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Guess who's blocking the FDR Prayer at the WWII Veterans Memorial?

April 5, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

URGENT PETITION! Add F.D.R.’s D-Day Prayer to the W.W.II Memorial in DC by passing H.R. 2070, and Pass S.Res.18 allowing optional PRAYER AT PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, and pass H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT. Please select, sign, and WE WILL FAX your petition to all 535 members of Congress.

Guess who’s blocking the FDR Prayer at the WWII Veterans Memorial?

The same Democrat Senator who is pushing for mandatory pro-homosexual lectures to public school kids in all 50 states is now blocking a federal bill to add President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s prayer to the World War II memorial.

Senator Al Franken (D-MN) sits on the committee that is blocking the prayer bill, which is sad because FDR was a Democrat, so Franken’s opposition to the FDR prayer bill can only be explained by his adamant opposition to all religion, period.

It is no coincidence, therefore, that Franken’s legislative partner, the openly homosexual Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) was one of only 26 Congressmen to vote against the FDR prayer memorial.

After H.R. 2070 the bill to simply engrave FDR’s D-Day prayer on the WWII memorial passed the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly 386-26, it was assigned to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee where it sits on a shelf.

Almost all Democrats favor engraving FDR’s prayer, so why are Franken and Polis so powerful to stop this bill? Because President Obama also initially opposed H.R. 2070.

During the House Committee hearings an Obama Administration officially objected saying FDR’s “prayer would dilute the memorial’s central message.” Sadly the White House even went as far as to mislead Congress saying that the “intrusion” of a prayer on a memorial was “technically prohibited by federal law.” But that’s ridiculous, considering the hundreds of religious artifacts engraved in many places in DC.

But World War II veterans have overwhelmingly supported H.R. 2070. “It is unconscionable that the Obama administration would stand in the way of honoring our nation’s distinguished World War II veterans,” said Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH). “President Roosevelt’s prayer gave solace, comfort and strength to our nation and our brave warriors as we fought against tyranny and oppression.”

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has blocked this bill for two months. I say it’s time we call each of 22 Senators, at 202-225-3121, and bury all 100 Senators in fax paper, demanding the FDR prayer be engraved on the WWII memorial.

Here is a list of the Senate Committee members blocking this bill. Call all 22 today!

Democrats ————— Republicans
Jeff Bingaman ———- Lisa Murkowski
Ron Wyden –————- John Barrasso
Tim Johnson ———— Jim Risch
Mary Landrieu ———- Mike Lee
Maria Cantwell ——— Rand Paul
Bernie Sanders ——— Dan Coats
Debbie Stabenow —— Rob Portman
Mark Udall John ——- Hoeven
Jeanne Shaheen ——– Dean Heller
Al Franken ————— Bob Corker
Joe Manchin ———— Chris Coons

Let’s make 22 phone calls today, or please sign our petition and we will fax all 100 Senators (saving you time…)

SELECT HERE to sign URGENT PETITION to ADD F.D.R.’S PRAYER to the W.W.II Memorial in DC, and DEFEND PUBLIC PRAYER with H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT and S.RES.18 for PRAYER AT SCHOOL MEETINGS, and we will fax 535 Congressmen/Senators instantly (saving you time!)

Obama’s “War on Religion” turns against WWII veterans

President Obama is backpedaling after offending the Catholic church this week, but his administration continues Obama’s war against the religion of World War II veterans.

The House of Representatives passed two important bills at the end of last month. H.R. 2070, the WWII Memorial Prayer Act, a bill to inscribe President Franklin Roosevelt’s historic “D-Day Prayer” which passed overwhelmingly 386 – 26. The second is H.R. 290, a bill to allow religious symbols to be included in military monuments, after liberal judges began rulings to strip 50 – 70 year old war memorials of all religious symbols.

Sadly, President Obama believes prayer dilutes the elegant veterans memorials, as if they weren’t fighting for freedom of religious expression. (Since Obama never served in the military, he really wouldn’t know why men serve, would he?) His Administration said “any plaque or inscription of the prayer would dilute the memorial’s central message and therefore should not be altered.” Obama’s war on religion has extended to WWII vets.

These two bills now are being sent the liberal Senate controlled by Harry Reid (D-NV), and face danger of defeat if the White House keeps opposing both these bills. We must pressure and petition all 100 Senators to pass both bills for veterans religious freedom.

Rep. Bill Johnson shot back at the White House: “It is unconscionable that the Obama administration would stand in the way of honoring our nation’s distinguished World War II veterans,” Johnson said. “President Roosevelt’s prayer gave solace, comfort and strength to our nation and our brave warriors as we fought against tyranny and oppression.”

Mr. Obama is both anti-veteran and anti-Christian. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council said “it’s not all that surprising. This is further evidence that the administration has created an environment that is hostile toward American history– but in particular towards Christianity.”

The secular leftists, led by Obama, would never offer a public prayer like FDR did. Can anybody recall ever hearing Obama offer any prayer of any kind? Because of Obama’s opposition, his friend Harry Reid won’t make it easy to let these bills pass the Senate. We need an army of Christians to shut down their telephone and fax lines. We won’t remain silent, even if Obama orders our silence like he did the Army chaplains last week.

Perkins summarizes: “I hope America wakes up and realizes what this administration is doing to this country and how they want to radically and fundamentally change America.”

SELECT HERE to sign URGENT PETITION to ADD F.D.R.’S PRAYER to the W.W.II Memorial in DC, and DEFEND PUBLIC PRAYER with H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT and S.RES.18 for PRAYER AT SCHOOL MEETINGS, and we will fax 535 Congressmen/Senators instantly (saving you time!)

FDR’s family wants Prayer Bill to pass Congress. They need our help!

The bill that will add an inscription of the prayer spoken by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) on D-Day to the World War II Memorial on the National Mall has passed the House and awaits action in the U.S. Senate. But FDR’s prayer still faces an uphill battle, and we must act now!

Sadly, the Obama administration opposes honoring prayer, even by a former Democrat President in FDR. The Bureau of Land Management a division of the Department of the Interior Director Robert Abby told the House Committee “the Interior Department opposes its inclusion because it would intrude on the WWII Monument.” Really? President Obama thinks historic prayer speech is an “intrusion” and should be banned?

More sadly, the Obama Administration is trying to argue H.R. 2070 would create a separate memorial commemorating FDR’s prayer. THIS IS A LIE! The bill simply adds the prayer words, to be etched in stone in a blank spot on the existing memorial. It does not create special memorial for a prayer, or cost any more than a simple engraving. Not surprisingly, Obama personally forgot to thank God for His blessings during his Thanksgiving speech, remarking instead how “lucky” we are as a nation.

While this bill has a very good chance to pass the House, it faces trouble in Harry Reid’s liberal anti-Christian Senate. It’s here in the Senate that Obama’s lie about a separate memorial will be used to shoot this bill down or to block it from even getting a vote on the Senate floor. This historic prayer by FDR was offered to God (watch 2-minute video) at one of the defining moments of the greatest generation and in U.S. history. Any monument to victory should honor God as the source of that victory, out of respect for the faith of those who fought WWII, a generation not afraid to bend a knee and pray. President Obama yet again seeks to alter history to fit his socialist, homosexual, humanist, anti-Jesus agenda, and erase God from history!

I got an email last fall from FDR’s relatives, saying: “The family descendants of Franklin DELANO Roosevelt ..namely the DELANO family of Western NY and California along with the DELANO kindred DEMAND the prayer be on our family memorial! We are a family of faith filled patriots to this CHRISTIAN country! In fact I recommend you contact the DELANO family and kindred to protest and write the president and congress on this matter. I will contact Congressman Higgins, but don’t count on ANY help from him or for that matter ANY NY elected official. They are all far left. –Cheryl DELANO”

Thank you Cheryl Delano, and thanks to your family for helping us honor FDR’s prayer. Everybody please help me join Cheryl’s effort to add FDR’s prayer to the WWII memorial!

SELECT HERE to sign URGENT PETITION to ADD F.D.R.’S PRAYER to the W.W.II Memorial in DC, and DEFEND PUBLIC PRAYER with H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT and S.RES.18 for PRAYER AT SCHOOL MEETINGS, and we will fax 535 Congressmen/Senators instantly (saving you time!)

God banned from Veterans Cemeteries, Hospitals, Schools. Take action!

Freedom of speech to pray publicly “in Jesus name” faces new attacks across America, as the Obama Administration has now fully caved-in to atheist complainers, and helped ban free religious speech from schools to the grave, for teachers and military veterans.

But two new bills before Congress and the Senate could restore religious freedom for Veterans and Teachers, protecting freedom of speech and public prayer rights that generations of Americans have died fighting to protect. They are House Bill H.R. 2848, the “Veterans Religious Freedom Act,” and Senate Bill S.Res.18, a resolution supporting optional public prayer at school board meetings nationwide. Our new petition campaign supports these two important bills.

Recently Veterans Affairs (V.A.) Director Arleen Ocasio was rebuked by a federal judge after she outlawed prayers mentioning “Jesus” or “God” form the National Cemetery in Houston TX. Director Ocasio and the Obama Administration reportedly censored and banned any reference to Jesus or God in prayers, cards, and even casual conversation on V.A. Cemetery grounds, public land. She even turned the Chapel into a storage room!

Ocasio tried to stop heroic Pastor Scott Rainey from praying “in Jesus name,” but he won an emergency court-order stopping the V.A. and restoring his free speech rights. Federal Judge Lynn Hughes ordered the V.A. and Arleen Ocasio, director of the Houston National Cemetery, to stop censoring the pastor’s right to pray “in Jesus name,” since the Obama Administration violated the First Amendment. Judge Hughes wrote: “The government cannot gag citizens when it says it is in the interest of national security, and it cannot do it in some bureaucrat’s notion of cultural homogeneity. The right to free expression ranges from the dignity of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches to Charlie Sheen’s rants.”

Outraged, several pro-faith Republican Congressmen led by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) have drafted and sponsored the Veteran’s Religious Freedom Act. “It is the constitutional duty of the federal government to protect speech and religion, not prohibit it. Government censorship of funeral services for our veterans is unacceptable, unconstitutional and un-American,” said Congressman Poe. “The policy of the director of the Houston VA Cemetery is anti-Christian, anti-religion and anti-veteran. What has reportedly taken place at the Houston VA Cemetery is inexcusable, and Congress must take immediate action to protect the rights of those who have fought and died for our country.”

This important Veterans Religious Freedom Act, H.R. 2848, provides the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not:

1) prescribe regulations to censor or otherwise limit the type of religious speech that may be performed by a member of a veterans service organization at the funeral or memorial service of a veteran; or

2) censor or otherwise limit type of religious speech of a private speakers who have been invited to speak on property of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

This bill would force Obama’s Director Ocasio to allow free speech honoring Jesus Christ by family members, invited speakers, pastors, and veterans groups at the graves, not only in Houston but all Veterans cemeteries and hospitals nationwide! Let’s take action now…

SELECT HERE to sign URGENT PETITION to ADD F.D.R.’S PRAYER to the W.W.II Memorial in DC, and DEFEND PUBLIC PRAYER with H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT and S.RES.18 for PRAYER AT SCHOOL MEETINGS, and we will fax 535 Congressmen/Senators instantly (saving you time!)

Public School Board Meetings also attacked for allowing public prayer by teachers

It’s not just at the grave where public prayer is being attacked. S.Res.18 calls for the Senate to recognize that prayer before school board meetings is a protected act in accordance with the fundamental principles upon which the Nation was founded, and expresses support for allowing the optional practice of prayer at the beginning of the school board meetings. Senator David Vitter (R- LA) first introduced this bill in 2005 but it has been blocked by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and lobbyist lawyers from the ACLU. The ACLU has bullied school boards over prayer for decades, with empty threats and bogus lawsuits, often lost but sometimes won by liberal activist judges who hate religious freedom of speech. The time has come to pass S.Res.18 and give conservatives judges the power to support prayer and fight the ACLU.

The ACLU has backed lawsuits against school boards, and criticized us who support school board prayer. Senator Vitter said: “I do not share the ACLU’s opinion, and more importantly, the people of Louisiana do not share the ACLU’s opinion.” Neither does the Supreme Court. In 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in the case of Marsh v. Chambers, that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society, and is fully constitutional. “To invoke divine guidance on a public body entrusted with making the laws is not a violation of the Establishment Clause,” wrote the Supreme Court, “but rather is simply an acknowledgement of beliefs widely held among the American people.”

Sadly, even with the court’s ruling defending prayer, the ACLU has not given up attempts to silence prayer in our schools. With President Obama appointing more and more ungodly, anti-Christian, socialist judges to federal benches, we must encourage our Senators and Congressmen to pass a law protecting what is left of Jesus in public schools: the freedom to speak Jesus’ name in public prayer! Our teachers deserve that freedom, and so do our children deserve God’s blessing. Let’s take action…

SELECT HERE to sign URGENT PETITION to ADD F.D.R.’S PRAYER to the W.W.II Memorial in DC, and DEFEND PUBLIC PRAYER with H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT and S.RES.18 for PRAYER AT SCHOOL MEETINGS, and we will fax 535 Congressmen/Senators instantly (saving you time!)

Friends, our veterans and teachers deserve the same religious freedom they defend for others. Let’s take a stand today, and demand Congress pass both prayer bills, now!

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD

For interviews, speaking invites, select here.

P.S. Time is urgent! Both House and Senate have full schedules this fall, so unless we raise their awareness of these three important prayer bills, they may not get the attention they deserve. So please sign our petition today! Prefer to donate by mail? Please mail paper check or money orders to: The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.

SELECT HERE to sign URGENT PETITION to ADD F.D.R.’S PRAYER to the W.W.II Memorial in DC, and DEFEND PUBLIC PRAYER with H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT and S.RES.18 for PRAYER AT SCHOOL MEETINGS, and we will fax 535 Congressmen/Senators instantly (saving you time!)

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Obama: "Supreme Court won't overturn Obamacare" because it's a "good law."

April 3, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

URGENT PETITION to REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP ABORTION-FUNDING, END GOV’T TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY. Please select, sign, and WE WILL FAX your petition to all 535 members of Congress instantly (saving you much time!) We have already delivered 1.4 million fax petitions. Can you help us reach 1.5 million?

Obama: “Supreme Court won’t overturn Obamacare” because it’s a “good law.”

President Obama claims he knows the Supreme Court will vote to PRESERVE Obamacare, in a surprising speech that labeled conservative Justices “Activists.”

“Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama said at a Rose Garden press conference Monday.

“And I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is: The biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law,” Obama continued.

“Well, this is a good example. And I’m pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step.”

So if conservative judges uphold the Constitution, they’re now “judicial activists?” Ha!

If the Supreme Court FAILS to overturn Obamacare, I’ve listed the shocking statistical outcome below. But whether they do or don’t, fully or partly, CONGRESS MUST STILL ACT to repeal Obamacare entirely. Let’s petition Congress to do just that.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

What if Supreme Court FAILS to overturn Obamacare?

Here are today’s shocking numbers from RNC Research, because of Obamacare.

67%: Americans That Believe The Supreme Court Should Overrule ObamaCare. (ABC News , 3/19/12)…

52%: Americans That Oppose ObamaCare. (ABC News , 3/19/12)

$2.6 Trillion: True Cost Of ObamaCare Once Fully Implemented. (Office Of The Speaker Of The U.S. House Of Representatives, Report, 1/6/11)

$1.76 Trillion: Ten Year Cost Of ObamaCare. (Updated Estimates For The Insurance Coverage Provisions Of The Affordable Care Act, Congressional Budget Office, 3/13/12)

$575 Billion: Medicare Cuts In ObamaCare. (CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster, Memo, 4/22/10)

$525 Billion: Taxes Raised In ObamaCare. (CBO, 3/30/11)

$450 Billion: Cost Of ObamaCare “Glitch” Allowing The Middle-Class To Qualify For Medicaid. (Forbes , 6/21/11)

$401 Billion: Increase In Federal Entitlement Spending From ObamaCare. (CBO, August 2010)

$210 Billion: Amount Of Income Taxes Collected Over 10 Years Through ObamaCare. (Joint Committee On Taxation Report , 3/20/10)…

$15,073: Cost Of A Family Health Care Premium After ObamaCare Was Passed. (Kaiser Health News , 9/27/11)

$13,375: Cost Of Family Health Care Premium When Obama Took Office. (Kaiser Health News, 9/15/09)

$2,000: Penalty Per Employee Levied On Employers For Dropping Health Coverage. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/27/10)

$1,000: Penalty Levied On Americans Who Don’t Obtain Health Insurance. (The Associated Press, 4/22/10)

Friends, as the Supreme Court weighs Obamacare this week, (and we may LOSE that decision, since no Supreme Court since 1936 has overturned major legislation), it becomes more critical than ever we must demand Congress rescind that bad law, which funds abortion with our tax-dollars and threatens American liberty.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

78 Million: Americans Forced To Find Other Sources Of Health Coverage. (The Wall Street Journal, 6/8/11)…

6 Million: Retirees That Will Lose Prescription Drug Coverage. (CMS, 2010)

2.2 Million: Union Members That Received A Waiver. (CMS, Accessed 3/22/12)

800,000: Number Of Workers That Will Be Cut Out Of The Workforce By ObamaCare. (Politico, 2/10/11)

46,000: Shortage Of Surgeons And Specialists In 2020 Due To ObamaCare. (Association Of American Medical Colleges, 4/10)

45,000: Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians In 2020 Due To ObamaCare. (Association Of American Medical Colleges, 4/10)

43,000: Jobs Shipped Overseas When Medical Device Tax Comes Into Effect. (Advamed , 9/11)

24,000: Jobs Lost Due To Tanning Tax. (The Hill’s “Health Watch,” 6/8/11)

1,231: ObamaCare Waivers Granted By HHS. (CMS, Accessed 3/22/12)…

451: Union Plans That Have Been Issued ObamaCare Waivers From HHS. (CMS, Accessed 3/22/12)

34: States Where Health Insurers Have Stopped Selling Child-Only Insurance Policies. (Politico, 1/27/11)

20: Democrats That Have Co-Sponsored Legislation To Repeal The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). (H.R. 452, Introduced 1/26/11)

18: Tax Increases Included In ObamaCare. (The Heritage Foundation , 1/20/11)…

46%: Americans That Have Seen Their Health Care Costs Increase. (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1,213 A, MoE 3%, 2/29-3/5/12)

12.7%: Increase In Premiums Since Obama Took Office. (Kaiser Health News, 9/15/09; Kaiser Health News , 9/27/11)

10.6%: Increase In Employee Premiums For 2012. (Bruce Jaspen, “New Survey Projects Higher Employee Health Premiums,” The New York Times’ ” Prescription Blog ,” 10/2/11)…

9%: Increase In 2011 Premiums. (Julie Appleby, “Cost Of Employer Insurance Plans Surge In 2011,” Kaiser Health News , 9/27/11)…

2.3%: Tax On Medical Device Manufacturers. (Joint Committee On Taxation Report, 3/20/10)

0: Other People Obama Will Have Left To Blame For The Failures Of ObamaCare. (The American People, 11/6/12)

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

Obamacare forces YOU to pay $1 per month for abortions.

This week President Obama’s Department of Health and Human “Services” issued brand-new regulations requiring everybody in America to pay $1 per month for abortion services, if they join the Obamacare program as mandated by federal law.

My friend and attorney Mat Staver with Liberty Counsel explains: “The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that a minimum of one dollar a month from every ObamaCare participant will help pay for someone’s abortion. The ‘abortion surcharge’ is cleverly hidden in the insurance premium, but not allowed to be listed as a line item. If you find that thought upsetting, as I do, then please join me in committing to pray that ObamaCare will be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court!…

“It’s now official. Contained in just-released Health and Human Services guidelines is yet another mandate that requires an ‘abortion premium’ for the establishment of state health care exchanges. According to our friends at LifeNews…

” ‘To comply with the accounting requirement, plans will collect a $1 abortion surcharge from each premium payer… The enrollee will make two payments, $1 per month for abortion and another payment for the rest of the services covered.

‘As described in the rule, the surcharge can only be disclosed to the enrollee at the time of enrollment. Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to directly subsidize abortions.’…

“Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its most recent projections revealing that ObamaCare’s costs will be nearly double what the President promised and Congress approved – from $900 Billion to $1.76 Trillion. But independent analysts say the true cost will, in all likelihood, far exceed $2 Trillion over that ten-year span.”

[Chaps’ comment: Obama lied. He promised ‘no abortions’ funded by Obamacare, but now his own DHHS is forcing YOU to pay $1 per month extra for abortions. And his bloated budget costs TWICE what he projected. We must demand Congress repeal Obamacare, now.]

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

Senate Vote on repeal of Obamacare’s mandatory “Church-funded Abortions”

The U.S. Senate voted last week to defeat an amendment drafted by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) concerning whether to “partially repeal” the portion of Obamacare that requires churches, Catholic hospitals, and Christian universities to pay for their employees abortion insurance. In my opinion the new “conscience” language didn’t go far enough, nor did it begin to repeal all Obamacare, so we must petition all 100 Senators to REPEAL OBAMACARE ENTIRELY this week, by calling 202-225-3121, or sign our petition here.

Our friend Ashley Horne with Focus on the Family reported: “The U.S. Senate will likely vote this week on an amendment to protect the religious freedom and conscience rights of employers who object to offering possible abortifacient drugs in employee health plans.

“Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., introduced the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (S.1467) last August, and recently offered the bill as an amendment to transportation legislation being debated this week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had previously blocked the amendment from getting a vote.

“The Blunt amendment would exempt objecting employers from new regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requiring them to offer free contraception in their insurance plans. Some contraceptive drugs, like Plan B and ella, may cause early abortions. Some employers, particularly religious ones, say they shouldn’t have to offer such drugs.

“‘(This debate) is not about contraception. It’s about the Constitution,’ Blunt wrote in an opinion piece published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday. ‘It’s about faith and who controls the religious views of faith-based institutions.’ ”

Let’s take action to demand Congress repeal ALL of Obamacare, not just “fix” it.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

Obama stands firm: “Catholic Hospitals must issue Abortion Pills.” Take Action!

In a private retreat with Senate Democrats, President Obama strengthened his resolve Wednesday, and personally threatened to fully enforce the Obamacare law that will force Catholic and Christian hospitals to issue abortion pills and post-conception abortifacient devices like RU-486, the IUD, and Plan-B, forcing Christians to kill or help kill innocent children in the womb.

ABC News reports: “President Obama ‘reinforced’ his stance on the controversial contraception mandate while speaking at the Democrats’ annual retreat at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. today, Senate Democrats said.

“The retreat was closed to media.

“Following President Obama’s speech at the retreat, a small group of Senate Democrats, mostly women, left the retreat early in order to hold a news conference on Capitol Hill to counter the Republicans’ news conference today at which they called for the mandate to be overturned.

“Democrats said they will ‘fight strongly’ to keep the [Obamacare] mandate [forcing Christians to issue abortion pills] in place.

“It is our clear understanding from the administration that the president believes as we do, and the vast majority of the American women should have access to [abortion pills],” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said, pointing out that 15 percent of women use [abortion pills] for medical issues. “[Abortion Pills] it’s medicine, and women deserve their medicine” [to be dispensed by Christians who oppose abortion], said Boxer.

House Speaker John Boehner vowed to repeal the parts of Obamacare that mandate Christian hospitals dispense abortion pills. [I say we repeal ALL of Obamacare.]

“It’s time to tell Republicans ‘mind your own business,’” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. “Ideology should never be used to block women from getting the [abortion pills] they need [to kill their unborn children] to lead healthier lives [dispensed by Christians who oppose abortion, who will be punished if they refuse to dispense abortion pills].”

FOLKS, LET’S DEMAND CONGRESS REPEAL ALL OF OBAMACARE. Please help.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

Last January a Florida Federal judge ruled the new health care law known as Obamacare is unconstitutional, and must be thrown out. In his ruling, Judge Roger Vinson said that the law’s requirement to carry insurance or pay a fee “is outside Congress’ Commerce Clause power, and it cannot be otherwise authorized by an assertion of power under the Necessary and Proper Clause. It is not constitutional.” He also declared that the entire law “must be declared void,” because the mandate to carry insurance is “not severable” from the rest of the law. This differs slightly from a similar ruling last month by a Virginia Federal judge Henry E. Hudson, who ruled the individual mandate is unconstitutional, but other parts of the law may be OK.

Virginia and Florida’s Attorney Generals are two of 26 states suing to overturn Obamacare, many who joined suit after receiving thousands of fax petitions from The Pray In Jesus Name Project, proving your faxes get results.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN NEW PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

H.R. 2 and H.R. 9 are two important bills that the Republican Majority in the House promised during campaigns, and we need a strong showing by those conservatives we helped elect, for three reasons:

1. Obamacare law funds abortion with our tax-dollars, despite President Obama’s judicially unenforceable Executive Order that pretends to save the unborn while funding their destruction.

2. Obamacare mandates health-care rationing which creates “death panels” for the elderly by diverting their Medicare funds to young unemployed welfare recipients, and forcing Medicare physicians into bankruptcy.

3. Obamacare creates socialist government-control of 1/6th of the U.S. economy under massive bureaucracies that hurt businesses, cost jobs, and don’t care for patients like private doctors do.

We need to take immediate action and petition all 435 Congressmen and 100 Senators to approve H.R. 2 and H.R. 9, which do two things:

1. H.R. 2 repeals the pro-abortion, pro-death, rationing Obamacare law passed last year.

2. H.R. 9 instructs committees to begin work crafting a new bill to reform health care using principles of free-market capitalism that make America great (not socialism/Communism).

So let’s take action today.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN NEW PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

Do you remember the legislative battle in the House and Senate last March? Former Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) betrayed conservatives by claiming to be pro-life, then voting with Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to fund abortion. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) did the same, betraying innocent children in the Senate. They initiated a phony compromise with President Obama who signed a toothless Executive Order (which conflicts with the law, and is unenforceable in court) to give them top-cover to claim they’re not funding abortion, when the law they all passed specifically stated on page 117:

“(ii) ABORTIONS FOR WHICH PUBLIC FUNDING IS ALLOWED.—The services described in this clause are abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is permitted, based on the law as in effect as of the date that is 6 months before the beginning of the plan year involved.” [That’s a direct quote from the law they passed.]

In other words, Democrats lied when they claimed Senator Nelson’s “compromise” with pro-abortion Senator Boxer (D-CA) somehow prevented public tax-payer funding of abortion, and only permitted private funding of abortion (as if that should be allowed either). And Planned Parenthood clearly lied in their analysis of the law, when they claimed “forcing individuals to write two separate checks (both of which are out of private funds) and requiring health plans to administer two different payments of private funds is not necessary to insure public funds are not used for abortion care.” No public funds? Really?

They lied, plain and simple, because the law quoted above now reads ABORTIONS FOR WHICH PUBLIC FUNDING IS ALLOWED through the Department of Health and Human Services, subsidizing child-killing of innocents with your tax-dollars, so welfare-moms can kill their child for a $12 co-pay, while Planned Parenthood gets rich charging YOU thousands of tax dollars against your will. No wonder both Stupak and Nelson were labeled traitors by every credible pro-life group in America. No wonder 32% of all voters self-identified as conservative Christian voted 78% for Republicans this past November, and threw out Stupak and Pelosi (and will soon throw out Nelson in 2012).

But the horrible Obamacare law remains law, until we help repeal it. So let’s get it done.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN NEW PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

Friends, our nation stands in the midst of a spiritual war to save or destroy unborn babies and the elderly. You and I stand in this battle together. We must stand strong!

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD

P.S. Prefer to donate by mail? Please mail paper check or money orders to: The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN NEW PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

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Filed Under: Fax Petitions, PIJN News, Religious Freedom, Right to Life Tagged With: healthcare, judicial activism, obamacare, socialized medicine

School kids targeted by federal pro-homosexual legislation

April 2, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

We have been watching a prolonged assault on the hearts and minds of our nation’s kids for several decades now. We have seen the standards of education lowered to the point that many kids leave school unable to even write a grammatically correct paragraph, but with a firm grasp of “self esteem.” This is, of course, by design. The communists who have wormed their way into positions of power in all our institutions and government have as a goal the “dumbing-down” of our young people. Why? Because an uninformed, undereducated electorate is like a malleable herd of sheep, and that is precisely what the communists need to retain their power.

This dumbing-down not only applies to the intellects of our nation’s students, but also to their moral bearings. As you know, hand-in-hand with the ignorance being promoted by the forces of Hell is the campaign to abolish God’s truth and morality. Nowhere can this be more clearly seen than in the diabolical push to indoctrinate our kids with the agenda of the radical homosexual movement, which seeks to gain public acceptance and approval of degenerate homosexual behavior and also to redefine marriage to be an abomination it was never intended to be, and indeed, never could be.

There are numerous fronts in this militant homosexual assault on the hearts and spirits, not just of our children, but on society at large. Since Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) was imposed on our nation as “President,” we have seen a ramping-up of the homosexual radicals’ activity in our schools, courtrooms, the military and federal government.

There are currently two bills pending before the Senate and the House of Representatives in Washington. S. 555 and H.R. 998 both have the Left’s typically deceptive wording in their title, “Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2011.” What makes the title deceptive is that this is not so much about “non-discrimination” as it is about forced homosexual indoctrination and the theft of freedom of conscience and religion for students and teachers in our nation’s public school system.

Former comedian, now Senator, Al Franken, is heading up the aggressive push for this detestable legislation. He is the sponsor for the Senate version. He is recruiting both House and Senate members to support these bills. Openly homosexual Congressman Jared Polis is the sponsor of the House version of the bill.

The family activist website, Pray in Jesus Name Project, is leading a fax petition campaign to Congress asking members to reject this awful legislation. Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt has written a Call to Decision piece asking Americans to stand with traditional values and reject this terrible attempt by the radical homosexual movement to force homosexuality down the throats of our school kids as young as kindergarten-age. His petition campaign does charge money to send faxes to members of Congress, but it looks like a convenient setup for those who may not otherwise have time to send individual faxes.

He writes,

Last month California became the first state to mandate all public schools, teachers, and textbooks must teach and promote “Gay History” lessons to kids. The bill passed last July went into effect in January 2012. Proud of their victory, homosexual activists are skipping state by state votes, and now plan to force their message on kids in all 50 states.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has gained 5 Representatives and 2 Senators since last week, now with 155 House co-sponsors and 36 Senators supporting two truly demonic bills, S. 555 and H.R. 998. These bills violate public school children in all 50 states by requiring mandatory pro-homosexual lectures to kids of all ages (including kindergarten and 1st grade). Schools that decline will lose funding. Franken is gaining steam! We cannot let him win this battle for the hearts and minds of our kids.

We must win the fax war to petition Congress. If the church is silent, and homosexuals petition more than we, Congress may cave to their demands. We can’t let their side win!

Many Christians in California thought they would be able to “opt out” their children from pro-homosexual lectures, but sadly, because the lessons were considered “social science” and not “health education,” students were given no choice but to attend. Even worse, children who voice anti-homosexual views are labeled ‘bullies’ and can be punished (by grown-ups who bully kids into rejecting their parents’ faith.)

Religious Freedom is also under attack from the left. James Madison, a father of our Constitution, referred to the right of conscience as “the most sacred of all property.” Our kids will lose any right to their own conscience, if S.555 or H.R. 998 are passed. Christian kids will be punished, and publicly ridiculed by pro-homosexual teachers. This persecution will not only be legal, it will be required by law.

Bottom Line: If these bills make to Obama’s desk, they will effectively end First Amendment rights for our children, and “re-educate” kids to accept homosexuality starting in kindergarten. Kids will be [encouraged] to find their “sexuality” in the 1st grade. If your child is approached by a pervert they could be punished if they respond in a “mean way.”

Let’s take a stand, to protect our kids from Al Franken’s abuse.

The “anti-bullying” platform is just another deceptive tool to promote the radical homosexual agenda. Bullying, harassment and assault are already against the rules in our schools and society. This is not about bullying. It is about pushing homosexuality on our children.

The attempt to add yet another protected class of people to the ever-growing list of “non-discrimination” groups is now to include homosexuality in all its various manifestations in our nation’s public schools. Lost in this is the fact that homosexuality is a behavior, not an immutable characteristic like skin color or sex.

The militant homosexual campaign against our society is one that seeks to destroy the Christian moral foundation upon which this nation was built. That foundation is hanging by a thread, and the homo-radicals are wielding hell-sharpened scissors. If Christians and others — who know the ugly truth about the destructive, immoral homosexual lifestyle — stand silently by, the militant homosexuals will succeed.

You must understand that these people are deeply committed to their dark cause, and they will not stop until they own your children’s minds and hearts in the public schools, until they codify marriage abomination in all fifty states, and until they outlaw any objection to their perverse behavior by squashing our freedom of conscience, religion and speech. Do not doubt it for a minute.

We must continue to pray for our nation and firmly resist the vicious efforts of the radical homosexuals in our schools and our local, state and federal governments. As it stands, we are cruising for the horrible bruising of God’s righteous judgment on our land for our many, egregious, collective sins. A nation that rejects the Lord and embraces, and even celebrates, all manner of degenerate, despicable behavior — from abortion to homosexuality and every other kind of sexual depravity and greedy sloth — is not long for this world as a free and sovereign country.

May the Lord have mercy on America and stop the diabolical enemies within from prevailing in their wicked schemes.

SELECT HERE to sign our FREE PETITION to Starbucks Coffee, to either stop funding homosexual ‘marriage’ or face a BOYCOTT STARBUCKS campaign by Christian patrons who stand for traditional marriage = one man + one woman for life.

This article was written by Gina Miller for Renew America

Filed Under: Chaps In the News, PIJN News

Free Petition! Boycott Starbucks, now funding homosexual "marriage" in all 50 states.

March 29, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

FREE PETITION! Help defend traditional marriage by signing our FREE PETITION to Starbucks Coffee, demanding they STOP FUNDING homosexual ‘marriage’ in all 50 states, or face an international boycott by Christian coffee drinkers. Please select, sign, and WE WILL DELIVER your petitionand comment directly to Starbucks, FREE.

Free Petition!  Boycott Starbucks, now funding homosexual “marriage” in all 50 states.

Friends, we have a FREE opportunity to defend traditional marriage, by signing a free petition that we will deliver to Starbucks Coffee, to stop funding homosexual ‘marriage’ in all 50 states.  Our friends at the National Organization for Marriage have issued a national alert, warning Christians their coffee dollars are already hurting children and the backbone of society, the traditional family, nationwide.

The Seattle Times confirms:  “A national group opposed to gay marriage called Wednesday for a boycott of Starbucks in response to the company’s public support of a new same-sex marriage law in Washington state.

“Following a shareholders’ meeting of the Seattle-based coffee giant on Wednesday, the Washington, D.C.-based National Organization for Marriage announced a ‘Dump Starbucks’ protest.

“We will not tolerate an international company attempting to force its misguided values on citizens,” said the group’s president, Brian Brown, in a written statement announcing the boycott.”

Let’s join the N.O.M. effort, and send a loud and clear message to Starbucks.

SELECT HERE to sign our FREE PETITION to Starbucks Coffee, to either stop funding homosexual ‘marriage’ or face a BOYCOTT STARBUCKS campaign by Christian patrons who stand for traditional marriage = one man + one woman for life.

Take action 7 ways, TODAY!

1)  Sign our free petition to Starbucks, and we will deliver your comments.

2)  Call and complain on the Starbucks toll-free comment line:  800-782-7282

3) Call every Starbucks manager in your city, here: http://www.starbucks.com/store-locator

4) Tweet these words to your friends:  “Boycott Starbucks.  Your coffee dollars fund homosexual ‘marriage’ in all 50 states. http://dld.bz/NO-STARBUCKS”

5) After you sign our petition, share it widely on facebook, twitter, and email.

6) Also sign another free petition at DumpStarbucks.com

7) Please donate to our efforts here, to help us deliver your free petitions.  Thank you!

LET’S TAKE A STAND FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE = 1 MAN + 1 WOMAN.

SELECT HERE to sign our FREE PETITION to Starbucks Coffee, to either stop funding homosexual ‘marriage’ or face a BOYCOTT STARBUCKS campaign by Christian patrons who stand for traditional marriage = one man + one woman for life.

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD

For interviews, speaking invites, select here.

Please sign our petition today!   Prefer to donate by mail?  Please mail paper check or money orders to:  The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO  80970.

SELECT HERE to sign our FREE PETITION to Starbucks Coffee, to either stop funding homosexual ‘marriage’ or face a BOYCOTT STARBUCKS campaign by Christian patrons who stand for traditional marriage = one man + one woman for life.

Filed Under: Defense of Marriage, Petitions, PIJN News Tagged With: ban starbucks, christian marriage, dump starbucks, gordon james klingenschmitt, starbucks on marriage, traditional marriage

Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy hate Kagan's Obamacare. Good day at SCOTUS.

March 28, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

HOT PETITION! Ask Congress to impeach Justice Elena Kagan if she refuses to recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. Please select, sign, and WE WILL FAX your petitionto all 535 members of Congress (saving you time!) We’ve already sent 98,000 fax petitions. Can you help us reach 100,000?

Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy hate Kagan’s Obamacare. Good day at SCOTUS.

I’ve read much of Tuesday’s transcript of the Supreme Court debate against Obamacare, and I have great news to report. I believe we have a very good chance to win, and strike down President Obama’s tyranny. We will win a 5-4 vote to be revealed in June.

Why 5-4? Virtually all analysts agree the four liberal justices, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, will rule to defend Obamacare. But not all analysts agree the 5 conservative Justices will stand together. Thomas and Alito are solid, but I’ve read recent criticism about Roberts, Scalia, and Kennedy that say “they’re waffling.” I disagree.

You can read the full transcript for yourself, here. (Then select 11-398-Tuesday. Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida.) But here’s my summary:

These blistering questions from Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy make me believe we’ll win:

ROBERTS: “It’s the same point. You say health insurance is not purchased for its own sake, like a car or broccoli; it is a means of financing health care consumption and covering universal risks. Well, a car or broccoli aren’t purchased for their own sake,
either.” [CHAPS COMMENT: Chief Justice Roberts is already arguing the government cannot force people to buy broccoli, therefore they cannot force people to buy health insurance. Roberts will rule against Obamacare.]

[OBAMA’S SOLICITOR GENERAL] VERRILLI: “No. The, the — we think that in a — when — the difference between those situations and this situation is that in those situations, Your Honor, Congress would be moving to create commerce. Here Congress is regulating existing commerce, economic activity that is already going on, people’s participation in the health care market, and is regulating to deal with existing effects of existing commerce.”

JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA: “Oh, no, it’s not. They all involved commerce. There was no doubt that was what regulated was commerce. And here you’re regulating somebody who isn’t covered. By the way, I don’t agree with you that the relevant market here is health care. You’re not regulating health care. You’re regulating insurance. It’s the insurance market that you’re addressing and you’re saying that some people who are not in it must be in it and that’s — that’s difference from regulating in any manner commerce that already exists out there.” [CHAPS COMMENT: Anytime Scalia says ‘Oh, no, it’s not…I don’t agree with you,’ you’ve lost his vote. Scalia will vote against Obamacare.

That leaves only Kennedy as the swing vote. He’s hard to read. But here’s the punchline:

JUSTICE KENNEDY: “Could you help — help me with this. Assume for the moment — you may disagree. Assume for the moment that this is unprecedented, this is a step beyond what our cases have allowed, the affirmative duty to act to go into commerce. If that is
so, do you not have a heavy burden of justification? I understand that we must presume laws are constitutional, but, even so, when you are changing the relation of the individual to the government in this, what we can stipulate is, I think, a unique way, do you
not have a heavy burden of justification to show authorization under the Constitution?” [CHAPS COMMENT: Justice Kennedy is saying Obamacare has a high burden of proof that it’s authorized under the Constitution. That means Verrelli won’t meet it. Kennedy will rule against Obamacare. WE WILL WIN. 5-4 DEFEAT OVER OBAMACARE.]

Sadly, Justice Kagan proved her judicial activism by endorsing Obamacare outright:

JUSTICE KAGAN: “Well, Mr. Clement, now it seems as though you’re just talking about a matter of timing, that Congress can regulate the transaction. And the question is when does it make best sense to regulate that transaction? And Congress surely has it within its authority to decide, rather than at the point of sale, given an insurance-based mechanism, it makes sense to regulate it earlier. It’s just a matter of timing.”

[CHAPS COMMENT: Is anyone surprised? Kagan helped write, lobby, and pass Obamacare, and now she openly declares “Congress can regulate the transaction…it makes sense to regulate it earlier. It’s just a matter of timing.” Who will stand with me and demand Congress begin Kagan’s impeachment proceedings?]

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

Congressman: Obama & Holder stonewalling Kagan’s recusal from Obamacare

This week the Washington Times published a blistering article written by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), demanding Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebellius next month. Coincidentally, we have faxed nearly 100,000 petitions to all 535 members of Congress. So Rep. Smith wrote to us:

“. . .The Affordable Care Act became law on March 23, 2010, and legal challenges were filed almost immediately. At the time, Justice Kagan was serving as the administration’s chief legal adviser on challenges to federal law, especially Supreme Court challenges. It would have been her job to consult with and advise the administration on how best to defend the new law.

“Justice Kagan was nominated to the Supreme Court on May 10, 2010. What Congress and the American people want to know is what role then-Solicitor General Kagan played prior to her nomination.

“The House Judiciary Committee, along with its Senate counterpart, is the legislative guardian of our Constitution. As chairman of the committee, I have sought to make public the facts relating to whether Justice Kagan should participate in the Supreme Court’s consideration of this important subject. For eight months, I have sought information from the Justice Department regarding what, if any, role Justice Kagan may have played in discussions about the constitutionality and prospective litigation over the president’s health care law.

“Since July 2011, I have written Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on five occasions requesting that the Justice Department provide relevant documents and emails and produce witnesses for interviews. But instead of working to quiet questions by disclosing the facts about Justice Kagan’s prior health care reform-related work, the department has been stonewalling Congress, fueling speculation that there is something to hide. . .

“The rules regarding recusal are clear. The current recusal law, enacted in 1974, bars justices from hearing certain cases in which they were involved as government lawyers. If Justice Kagan participated in legal or procedural discussions regarding the health care law challenge, she should be recused from ruling on the case. The intent of recusal is to prevent any personal or professional bias that may impact a justice’s decision. . .

“The department has given no good, justifiable reason to deny this congressional request. The administration still refuses to release the relevant documents. This perpetual stonewalling is not just bad governing; it proves that the president’s campaign promises of openness and transparency were empty. . .”

Chairman Smith’s cry for help demands our public response. Let’s bury all Congress in fax petitions today. Please sign our petition demanding Justice Kagan to recuse herself or face impeachment.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

Four Senators demand Kagan recuse Obamacare. We demand impeachment.

After YOU helped fax thousands of petitions, four top-ranking Republican Senators agreed with us and demanded Justice Kagan recuse herself from the Obamacare case. In a letter signed by Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY), Whip John Kyl (R-AZ), Ranking Judiciary Grassley (R-IA), and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), all four rebuked President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, who has obstructed justice and blocked Congressional investigation of Kagan’s bias in the Obamacare case.

“Federal law requires recusal from a case if a judicial officer of the United States ‘has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case or controversy.’ 28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(3). In addition, a federal judge must disqualify herself from participating in a matter if her ‘impartiality might reasonably be questioned.’ Id. at § 455(a). It appears that former Solicitor General Kagan’s participation in the Obama Administration’s defense of the PPACA may satisfy both requirements for recusal,” the letter said. You can read the Senators’ full letter here.

Sadly A.G. Holder continues to stonewall Congressional investigations. “Unfortunately, your Department has rejected all Congressional oversight requests for information about her role in the Obama Administration’s defense of this law [Obamacare].” While Holder blocks any justice to help Obama, Kagan scored the touchdown by defending Obamacare, and now she acts as the “instant replay referee” to find no flags on her own play.

Her “impartiality” is obviously flawed, as the Senators point to a March 2009 email Kagan sent to DOJ Legal Adviser Larry Tribe concerning Obamacare: Entitled, “Fingers and toes crossed today!” Kagan emails, “I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing.” [How impartial can she be when ruling on this law?]

Political analyist Dick Morris agrees: “As Solicitor-General, Kagan was the point person for defending the constitutionality of federal law before the Supreme Court. She was, in effect, the lawyer supporting the Health Care law. How can she now sit in judgment on it?” Morris has also delivered 19,000+ petitions to Congress, along with our 63,000+.

Can you help us reach 100,000 fax petitions to Congress? Please sign our fax petition.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

85 groups + 96,000 petitions demand Kagan recuse Obamacare.

I have amazing news to report. We can stop Obamacare and many tax-funded abortions!

Now leaders of 85 groups represent millions of Americans (including me, Chaps, representing YOU) signed a joint letter to House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), as drafted by our dear friend Philip Jauregui, President of the Judicial Action Group, including a veritable “Who’s Who” of Christian and conservative activists, including Family Research Council, Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America, and many tea party groups. You can read our full letter and list of 85 groups here.

The new letter explains we have a “basis to question the impartiality of Justice Kagan if she were permitted to prepare the defense of a case as an advocate and then switch roles and judge the defense of that same case as a justice.” [Chaps’ comment: Imagine going to court, and suddenly the defense lawyer takes over as judge? How unfair and biased! ]

“Attorney General Holder has failed to comply with your repeated requests [to subpoena Kagan’s records] and has characterized your reasonable requests to determine the facts in this matter as ‘unseemly.’ We disagree, and believe that it would be ‘unseemly’ for the system of ‘checks and balances’ to fail to operate in this landmark matter. Accordingly, we respectfully request that you immediately hold hearings to investigate the full extent to which Justice Elena Kagan was involved in preparing the legal defense of the PPACA during her former service as Solicitor General.” [Chaps wants hearings, impeachment!]

Friends, we fought against the pro-abortion funding provisions of Obamacare by faxing over a million petitions to Congress. We fought against Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court with nearly a quarter million petitions. We helped persuade 26 state attorneys general to join the lawsuit NFIB v. Sebelius to defeat Obamacare in court.

We’re now joining the final battle at the Supreme Court of the United States, to defeat Obamacare permanently, but one biased Justice Elena Kagan could decide our fate.

I need 10 or 20 folks to please donate $500 or $1,000 extra this week, just to break even. (If anybody thinks I’m getting rich here, they’re mistaken.) Help us help America!

Let’s take one final stand against Obamacare. Take action today. . .

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

Friends, our Supreme Court will soon decide if Obamacare and it’s pro-abortion tax-funding is Constitutional. Let’s take a stand today, and demand Justice Kagan recuse herself, or face impeachment hearings.

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt

For interviews, speaking invites, select here.

P.S. Time is urgent! Please sign our petition today. Prefer to donate by mail? Please mail paper check or money orders to: The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

Filed Under: Fax Petitions, PIJN News, Religious Freedom, Right to Life Tagged With: Abortion, health care, medicine, obamacare, SCOTUS, socialized medicine

What if Supreme Court FAILS to overturn Obamacare?

March 27, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

URGENT PETITION to REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP ABORTION-FUNDING, END GOV’T TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY. Please select, sign, and WE WILL FAX your petition to all 535 members of Congress instantly (saving you much time!)  We have already delivered 1.4 million fax petitions.  Can you help us reach 1.5 million?

What if Supreme Court FAILS to overturn Obamacare?

Here are today’s shocking numbers from RNC Research, because of Obamacare.

67%:  Americans That Believe The Supreme Court Should Overrule ObamaCare. (ABC News , 3/19/12)…

52%:  Americans That Oppose ObamaCare. (ABC News , 3/19/12)

$2.6 Trillion:  True Cost Of ObamaCare Once Fully Implemented. (Office Of The Speaker Of The U.S. House Of Representatives, Report, 1/6/11)

$1.76 Trillion:  Ten Year Cost Of ObamaCare. (Updated Estimates For The Insurance Coverage Provisions Of The Affordable Care Act, Congressional Budget Office, 3/13/12)

$575 Billion:  Medicare Cuts In ObamaCare. (CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster, Memo, 4/22/10)

$525 Billion:  Taxes Raised In ObamaCare. (CBO, 3/30/11)

$450 Billion:  Cost Of ObamaCare “Glitch” Allowing The Middle-Class To Qualify For Medicaid. (Forbes , 6/21/11)

$401 Billion:  Increase In Federal Entitlement Spending From ObamaCare. (CBO, August 2010)

$210 Billion:  Amount Of Income Taxes Collected Over 10 Years Through ObamaCare. (Joint Committee On Taxation Report , 3/20/10)…

$15,073:  Cost Of A Family Health Care Premium After ObamaCare Was Passed. (Kaiser Health News , 9/27/11)

$13,375:  Cost Of Family Health Care Premium When Obama Took Office. (Kaiser Health News, 9/15/09)

$2,000:  Penalty Per Employee Levied On Employers For Dropping Health Coverage. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/27/10)

$1,000:  Penalty Levied On Americans Who Don’t Obtain Health Insurance. (The Associated Press, 4/22/10)

Friends, as the Supreme Court weighs Obamacare this week, (and we may LOSE that decision, since no Supreme Court since 1936 has overturned major legislation), it becomes more critical than ever we must demand Congress rescind that bad law, which funds abortion with our tax-dollars and threatens American liberty.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

78 Million:  Americans Forced To Find Other Sources Of Health Coverage. (The Wall Street Journal, 6/8/11)…

6 Million:  Retirees That Will Lose Prescription Drug Coverage. (CMS, 2010)

2.2 Million:  Union Members That Received A Waiver. (CMS, Accessed 3/22/12)

800,000:  Number Of Workers That Will Be Cut Out Of The Workforce By ObamaCare. (Politico, 2/10/11)

46,000:  Shortage Of Surgeons And Specialists In 2020 Due To ObamaCare. (Association Of American Medical Colleges, 4/10)

45,000:  Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians In 2020 Due To ObamaCare. (Association Of American Medical Colleges, 4/10)

43,000:  Jobs Shipped Overseas When Medical Device Tax Comes Into Effect. (Advamed , 9/11)

24,000:  Jobs Lost Due To Tanning Tax. (The Hill’s “Health Watch,” 6/8/11)

1,231:  ObamaCare Waivers Granted By HHS. (CMS, Accessed 3/22/12)…

451:  Union Plans That Have Been Issued ObamaCare Waivers From HHS. (CMS, Accessed 3/22/12)

34:   States Where Health Insurers Have Stopped Selling Child-Only Insurance Policies. (Politico, 1/27/11)

20:  Democrats That Have Co-Sponsored Legislation To Repeal The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). (H.R. 452, Introduced 1/26/11)

18:  Tax Increases Included In ObamaCare. (The Heritage Foundation , 1/20/11)…

46%:  Americans That Have Seen Their Health Care Costs Increase. (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1,213 A, MoE 3%, 2/29-3/5/12)

12.7%:  Increase In Premiums Since Obama Took Office. (Kaiser Health News, 9/15/09; Kaiser Health News , 9/27/11)

10.6%:  Increase In Employee Premiums For 2012. (Bruce Jaspen, “New Survey Projects Higher Employee Health Premiums,” The New York Times’ ” Prescription Blog ,” 10/2/11)…

9%:  Increase In 2011 Premiums. (Julie Appleby, “Cost Of Employer Insurance Plans Surge In 2011,” Kaiser Health News , 9/27/11)…

2.3%:  Tax On Medical Device Manufacturers. (Joint Committee On Taxation Report, 3/20/10)

0:  Other People Obama Will Have Left To Blame For The Failures Of ObamaCare. (The American People, 11/6/12)

SELECT HERE TO SIGN FAX PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 535 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AUTOMATICALLY (saving you time!) TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, STOP FUNDING ABORTION AND DEATH PANELS

Obamacare forces YOU to pay $1 per month for abortions.

This week President Obama’s Department of Health and Human “Services” issued brand-new regulations requiring everybody in America to pay $1 per month for abortion services, if they join the Obamacare program as mandated by federal law.

My friend and attorney Mat Staver with Liberty Counsel explains:  “The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that a minimum of one dollar a month from every ObamaCare participant will help pay for someone’s abortion.  The ‘abortion surcharge’ is cleverly hidden in the insurance premium, but not allowed to be listed as a line item. If you find that thought upsetting, as I do, then please join me in committing to pray that ObamaCare will be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court!…

“It’s now official. Contained in just-released Health and Human Services guidelines is yet another mandate that requires an ‘abortion premium’ for the establishment of state health care exchanges.  According to our friends at LifeNews…

” ‘To comply with the accounting requirement, plans will collect a $1 abortion surcharge from each premium payer…  The enrollee will make two payments, $1 per month for abortion and another payment for the rest of the services covered.

‘As described in the rule, the surcharge can only be disclosed to the enrollee at the time of enrollment.  Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to directly subsidize abortions.’…

“Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its most recent projections revealing that ObamaCare’s costs will be nearly double what the President promised and Congress approved – from $900 Billion to $1.76 Trillion.  But independent analysts say the true cost will, in all likelihood, far exceed $2 Trillion over that ten-year span.”

[Chaps’ comment:  Obama lied.  He promised ‘no abortions’ funded by Obamacare, but now his own DHHS is forcing YOU to pay $1 per month extra for abortions.  And his bloated budget costs TWICE what he projected.  We must demand Congress repeal Obamacare, now.]

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Senate Vote on repeal of Obamacare’s mandatory “Church-funded Abortions”

The U.S. Senate voted last week to defeat an amendment drafted by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) concerning whether to “partially repeal” the portion of Obamacare that requires churches, Catholic hospitals, and Christian universities to pay for their employees abortion insurance.  In my opinion the new “conscience” language didn’t go far enough, nor did it begin to repeal all Obamacare, so we must petition all 100 Senators to REPEAL OBAMACARE ENTIRELY this week, by calling 202-225-3121, or sign our petition here.

Our friend Ashley Horne with Focus on the Family reported:  “The U.S. Senate will likely vote this week on an amendment to protect the religious freedom and conscience rights of employers who object to offering possible abortifacient drugs in employee health plans.

“Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., introduced the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (S.1467) last August, and recently offered the bill as an amendment to transportation legislation being debated this week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had previously blocked the amendment from getting a vote.

“The Blunt amendment would exempt objecting employers from new regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requiring them to offer free contraception in their insurance plans. Some contraceptive drugs, like Plan B and ella, may cause early abortions. Some employers, particularly religious ones, say they shouldn’t have to offer such drugs.

“‘(This debate) is not about contraception. It’s about the Constitution,’ Blunt wrote in an opinion piece published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday. ‘It’s about faith and who controls the religious views of faith-based institutions.’ ”

Let’s take action to demand Congress repeal ALL of Obamacare, not just “fix” it.

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Obama stands firm: “Catholic Hospitals must issue Abortion Pills.”  Take Action!

In a private retreat with Senate Democrats, President Obama strengthened his resolve Wednesday, and personally threatened to fully enforce the Obamacare law that will force Catholic and Christian hospitals to issue abortion pills and post-conception abortifacient devices like RU-486, the IUD, and Plan-B, forcing Christians to kill or help kill innocent children in the womb.

ABC News reports:  “President Obama ‘reinforced’ his stance on the controversial contraception mandate while speaking at the Democrats’ annual retreat at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. today, Senate Democrats said.

“The retreat was closed to media.

“Following President Obama’s speech at the retreat, a small group of Senate Democrats, mostly women, left the retreat early in order to hold a news conference on Capitol Hill to counter the Republicans’ news conference today at which they called for the mandate to be overturned.

“Democrats said they will ‘fight strongly’ to keep the [Obamacare] mandate [forcing Christians to issue abortion pills] in place.

“It is our clear understanding from the administration that the president believes as we do, and the vast majority of the American women should have access to [abortion pills],” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said, pointing out that 15 percent of women use [abortion pills] for medical issues. “[Abortion Pills] it’s medicine, and women deserve their medicine” [to be dispensed by Christians who oppose abortion], said Boxer.

House Speaker John Boehner vowed to repeal the parts of Obamacare that mandate Christian hospitals dispense abortion pills.  [I say we repeal ALL of Obamacare.]

“It’s time to tell Republicans ‘mind your own business,’” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. “Ideology should never be used to block women from getting the [abortion pills] they need [to kill their unborn children] to lead healthier lives [dispensed by Christians who oppose abortion, who will be punished if they refuse to dispense abortion pills].”

FOLKS, LET’S DEMAND CONGRESS REPEAL ALL OF OBAMACARE.  Please help.

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Last January a Florida Federal judge ruled the new health care law known as Obamacare is unconstitutional, and must be thrown out.  In his ruling, Judge Roger Vinson said that the law’s requirement to carry insurance or pay a fee “is outside Congress’ Commerce Clause power, and it cannot be otherwise authorized by an assertion of power under the Necessary and Proper Clause. It is not constitutional.”  He also declared that the entire law “must be declared void,” because the mandate to carry insurance is “not severable” from the rest of the law.  This differs slightly from a similar ruling last month by a Virginia Federal judge Henry E. Hudson, who ruled the individual mandate is unconstitutional, but other parts of the law may be OK.

Virginia and Florida’s Attorney Generals are two of 26 states suing to overturn Obamacare, many who joined suit after receiving thousands of fax petitions from The Pray In Jesus Name Project, proving your faxes get results.

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H.R. 2 and H.R. 9 are two important bills that the Republican Majority in the House promised during campaigns, and we need a strong showing by those conservatives we helped elect, for three reasons:

1.  Obamacare law funds abortion with our tax-dollars, despite President Obama’s judicially unenforceable Executive Order that pretends to save the unborn while funding their destruction.

2. Obamacare mandates health-care rationing which creates “death panels” for the elderly by diverting their Medicare funds to young unemployed welfare recipients, and forcing Medicare physicians into bankruptcy.

3.  Obamacare creates socialist government-control of 1/6th of the U.S. economy under massive bureaucracies that hurt businesses, cost jobs, and don’t care for patients like private doctors do.

We need to take immediate action and petition all 435 Congressmen and 100 Senators to approve H.R. 2 and H.R. 9, which do two things:

1.  H.R. 2 repeals the pro-abortion, pro-death, rationing Obamacare law passed last year.

2.  H.R. 9 instructs committees to begin work crafting a new bill to reform health care using principles of free-market capitalism that make America great (not socialism/Communism).

So let’s take action today. 

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Do you remember the legislative battle in the House and Senate last March? Former Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) betrayed conservatives by claiming to be pro-life, then voting with Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to fund abortion.  Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) did the same, betraying innocent children in the Senate.  They initiated a phony compromise with President Obama who signed a toothless Executive Order (which conflicts with the law, and is unenforceable in court) to give them top-cover to claim they’re not funding abortion, when the law they all passed specifically stated on page 117:

“(ii) ABORTIONS FOR WHICH PUBLIC FUNDING IS ALLOWED.—The services described in this clause are abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is permitted, based on the law as in effect as of the date that is 6 months before the beginning of the plan year involved.”  [That’s a direct quote from the law they passed.]

In other words, Democrats lied when they claimed Senator Nelson’s “compromise” with pro-abortion Senator Boxer (D-CA) somehow prevented public tax-payer funding of abortion, and only permitted private funding of abortion (as if that should be allowed either). And Planned Parenthood clearly lied in their analysis of the law, when they claimed “forcing individuals to write two separate checks (both of which are out of private funds) and requiring health plans to administer two different payments of private funds is not necessary to insure public funds are not used for abortion care.”  No public funds?  Really?

They lied, plain and simple, because the law quoted above now reads ABORTIONS FOR WHICH PUBLIC FUNDING IS ALLOWED through the Department of Health and Human Services, subsidizing child-killing of innocents with your tax-dollars, so welfare-moms can kill their child for a $12 co-pay, while Planned Parenthood gets rich charging YOU thousands of tax dollars against your will.  No wonder both Stupak and Nelson were labeled traitors by every credible pro-life group in America.  No wonder 32% of all voters self-identified as conservative Christian voted 78% for Republicans this past November, and threw out Stupak and Pelosi (and will soon throw out Nelson in 2012).

But the horrible Obamacare law remains law, until we help repeal it. So let’s get it done.

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Friends, our nation stands in the midst of a spiritual war to save or destroy unborn babies and the elderly. You and I stand in this battle together.  We must stand strong!

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt

P.S.  Prefer to donate by mail?  Please mail paper check or money orders to:  The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO  80970.

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Atheists Want Wider Recognition in the Military

March 23, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Atheists and humanists are working hard to gain wider recognition in the United States Military.

At Ft. Meade, an army base in Maryland, Army Reserve Captain Ryan Jean recently submitted a lay leader application with support from The Military Association of Atheists & Free Thinkers (MAAF) and an endorsement from the Humanist Society.

A lay leader in the Army and Air Force is someone appointed by their commanding officer and supervised and trained by the command chaplain. These leaders help with their specific religious group and support or fill in for chaplains when needed.

If Capt. Jean’s application is approved, it will allow him to work with chaplains to help out atheists and humanists on his base.

MAAF said in a released statement that “this would help to extend equal recognition and support of humanists and other nontheists at Ft Meade.”

The atheist organization has been at the forefront in working to add more diversity within military chaplaincy. Late last year they released a list of simple steps to diversity for military chaplains to implement.

Among the suggestions included: Having chaplains send emails to their units and announcing in unit formations that they are welcoming to atheists and humanists and that they have references and materials for atheists and humanists in their offices.

But others see this kind of push for atheist recognition as a weakening of the chaplaincy. Kelly Shackelford, president & CEO of the Liberty Institute, told The Christian Post that “chaplains have been under increasing attacks by secularists. Chaplains serve a key role for religious freedom. Some secularists don’t understand this and are trying to constantly agitate and weaken the chaplaincy. If they succeed, it will be to our country’s detriment as well as to the detriment of our soldiers.”

So far Staff Sergeant Dan Rawlings at Travis Air Force Base in California and Sergeant First Class Chris Brown at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida were provided space to meet in Air Force chapel facilities for atheist and humanist matters. Petty Officer Thomas Permuy has also been provided space to meet at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar chapel.

MAAF said in a released statement that “this sort of open-hearted support of those with different beliefs reflects well on the chaplaincy. But with 1000 installations and ships around the world, these few successes show the uphill battle we face.”

Shackelford disagrees though. He told CP, “Those seeking non-religious assistance already have that available through psychologists and other non-religious help. Their indirect attacks on the chaplaincy are attacks on religious accommodation, a great American and Constitutional practice.”

Former Navy Chaplain James G. Klingenschmitt also noted the availability of psychologists in a previous interview with CP. He said that “there are no atheist seminaries. That’s why atheists and agnostics can freely obtain secular counseling from military psychologists, since by definition they don’t want religious counseling or services.”

The push for wider recognition of atheists and humanists in the military has also extended through another upcoming initiative called “Rock Beyond Belief” set to take place at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina.

Atheists in the U.S. military will be holding a public festival and rock concert on March 31 to celebrate “freethought” humanism and skepticism.

Event organizer Justin Griffith, a sergeant in the U.S. Army and an atheist, hopes it will generate more support for nonbelievers serving in the military.

This article was written by Brittany Smith for the Christian Post – Visit the Christian Post.

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Obama's Record Deficit: $232 Billion Red Ink in Just One Month

March 23, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

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Obama’s Record Deficit:  $232 Billion Red Ink in Just One Month

Ah, the good old days, when deficit spending was limited to $232 Billion red ink per year.   Now President Obama intentionally causes larger and larger deficits, setting an all-time record of (gasp) $232 Billion in red ink in JUST ONE MONTH of February alone!

That’s $232 billion over budget.  Obama spent $335 Billion last month, or about $2 debt created for every $1 legitimately spent.  He’s raising the national debt by $11.5 billion per day, or $480 million per hour.  The next time Mr. Obama plays golf, our grandchildren will be taxed another Billion in red ink (without their permission).

Since Obama took office the National debt has increased on an average of $4.02 Billion per day.  Last month was $11.5 Billion a day.  Yes, the debt clock is accelerating!

How is this possible? Why are we spending more today then we did at the height of the recession?  Government income is up as well. Corporate taxes are up 56%. It is outrageous the debt is still increasing when plenty of tax revenue is being seized.

Mr. Obama has a spending problem.  Most overspending is on growing entitlement and welfare programs, which continue to spiral out of control in Obama’s Administration.

It’s “the return of welfare as we knew it.” Mr. Obama has DOUBLED welfare spending since the Bush years.  The Bush Administration spent on average $400 billion on government welfare programs, but Obama has doubled that to $800 billion a year.

The national debt has already surpassed 100% of our Gross Domestic Product, which means even if all of our yearly income were taxed, we could never pay down the debt.

Does anybody out there still think America needs a Balanced Budget Amendment?

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China: “U.S. Dollar discarded by world.”   Greenspan:  “We can always print money.” More Proof Obama caused last year’s Stock Market Crash…in their own words:

The Stock Market crashed hard again last fall, following the news that the S&P Global Credit Report downgraded America’s ability to ever repay its mounting debt from AAA to AA+ for the first time in history. The Dow dropped -5.5%, the S&P -6.7%, the NASDAQ -6.9% in one day, all records since 2008.  In response to this disaster President Obama went golfing, and later said casually, “Markets will rise and fall,” blaming S&P, not himself.

Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan shockingly announced: “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default,” on NBC’s Meet the Press.  (Hint to AG: That would make dollars worthless!)

China called upon the world to dump its U.S. dollars and buy Yuan.  In comments emailed to CNBC, Guan Jianzhong, chairman of Dagong Global Credit Rating, said the U.S. dollar will be “gradually discarded by the world,” and the “process will be irreversible.”

China’s Yuan jumped .23% against the U.S. Dollar Monday, the largest one day jump for Chinese currency this year.  At 6.4 Yuan to 1 Dollar, the Yuan has risen 6.2% against us since June 2010, when China effectively ended its currency’s peg to the dollar.  (Soon we’ll be making toothbrushes for their WalMarts, not the other way around.)

Why did S&P downgrade America’s ability to every repay their debt?  In their own words, “Our opinion is that elected officials remain wary of tackling the structural issues required to effectively address the rising U.S. public debt burden in a manner consistent with a ‘AAA’ rating.  We lowered our long-term rating on the U.S. because…near-term progress containing the growth in public spending, especially on entitlements, or on reaching an agreement on raising revenues is less likely than we previously assumed and will remain a contentious and fitful process. We also believe that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration agreed to this week falls short of the amount that we believe is necessary to stabilize the general government debt burden by the middle of the decade.”

S&P had warned Obama that unless $4Trillion was cut from the $10Trillion projected increase, they would downgrade us.  Obama wanted zero cuts, but Speaker Boehner forced $2.4Trillion so-called cuts, (which are not real cuts, but in S&P’s own words, “The act calls for as much as $2.4 trillion of reductions in expenditure growth over the 10 years through 2021.”)  By 2021 the national debt will grow to $22T from the current $14.6T.   S&P warned:  “The outlook on the long-term rating is negative.  As our downside alternate
fiscal scenario illustrates, a higher public debt trajectory than we currently assume could lead us to lower the long-term rating again” TOWARD JUNK BOND STATUS.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) lied to the world, claiming S&P’s words above prove Democrats were right, when all last month they fought to RAISE the debt with bigger government spending, and Democrats repeatedly avoided a vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.  Let’s tell Congress to PASS THE BBA NOW!

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OBAMA TO BLAME FOR CRUSHING DEBT

Under the weight of President Obama’s crushing national debt and massive government spending, the stock market crashed 500 points in August, the biggest loss since 2008, the 8th consecutive daily loss, as the U.S. dollar continues to tank, and gold prices rose to an all-time record $1681 per oz.–>

Because Obama and Democrats refused major spending cuts (and still plan to RAISE the national debt by $8Trillion dollars to $22T by 2022), China’s top credit-rating agency yesterday downgraded the U.S. ability to pay its future debt from A+ to A, while U.S. based Weiss already put the U.S. just two notches above junk.  Three other major credit rating agencies predicted a “future” downgrade.  NASDAQ.com reported “A downgrade would increase the borrowing costs. JP Morgan already estimated a downgrade would cost the U.S. government $100 billion a year. But the buck doesn’t stop there, the higher interest rate and payments would trickle down to state, local governments, business and individual as well since most loan interest rates are benchmarked against the U.S. Treasury rate.”

Higher interest rates =  more home and car reposessions, more business bankruptcies, massive job losses, and stagflation is coming.  (Is this hope and change?)   We’re facing a Depression, not Recession, unless both the House and Senate vote 2/3 each to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment and STOP running up Obama’s massive national debt.

The liberal media lied to America, claiming Obama had only two options last week: either raise the debt ceiling or default on our national debt. (Here’s a 3rd option: Pay off the debt.)

Heroic Senator DeMint (R-SC), one of the few who voted against, explained the debt deal: “The final agreement, which the President signed into law:
— Raises the debt limit by as much as $2.4 trillion;
— Allows the debt to continue to grow by $7 trillion over the next decade;
— Creates a new, 12-member “super-committee” with the power to force major tax increases through Congress;
— Threatens our AAA bond rating; and
— Never balances the budget
Washington is addicted to spending and it’s a bipartisan addiction.”

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) explained the debt deal:  “the ‘cuts’ being discussed are illusory…not cuts from current amounts being spent, but cuts in projected spending increases.  This is akin to a family ‘saving’ $100,000 in expenses by deciding not to buy a Lamborghini, and instead getting a fully loaded Mercedes, when really their budget dictates that they need to stick with their perfectly serviceable Honda.”

Paul continued:  “Our revenues currently stand at approximately $2.2 trillion a year…our outlays are $3.7 trillion and projected to grow every year…[In] 2004 for federal outlays [were] $2.2 trillion, and the government was far from small that year.  If we simply returned to that year’s spending levels, which would hardly be austere, we would have a balanced budget right now…In Washington terms, a simple freeze in spending would be a much bigger ‘cut’ than any plan being discussed.”

58% of Democrats polled loved the debt deal, when only 26% of Republicans did.  Feel free to voice your opinion on the debt deal by signing our fax petition to all 535 Congressmen again today.  (They will vote this fall on the Balance Budget Amendment.)

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DEMOCRAT-LED SENATE REJECTS “CUT, CAP AND BALANCE.”

The Senate voted 53-47 in August to reject “Cut, Cap and Balance,” the only existing budget plan to balance the federal budget without tax increases on churches.

Thanks to YOUR faxing efforts the House of Representatives passed Cut, Cap and Balance by a 234-190 vote, with nearly all small-government Republicans for, and nearly all big-government Democrats against.   Interestingly, two Republican Presidential candidates Michele Bachman (R-MN) and Ron Paul (R-TX) voted against the bill, because it didn’t cut enough government spending or repeal Obamacare.

The “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act” H.R. 2560 could reduce the debt by $6 Trillion, but President Obama and Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) both declared their intention to stop or veto any plan that doesn’t raise taxes on the Senate floor.

Now Compare these four plans that compete with “Cut, Cap and Balance”:
–Obama’s plan raises the national debt $8Trillion from $14Trillion to $22Trillion by 2022.
–McConnell’s plan lets Obama raises the debt ceiling by $2.4 Trillion next year, cutting only $1.5 Trillion from Obama’s $8T raise over 10 years, making our future debt $20.5T.
–The “Gang of Six” plan was not ready by the August 2nd deadline, but could raise $1 Trillion in taxes (including taxes on church offering plates) with just $2.7 Trillion in spending cuts, reducing Obama’s $8T ten-year deficit increases by $3.7T, but still increases the national debt from $14T to an irresponsible $18.3T by 2022.
–Hero Conservative Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)’s plan proposed $9 Trillion in real spending cuts, which would eliminate Obama’s $8T growth and paying down the national debt by $1T (reducing from $14T to $13T), but he’s the only one who’d vote for it.

Only the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan would guarantee future balanced budgets, because only that plan recommends a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution, controlling all future Democrat spending binges.  Its $6Trillion in recommended spending cuts does NOT include $2.5T we could save by cutting Obamacare, so enter Michele Bachmann…

–Bachmann’s plan merges a $2.5T Obamacare repeal AND a $6T Cut, Cap, Balance plan, saving $8.5T, without raising the debt ceiling!   The national debt moves from $14T to $13.5T over 10 years, and if the economy grows as it should, we could someday ELIMINATE the $13.5T national debt entirely, reducing it to ZERO.

All in favor of the Bachmann plan, say aye?  AYE!  But first let’s petition the Senate to pass Cut, Cap, and Balance this Saturday…

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OBAMA PLANS TO TAX CHURCH OFFERING PLATES $500 BILLION

Secret Decoder:  When President Obama says “tax millionaires” he means tax churches.   When he says “close loopholes” he means eliminate charitable deduction exemptions, which taxes church offering plates and cripples the poor helped by churches, replacing private charities with government welfare, to pay his massive debt from Obamacare.

Associated Press explained what Obama really means when he says he wants to raise taxes by “eliminating tax loopholes for millionaires and billionaires”:

“Among the tax increases proposed by the White House and the amount they’d raise over the next decade:

“- Limit itemized deductions, including those for charitable contributions and mortgage interest, for families and small business owners with high incomes. Under current law, if a taxpayer’s top income tax rate is 35 percent – the highest rate – a $100 deduction is worth $35 in tax savings. For several years, Obama has proposed limiting itemized deductions for people making above $250,000 to 28 percent, meaning a $100 deduction would be worth only $28 in tax savings at most. That would raise $293 billion, according to congressional estimates.”

Did you catch that?  Obama would raise $293 billion by taxing church contributions.

“A similar proposal would gradually phase out itemized deductions for people making more than $500,000, raising ‘in the ballpark of $210 billion,’ said Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, one of the House Democratic negotiators in the Biden talks.”

Did you catch that?  Democrats want $210 billion more taxing itemized deductions.

$293 Billion + $210 Billion = $503 Billion in new taxes, by taxing church donations.

But where will the money go?  AP says part of the Debt Ceiling problem was created by Obamacare, which just quadrupled the number of Medicaid welfare recipients:

“President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed…A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid, said officials…for the Health and Human Services department….It might be compared to allowing middle-class people to qualify for food stamps….That $64,000 would put them at about four times the federal poverty level, which for a two-person household is $14,710 this year.”  EARN FOUR TIMES THE POVERTY LEVEL?  You qualify for welfare.

Taxing churches who help the poor, simply to replace charities with government welfare?   This is how Obama wants to re-structure taxes, while negotiating with Speaker Boehner.  (And he’s increasing our national debt while doing it.) Let’s take a stand against taxing churches to raise the debt ceiling, period.

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MORE PROOF OBAMA PLANS TO TAX CHURCHES AND CHARITIES

President Obama continued his attack on American values and Churches by releasing his updated budget plan, which now includes indirectly taxing American Churches and Charities by eliminating tax-deductions for charitable giving, and home-mortgages.

CNN Money News just reported “The president once again proposed in his budget to curtail high-income earners’ tax deduction for mortgage interest payments and charitable contributions. Under his proposal, taxpayers in the 33% and 35% tax brackets would only be able to deduct their [church or charity] contributions and mortgage interest payments at the 28% rate.”

In other words, Obama wants to take money out of your church’s offering plate, and hurt the helpers, damaging their ability to serve the poor and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.   People in those brackets who donate to churches will be effectively double-taxed, paying more taxes because they give to charity, which directly decreases their ability to donate.

“While charities don’t have the same spending power on lobbyists, they also plan to make their voices heard,” said CNN, quoting Tim Delaney, head of the National Council of Nonprofits.  “Limiting the charitable deduction will likely curtail large donations to charities for the arts, environment, education and other sectors [i.e. churches].  This would come at a tough time for many charities since they are seeing donations drop, while the demand for their services rises.”

CNN reported the 54 most generous donors in America gave only $3.3 billion in 2010, the smallest sum since 2000, according to a ranking compiled by The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Slate magazine.  “Charities…are very reliant on donations from the wealthy, who like their tax breaks.  The deduction isn’t the sole motivation, but it is significant,” said Ken Berger, chief executive of Charity Navigator, which evaluates non-profits’ fiscal operations.

Can you believe the gall of this President?  How dare he try to tax church offering plates!   Rather than reduce government spending, he wants to raise the national debt ceiling limit, keep wasteful government spending, raise taxes, and now tax your church offering plates.   Let’s take a stand by demanding Congress reverse this evil plan.  Sign our brand new petition today!

SELECT HERE TO SIGN new PETITION TO STOP TAXING CHURCHES, STOP RAISING THE NATIONAL DEBT CEILING, AND BALANCE THE BUDGET, and we will fax 535 Members of the House and Senate instantly, (saving you much time!)

Friends, our nation stands in grave danger of bankruptcy that would hurt every American. Let’s take a stand today, and demand Congress pass the Balanced Budget Amendment.

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt

P.S. Time is urgent!  Congress will soon consider raising the national debt ceiling, rather than cutting wasteful government spending programs.  Please sign our petition today!   Prefer to donate by mail?  Please mail paper check or money orders to:  The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO  80970.

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Disclaimer: The views of Chaplain Klingenschmitt, who was vindicated by Congress after being honorably but involuntarily discharged from the Navy in 2007 after facing court-martial for praying “in Jesus name” in uniform, are his own personal views, not the views of any political party, government, or organization.

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Congressman: White House stonewalling Kagan's recusal from Obamacare

March 21, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

HOT PETITION! Ask Congress to impeach Justice Elena Kagan if she refuses to recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. Please select, sign, and WE WILL FAX your petition to all 535 members of Congress (saving you time!) We’ve already sent 96,000 fax petitions. Can you help us reach 100,000?

Congressman: White House stonewalling Kagan’s recusal from Obamacare

Today the Washington Times published a blistering article written by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), demanding Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebellius next month. Coincidentally, we have faxed nearly 100,000 petitions to all 535 members of Congress. So Rep. Smith wrote to us:

“…The Affordable Care Act became law on March 23, 2010, and legal challenges were filed almost immediately. At the time, Justice Kagan was serving as the administration’s chief legal adviser on challenges to federal law, especially Supreme Court challenges. It would have been her job to consult with and advise the administration on how best to defend the new law.

“Justice Kagan was nominated to the Supreme Court on May 10, 2010. What Congress and the American people want to know is what role then-Solicitor General Kagan played prior to her nomination.

“The House Judiciary Committee, along with its Senate counterpart, is the legislative guardian of our Constitution. As chairman of the committee, I have sought to make public the facts relating to whether Justice Kagan should participate in the Supreme Court’s consideration of this important subject. For eight months, I have sought information from the Justice Department regarding what, if any, role Justice Kagan may have played in discussions about the constitutionality and prospective litigation over the president’s health care law.

“Since July 2011, I have written Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on five occasions requesting that the Justice Department provide relevant documents and emails and produce witnesses for interviews. But instead of working to quiet questions by disclosing the facts about Justice Kagan’s prior health care reform-related work, the department has been stonewalling Congress, fueling speculation that there is something to hide…

“The rules regarding recusal are clear. The current recusal law, enacted in 1974, bars justices from hearing certain cases in which they were involved as government lawyers. If Justice Kagan participated in legal or procedural discussions regarding the health care law challenge, she should be recused from ruling on the case. The intent of recusal is to prevent any personal or professional bias that may impact a justice’s decision…

“Instead of honoring its obligation to cooperate in congressional oversight, the department refuses to provide the requested information. At a hearing in December, I questioned Mr. Holder until he finally conceded the department has failed to assert any legal privilege justifying its noncooperation.

“The department has given no good, justifiable reason to deny this congressional request. The administration still refuses to release the relevant documents. This perpetual stonewalling is not just bad governing; it proves that the president’s campaign promises of openness and transparency were empty…”

You can read the Congressman’s entire letter here. But the Chairman has issued a cry for help, and we must answer that cry. Let’s bury all Congress in fax paper today. We must demand Congress impeach Justice Elena Kagan.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

New lawsuit can force Kagan to recuse Obamacare, White House to release secret docs

Yet another public service lawfirm, Judicial Watch, has filed an important Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to force the White House to release its secret documents, that prove Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan cannot remain unbiased when considering an Obamacare case in a few weeks.

The new lawsuit argues the Obama Administration continues to stonewall Congressional subpoenas for documents, and has now violated federal law by withholding public records to which public citizens are also entitled under the FOIA law.

“E-mails that previously were obtained by the organization suggest Kagan and her staff in the White House ‘may have participated in discussions pertaining to the legal defense of Obamacare,’ Judicial Watch told WND.com.

“Other records show then-Solicitor General Kagan commenting excitedly on the passage of Obamacare,” Judicial Watch reported.

“This is no time for the Obama administration to stonewall and obfuscate,” said Tom Fitton, the chief of Judicial Watch. “We hope the court will force the Obama administration to respond to our request in a manner consistent with federal law.”

He said, “The American people deserve to know how deeply involved Elena Kagan and her top deputies were in shaping the Obama administration’s legal defense of Obamacare. The integrity of the courts requires a full airing of those facts before she participates in ruling on a matter she may have helped prepare for litigation. There is more information at the Justice Department but clearly Eric Holder intends to run out the clock.”

Meanwhile the Supreme Court has ignored a motion to re-consider forcing Kagan’s recusal filed by our lawyer friend Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, according to WND.com.

I leapt out in faith and spent $30,000 over 3 months on this campaign (but recovered only $18K), renting big email lists reaching millions of patriots (seriously I’m losing my shirt, so please donate here), but our emails have gone viral and we’ve already faxed 96,000 petitions to Washington DC. We buried in fax paper all 535 Senators, Congressmen, (and the Supreme Court too) demanding the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Let’s reach 100,000 today. It’s a team effort, and I’m grateful for your help.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

Chief Justice Roberts: Stop Asking Kagan to Recuse Obamacare.

Your faxes have been noticed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. After YOU helped fax over 83,000 petitions to Congress (with copies directly to the Supreme Court) demanding Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from hearing the Obamacare case, Chief Justice Roberts came to Kagan’s aid by writing a letter defending the Court’s integrity.

Roberts wrote in his “end of year” report that we shouldn’t worry about Kagan’s bias, despite the fact she helped write, defend, and lobbied to pass Obamacare:

“I have complete confidence in the capability of my colleagues to determine when recusal is warranted,” Roberts wrote. “They are [Kagan is] jurists of exceptional integrity and experience whose character and fitness have been examined through a rigorous appointment and confirmation process.”

“The Supreme Court does not sit in judgment of one of its own members’ decision whether to recuse in the course of deciding a case. [Roberts won’t rebuke Kagan.] Indeed, if the Supreme Court reviewed those decisions, it would create an undesirable situation in which the court could affect the outcome of a case by selecting who among its members may participate.”

“If an appeals court or district court judge withdraws from a case, there is another federal judge who can serve in that recused judge’s place. But the Supreme Court consists of nine members who always sit together, and if a justice withdraws from a case, the court must sit without its full membership.”

“A justice accordingly cannot withdraw from a case as a matter of convenience or simply to avoid controversy. Rather, each justice has an obligation to the Court to be sure of the need to recuse before deciding to withdraw from a case.”

So Roberts won’t step in to tell Kagan to recuse herself. What do you think? I think we’re getting their attention. If Roberts won’t oversee Kagan, the U.S. Congress must.

Should Justice Kagan be trusted to “not recuse” herself, or impeached by Congress?

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

Four Senators demand Kagan recuse Obamacare. We demand impeachment.

After YOU helped fax thousands of petitions, four top-ranking Republican Senators agreed with us and demanded Justice Kagan recuse herself from the Obamacare case. In a letter signed by Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY), Whip John Kyl (R-AZ), Ranking Judiciary Grassley (R-IA), and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), all four rebuked President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, who has obstructed justice and blocked Congressional investigation of Kagan’s bias in the Obamacare case.

“Federal law requires recusal from a case if a judicial officer of the United States ‘has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case or controversy.’ 28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(3). In addition, a federal judge must disqualify herself from participating in a matter if her ‘impartiality might reasonably be questioned.’ Id. at § 455(a). It appears that former Solicitor General Kagan’s participation in the Obama Administration’s defense of the PPACA may satisfy both requirements for recusal,” the letter said. You can read the Senators’ full letter here.

Sadly A.G. Holder continues to stonewall Congressional investigations. “Unfortunately, your Department has rejected all Congressional oversight requests for information about her role in the Obama Administration’s defense of this law [Obamacare].” While Holder blocks any justice to help Obama, Kagan scored the touchdown by defending Obamacare, and now she acts as the “instant replay referee” to find no flags on her own play.

Her “impartiality” is obviously flawed, as the Senators point to a March 2009 email Kagan sent to DOJ Legal Adviser Larry Tribe concerning Obamacare: Entitled, “Fingers and toes crossed today!” Kagan emails, “I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing.” [How impartial can she be when ruling on this law?]

Political analyist Dick Morris agrees: “As Solicitor-General, Kagan was the point person for defending the constitutionality of federal law before the Supreme Court. She was, in effect, the lawyer supporting the Health Care law. How can she now sit in judgment on it?” Morris has also delivered 19,000+ petitions to Congress, along with our 63,000+.

Can you help us reach 100,000 fax petitions to Congress? Please sign our fax petition.

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

85 groups + 96,000 petitions demand Kagan recuse Obamacare.

I have amazing news to report. We can stop Obamacare and many tax-funded abortions!

Now leaders of 85 groups represent millions of Americans (including me, Chaps, representing YOU) signed a joint letter to House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), as drafted by our dear friend Philip Jauregui, President of the Judicial Action Group, including a veritable “Who’s Who” of Christian and conservative activists, including Family Research Council, Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America, and many tea party groups. You can read our full letter and list of 85 groups here.

The new letter explains we have a “basis to question the impartiality of Justice Kagan if she were permitted to prepare the defense of a case as an advocate and then switch roles and judge the defense of that same case as a justice.” [Chaps’ comment: Imagine going to court, and suddenly the defense lawyer takes over as judge? How unfair and biased! ]

“Attorney General Holder has failed to comply with your repeated requests [to subpoena Kagan’s records] and has characterized your reasonable requests to determine the facts in this matter as ‘unseemly.’ We disagree, and believe that it would be ‘unseemly’ for the system of ‘checks and balances’ to fail to operate in this landmark matter. Accordingly, we respectfully request that you immediately hold hearings to investigate the full extent to which Justice Elena Kagan was involved in preparing the legal defense of the PPACA during her former service as Solicitor General.” [Chaps wants hearings, impeachment!]

Friends, we fought against the pro-abortion funding provisions of Obamacare by faxing over a million petitions to Congress. We fought against Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court with nearly a quarter million petitions. We helped persuade 26 state attorneys general to join the lawsuit NFIB v. Sebelius to defeat Obamacare in court.

We’re now joining the final battle at the Supreme Court of the United States, to defeat Obamacare permanently, but one biased Justice Elena Kagan could decide our fate.

I need 10 or 20 folks to please donate $500 or $1,000 extra this week, just to break even. (If anybody thinks I’m getting rich here, they’re mistaken.) Help us help America!

Let’s take one final stand against Obamacare. Take action today…

SELECT HERE TO SIGN PETITION, and we will instantly fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators demanding impeachment hearings if Justice Elena Kagan does not recuse herself from the Obamacare case NFIB v. Sebelius. (Saving you much time and postage!)

Friends, our Supreme Court will soon decide if Obamacare and it’s pro-abortion tax-funding is Constitutional. Let’s take a stand today, and demand Justice Kagan recuse herself, or face impeachment hearings.

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt
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P.S. Time is urgent! Please sign our petition today. Prefer to donate by mail? Please mail paper check or money orders to: The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.

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Florida Judge enforces Sharia Law over U.S. Constitution. Legislators allow it.

March 20, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Hot Petition! Stop Muslim Sharia and Foreign Law from enforcement in American courts by activist judges. Select here, sign petition, we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators (saving you time!) to pass H.R. 973 and protect our Constitution.

Florida Judge enforces Sharia Law over U.S. Constitution. Legislators allow it.

The Florida State legislature has failed to pass S.B. 1360, a law preventing Muslim Sharia Law from being enforced by liberal judges, especially one who hates the U.S. Constitution.

The American Thinker blog reports: “A controversy over the defeat of Florida legislation that would have restricted state courts from considering foreign laws as part of legal decisions has intensified. This is after a Tampa judge ruled that two opposing Muslim parties have their dispute settled under Islamic sharia law ‘pursuant to the Quran’ in spite of the fact that one Muslim group did not want to do this…and the Florida Appellate Court denied the petition to appeal the judge’s ruling.

“The proposed law, SB 1360, had been opposed jointly and lobbied against by both CAIR (The Council on American Islamic Relations) and the ADL (the mostly Jewish Anti-Defamation League) … American citizens must be allowed to question, without being called ‘Islamophobes’ or ‘bigots,’ the inherent threat of Islamic sharia ideology, disguised as only religious law, before it endangers our American society. The political correctness of this constitutional argument actually blinds one to the dangers of some Islamic laws…specifically those that pertain to women and children and the punishments rendered for breaking these laws…

“The ‘sinister’ fact is that Islamic ideology makes Muslim women and children powerless, intimidated by the obscene rules of a male-dominated society. Sharia law requires women to present practically impossible proof of their innocence, such as eyewitnesses to being raped. A woman who seeks justice for this crime, files for divorce, or desires child custody, or a child that strays into Western ways, has hardly any means to win in a sharia court…

“Caning and flogging in public are done in cases where a female is found guilty of a minor sexual infraction, and stoning to death for a wife’s adultery is common in the Muslim world. Amputation of a hand or foot is considered an appropriate price for thievery, while beheading, crucifying, and hanging are the recommended penalties for murder or blasphemy. Children can also be harshly treated under sharia law by being forced to remain in the custody of an abusive father after there is a divorce.

“Killing in the name of ‘family honor’ is an accepted form of Islamic punishment for a woman’s unfaithfulness or a Muslim child straying too far from the Islamic way…”

You can read the full article here. Then please take action by helping us petition the U.S. Congress to pass H.R. 973 and stop Muslim Sharia from ruling all 50 states…

Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators (saving you time!) to Stop Activist Judges from enforcing Sharia or Foreign Law in American courts. Ask Congress to pass H.R. 973 today!

Pentagon bows to Sharia law. American Generals apologize to Muslim terrorists.

Multiple sources now confirm that top American Generals, under direct pressure from the Obama Administration, are attending Muslim mosques and apologizing for allowing Korans to be discarded and inadvertently burned in Afghanistan. No such apologies were issued when the Pentagon burned American Bibles in 2009.

The Afghani Karzai government now claims NATO is demanding American soldiers will be put on trial for buring Korans, (which reportedly contained secret code messages from terrorist prisoners.) “NATO officials promised to meet Afghan nation’s demand of bringing to justice, through an open trial, those responsible for the incident and it was agreed that the perpetrators of the crime be brought to justice as soon as possible,” says Karzai.

Four major apologies ensued. Last week 1) General John Allen, a Marine four-star commander of US Forces – Afghanistan, apologized, following 2) President Obama’s apology, which also inspired 3) My personal favorite is the HILARIOUS apology of this nice lady who appears smarter than President Obama.

Sadly, a fourth senior Pentagon official has kowtowed in cowardice to Muslim terrorists who killed American soldiers to avenge the “honor” of the mishandled Korans.

IINA reports: “A senior Pentagon official apologized Friday to Washington-area Muslims for the burning of Qurans at a military base in Afghanistan. Peter Lavoy, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asia and Pacific security affairs, said the military is investigating what occurred and that all 140,000 coalition troops in Afghanistan are being retrained in the handling of religious materials. Lavoy [pictured above] apologized multiple times during a brief speech during prayer services at the ADAMS Center in Sterling, one of the largest mosques in the country. ‘I come here today to apologize on behalf of the Department of Defense for the incident that took place in Afghanistan this week,’ Lavoy told worshippers, saying the burnings were done ‘unknowingly and improperly.’ Lavoy’s remarks at the suburban Washington mosque follow protests across Afghanistan over the burning of several Qurans at a U.S. military base.”

President Obama said he would punish any American troops who mistreated copies of the Koran: “I assure you that we will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible,” said Obama. A witchhunt is now underway, to find and punish the American soldiers Obama blames for mishandling the Muslim book.

BOTTOM LINE: Has the Pentagon now bowed to enforce Sharia law, rather than the U.S. Constitution? Lavoy, Allen, and Obama should be investigated and removed for cowardice, and for violating their oath to the Constitution, which protects freedom of press, including the freedom to burn books (rather than kill people, as the Muslims do). Let’s petition Congress.

Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators (saving you time!) to Stop Activist Judges from enforcing Sharia or Foreign Law in American courts. Ask Congress to pass H.R. 973 today!

Muslim Judge in U.S. court: OK to choke people who mock Muhammad.

Meanwhile another American Judge Mark Martin, a Muslim, just ruled to enforce Sharia law instead of the U.S. Constitution in a shocking case in Pennsylvania. Get this:

An atheist joker Ernest Perce dressed for a Holloween parade as the Muslim false prophet Muhammed. While walking in the parade the atheist joker was jumped and beaten by an easily offended Muslim man, Talaag Elbayomy. A video camera and eyewitness policeman captured the assault and testified for the atheist victim, who was physically beaten by the Muslim attacker, right here in the USA.

The Muslim attacker was an immigrant who claims he did not know his actions were illegal, or that it was legal in this country to represent Muhammad in any form. He also testified that his 9 year old son was present, and the man said he felt he needed to show his young son that he was willing to fight for his Prophet.

But the U.S. judge was Muslim, so he threw out the video evidence, dismissed the eyewitness cop, lectured the victim for mocking Muhammed, and freed the violent Muslim attacker.

Watch the 2 minute ABC News story below, share widely:

The U.S. Judge said to the atheist: “I’m a Muslim, I find it offensive. But you have that right, but you’re way outside your boundaries or first amendment rights. This is what, and I said I spent about 7 and a half years living in other countries…In many Arabic speaking countries something like this is definitely against the law there. In their society in fact it can be punishable by death and it frequently is in their society.”

Let me get this straight. An American Judge enforces foreign Sharia law rather than the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? And this is happening in America?

This is why Congress must pass H.R. 973, to stop Activist Judges from enforcing Sharia Muslim law rather than the U.S. Constitution and First Amendment. Let’s take action.

Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators (saving you time!) to Stop Activist Judges from enforcing Sharia or Foreign Law in American courts. Ask Congress to pass H.R. 973 today!

Congresswoman: Stop judges who promote Sharia and Foreign Law over Constitution.

Conservative Congresswoman Sandy Adams (R-FL) has taken a stand for liberty and to defend the U.S. Constitution and US law, by sponsoring a bill that stops liberal activist judges from enforcing Muslim Sharia law, or foreign laws, in American Courts.

Adams wrote an op-ed article explaining her bill, saying in part:

“Imagine waking up one Sunday morning and reading the headline in your local newspaper: ‘Supreme Court rules that the press can’t question the president,’ and imagine that their ruling cited international case law from nations like China or Cuba, where it is illegal to question the word of the executive branch. While this idea may seem far-fetched, it is a daunting possibility.

“Foreign law poses a very real threat to the American judicial system…Our Constitution laid the foundation for our nation’s judicial system, and referencing or using foreign law in American courts will lead to its erosion…

“That is why I have introduced legislation to protect our Constitution and federal court systems from this type of practice. My two-page bill, H.R. 973, simply states that ‘in any court created by or under Article III of the Constitution of the United States, no justice, judge, or other judicial official shall decide any issue in a case before that court in whole or in part on the authority of foreign law, except to the extent the Constitution or an Act of Congress requires the consideration of that foreign law.’

“Not only is using international precedent a transparent disregard for the Constitution, but it could be used to advance a judge’s personal political agenda over the best interests of the nation. Judges have a responsibility to interpret the laws of the land, not legislate from the bench, and the practice of referring to foreign law puts their underlying motives into question. There are three particular Supreme Court cases where judges have cited foreign and international precedent: Lawrence v. Texas, where the court overturned state anti-sod omy statutes; Atkins v. Virginia, where the court held against the execution of mentally retarded capital defendants; and Roper v. Simmons, where the court outlawed application of the death penalty to offenders who were under 18 when their crimes were committed. International and foreign laws were cited in all three cases by our Supreme Court justices in reaching their decisions, setting precedent for future rulings…”

[Chaps comment: Passing HR 973 could reverse Lawrence, and help ban sod omy!]

Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators (saving you time!) to Stop Activist Judges from enforcing Sharia or Foreign Law in American courts. Ask Congress to pass H.R. 973 today!

Adams continued: “Currently there are over a dozen states that have introduced legislation banning foreign law on the state level — including the state I represent, Florida…[it has] become a fixture of the confirmation process for Supreme Court justices. In her 2010 confirmation hearing, Elena Kagan was questioned by Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, who asked if she thought international law should factor into a federal court’s decision-making process. She confirmed that she did, stating: ‘I think it depends. There are some cases in which the citation of foreign law, or international law, might be appropriate.’

“This kind of practice begs the question: Are we going to allow our court systems to dictate our policymaking process based off of foreign sources or are we going to go through the proper channels prescribed by our Constitution? We must remember that we have an American judicial system in place for a reason; it is based off of our country’s rich history and it is intentionally unique to our great nation. As we move forward as a country, we must work to protect it.”

–Rep. Sandy Adams represents Florida’s 24th Congressional District.

[Chaps comment: Let’s stand with Congresswoman Sandy Adams, and petition all 535 Congressmen and Senators to co-sponsor and pass her bill to stop Sharia in US courts.]

God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,

Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt
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Please select here to sign urgent petition, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators (saving you time!) to Stop Activist Judges from enforcing Sharia or Foreign Law in American courts. Ask Congress to pass H.R. 973 today!

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