1. Christian brothers lose their cable TV show because they are Christian. 2. Men kissing men and punishing Christians at the NFL draft. 3. Janet Porter joins us via Skype for commentary (c) 2014, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 5/14 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite
Archives for 2014
County Judge Homosexualizes "Marriage" in Arkansas — 5-20-14
1. A county judge has ruled to homosexualize “marriage” in Arkansas 2. The Secretary of Defense wants cross-dressing transgenders in the military 3. Two Christian brothers get fired from their cable TV show because they are Christian (c) 2014, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 5/14 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite
John Kerry calls Israel "Apartheid," blasted by Dems — 5-19-14
1. Democrats oppose Secretary of State John Kerry for his attacks on Israel 2. Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to amend the Israeli Constitution to define Israel as Jewish 3. Dennis Prager refutes false accusations of Apartheid (c) 2014, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 5/14 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite
'Gay' Scoutmaster Jailed 30 years for Molesting Boys — 5-14-14 – 0264
1. A homosexual boy scout master has been sentenced to jail for 30 years for molesting boy scouts 2. The Supreme Court of Maine rules that men can use women’s bathrooms 3. College students are surprised by Hillary Clinton’s stand on gay “marriage.”
(c) 2014, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 5/14 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite
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"Gun Free Zone" Stickers Fail, FedEx-ers Shot — 5-15-14
1. A criminal who ignores gun-Free Zone Stickers shoots FedEx Workers 2. A state legislator wants IRS and BLM federal employees disarmed. 3. The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee says the IRS should stop targeting conservatives. (c) 2014, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 5/14 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite
Your taxes buy Marijuana for welfare cheats — 5-13-14
1. You the tax-payer are now buying marijuana for welfare recipients in Colorado. 2. The President of Uraguay says Colorado’s pot law is a joke. 3. The Veterans Administration puts 40 veterans on a euthanasia list. (c) 2014, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 5/14 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite
Supreme Court 5-4: "Jesus Prayers" are Constitutional — 5-12-14
1. The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-4 that it’s OK to pray “in Jesus’ name” before government meetings. 2. This is a victory for our supporters, who fought this battle for seven years 3. We interview Reverend Rob Schenck who attended the case. (c) 2014, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 5/14 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite
Victory! Supreme Court rules 5-4 "Jesus Prayers" are OK
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Victory! Supreme Court rules 5-4 “Jesus Prayers” are OK
Hallelujah! Today YOU helped score a VICTORY at the U.S. Supreme Court, reaching the pinnacle of seven years of work and prayer with The Pray In Jesus Name Project.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that it’s OK for pastors to pray “in Jesus’ name” at city council meetings. Five opinions were written in Greece v. Galloway, with three supporting opinions and two opposing.
Justice Kennedy wrote for the majority (joined by Roberts and Alito), ruling:
“The town of Greece does not violate the First Amendment by opening its meetings with prayer that comports with our tradition, and does not coerce participation by nonadherents.”
“To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures that sponsor prayers and the courts that are asked to decide these cases to act as supervisors and censors of religious speech,” Kennedy wrote. [Read all the opinions here.]
In other words, the First Amendment clearly protects the right to pray “in Jesus’ name.”
A concurring opinion by Justices Thomas and Scalia went further, declaring the government does not coerce others to pray simply by allowing freedom of speech. They argued a ‘coercion’ test would be satisfied “only if a local government had actually compelled people to be followers of one faith, such as requiring people to go to religious services or to pay taxes to pay for religious institutions,” reports SCOTUS blog.
The four liberal justices tried but failed to ban Jesus prayers, but complained nonetheless.
Justice Kagan wrote for the minority: “even in a partly legislative body, [citizens] should not confront government-sponsored worship that divides them along religious lines.” Kagan was predictably joined by Sotomayor and Ginsburg. Justice Breyer wrote his own dissenting opinion.
Justice Alito corrected the facts in Kagan’s dissent in a fifth opinion, saying “when complaints were received, the town made it clear that it would permit any interested residents, including nonbelievers, to provide an invocation, and the town has never refused a request to offer an invocation.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comments: I’ve said all along, people from all faiths can freely take turns.
In 2006 I faxed the Greece Town Supervisor John Auberger, inviting him to hire the Christian lawyers at Alliance Defending Freedom, which he did. Those lawyers won the argument. YOU helped defend freedom today.
But military chaplains are not directly affected by this ruling, just yet. Anti-Jesus complainers will ignore this ruling, and continue to hound military chaplains who pray in Jesus’ name, until we get a positive law passed by Congress.]
Let’s keep petitioning Congress to restore freedom for military chaplains:
Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 100 Senators (saving you time!) to PROTECT MILITARY CHAPLAINS RIGHT TO PRAY “IN JESUS’ NAME” or according to their conscience. Or sign free option here.
Military stands with Jesus at National Day of Prayer
Today, May 1st, is the National Day of Prayer. To find an event in your city, select here.
Thankfully, the Department of Defense is allowing uniformed soldiers to attend the National Day of Prayer events in Washington DC, ignoring ridiculous complaints by anti-Christian groups that soldiers are not allowed to express their Christian faith while in uniform.
“The U.S. military has no plans to back out of a National Day of Prayer event after being urged by a prominent activist group to withdraw,” reports ChristianNews.net.
“Mikey Weinstein, the president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, recently sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, asking that the Department of Defense distance itself from next month’s observance in Washington. Weinstein said that military participation in the event would suggest the government endorsement of Christianity.”
Weinstein also demanded Christians be punished if they pray in uniform.
He “respectfully demands that [Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel] aggressively investigate and appropriately punish any of the individuals and/or organizations that would have allowed for uniformed personnel to participate in this sectarian spectacle.”
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ 7-minute TV commentary on why the military is allowing Christian soldiers to participate in the Day of Prayer–>
Punish soldiers or even chaplains if they dare to express their Christian faith, or attend a Christian-led prayer event? No way.
Thankfully, the Pentagon is once again ignoring the anti-Christian complainers.
“According to Stars & Stripes, the military has no plans to withdraw from the gathering, which has been observed annually via the National Day of Prayer Task Force for over the past two decades.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: Every soldier, especially Christian soldiers, should have the same First Amendment rights that minority faiths have. Nobody complains when Muslims pray to Allah. But when Christians pray publicly in Jesus’ name, the demons howls like lunatics, and so do some people.]
Let’s petition Congress to protect military chaplains who pray “in Jesus’ name.”
Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 100 Senators (saving you time!) to PROTECT MILITARY CHAPLAINS RIGHT TO PRAY “IN JESUS’ NAME” or according to their conscience. Or sign free option here.
Jesus wins? Oral arguments at Supreme Court. Chaps predicts 6-3 decision.
I am amazed and relieved. I just read all of October’s oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court today in the case of Greece vs. Galloway. I am almost giddy. I think we’re about to make history in favor of the right to pray in Jesus’ name in government forums.
I hereby predict the court will rule 6-3 in favor of Jesus prayers, announcing next July.
By the tone and tenor of the questioning, it is quite clear that all five Republican-appointed Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Kennedy (with Thomas silent) did affirm and will rule in favor of the right to pray in Jesus’ name, even at city council meetings.
A sixth Democrat-appointed Justice Breyer asked questions implying he favors allowing Jesus prayers, applying the same standard for legislative prayers in all city councils and state legislatures that is currently used by the U.S. Congress, which allows diversity.
The court’s three female Democrat-appointed Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan however, initially appear to oppose Jesus prayers in their questioning.
Here is a link to the full text of the oral arguments. Lawyers Hungar and Gershengorn argued in favor of allowing pastors to pray “in Jesus’ name” when giving the invocation before city council meetings.
The anti-Jesus lawyer Laylock argued against allowing Jesus prayers, and directly asked the government to censor the word Jesus Christ from prayers. Read in particular pages 24-25, 40-41, and 51-52. The Justices cracked jokes about allowing atheist prayers.
The bottom line was summarized by Justice Kagan, who may yet surprise me and make this a 7-2 decision. Here’s her quote.
JUSTICE KAGAN: All hypotheticals aside, isn’t the question mostly here in most communities whether the kind of language that I began with, which refers repeatedly to Jesus Christ, which is language that is accepted and admired and incredibly important to the majority members of a community, but is not accepted by a minority, whether that language will be allowed in a public town session like this one. That’s really the question, isn’t it?
MR. LAYCOCK: That’s the issue that actually arises in the case.
JUSTICE KAGAN: That’s the issue that actually arises. Here’s what — I don’t think that this is an easy question. I think it’s hard, because of this. I think it’s hard because the Court lays down these rules and everybody thinks that the Court is being hostile to religion and people get unhappy and angry and agitated in various kinds of ways.
JUSTICE KENNEDY: It just seems to me that enforcing that standard and the standard I suggested involves the State very heavily in the censorship and – and the approval or disapproval of prayers.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: Bingo. Kennedy nailed it. The anti-Jesus complainers are demanding state censorship of citizens’ speech and prayer content. That violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Ballgame. We will win, God willing.]
Now let’s demand Congress restore religious freedom for military chaplains and troops:
Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 100 Senators (saving you time!) to PROTECT MILITARY CHAPLAINS RIGHT TO PRAY “IN JESUS’ NAME” or according to their conscience. Or sign free option here.
God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
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IRS threatens to Prosecute Christians and Tea-Party Conservatives
HOT PETITION! Repeal the 1954 Johnson Amendment and revoke the IRS’s power to Tax Churches and Non-profits if they endorse political candidates. Please select, sign, and WE WILL FAX your petition to all 535 members of Congress (saving you time!)
IRS threatens to Prosecute Christians and Tea-Party Conservatives
The IRS tax-exempt organization chief Lois Lerner is pleading the 5th Amendment before Congress, after shocking emails show she may have colluded with the Department of Justice to threaten criminal prosecution of Tea-Party Conservative groups, in an effort to silence them from criticizing the Obama Administration or exercising their First Amendment rights, reports ConservativeActionAlerts.com
“Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) the current chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs released their response to documents they read that were obtained by Judicial Watch, which investigates and exposes government corruption and abuse.
“Reps. Issa and Jordan allege that the newly released IRS documents reveal that Lois Lerner, the Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations office at the time, was in contact with Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department officials regarding possible prosecutions of tax-exempt groups Lerner deemed to be ‘dangerous’ to the Democrats especially the Obama administration.
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ 7-minute TV analysis of the IRS corruption exposed by Chairman Issa of the oversight committee (at the 11:00 minute mark)–>
“The release of new documents underscores the political nature of IRS Tea Party targeting and the extent to which supposed apolitical officials took direction from elected Democrats,” Chairman Issa said in a press statement on Wednesday.
“These emails are part of an overwhelming body of evidence that political pressure from prominent Democrats led to the targeting of Americans for their political beliefs,” added Issa.
“Now I see why the IRS is scared to give up the rest of Lois Lerner’s emails,” said Chairman Jordan.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comments: The IRS must remain politically neutral, and recognize its own laws which permit conservative and liberal groups alike, for profit and non-profit, to report the news and blog about issues of concern to their values. To gag the prophetic voice of the press, or non-profit church and charity groups under attack (defending themselves) by the corrupt government, to tax the church or charity groups for exercising their First Amendment rights, is actually an establishment of anti-Christian religion, and must be resisted. We stand with Chairman Issa of the Oversight Committee, and pray for him as scripture commands us to pray for all in authority, 1 Tim 2:2.]
Let’s petition Congress to restore free speech to pastors under fire by the IRS:
Obama: IRS should Tax Churches and Conservatives. Take action!
After IRS officials met 155 times in the White House with Obama Administration officials, and the IRS confessed engaging in illegal and biased taxation of conservative groups, including pro-life and Christian groups, nobody was held accountable.
That IRS scandal caused some liberals to call for President Obama’s impeachment, as the worst abuse of IRS power since President Nixon.
Shockingly, Obama is now “doubling-down” and pushing for even more IRS persecution and taxation of Christian groups, including non-profit 501c4s and soon 501c3s and Churches, reports Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel.
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ NEW television interview with Pastor Mark Cowart, a leader in the “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” initiative to help churches take on the IRS–>
Sadly, Obama “has quietly released a proposed set of new IRS regulations that, if implemented, will immediately, unlawfully and permanently muzzle conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations and their individual employees.”
“These Orwellian regulations will prohibit conservative 501(c)(4) organizations from using words like ‘oppose,’ ‘vote,’ or ‘defeat.’ Their timing, prior to a pivotal election, is no coincidence and provides yet another example of Obama’s using the IRS for ‘progressive’ political gain.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: Pastors like Mark Cowart (interviewed above) are heroes, who dare to stand up for religious freedom of speech, and dare to stand up to the IRS taxation of Christian speech. But the First Amendment requires Churches and non-profits must remain exempt from government tyranny.]
Let’s petition all 535 Congressmen and Senators to stand against oppressive IRS threats to tax conservatives and churches…
The 1954 Johnson Amendment law is not just unconstitutional, it’s also un-American. Hundreds of courageous pastors take a stand every October, by violating the Johnson Amendment law and preaching about politics (just one Sunday per year) in the pulpit. Many send transcripts to the IRS demanding their own punishment, and daring the IRS to sue them in court, or try to revoke their church’s non-profit IRS status.
So far the IRS has failed, repeatedly, to enforce the Johnson Amendment, because they themselves admit the law violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The government cannot tax or punish free speech, especially in church. Religion itself is highly political, because God is God, and the devil wants to rule in His place. Nowadays the devil uses corrupt politicians to rule society and pass immoral laws.
Throughout America’s history, starting with the Revolution, our nation’s pastors spoke freely on political and moral issues of their day. It was not only their privilege but their duty to preach truth to power, against immorality and corruption. Historian James H. Huston wrote of 1776: “Preachers seemed to vie with their brethren in other colonies in arousing their congregations against George III.” Mr. Huston also discovered the House of Representatives sponsored church services in its chambers for the first 100 years. They only stopped when better transportation took members of Congress home for the weekend.
In the mid-nineteenth century, evangelical Christians were primary agents in shaping American political culture and ending slavery, according to Richard Carwardine, author of Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. “Political sermons, triumphalism and doom laden, redolent with biblical imagery and theological terminology, were a feature of the age,” he writes.
In the 1856 election, one minister distilled the question before voters as a contest pitting “truth and falsehood, liberty and tyranny, light and darkness, holiness and sin . . . the two great armies of the battlefield of the universe, each contending for victory.” Language like this today earns a pastor a visit or letter from the Internal Revenue Service.
In 1992, the Church at Pierce Creek in Vestal, New York placed a newspaper ad warning Christians not to vote for Bill Clinton for president. Casting a vote for Clinton, the ad warned in rhetoric echoing 1856, would be committing a sin. The IRS took notice and three years later revoked the conservative church’s tax exemption.
But the IRS does not enforce this law fairly. For example in 1994 another church in New York welcomed “New York governor Mario Cuomo (D-NY) campaigned for reelection on a Sunday morning at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Harlem. Cuomo was rewarded with a long, loud round of applause and an unequivocal endorsement from the pastor,” according to a Newsday report. But the IRS never stops liberals. The American Center for Law and Justice, which represented the Church at Pierce Creek, uncovered evidence at trial that the IRS knew of more than 500 instances in which candidates appeared before churches, as happened with Governor Cuomo and Bethel A.M.E., but took no action to revoke these churches’ tax-exempt status.
The Johnson law is being used by the Government to shape the messages of the Church and its pastors. Conservative churches are silenced, but liberal churches are freely politicized. This Goverment censorship of ANY Church is plain and simple illegal. The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech.” Yet that is exactly what Congress did, and the IRS now does, by silencing churches.
Bottom line: Our pastors are being silenced. Let’s take the gag off conservative churches, and restore the First Amendment freedom of speech to our pulpits. Sign our new petition!
Friends, our Congress must vote on the record, for or against pulpit freedom. Let’s take a stand today, and demand free speech be restored to churches and pastors.
God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
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Congress slams Air Force for threatening Religious Freedom. Take action!
Urgent Petition! Defend Military Chapels. Demand Congress stop desecration of Christian chapels and altars on military bases. Select here, sign petition, we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators (saving you time!) Or sign free option here.
Congress slams Air Force for threatening Religious Freedom. Take action!
Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) publicly grilled Air Force leadership for their failure to protect religious freedom for Academy cadets, who were threatened with punishment for posting Bible verses on their public white-boards outside their dormitory rooms.
Last month we reported cadets at the Air Force Academy are under fire because they exercised their First Amendment right to post bible verses on their personal white boards in the hallway outside their rooms. Many displayed scriptures with positive, uplifting Bible verses proclaiming their faith in Jesus Christ, and encouraging others.
But certain anti-Christian complainers demanded the scriptures be erased, and the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy admitted that senior officers met with and pressured at least one cadet to remove the Bible verses, and he complied, and erased them.
Had he not erased the Bible, he would have been punished, admitted at least one Air Force lawyer, who apparently has never read the First Amendment of the Constitution, and also wants to violate DoD regulations and federal law passed by Congress last year. This drew the attention of the U.S. Congress, who grilled Air Force leaders last week in hearings on Capitol Hill.
Watch! Congressman Randy Forbes grills the SecAF and CSAF demanding religious freedom for Academy cadets–>
This video is proof that YOU are making a difference by faxing Congress, and signing our petitions to defend religious freedom for members of our military.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: Thankfully, it appears we are making progress, since my own Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) sent a letter signed by 22 Congressmen demanding the Air Force restore religious freedom for all members of our military. More to come…]
Let’s keep up the pressure, and sign a petition to Congress demanding military freedom:
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Christian Sergeant Relieved of Duty for… (Guess What?)
Another military member with 19 years of honorable service was relieved of duty because his openly-lesbian commanding officer objected to his views that define traditional marriage between one man and one woman.
Fox News has the shocking video interview here, of Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, who was punished with a sudden transfer when he refused his lesbian commander Major Elisa Valenzuela’s directive to “re-educate” a younger Staff Sergeant who made a public statement in favor of defining marriage between one man and one woman.
“Major Valenzuela wanted the staff sergeant to be severely punished for expressing religious objections to homosexuality, and in the course of that discussion [Senior Master Sergeant] Monk admitted to his commander that he also has a moral objection to same-sex marriage,” reports One News Now.
“And I was being essentially evaluated as if I had to agree as a condition of employment,” Monk tells OneNewsNow. “I was weighed. I was measured. I was found unfit for my position. And for all intents and purposes, she punished me.”
Watch! Dr. Chaps 8-minute TV commentary about TSgt Layne Wilson, reprimanded for opposing a gay ‘wedding’ that desecrated the Christian chapel at West Point.
“The lesbian major forced [SMSgt Monk] to be abruptly removed from his leadership position on July 26. He had to seek permission to return to his unit to retrieve personal items, he said.
“I was relieved of my position because I do not agree with my commander’s position on gay marriage,” he told the military newspaper.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: These blatant violations of the religious freedoms of and Constitutional rights of Christian troops are so commonplace, that I bet you correctly “guessed what” even before you opened this email. We MUST take a stand by petitioning Congress today, especially for free speech for our troops…]
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The above incident is the latest in a series of anti-Christian punishments by the military…
Air Force: Reprimand Christian for opposing a gay marriage. Take action!
A Christian Air Force Technical Sergeant with 27 years experience was reprimanded, and faces the sudden termination of his career. His crime? Sending an email to a chaplain, complaining how the Christian chapel was desecrated by a homose xual ‘wedding’ ceremony that desecrated the Christian altar.
TSgt Layne Wilson was later told to prepare for retirement because his personal beliefs about homose xuality were not compatible with the military’s policies, reports Fox News.
“Last December Wilson wrote a letter to a person believed to be a chaplain at West Point. He stated his displeasure at news of a same-sex ceremony held in the Cadet Chapel.
“This is wrong on so many levels,” Wilson wrote. “If they wanted to get married in a hotel that is one thing. Our base chapels are a place of worship and this is a mockery to God and our military core values. I have proudly served 27 years and this is a slap in the face to us who have put our lives on the line for this country. I hope sir that you will take appropriate action so this does not happen again.”
“Instead of responding to the private email, the Commandant of Cadets notified the Utah Air National Guard – leading to an accusation that he had brought disgrace and discredit upon the Air National Guard and his conduct was inconsistent with the Air Force.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: Problem is, the airman has a right to not be punished for his religious beliefs. And the Utah ANG commander Lt. Col. Kevin Tobias who signed the illegal letter of reprimand (who also declined to comment when I asked him on Facebook), is apparently a domestic enemy of the Constitution who hates religious freedom. This Commander broke the law, not the airman, since the NDAA 2013 section 530 specifically prohibits reprisals against military members who express their religious beliefs. Let’s make sure this commander NEVER gets promoted again. Forward this email widely.]
Why are military chapels being desecrated, and Christian airmen punished for opposing that desecration of their sacred worship space? Let’s demand Congress investigate.
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God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
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