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Gee, here's a surprise:

California's highest court has agreed to hear legal challenges to a new ban on gay marriage, but is refusing to allow gay couples to resume marrying until it rules.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted three lawsuits seeking to overturn Proposition 8. The amendment passed this month with 52% of the vote. The court did not elaborate on its decision.

All three cases claim the ban abridges the civil rights of a vulnerable minority group. They argue that voters alone did not have the authority to enact such a significant constitutional change.

Read that last sentence very carefully. The people do not have the authority? And as for the preceding sentence, gays are not a "vulnerable minority group." You're only a minority if you can't help what you are, like black, Hispanic, etc. Gays choose to be the way they are. Fine, be as perverted as you want. But don't demand that we all accept it.

This really is sickening to me. The harrassment, intimidation, threats coming from gays who simply will not accept that they LOST. How tolerant. They need to be arrested and thrown in jail, not coddled and rewarded for their behavior.

But hey, that seems to be the order of the day, doesn't it? We rewarded Barack Obama for being dead wrong on Iraq by making him Commander-in-Chief. We rewarded the Democrat Party for its disrespect for Bush, for its corruption (Jefferson, Rangel come immediately to mind), and for cheating (ACORN) by giving them more power. Guess this is just gonna be more of the same.

Thank you, O-Bots!

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated the Bible like we treat our cell phones?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several time a day?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

What if we gave it to kids as gifts?

What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of emergency?

This is something to make you think....hmm...where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing.  Unlike our cell  phone, we don't have to worry about our Bibles being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.

Makes you stop and think, where are my priorities? And no dropped calls!

[h/t: Intern Missius]

...for our shortsightedness.

Today - and every day - we should take the time to pray for and thank our veterans and those still fighting for our freedom. I am saddened that we have turned over the reins of power to the party which has been trying to legislate their defeat for the past seven years, but our military will endure. They are the stuff of Real America - a fighting spirit and rugged individuality. When someone makes a negative comment about our young people today, I point to the 18-year-olds and above who are over there right now, selflessly securing our freedom and doing things that most of us would not even consider doing. They are enduring hardships we cannot imagine, and they are doing it *voluntarily*.

Let us not forget our brave men and women and their families as they sacrifice for us. We owe them everything.

God Bless America

Land that I love

Stand beside her, and guide her

Through the night with a Light from above.

From the mountains, to the valley, to the oceans white with foam,

God bless America, my home sweet home!

God bless America, my home sweet home!

This jerk who dares call himself a Republican is now hoping the California Supreme Court will overturn Proposition 8, which the voters in California passed and bans gay marriage.

Reporting from Sacramento and Pasadena — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today expressed hope that the California Supreme Court would overturn Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. He also predicted that the 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who have already married would not be affected by the initiative.

“It’s unfortunate, obviously, but it’s not the end,” Schwarzenegger said in an interview on CNN this morning. “I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area.”

Can you believe this? This is the kind of stuff liberals do...they use the courts to forward an agenda that they can't win at the ballot box. And RINOs like Arnold Schwartzenegger do the same thing. He should just be honest and switch parties. The people of California have spoken. Now he wants to flip them the bird and legalize gay marriage anyway. Wow...we *are* in trouble.

JASmius adds: Especially as Proposition 8 was the people's response to the SCOC's previous judicial imperialism striking down the people's previous banning of sodomarriage.  At some point, doesn't the lavender lobby have to concede that the people of California (and America) simply do not want the institution of marriage irrevocably buggered, or just come right out and admit that they're a bunch of deviant fascists who don't believe democracy - or "da vill of da peeepul" - should get in the way of them forcing their beliefs on everybody else?

If as "blue" a state as Gollyfornia won't stand for it, doesn't that settle the question? 

Vince serves with European Christian Mission as its international director.  He travels extensively representing the mission, preaching, and teaching at conferences.  He has been throughout Eastern and Western Europe, South Africa, the United States, and other areas of the world.

Sarah works in the mission office, and travels on occasion with her husband.

"And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible."

--Mark 10:27

The Pratts travel several times a year to countries around the world via Medical Missions to use Bill's dentistry skills as a means of sharing the Gospel.  The LORD has blessed their ministry, and many have come to know the LORD.  These new believers are then followed up on by national Christians in the area.

A public service announcement from ICR and the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

"The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will." (Proverbs 21:1)

A river may seem to meander aimlessly, but it eventually reaches its goal. The twists and turns along the way are constrained by a variety of hydraulic and geologic facts that determine its local speed and direction, but somehow it "just keeps rolling along" toward the sea.

So it is with a king--or with a president, or any leader of a state or nation. He may have a goal in mind (honorable or otherwise) for the nation he governs, but there are numerous people and circumstances along the way that will either impede or help his progress toward that goal. In fact, we ourselves--the Christian citizens of this nation--are an integral component of those circumstances.

But the president's heart is in the hands of God. In fact, "the powers that be are ordained of God" (Romans 13:1). Whether the ruler comes into power by election or inheritance or coup d'etat or some other way (depending upon the nation and type of government), God is in control and will accomplish His ultimate goal.

That is why it is vital that we frequently make "supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks . . . for all men," especially for "kings, and for all that are in authority" so that we will all be able to "lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty" (1 Timothy 2:1-2).

Our American nation has had many great men as our presidents over the years, and many of our ancestors were indeed men and women of prayer. We do have a great heritage in our nation of both leaders and followers who believed in the Creator God of the Bible and who prayed diligently for their country and the great decisions of its history. We must--must--do the same today!

Another public service announcement from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

Dear Friends,

The American people have spoken resoundingly against partial-birth abortion. This heinous crime committed against a defenseless, partially born child was banned by the Congress and signed by the President in 2003, and the ban was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2007.

The widely admired but generally pro-abortion Senator Daniel Moynihan (D-NY) voted to support the partial-birth abortion ban, calling it "too close to infanticide." The late senator was right.

Now Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) leads the ranks of those who want to bring back partial-birth abortion, and he and his party, through their 2008 political platform, want U.S. taxpayers to underwrite these killings.

 

 

 

This must not happen. Call Senator Obama at 202-224-2854 and tell him his support for partial-birth abortion is unacceptable. Americans have spoken - and the Supreme Court agrees - this assault on the unborn goes too far.

And, please, forward this email to your friends and family far and wide. We need to send a message to liberals in the Senate - and to the leading advocate of partial-birth abortion, Barack Obama - that it's time to end their embrace of the culture of death.

Thank you for taking action today and God bless you.

 

Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President