- Recently, I have explained how the evidence indicates
that new right leaders and Republican Senators conspired to help the hate
bill pass. Except for Orrin Hatch, Senators remained silent for days on
the floor of the Senate, shunning many opportunities to speak out against
the hate bill. At <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org
I document how for nearly a week prior to hate bill passage, no major new
right watchdog group effectively motivated its supporters to defeat the
hate bill through calls to Senators. 1
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- Yet some could ask: "So what if the hate bill
passed? It was for a good cause, to give President Bush the opportunity
to veto it and thus bolster his prestige and that of Republicans in their
efforts to thwart the evil Democrats. Why weaken peoples' confidence in
new right leadership just when we all need to pull together against hate
crimes legislation?"
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- I must speak out because no movement, masking lies
and deception, can overcome evil as diabolical as hate laws. Often, virtually
alone, our National Prayer Network was instrumental in defeating the hate
bill. In 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2006 defeat of the hate bill came not because
of clever strategies and numbers but because God fought for America, causing
confusion in the hate bill ranks. This past week, however, Christian/conservative
leaders resorted to a "brilliant" scheme that required doing
the opposite of what they had promised their supporters. As a result, they
went into folly, helping freedom's enemies. In contrast, the pro-hate bill
forces had perfect clarity and vigor.
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- With the defense authorization bill two months
overdue, President Bush is under extreme pressure not to honor his August
4 promise to send the arms bill and the attached hate crimes bill back
to the Senate. Debate and deliberations over removal of the hate bill could
occupy weeks, seriously delaying vital supplies to our troops in Iraq.
Be assured that pro-hate bill, anti-war Democrats will delay removal of
the hate crimes amendment as long as possible.
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- Leaders of the new right allowed the hate bill
to pass, confident Bush would honor his word. What if he doesn't? What
if he can't, for compelling reasons of national security? America will
become a hate crimes bureaucracy like Canada's, and there will be nothing
we can do to stop it.
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- If the President does veto the hate bill, lovers
of freedom must gear up to defeat it in 2009. To do that, hearts and hands
must be clean, especially those of our leaders. Scripture says, "If
I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." (Psalm
66:18) For new right leaders to encourage calls and petitions against the
hate bill and at the same time subvert efforts of their supporters by depriving
them of vital alerts just when such calls to action would almost certainly
lead to victory is deceitful, manipulative and just plain wrong. It is
to speak and act out a lie.
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- New right leaders must repent to the American people
whom they have betrayed. Regardless of the political consequences, even
if it shakes the White House, these leaders must come clean. Scripture
says that unless we confess and forsake our sins, God will not help us.
In ancient Israel, the Hebrews were routed and collectively punished in
military conflict because one man, Achan, and his family, violated God's
command by burying forbidden Canaanite booty under a rug in his tent. How
much more will we be weakened in the hate bill fight if virtually all major
new right leaders attempt to sweep this travesty under their rug!
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- Yes, we need every Christian/conservative group
and leader in the dark days of liberalism ahead. By requiring leaders to
confess, I do not attempt to weaken them or their authority. Telling the
whole truth now will only ultimately empower them. One of the greatest
biblical heroes, David, sinned grievously, committing both adultery and
murder. Yet when he repented, he found immediate forgiveness and even restoration
by God.
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- When we sin and don't confess, we must sin even
more to cover up. We become wicked, maligning and persecuting those who
call our sins to remembrance. Scripture says, "He who covers his sins
shall not prosper." (Proverbs 28:43) The time for repentance on the
part of religious right leaders from Colorado Springs to Congress is sooner,
not later.
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- At stake is the reputation of Christ and His cross
to produce a level of godliness and morality which cannot be achieved without
Him. If we allow Bill Clinton to deceive the American people on the stand,
mocking God, his oath of office and his wedding vows, and we also allow
Christian/conservative leaders to mislead their followers, manipulating
their energies and idealism, then we are saying there is no difference
between the world and the church. Whether under a Capitol dome or a steeple,
it's all power politics.
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- Also, if Christian leaders don't repent, how can
they expect repentance of the laity? If repentance is not required of one
who has done wrong, then the cross of Christ is mocked; He came and died
without purpose or effect upon us.
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- This confirms the opinion of the world that not
only do hypocrites infest the pulpits and pews of Christendom but that
Christianity itself is a farce, lacking real power to change our motives
and actions.
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- These leaders must demonstrate now through repentance
and renewed faith that there is a difference between them and Clinton --
that Christ does empower those who put their trust in Him, those who practice
self-denial, not self-preservation.
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- Many of these leaders originally mixed religion
with politics as a high moral calling, a ministry to bring revival and
restoration to America. Yet, clearly, they have become corrupted by the
system and by their own power. It is imperative now that they believe and
act in accordance with what they have always taught -- that God and His
truth are the only real basis of goodness and power, both spiritual and
political.
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- These leaders should remember how in scandals of
the past (Nixon, Clinton, Bakker, Swaggart, etc.) lying and delay only
made the consequences much, much worse. The fact that new right leaders
failed to give warning about the hate bill crisis in the days preceding
its passage cannot be denied. It is chronicled in four daily e-alerts last
week, written at the height of the hate bill crisis (<http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org).
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- The world is watching to see what Christianity
really means. If these leaders of Christian "watchdog" organizations
do not come clean, they are no longer those who defend Christianity, but
those who destroy it.
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- Endnote:
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- 1. Earlier in September, Dr. James Dobson on his broadcast
strongly influenced the forces of the religious right to believe that ENDA
was the most dangerous type of hate crimes legislation and that the President
was eminently worthy of our trust to veto the hate bill. In a subsequent
poll of 30 new right leaders by insider Guy Adams, he found that a third
had given up all organized opposition to the hate bill, and most of the
remainder agreed with Dobson that the President would destroy it. On September
11 the Department of Defense authorization bill was introduced, and on
September 14 Kennedy tried to unite the hate bill to it as a unanimous
consent agreement without allowing debate. By September 19 and 20, Focus
on the Family, Traditional Values Coalition, Family Research Council, and
Concerned Women for America finally sounded internet warnings against the
hate bill. Yet, they were devoid of any argumentation that the people should
bear responsibility to defeat the hate bill, not the President. Focus on
the Family did deliver a petition of more than 100,000 names protesting
the hate bill. Yet, NPN polls showed relatively little or no phoning went
into the Senate right up until the hate bill passed. This is in sharp contrast
to the three million plus calls these organizations could have generated
during this crisis period. Finally, on September 26, on the afternoon before
the hate bill passed, Focus on the Family, Traditional Values Coalition,
and Family Research Council sounded the alarm. Yet such warning was not
effective since Senate offices would soon be closing, and by 10 a.m. EST,
Thursday morning, Senators were already on the floor of the Senate to debate
and vote on the hate bill.
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- The Christian/conservative organizations receiving my
emergency alerts in the days before hate bill passage, yet giving no timely
or effective warning of imminent hate bill passage include Focus on the
Family, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, American
Family Association, Faith2Action, and Christian Values Coalition. While
not a Christian organization, WorldNetDaily was also silent.
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- EMERGENCY CALL FOR PRAYER AND ACTION!!
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- New right leaders put us and freedom utterly at
the mercy of the President. Yet, God has promised to never fail us if we
put all our trust in Him. America must now turn to God as never before,
calling to Him in repentance, fasting and prayer.
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- Also, remember ENDA, "The Employment Non-Discrimination
Act," H.R. 2015, will soon be up for a vote in the House. This workplace
hate crimes bill would make it a federal offense to discriminate against
homosexuals in renting, hiring or firing, even in "non-spiritual"
areas of churches. Call your House member immediately in protest, toll
free 1-877-851-6437 or toll 1-202-224-3131
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- Comment
- Mary Sparrowdancer
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- The "Hate Bill" is not a "Hate BIll"
- It is a "Love Bill" for everything that Israel and the zionists
do. It is a mandatory "Love Bill" forcing us all to accept everything
that the zionists do to helpless humans, such as the Palestinians. This
is the worst legislation crafted since the zionists created the
federal reserve and the "federal income tax," with which
they have funded their inhumane activities.
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