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HE’S ALIVE Christian News and Views
July 2015 • Vol. 2, No. 7
‘And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive.’ — Rev 2.8
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Civil Disobedience America’s Supreme Coming as SCOTUS Court Says ‘Yes’ But Enforces Gay ‘Marriage’ God Still Says ‘No’ to By Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt
The America envisioned by our founding fathers is in mourning today, as our Christian forefathers are rolling over in their grave. We must now obey God rather than men. The Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 to impose homosexual "marriage" in all 50 states. A summary of the ruling, with select highlighted quotes from majority and dissenting opinions, is here, courtesy of the Congressional Prayer Caucus. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, siding with the 4 liberal justices. Justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito issued the dissenting opinion. The silver lining in the bad ruling is found on p. 27, in which Kennedy wrote that people of religious faith may continue to oppose homosexual ‘marriage’ in their speech: “...It must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons. In turn, those who believe allowing same-sex marriage is proper or indeed essential, whether as a matter of religious conviction or secular belief, may engage those who disagree with their view in an open and searching debate. The Constitution, however, does not permit the State to bar same-sex couples from marriage on the same terms as accorded to couples of the opposite sex,” Kennedy wrote. Dr. Chaps’ comment: This ruling will soon be argued by the enemies of liberty as “precedent” justification to
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Same Sex Marriage By Pastor Chuck Kennedy
'Dr. Chaps' Gordon Klingenschmitt 1) enforce pro-homosexual education of all children in public schools, 2) bankrupt Christian business owners, 3) silence Christian pulpits (and dare I say our own TV show PIJN NEWS someday soon). I hereby join with Dr. James Dobson, hundreds of Christian leaders, and thousands of citizens who have pledged civil disobedience by signing the Manhattan Declaration, which ends with these words: “Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo — destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.” The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970. chaps@ prayinjesusname.org
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I REMEMBER when I once was witnessing at a college in Alabama and one of the professors told me that was not allowed there. He said I must stop sharing about Jesus on the campus and asked me to leave. I looked him right in the eyes with several students standing around mesmerized by the confrontation, and I said to him, “I must obey God and not strong Biblical roots this should be a man”. landslide to strongly oppose it without Now I was much younger then and a even a question. lot wilder in that day than I am today. What are we to do? Where do we go But the principle is the same, we are from here? First off we are to obey God being silenced by a minority of people, and not man as I mentioned earlier. the homosexual community, who Then we must recognize the Christian want to change the face of our nation church has failed in doing that. and in the Once we realize we have process rewrite missed the mark, we can the clear repent and fix the problem. definitions of If there is no realization of the Bible. having done anything wrong, The goal of there will be no repentance this attack is and thus no change. to ultimately Secondly, we are to love classify any all people, no matter their preaching views or even actions. Greater or teaching love hath no man than to lay about sin being down his life for his friend. wrong and This means we stop living make it into a Pastor Chuck Kennedy for ourselves and accept the hate speech. Of inconveniences of evangelism. course the author of sin, satan himself, This is real love winning. would love to have every opposing Thirdly, we are to stay the course voice silenced, so he works through the with the Word of God no matter the unsaved to make sin look acceptable. current of unbelief and opposition It was not a vote for love as the left is that both the façade of a church and glorying in. That is not love, it is lust, the world flow in. By facade of the perverted lust at that! But the world church I mean those who have a form has posted everywhere that “love won”. of Godliness but deny the power, they This was really a thermometer are tares in the wheat. This court’s revealing the spiritual temperature decision will separate the real from of the nation. A nation who now sees the fake, give it a little time and the right as wrong and wrong as right. A distinction will be clear. nation who once upheld the Bible as The Supreme Court of America the infallible Word of God but now rendered their judgement on June 26th, skillfully explains and 2015, but God, the reasons it away for a more Supreme Judge of all modern interpretation. mankind, also renders a In Congressman Vern judgement. The sexually Buchanan’s recent poll immoral and perverted, asking how many supported He will judge. The world same sex marriage and is offering a temporary how many opposed. I change and acceptance was stunned to see the to this right now, but we closeness of the numbers, are offer an everlasting howbeit those who opposed and correct one. We must same sex marriage had the warn the people before it majority but not by many! is too late. Silence is not In a Christian nation with an option.