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Military Chaplains Being Stripped of Religious Freedoms

April 9, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Let us pray. Almighty God, we are grieved that Christian chaplains in the U.S. military are having their religious liberties stripped from them by the nation they serve. Your Word says in Acts 2:47 that the church at Pentecost was “enjoying the favor of all the people.” We pray that you will grant favor to the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, who has written a letter to the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee with the goal of restoring these fundamental religious freedoms to our U.S. Military chaplains, especially their freedom of conscience to object to homosexual ‘marriage,’ in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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April 7, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

The Evening Prayer Weekly National News Alert

We don’t just report the news, we pray the scriptures, in Jesus’ name.

Do you have one minute each day to stop and pray for America?

Join us! Read the news, pray the scriptures, change history.

1. Sunday 8 Apr 12 One Minute Prayer: NEWS SOURCE LINK

Military Chaplains Being Stripped of Religious Freedoms

**Listen here to the recorded audio MP3 prayer: ChapsEP040812Sun.mp3 And ask your local radio station to play this audio during their free air time.

ACTION ALERT. HELP STOP JUDICIAL TYRANNY!

Please select, sign, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators to IMPEACH JUSTICE KAGAN IF SHE WON’T RECUSE OBAMACARE.

2. Monday 9 Apr 12 One Minute Prayer: NEWS SOURCE LINK

100 Students rally for Prayer in School in Alabama

Let us pray. Almighty God, although we are sad that the prayers of your people continue to be silenced in our public schools, we are encouraged that 100 young Christian students in Alabama rallied to bring prayer back into their schools and school activities. We pray that You would continue to burden the hearts of young people around the nation to “pray continually” (1 Thess 5:17). Give them the courage to pray at school, at home, on the playground, before their sporting events, and everywhere they go, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

**Listen here to the recorded audio MP3 prayer: ChapsEP040912Mon.mp3 And ask your local radio station to play this audio during their free air time.

ACTION ALERT. PROTECT KIDS FROM SEXUAL PREDATORS!

Please select, sign and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators to STOP AL FRANKEN’S HOMOSEXUAL CLASSROOMS ACT.

3. Tuesday 10 Apr 12 One Minute Prayer: NEWS SOURCE LINK

Mississippi Could Become First Abortion-Free State

Let us pray. Almighty God, we thank you that the Mississippi legislature is on the verge of shutting down its last remaining abortion clinic, which would make it the first abortion-clinic-free state in the U.S. Jesus said he has “come so that we may have life and have it to the full,” and we thank you that the United States will soon become a pro-life nation once again (John 10:10). We praise you for stirring the hearts of your people to seek justice and righteousness on behalf of the unborn, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

**Listen here to the recorded audio MP3 prayer: ChapsEP041012Tue.mp3 And ask your local radio station to play this audio during their free air time.

ACTION ALERT. DEFEND MARRIAGE = 1 MAN + 1 WOMAN.

Please select, sign, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators to DEMAND CONGRESS DEFEND 1996 DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT.

4. Wednesday 11 Apr 12 One Minute Prayer: NEWS SOURCE LINK

Gunman kills 7 at Christian University in California

Let us pray. Almighty God, we ask you to comfort the family members and friends of the seven students that were shot and killed at a small Christian school, Oikos University in Oakland California. You promised that you would be “near to the brokenhearted” and that you would “rescue those whose spirits are crushed” (Psalm 34:18). Enable the family members and friends of the victims to experience your comforting presence in the midst of this horrible tragedy. And give them the grace to forgive the perpetrator of this demonic crime, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

**Listen here to the recorded audio MP3 prayer: ChapsEP041112Wed.mp3 And ask your local radio station to play this audio during their free air time.

ACTION ALERT. DEFEND CHAPLAINS RELIGIOUS FREE SPEECH.

Please select, sign, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators to PROTECT MILITARY CHAPLAINS RIGHT TO OPPOSE IMMORALITY.

5. Thursday 12 Apr 12 One Minute Prayer: NEWS SOURCE LINK

ACLU threatens to sue NC to stop Jesus prayers

Let us pray. Almighty God, we pray that you would protect Christians’ freedom to pray before Jones County Commissioner’s meetings in North Carolina, despite complaints from the ACLU. Your Word tells us, “If any of you lack wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given” (Jam. 1:5). Our governing officials desperately need wisdom from you on how to rightly govern this nation. We pray against the demonic influences that seek to prevent our nation’s leaders from seeking Your guidance. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

**Listen here to the recorded audio MP3 prayer: ChapsEP041212Thu.mp3 And ask your local radio station to play this audio during their free air time.

ACTION ALERT. STOP ABORTION FUNDS, REPEAL OBAMACARE.

Please select, sign, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators to REPEAL OBAMACARE AND STOP TAX-FUNDED ABORTIONS.

6. Friday 13 Apr 12 One Minute Prayer: NEWS SOURCE LINK

School stops Third-Grader from Inviting Friends to Bible Club

Let us pray. Almighty God, we are grieved that a school district in Texas has forbidden a third-grader from distributing handwritten invitations to his Bible club before class. You said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matt. 19:14). Reveal to the leaders of this school district that they are committing an atrocious crime in attempting to prevent these children from sharing their faith with their friends. Let these children not be hindered from coming to you. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

**Listen here to the recorded audio MP3 prayer: ChapsEP041312Fri.mp3 And ask your local radio station to play this audio during their free air time.

ACTION ALERT. STOP MUSLIM SHARIA LAW IN U.S. COURTS.

Please select, sign, and we will fax all 535 Congressmen and Senators to STOP JUDGES FROM ENFORCING FOREIGN LAWS IN U.S. COURTS.

7. Saturday 14 Apr 12 One Minute Prayer: NEWS SOURCE LINK

Atheists Rally Against Religion Fort Bragg

Let us pray. Almighty God, we are grieved that atheist complainers recently held a rally at Fort Bragg to target their hopeless and godless message toward the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, many of whom are believers that depend on God’s support and protection daily. As our Christian brothers and sisters in the U.S. Armed Forces are attacked for their beliefs, we pray that you will empower them to “take up the shield of faith, with which [they] can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one” (Eph. 6:16), in Jesus’ name, Amen.

**Listen here to the recorded audio MP3 prayer: ChapsEP041412Sat.mp3 And ask your local radio station to play this audio during their free air time.

UK considers protecting kids from hard-core internet porn

April 7, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Let us pray. Almighty God, we pray You stop child-abuse in the UK and world-wide, by banning hard-core pornographers who expose little children to violent sexual images and videos, after studies show 1 in 3 young children have seen hard-core pornography, and over half of computers have no filtering protection software. Now 40,000 petitioners have demanded kids be protected. From Matthew 18:6, Jesus said “if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the sea.” In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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California: Christians on trial for reading the Bible on public sidewalk

April 6, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Let us pray. Almighty God, we pray for a court-room victory for Brett Coronado and Mark Mackey, two Christian evangelists who were arrested, jailed, and now stand trial for reading the Bible aloud on a public sidewalk outside a DMV in Hemet California. So many Christians called and petitioned the city that the Mayor and city council are now embarrassed, but the California Highway Patrol violates our First Amendment rights by establishing “free speech zones” that effectively ban free speech everywhere else, even on public sidewalks. From Amos 2:12, they “commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not,” in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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VICTORY: District Court Affirms Right of Chaplains to Offer Imprecatory Prayers, Grants TRI Request to Dismiss Lawsuit

April 5, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

DALLAS, Texas—Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have succeeded in getting a lawsuit dismissed against a chaplaincy endorsing organization that was being sued over allegations that a chaplain affiliated with the group solicited imprecatory prayers which the plaintiffs considered to be “terroristic threats.” The lawsuit, which defined imprecatory prayer as “prayers for the Lord to protect the weak and faithful from the strong and wicked,” sought to limit the content of prayers offered by chaplains who are approved by the Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches (CFGC). For more than 25 years, CFGC has carried out a service to the nation by endorsing military and civilian chaplains. In a ruling from the bench by state District Court Judge Martin Hoffman, the court rejected the allegation that prayers critical of plaintiff Mikey Weinstein by Gordon Klingenschmitt, a chaplain endorsed by CFGC, caused other persons to threaten and damage property of the Weinsteins.

“Thankfully, the district court recognized that if people are forced to stop offering imprecatory prayers, half the churches, synagogues and mosques in this country will have to be shut down,” stated John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. “Free speech is the last bastion we have in this country. You can’t censor or stifle speech based on speculation.”

In 1984, the Department of Defense approved the Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches (CFGC) as an endorsing agency for military chaplains. CFGC is also recognized by the Veterans Administration, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and many other federal, state, municipal, and private institutions and agencies that employ chaplains to minister in a variety of specialized settings. CFGC presently endorses more than 270 military chaplains/chaplain candidates and more than 180 civilian chaplains/seminarians. The lawsuit against CFGC and its founder, the late Jim Ammerman, was filed by Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The lawsuit sought to penalize CFGC for imprecatory prayers offered by one of its chaplains, Gordon Klingenschmitt. According to the lawsuit, Klingenschmitt posted a prayer on his website urging followers to pray for divine protection for CFGC and for the downfall of MRFF, which has been actively seeking to have CFGC removed as an approved chaplain endorsing agency. Weinstein accused CFGC of conspiring to threaten him through the prayers of its supporters. In coming to the defense of the CFGC, Rutherford Institute attorneys noted that while CFGC has no control over the content of prayers offered by its chaplains, the content of one’s prayers is protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Affiliate attorneys Shelby Sharp of Fort Worth, Texas, and Art Schulcz of Alexandria, Va., assisted The Rutherford Institute in its defense of the Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches.

This article was written by the Rutherford Institute; visit their website here.

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.”

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!

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…

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…

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.

Oklahoma just 1 step away from passing Personhood Law

April 5, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Let us pray. Almighty God, we pray you help the Christian citizens and legislators of Oklahoma pass a bill to define “person” as any human being from conception to natural death, which would grant equal rights to the unborn from the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. After narrow defeats in Mississippi and Colorado, this new Senate Bill 1433 in Oklahoma just passed the Senate and could overturn Roe v. Wade if it passes the House. From Job 3:16, stop the murder of “a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day,” in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Atheists sue Pennsylvania for declaring 2012 “Year of the Bible”

April 4, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Let us pray. Almighty God, we pray for a courtroom victory for the people of Pennsylvania, whose elected representatives voted unanimously, with no objections by Democrats or Republicans, to declare 2012 is the “Year of the Bible.” Now atheist complainers with the Freedom From Religion Foundation have sued to stop free speech by citizens and legislators, and demand an injunction to stop Americans from being encouraged to read the Bible. From 2 Tim 3:16, All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. In Jesus name, Amen.

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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)

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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, 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.

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Judge: Missouri voters can add “public prayer” to their Constitution

April 3, 2012 by Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

Let us pray. Almighty God, we pray you bless Missouri voters with religious freedom, after Judge Pat Joyce defeated ACLU complainers and ruled to allow a “public prayer freedom” ballot initiative to go forward this November to voters. Now 51% of “show-me” staters can amend their Constitution to give “the right in Missouri to pray in public places as long as doing so does not disturb the peace.” From 1st Thessalonians 5:17, Christians must “pray without ceasing.” That means we pray both privately and publicly, alone and in groups, unashamed to proclaim Christ and pray, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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