2010 California Election Forum

God and country moving further apart?

New American solders used to receive free Bibles from the Gideons.

But the ACLU threatened a lawsuit and the military agreed—no more Bible distributions.

Shocking rally reveals true feelings

Throughout the U.S. there have been pro-Hamas, anti-Jew rallies. Look at this short video as a women cries out “Go back to the oven.” This shameful sentiment is echoed at many of these rallies. Click here to view the short video.

NBC should be ashamed

At least nine Super Bowl advertisers—shelling out a record $3 million for each 30-second TV commercial—used offensive sexual innuendos to sell their products.

Once a great family event, the Super Bowl is no longer an ideal venue for children, who should not have seen these commercials.

Few seemed to care.

Incidently, NBC did cancel a commercial. It’s the pro-life commercial we discussed in our last Reality Alert Update, called Imagine. Click here to view it.

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Frivolous lawsuit threatens a valuable youth organization

California’s Attorney General Jerry Brown went against the Boy Scouts in court—supposedly speaking on your behalf.

A pair of couples, one lesbian and another agnostic, challenged a lease the Scouts signed with the city of San Diego allowing them to operate recreational facilities on park land. The couples said the deal violated the Establishment Clause because of the Boy Scouts’ professed reverence of God.

In addition, they said they were opposed to using the facilities because of the Scouts’ stated policy of excluding homosexuals and atheists.

The district court agreed during pretrial motions—though there has been no concrete injury recorded by the plaintiffs—and the Scouts appealed. A 9th Circuit panel led by Judge Marsha Berzon granted standing to the plaintiffs, over the objections of Judge Andrew Kleinfeld. Senior Judge William Canby, Jr., tilted the decision against the Scouts.

New statement-making exhibit debuts

The founding of the modern nation of Israel was a "catastrophe," according to a new exhibit opening today at the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill. The display, "60 Years of Dispossession" chronicles the Nakba, the Palestinian word for catastrophe used to describe Israel's founding, an event which is reviled in the Arab world.

The photo exhibit highlights a mass deportation of Palestinians, massacres of civilians and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages. It is appearing in the lobby of the United Methodist Building February 3–24.

Pray for the court as important decisions are made

Oral arguments before the California Supreme Court will begin on March 5. Add this to your prayer list…and your church’s prayer list. Pray for the judge and for Ken Starr, who is representing Proposition 8.

• Protect Marriage loses donor protection case. As you know, I have been the target of a “blacklist” by No on 8 groups. This is because my name and all names of donors who supported Proposition 8 were made public by the Secretary of State.
  
  This invasion of my privacy has a chilling effect on free speech and contributions. So, Protect Marriage went to court to stop this practice but lost. To see one such group, click here.
• Google leads fight against Proposition 8. Google filed an amicus brief opposing Prop 8. If this disturbs you, check out the Google alternative http://www.goodsearch.com/.
• Anti-8 ballot measures. I’ve counted six, none likely to gather enough signatures to be on the 2010 November ballot.
• Churches against Proposition 8. The following churches are urging the California Supreme Court to reject the will of the voters on Prop 8: California Council of Churches, the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Bishops of California.
• Pastor Jim Garlow of Skyline Church. This Rancho San Diego pastor was on the Larry King Show. You can view the key segments here:
  1. Rev. Jim Garlow - The Fight for Parental and Religious Rights
  2. Proposition 8 on Larry King - Part 2
  3. Proposition 8 on Larry King - Part 3
     
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• Unions against Proposition 8. If you’re a union worker, do you support your name and dues money being used to overturn the Prop 8 vote? More than 50 unions claim to be speaking for 2 million members that support gay marriage. The legal brief presented to the court included the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, United Steel Workers, Screen Actors Guild, California Federation of Teachers and the California Nurses Association. Email me your thoughts at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Prop 8 donors final count. No on 8: 43.3 million, Yes on 8: 39.9 million
• Cities and counties against Proposition 8. Watch your city. So far, Sacramento, San Francisco, Berkeley, Cloverdale, Los Angeles, Davis, Long Beach, Palm Springs, Fairfax and West Hollywood have asked the court to invalidate the Proposition 8 vote. The counties of Humboldt and Sonoma also are urging the court to rule against 8.

State legislature to vote on Proposition 8 resolutions. On Tuesday, February 17, the State Assembly and Senate will have hearings on resolutions that ask the court to overturn Proposition 8. Our Reality Alert Update will keep you informed on what to do by phone and email.

Discover what your children are actually learning

Few Evangelical high school students are able to defend their faith. By college, huge numbers drop away from their faith. Why? Because these kids spend years being indoctrinated by liberal teachers—and not taught apologetics and sound doctrine.

Here are two short videos that address this problem:

• “The Call to Dunkirk” closely looks at this issue and advocates pulling kids out of public schools.
• “The Children of Caesar” concisely outlines the problem of public schools and what Christians should do.

What do you think? Should Christian parents take kids out of government schools? Is it irresponsible and dangerous to have kids in public schools? Email your thoughts to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Not even snowfall gets fair news coverage

The case against global warming is getting stronger and stronger. But the liberal media often distorts reality.

On May 21, 2008, there was the worldwide headline proclaiming "Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts.” The article reported that the entire Alpine "winter sports industry" could soon "grind to a halt for lack of snow.”

A second, very interesting headline appeared on December 19, 2008, but the news remained buried: "The Alps have best snow conditions in a generation.” They actually reported that this winter's Alpine snowfalls "look set to beat all records by New Year's Day.”

Despite this Washington and Sacramento politicians still are pursuing antibusiness, antijob legislation over this environmental debate.

You won’t get a tax refund, but you will get a billboard

Despite the state budget crisis, your tax money is being used for billboards encouraging homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals to become adoptive parents.

One message reads, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Family.”

The California Department of Social Services and the County of Los Angeles are partnering with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Odd.

Perhaps the partnership was helped along by the fact that the California Department of Social Services director, John Wagner, is on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation advisory board.

Government insanity—you can’t make this stuff up.

Fix the deficit by spending nearly a million on furniture?

About 7 months ago, California State Controller John Chiang asked for $934,500 for new furniture for his plush office with a scenic view.

Now he is asking for an extra $924,500. What he did not ask was whether there was any surplus furniture he could use.

In 2007, he also took a 2.75% raise on his salary, currently reported as $169,743.

And yet this is the person who is supposed to tell us how to solve California’s $42 billion deficit.