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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

THE NEW INCLUSIVE MENNONITES & THEIR SAME SEX APOSTASY~NO DOCTRINES, NO CREEDS BUT STILL CHRISTIAN?


The New Inclusive Mennonites


Why has the same sex conversation come to the forefront in so many Mennonite churches? Is there an organized force at work? Will your church and college soon be joining the new inclusive Mennonites? The following information may be a surprise for many Bible believing Mennonites. Please read carefully and prayerfully.
The Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests, Minneapolis, MN (www.bmclgbt.org/index.shtml) are Brethren and Mennonites who say they “do not subscribe to formal creeds or doctrines developed by a church hierarchy: our only written authority is the Bible. Interpretation is done by the body of believers themselves. However, through an emphasis on strict application of the Scripture our churches have developed guidelines of faith and witness which often distinguish us from other Christian denominations.” These differences allow them to encourage like minded people to join their BMCList, a ‘Lesbigay MennoLink’, and consider sending them the following…
• Tell us what Lesbigay Anabaptists are thinking and doing in your hometown. (We promise not to call it gossip.)
• Send everyone an action alert. Get everyone moving and shaking.
• Tell us how we can help you.
• Send everyone current events stuff about religion and sexual orientation.
One project of BMCLGBT has been the formation of Kaleidoscope, a network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and allied people on peace church campuses. Part of their purpose, or agenda, is to:
• Increase the visibility of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender alumni, faculty, staff and students.
• Improve the lgbt student experience by connecting with alumni and creating professional and social network opportunities.
• Communicate events of interest to the lgbta community.
• Provide opportunities to share information and resources to encourage advocacy on behalf of lgbt alumni and students.
• Increase support of lgbt interests on campus, support the activities of lgbt and lgbta campus groups, and help effect positive change in campus policy and programming.
Members of Kaleidoscope are encouraged to “join the group from your college, university, or seminary and to start making engaging connections” using the following list of college and seminary links provided to get to their sites:
• Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
• Bethany Theological Seminary
• Bethel College
• Bluffton College
• Bridgewater College
• Canadian Mennonite University
• Conrad Grebel University College
• Eastern Mennonite Seminary
• Eastern Mennonite University
• Elizabethtown College
• Goshen College
• Hesston College
• Juniata College
• Manchester College
• McPherson College
• University of La Verne
This coming May, the Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests is offering a safe space for families with lgbtqmembers and for individuals who identify as lgbtq:
Connecting Families East Retreat
May 15-17, 2015
Laurelville Mennonite Church Center
Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania
Communicating a Theology of Holy Inclusion
Connecting Families East welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people and their families and allies. Connecting Families weekend is intended to be a safe, relaxing time to share our common thoughts regarding sexual minority issues as they affect our families, our friends, our churches, and ourselves.
We are a group of people, each on our own journey. Through listening and sharing our stories, we seek to provide support for families whose children are coming out to them and/or to their church. We are committed to maintaining confidentiality within the group, to providing a place to speak in safety or to remain silent, and to sharing in a non-judgmental atmosphere. As a group, we work to find ways to educate and engage our churches in dialogue and to help them understand and accept our families.
Loren L Johns will share his journey toward affirming LGBTQ persons in the church and offer assistance in reading the Bible with people who have varying perspectives on inclusivity. He is Professor of New Testament at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana and author of “Homosexuality and the Bible: A Case Study in the Use of the Bible for Ethics.” Loren is passionate about teaching and studying the Bible. Prior to joining the Seminary in 2000, he was a pastor, theology book editor and college Bible professor.

A panel of LGBTQ persons will discuss their vision for a more affirming and inclusive church. Panel members include Theo Baer, Michelle Burkholder, Dwayne Hess, and Kelli Holsopple.

Matthew Hunsburger will coordinate times of singing together. He serves as Seminary Music Coordinator, assisting with chapel and other worship services at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, and assists in directing EMU’s Chamber Singers.
(www.bmclgbt.org/ConnectingFamiliesEastRetreatMay15-222015.shtml)
Another Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests project underway to ‘help churches become more inclusive’ is a series of training events:
Welcoming Church Trainings – Building an Inclusive Church
A Training Resource for Congregations Affiliated with:
• Alliance of Baptists
• American Baptist Convention
• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Church of the Brethren
• Community of Christ
• Mennonite Church USA
• Mennonite Church Canada
The link provided to this year’s training events brings you to The National LGBTQ Task Force, Institute for Welcoming Resources. The events are called:
Faith-Based Community Organizing
What if our welcome to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people sparked a renewal of our entire community’s faith life
(www.welcomingresources.org/communityorg.htm)
Related:
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FEMA TO WITHHOLD DISASTER AID TO STATES THAT DENY GLOBAL WARMING~WHERE'S OBAMA'S COMPASSION?




YOU BELIEVE THE LIE OF GLOBAL WARMING 
OR WE PUNISH YOU! 
Obama's FEMA to Halt Funding for States 

Led by Climate Realists

EXCERPT:
"In a 57-page policy document released this month entitled “State Mitigation Plan Review Guide,” FEMA made clear that it would stop providing funding to states that do not incorporate hypothetical dangers of alleged global warming into their emergency planning by next year. On the other hand, if states do take the funds, the agency also said it would help states weave global-warming theories into their official policies. The agency said it “will work with states to identify tools and approaches that enable decision-making to reduce risks and increase resilience from a changing climate.” In other words, FEMA wants more control over decisions made by the elected representatives of each state.
However, in addition to being at odds with the evidence and the Constitution — the Consitution does not allow the federal government to operate an agency such as FEMA or use bribes to dictate state policy — the new FEMA plan would put those governors at odds with the views of their own constituents. According to a recent Pew poll, for example, despite the non-stop barrage of AGW propaganda in the media and by politicians, just two in five Americans believe in man-made global-warming theories. Even among those who still believe in the AGW theories — widely ridiculed as a “cult” by climate experts such as MIT meteorologist Richard Lindzen for refusing to adjust their beliefs in line with the observable evidence   — climate change consistently ranks dead last among public policy priorities. For the Obama administration, though, what Obama calls his “Climate Agenda” remains a top priority."  
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FEMA to Climate Deniers: No Funds for You!:


FEMA denying funding to climate change skeptics?
THANK OBAMA FOR THE 
PUNISHMENT!

FEMA To Withhold Disaster Aid To Climate Denying States:
Published on Mar 24, 2015
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster-preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard-mitigation plans that address climate change.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pol...

  

‘JADE HELM 15’ MILITARY EXERCISE ADDS MISSISSIPPI & FLORIDA~COULD BE TEN SOON


MORE STATES ADDED TO ‘JADE HELM’ MILITARY EXERCISE~MISSISSIPPI & FLORIDA ADDED, MAKING NINE STATES~
COULD BE TEN SOON
EXCERPT:
"Speaking of the exercise at the Brazos County Commissioners Court in Texas last month, Jade Helm Operations Planner and retired Green Beret Thomas Mead told an audience that the drill, which will run from July 15 to September 15, will now include the states Mississippi and Florida.
Although similar drills have been carried out domestically in the past, such exercises are increasingly being conducted among civilian populations, suggesting an attempt to acclimate and condition the public to a persistent military presence.
In the past few years alone, the US Army has carried out numerous drills in American cities, with low flying “black helicopters” disturbing residents of Minnesota, buzzing residents of Dallas and frightening Miami residents with simulated gunfire.
As domestic drills intensify in frequency, military scholars have begun publicly laying out scenarios in which troops would be used to target political groups such as the Tea Party."
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Jade Helm 15: 10 States Now Involved with
Massive US Military Exercise:


What They're Not Telling You About This "Training Exercise":Operation Garden Plot
http://www.infowars.com/media/DA-Civi...

"Wellness Checks" code for gun confiscation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pxje...

ARMY MANUAL OUTLINES PLAN TO KILL RIOTERS, DEMONSTRATORS IN AMERICA
http://www.infowars.com/army-manual-o...
















Tuesday, March 24, 2015

OBAMA JUST FEDERALIZED POLICE FORCES IN SIX U.S. CITIES~TRADING LOCAL CONTROL FOR HANDOUT MONIES FROM THE DICTATOR IN CHIEF

OBAMA JUST FEDERALIZED POLICE FORCES 
IN SIX U.S. CITIES
Published on Mar 19, 2015
Americans better start to pay attention, Real Quick!
They have made their move on 6 city police departments In America!

In his most recent attempt to centralize the federal government’s grip on America, Obama has launched his “21st Century Policing” pilot program, COPS, in six cities across the country.

“Obamalaw,” is yet another overreach of Constitutional authority to fundamentally transform the nation, this time by taking away local police enforcement rights and putting new rules and regulations in place as dictated by the President and Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Born out of the perception that racism is rampant amongst city law enforcement agencies, this new plan is intended to address the issue by trampling on local rights.

The cities chosen for the COPS pilot program are Minneapolis, Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, Stockton, Birmingham and Gary, IN. As mentioned by Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force, the founding premise for this federal takeover is supposedly the rampant racism of the American police, who victimize poor, innocent populations for no other reason than color. Gary is a city with an 83% black population; only ten percent of its citizens are white; the demographics of Gary are just further evidence of the fallacy of this take over. Gary is a crime-riddled, liberal stronghold, eager to prove to the Big Brother Obama that they are in need of federal oversight and a big fat check. Their federal handout amounts to $4.7 million, supposedly to provide training as well as dictate policy and fund the perpetual black hole of research, into the issue of distrust between citizens and law enforcement.

BOB JONES III, FORMER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT, APOLOGIZES FOR ADVOCATING STONING OF GAYS 35 YEARS AGO~COWED BY LGBT CAMPUS GROUP & FAILS TO CLARIFY DOCTRINE



Bob Jones University President Bob Jones III appears on CNN's Larry King Live in Washington on March 3, 2000. Photo courtesy of REUTERS *Editors: This photo may only be republished with RNS-BOBJONES-GAYS, originally transmitted on March 23, 2015.

Fundamentalist Leader Apologizes, 35 Years Later, for Advocating Stoning of Gays

Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University, apologized for the 1980 statement in response to a petition by LGBT students and alumni.
EXCERPT: "BJUnity provides a safe harbor—a network of people and resources—for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and straight affirming people affected by fundamentalist Christianity. BJUnity affirms and empowers lgbt+ people from Bob Jones University and other Independent Fundamental Baptist organizations. BJUnity confronts homophobia in compassion, dignity and love, with the objective to promote dialogue and change."

EXCERPT:
A fundamentalist Christian leader has apologized for saying gay people should be stoned — 35 years after he made the statement.
Bob Jones III, chancellor and former president of Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., issued a statement of apology over the weekend, a few days after the delivery of a petition by BJUnity, a support group for past and president BJU students who are LGBT, the Greenville News reports.
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Bob Jones III apologizes for stone-the-gays remarks:

EXCERPTS:
Bob Jones III, who stepped down as BJU president in 2005, made the original remarks while visiting Jimmy Carter’s White House, delivering a petition with 70,000 signatures opposing greater legal protections for gays and lesbians.
“I’m sure this will be greatly misquoted,” Jones said at the time. “But it would not be a bad idea to bring the swift justice today that was brought in Israel’s day against murder and rape and homosexuality. I guarantee it would solve the problem post-haste if homosexuals were stoned, if murderers were immediately killed as the Bible commands.”
“Upon now reading these long-forgotten words, they seem to me as words belonging to a total stranger — were my name not attached,” he wrote. “I cannot erase them, but wish I could, because they do not represent the belief of my heart or the content of my preaching. Neither before, nor since, that event in 1980 have I ever advocated the stoning of sinners.”
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Former BJU president apologizes for anti-gay comments
made years ago:


PASTOR MANNING, HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY
QUOTES BIBLE CALLING FOR STONING OF GAYS; OUTDOOR SIGN VANDALIZED:






 

U.S. ARMY LABELS CONCERNS ABOUT JADE HELM 15 DRILLS IN SOUTHWEST AS "ALARMIST"~WON'T SAY WHY TEXAS & UTAH ARE LABELLED "HOSTILE"~"TRAINING FOR OVERSEAS" IS THE MANTRA FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION, JUST LIKE THE NATIONAL GUARD EXERCISES

US Army Refuses to Address Concerns Over Texas Being Labeled "Hostile" Territory

US ARMY REFUSES TO ADDRESS CONCERNS OVER TEXAS BEING LABELED “HOSTILE” TERRITORY

USASOCM calls worries about Jade Helm exercise "alarmist"
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | MARCH 23, 2015;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The U.S. Army Special Operations Command responded to reports about the upcoming Jade Helm military exercise by characterizing concerns about the drill “alarmist,” but failed to address why Texas and Utah had been labeled “hostile” territory in documents related to the exercise.
As Infowars reported last week, Jade Helm 15, a “realistic” military training exercise which will involve the Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division, will take place throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado from July 15 to September 15.
USASOC spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria responded to charges that the exercise was part of preparations for martial law by claiming the drills were designed to ready troops for overseas operations.
“That notion was proposed by a few individuals who are unfamiliar with how and why USASOC conducts training exercises,” Lastoria said in an email to Stars and Stripes. “This exercise is routine training to maintain a high level of readiness for Army Special Operations Forces because they must be ready to support potential missions anywhere in the world on a moment’s notice.”
However, USASOCM failed to address the fact that a slide for the exercise characterized Texas and Utah as “hostile” territory and an area of southern California as an “insurgent pocket,” claiming that “computer firewalls prevented them from accessing the websites where the document appeared”.
The explanation that the U.S. Army cannot obtain an unclassified document associated with its own training exercise may be difficult to swallow for some.
Lastoria added that his office was receiving a lot of calls from concerned Americans, before going on to claim that the locations were chosen to closely approximate those U.S. soldiers would be expected to encounter overseas.
Since Infowars reported on the exercise, other mainstream news outlets have picked up the story, with news.com.au noting that, “The purported training material also mentions coordinating with local police, increased aircraft in the area at night and soldiers wearing civilian clothes and driving civilian vehicles.”
The exercise has drawn comparisons to a 2012 scenario outlined by retired Army colonel Kevin Benson, in which the U.S. Military is used to crush an insurgent rebellion overseen by Tea Party militia members who take over the city of Darlington, South Carolina.
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Military Takeover Plan Revealed: Is Your State Next?:


ARMY and Main Stream Media Launch Disinformation
Psyop (Psychological Operations) Against American People:


Published on Mar 23, 2015
Alex Jones covers the current disinfo psyop being launched by the federal government in conjunction with Army Special Forces, mainstream media outlets who are afraid that the public is waking up to the fact that programs and training exercises are being launched to condition the public that troops will be placed on the streets in the event of a national emergency. 

Heads Up! Obama Just Federalized Police Forces In 6 US Cities:
Published on Mar 19, 2015
Americans better start to pay attention, Real Quick!
They have made their move on 6 city police departments In America!

In his most recent attempt to centralize the federal government’s grip on America, Obama has launched his “21st Century Policing” pilot program, COPS, in six cities across the country.

“Obamalaw,” is yet another overreach of Constitutional authority to fundamentally transform the nation, this time by taking away local police enforcement rights and putting new rules and regulations in place as dictated by the President and Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Born out of the perception that racism is rampant amongst city law enforcement agencies, this new plan is intended to address the issue by trampling on local rights.

The cities chosen for the COPS pilot program are Minneapolis, Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, Stockton, Birmingham and Gary, IN. As mentioned by Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force, the founding premise for this federal takeover is supposedly the rampant racism of the American police, who victimize poor, innocent populations for no other reason than color. Gary is a city with an 83% black population; only ten percent of its citizens are white; the demographics of Gary are just further evidence of the fallacy of this take over. Gary is a crime-riddled, liberal stronghold, eager to prove to the Big Brother Obama that they are in need of federal oversight and a big fat check. Their federal handout amounts to $4.7 million, supposedly to provide training as well as dictate policy and fund the perpetual black hole of research, into the issue of distrust between citizens and law enforcement.







Monday, March 23, 2015

ARMY ADMITS JADE HELM 15 IN SEVEN WESTERN STATES IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATION TO CONDITION THE CITIZENRY TO MARTIAL LAW


Army Admits SOCOM Plan Is Psy Op
Published on Mar 20, 2015
Alex Jones talks with Infowars reporter Joe Biggs about how one of his sources has told him to 
back off the army's latest "psy-op".

http://www.infowars.com/socom-plan-to...


SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST:

JADE HELM 2015: MASSIVE 8 WEEK NIGHT TIME MILITARY DRILL ACROSS 7 WESTERN STATES, SOME LABELED "HOSTILE"


FEMA 'Domes' Popping Up Across Texas Raise Concern
Ahead of Jade Helm 15:
Published on Mar 22, 2015
With Jade Helm 15 coming to Texas, Utah, California and 4 more southwestern states for 'summer exercises' between July 15 and September 15 this year, numerous 'FEMA Domes' that are being rushed to completion across the state of Texas in locations such as Lumberton, Brownsville, Pancho Maples and Kingsville are raising alarm with many who view these structures as potential 'FEMA death domes', used to house 'insurgents' following the red and blue list round-up of gun owners, Christians and patriotic supporters of America and the US Constitution.

"Despite that many will perceive the domes to be cleverly-disguised “FEMA camps” – which could potentially be used to shelter destitute populations during emergencies, such as a financial collapse – they also provide ample opportunities for the feds to weasel into Smalltown, USA and squander its pocketbooks."

Described by the New York Times as 'dual-use domes', most of the time filled with cheering high school basketball fans (think Hillary Clinton's 'fun camps') but, 'come hurricane season', used as a 'nearly impenetrable shelters from the weather,' the NY Times story tells us that 28 of these buildings are being built and there is nothing standard at all about them: they'll have double-layer cinder-block walls reinforced by heavy-duty steel bars and cement piers that plunge 30 feet into the ground. (Difficult to get out of if the goal is keeping a group of people inside!)

28 FEMA ‘Domes’ Popping Up Across Texas 

Raise Concern Ahead of Jade Helm 15:


Army Planing a Surprise Visit to US Towns! WHY?
The Answer Will Make You Rethink Everything!:



PROGRESSIVE STARBUCKS HAWKING MORE THAN JUST ADDICTIVE CAFFEINATED DRINKS~ALREADY SUPPORTIVE OF GAYS~NOW THEY WANT YOU TO TAKE THEIR RACIAL SHAME SURVEY FOR COLLECTIVIST GOALS


JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE YOU TIED TO THEM ADDICTIVELY, 
WILL YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE PROFILED & BRAINWASHED BY LEFTIST PROPAGANDA TOO?

DO YOU REALLY FEEL GUILTY ABOUT YOUR "WHITE PRIVILEGE"; IS YOUR PREJUDICE WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT?

A race reality check with your Frappuccino?


Starbucks Gives Racist Checklist with Coffee:


Starbucks Using Stickers To Hype Racial Tension:


Secret Behind Starbucks Sensitivity Training:
Published on Mar 21, 2015
The ad, which appeared in Friday’s copy of USA Today, is part of the coffee company’s #RaceTogether initiative, an effort to influence customers’ opinions regarding racial tensions in the United States. http://www.infowars.com/starbucks-sur...


Starbucks CEO Defends 'Race Together' Campaign:
Published on Mar 22, 2015
The CEO of Starbucks defended the coffee chain's new campaign to address race relations by asking employees to write "Race Together" on the side of customers' cups to start a dialogue with customers.
Howard Schultz told ABC News today that he wasn't surprised by the backlash aimed at the campaign, calling race relations a "highly emotional issue that divides many people across the country."
"I’m not a black person, but I am deeply affected by what’s going on, and so will our general society if the American promise, the American dream, the aspiration of the country is only available to a select few," he said.
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Schultz cited police-involved shootings in Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland, New York, and Madison, Wisconsin as incidents that "probably are not isolated issues."
"This has been going on for quite some time," he said. "The rules of engagement in trying to create change in America is a very difficult thing to do."
The initiative has created quite a stir on social media - so much so that the company's senior vice president of communications temporarily deleted his Twitter account under an avalanche of criticism, saying he felt "personally attacked in a cascade of negativity."
Despite the negative reaction to the campaign, Schultz said it would proceed.
"This is about our conscious and what we believe is right and basically it’s trying to answer the question in the affirmative: how can we use our scale for good?" he said.
ABC News' Jeanette Torres contributed to this story.


Starbucks Ends RaceTogether Campaign;
But Not Altogether:
Published on Mar 22, 2015
Starbucks Corp head Howard Schultz told employees on Sunday they will no longer be encouraged to write "Race Together" on drinks cups, but the company's effort to promote discussion of racial issues “is far from over”.
The world's biggest coffee chain kicked off a U.S. race relations campaign last week when it published full-page ads in major U.S. newspapers with the words "Shall We Overcome?" at centre page and "RaceTogether" and the Starbucks logo near the bottom.
Employees behind the counter were also given the option of writing "Race Together" on customers' cups.
The campaign was met with skepticism on social media, with many complaining the company was overstepping it boundaries with a campaign on sensitive cultural topics that had no place in the coffee shop's lines.
Starbucks said the phase of the campaign that involved messages on drink cups was always scheduled to end Sunday.
“I know this hasn’t been easy for any of you – let me assure you that we didn’t expect universal praise,” Chief Executive Schultz wrote in a letter to staff and released by the company on Sunday. “We leaned in because we believed that starting this dialogue is what matters most.”
Schultz said Starbucks plans more “Race Together” activities, including efforts to expand into urban neighbourhoods, hire 10,000 “opportunity youth” over the next three years, and produce advertising on the campaign with Gannett Co.’s USA Today.



Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz On Gay Rights
And Companies' Social Responsibilities;
Schultz: 38% Return is Proof I'm Right




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