2010 California Election Forum

Something big is about to happen…

Here’s the latest news on where the nation stands when it comes to homosexual marriage:

• Prayers for the Supreme Court. While we await the California Supreme Court’s ruling on Proposition 8, I’ve noticed something in churches I’ve visited and from what I’m hearing on the radio: The church isn’t asking the fellowship to pray for each Supreme Court judge and their decision.

  The justices are:

  • Chief Justice Ronald M. George
  • Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno
  • Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard
  • Associate Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar
  • Associate Justice Ming W. Chin
  • Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter
  • Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan
• Iowa rules in favor of homosexual marriage. The Iowa Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, and new liberal anti-traditional marriage moves have been made in other states. Pray this will not influence California’s judges and pray for God’s people, as they must act as we have in California.
• Miss California defends traditional marriage…and it probably cost her the crown. She says she had to stand up for what she believed in, even knowing it would be unpopular. It’s a clash of values—and those who stand for Biblical principles and objective truths are under persecution. Click here to watch this special short video.
• Evangelicals: Trending away from Scripture? Most Evangelicals hold to 3 positions on homosexuality:

Islamic hate from Kuwaiti lectern.

Here is an alarming short video of a Kuwaiti Islamic Professor,
Abdullah Al-Nafisi, on Al-Jazeera TV in February. Eye opening…are we ready?

Is this on your prayer list?

Faith-based organizations must hire nonbelievers

President Obama has appointed Joshua DuBois as his religious affairs director. DuBois led the aggressive efforts to persuade Christians to vote for Obama—the most effective effort in modern Democratic history to win the Evangelical vote.

The office has been renamed the Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The two big questions:

1. Will faith-based organizations receiving federal funds be forced to hire people who oppose their doctrine?
   It looks like all Christian organizations will be defunded if they have any restriction on belief or sexual orientation.
2. Can faith-based organizations talk freely about Jesus and salvation?
   It looks like all Christian groups cannot talk about Jesus and salvation. If they refuse to comply, they will lose their funding.

Obama, during a campaign speech last year, said that if a group received a federal grant then it “can’t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can't discriminate against them—or against the people you hire—on the basis of their religion.”

No rest for government watchdogs on Fridays

Every time President Obama issues a new executive order that Christians oppose, it’s done on a Friday.

On Fridays fewer people pay attention to the news, the news media cuts back and less discussion takes place over the weekends.

Here are some whoppers delivered on Wicked Friday so far:

• Lifting restrictions on tax funding of international abortions
• Reversing conscience protection for healthcare workers
• Removing restrictions on embryonic stem cell research

Secrecy is not what the president promised while he was campaigning.

“Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's Word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.”

—2 Corinthians 4:2

Focus is on nonbelievers…not Christ

Prayer at President Obama’s pre-election campaign meetings was common.

Now that he is president, prayer at post-election events is common…kinda.

For example, recent budget rally meetings have indeed been opening in prayer. But the prayers are always nonsectarian, often scripted and reviewed in advance by the one giving it.

Obama wants to invite piety and spirituality at this meeting, but not “in Jesus’ name.”

The emphasis is on interfaith and the inclusion of atheists. For example, he often mentions “nonbelievers,” even when he announced his faith-based office at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Bush allowed prayers to be orchestrated by the event organizers, not dictated by the White House, and he was not afraid to have them ended with “in Jesus’s name.”

“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.”

—Jesus (Matthew 10:33)

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Spending, borrowing, printing and devaluing our money

One of the greatest economic evils is inflation—an economist’s term for the rising prices of goods and services.

Inflation robs everyone, because as prices rise, the money in your pocket, paycheck and bank account buys you fewer goods and services. And it especially hurts the poor and those on fixed incomes—it’s an immoral transfer of wealth at the expense of the average person and business.

As the government engages in historic spending—whether for yearly federal budgets or for extraordinary measures like bailouts and stimulus packages— they have only 3 options to pay for it: Raise taxes, sell Treasury Bills (like putting it on a credit card with an interest rate to pay it back) or print money.

“Can they just print money out of thin air?” you may be asking. They can, and do. It’s basically legalized theft by the government caused by an increase in the money supply…which in turn causes the value of the dollar to fall and prices to rise.

Little notice was given to one of the greatest massive expansion of power—and the money supply—by the Federal Reserve System (also known as the Fed) last month.

Pray for peace and an end to persecution

Militant Hindus in northeastern India have killed or beaten hundreds of Christians and burned over 5,000 houses and churches in the last 6 months.

Even today, your prayers for these besieged saints are desperately needed as hundreds of Christians still hide in the forest and more than 8,000 live in state-run relief camps. Many are reluctant to return home after the attacks.

Please pray for help for these persecuted Christians and that the Gospel will explode in this region.

Victory needed to protect freedom of speech

In a previous issue we discussed Rev. Walter Hoye in Oakland. Pastor Hoye’s ministry and calling has been to encourage those considering abortion to explore the alternatives and consequences.

He regularly—and peacefully—distributed literature in front of an abortion clinic and held a sign that read, “Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help.”

Arrested for violating a new city ordinance to stop abortion protests, Rev. Hoye became a criminal.

Now he has been sentenced to 30 days in a county jail and a fine. The judge tried to give him probation if he agreed to stay 1,000 feet away from any clinic. He refused. The judge became so angry, he sent Rev. Hoye to jail immediately, regardless of an appeal.

Pray for him, the appeal and the larger issue of free speech.

What do you think? Should he have agreed to stay away and not gone to jail? Did he do the right thing? Email me at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Christian beliefs ridiculed in the classroom

In a speech class, Los Angeles City College student Jonathan Lopez chose to talk about his Christian faith and traditional marriage.

In the middle of his presentation, his professor interrupted him, called him a “fascist bastard” in front of the class and refused to allow him to finish.

Asked about his grade, he was told to “ask God what your grade is.” To see a short video clip about this incident, click here.

Exercising their right to uphold personal morality

In a past issue we reported the San Diego firefighters who were forced, against their will, to participate in the 2007 “Pride” parade.

The four firefighters won their jury trial. The city has changed its policy to allow for moral objections for future parades.