'Creepy' Pastors Banned from Washington School

Officials in Bainbridge Island, Washington have hired private eyes to investigate three local Christian youth pastors who volunteered in the cafeteria at Woodward Middle School.  The three men, since banned from the property, are accused of corrupting the minds of vulnerable children by "talking about church and Christianity" while they ate or waited in line.

"We can't ignore this. There are just too many serious issues to consider here . . . That’s pretty dangerous.”
-- Mike Spence, Board President, Bainbridge Island School District

Yet, an Austin, Texas school knowingly hired a homosexual teacher who was forced to resign from an Illinois school after a police investigation into his sexting of a male student, and in a northern Michigan school district, a board member and many teachers defended a convicted homosexual pedophile teacher.

For background, read Atheists Want Pastors Barred from School Lunches in Arkansas and also read Teacher Fired for Bible Gift at Lunch in New Jersey School

In contrast, read Transvestite Teacher OKd at Washington Middle School as well as Transvestite School Cafeteria Jobs Protected by Law in California



-- From "Pastors accused of talking church at public school" by David Ham, KIRO-TV7 (Seattle) 10/9/13

Bainbridge Island Public Schools said parents brought the complaints to a district administrator last week.

Part of the complaint was that students said the presence of pastors at school was "creepy."

"That for me is when I take an issue when there are personal accusations about my character (or) creepiness (or) weirdness. My purpose is to just be with these kids and make them feel valued and to help our community," [one of the pastors, Danny] Smith said.

"The only time church may have come in is when they say 'What do you do?' my response is, 'I'm a youth pastor.' Even sometimes say I'm a leader because most of the kids don't know what a youth pastor is," said Smith, who is a youth pastor at Island Church.

"Just because of my occupation, it gets lumped into that whole ugliness that doesn't need to be," said Smith.

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From "Christian youth pastors banned from Washington state public school for allegedly speaking to students about God" posted at FoxNews.com 10/13/13

The district reportedly has said it might allow the pastors back on to campus, pending the investigation’s outcome.

Meanwhile, Smith says he merely wanted to embolden the students -- and assist in their maturation.

"I come here because I know that it's important for every student to know that they each have value and a purpose," he reportedly told a crowd of parents and school officials that recently convened to discuss the issue.

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From "Youth Pastors Barred From Middle School Over Allegations of Speaking About Christianity to Students" by Heather Clark, Christian News Network 10/14/13

Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel said that the school’s actions were unacceptable.

“More often than not, what you find is these schools allow people to come to speak to people there and have lunch with those that they know and are associated with. And in that particular situation, they can’t exclude a youth minister just because he’s a minister — because he is sharing a religious or Christian message with the students,” he stated. “He has every right to be able to be there, just like anyone else.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Wisconsin Atheists Say: Bar Pastors From Tennessee Schools as well as Christians of Faith Shouldn't be on School Boards Says ACLU

Wisc. School Bans Christmas Music, Citizens Revolt

Under pressure from atheist lawyers, school administrators in Wausau, Wisconsin distributed a legal opinion concerning "winter concert" music selections that limited traditional Christian songs and hymns; also, the elementary schools canceled seasonal concerts entirely.  In response, hundreds of taxpaying residents packed a special Wausau School Board meeting demanding that Christmas be put back into the "holiday season."

For background, read Nativity Banned at Florida School by Obama Dept. of Education and also read Christmas Music at School is a 'Form of Bullying' as well as Texas Law Tells Schools to Ignore Atheist Threats Against Christmas

In addition, read Atheists Threaten to Sue Every School in Mississippi but admit they're Short on Lawyers to Sue ALL Christians





-- From "Packed crowd fights Wausau religious-music rules" by Keith Uhlig, Daily Herald Media (Wausau, WI) 10/11/13

Even before dozens of residents stood to speak, the board voted to put the decision about whether to schedule winter concerts back in the hands of school principals. Wausau elementary schools had canceled holiday concerts, and the school district administration said the decision was related to the need for state-test preparations — not to avoid issues with religious songs.

Board members also backed away from administrative efforts to update the district’s rules on the performance of sacred music, and voted to revert to an older policy in which principals reviewed song lists of performances. The School Board also voted to forge out a new policy in the next year, with input from the community.

For many in the crowd, the limits placed on Master Singers choir director Phil Buch were an attack on Christianity and people of faith. “I think it’s time to take a stand for the majority,” said Bruce Trueblood of Wausau.

D.C. Everest Area School District music teacher Julie Burgess said that sacred music is an integral part of choral history. “Excluding sacred music would mean that students would get an incomplete education,” she said.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Wausau School Board members, Master Singers react to limit on religious music" by Katie Hoffman, Daily Herald Media (Wisconsin Rapids Tribune) 10/5/13

Phil Buch has directed Wausau West High School’s choir programs since 1981. According to the Daily Herald Media report, Buch made the decision to temporarily disband the Master Singers, an elite high school group, after a Thursday meeting with district officials.

Buch said district administrators gave music educators at Wausau schools three options for December concerts, which typically contain a significant amount of religious music: choose five secular, or non-religious, songs for each religious song performed; hold a concert and have no holiday music; or postpone any concerts in December.

Elementary school holiday concerts have been pushed to the spring.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Wausau School District limits religious music" by WAOW posted at WQOW-TV18 (Eau Claire, WI) 10/7/13

. . . school attorneys say celebrating Christmas through Christmas caroling isn't allowed, so the music committee has proposed two options.  One, the Master Singers program could include no religious songs, or two, the group could change the theme of the winter performance entirely.

As part of changing the theme, school attorneys told the committee the program could include "one religiously-themed Christmas selection along with four other varied selections, which reflected themes from religious, secular, or cultural traditions," according to the district statement. However, this was meant only as an example and not as a policy, district leaders said.

But some school board members say they're upset they haven't been involved in this decision.  "It angers me, it frustrates me that for some unknown reason that administration took it upon themselves to make what really boils down to a very significant policy determination without bringing it to the board," said Wausau School Board member Pat McKee.  But district leaders say the school board hasn't been involved in this issue for more than a decade.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Advocacy groups weigh in on Wausau Schools music issues" by Larry Lee, WSAU Radio (Wausau, WI) 10/10/13
Rory Gray from the Alliance Defending Freedom says they support defend religious liberty, right to life, and marriage and family issues. Gray says a Wausau parent contacted them. “We were actually contacted by a mother who’s opposed to the new policy, and we were also called by the Family Policy Council in Wisconsin about this issue to get some legal advice, and so we decided to send a letter to the school board why the new practice is really not a good idea and is completely unnecessary.” He says schools across America play religious music in their curriculum, because it’s part of culture and history, and because many great works of music had religious themes. “Courts have uniformly approved having those in public schools, so we were rather concerned and confused as to why the district thought that was an issue.”

Gray says the Wausau situation is unlike anything he has seen before. “Honestly, I can’t remember a lawsuit ever being filed over this sort of thing, just because the courts have been so unanimously supportive of including religious music in school choir performances.” He says this is concerning because there was nobody from outside raising an issue, yet the district basicly made it impossible to hold holiday concerts for no apparent reason. The Wisconsin Family Action President Julaine Appling agrees with Gray, but says this has stirred up interest from legal groups from both sides of the issue. . . .

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.



Because of the intimidation tactics of atheist lawyer organizations, state governments across America are educating its citizens on constitutional religious liberty by passing laws in Texas, and Louisiana, and North Carolina, and South Carolina, and Missouri, and Mississippi, and Florida, and Tennessee.

The root issue is American Religious Liberty vs. Anti-Christian Totalitarianism

Everyone Pays for 'Gay Fertility' Treatments in CA

Just as ObamaCare, on a nationwide basis, forces relatively healthy and/or younger people to buy overly expensive health insurance in order to subsidize less healthy and/or older people, legislation just signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown requires insurance companies to cover fertility treatment for homosexuals.

“Reproductive medicine is for everybody’s benefit. To restrict fertility coverage solely to heterosexual married couples violates California’s non-discrimination laws. I wrote this bill to correct that.”
-- Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, an openly homosexual Democrat representing San Francisco

Although the new law defines “infertility” as “the inability to conceive a pregnancy or to carry a pregnancy to a live birth after a year or more of regular sexual relations without contraception,” the language of the law does NOT make clear if two men having anal sex regularly for a year, to no avail, meets this criteria.

For background, read Pregnant 'Man' of Transgender 'Couple' Gives Birth and also read Gay Procreation: Successful Offspring from Two Males as well as San Francisco OKs Taxpayer-funded 'Sex Change' Surgery

UPDATE 6/3/14: All American Taxpayers Now Fund Elderly Sex Changes

UPDATE 8/26/14: ObamaCare Pays for Sexual Mutilation — Gay Agenda

UPDATE 4/4/15: Judge Orders Prisoner Sex Change Paid by Citizens

-- From "New Calif. law clarifies that fertility treatment insurance coverage applies to gay couples" by Tom Verdin, Associated Press 10/8/13

The legislation, AB460, clarifies the non-discrimination provision of an existing state law that requires health plans to offer coverage for fertility treatments, except for in vitro fertilization.

Neither Ammiano's office nor advocacy groups that supported the bill could say how many same-sex couples might be denied coverage in a given year in California but said it's a common complaint. Even without in vitro fertilization, fertility treatments are expensive, costing hundreds or thousands of dollars per cycle.

The new law, which takes effect in January, states that insurance plans offering coverage for fertility treatments cannot discriminate on any basis, including "domestic partner status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status ... sex or sexual orientation."

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Gov. Brown: Insurers Must Provide Gays Coverage for Fertility Treatments" by Barbara Hollingsworth, CNSNews.com 10/10/13

Most fertility treatments, including some that cost tens of thousands of dollars, are included, such as “diagnosis, diagnostic tests, medication, surgery, and gamete intrafallopian transfer.” Although the law covers artificial insemination, it specifically excludes in vitro fertilization.

"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recently released updated clinical guidelines on assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems. Included in the guidelines are definitions for when men and women in same-sex relationships not having vaginal intercourse should be eligible for assessment and possible treatment for infertility. Specifically, the clinical guidelines state that “for same-sex couples, failure to conceive after 6 cycles of [artificial insemination] within the 12 past months should be the indication for further assessment,” according to an analysis of the bill by the California Health Benefits Review Program.

The report noted that AB460’s “impact on costs is unknown,” including whether the additional costs of providing fertility treatment to gays and unmarried individuals will shift to other public or private premium payers.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Women Living & Procreating Without Men as well as Lab Creates Human Life with 3 Biological Parents

Wisc. Atheists Say: Bar Pastors From Tenn. Schools

After Rechoboth Baptist Church pastor Alan Stewart was invited to speak at the 9/11 memorial service at Sale Creek Middle-High School in Hamilton County, Tennessee, the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation threatened the Hamilton County Board of Education over "separation of church and state" and said that Christian pastors have no business speaking within a public school.

It appears that Hamilton County is in the cross-hairs of the Wisconsin atheist lawyers (click headlines below for previous incidents):

Appeals Court Refuses Atheists' Demands to Stop Prayer at Hamilton County Commission

Atheists Pay Kid to Play Victim re: Prayer Lawsuit vs. Hamilton County

Atheists' Prayer Ban Increases Prayer at Hamilton County School

Hamilton County Churches to Teach Bible in 20 Public Schools

For background, read Atheists Threaten to Sue Every School in Mississippi but admit they're Short on Lawyers to Sue ALL Christians

UPDATE 10/14/13: 'Creepy' Pastors Banned from Washington School



-- From "Local pastor, school system under fire for 9/11 speech" by Antwan Harris, Reporter, WRCB-TV3 (Chattanooga, TN) 10/8/13

In the transcript of [Stewart's] 7-minute speech he mentions one bible verse and the word "God" six times.

The [atheist] foundation's lawyer, Andrew Seidel, wrote in the letter [to the school] that there were numerous quotations from the bible.

The letter went on to say having Stewart there was "divisive and isolating."

Stewart says, "I could have talked about the tragedy that day. I could have talked about the terror it sent through the world that day but wanted to focus on the triumphs. Some good things happened that day."

"In the last 20 years of my life I have watched the voice of respect of the church diminish," says Stewart

After the letter, the school system says it has retrained educators about keeping those separate.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Local Pastor Defends His 9/11 Speech That Referenced God" by James Mahon, WDEF-TV12 (Chattanooga, TN) 10/8/13

Pastor Alan Stewart admits he mentioned god when giving a speech at Sale Creek High during a 9/11 Memorial service.

"Because it was a day in American History that our people came together and prayed across the land, they prayed not only in churches, they prayed in the market place, street corners and civil governments"

Attorney Andrew Seidel,"Essentially preaching a sermon to the children you know he quoted Luke 13:4 and the power of prayer, Jesus's response to 9/11, there's not much grey area here there's clearly a religious message and it's at a school sponsored event, therefore unconstitutional."

Stewart says he focused on the historical significance of the day more so than faith.

The event was also optional for students of Sale Creek Middle and High Schools.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.



Because of the intimidation tactics of atheist lawyer organizations, state governments across America are educating its citizens on constitutional religious liberty by passing laws in Texas, and Louisiana, and North Carolina, and South Carolina, and Missouri, and Mississippi, and Florida, and Tennessee.

The root issue is American Religious Liberty vs. Anti-Christian Totalitarianism

Satan vs. God Is Supreme Court Justice's Decision

The liberal media was stunned this week by an interview with New York Magazine wherein Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a Roman Catholic, quoted the belief of his religion that Satan is real and thus deceives people today into believing that there is no God and no Devil.

Justice Scalia said to the stunned journalist, "My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It’s in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil."

For background, read Justice Scalia Says Abortion and Homosexuality are Easy Cases and also read No Right to Same-sex 'Marriage:' Justice Scalia as well as Justice Antonin Scalia vs. Judicial Activism

In addition, read Scalia Slams Supreme Court Majority in his Dissent on the Defense of Marriage Act Decision

UPDATE 5/11/14: Pope Francis Warns of Satan; Media, Take Heed!

-- From "Could it be Satan? Scalia says yes." by Michael McGough, Los Angeles Times 10/7/13

Justice Antonin Scalia sat for a revealing interview with New York Magazine that is being variously described as “weird,” “bizarro” and proof that Scalia is a terrible man.

A lot of what Scalia has to say won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has followed his career or read his opinions. . . .

. . . Nor is it odd that a devout Roman Catholic would believe in the existence of the devil. As Scalia puts it to his incredulous interviewer: “Hey, c’mon, that’s standard Catholic doctrine! Every Catholic believes that.” (Maybe not every Catholic, but certainly Pope Francis, who wrote: “I believe that the devil exists” and “his greatest achievement in these times has been to make us believe he doesn’t exist.”)

To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.

From "Scalia: The Devil ‘Is Getting People Not To Believe In Him Or In God’" posted at CBS News D.C. 10/7/13

Scalia noted in the interview that he believes the Devil is trying to play a trick on humanity.

“What he’s doing now is getting people not to believe in him or in God. He’s much more successful that way,” Scalia said.

Scalia added that the Devil has gotten “wilier” over the years.

“What happened to the Devil, you know? He used to be all over the place,” Scalia said. “He used to be all over the New Testament.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "In Conversation: Antonin Scalia" by Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine 10/6/13

Washingtonians may know Scalia as charming and disarming, but most outsiders tend to regard him as either a demigod on stilts or a menace to democracy, depending on which side of the aisle they sit. A singularity on the Court and an icon on the right, Scalia is perhaps more responsible than any American alive for the mainstreaming of conservative ideas about ­jurisprudence—in particular the principles of originalism ­(interpreting the Constitution as the framers intended it rather than as an evolving document) and textualism (that statutes must be ­interpreted based on their words alone). . . .

[Jennifer Senior:] You believe in heaven and hell?
[Justice Scalia:] Oh, of course I do. Don’t you believe in heaven and hell?

No.
Oh, my. . . . It doesn’t mean you’re not going to hell, just because you don’t believe in it. That’s Catholic doctrine! Everyone is going one place or the other.

Every Catholic believes [in the Devil]? There’s a wide variety of Catholics out there …
If you are faithful to Catholic dogma, that is certainly a large part of it.

. . . You’ve got grandkids. Do you feel like the Internet has coarsened our culture at all?
I’m nervous about our civic culture. I’m not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. . . . I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways.

Like what?
One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie—or watch a television show for that matter—without hearing the constant use of the F-word—including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that! But if you portray it a lot, the society’s going to become that way. It’s very sad. And you can’t have a movie or a television show without a nude sex scene, very often having no relation to the plot. I don’t mind it when it is essential to the plot, as it sometimes is. But, my goodness! The society that watches that becomes a coarse society.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Justice Antonin Scalia: 'I Believe the Devil is at Work Today'" by Sami K. Martin, Christian Post Contributor 10/7/13

Scalia attended public elementary school and a Catholic high school in New York City. He has made no secret of his religious beliefs and how they have influenced his decisions while on the Supreme Court.

The Justice has a fondness for Pope Francis and said that he agrees with the Pope's assertion that the church should be more evangelistic.

"I have often bemoaned the fact that the Catholic Church has sort of lost that evangelistic spirit," Scalia said. "And if this pope brings it back, all the better. [Pope Francis] is the Vicar of Christ. He's the chief. I don't run down the pope."

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Justice Scalia Believes in Manners and Eternity" by Dan Delzell, Special to Christian Post 10/8/13

. . . When was the last time you heard someone in his position make such a bold declaration about the only thing that will matter to any of us 100 years from now. Talk about foresight. This man gets it. He knows that when America is no more, each one of us will still be in existence. For real.

. . . Talk about out of step with many of those in positions of power today.

. . . Antonin Scalia is in many ways a throwback to an earlier time in America. It was a time when talking about God and eternity was commonplace virtually everywhere in society. Today when somebody mentions their belief in a literal God and devil, you would think that someone shouted out the F-word.

. . . Just think how different America would be without profanity, and name calling, and hatred. And just think how full heaven would be, and how empty hell would be, if everyone would humbly kneel at the foot of Christ's cross. If only everyone would repent of his sin and believe in the Savior, what a joyous eternity we would share with one another.

To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.

'God Signs' Forbidden in Yards by Florida City

Months after First Baptist Church of Bartow, Florida distributed 300 little 4th of July yard signs showing an American flag, a cross and the words "God Bless America," the city has demanded that citizens remove the "temporary signs" from their own property.  As complaints of totalitarian government mount, the city has retracted the threatened fines against property owners, and city commissioners are now bracing for further outcry at their regular public meeting tomorrow as more residents have begun to display the signs as an act of defiance.

"There's nothing in the [sign] ordinance that defines how long you can keep a sign up before or after a holiday."
-- Bartow Mayor James Clements (who placed the sign in his front yard Friday)

For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:

South Carolina County Forbids Biblical Signage, but Not Political Signage

New Hampshire Town Allows 'Signs for Jesus' after Lawsuit

Mississippi City Forbids Cross on Church Property

Vermont Resident Disturbed by Cross on Neighbor's Property

Pennsylvania Atheists Sue to Remove Ten Commandments from Church Land

Jesus Talk & Prayer Banned at Government Senior Housing

Florida City Finds Family Guilty of Home Bible Studies

Phoenix Christian Jailed for Home Worship Gatherings

-- From "No fines for 'holiday decorations,' city says" posted at WTVT-TV13 (Tampa, FL) 10/4/13

"It is clear that some recipients of the notices [to remove their signs] have interpreted them as an indication that their message of 'God Bless America' is in violation of city code. This interpretation is not the case or the intent of the city. Instead, the issue is and remains the sign type – not the message," City Manager George Long stated in a Friday evening press release.

"Code enforcement officers regarded these signs displaying the 'God Bless America' message as holiday decorations. After the July Fourth holiday, most were removed. However, three months after the holiday, code enforcement determined that display of these signs had gone well beyond what could be considered 'holiday decorations' relating to the Fourth of July, and that their continued display violated the code."

"These notices are not citations, and therefore, do not carry any fine or penalty. In fact, Bartow code enforcement officers are not empowered to impose such fines or penalties," Long insisted.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "'God Bless America' Signs vs. City Rules: Bartow Officials Feel Wrath of City Residents" by Suzie Schottelkotte, The Ledger (Lakeland, FL) 10/4/13

Word of the [code violation notice] door hangers exploded on Bartow's social media Friday, and dozens of residents have pledged to confront the City Commission about the issue at its meeting Monday.

"We've been inundated with calls today [requesting signs]," the Rev. Ron Burks, pastor of [First Baptist Church], said Friday. "I'm heading out now to pick up another 200 signs."

"I like the sign. It expresses how I feel and what I believe," [resident Olivia Hazell] said. "There are a lot of other things in the city that they could be focusing on besides these little signs."

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Bartow bans ‘God Bless America’ signs" by Joni B. Hannigan, Managing Editor, Florida Baptist Witness 10/5/13

[Marvin] Pittman, president of the Florida Baptist State Board of Missions and a retired member of law enforcement who served for 42 years, said the ordinance “probably wouldn’t stand judicial muster.”

As the ordinance is written, Pittman said it is “a very vague and very poorly worded ordinance.”

Although people being told to remove yard signs from their lawns may be “a little thing,” Pittman said he believes the “God Bless America” signs are being singled out for special attention—and that threatening to fine individuals if they don’t remove them can be compared to a violation of their fourth amendment rights by suggesting involuntary seizure.

“It’s a continuation of the erosion of our right of expression as Christians and it’s an erosion of our constitutional rights of free expression,” Pittman said.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

The root issue is American Religious Liberty vs. Anti-Christian Totalitarianism

Obama Shuts Down Catholic Church, with Government

Besides barricading the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., an outdoor display open 24/7 that requires no government workers . . . President Obama's Pentagon may arrest any Catholic priest who volunteers services on government property during the partial federal government shutdown.  However, the President decided to allow the Navy vs. Air Force football game to be played as scheduled today at Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, MD -- which is owned and operated by the Department of the Navy.

“With the government shutdown, many GS [government services] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer.  During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so.”
-- John Schlageter, general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services

For background, read Christians in President Obama's Military? Don't Ask, Don't Tell and also read Pentagon Gay Agenda: Christians are 'Hate Groups' as well as President Obama's Army Says Christians are Worst Terrorists

In addition, read Prayer: Government Shutdown Brings D.C. to its Knees

-- From "Shutdown may affect some chapel services" by Karen Jowers, Staff writer, Military Times 10/4/13

Troops and families on some installations may find that there is no Catholic priest to celebrate Mass at their chapel on Sunday, assuming the government shutdown continues.

Whether GS priests or contract priests are working during the shutdown depends on how they are funded, said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen. If they are funded by taxpayer dollars and are not determined to be exempted from furlough, they are not working.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Priests threatened with arrest if they minister to military during shutdown" by Alex Pappas, Political Reporter, Daily Caller 10/4/13

One Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee told The Daily Caller on Friday that this “crosses a constitutional line.”

“The constitutional rights of those who put their lives on the line for this nation do not end with a government slowdown,” Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, a graduate of West Point and an Army veteran, said in a Friday statement. ”It is completely irresponsible for the president to turn his back on every American’s First Amendment rights by furloughing military contract clergy.”

Added Pompeo: “The President’s strategy during the slowdown, just as during the sequestration, is to create as much pain as possible. However, this action crosses a constitutional line of obstructing every U.S. service member’s ability to practice his or her religion.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Catholic priests in military face arrest for celebrating Mass" by Todd Starnes, FoxNews.com 10/4/13

The U.S. military has furloughed as many as 50 Catholic chaplains due to the partial suspension of government services, banning them from celebrating weekend Mass. At least one chaplain was told that if he engaged in any ministry activity, he would be subjected to disciplinary action.

[Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services] said some military bases have forbidden the contract priests from volunteering to celebrate Mass without pay.

A well-placed source told me that a furloughed Air Force chaplain was threatened after he offered to forgo pay. The chaplain was told he could not go on base or enter his chapel offices. He was also barred from engaging in any ministry activity.

The source told me the chaplain was told that if he violated those orders he and his supervisor would be subjected to disciplinary action – with the possibility of being fired.

Bill Donohue, of the Catholic League, told me he’s not surprised by the decision to furlough Catholic priests. . . . “This idea of punishing Catholics in the military - denying them their priests - is consistent with the animus this administration has demonstrated,” he said.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Priests Risk Arrest for Offering Sacraments to Catholic Troops During Shutdown" by Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews.com 10/4/13

[John Schlageter] explained, for example, if a Catholic family has a baptism scheduled for this weekend on an Air Force base staffed by a GS or contract priest, that baptism “is most likely cancelled.” If you are stationed in Japan or Korea and served by a GS or contract priest, “then you have no choice but to go without Mass this weekend.”

Steve Skojec with CatholicVote.org said, “This is outrageous. It is a violation of the First Amendment. It is a prohibition of the free exercise of religion to order priests under penalty of arrest that they cannot volunteer their time to offer Mass to the faithful on base. This cannot be allowed to stand.”

Ashley McGuire, a senior fellow with The Catholic Association, said in a statement, "The idea that a priest would be arrested for or blocked from celebrating Mass for members of the military is something out of a totalitarian horror show. The government should do everything in its power to make sure that our servicemen and women are not punished with religious liberty violations during the government shutdown. This is yet another example of the Obama administration playing politics with our religious liberty."

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Navy-Air Force football game is cleared to be played Saturday" by Don Markus, The Baltimore Sun 10/2/13

“The secretary of defense has authorized the game to move forward with the condition that there will be no [government-] appropriated funding expended,” [Naval Academy athletic director Chet] Gladchuk said.

[For reference, CLICK HERE to read how the Obama administration likewise obfuscates illegal taxpayer funding of abortion for Congress.]

“It's been a lengthy and very intense few days with the exchange of information, but that's what we do for a living,” said Gladchuk, who has been the athletic director at Navy since 2001. “We do everything we possibly can to advance the mission, and this is important to the academy and important to the community and we're just grateful to the leadership to allow us to move forward.”

The decision to play the game, made by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel in long-distance consultation with leaders at both of the service acadamies, followed 36 hours of uncertainty.

After assurance from officials at Navy and Air Force that government funds would not be used to hold the game — or in Air Force's case, travel from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Baltimore — Hagel approved the request while on a four-day military tour of South Korea.

Army is scheduled to travel to play Boston College on Saturday.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

For further background, read President Obama Redefines 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion and yet President Obama Denies Leading War Against Christianity, and so Congress Responds to Obama's Military Attack on Christians

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Public Prayer OKd by Liberal, Kansas School Board

Initially, the school board had approved an 11-word motion to allow Liberal High School (LHS) students to pray over the public address system before athletic events, but after prominent atheist lawyers threatened, the board then created a legal document to allow students to speak their "pre-game message" of "opinions and philosophies" over the P.A.

For other examples of Christian citizenship, read Randleman, North Carolina Citizens Pray at Game Despite ACLU Threat

For background, read Atheists Threaten to Sue Every School in Mississippi but admit they're Short on Lawyers to Sue ALL Christians

In addition, read Texas Law Tells Schools to Ignore Atheist Threats

-- From "Kansas school board allows student-led prayer over intercom" by Kristen Butler, UPI 9/26/13

School prayer was not on the agenda for Monday's meeting in Liberal, but board member Nick Hatcher brought it up at the last minute, saying he really missed prayer at football games.

. . . after the board's vote, students will again be allowed to initiate prayers over the intercom prior to games.

Superintendent of Schools Paul Larkin warned board members before the vote that they hadn’t considered possible problems.

"We can have student-led prayer, but if we turn away certain groups -- if you have someone who wants to serve up a prayer or a thought that isn’t the mainstream thinking -- you’re going to have a problem,” Larkin said. He suggested they get advice from the school board attorney.

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From "Board votes unanimously to allow student-led prayer" by Rachel Coleman, Leader & Times (Liberal, KS) 9/24/13

Several years ago, LHS discontinued prayer at events like football games. Administration voiced concern that, by making the P.A. system available for prayers led by students or community members, the district could be perceived as sanctioning or even promoting traditional Christian prayer in violation of federal law. Student-led prayers then moved to the football field itself, prior to the game. However, no microphone or speaker system allowed spectators to hear such prayers. Monday night's vote will permit students to utilize the P.A. system for prayer before football games and all other special activities in the district.

. . . Board member Matt Friederich supported the motion, noting that “we make it a priority to open every board meeting with prayer.”

“We sit up here like hypocrites, and we pray,” said [board member Tammy] Sutherland-Abbott, “but we won’t let our kids do it.”

Sutherland-Abbott said she understood the federal law that prohibits school officials from leading prayer, but that she was tired of allowing the opinions of a few in America dictate what “the rest of us” could do. She made a motion to add the item “Student-Led Prayer” to the evening’s agenda.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "District replaces prayer with broader definition to meet legal standard" by Rachel Coleman, Leader & Times (Liberal, KS) 10/3/13

In its second special meeting within a week, the Liberal USD 480 school board voted Wednesday to rescind the previously-adopted “Motion to allow student-led prayer at all USD 480 activities,” then replaced it with a narrower and more detailed policy.

Board member Nick Hatcher, who introduced the idea of student-led prayer at the board’s last regular meeting Sept. 23, presented a motion to rescind his sincere but hasty [previously-passed] 11-word motion.

. . . Hatcher followed with a new motion [which passed], crafted to pass muster with legal requirements [referencing a new "Pre-Game Message Procedure" -- excerpts below]:

* On the day of the game, the principal or assistant principal shall randomly select a student’s name from the list of names of students who have signed up to deliver the pre-game message.

* A time shall be set aside (no more than two minutes in length) prior to commencement of the game in which the selected student shall be entitled to deliver on the public address system a message entirely of the student’s choosing, the content of which shall be prepared by the student and not otherwise reviewed by the USD 480 Board of Education or its employees or agents. The subject of the student pre-game message must be related to the purpose of the event, and to the purpose of marking the opening of the game, honoring the occasion, the participants and those in attendance, bringing the audience to order and focusing the audience on the game; provided however, the message shall not contain racist material; threaten or bully any individual or group; incite violence or breach of the peace; contain any vulgarity, obscenity or profanity; or otherwise disturb or disrupt the educational process.

To read the entire article above, and the entire "Pre-Game Message Procedure," CLICK HERE.

Because of the intimidation tactics of atheist lawyer organizations, state governments across America are educating its citizens on constitutional religious liberty by passing laws in Texas, and Louisiana, and North Carolina, and South Carolina, and Missouri, and Mississippi, and Florida, and Tennessee.

The root issue is American Religious Liberty vs. Anti-Christian Totalitarianism

To read the latest attacks on Christian prayer by atheists, click label "PRAYER" below:

Oct. is Homosexual Indoctrination Month at School

Every June, President Obama declares homosexual "Pride Month," but a summer month yields no recruitment opportunities in schools, so with the help of public "educators," homosexualists across the nation have declared October as "LGBT History Month."

Porn stars and transgender drag queens in the lessons

“I would like to give an invitation to everyone . . . We need support from everyone. Come out and show your support, at the same time you might learn something as well."
-- Jude Magaro, vice president of Shades of Queer, Texas A&M University

For background, read President Obama & Democrats Celebrate Deviant Sex Month and also read White House Says Gay Recruitment of Kids Successful as well as Senate Codifies Gay Agenda in School Reform Bill

And read how the government forces homosexual indoctrination in schools.

In addition, read Uncloseted 'Gay Kids' Get Money at Elmhurst College as well as Tennessee College OKs Homosexual Indoctrination

-- From "Gay history commemoration begins" by Bradley D'Sousa, The Battalion (Texas A&M) 10/2/13

October marks the start of LGBT History Month, an appreciation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history as well as the history behind the gay rights movement. In observance of LGBT History Month, the Texas A&M GLBT Resource Center and other organizations are hosting various events as part of Coming Out Week, which starts Oct. 10.

Among the events, “The Coming Out Monologues” will he held Oct. 11 on Coming Out Day, which is dedicated to encouraging honest living in regards to gender identity and sexual orientation.

Sidney Gardner, program coordinator of the GLBT Resource Center, said Coming Out Day is meant to inspire people to be comfortable with their identity.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "UNL honors LGBT History Month with speakers, workshops, drag show" by Tyler Williams, Daily Nebraskan (Lincoln, NE) 10/1/13

. . . related to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is a photo display featured in the Nebraska Union’s Rotunda Gallery until Oct. 11. The display is a double feature with photos from Jeff Sheng’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and “Fearless” collections. The first collection features photos from closeted service members before the repeal of the policy in the armed forces that kept homosexuality in the military under wraps.

. . . The other exhibit displays photographs of closeted athletes who kept their sexuality hidden for fear of ridicule and rejection in their communities.

On Oct. 25, the third-annual Guys and Dolls Drag Show will take place at 7 p.m. in the union’s Centennial Room.

[Amy Vanderpool, a University of Nebraska educational psychology graduate student and the Graduate Assistant for the LGBT resource center said,] “It’s a fun, low-stress way to figure out if drag is for you,”

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From "College Gay Pride Celebrations Come Under Attack Despite Institutional Support" by Ashley Alman, The Huffington Post 10/3/13

Roger Hines, a former Georgia state legislator and retired high school teacher, had choice words for the Kennesaw State University community in a Sunday newspaper column, calling the promotion of LGBT History Month "a slap in the face" to local citizens.

"No one who has lived in Georgia for six months could be in doubt about the state's predominant culture," Hines wrote. "We aren’t Washington state, and Atlanta isn’t San Francisco either, or not yet."

Hines chastised universities for accepting state funds, then supporting the gay community.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Biting the hand that feeds you: The way of academia" by Roger Hines, Cherokee Tribune (Canton, GA) 9/29/13

At issue is a great university [Kennesaw State University (KSU)] that was made great by supportive, local community leaders, the general citizenry, and thousands of tuition-paying students, many of whom will just have to endure the month of October. That university, instead of honoring the hand that has fed it, has taken a cultural stand that is anathema to those who foot its bills.

. . .

“T” is for transgender. This one makes me sad, because any way you cut it, it argues that God made a mistake. We should never be unkind to anyone who grapples with this issue, but neither should we allow a tax-supported university to tout or defend it.

“Q” is the most disturbing, not because it stands for queer, which it does, but because it also stands for “questioning.” In other words, if a 17- or 18-year-old freshman thinks his or her parents are so yesterday and has questions about his or her sexuality, KSU has answers. Or at least aid and comfort. KSU, that’s not why we have given you all these decades of support. Please get on with mathematics, history, your nursing program, etc.

. . . I will never believe that most Georgians approve of KSU or any of their other universities pressing or encouraging the gay agenda. But universities do it anyhow. It is the way of academia. They ply state legislators for funds and then foster such things as gay politics that neither state legislators nor their constituents approve of. This should cease.

To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.

From "Parents warned about porn in schools" by Bob Unruh, World Net Daily 10/2/13

Many [K-12] schools plan to incorporate LGBT History Month into lessons.

On Oct. 18, Equality Forum will feature “Tom of Finland,” who has a foundation promoting his explicit sex images, “erotic art galleries” and “artist and museum links” that include explicit nude images.

Also featured, on the 10th, will be “Patrick Califia,” born a woman and now described as a “bisexual transman.”

“It is deeply disturbing that the organizers of LGBT History Month think our kids should be celebrating homoerotic authors and porn producers,” stated Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute. “This should be a serious wake-up call for anyone who still thinks gay history in schools is a good idea.”

PJI has warned parents to take immediate action to prevent their children from being blindsided this month by “explicit and highly objectionable material.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Arrests: Christian Beaten at Seattle’s Gay Pridefest as well as Kentucky: Gays Protected Class, Christians Aren't

Islam Indoctrination Dropped at Ohio Middle School

After Jenny McKeigue, a lone parent aided by Christian lawyers, threatened a lawsuit, the Olmsted Falls City Schools opted to omit the video titled “30 Days: Muslim and America” from the 7th grade world history classes. The mother of three children in the district made the constitutional challenge after district officials scoffed at her complaint that her son “was required to memorize the 5 Pillars of Islam.”

“In response to McKeigue’s criticism, the school district invited Olmsted Falls pastors to review the video. To the school district’s chagrin, several pastors agreed with McKeigue and also questioned the accuracy of the video. Dr. Todd Hoadley, school superintendent at the time, disregarded their concerns. At a March 2013 board meeting, and in private conversations, he defended the video with the astonishing argument that the inaccuracies of the video proved its value.”
-- Thomas More Law Center

For background, read Islam Favored over Christianity in Florida Textbook and also read Tennessee School Visits Mosque, No Time for Church as well as Prayer Back in Wisconsin School - Muslim Prayer, That is

-- From "Education Insider" by Charlie Boss and Jennifer Smith Richards, Columbus Dispatch 10/2/13

A conservative Christian group has criticized the Dublin schools superintendent for allowing students to watch a video about Islam in the last district he led.

[Richard Thompson of] The Thomas More Law Center says the Olmsted Falls district near Cleveland recently agreed to stop showing the video 30 Days: Muslims and America in seventh-grade world history classes after the law center threatened a constitutional challenge.

Todd Hoadley was superintendent of the Cleveland-area district until he was hired at Dublin last school year. “Dr. Todd Hoadley, school superintendent at the time, disregarded their concerns,” the group wrote in a media release.

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From "School cancels Muslim proselytizing in class" posted at World Net Daily 9/27/13

[Richard Thompson of the Thomas More Law Center was] distressed to find during the course of his investigation that at least one teacher had ridiculed and disparaged the parent who raised concerns about the proselytizing, and “even suggesting she should be fired from her part time job as alumni director for the school.”

. . . Thomas More Law Center [reported] “The questionable video features a Christian (Dave) agreeing to embrace the religion of Islam and the Muslim culture by living with a Muslim family for 30 days in Dearborn, Michigan. Dave was required to live, dress and eat as a Muslim, study the Quran daily and participate in Muslim prayer. The video features several instances of Muslim prayer and even a look at a ‘how to pray in Islam’ sheet complete with Dave practicing how to pray and reciting lines such as ‘I testify that there is no God other than the Almighty’ and ‘I testify that Mohammad is the messenger of God.’”

Further, it portrays non-Muslims as “uneducated bigots” and tells students “if they hear someone say something wrong about Islam, it is their responsibility to fix it.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read President Obama Praises Islam for Making America What It Is as well as Muslim Beheads Christians in New Jersey per Koran

Taxpayers Fund Abortions for Congress: New Ruling

President Obama's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ruled yesterday that the special health insurance carve-out for members of Congress and their staffs will pay for abortions.  The OPM action came after these six-figure government workers complained to the president that ObamaCare would cost them too much, so Obama promised that American taxpayers would fund 75% of their health insurance.

“You can’t break the law, Mr. President, and just issue a final rule as if somehow you’re comporting with the law. We don’t want to subsidize abortion on demand, and the public is absolutely with us.”
-- Congressman Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ)

For background, read ObamaCare Covers Abortion & Pays Abortionists and also read Report Says Not Enough Abortions - ObamaCare the Answer as well as Bishops Say Catholic Church Will Defy ObamaCare

In addition, read President Obama Redefines 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion using ObamaCare

-- From "Obama administration: Lawmakers, staff can get abortion coverage" by Jacqueline Klimas, The Washington Times 9/30/13

Federal law generally prevents taxpayer money from being used to pay for abortions, but OPM said the health care plans offered through the exchange were private. The agency also said it will make sure the money is segregated so that the portion that pays for abortions comes out of the employees’ own contributions, which amounts to about a quarter of the premiums.

Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican, said OPM is violating a law he wrote in 1983 that prohibits OPM from paying any expenses to administer plans that cover abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or when the mother’s life is in danger.

He said he has asked lawyers in the House to see whether a lawsuit could be filed and that pro-life groups also are taking a look.

Democrats applauded the ruling, saying it ensures equal access to abortions.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Obama Admin Will Break Law to Fund Abortions for Congress, Congressional Staff" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 9/30/13

Some 84 Members of Congress sent a letter to OPM Acting Director Elaine Kaplan earlier this month. The letter pointed out that the Smith amendment (first offered in 1983 by Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ) is annually attached to the Financial Services Appropriations bill and governs activities by OPM employees. Specifically the Smith amendment states that no funds may be used to “pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefits program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions.”

The Member letter specifies that collecting and disburses premiums for health plans that include elective abortion are administrative activities and would constitute a clear violation of the Smith amendment.  While all insurance plans for Federal employees under the FEHBP exclude elective abortion, the Obamacare law deviated from this longstanding policy and explicitly allowed plans on the new health care exchanges to include coverage for all abortion.

In the final rule, OPM specifies that, despite the Smith amendment, the Obama administration will carry out administrative tasks in conjunction with health plans that include elective abortion.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Every Rhode Island Resident on Obamacare is Forced to Pay for Abortions" by Susan T. Muskett, J.D., LifeNews.com 10/1/13

In testimony on September 12 before the Rhode Island House Committee on Finance, the Director of the Rhode Island Exchange confirmed that all of the health insurance plans on the Rhode Island Exchange will cover abortion.

The Rhode Island Exchange will not even have a federally administered multi-state plan that doesn’t cover elective abortion. ObamaCare requires each Exchange to have at least one federally administered multi-state plan that doesn’t cover elective abortion. But this requirement is phased in and the federal government has until 2017 to implement a multi-state plan in every Exchange. Rhode Island is not among the initial states in which a multi-state plan will operate.

The federal government gave over $82 million to the state of Rhode Island to establish its Exchange. The result? A marketplace exclusively for abortion-covering plans.

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From "How Obamacare Will Subsidize Abortion" by Chuck Donovan, Charlotte Lozier Institute, posted at National Review Online 9/25/13

[The Multi-State Plans (MSPs)] provision of Obamacare represented a partial victory for progressive forces who favored a national, single-payer system. In its place they accepted a category of health-insurance plans managed by the Office of Personnel Management under contracts with private insurance companies. Unlike the federal employee health plans, which are available only to federal workers and their families, these MSPs are guaranteed a place on each state (and District of Columbia) health-care exchange and will therefore be available to every resident of the United States. By virtue of being offered on the exchanges, premiums paid to purchase these plans will be eligible for the generous scheme of subsidies created under Obamacare.

Passage of MSPs required one other major finesse from Democrats on the Hill. In order to deal with the abortion coverage MSPs might provide, the law stipulated that each state must have at least two MSPs and that at least one of them must be a plan that confines its abortion coverage to situations defined by the Hyde Amendment, which are, to simplify a bit, cases of rape, incest, or where the life of the mother is in danger. While the law provided no specific assurance that the other MSPs (one or possibly many more) would cover elective abortion, it has seemed clear from the start (and blisteringly obvious from observing its past patterns) that the Obama administration would ensure that abortion-covering state plans (let’s call them ASPs) would be available everywhere possible (especially inasmuch as the MSP program might ultimately prove a gateway to single-payer).

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read President Says His Daughters Need ObamaCare's Free Contraceptives

In addition, read President Obama Asks God to Bless Planned Parenthood

Prayer: Gov't Shutdown Brings D.C. to its Knees

Who'da thunk it? Washington D.C. seeks God!

People whose livelihood depends on federal government spending are praying that God will bless a never-ending flow of taxpayer dollars.

On a rare, dull Sunday stuck in D.C. with nothing to do, some congressmen go to church, while others go hiking instead.

For background, read Prayer Needed - Government Isn't the Solution and also read Congress: America No Longer a Christian Nation as well as Most States Tell Supreme Court: We Pray in Jesus' Name

In addition, read President Obama Prays to an Unknown God

-- From "Faced with a shutdown, federal workers turn to prayer and preparedness" by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Lisa Rein, Washington Post 9/29/13

At Washington’s National Zoo . . . electrician Stephen Gripper planned to check the lighting in the Great Cats exhibit. Then he was going to bow his head and pray. “I’m literally praying for God’s grace to set America straight.” . . . he said that government work was once synonymous with job security.

. . . [co-worker] Valerie Dyson, said she has enough savings to manage for two or three weeks. “I just pray.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "How Congress kills time on a rare Washington weekend" by Ed O’Keefe, Washington Post 9/29/13

With precious hours remaining until the end of the fiscal year, there were no meetings between House and Senate leaders Sunday to break the logjam and avoid a government shutdown. Both sides dug in, leaving lawmakers with plenty of free time.

[Rep. Vicki] Hartzler [R-Mo.] did what many Washingtonians do on a Sunday morning and headed for the pews. She started with a rare hour-long prayer service in the House chapel and later attended services at Capitol Hill Baptist Church.

The prayer service was the idea of Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), who remembered how Benjamin Franklin summoned the Founding Fathers to prayer during a deadlock at the Constitutional Convention.

[In contrast, Hawaii Democrat Rep. Tulsi] Gabbard spends several weekends in the District because a flight to Hawaii can take a whole day. Knowing that many of her colleagues were in town with nothing to do, “I woke up and gave a few people a phone call and said, ‘Hey, let’s go for a hike.’ ”

She piled into a car with Reps. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) and Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) and headed for the Billy Goat Trail along the Potomac River in Maryland.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "With A Call For Prayer, Cruz Wraps Up Protest Against Obamacare" by Mark Memmott and Doreen McCallister 9/25/13

Saying that "it's fitting that this debate concludes with a prayer" because he believes Americans are pleading with Congress to defund President Obama's health care law, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas just wrapped up his marathon protest on the Senate floor.

"The pleas from the American people," he said of what he sees as the public's opposition to Obamacare, "are deafening."

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Pastor Warns America of Socialism, Calls for Prayer

Preacher Arrested: 'Breach of the Peace' on Street

Josh Williamson was standing in a busy outdoor shopping area in Perth, Scotland preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, without amplification and NOT mentioning any hot-button social issues such as homosexuality, and within minutes, police arrived to shut him up.  Williamson said he wouldn't stop preaching because it was perfectly lawful, so the police arrested him. Days later, the entire fiasco was repeated, but with a longer time in jail.

“This is the third arrest in as many months. These street preachers are not breaking any laws and are perfectly within their rights. The police are overreaching their authority and misapplying the law. Their actions show an increasing hostility towards Christianity.
-- Andrea Minichiello Williams, CEO of Christian Legal Centre

For background, Missouri Police Steal Preacher's Amplifier to Shut Him Up and also read Pastor Arrested in California for Reading Bible in Public as well as Jesus Talk Outlawed in New Orleans, Arrests Made

And, would you believe this? Christians Arrested in Georgia for Standing in Public with Sign



-- From "Minister may sue after preaching called unholy row" by Nick Jedrzejewski, The Scotsman 9/21/13

Josh Williamson, who leads the Craigie Reformed Baptist Church in Perth, was quoting from the Gospel of St John when he was approached by officers who told him they had received a number of complaints about the noise.

Mr Williamson, 27, said: “The officer told me to stop as I was breaking the law. I asked him what law I was breaking and he replied that I was in breach of the peace.

“When I asked him to explain, he pointed to my mp3 recorder and said I was too loud. I pointed out to the officer that I wasn’t using amplification, but just my natural voice. I then asked him what a reasonable sound level would be.

“The police officer replied that the noise level isn’t the issue, but rather that a complaint had been made. . . . After a few more minutes I was placed in the back of a police van.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Cops arrest gobby Aussie minister for preaching too loudly in street" by Angus Mackinnon, Daily Star (London) 9/20/13

Officers told him they received complaints about his methods or preaching.

The preacher was telling Scots shoppers "the truth will set you free" when he was hauled into the back of a police van.

He was driven to Perth police station where he was given a verbal warning.

The preacher added: "It was basically, if you keep doing it we'll keep going through this process."

Angry shoppers then abused the clergyman when he returned to Perth High Street.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Christian street preacher arrested in Scotland" posted at Christian Concern 9/19/13

The officer insisted that he was not allowed to preach and told Rev Williamson that he would be arrested if he continued. When Rev Williamson said that he would not comply because he was not breaking the law, the officer placed him under arrest for breach of the peace.

Rev Williamson was taken to Perth police station, interviewed and released with a caution.

A second man, who spoke up in defence of Rev Williamson’s right to preach, was also arrested at the scene.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Christian street preacher arrested again in Scotland" posted at Christian Today 9/27/13

The Reverend Josh Williamson was arrested last week for "breach of the peace" and again on Saturday in relation to the same charge.

Both arrests occurred while he was preaching on Perth High Street.

After his arrest on Saturday, he was to be held in custody until Monday but was instead released at 9.30pm on Saturday evening after being held for over five hours in the cells.

Mr Williamson said that although he had been released, he was unsure as to whether this was the end of police action against him.

"Each time I get told a different thing. It seems that 'noise' is subjective, and the person complaining determines if something is too loud or not."

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read the myriad instances of Christians arrested for speaking the Truth.