Dear Leader!

The Watchmaker

Did Andrew Meyer Deserved To Be Tasered? You Bet!

Did conspiracy theorist Andrew Meyer act accordingly? No way!

Read all about it here at Michelle Malkin’s bolg site.

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/09/17/student-tasered-at-john-kerry-forum/

Ron Paul, forget it!

As I sit here watching the “Values Voter” debate at: http://www.afa.net/debate/

Ron Paul said he would not support any laws that would stop the starving and dehydration of a person like Terri Schindler Schiavo suffered here in Florida and died back on March 31, 2005.

Ron Paul, get out of my face!

Chaplain’s firing inspires churches to rally

Chaplain’s firing inspires churches to rally
Christian leader dismissed over praying ‘in Jesus’ name’

Posted: September 14, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Leesburg Regional Medical Center

Dozens of Christian churches ranging from Catholic to Pentecostal in theology are rallying this weekend in Leesburg, Fla., under the name of Jesus, after a local chaplain was dismissed from the Leesburg Regional Medical Center for praying in His name.

“This is not a protest or march against the hospital, or for [Chaplain] Danny Harvey,” John Kimer, one of the pastors at Grace Tabernacle, where Harvey is an elder, told WND. “We’re uniting all the churches under the name of Jesus Christ. We have almost every denomination in this area, and we’re coming together under one name, which is Jesus.”

“This is a silent march. We won’t be carrying signs,” he said. The only statement that is being made is the shirts marchers will wear – 500 distributed so far and more needed. They will state “United” on the front, and “My Jesus, My Freedom, My Stand” on the back. The two-mile event will begin at the Leesburg City Hall at 8 a.m. tomorrow.

In a scenario reminiscent of Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was removed from the military service because of his prayers “in Jesus’ name,” Harvey recently was “involuntarily terminated,” according to a hospital letter.

He said his supervisor had called him into her office, and ordered that not only would he not prayer further “in Jesus’ name,” but that he was to instruct his volunteer chaplains to follow the same restriction.

Hospital officials weren’t available to return a WND request for comment, but Kimer said the name of Jesus is central to Christianity, and that’s why the multi-denomination rally is planned.

“We’re proud of the name Jesus, to pray in Jesus’ name, have Jesus as our Saviour. We want to communicate that to the public,” Kimer said.

He said Harvey’s situation “woke the rest of the churches up to what was happening.”

Klingenschmitt noted that there are court cases already going on in several locations over the use by a Christian chaplain of the use of the words, “in Jesus’ name.”

“Now the American people are rising to defend chaplains who pray in Jesus name. The public outcry against the hospital was so great the CEO already had to resign,” he said.

Hospital officials also just announced the departure of president Louis Bremer, but said it was because he felt it was time to seek new opportunities, not because of the public reaction to the dismissal of Harvey.

The hospital said it dismissed Harvey from his $48,000-a-year post not because he was praying in the name of Jesus Christ, “but [because] the official duties of a paid position were not being met. Those duties include being respectful of the different religious beliefs of our patients and the ability to lead them in their faith in their time of need.”

Hospital officials told a newspaper guidelines from the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education teach respect for all religions.

Harvey told WND as a Christian chaplain, he routinely supported other faiths, such as Islam, expressed by patients by getting them access to someone who could help them directly with their needs.

“There are some things I can’t do as an evangelical pastor. For example, I can’t offer certain things of the Catholic faith, including confession. I would get a Catholic priest,” he said.

He said the issue first arose several years ago when he was asked to pray over the opening of a new hospital unit. He was told he would not be allowed to include “in Jesus’ name.”

He objected, and was ordered to take a diversity course, which he did.

Then at a staff meeting in August, he closed with a prayer in the name of Jesus, he said.

“That’s what sparked this issue. I have written documentation. I was pulled into the office on Friday and told ‘Under no circumstances will you pray in this name again,’” he said. “I said, ‘I can’t abide by your wishes.’ She also told me I should tell my volunteer chaplains they shouldn’t pray in Jesus name either. About four or five days later, I was relieved of my duties.”

David Johnson, a member of the Association of Professional Chaplains’ ethics committee, said chaplains in such situations have to set aside their own religious faith to serve the people around them.

However, Harvey said he affiliated with the International Association of Christian Chaplains, not the professional organization, because the professional group also recognizes belief systems that Christianity does not allow.

In Klingenschmitt’s case, the Navy convicted him of failing to follow a lawful order because his superior didn’t want him praying “in Jesus’ name.” But when Congress got word of his $3,000 fine for his prayer, members ordered the Navy to remove the limitation and allow chaplains to pray as their “conscience dictates.”

However, the provision was not made retroactive, and Klingenschmitt eventually was removed from the military over the issue, a move he is contesting in the legal system.

Klingenschmitt also told WND he’s working on a 50-state tour, to pray “in Jesus’ name” at each state Legislature, and is seeking church and legislative sponsors for his work.

“The Constitution is clear about the fact that the government is prohibited from establishing a religion,” said John W. Whitehead, president of the the Rutherford Institute. “Furthermore, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that all citizens have a fundamental right to freely exercise their religious beliefs, and that includes military service people.”

The civil rights complaint stems from a 1998 memo issued by the Navy Chief of Chaplains that discouraged them from invoking the name of Jesus in their prayers. “This instruction was later embodied in an instruction from the secretary of the Navy, which provided that religious elements for a command function, absent extraordinary circumstances, should be non-sectarian in nature,” the lawsuit said.

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‘Groundbreaking’ study shows ‘gays’ can change

Posted: September 15, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Contradicts belief altering orientation causes depression, anxiety, self-destructive behavior

Stanton L. Jones

In the first longitudinal, peer-reviewed, scientific study of its kind, researchers have concluded some homosexuals can change their “orientation” through religiously mediated guidance.

Researchers Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse released the results Thursday of a three-year study during an address at the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference.

Their conclusions contradict the claims of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association, which contend such change in sexual orientation is impossible and attempting to pursue it likely will cause depression, anxiety or self-destructive behavior.

The new study concluded such changes do not cause psychological harm to the patient.

The new study concluded such changes do not cause psychological harm to the patient.

Nicholas A. Cummings, former American Psychological Association president, praised the research.

“This study has broken new ground in its adherence to objectivity and a scientific precision that can be replicated and expanded, and it opens new horizons for investigation,” he said.

Exodus International, the world’s largest Christian ministry to homosexuals, said it funded the research because of the absence of any scientific, peer-reviewed research on the topic.

The major findings are reported in a book to be released by the evangelical Christian publisher InterVarsity Press, “Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation.”

A homosexual-activist group called Truth Wins Out warned news organizations “to be highly skeptical of a biased ‘ex-gay’ sham study.”

The homosexual group said, “Caution should be taken in prematurely critiquing the study until the full methodology is available. However, based on unconfirmed reports there is great concern that these notorious anti-gay researchers did little more than telephone professional ex-gay lobbyists and ministers from Exodus International and ask them if they had ‘changed.’”

Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International and a former homosexual, said, “Finally, there is now scientific evidence to prove what we as former homosexuals have known all along – that those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction can experience freedom from it.”

“For years, opponents of choice have said otherwise, and this body of research is critical in advancing the national dialogue on this issue,” he said.

Chambers said “the life-changing process of leaving homosexuality behind” is not easy, but, “for thousands of us, the journey has been well worth it, and we are grateful that these study findings give credence to our existence as men and women whose lives have been transformed by Jesus Christ.”

Jones, a provost and professor at Wheaton College, an evangelical school in Wheaton, Ill., told CitizenLink magazine in an interview he was prompted to do the study because of the “ever-increasing pessimism expressed in the professional world that sexual orientation could ever be changed.”

“This was in contrast to the fact that I occasionally met individuals in Christian circles who claim to have experienced precisely such change,” he said. “When the mental-health field actually began to say that change is impossible – that sexual orientation cannot be changed – it formed the perfect scientific hypothesis to be able to conduct a study.”

Jones noted there have been dozens of studies conducted suggesting change is possible for some people, but “the research is not of the highest quality and has been deeply and highly criticized.”

After studying the criticisms of those studies, Jones and Yarhouse concluded the proper methodology would need to be both “prospective and longitudinal.”

“Prospective means that you catch people before they begin the change process and follow them through the process, while longitudinal means that you’re actually following people over time to see if the change is stable,” Jones explained to CitizenLink. “The scientific characteristics of the study are unique, in that no one has ever started early and then followed people over a long period of time like we did.”

Jones said they found that by following the subjects over time “not everyone is successful, not even a majority is successful, but a very substantial group of people report fairly dramatic change.”

“We found that 15 percent of our sample of about 100 claimed to actually have changed from homosexuality to heterosexuality,” he said. “These people experienced significant enough change that they really felt like they had left one sexual orientation to shift into another.”

He acknowledged “life is still complicated for these people, and some still have some residuals of their homosexual attractions.”

“However, they are people who report being able to function as heterosexuals, they’re happy with their marriages and they feel that their lives have changed dramatically,” he said.

The other type of success he found – in almost a quarter of the subjects – was “people who left the homosexual lifestyle and experienced very substantial reductions in homosexual attraction by embracing the Christian discipline of chastity, not acting on their sexual impulses.”

“These were people who felt like they were free now to orient their lives not on their sexual, erotic desires and needs, but on their relationship with God and on healthy, nonsexual intimacy with other people,” Jones said.

The two groups together, those who converted and those who experienced chastity, made up about 38 percent of the sample.

“We feel these changes observed over this substantial period of time provide clear indication that the opinions of the secular mental-health field that change is impossible are simply wrong,” Jones said.

The second area of the research focused on the secular mental-health community’s claims that the attempt to change is harmful.

Jones and Yarhouse administered a standard psychological inventory that measures psychological distress to subjects at every point along the way.

“We found that there was essentially no change in their psychological distress over time,” Jones said. “On that basis, we feel that there is no evidence that the change attempt is harmful, and we found evidence that change is possible for some people.”

He added, however, the research does not prove anybody can change or that no one has ever been harmed from the attempt to change.

“It just suggests that the forceful way in which the secular mental-health community is saying change is impossible and harmful is just not well-advised,” he said.

Jones pointed out the American Psychological Association has a blue-ribbon panel right now examining the question of how it should formulate its policies on the subject of attempts to change sexual orientation.

Certain members, Jones noted, have already said publicly change is impossible and harmful.

Jones said he hopes “there will be enough of an open mind on the part of the secular mental-health community that they will not continue the movement towards banning these kinds of attempts to change sexual orientation, harassing them out of existence and labeling as unethical any professional person who cooperates with them.”

“There is a need to respect the autonomy of individuals who are distressed about what they have experienced sexually and for religious or moral reasons want to try the attempt to change,” Jones told CitizenLink. “Those people first need to be fully informed about just how complex and difficult that process is and then they should have the right as individuals, as an exercise of personal and religious freedom, to seek support in their attempt to change sexual orientation.”

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Bill Keller’s Message To Osama Bin Laden – liveprayer.com

To Osama Bin Laden, hell awaits you unless… from Bill Keller, liverprayer.com

Amish give money to school gunman’s widow

Amish give money to school gunman’s widow

By Jon Hurdle in Philadelphia
September 13, 2007 09:55am

AN Amish community which lost five girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting massacre last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman.

The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, which was set up to handle more than $US4.3 million ($5.12m) in donations from around the world after the shootings, said it had given an unspecified “contribution” to Marie Roberts, a mother of three.

Her husband, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver who was not Amish, tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom last October 2, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself.

After the shootings, members of the deeply religious Amish community in Lancaster County about 97km west of Philadelphia, said they wanted to forgive the gunman.

In a statement released on behalf of the community, the committee said, “Many from Nickel Mines have pointed out that forgiveness is a journey, that you need help from your community of faith and from God … to make and hold on to a decision not to become a hostage to hostility.

“It is understood that hostility destroys community,” the statement said.

The Amish, descendants of Swiss-German settlers, eschew many aspects of modern life such as cars and telephones, and place particular importance on the principle of forgiveness.

Four of the five wounded girls have been in school since last December, and two have missed some school for rehabilitative therapy, the committee said.

The most seriously wounded survivor, Rosanna King, is confined to a wheelchair, unable to talk or feed herself. But her parents said in the statement she smiled a lot and seemed to have good vision and hearing.

A new school built a short distance from the site of the old one – which was demolished – is expected to be closed on the anniversary of the shootings but no memorial events are planned, the statement said.

“To the casual observer, life goes on in Nickel Mines,” the statement said. “But for the families each day brings with it the pain, grief and questions that remind them of their loss.”

Oregon: Immediate Threat to Marriage and Morality in America

Dear Friends,

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman, upheld by a 57% to 43% margin and placed in the Oregon Constitution in 2004, is about to be nullified by Oregon’s ultra liberal Governor and democrat controlled legislature.

We have until September 25th to submit 57,179 valid signatures to Oregon’s Secretary of State to place this bill on the November 2008 General Election ballot.

As of today, September 13th , we are 20,000 signatures short.

If we fail to submit sufficient signatures, both this bill and a bill to grant special rights, privileges and protections to homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendereds and the gender confused, will become law on January 1, 2008.

The ripple effect throughout the nation of either our success or failure, will be enormous. Failure to obtain the needed signatures will telegraph to every gay and lesbian organization in the nation that:

• Christians will not stand and fight for the very institutions that are fundamental to their faith.
• Liberals, secularists and homosexuals will.
• Those who want to change the definition of marriage and morality across the nation only need to persevere.

When we succeed, it will have just the opposite effect.

20,000 Signatures is not an impossible task if thousands of Americans take action!

Here is how you can help:

1. Call your friends and associates in Oregon. Ask them to sign the petitions no later than Sunday the 23rd and encourage them to ask their friends and associates to sign the two petitions.
2. Send them to http://www.concernedoregonians.com/ for petition signing locations.
3. Forward this email to your entire list.

Please take action on behalf of Oregonians and all Americans.

Sincerely,

Rick Scarborough

President — Vision America Action

Bill Keller sends video to Osama bin Laden

Bill Keller sends video to Osama bin Laden in the same way that Osama bin Laden has been sending video’s to the United States of America. The video’s that Osama bin Laden has been sending to the United States are of the kind that are a prerequisite in the false religion of Islam to invite the people to convert to Islam. If the invitee does not accept Islam then they have the option to pay the infidel tax (jizya) or death by the sword.

Well Bill Keller sends Osama bin Laden a video message inviting him to Christianity, but only telling him the consequences of not accepting God’s true Gospel of salvation by repentance from his sin and receiving Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. We as Christians don’t make conversion to our faith (Christianity is not a religion) compulsatory, but we let the decision rest on the free will of the individual who hears the Gospel of God.

Bill Keller, bravo! I just wish more people, pastors especially, would do as you just did.

Click Here to view the video.

FairTax welcomes Fred Thompson to FL this Thursday, 9/13/2007

Dear Florida FairTax supporters,

Fred Thompson is visiting Florida this week!

Here’s our chance to show our support for the FairTax at some highly visible venues.

When: Thursday, September 13

Where: Heritage Hall
690 Celebration Avenue
Celebration, FL 34747
Doors open at 4:40 p.m.

Wear your FairTax gear, bring FairTax signs, and help us welcome Sen. Thompson to the great state of Florida!

If you are interested in participating in this event as a FairTax supporter or need further information, please contact our Florida grassroots team at jimmy.walby@fairtax.org or either of the following numbers: 850-223-3402 or 727-744-9242.

FairTax Grassroots Team
1-800-FAIRTAX (toll free)
713-963-9023 (Houston)

Coca~Cola, New Coke, Coca~Cola Classic, Peter Pan Peanut Butter

I love Coca~Cola!
I grew up on Coca~Cola!
And around 1984 or 1985 the Coca~Cola Corporation decided to change the formula of I beloved Coca~Cola and made “New Coke” (while still calling it Coca~Cola). For months my world was a wreck! I had no Coca~Cola to drink! (tough life, eh…?)
Well finally the Coca~Cola Corporation listened to it’s consumers (including me, boy did I write letters to the Coca~Cola Corporation) and brought back Coca~Cola as Coca~Cola Classic. If I remember correctly it was within six to eight months when the Coca~Cola Corporation saw the light and brought back Coca~Cola in it’s original formula. Parting in the streets soon followed, and America was once again saved from the Soviet menace that was on the horizon! I digress…

Well quite a few months ago another staple of life was taken away from American mouths and it was Peter Pan Peanut Butter! And guess what…

I love Peter Pan Peanut Butter!
I grew up on Peter Pan Peanut Butter!

Well tonight my wife brough home a jar of Peter Pan Peanut Butter that was finally brought back to market, and I just finished my first peanut butter sandwich made with Peter Pan Peanut Butter in months! Ohhhhhhhh….. Life is good again!

- Ric

This is worth two minuets of your time!

I just gleaned these four quick photos from Doctor Bulldog, and this tells one heck of a lot about our troops in the heat of war.

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4

God Bless the United States of America!
God Bless our Troops!

Thank you Germany!

Read the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/

or if removed you can read it here: http://sweetness-light.com/