VP Biden Commends NBC For Advancing Homosexual "Marriage" Agenda

Vice President Joe Biden commended NBC yesterday for "educating the American public" and "moving us toward same-sex marriage."

He also explained what marriage is really all about.

The Vice President told "Meet The Press" host David Gregory, "My measure David, and I take a look at when things really begin to change, is when the social culture changes. I think 'Will and Grace' probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody's ever done so far. And I think people fear that which is different. Now they're beginning to understand. They're beginning to understand."

"Will and Grace" was a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1998 through 2006. It featured a main character who was homosexual.

So Vice President Biden believes that pop culture decides what is right and wrong. Biden, who was once pro-life and true to the teaching of his church, admitted that after coming to Congress he changed his mind. He became "for" abortion and "against" abortion simultaneously. You can read about his conversion in his book, "Promises To Keep" pages 104-105.


While running for President in 2007, he had this Q and A on CBS on April 29, 2007:

Q: You have changed your position on abortion. When you came to the Senate, you believed that Roe v. Wade was not correctly decided and that you also believed the right of abortion was not secured by the Constitution. Why did you change your mind?

A: Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the US Senate, and I have learned a lot. Look, I’m a practicing Catholic, and it is the biggest dilemma for me in terms of comporting my religious and cultural views with my political responsibility.

Translated: "I like my job and I want to keep it. It doesn't matter what my religious beliefs may be, I'm going to be politically correct."

Biden continued with Gregory: "Look, I just think that the good news is that as more and more Americans come to understand what this [homosexual marriage] is all about is a simple proposition. Who do you love? Who do you love? And will you be loyal to the person you love? And that's what people are finding out is what all marriages at their root are about. Whether they're marriages of lesbians or gay men or heterosexuals."

He described the belief in redefining marriage as "evolving."

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Vice President of the United States.

So, Mr. Vice President, how do you really feel about redefining marriage? "I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying each other are entitled to the same exact rights...and quite frankly I don't see much of a distinction beyond that."

Gregory asked Biden if Obama would support homosexual "marriage" if elected to a second term.

Biden said he couldn't speak to that, but this is "evolving."

Whether pop culture is being led by the entertainment industry, or the entertainment industry, as they claim, merely reflects what is happening in the culture, one thing is certain, they represent an unholy, secular progressive alliance with a minority group of homosexual activists and advocates. In this case the advocates seem to be cloistered in the White House.

One other certainty is that the present administration is commending the media for leading, as we continue to stumble toward Gomorrah.

God help us.

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New Obama Slogan, "Forward": A Karl Marx Cue?

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While President Obama plans to introduce his new re-election slogan "Forward" tomorrow in rallies in Ohio and Virginia, Mrs Obama told the folks in Tucson last Monday, "We are blessed to have him" as President.

Forward.

And Blessed.

National Day Of Prayer--It's Significance

Today is the National Day of Prayer.

The significance of this day cannot be over stated. The National Day of Prayer web site says this about prayer:

"The National Day of Prayer is a vital part of our heritage. Since the first call to prayer in 1775, when the Continental Congress asked the colonies to pray for wisdom in forming a nation, the call to prayer has continued through our history, including President Lincoln’s proclamation of a day of “humiliation, fasting, and prayer” in 1863. In 1952, a joint resolution by Congress, signed by President Truman, declared an annual, national day of prayer. In 1988, the law was amended and signed by President Reagan, permanently setting the day as the first Thursday of every May. Each year, the president signs a proclamation, encouraging all Americans to pray on this day. Last year, all 50 state governors plus the governors of several U.S. territories signed similar proclamations."

America, as we have known it and I believe as God would have it to be, truly hangs in the balance at this time in history.

I encourage you, if possible, to find a place to join others of like mind and spirit for prayer today. If this is not possible, take a private moment and pray for our nation and for one another.

I have linked the official National Day of Prayer web site above. There is a great deal of information about both prayer and prayer events today.

I tried to find a comprehensive list of prayer events in Washington State but was unable to find one. I'm certain you can find information in your local area regardless of what state you live in.

In my search, I found an article from Yakima, the place of my birth, that after outlining all the prayer activities, concluded by quoting one of the leaders as saying, "I think our city may be the most prayed over city in the State of Washington."

I hope that can be said of every town and city across America. May God bless America as we acknowledge Him as Lord of all.

Be Prayerful. Be Vigilant. Be Discerning. Be Active. Be Blessed.

May Day Mayhem in Seattle and Redeeming Dan Savage

While the 99% smashed windows in businesses, destroyed cars and generally disrupted Seattle and cities across the country yesterday, the Seattle Times appeared to be busy trying to redeem Dan Savage.

I had planned to write about how a few are breaking laws, claiming entitlements, advocating redistribution of wealth and presuming that everyone else has no rights on their "occupy" days.

I really didn't plan to say much more about Dan Savage and his bully attack on 3000 high school kids at the journalism convention in Seattle in that we wrote about it twice this week and our blogs have been widely circulated and quoted by some in the media, but yesterday, the Seattle Times rose above the smoke in the streets in an attempt at some kind of redemption---or at least explanation, for a man who clearly stepped over the line and blew it. And is now trying to, as I said yesterday, walk back the whole episode.

I have linked the Times article, but the evolving version of what happened and what was said---and why it was said, is important.

A few more things you should know about this event.

• Dan Savage still stands with the idea that his tirade was not directed at the students, but at the Bible saying, "I have a right to defend myself and to point out the hypocrisy" of biblical commandments.

This is not unlike what many homosexuals say they believe and often express--even on this web site. It is, however, usually not so forceful.

It was difficult to see any empathy toward the Christian kids who walked out on his speech. And had Mr. Savage not verbally assaulted the kids, bullied them and blasphemed the Bible, there would be no need to "defend" himself. The kids did not attack his beliefs. He attacked theirs.

• He says he regrets his vulgar terms, but stands by his description of the Bible.

• Savage says he asked the organizers of the National Scholastic Press Association and Journalism Education Association if he should "moderate" his speech. He says they said, "No, be yourself; do what you do."

• Now that this story has become a major national story, the organizers have issued a statement saying Savage "veered from the topic" of bullying. They are saying student journalism "should not shy away from controversial topics and viewpoints. But it should promote and engage in civil discourse. Mr Savage's speech fell short of that standard, and for this our organizations apologize."

It's very difficult to understand how an organization that lives off their relationship with public education, and the paying students it provides for their events, could tell a man who has defined himself by giving the very speech he gave at the convention to, "Be yourself, do what you do" and expect some other result.

It is also odd their apology is for lack of civil dialog and engagement, when the organization themselves created the uncivil environment by inviting Savage to be a keynote speaker and telling him to "do what he does."

Savage thinks the Bible is filled with hypocrisy. I think the National Scholastic Press Association and Journalism Education Association is hypocritical. Based on all I've read and comments sent to me from people who were actually in attendance, I also believe they generally knew what Savage would say.

What was unexpected, was the public response and push back.

These beliefs regarding the Bible and Christianity are not foreign in the public school classroom. The difference is that it is spoon fed over 12 years, rather than force fed in a few hours.

And finally, I doubt that I would send my kid to anything these folks were sponsoring in the future, knowing what we know now.

Thanks for helping us keep the light on.

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Homosexual Activist To Dan Savage: "Apologize"

Yesterday, I wrote about how Seattle columnist Dan Savage, in his keynote address to several thousand high school students at the national journalism convention in Seattle, slammed the Bible, Christianity and mocked those students who are biblical Christians, as they walked out of the convention.

Now the leader of a homosexual activist organization is calling for Savage to apologize.

And Dan Savage is trying to walk back and revise his profane comments.


Todd Starnes, at Fox News, reported, "Savage, the founder of the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying project is facing criticism for delivering a Bible-bashing, profanity-laced speech to high school students attending a journalism conference sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Education Association."

At one point Savage called Christian teenagers who walked out of the speech “pansy-assed.”

“We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people — the same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation about virginity about masturbation,” he told the young students. “We ignore bullshit in the Bible about all sorts of things.” Savage said.

Starnes wrote, "Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, called those statements 'outrageous' and demanded an apology.

“Dan Savage should apologize for his comments and should apologize to the high school students in attendance whom he called ‘pansy-asses,’” continued LaSalvia. “It is ironic that someone whose claim to fame is fighting bullying would resort to bullying tactics in attacking high school students who were offended by his outrageous remarks.”

LaSalvia said people of faith should be treated with respect. “Dan Savage’s outrageous anti-Christian tirade hurts – not helps – the fight for gay rights in this country,” LaSalvia said in a statement.

After creating a national backlash, Savage is revising what he said and what he meant. And sort of apologizing.

The far left Huffington Post has, along with the Convention sponsors, sprung to Savage's defense.

Huff Post published this:

Dan Savage is speaking out after his obscenity-laced speech at the National High School Journalist Conference in Seattle sparked a national controversy.

The outspoken lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocate addressed the backlash on his blog late Sunday. "I would like to apologize for describing that walk out as a pansy-assed move," he writes. "I wasn't calling the handful of students who left pansies (2,800+ students, most of them Christian, stayed and listened), just the walk-out itself. But that's a distinction without a difference -- kinda like when religious conservatives tells their gay friends that they 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'"

Savage continued:

"I didn't call anyone's religion bullshit. I did say that there is bullshit -- 'untrue words or ideas' -- in the Bible. That is being spun as an attack on Christianity.

I was not attacking the faith in which I was raised. I was attacking the argument that gay people must be discriminated against -- and anti-bullying programs that address anti-gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be made for bullying 'motivated by faith') -- because it says right there in the Bible that being gay is wrong. Yet the same people who make that claim choose to ignore what the Bible has to say about a great deal else. I did not attack Christianity. I attacked hypocrisy."

No, Mr. Savage, you demonstrated hypocrisy. And dishonesty.

He does not know the faith of "most kids at the convention" who "stayed and listened."

No one is "spinning" this fiasco except him and his accomplices. This was one of the most blatant, blasphemous public attacks on Christianity I have seen in my years in the ministry.

The Huff Post and the convention sponsors, in their defense of Savage, seem to be labeling the children who walked out as weaker than those who stayed.

We need a spiritual renewal in this country.

We truly are "Stumbling Toward Gomorrah." God help us.

Your support allows Faith and Freedom to shine Light into the darkness.

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