March 11, 2010
Criminal Penalties for Criticizing Homosexuality in Massachusetts?
| Host: | Vic Eliason |
| Guest: | Brian Camenker |
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Brian Camenker is President of MassResistance. For over 15 years, he has been a leading activist for parents’ rights in the schools.
In the mid-1990s, Brian founded the Parents’ Rights Coalition of Massachusetts, which was instrumental in getting the current Massachusetts Parental Notification Act passed. After the “homosexual marriage” court ruling in 2003, he led an effort to remove the four judges responsible.
In recent years, his grassroots activist network--now called MassResistance--has been forced to confront the radical homosexual agenda in the schools and elsewhere in society.
Today, the Massachusetts Senate votes on a bill which--until this morning--contained draconian language that would criminalize criticism of homosexuality published on Web sites and other media, with fines of up to a thousand dollars and imprisonment. The language, which has nothing to do with the purpose of the bill itself, apparently was added specifically to target MassResistance, which has publicly exposed many of the homosexual and transgender movement’s outrageous activities, largely funded by tax dollars, particularly regarding children.
In addition, MassResistance has angered the homosexual lobby with hard-hitting State House testimony at several public hearings, and embarrassed legislators by posting videos of their anti-family remarks at State House functions, and photos of them at gay lobbying events.
As Brian puts it, "To put it lightly, they’re not too happy with us."
But the public outcry when this provision was made public apparently caused sponsors to remove the offending language overnight last night, so the bill was now being considered without the criminalization of expression when that expression opposes homosexual activity.
The language which was proposed is similar to the language in Canadian legislation that has caused even the posting of passages from the Bible to be considered “inciting hatred” , bringing trials and punishment on people of faith.
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March 10, 2010
Health Care Endgame
| Host: | Jim Schneider |
| Guest: | James Lansberry |
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James Lansberry is president of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries and also is vice president of Samaritan Ministries International. The Alliance was formed to track and address public policy developments that could affect member ministries. Among those are Samaritan, and Medi-Share, both of which provide health care cost-sharing arrangements among persons of similar and sincerely held beliefs.
While there is almost universal agreement that changes need to be made to our current system of health care, especially the insurance component, most Americans are against passage of a massive government takeover bill, as is being promoted by President Obama and the Democratic leadership in congress Their current strategy is to force the House of Representatives to pass the Senate bill as it is, with no changes. The President's goal is for the House to pass the bill before he leaves on an international trip on March 18.
This pressure on the House has been coupled with a vague promise to address House criticisms (on abortion, for instance) in a second, separate bill, through a rarely used process (called "reconciliation") that was originally created to deal only with budget and tax issues. Reconciliation was never designed as a vehicle for substantive public policy.
But in reality, if the House passes the Senate bill, the promised reconciliation likely will never happen. Since the Senate version will have passed both houses of Congress, it will quickly move to the president's desk and he will sign it before the ink is dry. And the government takeover of health care will be complete.
The Senate Democrats will have no incentive whatsoever to consider any House proposals. Why would they? The bill originating in and passed by the Senate will have become the law of the land. Even if a “reconciliation” bill were to be introduced in the Senate, less than 50 Senators have been voting “pro-life”, so the promised removal of abortion funding would most likely be defeated.
The bill currently under consideration, which is the Senate-passed version of health care, includes many provisions which Lansberry says must be opposed. Among them:
--The government will take over 1/6 of the American economy, and put government bureaucrats between you and your family's health care providers.
--It will cost $2.3 trillion over 10 years when fully implemented and dump a huge debt on the shoulders of our children and grandchildren—this according to an analysis by the Senate Budget Committee.
--It creates more than 110 new agencies and bureaucracies in the federal government.
--It will cut $500 billion from Medicare and $170 billion from Medicare Advantage, resulting in rationed and inferior medical care for senior citizens.
--According to the National right to Life committee, it is "the most pro-abortion single piece of legislation that has ever come to the House floor for a vote" and contains numerous "federal pro-abortion mandates and federal subsidies for abortion".
--It will require taxpayer funding for abortion, and will even require purchasers of private plans to pay a monthly fee to pay for other people's abortions.
--It contains no conscience protections for health care providers who do not want to be coerced into performing abortions.
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Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries:
http://www.healthcaresharing.org/
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http://www.samaritanministries.org/
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March 09, 2010
Slaughter of the Dissidents
| Host: | Jim Schneider |
| Guest: | Jerry Bergman |
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Dr. Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at the college level for over 32 years. He has 9 college degrees, and over 800 publications in 12 languages, plus 30 books and monographs.
Being politically incorrect can be fatal to anyone’s career--especially when you’re a scientist and your brand of political incorrectness is doubting Darwin.
That’s the subject of Slaughter of the Dissidents, Dr.Jerry Bergman's latest book. This book exposes the anti-Christian persecution that permeates academia and therefore all our institutions. It is the first of five books in a series, with the others also being released, or nearly completed.
Dr. Bergman states that we are seeing a fundamental challenge to our civil rights and freedoms in the way Darwin skeptics are being treated in the academic community, and all across America. He says it is time to correct our understanding of the First Amendment, because this discrimination against those who disagree with Darwin is just a small sample of what can happen to anyone, when our those rights are distorted or ignored.
And despite claims to the contrary, many renowned, respected scientists, who have earned doctoral degrees in their specialties from top-ranked universities like Harvard, do not support the theory of evolution, and are not afraid to say so.
Callers asked questions about specific aspects of creation and evolution theories, including "punctuated equilibrium", a literal six-day creation, and the difference between the slow development postulated by evolution, and creation "ex nihilo" (out of nothing) by God who clearly has the power to do so.
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Revolution Against Evolution
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March 08, 2010
Radical Rulers
| Host: | Jim Schneider |
| Guest: | Robert Knight |
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Robert H. Knight is a Senior Writer for Coral Ridge Ministries and a Senior Fellow with the American Civil Rights Union. His latest book is Radical Rulers: The White House elites Who are Pushing America Toward Socialism.
Robert Knight's book, and this Crosstalk program, took a close look at a number of those placed into positions of power and leadership in the Obama administration, starting with Barack Hussein Obama himself. The record shows that throughout his life, Barack Obama has been mentored by--and later has surrounded himself with--individuals who promote socialist ideas, and often advocate activist and aggressive actions in society and in politics to bring them into fruition.
While there have been a few appoints of "czars" by previous administrations to assist in areas not covered by official government agencies or departments, Barack Obama has appointed nearly 40 such "czars" to advise him, and essentially to take control of most areas of our society. Unlike Cabinet officers, most of these "czars" are not "vetted" by the U.S. Senate, and do not require their approval to serve in the Obama administration.
The radical positions of those appointed by Obama were discussed, including:
--Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff
--Mark Lloyd, now at the Federal Communications Commission, who wants conservative talk radio shut down
--Kevin Jennings, the "safe schools czar", who once counseled a student who had been propositioned by a homosexual, to accept it and "use a condom"
--Van Jones, White House environmental adviser, who resigned after his activist past became known, including charges that the Bush Administration orchestrated the attacks on 9/11
--plus Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, Cass Sunstein, and others.
Amazingly, even though much of Barack Obama's past was known during his campaitn for President, the major media outlets largely ignored it. And little was revealed about his "czar" appointees, in some cases not even mentioning them until they made news by withdrawing their nomination or resigning under fire.
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March 06, 2010
Best of Crosstalk (First Aired March 3, 2010)
| Host: | Brannon Howse |
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President Obama is saying he might break out the “nuclear option” when it comes to passing nationalized health care. In this case he’s referring to reconciliation. Reconciliation is the process of passing a bill with just 51 votes as opposed to the normal 61 votes it usually takes in the Senate in order to obtain cloture.
Here’s how it works: The House and the Senate have to pass the same version. Each has passed their own (different) versions at this point in time. This means that lawmakers have 3 options:
1. They can start over, or 2. they can go into Conference Committee and work out the differences between the two bills. This latter option involves merging the two bills into one. The problem with this option is that when it comes out of conference, it would need 61 votes to go to what’s referred to as “cloture”. The Democrats don’t want this option because they don’t have the necessary 61 votes.
Option #3 is the “nuclear option” known as “reconciliation”. This is where the Senate sends its version over to the House and the House passes it. It’s questionable whether there are enough votes in the House to pass the Senate version because some Democrats don’t like what’s missing from the Senate version. However, Nancy Pelosi is saying that if the House will give her the required number of votes to pass the Senate version, it will go to Obama for his signature and at that point it becomes law. She’s basically saying that she’ll come around later with a series of House bills to change or amend the health care bill to make House liberals happy.
Brannon also presented two audio clips. The first one is of a host from MSNBC claiming that the Tea Party movement is giving cover to those who want to kill Black-Americans and Jews.
The second audio clip features Congressman Ron Paul and his son. They comment on how the U.S. appears close to an economic collapse and why the idea that nationalized health care is affordable and won’t add to the national debt is a dubious projection at best.
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March 05, 2010
News Friday
| Host: | Vic Eliason |
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Vic Eliason began this edition of Crosstalk with an audio cut from Americans United for Life Action. The speaker gives an outline of what she feels is the real “end game” for health care reform and what needs to be done to stop taxpayer funding of abortion.
President Obama and the Democrats have set March 18th as the target date for a vote on the pro-abortion Senate health care bill. This means Christians have about two weeks to respond to legislators and communicate their views on this issue. The phone numbers to accomplish this are listed below.
Vic also asked for listener comment on some other stories and issues including:
--Illinois is considering a presumed consent organ harvesting bill. This would allow doctors to harvest organs from citizens that have not given explicit consent to have this done.
--Spy chips hidden in 2.5 million waste bins.
--The idea that the government is the servant of the people may be fading away. We see this as many of today’s civil servants are part of a protected privileged class while at the same time, middle-Americans struggle.
--A bumper sticker says, “Pray for Obama--Psalm 109:8”
--51 critical questions that people want answered by our president.
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Americans United for Life Action
http://www.aulaction.org
The 51 Questions for Barack Obama are available at this link:
http://69.84.25.250/blogger/post/sorry-to-bother-you.aspx
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March 04, 2010
Evangelical Churches in Foreclosure
| Host: | Ingrid Schlueter |
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Just like many American homeowners, communities are beginning to experience a growing number of churches that are going into foreclosure, a phenomenon that is not going unnoticed by the secular media.
As Ingrid explains it, ultimately, this is not merely about real estate that churches (and Christian schools) can’t afford. It goes much deeper than that. Claiming that they believe in Jesus, what we have are sick churches and sick Christians that are operating like functional atheists. Instead of getting on their knees exclusively, they instead went directly to the bank, mortgaged their other properties, and now they’re up to their eyes in trouble.
As Christians, we need to be grateful to God for what we have instead of always desiring that which is supposedly bigger and better.
From that perspective, Ingrid mentions an article as well as a video, both of which can be seen by going to http://www.crosstalkblog.com.
--The first is an article by John MacArthur entitled: How Did We Make Such an Evangelical Mess?
--The second item is a 3 minute video by In Jesus Name Ministries that details the persecution of Christians in Orissa, India.
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March 03, 2010
Nuclear Option on Healthcare Bill?
| Host: | Brannon Howse |
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President Obama is saying he might break out the “nuclear option” when it comes to passing nationalized health care. In this case he’s referring to reconciliation. Reconciliation is the process of passing a bill with just 51 votes as opposed to the normal 61 votes it usually takes in the Senate in order to obtain cloture.
Here’s how it works: The House and the Senate have to pass the same version. Each has passed their own (different) versions at this point in time. This means that lawmakers have 3 options:
1. They can start over, or 2. they can go into Conference Committee and work out the differences between the two bills. This latter option involves merging the two bills into one. The problem with this option is that when it comes out of conference, it would need 61 votes to go to what’s referred to as “cloture”. The Democrats don’t want this option because they don’t have the necessary 61 votes.
Option #3 is the “nuclear option” known as “reconciliation”. This is where the Senate sends its version over to the House and the House passes it. It’s questionable whether there are enough votes in the House to pass the Senate version because some Democrats don’t like what’s missing from the Senate version. However, Nancy Pelosi is saying that if the House will give her the required number of votes to pass the Senate version, it will go to Obama for his signature and at that point it becomes law. She’s basically saying that she’ll come around later with a series of House bills to change or amend the health care bill to make House liberals happy.
Brannon also presented two audio clips. The first one is of a host from MSNBC claiming that the Tea Party movement is giving cover to those who want to kill Black-Americans and Jews.
The second audio clip features Congressman Ron Paul and his son. They comment on how the U.S. appears close to an economic collapse and why the idea that nationalized health care is affordable and won’t add to the national debt is a dubious projection at best.
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March 02, 2010
Bible for Porn Trade /
Christian Student Discrimination
| Host: | Vic Eliason |
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Vic Eliason opened the phone lines to allow listeners to comment on the following topics of concern to Christians:
--A Texas college campus is locked in a fierce debate after atheist students operate what they call a “smut for smut” campaign that allows the trading of bibles and other religious texts for pornography.
--16 year old Nathan de La Garza, who attends Washington Park High School in Racine, Wisconsin, was sent to the principal’s office for carrying his Bible on his pastor’s recommendation. The assistant principal felt that such an expression of faith could lead to a fist fight.
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Washington Park High School
Dan Thielen—Principal
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March 01, 2010
God’s War on Terror
| Host: | Gordon Morris |
| Guest: | Walid Shoebat |
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Walid Shoebat was born in Bethlehem, and is a former Muslim and PLO terrorist. He became a Christian after reading the Hebrew Scriptures during an attempt to convert his wife to Islam. He is now an advocate for Israel as he exposes the threat of radical Islam through books, media, and speaking engagements around the world.
This Crosstalk is a presentation that Walid gave in November of 2009 at a VCY America rally.
As a young Muslim, Walid grew up believing that the Old Testament had been changed by the Jews and the New Testament had been changed by Christians. In other words, the Bible had become corrupted.
In contrast, Walid shares how the Islamic religion took pieces from the Apocrypha, pieces from the Bible, added its own ideology into the text and created a corruption of the Bible. In essence, those who did the real corrupting have accused the innocent of corruption.
Much of Walid’s presentation focuses on the lack of critical thinking in the Muslim culture that allows this kind of confused and deceptive thinking to proliferate. He gave an example of this when describing what took place after the Pope declared that Islam should not be spread through violence. Walid noted that Muslims took to the streets and expressed the alleged “peaceful” nature of Islam through sheer violence.
He saw a similar type of violence errupt when he began to think critically about the terrorism and violence of Islam. Eventually he became a Christian and shed the mantle of hatred. It’s at that point that others began to accuse him of being a racist, bigotted, Islamaphobic Christian.
Walid’s presentation also covers the following:
--The Islamic vs. the Christian meaning of “intercession”
--How to obtain the real meaning of the word “jihad”.
--What Islam means by someone’s “constitutional right”
--Some interesting Bible references concerning the anti-christ and his relationship to the religion of Islam and Muslim nations.
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