EVERY LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Read and Sign the Manhattan Declaration
[Blogger Note: I am a signer and Supporter of the Manhattan Declaration]

March 02, 2012
Several months ago we shared about a new movie produced that was inspired by the life of an abortion survivor, Gianna Jessen. Last October there was a limited release of the movie and now on March 23rd “October Baby” will be released in theaters nationwide.

The producers of “October Baby” are committed to donating 10% of all movie profits to a fund called Every Life is Beautiful. This fund was created as a way to collect and distribute donations from the movie to frontline organizations committed to helping women in crisis pregnancies, life-affirming adoption agencies, and those caring for orphans. Click Here for more information.

About the Movement
In 2009 a number of Christian leaders known for their public witness on behalf of justice, human rights, and the common good came together in shaping the historic Manhattan Declaration. It was born out of an urgent concern about growing efforts to marginalize the Christian voice in the public square, to redefine marriage, and to move away from the biblical view of the sanctity of life. It was originally signed by about 150 prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders and scholars and was released at a press conference in Washington, DC on November 20, 2009.

It is important to understand that the Manhattan Declaration is a call of Christian Conscience. It speaks to the church just as much as it speaks to the larger culture. In fact it is a clarion call to the church to take a stand on three vital issues: The sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and religious liberty. Every day new threats emerge to these three core principles of a good and just society. And every day more and more people respond by adding their names to the Declaration. Each of these signers has committed to speak and act in defense of biblical truths with respect to the three issues it addresses. Each agrees that these truths are not open to compromise. And each has become part of a growing movement of people standing shoulder to shoulder in defense of these three vital moral issues.

As the movement grows and as more and more people across America pledge to be uncompromising in their faith, the Manhattan Declaration will have a huge impact on our society. By standing united and in speaking the truth on the vital issues of life, marriage, and liberty we will serve the common good move our nation toward justice.

Read the Manhattan Declaration.

B-b-b-But It's HIS Fault

The continuing blame-game

This is all over the internet; I even got this in an email. I don’t know who to credit for it, but I am reposting it, as I have checked the facts.

The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL. So once more, a short civics lesson

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for FY 2008 & FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 & FY 2011. (FY = fiscal year)

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period: (below)

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, including Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

There are at least two sides to every issue, and to every aspect of the blame game. Get real, people. The Democrats are destroying our country.

Kansas High Court Allows Planned Parenthood Criminal Case to Proceed

By Stephanie Samuel , Christian Post Reporter
October 18, 2010|3:09 pm

The Kansas Supreme Court decided to allow a 107-count criminal case to proceed against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri after the case had been tied up for two years. The organization had been accused of conducting illegal late-term abortions.

“This is a huge victory for the cause of life,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, in a statement. The pro-life group lobbied for the criminal case to move forward despite a subpoena tie up and a letter from the state’s attorney office pardoning the Planned Parenthood group involved.
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Last Friday, the court finally cleared the case to be tried in the District Court by the Johnson County State’s Attorney office. The Kansas Supreme Court decided to allow a 107-count criminal case to proceed against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri after the case had been tied up for two years. Read article here at the Christian Post

Rick's Comment: I hope, finally, that this will vindicate Phill Kline, who has worked tirelessly to bring charges against Tiller and Planned Parenthood, and has received persecution, his name maligned, and downright deliberate lies against him. I also hope the case will reveal the illegal actions by elected and appointed state officials.

HOME DEPOT - WHY BOYCOTT?

The Home Depot promotes the homosexual agenda

For several years, The Home Depot has given its financial and corporate support to open displays of homosexual activism on main streets in America's towns.

Rather than remain neutral in the culture war, The Home Depot has chosen to sponsor and participate in numerous gay pride parades and festivals. Most grievous is The Home Depot's deliberately exposing small children to lascivious displays of sexual conduct by homosexuals and cross-dressers, which are a common occurrence at these events.

Judge for yourself by reviewing the photos below [Click here], taken during recent homosexual events sponsored by The Home Depot. Should The Home Depot be helping advance the homosexual agenda?

The goal of every homosexual organization supported by The Home Depot is to get homosexual marriage legalized. The information below (see click here, above) provides just a glimpse of how broad The Home Depot's support for the homosexual movement is.

Take Action!
Sign the Boycott Pledge Here.
Call your local store manager. Let the manager know that you will not be shopping at The Home Depot until the company stops supporting the homosexual agenda. You can find his number here (Click "Store Finder").
Print the AFA Pass Along Sheet for friends and neighbors.
Print the paper petition and distribute it at Sunday School and church.

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Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions

By Penny Starr
January 3, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – According to its latest annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) received $487.4 million in tax dollars over a twelve-month period and performed 329,455 abortions.
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards and President Barack Obama. (AP Photo)

In addition, the number of adoption referrals made by the organization continued to decline.

The latest annual report covers the period from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, the PPFA’s fiscal year. The report states that the organization received “government health services grants and reimbursements” totaling $487.4 million.

Previous Planned Parenthood annual reports showed total funding from “government grants and contracts” (which were $363.2 million in 2009), while this year’s report also accounts for payments from Medicaid managed care plans among the payments the group receives from government. Read More at CNSN News.

The Kansas City Star’s Witch Hunt Against Phill Kline

By Rick

Yesterday, I read a commentary written by Jack Cashill in the American Thinker, that encompasses my opinion of the Kansas City Star, as much as anything I”ve read lately. Excerpts of the piece follows:

Witch Hunt in the Heartland
By Jack Cashill
January 2, 2012

The story that follows has taken place in and around Kansas City. But it could have unfolded in any city in which a stealthily leftist publication has a near monopoly on the production and distribution of news -- in other words, just about every city in America.

"Monsignor backed the four altar boys up against the wall, "shoulder to shoulder." writes Judy Thomas of the Kansas City Star. "Then he forced them to perform sexual acts on each other and on him."

"If you ever tell," the monsignor reportedly warned the boys, "you'll be kicked out of the Catholic Church, your parents will disown you, and you'll die and go to hell."

So begins Thomas's ultra-Gothic, front-page series, "The Altar Boys' Secret," served up by the Star just in time for Christmas.

Although the Catholic League has accused Thomas of "anti-Catholic bigotry," the accusation is too narrow. A local evangelical leader has more precisely identified the Star's larger goal, namely the "the destruction of the Christian pillars that have stabilized the country for more than two centuries."American Thinker.

I have followed the fight between former Kansas Attorney General, and later Prosecutor for Johnson County, Kansas, Phill Kline, against Planned Parenthood and the Tiller Clinic in Wichita. I have read an many accounts from the Kansas City Star, as well as the Wichita Eagle, as time provided, and I have compared the so-called facts against what I know has happened.

Abortion, according to the Supreme Court decision handed down in Roe V Wade in 1973, was made ‘legal’ after which we have had around 50,000 abortions in the United States. Kansas Abortion law provides for no abortions after a fetus reaches viability. According to Kansas Law KSA 65-6701 (k) "Viable" means that stage of gestation when, in the best medical judgment of the attending physician, the fetus is capable of sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical means. Kansas and several other states use 20 weeks, after which an abortion can not be performed, unless other critical life-threatening conditions are present.

Phill Kline filed charges against both George Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider, and Planned Parenthood for performing abortions past the twenty week limit. The clinics at times ‘estimated’ the number of weeks the women were pregnant, added so-called mental reasons for abortions. He also charged them for not reporting statutory rape involved in teens younger than sixteen being made pregnant by older men, some in their twenties. In the two years 2002 and 2003, 166 girls 14-and-under had abortions at one of the two Kansas clinics.

In February 2011, Disciplinary Administrator Hazlett filed ethics charges against Phill Kline in order to protect Planned Parenthood from criminal prosecution, even though he was cleared of similar charges in May 2008. They wanted to make an example of him, not only to punish him for daring to file charges against abortion mill, but also to intimidate future law enforcement officers.

Topeka , February 2011, — Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline sought Tuesday to rebut a key allegation in an ethics complaint against him, testifying during a hearing that he did not aim to identify adult patients of the late Dr. George Tiller during an investigation of the Wichita abortion provider.

Kline said instead he was trying to identify child victims of sexual abuse and anyone traveling with them when he subpoenaed records from a hotel near Tiller's clinic. It was his second day of testimony before a three-member panel of the state Board for the Discipline of Attorneys, which will recommend to the Kansas Supreme what, if any, sanctions Kline should face over the complaint.

The complaint alleges Kline and his subordinates mishandled abortion patients' medical records and misled other officials while investigating Tiller's clinic and a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. Kline, who investigated the clinics as attorney general from 2003 to 2007 and as Johnson County district attorney from 2007 to 2009, vigorously disputes those allegations. Source: The Lawrence Journal World.

It seemed that every time new false allegations against Kline emerged, the Kansas City Star would publish an editorial besmirching Kline’s character. Mr. Cashill sums it up later in his article:

When then Attorney General Phill Kline tried to expose the abortion clinics' ongoing cover-up, Star editors fought his efforts with such zeal that in 2006 Planned Parenthood bestowed its top national editorial honor on the paper. Oblivious to the hypocrisy of it all, the Star continues to resist attempts to make the clinics report child rape. Source.

The Kansas City Star, along with other liberal, anti-Christian, pro-abortion print media, have long since left their original status as the fourth estate, being a watchdog against corrupt government, and now persecuting those who dare to be against their support of corruption, becoming corrupt themselves. Their actions, along with the actions of a corrupt group of elected and appointed officials, show clearly that abortion is a part of the culture of death–resorting to lies and the destroying of anyone who stands in their way for the right to kill pre-born children. They owe former Attorney General Phill Kline a public apology for their public damage against his reputation.

A three-judge panel ruled that the university was following protocol when it put a student on a remediation plan as requirement for degree fulfillment

Court rules in Georgia case on student's view of 'gays'
Associated Press - 12/20/2011 7:20:00

Jennifer Keeton (ADF client, Augusta State Univ.)Associated Press - A federal court has upheld a ruling that Augusta State University in Georgia was within its rights to require a graduate school counseling student to keep her biblical views on homosexuals to herself.

A three-judge panel ruled that the university was following protocol when it put Jennifer Keeton on a remediation plan and threatened to expel her after she repeatedly said she would have difficulty working with homosexual clients. (See earlier story re-posted immediately below this story.)

Earlier story dated 8/4/2010
Judge says 'remediation' lawful, student appeals
Bill Bumpas - OneNewsNow - 8/24/2010 3:45

A federal judge has rejected a graduate student's lawsuit that claimed a university in Georgia was forcing her to abandon her Christian beliefs in order to receive a counseling degree. (See earlier story)

Jennifer Keeton (ADF client, Augusta State Univ.)U.S. District Judge Randal Hall ruled Friday that Augusta State University can expel Jennifer Keeton if she does not follow a "remediation plan" assigned by her professors -- a requirement Hall described as "academically legitimate." Keeton had been asked to complete the plan after she said she believed homosexual behavior was morally wrong and that she would then help such clients change that behavior. Read earlier story here at onenewsnow web site.

Pro-Abortion Catholics Seek to Take the Protection of Conscience From Catholic and Other Health Care Workers

December 3, 2011
Righteousness in government--impossible?
By Judie Brown

With the looming possibility that the Obama administration may remove conscience protections in healthcare from Catholic institutions, many are rightfully concerned about the implications. What will this mean for hospitals and for other agencies that wish to follow Church teachings? Read today's comment for Judie Brown's insights.

Righteous: acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin

— according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is the exemplification of a justice.

The fundamental principle of justice — in law, in governing, in treating all peoples with equity — is the cornerstone of a humane society. It is important to understand this fundamental truth in order to properly examine the innate absence of righteousness (justice) in comments and recommendations that are emanating from the Obama administration. Read article at at renewamerica.com. (http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/brown/111203). [If URL does not work, copy and enter in web page address bar.]

The American Life League is Asking for Obama Appointee Kathleen Sebelius to Resign from Her Post As Secretary of HHS

I have said over the past several months that this scandal would not go away. Justice is catching up with the Culture of Death in Kansas.

Sebelius Called on to Quit Over Planned Parenthood Scandal

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/29/11 1:52 PM

A leading pro-life organization is calling on HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to quit because of a scandal involving the destruction of Planned Parenthood record during her administration as governor of Kansas.

The Obama official has come under heavy fire from prolife groups who are pointing out how a state attorney general she appointed in Kansas destroyed documents related 107 criminal charges former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline filed against the abortion business. The charges alleged that planned Parenthood failed to report cases of child rape on children on whom Planned Parenthood did abortions, that it failed to test whether an unborn child was viable (as required by state law) before doing a late-term abortion, and that it manipulated records it submitted to the state to cover up those crimes.

Because former attorney general Steve Six, the Sebelius appointee, destroyed the documents, a court dismissed all of the felony charges filed against Planned Parentood because the evidence supporting those charges had been destroyed. Read Article

Pro-Abortiongate Shredding of Records Getting Worse

I have been saying, this would not go away.

Sebelius-Planned Parenthood Record-Shredding Scandal Gets Worse

by Cheryl Sullenger
Washington, DC
LifeNews.com
11/8/11 2:15 PM

Open records received by Operation Rescue from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment raise more questions than they answer about the sebelis-planned-parenthood-record-shredding-scandal-gets-worse recent revelation that documents containing critical evidence against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri were shredded under the Sebelius Administration.

Operation Rescue asked the agency for a broad range of documents and communications between KDHE and Planned Parenthood and/or the office of former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who now serves as President Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.

KDHE provided a scant number of documents reflecting an e-mail request from Planned Parenthood’s Sheila Kostas asking for information listed on Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) forms was made on August 10, 2005. The records show that KDHE’s Greg Crawford complied with the request the following day. Read more at Lifenews dot Com

In time, this scandal will vindicate former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.