2008 California Election Forum

Before the ultraliberal United Church of Christ (UCC) national conference, Obama sought to reach out to Christians and blast conservative Evangelicals. The UCC, with 1.2 million members, is one of the nation's most liberal denominations.

The UCC was soft on communism in the 1960s, and even ordained openly gay pastors as early as 1972.

Obama had this comment to make:

“Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked.

“Part of it is because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us.

“At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design.”

Did you know our California state budget funds over 100,000 Medi-Cal abortions each year? Many for women who have more than one state-financed abortion in the same year?

One of the reasons Europe is so liberal, anti-American and anti-Christian is their press.

Click the play button below to watch an excellent report on Anti-American Bias in European Media.

Liberal politicians are pushing socialized healthcare. Many use Canada as an example for us to follow-which has been a horrible disaster for Canadians.

Click the play button below to watch a video on the socialized healthcare mess in Canada.

In past issues of Reality Alert, we covered and asked prayer for the Elsinore Christian Center.

The church had been denied permits by the city and the city refused to issue a land use permit that would allow the church to purchase a commercial building for a new sanctuary.

All across America, churches spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (sometimes over $1 million, like Rolling Hills Covenant Church) to government agencies for expansion or building approvals.

This is money that should go to ministry, not city obstacles to allowing a new church or church growth.

Because so many churches have been discriminated against and denied their 1st Amendment rights, Congress unanimously passed RLUIPA (The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act) in 2000.

Attorney Bob Tyler and the Advocates for Faith and Freedom filed suit under RLUIPA in behalf of the Elsinore Church.

The case took seven years and amazingly-by God's grace-the liberal court ruled in favor of the church. The city then settled with the church, awarding it $1,205,000 in damages.

This is exciting and the body of Christ owes Bob Tyler and his group thanks for their efforts to defend the church and set a precedent that will impact the church nationwide as cities discover they can't get away with denying churches their constitutional rights.

We should also thank the church for defending itself-and all American churches-against unconstitutional city rulings. Many churches have blindly accepted city decisions and refused to stand up for their rights, hurting other churches in the process.

I encourage you to make a donation to Advocates for Faith and Freedom to help them in their next battle.

Click here to donate, or click here to find out more about this important organization.