THE CHURCH MILITANT
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NEW YORK —Two U.S. ambassadors hosted an event at the United Nations on Wednesday entitled “Decriminalizing Homosexuality in Solidarity with LGBTQ People.” The United States Mission to the United Nations released a statement outlining the event and noting President Trump’s commitment to the effort to legalize homosexuality worldwide.
Kelly Craft, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, along with Richard Grenell, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany and an open homosexual, hosted the meeting, during which time they — and a number of panelists — discussed the status of their mission to decriminalize homosexuality in at least 69 countries.
According to Fox News, nations on the list include Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, Kenya, Senegal, Cameroon Antigua, Barbuda, Syria and Yemen. The outlet notes that 33 African countries recognized by the U.N. consider homosexual sex acts a crime. Punishments vary from nation to nation, from jail to time to the death penalty.
“We need to have 69 different plans of action because we are dealing with 69 different countries. It is a long road,” Grenell stated. “The U.N. should be a place to hold countries accountable.”
“I want these countries to be called out! I want these countries to feel the pressure! This list should be read here every day,” he said.
Others on the panel included Robert Destro, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; Stuart Milk, the executive director of the Harvey Milk Foundation and nephew to Milk; and Johnnie Moore, commissioner for the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom and former senior vice president for communications at Liberty University.
“We need religious leaders to stand up and say, ‘This is not only a bad law that needs to be changed, but it is in defiance of the human dignity of an individual,'” Moore said, according to Fox News.
According to the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), the ambassadors of Argentina and the Netherlands said that the effort was not enough because it did not include those who identify as transgender. One European diplomat remarked, “We should not underestimate the fact that it is often religious people that are a rather negative force when it comes to LGBT rights.”
As previously reported, in February, NBC News reported that Grenell would be leading the effort to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.
It noted that “[t]he U.S. embassy is flying in LGBT activists from across Europe for a strategy dinner to plan to push for decriminalization in places that still outlaw homosexuality — mostly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean.”
Grenell also told Fox News in April that Vice President Mike Pence is supportive of the effort.
“I … want to just point out the fact that the vice president, Mike Pence, is fully on board with my push to decriminalize homosexuality around the world,” he said, as he sought to push back against assertions from Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg that Pence is “anti-gay.”
“Mike Pence is on board with decriminalizing homosexuality around the world,” Grenell repeated. “I think that speaks volumes.”
In May, President Trump posted two tweets in recognition of “Pride Month,” asking Americans to “stand in solidarity” with homosexuals who live in countries where such sexual practices are illegal, as well as for nations to join his administration’s campaign to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.
“As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation,” he wrote.
“My administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!” Trump urged.
The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) further notes that last year, “State Department representatives pressured governments to accept ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ in international law. Additionally, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Economic and Social Council made an impassioned plea during the General Assembly for homosexual issues.”
In its press release on Thursday, the United States Mission to the United Nations noted that Trump mentioned the effort to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide during his speech to the General Assembly in September.
“As we defend American values, we affirm the right of all people to live in dignity. For this reason, my administration is working with other nations to stop criminalizing of homosexuality, and we stand in solidarity with LGBTQ people who live in countries that punish, jail, or execute individuals based upon sexual orientation,” he stated.
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As previously reported, The Bible teaches in Genesis 19 that the city of Sodom was full of various wickedness, including homosexuality. It states that as the men of Sodom saw angels enter into Lot’s home, “both old and young” surrounded the house and called out, “Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.”
“I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly,” Lot replied.
The angels then “smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness” so that they could not enter, and advised Lot, “[W]e will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.”
In the New Testament, Jude, the earthly brother of Jesus, pointed to the sorrowful fate of Sodom, writing, “Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
He later encouraged Christians in light of the rampant sin of the last days to “have compassion [on souls], making a difference, and others save with fear.”
“[Y]e, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life,” Jude urged.
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Last week, the Evangelical blogosphere made waves after the far-left George Soros-funded Evangelical publication, Christianity Today ran a hit piece calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment over moral issues.
In the wake of this dumbfoundingly stupid piece by Mark Galli, the magazine’s chief editor, Evangelicals began jumping on the bandwagon of impeachment lining up behind Nancy Pelosi — arguably the most immoral politician in modern history — to impeach Trump for his “immorality.” Since then, even more have jumped on the bandwagon and now, a leader of the most influential Southern Baptist organization in history is calling for Trump’s conviction.
Paul D. Miller is a Professor of Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University and a research fellow for the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). In a recent hit piece on the Christian Post, Miller calls for Donald Trump’s conviction.
Christians should advocate for President Donald J. Trump’s conviction and removal from office by the Senate. While Trump has an excellent record of appointing conservative judges and advancing a prolife agenda, his criminal conduct endangers the Constitution.
To this date, still, no evidence has been presented to prove any wrongdoing on the part of the president, yet, leftists Evangelicals are using this as a way to move forward with their progressive agendas. If you believe that this isn’t a concerted effort on the part of leftist evangelicals — namely, Russell Moore — to advance a politically left movement to increase the Democrat voter base in the Church, think again.
Russell Moore is a former Democrat staffer. The ERLC and the Southern Baptist Convention — which was once a conservative organization that stood for conservative, biblical principles — is now loaded with Democrats and the importance of holding to conservative values has been downplayed by these subversive leaders.
In point of fact, Russell Moore is what we call a “rented evangelical,” that is, he has been bought by leftist elites and is being used to advance a leftist agenda. It is a fact — not hearsay — but fact that Russell Moore accepts money from George Soros through his Evangelical Immigration Table.
The Evangelical Immigration Table is a branch of the National Immigration Forum which is heavily funded by George Soros. Russell Moore, as the head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is also on the board of the Evangelical Immigration Table and is also on the Leadership Council for George Soros’ 2020 National Immigration Strategy of the National Immigration Forum. These two organizations support and promote mass immigration and amnesty for illegal immigrants using biblical-sounding language.
To this day, there has been no accountability within the denomination for Moore’s involvement with the Soros organization. However, there can be no doubt about the direction the Southern Baptist Convention is going and those leaders who continue to push the denomination to the left.
These subversive men continue to sacrifice the blood of innocent children and the truth of God’s word in an effort to create a false sense of Utopia built around a Communist and Marxist political system. It is simply absurd that so many so-called conservative Christians continue to support these liberal Evangelical organizations, defend them, and consider them in any way “Christian.” See also: If You’re a Democrat, You’re Probably Not Saved.
"CHRISTIANITY TODAY" MAGAZINE BECOMES A PATHETIC MOUTHPIECE FOR NANCY PELOSI
★★★ A NEW CONSERVATIVE AGE IS RISING! ★★★
Well what do you know; another so-called evangelical leader has become a mouthpiece for the leftwing secular globalist Democrats. We’re going to take a look at the massive fail over at Christianity Today and their call to have president Trump removed from office, and why such a call is being laughed at by the vast majority of evangelicals who are solidly standing with President Trump.
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Every other prisoner is expected to get a mugshot and exchange his or her own clothes for jail clothes, but not Aida Shyef Al-Kadi, a Muslim woman in Minnesota. She “received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and remove her hijab for a booking photo…A judge had issued a warrant” for Aida Shyef Al-Kadi’s “arrest after she missed a court hearing over a traffic offense.”
In her lawsuit, Al-Kadi complained “that the county violated her constitutional rights and discriminated against her for her religious beliefs.”
$120,000. Taxpayers foot the bill for these special entitlements. What about the rights of taxpayers in the midst of this growing two-tier system of justice? Note that the settlement did not require the county “to admit wrongdoing.” And it did no wrong. Any number of things could be hidden in a hijab.
“Woman allegedly forced to remove hijab for mugshot gets $120,000 in settlement,” Guardian, December 18, 2019:
A Minnesota Muslim woman has received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and remove her hijab for a booking photo over a traffic offense, the woman and her attorneys said Tuesday.
Aida Shyef Al-Kadi appeared with her attorneys at the Minneapolis headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to announce the settlement approved last month.
Al-Kadi, 57, said her treatment at the Ramsey county jail in August 2013 was “one of the most humiliating and harmful experiences” of her life.
“I knew that I did not want any other Muslim woman to experience what I did,” she said.
A judge had issued a warrant for Al-Kadi’s arrest after she missed a court hearing over a traffic offense while taking her daughter to the hospital, the Star Tribune reported.
In her lawsuit, Al-Kadi argued that the county violated her constitutional rights and discriminated against her for her religious beliefs.
Al-Kadi was born and raised in Ohio. She moved to Minnesota in 2005 so her daughter could receive specialized medical care.
When Al-Kadi turned herself in, she said, she was told to remove her hijab and abaya, a long dress that covered her body, in front of male jailers. When she objected, she said, she was removed from the area and taken to a holding cell, where she removed her hijab in front of a male jailer.
She said she agreed to remove her headscarf for her booking photo after being told that the photo would never be released to the public. But months later, she found it on a third-party website that charges users to take down the photos.
After taking the photo, officers gave her a bedsheet to use as a hijab. Al-Kadi eventually was told to remove her abaya and change into a jail uniform, while two female officers watched her. Ramsey county policy says that misdemeanor inmates such as Al-Kadi “will not be viewed without clothing”, according to court records.
Under the settlement, the jail has put in place specific rules about how to accommodate inmates with religious headwear when taking booking photos. The county also agreed to destroy all hard copies and delete any electronic copies of Al-Kadi’s booking photo.
The settlement does not require the county to admit wrongdoing….
LILA ROSE FIRES BACK AT VILE "ABORTIONS ARE MAGICAL" PARTY FAVORS
(THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF CATHOLICISM)
Lila Rose fires back at vile party favors that claim "abortions are magical."
"Abortion - no matter how you spin it - is a violent act that destroys, dismembers, and kills an innocent & vulnerable preborn child."
#WakeUpOlive: Bethel Singer’s Infant Daughter Pronounced Dead by Doctors, Church Rallies in Resurrection Prayer
“Early on December 14th, Kalley and Andrew Heiligenthal’s beautiful little girl, Olive Alayne, unexpectedly stopped breathing in her sleep, organizers of a GoFundMe Campaignwrote on a crowdfunding page set up on the family’s behalf. “She was 2 years old, vivacious, full of wonder, full of life.”
Redding police are investigating the death, which occurred sometime between Friday night and early Saturday morning. The child’s body remains at the Shasta County coroner’s office.
The Shasta County Coroner’s Office did not respond to a request for confirmation of the child’s death on Wednesday, but Torum said the child’s body was taken to the coroner, explaining that bodies are sent to there “in all cases of death where an autopsy will be performed.”
Torum said police are looking into the child’s death.
“If it’s unexpected, we’ll open up a case to figure out how the death occurred,” Torum said. “It’s by no means at this point a suspicious death — but we still have to investigate to see what happened.”
Christian Influencers Start Gofundme To Pay For Daughter's Resurrection Raises
Suspicions
Baby Olive’s Dad Prophesying Resurrection Life #wakeupolive
"Many of you have joined with us in prayer and intercession for the life and resurrection of Olive Heiligenthal. Many of you have also asked important questions on that journey. Here is an update from Pastor Bill which paints a picture of our heart and focus during this important moment in our church family."
WAKE UP OLIVE?
WAKE UP BETHEL!
BY CHRIS ROSEBROUGH
OF FIGHTING FOR THE FAITH
Bethel Hires PR Goon for Failed Resurrection
Spin Control
A Pastoral Response to #WakeUpOlive (Bethel’s Dead-Raising Charade)
"DEAD RAISING TEAM" FAILS
Pastors Jon Benzinger and Costi Hinn offer biblical clarity concerning Bethel Church leader’s recent attempt to raise a two-year-old girl from the dead (#WakeUpOlive) over the course of multiple days. Speakers like Heidi Baker were flown in for special services, and mainstream recording artists like Kari Jobe promoted the efforts that included demanding God to raise Olive from the dead.
Recommended Resource: Defining Deception (By Costi Hinn & Anthony Wood)
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On December 16th, 2019, The church's Instagram account bethelmusicbelievers posted a video of a speaker calling for the resurrection of Olive (show below). The video accumulated over 19,190 likes in two days.
On December 16th, Instagram user dominishahbon posted a video of a church gathering with the caption "I’ll never forget tonight. @kalleyheili leading us in worship and contending for the RESURRECTION of her daughter, Olive Alayne Heiligenthal!! Can’t explain much, but all i know is God is on the move. KEEP PRAYING CHURCH!! #WakeUpOlive" which received over 14,300 likes in two days. On December 17th, kalleyheili posted to Instagram gained with the caption "Day 4 is a really good day for resurrection. All hail, make way for King Jesus! Thank you so much for joining your faith to ours, we feel your strength and radical belief. Keep declaring life over Olive Alayne with us. “It is finished” were His last words before bursting back in resurrection life, so we’re not done. It is finished, so we’re not done. This is awakening. Come alive, Olive!" (shown below, right). The video garnered over 85,500 likes in two days.
“Our position is that Article I, Section 13, of the Constitution of Virginia reserves the right to ‘order’ militia to the localities. Therefore, counties, not the state, determine what types of arms may be carried in their territory and by whom. So, we are ‘ordering’ the militia by making sure everyone can own a weapon.”
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Anti-gun leftists have long maintained that the Second Amendment only references a militia’s right to bear arms. So when your state proposes onerous gun-control laws, accompanied by an unofficial threat to use the National Guard to enforce them, what do you do?
If you’re a group of smart patriots, you form a militia.
This is exactly what’s happening in Virginia, according to Law Enforcement Today, as post-election Democrat dominance is causing many Old Dominion residents to take their state’s motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus ever to tyrants), more seriously.
Tazewell County, Virginia, is forming a militia to defend the Constitution and, specifically, the Second Amendment, in the now-deep blue state. Within hours, they were flooded with emails from people across the state who wanted to join. These included military veterans, officers, and other patriotic Americans.
…Over 76 counties out of 95, 9 of 38 independent cities, and 13 towns have already declared themselves gun sanctuaries. Tazewell is not only a sanctuary, but it’s also going to be the home of the militia.
It’s a clever parry. Again, leftists’ own past statements acknowledge a militia’s right to firearm ownership. This is clear in the Second Amendment, too, which reads, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
The Constitution of Virginia echoes this, mind you, with its Article I, Section 13 stating, “That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
The current proposed infringement is extreme, too. As The New American (TNA) reported last month, “In the wake of the Democrat takeover of Virginia, the newly empowered Left is unapologetic about plans to disarm residents of the Old Dominion” (Good “One America News” summary of the situation below).
Aside from working to ban new AR-15 sporting guns — our nation’s most popular rifle — and establish “red flag” laws, “Virginia Democrats have put forth a bill that would strengthen current state law against ‘paramilitary’ activity by criminalizing assemblies of persons with firearms,” wroteTNA December 2.
The offending language of Senate Bill No. 64 establishes that a person is “guilty of unlawful paramilitary activity, punishable as a Class 5 felony” if he assembles “with one or more persons with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons by drilling, parading, or marching with any firearm, any explosive or incendiary device, or any components or combination thereof.”
“The threat of SB 64 to defenders of the Second Amendment is the uncertainty of how ‘intent’ would be decided,” wrote TNA.
Yet this is an old story. Politicians’ vaguely worded bills sometimes reflect incompetence, but there also can be method to the madness: Legislation can be thus crafted purposely in the knowledge that the ambiguities will then be settled in court — often by activist judges who’ll apply the most statist, liberty-squelching interpretation.
This allows cowardly politicians to effect policy by judicial-fiat proxy, enabling them to advance an unpopular agenda without taking responsibility for it and incurring voter wrath at election time. “Hey, the courts have ruled! It’s out of our hands!” is the idea.
But “cowardly” does not describe Tazewell County, wherein votes “for the militia were unanimous among 200 citizens,” the Sentinel also reported. “They had three attorneys check their declarations which included a ban on funding any law enforcement department that infringed on citizens’ rights to bear arms.”
Speaking of funding, a state government threat to withhold it from Second Amendment “sanctuary” counties prompted Tazewell’s actions. But that’s not all about which sanctuary counties have to worry. “Rep. Gerald Connelly, D-Fairfax County, has called for sheriffs and deputies who refuse to enforce any new gun laws to be ‘prosecuted for failure to fulfill their oath,’” reports the Roanoke Times.
And “Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Richmond, has … suggested that the governor call out the National Guard to enforce the law,” the paper continues. Them’s fightin’ words, as is said, that certainly stir the pot. As the Times put it, “If Connelly and McEachin were firefighters, they’d apparently show up at a house fire with a tanker full of gasoline.”
Mindful of these poltroonish politician pyromaniacs, Tazewell isn’t the only county seeking to confront Richmond’s tyranny with brains rather than brawn. Earlier this month, Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins said that while he won’t disregard “duly passed” laws, he will deputize every law-abiding resident in his jurisdiction to protect their Second Amendment rights (video below).
In explaining why he’d choose a lawful remedy instead of just defying Richmond law, Jenkins said that “elections have consequences.” This is true, and one consequence now is that the Old Dominion State may want to reconsider its famous tourist slogan, “Virginia is for lovers.” ’Cause with the empowering of its leftists, love is one thing that, increasingly, is in short supply. ____________________________________________________________
VIRGINIA MILITIA UPDATE:
Virginia: A Sleeping Giant Has Awoken
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The Virginia Democrats (i.e. LEFTISTS) are going for broke. They wish to imprison non complying citizens and even LEOs if they don't fall in line with a coming semi auto firearm ban. Read about SB16 here: https://tinyurl.com/r2f49m7 These Leftists were allowed to come into office by Virginians and what your'e seeing there will be coming to you soon enough (watch my video: https://youtu.be/uHi_NQ2g7uY).
Here I give highlight to a good pro human rights organization in Virginia, the Virginia Citizens Defense League or VCDL. They are organized, motivated, and aggressive in pushing back on what could be the genesis of an entire US trend. I read their manifesto and applaud it. All states should have energized and ready-to-go pro gun rights organizations like this. This is a political answer to a serious problem for good folks around this country, not just in VA.
Sanctuary counties have emerged with their good citizens and SHERIFFS vowing to oppose this onerous legislation and promised punishments. Gun owners in VA promise NOT to comply and even use of force against confiscators. They represent a nationwide attitude that has tired of being vilified and attacked by the Left.
Gov what's his face promises harsh retribution and even National Guard involvement to quell any "insurrections" against his decree. This is what happens when you sit home, bitch and moan online and DON'T vote: the Dems come into power and have their way. This is happening nationwide not just in VA.
All this and much more is discussed here with an emphasis on peaceful resolutions if at all possible. VCDL is applying pressure to their legislators on Monday January 20th, 2020 at the Richmond Capitol Building. Another touchstone Nutnfancy human rights video.
Virginia Citizens Defense League VCDL: https://vcdl.org
NRA/ILA: https://www.nraila.org
GOA: https://gunowners.org/
