Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis, Where Did You Hide Your Moral Clarity?

LBJ's Great Unjust Society: The Tax Code Undermines Churches and Synagogues

There are some great moral leaders in our nation, but there are some who have SOLD-OUT!  Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for a sum of 30 pieces of silver.  How many of our moral leaders have sold out on their members to the federal government for a sum of the tax-exempt (501c3) status?

For too long and too often Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis have not spoken out strongly enough about public issues for fear of “jeopardizing” the Church’s tax-exempt (501c3) status.  

The truth is, in practice, it is almost impossible for Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis to face a real risk of losing their tax status over standing up against political issues which robs the Church of its ability to teach its members to get involved in the electoral process.  Why do I say this?  The majority of Americans (76% to 81%) identify themselves as Christians, yet, less than 42% vote, but, are the first to complain about the state of our nation.

In fact, I have been doing the research, and I am not aware of a single case in the United States of a Church losing its tax status over attempting to influence decisions made by officials in the government,

Now, there is no guarantee that the Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis will be freed from harassment. 

As a result, most Pastors Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis are not teaching their members to resist evil and to identify the source of evil.  When Satan shows his ugly head and is booed from a Party’s platform, and Pastors still find reasons to make excuses for them….”IT’s ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.

Pastors Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis, whatever the cost, the price of freedom is never too high for those for whom freedom and life are synonymous. If you choose to be free, to live as an independent individual, it will be the most costly, difficult, and risky thing you ever do.

The most valuable thing in life, the most precious of all possessions, cannot be achieved or acquired cheaply or easily. If you want something cheap, easy, and safe, settle it in your mind, individual liberty is the one thing you will never have; but if it is ease, security, and safety you seek, it is not freedom you want anyway.

When Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis ‘grow a couple’ and take a stand for righteousness whatever the cost, they can lead the revolution for in our nations.

But, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance," ~Thomas Jefferson.

Today, the family system of life is a major issue in the Devil's warfare against God's design for a fulfilling human relationship. When Pastors teach their members to resist evil and to identify the source of evil, we will see fewer and fewer of our young men being incarcerated, young girls are overwhelmingly becoming impregnated.  Young people are searching for a father figure.  

Most of them have access to their mothers while those fathers found it easier to stop being fathers. Once our federal government imposed its will on our Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, Priests and Rabbis through the tax-exempt (501c3) status, moral leadership declined. 

God is not pleased, and America is beginning to feel the wrath as a result of this lack of leadership.

"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837

For my Patriot friends who love their ‘guns and bible,’ talk to your Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, Priests or Rabbis and tell them that it is the common fate of the apathetic to see their rights become the laughingstock of the active, and the ones laughing encompasses only 24 to 19% of the population. But, they work unceasingly. They lose, reload and regroup!  

As Zoe said, "There's gonna be some Pastors cursing in tongues at him"  I say, "do your cursing, and put some skin in this game for our nation...starting TODAY!" A church’s right to speak out on controversial issues, which may cross the line into prohibited political activity, is protected by the First Amendment, anyway. 

Has Chick-fil-A Pledged to Stop Giving Money to Anti-gay Groups?

The Commercial Appeal's September 19, 2012 article entitled: "Chick-fil-A has Pledged to Stop Giving Money to Anti-gay Groups," is deceiving. 

The company has been quoted as saying, it will “leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.”

The fact of the matter is, Chick-fil-A donates to the WinShape foundations.  The WinShape Foundation in turn donates to various organizations at their discretion. 

The WinShape Foundation was created by Chick-fil-A founder, S. Truett Cathy, and his wife, Jeannette, in 1982. The simple vision then, as it is today, was to strengthen families and bring people closer to God and each other

The policies of Chick Fil A have always been to treat everyone with dignity but not to PROMOTE homosexual tendencies and that is just where it stands today. 

Flinn and Harris Pushing for Special Privileges for Gays, Lesbians, Transgenders and Bi-Sexuals!

Memphis City Councilmen, Harris and Flinn are pushing for additional privileges for the gay, lesbian, transgender and bi-sexual community.  It has been contended that once special privileges are granted a group will be considered a special class with special privileges. 

Special classes have contributed to higher costs to taxpayers in terms of litigation and additional health benefits due to the special class status. There are currently laws on the books which will offer protection, but this request may change the city charter. 

Today, the Memphis City Council amended a proposed nondiscrimination ordinance to include sexual orientation but is putting off a final vote while legal experts study it. 

A vote for a  30-day delay, proposed by Flinn, came after the city attorney and the council's attorney raised questions about the legality of the amendment and whether it would require a voter referendum.  

Jonathan Cole with Tennessee Equality Project,  Pastor Steve Gaines, FACTN Director of Community Relations, Paul Houghland were among the major speakers before the City Council members concerning this ordinance being discussed to provide special privileges the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual (LGBT) community on the city's non-discrimination policy. 

This was not a new debate, but that does not mean it is any less contentious. In 2010, an effort failed to add lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexuals to the city's non-discrimination ordinance.

According to Councilman Boyd, the Council members were blind sighted by Harris' proposal. It appears that Councilman Harris did not provide a forewarning of this ordinance to the other members before the media announced it.  This was considered a back-door effort to force the amendment onto the final reading by Harris and Flinn. 

Posting on Facebook, sending emails, etc. are all good.  But, to protect one's land, one must get involved and present a united front. 

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.  ~George Washington 

What Good is Health Insurance Without a Doctor!

Nearly 70 percent of doctors believe that long wait times will plague emergency rooms. A full 83 percent of physicians foresee increased wait times for primary care appointments.  It has already started, and this is just the beginning. 

My Facebook friend was recently diagnosed with cancer on August 13, 2012.  She was poor, over fifty and had been living in her car off and on since March of this year. Occasionally someone would have mercy upon her and would allow her to stay with them for approximately 3 weeks at a time.  You can imagine her stress level was extremely high due to the uncertainty.  

On August 12, she called me to say that she had a doctor’s appointment.  After sitting in the waiting room for six hours, she was finally seen for approximately 10 minutes and was told to go to the hospital the following morning where she was diagnosed with cancer and three weeks later she was dead. 

Did she die due to a lack of access to healthcare?  No.  The few doctors and nurses available bent over backwards to help her and to make her as comfortable as humanly possible. 

The problem was the shortage of doctors and nurses available for the number of patients needing care.   The fact of the matter is, physicians foresee in their future  a decrease in income coupled with an increased work load, a toxic combination of new regulations and taxes plus millions of newly insured individuals swelling their patient rosters.

The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that in 2015 the country will have 62,900 fewer doctors than needed. And that number will more than double by 2025, as the expansion of insurance coverage and the aging of baby boomers drive up demand for care. Even without the health care law, the shortfall of doctors in 2025 would still exceed 100,000. Health experts, including many who support the law, say there is little that the government or the medical profession will be able to do to close the gap by 2014, when the law begins extending coverage to about 30 million Americans. It typically takes a decade to train a doctor.  

For the next generation of senior citizens, finding a doctor will be more difficult and waiting times for doctor appointments are likely to be longer. The American Association of Medical Colleges projects a shortage of 124,000 doctors by 2025.”  Obamacare does nothing to reverse this worrisome trend, instead making it worse.

The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA)! 

On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its decision.  Call it Hillarycare or Obamacare, either way; it is the law of the land and many portions of the PPACA have already been quietly enacted.  Could that account for the longer than normal waits to see a doctor? 

In a move that stunned the nation, the vote was 5-4 to uphold the insurance mandate and the rest of the Affordable Care Act.  The vote had come down to a 4-4 vote, giving Chief Justice John Roberts the deciding vote.  Although known as a conservative, Roberts voted that the insurance mandate was illegal ONLY because it was tied to a tax.  He ruled that since the penalty for not being insured was to be collected by the I.R.S., that it amounted to a tax and that Congress has the legal right to levy taxes.  

In his ruling, Robert’s also stated that the requirement to force someone to purchase a product or pay a penalty does violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.  Because he also ruled that the insurance mandate was a tax and not a penalty, that it no longer violated the Commerce Clause and as such was legal. 

However, by Roberts’ very ruling, he actually made the insurance mandate illegal and subject to further litigation and possibly still being thrown out. 

According to the Origination Clause of the U.S. Constitution, all tax or revenue generating legislation must begin in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The Affordable Care Act was first introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the U.S. Senate and not the House.  Therefore, the insurance mandate tax violates the Origination Clause of the U.S. Constitution and must be struck down. 

The second issue is that since the U.S. Senate cannot initiate any tax or revenue generating legislation, the penalty for not purchasing health insurance cannot be a tax according to the Origination Clause.  If it cannot be a tax, then it has to be a penalty and thus we go back to a violation of the Commerce Clause which Chief Justice Roberts said the insurance mandate would be. 

It Ain't over, yet!

QE3: The Definition of Insanity Returns - Still No Jobs!

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September 17, 2012

QE3: The definition of insanity returns By Herman Cain Einstein may have been a genius, but it doesn’t take a genius to see the wisdom of one of his most famous sayings: Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, is the definition of insanity. That’s how you know that the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve have lost it. The Fed announced last week that it plans another round of “quantitative easing,” which means keeping interest rates artificially low and printing a lot more money (technically through the buying of mortgage-backed securities - $40 billion a month’s worth). This is known as QE3, and it follows the highly unsuccessful QE1 and QE2, but it is different in one respect: QE3 is forever. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says he will put no sunset date on this plan. The Fed will keep doing it until the economy improves, no matter how long it takes. Bernanke’s announcement got immediate results, too, although not the type he wanted. The credit rating agency Egan-Jones immediately responded to QE3 by downgrading America’s credit rating from AA to AA-. Explaining their decision, Egan-Jones said what anyone should be able to figure out: All this pump-priming is not going to raise America’s gross domestic product, but what it will do is deplete consumer purchasing power. Remember last year when Standard & Poors downgraded the United States from AAA to AA+? Democrats and the media insisted that Standard & Poors had taken this action solely because Tea Party Republicans had demanded budget cuts as a condition for raising the debt ceiling, thus introducing a short-term risk of default on the debt. In fact, Standard & Poors cited the dysfunction of the policymaking process in general, and rightly so. Rating agencies don’t care how you reduce your debt – cut spending, raise taxes – they just want you to do it. What they saw is what anyone with common sense can see. Our fiscal situation is so out of control that we have to borrow money just to pay the interest on the money we’ve already borrowed. When the debt ceiling showdown resulted in no serious action on the deficit, Standard & Poors had seen enough. Even so, Democrats and their media allies did everything they could to blame the Tea Party – as if the people who want put a stop to out-of-control debt are the ones upsetting the credit agencies. So then, how will they find a way to blame the Tea Party for Egan-Jones’s latest downgrade of the U.S., which is its second this year? The first downgrade resulted from the utter failure of Congress and the White House to deal with the debt. This time, Egan-Jones recognizes that devaluing our currency will do nothing to make the situation better. The only way to do that, after all, is to achieve robust and sustained economic growth. So why won’t QE3 do that? In buying up all those mortgage-backed securities, they’ll certainly pump a lot of capital into financial institutions. The banks will turn around and lend it, and Main Street will suddenly be cash flush, right? Wrong. That was the theory behind QE1 and QE2, as well. Why didn’t it work? Because of a little thing called Dodd-Frank, the “reform” through which Democrats presumed to crack down on big banks. Dodd-Frank has introduced so many new regulations and restrictions, big banks are scared to death to make risky loans of any kind. So sure, there’s going to be money, but they’re only going to lend it to the safest loan applicants – people who would almost certainly have gotten loans even without the pump-priming. So we devalue our currency for nothing, and we’re going to do it endlessly! I don’t know how we maintain a credit rating as good as AA- when we maintain policies like this. These people have no idea what they’re doing.

Why I Vote Republican at the Federal Level

The Democrat Party  v  Republican Party.

Before I go any further, let me say that due to our two party system, as a Christian, I have no choice but to follow the laws and to declare a party affiliation. I cannot vote as an Independent because an Independent only muddles the electoral water. The fact of the matter is, if I voted as an Independent I would be voting against the candidate I should be voting FOR.  

For the educated, upwardly mobile, former Democrat, it is easier to declare yourself as an Independent. This is done in an effort to remove oneself from the Democratic Party, yet, not join that 'racist' Republican Party. 

I grew up under the spiritual influence of my father. He was a WWII veteran and a pastor in the Memphis community for over 40 years.  The principles I was taught align themselves closer to the Republican Party's platform. I am a Frederick Douglass Republican. Any political party which would 'Boo' God out of their platform is not the Party for me.  If you don't believe me, watch it with your own eyes.  God was forced 'in,' against the will of the party members!  

The Republican Party is not perfect.  It has a LOT of warts. But I plan to get involved and to hold my elected officials' feet to the fire and to let them know they must give an account of their votes which affects our lives.

I understand that it takes courage to defy the 'group think' mentality, but even the bible speaks against a person who can not choose.  That person is as effective as lukewarm water.  According to Revelations 3:16, "But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!"   


HAVE THE GUTS TO ACTUALLY TAKE A STANCE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE, PLEASE!  


Our nation’s top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidation's (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it. 

The Democrats:

• Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
• Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
• Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
• Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
• Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
• Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

Democrats opposed:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation:

1. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
3. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
4. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
5. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
6. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
7. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
8. Civil Rights Act of 1983
9. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

The Republicans:

• Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
• Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
• Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
• Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
• Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
• Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the Democrats (153 yes, 91 no), but 80 percent of the Republicans (136 yes, 35 no), voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed the bill (46 yes, 21 no), 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it (27 yes, 6 no).

Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill.

During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities.

History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.

History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.

After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today.

As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) has never elected a black man to the United States Senate, the Republicans have elected three.

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'ARMAGEDDON!'

America has entered the Global War on Terrorism with little understanding of the enemy it faces. Yet, the enemy will not be ignored! The United States is in big…big…trouble!

The attacks on September 11, 2012, to the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, may have been well planned in  Benghazi. 

In Benghazi, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms were fired at the consulate and set on fire.  The protesters killed and raped the visiting U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.  During the protests, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, American private security employee Glen Doherty, former U.S. Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, and ten Libyan policemen were killed; and two others were injured. 

The attack followed a violent protest at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo over the low-budget anti-Muslim film made in the United States, titled, 'Innocence of Muslims,' which was considered blasphemous by many Muslims. The film that sparked the protests is a 14-minute trailer that mocks Mohammed as a womanizer, child molester and ruthless killer.  Shocking!

The film is not even in the theaters, yet! The film remains on YouTube, as of today!

It initially appeared that the assault on the Benghazi consulate was another spontaneous response. But senior U.S. officials and Middle East analysts raised questions about the motivation for the Benghazi attack, noting that it involved the use of a rocket-propelled grenade and followed an al-Qaeda call to avenge the death of a senior Libyan member of the terrorist network.


UNDERSTAND OUR ENEMY.  Our enemy is serious.  Our enemy is ready for the end of life!  Are you? 

Al-Qaeda has played a leading role in the larger movement of global jihad, splintering factions of militant Islamism intent on establishing its vision of strict Islamic rule in the Muslim world through armed action. 

Global jihadis have spent more than 40 years refining their philosophy, gaining experience, building their organization, and developing plans to reestablish what they see as the only true Islamic state on earth. 

Choose wisely on November 6, 2012.  America is their target.  We need strength in leadership for AMERICA!  For that to happen, we need you to do your part in protecting our nation through your involvement in the electoral process. 

The White House is sending mixed and confused signals to the Middle East.  First, we continue to send our dollars to countries that do not behave like our allies.  Mitt Romney condemned the attacks, then was sharply criticized by the White House. Former Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton says that a proper US response would have been to rebuke the leaders of these countries for their failure to protect US diplomats, and to threaten them with a cutoff of aid should such attacks ever happen again. 

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