#1773 (11/19) PRO-LIFE SAT: "Pro-Life Americans Have the Opportunity of a Generation

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PAUSE AND TAKE A DEEP BREATH: My heart goes out to the Americans who are disappointed and even fearful about the results of the recent elections, esp. re: our President-elect. (I certainly remember the angst I felt after the results of the previous 2 Presidential elections.) But 2 Tim. 1:7 instructs us: ”God has not given us a spirit of FEAR, but of power, love, and sound mind.” I believe a sound mind would cause us to look at the things that cause us to fear and to determine if they are truly based on ideas we should fear or just false presumptions we might have or lies we have bought into. As regards President-elect Trump, I agree that I was turned off often by how he expressed himself during the campaign. But note that during his lifetime in the public eye, he was not known to express himself in those ways. In resorting to his showmanship skills during the election campaign, he wrongly used crude expressions to stir up the crowds who he was addressing. I urge you to notice his more humble demeanor when he accepted victory early Wed. morning. I believe those were the expressions of a man who was sobered by the reality of the awesome responsibility he had just been presented. I choose to be HOPEFUL that our next President will govern differently than how he campaigned. I am also HOPEFUL that he will implement many of the good ideas he’s presented, though not necessarily in all the ways he proposed. I encourage those who are fearful to look at the underlying philosophy behind the proposals he has made. We can never be sure of what a new leader will really do until he takes office and so we need to at least give the man time to govern. We must remain PRAYERFUL and HOPEFUL that he will govern with a different temperament than he campaigned. And no matter how we feel about things right now, Donald Trump will be our new President. So I urge all to PAUSE AND TAKE A DEEP BREATH and to be PRAYING for our country’s new leader and his team of advisers, now and throughout his Presidency. As with any leader, he deserves that much from every American. - Stan
WHY MOST OF THE  81% OF EVANGELICALS VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP: A friend send me this  video message by Tommy Tenny the day before the election. It  is almost an hour long but it is excellent. If you are still not familiar with the issues of concern to many Christians at this time, I invite you to please take time to view this; I only wish this kind of message could be heard in all pulpits. Video: The Continental Divide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwTAQpYhkug  

PRAYER MATTERS:"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." - Karl Barth; "Prayer is inviting God into a seemingly impossible situation and trusting/resting in His love and grace to accomplish His perfect will in His perfect time and for His greatest glory." - Stan 

MY PERSONAL UPDATE can be found on the right side of this blog page under JOURNAL. 11/4 - Ans. Prayer! - 1) My health has been consistently better the past week, and 2) I've been offered a job!

PRAY FOR AMERICA: THANK GOD for His many blessings on America throughout it's history. May we then ask that AMERICA once again be a blessing TO GOD, by once again submitting to HIS will in our affairs - both personal and national - that He may truly "heal our land." (2 Chron. 7:14) Short of that, we should not be saying "God Bless America"but instead "God be merciful towards America!" Rev. Franklin Graham: "I do know that the president defends Islam and chastises Christians, rebukes our allies and befriends our enemies, and fully supports gay marriages and abortion but denies the religious freedoms of those who don't agree. Our nation is ridiculed abroad and morally crumbling within. We are in trouble. We have turned our back on God."

PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS:  1) Pray for esp. PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP and his advisors as they prepare to assume office in January; that he would seek God's wisdom and be enabled to lead our country effectively for the good of all in the years ahead; and 2) Let's be praying that all of our nation's leaders might be Spirit-filled, leading us with Godly wisdom and integrity; that they will  only pass legislation and enact policies that will benefit Americans today as well as future generations and NOT do any lasting harm.
PRAY that the justices sitting on the Supreme Court will only hand down decisions that are in the best interests of our country now and for future generations.

JUST RELEASED: “I’m Not Ashamed!"  presents the challenging story of the life of the Columbine massacre Rachael Scott. It’s a movie every teen should see!

"THE VOICESLESS." Talk to your pastor about this movie that challenges those who consider themselves pro-life Christians to be more involved more in the effort to rescue the unborn. Go to http://joinvoiceless.com and share it with others.

MILITARY TRANSGENDER POLICY: Contact Armed Services Chairmen McCain (committee number: 202-224-3871; office number: 202-224-2235) and  Rep. Thornberry (committee number: 202-225-4151; office number: 202-225-3706) and ask them to put the  brakes on the National Defense Authorization Act conference report until military transgenderism is addressed. America's safety depends on it."

"PROTECT LOCAL SCHOOLS from Federal Overreach into Kids' Restrooms"/ Contact your local school:  - http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL16H05&f=AL16H05##FORM

SIGN THE PETITION: Encourage Congress to STOP THE HARVESTING OF ABORTED BABIES (see story in post ##1581) - http://aclj.org/pro-life/stop-planned-parenthood-from-harvesting-and-selling-babies-organs?

BE Prepared TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST ABORTION (...because ALL Babies Matter!): Go to: LIFE Training Institute - http://prolifetraining.com/resources/five-minute-11/  
Be Prepared TO ENGAGE WITH THE PC CULTURE: Go to:"Tactics" -
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2016/04/29/tactics-n2154983;"Asking Questions"- 
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/29295

World-Wide Prayer Requests:

11/16 - TURKEY: An American pastor was arrested and jailed without explanation about 6 weeks ago. Pray that he would finally be released.

 This is a photo of 3 of Asia's daughters holding a picture of their imprisoned mother.

A Christian Mother's Mandatory Death Penalty Could Be Overturned. PRAY and Sign the Petition Now! - https://aclj.org/persecuted-church/save-christian-mom-asia-bibi-from-execution? -Almost 6 years ago, when Asia Bibi defended her faith at her workplace, the workers accused her of insulting the Islamic prophet Mohmmed. She was soon arrested on blasphemy charges and sentenced to death by hanging by a local judge. She has been languishing on death row for 6 years - separated from her husband and five kids because of her Christian faith. Since then, lawyers and human rights activists have been working around the clock to appeal the case and give her  a second chance at life. Pakistan's Supreme Court was supposed to hear a final appeal but has postponed the hearing without explanation. When it is finally held, the hearing could  result in Asia being finally released. OR it could decide to have her hanged. If executed, she would be the first woman executed under Pakistan's brutal blasphemy law. The American Center for Law and Justice has been aggressively advocating for her. 

     Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is asking Christians around the world to PRAY for the folloiwing: 

That Asia would be acquitted.

For her strength and restoration during and after the hearing.

For wisdom and protection for Saiful Malook, her lawyer; and for the judges hearing her case.

For the wider Christian community who may face a backlash whatever the outcome of the appeal.

For an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Pakistan, to maintain calm in the country.

For justice for others accused of blasphemy, and that the government would urgently amend the blasphemy laws.

Don't let them execute Christian mom Asia Bibi!; SIGN the petition and PRAY for this court decision! [I've been praying in addition that , should she be released and the situation be too tense for her and her family to remain in Pakistan, they would be able to find asylum in another country, possibly even the U.S. - Stan]

Learn about Christian Persecution; Check out the World Watch List:
http://live.opendoorsusa.org/wwl/?utm_source=action&utm_medium=email&utm_content=content-banner&utm_campaign=may-2016
PRAY for the ON-GOING crisis now happening in IRAQ/SYRIA.  Pray that coalition forces will be able to destroy the leadership and infrastructure of ISIS.
"Why It's Becoming More Difficult to Be a Christian in INDIA" - 03-03-2016;
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2016/March/Why-Its-Becoming-More-Difficult-to-Be-a-Christian-in-India

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"PRO-LIFE AMERICANS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF A GENERATION" - Melanie Israel / November 13, 2016 /  http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/13/pro-life-americans-have-the-opportunity-of-a-generation/

Congress and Donald Trump have an opportunity to stop the flow of taxpayer dollars to organizations that perform or promote abortion, appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, and much more. (Photo: Ariel Skelley Blend Images/Newscom)

The American people have returned a pro-life majority to Congress and have elected a president committed to rolling back the Obama administration’s radical abortion policies and to appointing pro-life justices to the Supreme Court. This presents an incredible opportunity for defending innocent human life. Now is the time to act.

Executive Action
   President-elect Donald Trump should act to defend life and conscience immediately after he takes the oath of office, and should:
     Reinstate the Mexico City Policy to ensure that federally funded nongovernmental organizations do not perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in foreign nations.
     Enforce the Weldon Amendment to stop states from unlawfully discriminating against health care entities that refuse to pay for or cover abortions.
     Reject a proposed parting gift to Planned Parenthood through new Title X regulations designed to lock in the abortion giant’s cut of federal funds.
     Nominate a Supreme Court justice that will respect the Constitution and the right to life.
     Repeal the Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring insurance coverage of certain contraceptives and abortifacients. Although the Supreme Court has protected the consciences of closely held businesses and religious institutions, consciences of individual consumers and employees are still vulnerable absent full repeal.
     Reinstitute Bush administration conscience protections for health care providers.
     Reaffirm states’ freedom to exclude abortion providers from state Medicaid programs.

Congressional Action
     With a pro-life majority in both the House and the Senate, pursuing a life-affirming agenda is a must. Congress should:
     Pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The United States is one of only seven countries in the world that allows elective abortion past 20 weeks (5 months), at which point the baby is capable of feeling excruciating pain during an abortion procedure.
    Pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Instead of relying on a patchwork of policy riders attached to appropriation bills each year, Congress should permanently end taxpayer funding for abortion once and for all.
    Defund Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have disqualified themselves from federal funding due to their callous disregard for human life. The money should be redirected to comprehensive health centers not entangled with abortion.
    Pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The disturbing case of Kermit Gosnell has shown there must be criminal consequences for abortionists who violate the law and refuse to provide medical care to infants born alive after abortions.
    Pass the Conscience Protection Act, which ensures that individuals get their day in court when their rights to conscience concerning abortion are violated by the government.
    End funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). President Barack Obama sent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to the UNFPA despite evidence of its involvement in China’s coercive two-child policy. This funding should end.
    Repeal Obamacare. Under Obamacare, tax subsidies are available for health plans that include coverage of elective abortion, and the HHS mandate requires coverage of certain abortion-inducing drugs and devices. Both anti-life policies would disappear with Obamacare’s repeal.

Promoting a Culture of Life
     The success of pro-life candidates up and down the ballot is a victory for the pro-life movement. But more importantly, it is a victory for the most vulnerable and innocent among us. Since Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton effectively legalized abortion on demand, more than 56 million children have been denied the opportunity to live.
     For over 40 years, the pro-life community has worked to counter the devastating impact abortion has had on mothers and their unborn babies, witnessing to the fundamental truth that from the moment of conception, a distinct human being with inherent worth and dignity has a right to life.
     Congress and Trump have an opportunity to codify important policy riders, stop the flow of taxpayer dollars to organizations that perform or promote abortion, end the inhuman practice of late-term abortions on babies who are viable or capable of feeling pain, appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, and much more. They should take action with confidence, knowing that Americans have spoken for life at the ballot box.

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Melanie Israel is a research associate for the DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation.

 

"Trump’s Victory and the Religious Right" [or what part did the issue of abortion play in how people voted]" - Jerry Newcombe  | Nov 17, 2016; http://townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2016/11/17/trumps-victory-and-the-religious-right-n2247011

#1772 (11/18) "We Won, You Lost, Deal With It"

"WE WON, YOU LOST, DEAL WITH IT" - Cal Thomas, Townhall.com: Nov 17, 2016; http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2016/11/17/we-won-you-lost-deal-with-it-n2246715 [AS I SEE IT: Last week, I was accused of being "giddy" over the election results and I admit I felt shamed and tried to deny I felt that way. Well, the more I've had time to reflect on the grave tragedy that this country averted in not approving a Hillary administration - just simply considering her positions and intended actions on a variety of issues - I've decided that I had a right to be "giddy." Especially after the past  of actions by a President who continually steered America in a wrong direction, it is GREAT to be hopeful again for change of the good kind. Note that I am not saying I am certain, since with any leader we can never be truly certain of what they will do. But I truly am hopeful in the sense of being cautiously optimistic. After all, think of what the alternative would  have meant. - Stan]

Three years ago when Republicans were battling President Obama over the debt ceiling and a government shutdown, the president said, "You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election."

That is what Republicans did on Nov. 8. In addition to winning the presidential election, Republicans also maintained majorities in the House and Senate and now have 33 governorships and 32 state legislatures under GOP control. It was a consequential repudiation of the far-left policies of the Democratic Party. To paraphrase Mr. Obama: Republicans won, Democrats lost, now deal with it.

Democrats are having a hard time dealing with it and so instead of examining why they and their policies were so roundly rejected, they have decided to take a familiar path. They are smearing newly named White House counselor and chief strategist Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, as an anti-Semite and bigot with little or no evidence, other than guilt by association for incendiary articles posted on Breitbart.com when he was chairman.

In other overreaction to the election results, some despondent lefties have announced their intention to continue violating the law when it comes to illegal aliens. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who can't control the shooting gallery his city has become, has said Chicago will continue to be a sanctuary city for any and all people who broke federal immigration laws. He joins the mayors of New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more than two dozen other cities and towns who have made similar declarations, thus violating federal law and their oaths of office to defend the federal and state constitutions, which state that lawmakers, not mayors (or presidents, or judges) are the ones who pass laws.

Washington, D.C., radio talk show host Chris Plante has a good idea to counter this lawlessness. On his program Tuesday, Plante said that if an illegal immigrant in a sanctuary city commits a crime, especially murder, the mayor of that city should be prosecuted by the Justice Department as an accessory. The Trump administration should also announce it will withhold federal funds for any city that harbors people who broke immigration laws to get here. 

Billionaire globalist George Soros met in Washington this week with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to plot strategy for how to stop Trump. Here's how a story in Politico put it: "George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed-door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump." That was wasted money given the outcome. In business, if your strategy isn't working, you change the strategy. In liberal politics, it's like a cult. You believe despite any and all evidence that proves your beliefs wrong.

The left and angry Democrats believe and behave as if government is their property and when Republicans win they are stealing merchandise that doesn't belong to them. In their efforts to kneecap Trump before he takes office, they will again rely on the big media as their ally. Except it didn't work during the campaign and it won't work now because the public's trust in news organizations is at a record low.

The danger for Democrats and the left is that the very same "angry white voters" they alienated during the campaign might be driven even further away, if they won't even allow Trump to take office and have the traditional honeymoon period to see if his ideas can be implemented and whether they work. That can only mean more Republican victories in the future.

Deal with it!

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"The Cracked Crystal Ball of Liberal Celebrities" - Brent Bozell |Nov 18, 2016; http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2016/11/18/the-cracked-crystal-ball-of-liberal-celebrities-n2247429

#1771 (11/17) "Blacks Shouldn’t Be Worried About Trump Presidency"

"BLACKS SHOULDN'T BE WORRIED ABOUT TRUMP PRESIDENCY" - Walter E. Williams / November 16, 2016 / http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/16/blacks-shouldnt-be-worried-about-trump-presidency/?

Whoever is the president has little or no impact on the living conditions of ordinary black people. (Photo: Gary M. Williams/EFE/Newscom)

Donald Trump’s surprise win has millions of Americans, many of whom are black, in a tizzy. Many, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, are writing about what it means to be black during a Trump administration even though Trump’s presidency has yet to begin. My argument has always been that the political arena is largely irrelevant to the interests of ordinary black people.

Much of the 1960s and ’70s civil rights rhetoric was that black political power was necessary for economic power. But the nation’s most troublesome and dangerous cities, which are also cities with low-performing and unsafe schools and poor quality city services, have been run by Democrats for nearly a half-century—with blacks having significant political power, having been mayors, city councilors, and other top officials, such as superintendents of schools and chiefs of police.

Panic among some blacks over the upcoming Trump presidency is unwarranted. Whoever is the president has little or no impact on the living conditions of ordinary black people, even when that president is a black person, as the Obama presidency has demonstrated.

The overall welfare of black people requires attention to devastating problems that can be solved only at the family and community levels.Mountains of evidence demonstrate that outcomes are not favorable for children raised in female-headed households. Criminal behavior is greater, and academic achievement is much less for such children. This is a devastating problem, but it is beyond the reach of a president or any other politician to solve. If there is a solution, it will come from churches and local community organizations.

Education is vital to upward mobility. Most schools labeled as “persistently dangerous” are schools with predominantly black populations. At many schools, students are required to walk through metal detectors and place their book bags and purses on a conveyor belt that goes through an X-ray machine. Armed police patrol the school to try to stem school violence. But even with a police presence, teachers, staff, and students are assaulted.

A policy that permanently removes troublemakers would make a greater impact on black education than anything a U.S. president could do. The fact that black parents, teachers, and civil rights organizations tolerate and make excuses for the despicable and destructive behavior of so many young blacks is a gross betrayal of the memory, struggle, sacrifice, sweat, tears, and blood of our ancestors.

The sorry and tragic state of black education is not going to be turned around until there’s a change in what’s acceptable and unacceptable behavior by young people. That change could come only from within the black community.

Using 2012 data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Law Street Media offers some sobering statistics in an article titled “Crime in America: Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities Over 200,000.” The nation’s most dangerous big cities are Detroit, Oakland, St. Louis, Memphis, Stockton, Birmingham, Baltimore, Cleveland, Atlanta and Milwaukee. The most common characteristic of these cities is that they have predominantly black populations.

Another common characteristic is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some cities—such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark, and Philadelphia—haven’t elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century.

Here are some indisputable facts: Crime imposes a huge cost on black communities in the forms of human suffering and economic well-being. It matters little whether the U.S. president is black or white, Democrat or Republican. It also matters little whether local politicians are black or white or Democrats or Republicans.

What will matter is an unyielding black intolerance for crime, along with a willingness to allow policing authorities to do what is necessary to stop criminals from preying on the overwhelmingly law-abiding people of the community.

In light of the many difficulties within black communities, focusing energy and resources on the election of Trump is gross dereliction.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

#1770 (11/16) "How Trump Closed the Deal With Evangelicals"

"HOW TRUMP  CLOSED THE DEAL WITH EVANGELICALS" - Tony Perkins / November 13, 2016 /  http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/13/how-trump-closed-the-deal-with-evangelicals/ [AS I SEE IT: This article clearly explains why I've rarely been so full of hope for our country as I have the past week. Of course, I understand that we are to FINALLY put our hope only in God and that man will always disappoint. Mr. Trump will surely disappoint in some ways but at least he gives me hope that right decisions might finally be made by our leaders, esp. after the past 8 years. I am therefore committed to do the best I can in the years ahead to to keep all readers of this blog informed about how the issues of the day are being addressed and to hold President Trump's feet to the fire even as I have sought to do with President Obama. Now, more than ever, may we all commit to pray daily for our next President, that he and those who help him lead, will do right for our country and do no harm to us and to future generations through their actions. P.S. - Please be sure to note the the video link noted above under "Why Most of the 81% of Evangelicals Voted for Donald Trump. - Stan] 

Donald Trump outperformed John McCain, Mitt Romney, and even George W. Bush—winning an overwhelming 81 percent of the evangelical vote. (Photo: Van Tine Dennis/ABACA/Newscom)

“Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning.” Those words from the Psalmist, King David, rang especially true for many Americans on Nov. 9 when they awoke to the news that the nation had rejected the continuation of the anti-family, anti-faith policies of President Barack Obama by electing Donald Trump in perhaps the most stunning political upset of the modern age.

In a year of surprises, the ultimate outsider delivered the biggest, tapping into the frustration that pollsters didn’t detect and liberal elites never took seriously. “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” vowed the president-elect, who not only overcame the opposition of the Democratic Party, but his own—soaring to victory in spite of a biased media, his own personal baggage, lopsided polls, and a bevy of Hollywood stars.

In disbelief, pundits watched as the electoral map turned a sea of red, colored by almost a decade of disillusionment with the president’s extremist agenda. Fueled by massive turnout, the highest in U.S. history, voters delivered a stinging repudiation—not just of Hillary Clinton—but her party’s ultra-liberal agenda and arguably the entire Obama era.

But the night wasn’t just a vindication of Trump. It was also a validation once again of the evangelical movement, which once again overcame the media’s narrative of division to deliver one of the most significant political messages this country has ever seen. In nearly every election cycle for the last 40 years, the left has tried to bury a movement it wishes had never been born. And on the night of Nov. 8, it learned just how impossible that prospect will be.

Evangelicals, many of whom (myself included) backed other candidates during the primary, quietly assessed the perilous state of the nation and unified behind Trump in greater number than they had behind the last three GOP nominees. To the astonishment of everyone, Trump outperformed John McCain, Mitt Romney, and even George W. Bush—winning an overwhelming 81 percent of the evangelical vote. If the media had questions about the influence of the religious right, they were answered early Wednesday morning by the greatest coalescence around a Republican nominee in two decades. It turns out the press had about as much success writing the obituary of the evangelical movement as it had predicting this election.

Anyone who traveled the country these last few months saw how values voters were drawn to Trump, not because of shared values, but because of shared concerns over the damage a Clinton Supreme Court would do to our freedoms. Recognizing that national security hung in the balance, they saw this as an opportunity, after eight years of Obama’s repressive policies, to make freedom mean something again.

They also had the opportunity to hear, along with the rest of America, one of the best arguments against partial-birth abortion the country has ever heard in a presidential debate, in which Trump described—in detail—the barbaric procedure that rips a child out of the womb moments before birth. It may have been the most significant moment—not just of Trump’s campaign, but in the history of modern presidential politics. 

In four short sentences, the GOP nominee closed the deal with millions of pro-life voters, solidifying their support as the best chance to end America’s nearly 44 years of court-imposed abortion on demand. According to pollster George Barna, politically engaged evangelicals rank abortion as their top issue (30 percent) and Supreme Court nominations a close second (28 percent). The final debate delivered exactly the clarity they were hoping for.

In the end, though, what we witnessed wasn’t just the revenge of the deplorables, but the collapse of the Obama legacy. After the spectacular failures of Obamacare, the demoralization of our military, the explosion of lawlessness, tolerance of corruption, and obsession with social engineering, Americans finally have the opportunity to rebuild the country they once knew.

But the election is just the starting gun. Trump may open the door to America’s solutions, but he was never meant to be the solution.The true transformation of a society starts in the hearts and minds of men and women. And under an administration with no interest in continuing the eight-year war on the First Amendment, we may finally see what the church is capable of.

In the meantime, one thing about this historic uprising is clear: Americans are looking for leaders of conviction. And as the results of the race for president show, they will accept no substitutes.

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Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council.

#1769 (11/14) "Anti-Trump Riots and America’s Lost Generation"

"ANTI-TRUMP  RIOTS AND AMERICA'S LOST GENERATION" - Susan Stamper Brown | Nov 14, 2016; http://townhall.com/columnists/susanstamperbrown/2016/11/14/antitrump-riots-and-americas-lost-generation-n2245188

Watching the recent anti-Trump post-victory riots on television and the temper tantrums on social media, it’s become obvious that, without Divine intervention, the ever-fearful Millennial generation will become known as America’s Lost Generation.

As someone who has been forced to face a few of her biggest fears against her will, I can say with some authority that while everything you fear will probably never come to pass, those things which do can make you better. Safe spaces are the last thing these crybabies need.

During his first inaugural address in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to fear before a justifiably fear-ridden nation during the Great Depression telling them, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Depression-era Americans were dealing with real fears like massive unemployment, homelessness and starvation. Families lucky enough to have jobs lost 40 percent of their income. Many people lost all their savings when banks collapsed leaving millions homeless and hungry, resulting in a 50 percent rise in parents turning their kid’s over to custodial institutions to prevent starvation. Additionally, upwards of 250,000 kids too young to leave home hitchhiked or rode the train rails in search of work or a better place to survive, unlike today’s coddled snowflakes blessed with full bellies and equipped with the latest iPhones who are currently in meltdown mode due to groundless fears over a duly elected president.

After the election, despondent snowflakes lit up social media with fear-filled updates about the world ending and how a Trump presidency would ignite racism. Meanwhile, many so-called “love trumps hate” Trump haters were burning cities, vandalizing cars and attacking innocent bystanders, sometimes simply because they were white, or, God forbid, Republican.

A fear of offending peers also caused them to remain silent when Twitter accounts erupted with calls for the assassination of President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Pence. The idea that blacks can be racist too is lost on them, even after viewing the YouTube video of a mob of black thugs pummeling an elderly white man to the ground, savagely delivering repeated blows to his head while voices in the background taunted, “You voted Donald Trump…Beat his a**... Don’t vote Trump.”

Our snowflakes also acknowledge fear over Trump’s take on immigration, although their coolest president ever, President Obama, “deported more people than any other president’s administration in history,” ABC News reports. Evidently, some are so frightened by Trump’s victory they believe people must die like the young Latina woman on cable news who said, “There will be casualties on both sides…because people have to die…Trump, enough with your racism. Stop splitting families. Don’t split my family.” Apparently, because he’s black, Obama can’t be labeled “racist” for deporting more than 2.5 million people between 2009 and 2015.

Trump’s words about borders and legal immigration send our delicate snowflakes into their respective safe spaces when they aren’t throwing temper-tantrums. They have no clue their safe spaces aren’t safe if ISIS sympathizers come calling as they’ve vowed to do. They fear a man who promises to make their safe spaces safer when he curtails the terrorism that’s skyrocketed domestically and worldwide under Obama.

Apart from a relative few, logic and rational thought is all but lost on what is at this point, America’s Lost Generation. Especially compared to America’s Greatest Generation, whose young people faced real fears, survived the Great Depression, then lined up in droves to fight in World War II. Or like the Generation Xers who were predominately the major heroes after the September 11 terrorist attacks as leaders of Flight 93’s revolt, first responders in New York City and patriots who joined the military to fight.

In sharp contrast and just as FDR alluded in his fateful first speech, too many Millennials have allowed “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror” to prevent “needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

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"The Shocking Intolerance of Anti-Trump Liberals" - Katrina Trinko / November 10, 2016 /  http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/10/the-shocking-intolerance-of-anti-trump-liberals/?
"How the anti-Trump crowd clamors for its own slavery" - by Bob Livingston, Personal Liberty, November 14, 2016; http://personalliberty.com/anti-trump-crowd-clamors-slavery/ 

#1768 (11/13) SUNDAY SPECIAL: "Franklin Graham Cites God-Factor In the Results of the Presidential Election" / "Does Our Nation Have A Prayer?"

"FRANKLIN GRAHAM CITES GOD-FACTOR IN THE RESULTS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION" - By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times -  November 11, 2016; http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/11/franklin-graham-cites-a-god-factor-in-the-outcome-/ [AS I SEE IT: I have been blogging HERE the past 4 years to inform people about the issues of the day and have prayed daily for the leadership of our country. Only God knows how much of a factor the prayers of millions of believers were in the results of this election. But as I reflect on watching the returns this past Tuesday night, no matter what outcome you hoped for, you could sense there was something very special going on. In my view, what happened was another evidence in my life that "all things are possible with God" - Mark 10:27 - Stan] 

Franklin Graham, seen here during a visit to Washington, D.C., is citing a “God factor” in the outcome of the presidential election. (AP Photo) 

While pollsters and the news media are still wondering how President-elect Donald Trump won the White House, evangelist Franklin Graham now cites the influence of faith and prayer in the outcome of a historic election.

“Did God show up? In watching the news after the election, the secular media keep asking ‘How did this happen?’ ‘What went wrong?’ ‘How did we miss this? Some are in shock. Political pundits are stunned. Many thought the Trump/Pence ticket didn’t have a chance. None of them understand the God-factor,” Mr. Graham wrote in a new Facebook post on Thursday.

“Hundreds of thousands of Christians from across the United States have been praying. This year they came out to every state capitol to pray for this election and for the future of America. Prayer groups were started. Families prayed. Churches prayed. Then Christians went to the polls, and God showed up,” he continued.

“While the media scratches their heads and tries to understand how this happened, I believe that God’s hand intervened Tuesday night to stop the godless, atheistic progressive agenda from taking control of our country,” Mr. Graham said.

In the days leading up to the election, the pastor asked Americans to pray for the nation and for the candidates and other elected officials. On election eve Monday night, Mr. Graham himself prayed in a live online broadcast viewed by and estimated 1.5 million people.

“President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence are going to need a lot of help and they will continue to need a lot of prayer,” Mr. Graham added. “I pray that President-elect Trump will surround himself with godly men and women to help advise and counsel him as he leads the nation. My prayer is that God will bless America again!”

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"DOES OUR NATION HAVE A PRAYER?" - Jerry Newcombe | Nov 10, 2016; http://townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2016/11/10/does-our-nation-have-a-prayer-n2243654 [AS I SEE IT: You could interpret that title of this article (and its closing sentence) to somehow refer to our nation having had elected Donald Trump as it's next President. Knowing the author of this article from work he has done, I don't believe he meant it in that regard. I for one am hopeful of our country having a chance to head in the right direction with our President-elect more than I would have been with Mrs. Clinton, in light of her dangerous worldview. You, of course, are free to disagree with me, but as Christians, we can truly be hopeful for good things to result, if only because we serve a sovereign God who WILL accomplish His GOOD purposes no matter what earthly person leads us. May this election cause all believers to recommit to praying for all our leaders, that they will serve us with integrity, accountability, Godly wisdom, and they will DO NO HARM to us or to future generations by their actions. Truly, may AMERICA BLESS GOD through its leaders in the years ahead. - Stan]

This has been a very divisive election campaign. They usually are, but this one has seemed to be more cantankerous than previous ones. I feel like we are a country in great need of prayer for healing as a nation. I was invited the other day to help lead a prayer meeting for the election and for the country. It was an honor, and it got me to thinking about the rich tradition we have in this nation of prayer for our elections.

David Barton, a walking encyclopedia on America’s Christian roots, once told me that between 1633 and 1812, there were over 1400 official “government-issued” prayer proclamations---calling for fasting, prayer, or thanksgiving to God. (W. De Loss Love,The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1895), pp. 464-514, "Calendar.") Many of these were in the New England colonies, with their Puritan influence---but not exclusively.

For example, our Continental Congress called on Americans to pray on March 16, 1776---months before we even declared independence----for God’s help because of the danger in the brewing conflict with Mother England. This wasn’t some sort of “To Whom It May Concern” watered-down, mamby-pamby prayer---like what we’re used to in our politically correct age.
     In that proclamation, the founding fathers wrote: “The Congress…do earnestly recommend, that Friday, the Seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that we may, with united hearts, confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease his righteous displeasure, and, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness; humbly imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enemies; and by inclining their hearts to justice and benevolence, prevent the further effusion of kindred blood.”
     Those prayers were answered. Who could have predicted that 13 colonies with a ragtag army of farmers and mechanics could take on the empire with the most powerful army and navy in the world at that time…and prevail?

After the Constitution was written, Congress asked the new president to declare a day of prayer and thanksgiving to thank God for this opportunity to create our new government.
     So on 10/3/1789, George Washington wrote up a proclamation of prayer and thanksgiving:
“…it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor….And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions…” His hearers, being biblically literate, knew that the “Ruler of Nations” referred to Jesus (Rev. 12:5).

As one of the early governors of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson issued a “Proclamation for a Public Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer” (11/11/1779). In that proclamation, he quoted from an announcement from the Continental Congress (10/20/1779), which included these words (talking about Almighty God): “…he hath diffused the glorious light of the gospel, whereby, through the merits of our gracious Redeemer, we may become the heirs of his eternal glory…that he would grant to his church the plentiful effusions of divine grace, and pour out his holy spirit on all ministers of the gospel…”

... Later, President James Madison issued a prayer proclamation as our nation’s chief executive officer “in the present time of public calamity and war.” This was shortly after the British had attacked our nation’s capital. They even burned down the Capitol building and the White House.

President Lincoln called for prayer during the dark days of the Civil War, wherein he lamented that because of our success as a nation, “we have forgotten God.” 

Author and speaker William J. Federer compiled a book on Prayers & Presidents. He noted in that book, “Days of Prayer have a long history in America. Colonists declared Days of Prayer during droughts, Indian attacks and threats from other nations.” He reproduced in his book (dated 2010) prayers from Presidents Washington through George W. Bush.

As President Reagan said of the American people at a prayer breakfast (8/23/1984): “We command no worship. We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief.”

America needs our prayers now, perhaps more than ever.

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"Anne Graham Lotz on How the Church Can Help the Nation Heal" - CBN News, 11-10-2016; http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/november/anne-graham-lotz-on-how-the-church-can-help-the-nation-heal?cpid=EU_CBNNEWSPM

#1767 (11/12) PRO-LIFE SAT: "Congratulations Pro-Lifers, Yesterday Was a Massive Defeat for Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion"

"CONGRATULATIONS PRO-LIFERS, [TUESDAY] WAS A MASSIVE DEFEAT FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD  AND BIG ABORTION"-Kristan Hawkins, NOV 9, 2016 | http://www.lifenews.com/2016/11/09/congratulations-pro-lifers-yesterday-was-a-massive-defeat-for-planned-parenthood-and-big-abortion/ [AS I SEE IT: When I think of how the pro-life movement could have been mortally crushed by the action of a Clinton Presidency, I can only praise God for the countless babies who will potentially not be aborted now and of how the pro-life movement could make strides in the next few years that it has not in the 43 years it has existed. Also, this article makes the point that Millennials are increasingly involved in the pro-life movement. Just recently, God has impressed on me to end my time of praying for pro-life needs by asking that even if abortion remains legal in America, the VAST majority of Millennials will choose adoption before they choose abortion; that for more and more Millennials, abortion may remain a choice but it will  be regarded as anathema as it should be. May God truly answer this prayer! - Stan]

No other election in recent history has been as divisive as this 2016 presidential cycle, especially in the pro-life movement as long-time friends spat at and “unfriended” each other on Facebook while debating the best way to advance our agenda of ending abortion. But pro-lifers can certainly celebrate this morning that Planned Parenthood’s grip of death has been released from the White House. Come January, their influence will be gone. We can rejoice that millions of lives will be saved in the next four years instead of lost. Now we must move forward united with an aggressive agenda to create a culture of life, to demonstrate what it means to love women more and hold President-Elect Trump to the many promises he made to the pro-life movement.

So much has changed in this world since the country last had a pro-life president. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion vendor, has been exposed for the criminal enterprise that they are. Abortion advocates have outed themselves as a movement that betrays the very women they publicly profess to protect. Obamacare has taken over one-sixth of the US economy and, in turn, forced taxpayers to fund abortion and left little alternatives for people of faith who refuse to pay for abortion-inducing drugs.

Donald Trump promised that he would defund Planned Parenthood, appoint pro-life Supreme Court Justices, sign a ban to end abortions at 20 weeks, and make the Hyde Amendment permanent law.The expectations are high for the Trump Administration to follow through on these promises. Pro-lifers put their trust in him because the alternative was reprehensible and now President-Elect Trump needs to make good on those promises. And the pro-life generation will make sure he doesn’t break them.

There is great hope for this nation to be transformed into one that rejects abortion. The rumblings have already started. The Guttmacher Institute published a study earlier this year showing over 300 new pro-life laws that were enacted over the past five years, which accounts for 30% of all the laws restricting abortion since 1973. It takes time to change the culture but this is an enormous accomplishment in a short amount of time.
     Advocates like Students for Life of America and many others have educated Americans on the horrors of abortion for decades. I have personally travelled to hundreds of campuses watching Millennials stand up for preborn children, holding baby showers for pregnant students on campus, praying outside of abortion facilities, and taking bold stands for the weak and the vulnerable, often to the dismay of their professors and administrators. This generation of young people is rightly horrified by abortion, with over 50% indicating they support making abortion illegal in all or most circumstances. They are the hope of this country and our culture.
     Millennials are the ones who will ultimately change the culture and from there, the laws of this nation. In fact, it’s Millennials who have been leading the charge against Planned Parenthood for the last 10 years, outing them as the criminal enterprise they really are.
     Lila Rose, a Millennial, began her undercover video sting work of Planned Parenthood when she was in high school. She now runs Live Action. David Daleiden, another Millennial, released the bombshell undercover videos last summer which launched Congressional and state investigations into the fetal body parts for-profit industry run out of Planed Parenthoods across the country. I also share the Millennial title as the President of Students for Life of America, where we have grown to serve over 1,030 college and high school campuses since our inception in 2006. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood proudly boasts of their 200 or so college pro-choice clubs.

While we may be young, we have learned from our pro-life predecessors how to organize and ignite a movement. We get out of bed each morning knowing that innocent lives will be lost and mothers will be irreparably harmed – and we have to do something to stop it.

This is our time. This the time for the pro-life movement to turn away from petty disagreements and stand united. This is our chance to appoint the justices we need to overturn Roe and Doe. This is our chance to defund and bankrupt the abortion Goliath. This is our chance, the chance of a lifetime, to abolish abortion.

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"Largest Evangelical Turnout in History Helps Donald Trump Defeat Pro-Abortion Hillary Clinton" - Micaiah Bilger, Nov. 9, 2016; http://www.lifenews.com/2016/11/09/largest-evangelical-turnout-in-history-helps-donald-trump-defeat-pro-abortion-hillary-clinton/ 

     Exit polls show white evangelical voters voted in high numbers for Donald Trump, 81-16 percent, according to exit poll results. That’s the most they have voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, when they overwhelmingly chose President George W. Bush by a margin of 78-21 percent.