrick Hall is a singer, dancer, director, and…wait for it…DRAG QUEEN. Hall is an activist for LGBTQ rights and inclusivism. Branden Polk has strong emotions and highly regards his friend, Todrick, from the moment he met him, and is a regular visitor to Hall’s “shows.”











Todrick Hall isn’t just your “ordinary” drag queen, he is connected…to RuPaul and his show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Hall has appeared on RuPaul’s show as early 2009 and as recent as May 10, 2018.











None of this should surprise anyone that Revoice has included Branden Polk as a presenter at the conference in July. What should surprise us is the relationship Branden Polk has with the President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), Russell Moore.



The calamitous connection to Russell Moore



Arrowhead Advising LLC has performed contractual work for the ERLC strategically advising Russel Moore on both the 2017 Christ Centered Parenting Conference and the April 2018 MLK/50 Conference.



Russell Moore continues to be advised by Arrowhead Advising LLC on the ERLC’s Prison Reform Bill promotion.







It would be highly suspicious for Moore to claim that he’s unfamiliar with the facts and that he’s not working hand in hand with sex perverts knowing the background of Revoice and the friendship of Branden Polk and Todrick Hall. Why do Southern Baptists continue to send money to this progressive entity who partners with people like this who have an obvious agenda?



























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SEE ALSO:



https://thirtypiecesofsilver.org/2018/05/29/make-the-gospel-great-again-reject-the-false-gospel-of-lgbt-christianity/



Nate Collins (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) has served as an instructor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and currently is a partner associate at The Sight Ministry, a Christian organization based in Nashville, Tennessee, that provides resources and support for individuals, families, and churches regarding LGBT issues. Nate is also the author of All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality (Zondervan, 2017). Speaking from his own unique experience as a married, same-sex-attracted/gay man who is a husband, father, and follower of Christ, he is a vocal proponent of extending and receiving community with LGBT individuals both inside and outside the Church. He has been married to his wife, Sara, for thirteen years, and they have three young sons.
Nate Collins (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) has served as an instructor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and currently is a partner-associate at The Sight Ministry, a Christian organization based in Nashville, Tennessee, that provides resources and support for individuals, families, and churches regarding LGBT issues. Nate is also the author of All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality (Zondervan, 2017). Speaking from his own unique experience as a married, same-sex-attracted/gay man who is a husband, father, and follower of Christ, he is a vocal proponent of extending and receiving community with LGBT individuals both inside and outside the Church. He has been married to his wife, Sara, for thirteen years, and they have three young sons.


A WILLFULLY IGNORANT “FEEL GOOD” ECUMENICAL EVENT?: BAPTIST CHURCH IN TEXAS TO HOST RAMADAN CELEBRATION WHICH DENIES ISLAMIC TERRORISM, SHARIA SUBJUGATION & CONQUEST GOALS

A WILLFULLY IGNORANT “FEEL GOOD” ECUMENICAL EVENT, WHICH DENIES ISLAMIC TERRORISM, SHARIA 
SUBJUGATION & CONQUEST GOALS
Wilshire Baptist Church has hosted a number of interfaith dinners and is hosting a Ramadan dinner on Thursday.
Wilshire Baptist Church has hosted a number of interfaith dinners and is hosting a Ramadan dinner on Thursday.
BAPTIST CHURCH IN TEXAS TO HOST RAMADAN CELEBRATION 
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/08/baptist-church-in-texas-to-host-ramadan-celebration/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Wilshire Baptist Church in East Dallas will be hosting a Ramadan Feast for their Muslim friends. The idea was sparked by the Dialogue Institute of Dallas, a pro-Muslim group that seeks to proselytize other religions by getting them to engage in religious “dialogues.” Several Jewish synagogues and Mormon churches will also be hosting Ramadan events, with over 20 planned by the Dialogue Institute in the Dallas area alone. This evening, the Wilshire Baptist Church will host the meal commemorating the opening feast of Ramadan.

George Mason, pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church since 1989
George Mason, the pastor of the Baptist Church, cluelessly explained to the congregation the advertised motive of the Dialogue Institute, saying, “The Dialogue Institute of the Southwest is a group of moderate Muslim immigrants, primarily from Turkey, inspired by the work of Fetullah Gülen, who believes in peace through education and understanding.”
Of course, the goal of such Muslim-sponsored events is not “peace” in a nation like the United States where violence between religious groups is almost unheard of and statistically non-existent. The goal is what is known to Islamicists as “Da’wah,” the strategy to convert non-Muslims through dialogue, and it is propaganda and deceptive by nature. Those who host or promote such dialogues, such as Fetullah Gülen – mentioned by Pastor Mason above as the founder of the Dialogue Institute – are known as dā‘ī, and are considered missionaries of the Islamic faith. What is happening at the Wilshire Baptist Church is a missionary enterprise of Islam, hosted by a Baptist church and perpetrated upon Baptists.
Ramadan is a month-long celebration that begins with a meal called an Iftar, and is followed by a month of daytime fasting. The pastor wants the church to practice “food diplomacy,” a trendy term used by ecumenists to describe trying to reach common ground with Islamic refugees by inviting them to dinner and following the dietary and food preparatory guidelines set forth by Islamic tradition. The meal at Wilshire Baptist Church will include only that which is Halal, or approved by Islam.
Mason said, ”If we want to be respected by others, we have to respect others. If we want religious liberty for ourselves, we have to defend religious liberty for others, too,“ sounding as though he were parroting the words of SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission Director, Russell Moore.”
“If we want Muslims not to judge Christianity by its worst, most fringe and extreme role models,” Mason said, “but instead by those who seek to represent the spirit of Jesus in a generous way, then we have to be engaged with them personally. Likewise, they want us to know their faith and to judge it by those who are tolerant and peace-loving.“
According to the church website, “[They are] Christian by conviction, Baptist by tradition and ecumenical in spirit.”
Wilshire Baptist Church affirms the 1963 Southern Baptist Faith and Message. For the definition of “website orthodoxy,” click here.
[Editor’s Note: HT Dallas Observer]

ROWLAND SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH & THE DEMONIC CULT OF FREEMASONRY~PART ONE-SILENCE & CONVICTION

SOUTHERN BAPTIST APOSTASY:
MIXING “CHRISTIANITY” WITH FREEMASONRY
ROWLAND SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH & THE DEMONIC CULT OF FREEMASONRY~
PART ONE-SILENCE & CONVICTION 
BY SETH DUNN
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/08/rowland-springs-baptist-church-and-the-demonic-cult-of-freemasonry-part-one-silence-and-conviction/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The following article is the first of a two part testimony about my experience with the cult of Freemasonry at my former church, Rowland Spring Baptist Church.  Rowland Springs Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist Church in Cartersville, Georgia and is a part of the Georgia Baptist Convention and Bartow Baptist Association.

Joe Ringwalt has been pastor of RSBC for over 20 years and is a former Georgia Baptist Convention Committee Member.
Pastor Joe Ringwalt stood up before the congregation of Rowland Springs Baptist Church as Sunday morning services came to a close.  My wife and I were standing next to him.  “It really says something about our church,” he said, “that people of this caliber are joining.”  I was a little embarrassed by Joe’s very public compliment of our “caliber” but I was certainly happy, despite my wife’s reservations, to be joining Rowland Springs.  I had been kicking the tires of the church for about six months.  The preaching was mostly expository, the music was a mix of (mostly) biblical hymns and contemporary songs, the student minister was a Calvinist from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Sunday School class we had been attending was edifying and full of lovely Christian people.  It felt like a Baptist Church and not a Baptist Church that was trying to be something else.  The very week that I joined Rowland Springs I was assigned to be the temporary teacher of the “What Christians Believe” Sunday School Class.  At the next Church Conference, I was elected by the congregation to become the official teacher of the class.  The Sunday School class I looked forward to attending every week became the class I looked forward to teaching.  As someone who had been in seminary for nearly a decade, I was excited to finally begin teaching God’s word to others in the local church.  Things seemed to have fallen into place quite nicely.  A few months later, however, I was meeting with the pastor, the youth minister, and two deacons in the church basement.  I was quietly and involuntarily removed as a Sunday School teacher.  My class dissolved.  I was encouraged to leave the church altogether.  This meeting took place in the wake of my discovery that several members of Rowland Springs Baptist Church were officers of Cartersville Masonic Lodge No. 63.  Unbeknownst to me when I joined, Rowland Springs Baptist Church was a stronghold of the demonic cult of Freemasonry.  When I stood for the holiness of Christ’s church and against the cult of Freemasonry, Rowland Springs Baptist Church stood for the Freemasons.  Joe Ringwalt advertises Rowland Springs as “a warm and loving church” and a “fellowship that wants to love you, provide a place of service for you, and challenge you to allow Christ to live his life through you.”  On the surface, it is.  However, when I scratched the surface of Rowland Springs Baptist Church, the surface scratched back. 
2014 to 2016: A Failed Expedition 
I walked into Expedition Church on a Sunday at about 11:45 AM.  I was late, again.  Getting to church, anywhere really, on-time with three young children was no easy task.  The music was already over and the sermon-time had begun began.  Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was playing on the projector.  The congregation watched, during the church service, as Mace Windu and two hapless Jedi Masters fought Darth Sidious to a stalemate.
The stalemate was broken when Anakin Skywalker betrayed the Jedi order and attacked Mace Windu.   Darth Vader was born.  I was aghast, and it was not because Anakin Skywalker had turned to the Dark Side.  My wife and I could have watched Star Wars at home.  We came to church.  After Mace Windu fell to his death, Pastor Tim Samples began a sermon about power.  Darth Vader’s traitorous act served as a sermon illustration of seeking power the wrong way.  My wife saw Tim’s increasing use of videos and movie clips as an attempt to fill time.  I agreed.  It was clear to us both that Tim was phoning in his sermons.  Some were basically book reports of whatever he happened to have been reading lately.  One was nearly a word-for-word plagiarism of a Ravi Zacharias podcast.  Another was an 18-minute YouTube video advertisement for the movie Woodlawn.  He set aside one Sunday morning to have a Pentecostal named Ray to come up and talk about the importance of tithing; Ray’s talk included the exact amount he gave each month and a testimony of how God miraculously reactivated his broken computer when he began tithing.  The Pentecostal presence at the church was growing.  Tim also occasionally filled the pulpit with quasi-missionaries who gave live infomercials for their ministries which were thinly disguised as their testimonies.  One of the presenters was a lawyer named Joel Thornton who had a side business selling identify theft insurance.  Another was Robert Rogers, a practicing Roman Catholic.
As Tim’s effort into teaching the congregation at Expedition Church waned, my wife and I grew more and more frustrated.  As we left each week, my exasperated wife would ask questions like “What was Tim talking about?”  I didn’t have a good answer for her.  I recognized that there was a big problem but I wanted to stick with Tim.  Tim had for years, as we Christians say, “poured into me”.  He gave me the privilege of helping teach the youth group at his church on Wednesday nights.  He supervised my seminary work in evangelism, leadership, and preaching.  He introduced me around the county Baptist association.  He opened his pulpit for me to preach when my preaching practicum class required it.  He met with me weekly for lunch.  He did his best to mentor and disciple me.  He pastored me.  At Expedition he sought to equip and encourage the whole body for ministry.  He rejected the “invest and invite” model of so many Georgia Baptist churches, where church members are charged with giving money to build facilities and inviting their friends and neighbors to hear a professional preacher evangelize them.  Tim understood that the church was a body, not a building, a group of people who were tasked with evangelizing their community themselves, with or without an official church program directing them.  Having been stung by the “invest and invite” culture myself, I knew Tim was on the right track with what he was trying to do at Expedition Church. 
Tim grew up at Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia under the smooth preaching of Dr. Nelson Price.  Price is a venerated man in Southern Baptist culture.  In fact, a dormitory at my seminary bears his name.   To my knowledge, even in his retirement, Price still bears the title of “Pastor Emeritus” of Roswell Street Baptist Church.  Under Price’s preaching, Roswell Street grew and expanded its campus.  However, after his retirement, Roswell Street’s properties and attendance levels began to deteriorate.  The “invest and invite” model proved not to be a viable long-term solution for Roswell Street.  Its large campus became hard to maintain.  Tim’s ministry at Expedition is on a much smaller scale.  The church property consists of rented office and warehouse space off of Highway 41 in Cartersville.  The average attendance is (or, was, at the time I attended) around fifty on a big day.  Quite frankly, Tim is no Nelson Price and his preaching wouldn’t fill a big building even if he had one.  I used to tell Tim, “You aren’t the best preacher in town, but you’re the best pastor.”  Tim was anything but a distant vision caster who didn’t know his flock.  He was personally connected to his people.  He knew them well.  I was once given a personality profile as a part of corporate training.  When I told Tim about taking the test he guessed my results almost before I could finish my sentence.  I liked having him as a pastor.  I liked being a part of the body that was Expedition Church.  There were no strangers there and the entire church felt like one, close, multi-generational Sunday School class.   
Tim planted Expedition Church himself after being released from the staff of Oak Leaf Church in Cartersville (which is now known as CrossPoint City Church).  Tim was the self-described “relationship man” at Oak Leaf.  The pastor there claimed not to be a people person and was only interested in preaching from the pulpit, not dealing with people.  That became Tim’s role.  Unfortunately, one of the people the pastor did deal with was his secretary.  After admitting to an affair with her, that pastor left the church in a state of disarray.  Tim’s job was a casualty of the reshuffling that followed.  Oak Leaf was not the first church in Cartersville at which Tim had been on staff.  He had come to Oak Leaf after leaving First Baptist Church where he had served as the youth pastor.  In his capacity there, starting in the late nineties, Tim was instructed by church leadership to make inroads with the most popular kids.  Doing so, he was told, would make other kids want to come to church.  This did not sit right with Tim.  Sensing God’s leading, Tim eventually left First Baptist, a bigger more established church, for the upstart Oak Leaf.  Tim wasn’t the kind of man who would put the popular kids first, even in the face of steady paycheck from an established church.  Tim was a man of integrity.   
Unfortunately, there is often a cost to having integrity.  Expedition Church was a relatively poor church.  As its Senior Pastor, Tim’s salary was not any more than that of his Youth Pastor salary at First Baptist.  He had effectively worked for years without a raise.  To make matters worse, Expedition’s offering revenue consistently fell behind budget.  The point came when Tim had to take a second job as a hospice chaplain to support his family.  He became a bi-vocational preacher.  I am convinced that, with his people skills and compassion, that there is not a finer hospice chaplain in all of Georgia.  I am equally convinced that the demands Tim’s new job placed on his time significantly decreased the time he had to prepare sermons and manage Expedition Church.  The pulpit suffered.  To make matters worse, the office of deacon was unfilled at the church and the other elders did not seem equipped to take turns filling the pulpit.  Tim was running himself ragged trying to take care of things with which others in the church should have been helping.  When Tim put a Roman Catholic, Robert Rogers, in the pulpit, I could no longer ignore the growing problems at Expedition.  Bad sermons were one thing.  Handing the pulpit to a member of another religion is another.   
I approached two elders with my concern that something incredibly inappropriate had taken place in our church.  Someone from an apostate church, someone who Galatians 1:8 demands be anathematized, had filled our pulpit.  One of the elders was a personal friend of Rogers.  He rebuked me for bringing up the matter.  The other elder didn’t seem to understand why a Roman Catholic should not fill the pulpit of a Baptist church.  The remaining elders were Tim’s father-in-law and a Bapticostal music minister who fed the church a steady diet of Hillsong.  Tim could provide me no assurances that a Roman Catholic would never fill the pulpit again.  I thought about bringing the matter before the church but quickly realized that it would do no good.  There was no official membership roll.  A church vote could accomplish nothing and, without a membership roll, was not feasible.  Even if a vote had been feasible, I had little confidence in the theological maturity of the congregation.  Tim intentionally kept his preaching at a sixth-grade level and Baptist distinctive were not a point of emphasis.  Could a congregation who had had no objection to movie clips and infomercials during sermon time really understand what the problem was?  Additionally, there was the sensitively of causing controversy in such a small church.  I did not think Expedition could financially afford even a small number of families leaving.  A couple of families had already left for First Baptist.  I loved Tim and I didn’t want him to suffer anymore financial hardship.  When I finally saw the church sitting contentedly through a lightsaber fight during the church service, it became clear to me that bringing the matter of the Roman Catholic preacher up would be fruitless.  A dog that can’t smell birds won’t hunt.  After the Star Wars sermon I walked out of Expedition Church and never went back.  I had come to the sad conclusion that the elders of Expedition Church simply were not qualified for their offices.  (I have since learned that a few other families had become disillusioned and left as well; each of them went to CrossPoint City Church.)    I haven’t talked to Tim in years.  I miss my friend.
Visiting Churches 
Having determined to leave Expedition Church, I set out to find my family a new church home.  I grew up in Chattanooga attending Woodland Park Baptist Church and listening to Wayne Barber preach.  My parents were married there and had been members since before I was born.  My family had gone to Woodland Park my whole life until we moved to Cartersville when I was fifteen.  I wanted to provide that kind of long-term stability for my family.  I could ill afford to make another bad choice.  My girls were getting old enough to understand what was going on at church and to make friends in their various circles.  Church certainly isn’t a venue intended for small children, most of whom are lost, to make friends.  Still, the sermons I heard Wayne Barber preach at age six stick with me until this day and I still listen to them on his podcast archive.  I also didn’t want to move my wife again.  Family stability, whether in the nuclear family or the church family, is important.  She had not been getting fed from the pulpit at Expedition and had patiently endured my faith in Tim for two years.  I wanted our family to be in a place where the Bible was proclaimed verse-by-verse on Sunday Morning.  So, I made a spreadsheet of every church in the Bartow Baptist Association and began a category by category analysis. 
The first church I visited was Pine Grove Baptist.  It is a small church directly across the street from Dellinger Park and in close proximity to our home.  Upon sitting down in the pew, I was hopeful.  The congregation and choir were singing from hymnals; there were no 7-11 songs and I could tell Pine Grove wasn’t the kind of place that would sing them.  There would be no Hillsong-style rock concert there.  When the pastor entered the pulpit, I took hold of one of the large KJV pew Bibles to follow along.   He then turned in his own Bible to the story of the prodigal son and informed the congregation that “God had given him” five principles from this story.  My countenance fell.  He then proceeded to turn the story of the Prodigal Son into a systematic treatise on free will and a Semi-Pelagian rejection of predestination.  His thinly veiled polemic against predestination included no less than three invitations, each more elaborate than the last.  Recognizing that I must have been the only new person in the small congregation, I was tempted to go forward and “get saved” all over again so that we could all go home.  I ultimately decided that it would be bad form and resolved to visit somewhere new on the next Sunday.  Somewhere new was Rowland Springs Baptist Church. 
A church website can be a useful tool for learning about a prospective church.  Beyond a simple statement of faith, many church websites include sermon archives, biographical information about the pastoral staff, and a recommended reading list.  Knowledgeable Christians can use this data to save themselves from visiting a church they would never want to join in the first place.  For example, if a church’s recommended reading list includes books by Andy Stanley or Rick Warren, then there is good reason not to view that church as a viable body.  The recommending reading list at Rowland Springs includes books by Voddie Baucham, RC Sproul, John MacArthur, and Charles Spurgeon.  To contrast, the recommended reading list at Expedition church included books by Rick Warren, Greg Laurie, Brian McLaren, Jim Cymbala, and Andy Stanley.  Sometimes who is not on the list says a lot more than who is.  When I perused the Rowland Springs reading list, I did not see any red flag authors.  Another indicator of soundness at Rowland Springs was the bio of the Adam Burrell, the Minister of Students and Families.  Adam’s website bio indicates that he has an MDiv from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and includes a picture of him in a bow-tie that would make Albert Mohler proud.  I know a Calvinist when I see one and, sure enough, that’s what Adam is.  Even though I am not a five-point Calvinist myself, that Rowland Springs had hired one to teach youth indicated to me that the kind of rank Charles-Finney-style decisionism which was present at Pine Grove and which runs rampant in some Georgia Baptist churches was not present in Rowland Springs.  That the church youth minister was seminary-educated family man indicated to me that the church was serious about teaching its youth doctrine and not merely attracting them with fun activities for the sake of winning their parents.  In hindsight, I think it may be the case that the church body is so insensitive to matters of doctrine that neither Calvinism nor Finneyism gives them any degree of concern.  That the church body has abided extensive Masonic membership indicates that the church’s standards for right belief and living are severely lacking.  Unfortunately, the Masonic membership at Rowland Springs was not something of which I was aware at the time.  After listening to the Rowland Springs Baptist sermon archives and exchanging emails with Adam, I decided Rowland Springs was worth a visit. 
Prospects 
I first visited Rowland Springs on my own.  My wife stayed behind that Sunday to take care of a sick child.  I arrived well before the Sunday School hour started.  Kelly Branton, a woman from the praise team, directed me to the Sunday School class for my age group.  I wouldn’t have known where to go had I not found her rehearsing in the sanctuary with the rest of the praise team.  I took note that Rowland Springs did not have greeters ready to meet visitors and walk them to the proper classroom.  Larger churches tend to have an entire team dedicated to doing this.  I actually found it favorable that Rowland Springs didn’t.  To me, it indicated that the church wasn’t seeker sensitive or McChurch corporate.  Not long after Kelly sat me down in the classroom designated for young marrieds, Adam Burrell walked in and directed me upstairs to a Sunday School class that he thought was more fitting for me.  It was a class entitled What Christians Believe.  It was taught by a Deacon named Doug Blankenship and it was based upon the Defenders curriculum that William Lane Craig teaches at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.  I enjoyed the class very much.  The next week my family attended with me.  My wife insisted that we try out the young married class in order to connect with people our age and in our phase of life.  That class was team-taught by deacons named Grant McDurmond and Chris McSwain, both of whom are professional school teachers.

The man pictured here in the green shirt is Dale Hibbard, Chris McSwain’s Father-In-Law.  Dale and many members of his extended family are members of RSBC. This photo was taken at a Masonic Golf Tournament in 2016 by local Masonic Lodge officer, Tony Ross.
Grant and Chris used LifeWay material to teach their class.  It took one week for my wife and I decide to move back to the class upstairs.  Doug was a good teacher.  He was teaching systematic theology and apologetics; class discussion was meaningful.  We both enjoyed the class over the next few weeks.  It had been over a year since we were a part of a Sunday School class.  We became a regular part of the class and met some really nice people.  It wasn’t long after we first started visiting Rowland Springs that my wife experienced serious problems with a pregnancy.  I sent Doug an email from the hospital asking for prayer.  We got much more than that.  The entire class descended upon our house with meals and domestic assistance even though we weren’t church members and had only been visiting for a few weeks.  I felt like a part of the group.   
Still, I had trepidation about joining a new church after what we had experienced as members of First Baptist Church of Woodstock and Expedition Church.  I really wanted to kick the tires at RSBC.  The tires seemed pretty sturdy.  We had a great Sunday School class with great people.  The music was nearly devoid of Hillsong and featured both hymns and contemporary songs.  Joe Ringwalt was no Spurgeon but he preached fairly biblical sermons.  I noticed that he was far from a “CEO-Vision Caster” pastor.  He made his rounds each Sunday and checked on the various Sunday School rooms.  It was his church to pastor and he acted like it.  Both he and Adam took an interest in talking to me and learning about my background.  Adam even took me to lunch one day.  It was a good time.  There was an even a friendly old man who always found us in the sanctuary to shake hands and talk before the service began.  His name was Jim Moore.  As nice as he was, there was something about him that made me uneasy.  “I wonder if he is a Mason,” I thought to myself when I first met him.  There was just something about him that made me think that. 
After a couple of months, Joe and Adam began to contact me to ask about coming to my house for a visit.  We were “prospects.”  They were interested in us joining the church.  My wife had reservations about the church in general and Joe specifically and expressed her hesitancy to join the church to me.  I considered her reservations but it had been a good few months, especially in Sunday School.  One night Joe and Adam finally came over to talk to us about membership.  All parties did their due diligence.  Adam and Joe asked about our salvation experiences and church backgrounds.  I asked, and apologized for having to do so, if Joe would ever let a Roman Catholic fill the pulpit.  His answer was a resounding “no.”  He was incredulous that Tim Samples had allowed one to preach at Expedition and expressed that Roman Catholics have a “whole different theology”.  I also asked about Freemasonry in the church.  I was told that none were in leadership.  Both Joe and Adam had trouble thinking of any masons outside of a Deacon who was no longer active.  Joe expressed his derision for the Masonic craft saying that he didn’t need a “worshipful master.”  He was clear that he did not support Freemasonry.  I was strongly leaning towards joining Rowland Springs.  One thing that held me back was discovering, through perusing the Cartersville Lodge website, that Jim Moore was indeed a Freemason.  The website displayed a picture of Jim proudly receiving his fifty year Mason award.  I showed Adam the picture and asked him if he knew of anymore Masons.  He said he did not.  Adam had been at the church for years and was the Minister of Families.  I figured he was knowledgeable enough.  I wasn’t going to let one Mason stop me from joining what seemed like a very good church.  Besides, the pastor had strongly communicated to me that he did not support Freemasonry.  Unfortunately, as I came to find out later, Jim was not alone.

The 2018 Officers of the Cartersville Masonic Lodge include Jim Moore, Freddie Gunn, and Frankie James. All are members of RSBC.
 A Short Treatise on Southern Baptist Sunday School 
Adult Sunday School classes at Southern Baptist Churches almost universally make use of the LifeWay Explore the Bible Sunday School quarterly.  Explore the Bible is produced and sold by the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm, LifeWay Christian Resources.  One needn’t be particularly conversant in Biblical theology and history to “teach” canned lessons from the LifeWay Sunday School material.  Lessons include prefabricated, open-ended questions for the “teacher” to read to his class.  In effect many Southern Baptist Sunday School teachers are essentially lesson facilitators who serve in a quasi-pastoral role.  Age and marital-status-based Sunday School groups effectively become little churches within a larger church.  The Sunday School teacher is expected to lead his “little church” into growing the “big church” through reaching out to his particular demographic.  In return for his service, the Sunday School teacher garners influence in the community.  Actual learning may or may not occur; some teachers are better than others. 
A former Sunday School teacher of mine personifies the quintessential Southern Baptist Sunday School “facilitator.”  His name is Matthew Gambill.  Matthew “taught” the young marrieds class at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cartersville when my wife and I were members there many years ago.  Matthew was a Methodist Republican politician who married a Baptist Republican politician and ended up teaching Sunday School in a Baptist church.  Matthew is a well-educated, service-minded, nice person who seems generally devoid of a systematic understanding of the Scriptures.  When I was in his class, he basically read LifeWay at us for half an hour each Sunday morning.  If he was asked a question about the material, he struggled to find the answer.  He was once unable to explain to a class member what a “heavenly host” was.  Worse yet, he seemed completely indifferent about the ordinance of baptism.  I remember vividly being a part of a conversation about Baptism with Matthew and another class member at a Sunday School party.  The class member was from Europe and had a reformed, paedobaptist background.  He was lamenting the fact that he had to “re-baptized” by immersion in order to join Tabernacle with his wife.  Matthew sympathized and told him that he had to do the same thing.  Instead of explaining the importance of believer’s Baptism to the class member, Matthew merely pointed out the pragmatism of not arguing about the requirement.  It dawned upon me that the Methodists in our town tend to be Democrats.  Matthew is running for the State Congress this year.  I suppose I’ll vote for him. 
Rowland Springs: Joining and Teaching 
It is very unusual to join a new church and be appointed as a Sunday School teacher the very same week.  Yet, this unique occurrence is exactly what happened when I joined Rowland Springs Baptist Church.  The What Christians Believe Sunday School class was somewhat unique itself.  The What Christians Believe Sunday School class at Rowland Springs was not age-stratified or based on Lifeway material.  It was a multi-generational class.  Ages ranged from middle-school aged to middle-aged.  There were teenagers who came with their parents, women with unchurched husbands (a notoriously difficult to place Sunday School demographic), and married couples.  The class curriculum was a survey of Systematic Theology.  When I first arrived at RSBC, the class was taught by a deacon named Doug Blankenship.  Doug, an accountant by trade, had a formal theological education.  Doug was not a local politician or small-business owner.  In addition to being a well-educated, service-minded, nice person, Doug was a true teacher who understood the class material.  When I first came to Rowland Springs, I had been out of Sunday School for two years.  I very much enjoyed being a part of Doug’s class.  It was worth waking up to get to it on time.  Doug took a job in Texas as I was in the process of joining the church.  Even though I was a new member of the church, I was a long-time member of the class.  Like Doug, I was formally theologically educated.  My fellow class members recommended to the pastor that I be given teaching responsibilities.  I was more than happy to accept them.  My short time teaching the What Christians Believe was a rewarding one.  I loved preparing the lesson every week.  I was very happy to be serving in Rowland Springs Baptist Church body.  There was just one small matter that nagged at me.  There was a church member in a cult and no one, including the pastor, seemed to have a problem with it.  This was a grave matter indeed.  I struggled with how to approach it.  Quite frankly I didn’t want to.  I was quite content teaching my little class, an oasis of learning and biblical discussion in a LifeWay world.  Saying something to Jim Moore about being a Freemason would no doubt be uncomfortable.  I continued to research Freemasonry and even published a few blog articles about it.  I knew it was a cult and a scourge but I still didn’t say anything to Jim. 
Fred Gunn Jr and the Newspaper 
It was December of 2016.  I arrived home from work and there, at the end of my driveway, was a newspaper that I hadn’t ordered.  The previous resident of my home was an older gentleman and I was still receiving his newspaper subscription.  Being a child of the digital age, I don’t usually peruse printed newspapers.  When I receive a newspaper at my house, I walk to the recycling bin, slide the paper out of its plastic sleeve, remove the Arby’s coupons, and trash the rest.  On this particular day, I broke with my normal habit and decided to flip through the pages of the paper.  Within I found the obituary of Fred Gunn, Jr.  He had died at age 85.  I had never met him before but I had heard his name at church and knew that he had been sick.

In this photo from the Cartersville Masonic Lodge, RSBC church member (since deceased) Fred Gunn Jr (father of Freddie Gunn) receives a 60 Year Mason Award.
Fred’s obituary noted the following: 
“He was a veteran of the National Guard, a member of the Cartersville Masonic Lodge #63 F&M for sixty years, and a member of Rowland Springs Baptist Church…Internment will be private.  The Bartow County Sheriff’s Department will serve as Honor Guard and the Cartersville Lodge will be in charge of Masonic Rites.” 
“Masonic Rites,” I read the words alongside the name of my own church with embarrassment.  My own church was burying a member who chose to go into the ground in front of his friends and family with pagan funeral rites.  Jim Moore was an old man and a fifty-year Mason.  He could very soon meet his Maker, unrepentant of his paganism.  To my shame, I had said nothing to him about Freemasonry.  Here I was writing blog articles and making Facebook posts about Freemasonry being a cult while not exhibiting the resolve to speak up in my own church.  Fred Gunn’s obituary marked the last day I would ignore Freemasonry at Rowland Springs Baptist Church.  I knew that as long as there was one Freemason in my church that it was unholy.  I had to take action, scripture demanded as much.  I threw away the newspaper as Ephesians 5:11burned in my mind.  The Holy Spirit was convicting me. 

In this photo, RSBC Church member Jim Moore is named “Honorable Past Master”. With him are RSBC members Frankie James and Alton Kay (now a former member). Kay, an ordained deacon of RSBC was the Worshipful Master of the Lodge in 2017.
Part Two of this article is forthcoming…
[Contributed by: Seth Dunn]
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G7 FALLOUT: TRUDEAU STABS TRUMP IN THE BACK~SAYS CANADA “WON’T BE PUSHED AROUND” IN TARIFF FIGHT WITH U.S.

G7 FALLOUT: TRUDEAU STABS TRUMP IN THE BACK

Canada’s leader is triggered that Trump won’t allow America to be taken advantage of

BY JON BOWNE
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/g7-fallout-trudeau-stabs-trump-in-the-back/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The fallout from Trump’s devastating tariff renegotiations at the G7 summit has come crashing down around the feet of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
TRUDEAU: Canada ‘won’t be pushed around’ 
in tariff fight with U.S.

AMAZON CAVES TO MUSLIM EMPLOYEE PROTEST DEMANDING SPECIAL RAMADAN PERKS

AMAZON CAVES TO MUSLIM EMPLOYEE PROTEST DEMANDING SPECIAL 
RAMADAN PERKS 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/amazon-caves-to-muslim-employee-protest-demanding-for-special-ramadan-perks; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan.
These demands for special accommodation of Islamic religious practice are causing upheaval at Amazon in terms of productivity and morale, as Ramadan coincides with Amazon’s biggest sale of the year: Amazon Prime Day. This is a time of extreme pressure:
Amazon warehouse employees have reportedly resorted to urinating in bottles to avoid punishment for taking a restroom break.
The Muslim employees “chanted in Somali” and slapped management with a list of special Ramadan demands. Their behavior has, not surprisingly, created “tension” with other employees.
Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 1,000 East African Muslim immigrants at four warehouses.
Amazon has unwisely chosen to concede to these demands out of fear of being branded “Islamophobic” by supremacist thugs. The company’s management needs to pay attention to the unraveling in Europe as a result of kowtowing to supremacist Muslims before company morale and productivity decline further.
“Amazon Gives In to Muslim Employee Ramadan Demands,” Charlie Nash, Breitbart, June 7, 2018:
Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan, which also coincides with Amazon’s biggest sale of the year.
According to Bloomberg, the fact that Ramadan was at the same time as Amazon Prime Day this year was “creating tension” among employees in “Minnesota’s Twin Cities region, where activists say Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 1,000 East African Muslim immigrants at four warehouses.”
Employees and other activists protested at the Eagan, Minnesota, delivery center, where they chanted in Somali and handed Amazon management a list of demands for Ramadan, which reportedly included a “call to curb their heavy workloads while they’re fasting and to let them take time off without penalty for Eid, the festival that ends Ramadan.”
Amazon announced that they would provide prayer rooms for employees at work and “would ease up on employees’ quotas for the duration of the fast.”…..

UK: CATHEDRAL HOSTS RAMADAN “GRAND IFTAR SERVICE” ON ANNIVERSARY OF ISLAMIC STATE LONDON BRIDGE JIHAD MASSACRE

UK: CATHEDRAL HOSTS RAMADAN “GRAND IFTAR SERVICE” ON ANNIVERSARY OF ISLAMIC STATE LONDON BRIDGE JIHAD MASSACRE 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/uk-cathedral-hosts-ramadan-grand-iftar-service-on-anniversary-of-islamic-state-london-bridge-jihad-massacre; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
How wonderfully generous, tolerant, ecumenical, and all that. A few questions: why are Christian services never, ever held in mosques? Why is the “outreach” only one way? Or is it just a matter of the circumstances, so if a Christian screaming “Jesus is Lord” had committed a massacre in London, would a mosque host a Christian service and stress how we are all united as communities?
“UK Cathedral Celebrates Ramadan on Anniversary of ISIS London Bridge Attack,” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, June 3, 2018:
London’s Southwark Cathedral hosted its second annual “Grand Iftar Service” on Sunday evening, marking the anniversary of the London Bridge terror attack last year. In addition to the 11 a.m. Eucharist service, the church also held a 3 p.m. Service of Commemoration for the attack, and an 8 p.m. service to celebrate the Muslim service….
“We stand united as communities, as Londoners, as people that want to celebrate our diversity,” Harun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said at the Iftar service.
In a statement, the cathedral announced it would “host its second Grand Iftar which, this year, will also mark the anniversary of the London Bridge attacks and will bring all communities together to celebrate Ramadan, to promote resilience and to share the common values of hope, peace and unity and celebrate the diversity of those who live and work in the Bankside area [of London].”
On June 3, 2017, three terrorists inspired by and claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge. When the van crashed, the terrorists ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and bars. These terrorists killed eight people and injured 48 others, including four unarmed police officers….

OHIO: TEACHER FED UP WITH “STUDENTS” SWEARING, STEALING, & DESTROYING PROPERTY, SPEAKS OUT~OTHER TEACHERS RESIGNING, RETIRING IN DISGUST, FEAR OF ATTACKS, ABUSE

OHIO: TEACHER FED UP WITH “STUDENTS” SWEARING, STEALING, & DESTROYING PROPERTY, SPEAKS OUT 
Fed Up Ohio Teacher Unleashes On Commission: Unruly Students Swear At Faculty, Steal Supplies And Destroy Property
WASHINGTON STATE:
OTHER TEACHERS RESIGN, 
FEARING FOR THEIR SAFETY

Teacher For 27 Years in Paterson, N.J.

Teacher Describes an American High School: “Chaos”

Lee McNulty is now retired after 27-years as a public school teacher in Paterson, New Jersey. His descriptions of the school in which he worked, a regular district public school, are chilling.

He says, “Gangs of kids will roam the building; they’re looking for a certain person. They’ll walk into the classroom. They’ll find that kid and just start a fight in that class.” He says, “Our school is an indoor street corner. When I walk in that building, I have no idea anymore the concept of what right and wrong is.”

McNulty says the goings on in the school are no secret to the administration — after all, much of it is caught on the security cameras. He says the administration is more interested creating the facade of normalcy than correcting the problems.

He tells the story of students who had sex in the high school stairwell, and the event was “hushed up,” so parents and public would never know.

He also kept data on school attendance, finding that the average student missed class 33 days/year. He also says that final exam dates are set two weeks before the end of the year, designed to guarantee almost no education goes on during the final two weeks.

Teacher begs parents to stop coddling children


NEW YORK’S GOVERNOR CUOMO EDGES CLOSER TO TOTAL GUN CONFISCATION

NEW YORK’S GOVERNOR CUOMO EDGES CLOSER TO TOTAL GUN CONFISCATION 
BY JOHN FARNAM
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Cuomo & Gun Control, Whos Da Man

Cuomo & Gun Control, Whos Da Man?

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “The ‘Few’ keep getting fewer!”



More misery for the few NY residents who still own guns:



NY’s Democrat governor, who (like most Democrats) wants to wholly eliminate the private ownership of guns, is now proposing a new measure designed to get him one step closer:



Governor Cuomo announced that he wants to add teachers, school administrators, and other school personnel to the growing list of individuals who may go to the head of the line in order to petition courts to issue “extreme risk protection orders” for individuals whom they believe “are likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to himself, herself or others.”



“Extreme risk protection order” is polite terminology for abrupt and permanent gun confiscation.



So any teacher, even one who has never even met you, can capriciously decide that you’re “crazy,” and thus should not own guns. On the basis of his unsworn, uncorroborated, unprofessional testimony alone, one’s Second Amendment Rights as a American can be instantly, arbitrarily, and probably permanently annulled, without a hearing, without warning, without ever having been even accused (much less convicted) of any crime, and without any opportunity to defend yourself.





“Due process” does not exist in the minds of these liberal Second-Amendment haters!





Of course, the governor’s heavily-armed security detail will not be affected by any of this!





“Many politicians are, by choice, far-removed from their own electorate and thus continue to make the mistake of ignoring voters’ concerns, because they (politicians) have manufactured their own secure, comfortable, and insulated world, and refuse to ever come out of it, nor even acknowledge other worlds exists!” ~ Kurz





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AUSTRIA TO CLOSE SEVEN MOSQUES, EXPEL IMAMS IN CRACKDOWN ON “POLITICAL ISLAM” & FOREIGN FINANCING OF MOSQUES

AUSTRIA TO CLOSE SEVEN MOSQUES, EXPEL IMAMS IN CRACKDOWN ON “POLITICAL ISLAM” & FOREIGN FINANCING OF MOSQUES 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/austria-to-close-7-mosques-expel-imams-in-crackdown-on-political-islam-and-foreign-financing-of-mosques; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Choosing national security over socialist internationalism and politically correct posturing. Bravo.
“Austria to close 7 mosques, expel imams in crackdown,” Associated Press, June 8, 2018:
BERLIN – Austria’s government is closing seven mosques and plans to expel imams in a crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of mosques.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday that the government is shutting a hardline Turkish nationalist mosque in Vienna and dissolving a group called the Arab Religious Community that runs six mosques.
The actions by the government were based on a 2015 law that, among other things, prevents religious communities from getting funding from abroad. Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said the residence permits of around 40 imams employed by ATIB, which oversees Turkish mosques in Austria, are being reviewed.
Kickl said that, in two cases, permits have already been revoked. Five more imams were denied first-time permits….
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