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“Bring Your Guns to Church”: It Was the Law : by Joel McDurmon

Imagine the following scenario: At church this Sunday, while reviewing the list of announcements and upcoming events for your church, your pastor adds, "Oh, and don't forget: on Sundays we have our regular target practice. Make sure to bring your guns. Make sure to bring your pieces to church."
Absurd, right? Not so. It used to be the American way. For example, a 1631 law in Virginia required citizens to own firearms, to engage in practice with them, and to do so publicly on holy days. It demanded that the people "bring their pieces to the church." Somewhere along the line we have lost this mindset. Today the ideas of church and arms are assumed to be at odds, as if loving your neighbor has nothing to do with the preservation and defense of life and property.
But the idea of Christian society and an armed, skilled populace actually have deep historical roots. Alfred the Great codified the laws of England in the 9th Century, often resorting to biblical law in order to do so (where he departed from biblical law, the integrity of his famous law code is quite poor). Alfred applied the Deuteronomic laws of kings that forbad a standing army (Deut. 17), and as a result developed a national defense based on militia:
"By the Saxon laws, every freeman of an age capable of bearing arms, and not incapacitated by any bodily infirmity, was in case of a foreign invasion, internal insurrection, or other emergency, obliged to join the army...."1
This required and encouraged an armed citizenry:
"Every landholder was obliged to keep armor and weapons according to his rank and possessions; these he might neither sell, lend, nor pledge, nor even alienate from his heirs. In order to instruct them in the use of arms, they had their stated times for performing their military exercise; and once in a year, usually in the spring, there was a general review of arms, throughout each county.2

http://godfatherpolitics.com/23225/bring-your-guns-to-church-sunday-it-was-the-law/#5MtawXYTxuckezVw.99

Backlash to Supreme Court's Decision Comes Fast and Furious :by Gary DeMar

A Pennsylvania newspaper announced that since the Supreme Court has spoken on the issue of same-sex marriage, the debate is over on the subject. Kind of like the debate over abortion – which was "settled" by the Supreme Court in 1973 – is over. The debate goes on, public opinion has changed, laws restricting abortion have been passed, abortion clinics have closed, and the pro-life moment is stronger than ever.
Here's what the editors of the Pennsylvania newspaper said in their statement about the latest Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage:
"And this news organization now crosses another threshold.
"As a result of Friday's ruling, PennLive/The Patriot-News will very strictly limit op-Eds and letters to the editor in opposition to same-sex marriage.
"These unions are now the law of the land. And we would not entertain such criticisms that these unions are morally wrong or unnatural any more than we would entertain criticisms of interracial marriage or those claiming that women are less equal than men in the eyes of the law."

 http://godfatherpolitics.com/23333/the-supreme-court-its-the-final-word-lie-of-the-liberal-left/#fU53zm72ufpg6iUb.99

Constitution and America Sentenced to Death by US Supreme Court: by Dave Jolly

On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that homosexual marriage is a constitutional right and that states do not have the right to prevent same-sex sinners from legally marrying.
The first error in the high court's ruling is that they just violated the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which reads:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
There is not a single state that voted to give this power to the federal government or the federal courts. In fact the Founding Fathers purposely wrote the Tenth Amendment to keep most of the power in the hands of the states and to keep the federal government small. Yet over the past century, the federal court has steadily stripped the states of the constitutional power given to them by the Founding Fathers.
The Supreme Court ruling also violates the First Amendment because no Christian business owner is allowed to run their business according to their faith. If any homosexual couple requests their services – photography, cake, flowers, venue, etc. – for their same-sex wedding, the Christian business owners will be forced by the Supreme Court ruling to violate their Christian faith.
The Supreme Court obviously forgot the wording of the First Amendment which states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
According to the US Constitution, Congress is the ONLY branch of the government that can pass a law. The executive and judicial branches were NOT given the power of creating law, but evidently the Supreme Court has illegally taken that power onto themselves just at Barack Obama has.

 http://godfatherpolitics.com/23318/constitution-and-america-sentenced-to-death-by-us-supreme-court/#otJkw0pD2XgMHtL9.99

Movement Grows To Make June 27 ‘National Burn The Confederate Flag Day’ : Curtis F

The battle flag of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which is the flag most commonly referred to as the Confederate flag, has long been a symbol that divides the country. While its display has always been contentious, renewed anger arose after Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old male who posed with the flag several times in his manifesto, went into Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and murdered nine innocent people over their race.

The furor over the flag was more pronounced due to the fact that it still flew high over South Carolina's capital, less than a two-hour drive away from the massacre, even as other flags throughout the country were brought to half-staff. In response, activists have pushed for "National Burn the Confederate Flag Day."

NATIONAL BURN THE CONFEDERATE FLAG DAY

Within days of the Emanuel AME Church massacre, an event page sprang up on Facebook promoting June 27 as National Burn the Confederate Flag Day. The page implores people to flood social media with photos and videos of these burnings:

"This is our day to demonstrate that it is no longer acceptable to fly this flag anywhere. Organize a Confederate flag burning event in your area on Saturday, June 27th, and flood social media with pictures and videos using the hashtags #FeelTheBurn and #TakeItDown "
The furor over the flag still flying over South Carolina hasn't gone unnoticed, even by Republicans. One South Carolina state representative, Rep. Doug Brannon, has promised to pre-file a bill that will remove the flag from the state capital. He said:        "I had a friend die Wednesday night for no reason other than he was a black man. Senator Pinckney was an incredible human being."                                                                                                                                     https://reverbpress.com/news/national-burn-the-confederate-flag-day/

Joe Biden Wears Gay Pride Flag As Cape In Viral Parody : Marc Belisle

A popular parody Twitter account of America's Second Lady, Jill Biden, tweeted that 'her' husband, Vice President Joe Biden, was running around the White House, wearing a gay pride flag as a cape.

While many of the parody account's followers realized that this was a joke, the tweet began going viral, racking up tens of thousands of retweets. Some commenters may not have gotten the joke, and some wanted a picture.

A tweeter who goes by Darth!, and who apparently has mad Photoshop skills, responded with an image of what the Vice President, decked out as a frolicking gay Superman, would in fact look like. And it is glorious.                                                             https://twitter.com/darth/status/614468582022467584/photo/1                                                                             http://reverbpress.com/discovery/living/entertainment/satire/joe-biden-wears-gay-pride-flag-cape-viral-parody/

Korea’s Struggling Gay Movement Celebrates #LoveWins #동성결혼 :Marc;Belisle

Today's ruling by the Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states will reverberate socially and politically not only across America, but across planet Earth. This was evident on Twitter, especially from Tweets coming out of South Korea. The Korean phrase 동성결혼 , "gay marriage," was among the highest trending phrases in the world on Twitter, even hours after the decision. Most of the tweets celebrated or expressed awe.

Today's ruling must seem like a beacon of hope to activists struggling from the underground in Seoul. While an American court ruled that gays are universally allowed to marry Friday, earlier this month a Korean court ruled that gays are allowed to have a parade. This was seen as a huge victory. Conservative Christian groups in South Korea threatened to attack the parade-goers, and Seoul police sought to ban the parade. They said it was too dangerous. But the gay activists won their first skirmish... Korea is having its Stonewall moment.

The Stonewall riots of 1969 were the first step in the American gay community's long, arduous journey toward public acceptance and equality. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village was one of the few places where the gay community could congregate in some semblance of openness. The establishment was raided by police, but those there drew a line in the sand and fought back. And here we are today, 46 years later.

Something similar is happening in Korea. The gay community has a vibrant underground life in Seoul, but it is very hush-hush. I lived in South Korea for four years teaching English, and I encountered Koreans, especially outside of the cities, who would insist that there were no gays in the country. The subject rarely came up, but when it did, it seemed to make the skin crawl on mainstream society.

Korea was originally a Buddhist country, but today, it is nearly 30% Christian evangelists. It is the second most Christian country in Asia — after the Philippines — and the second most Protestant evangelist country in the world outside of the United States. The Christians can be quite aggressive. As a white American man living in Korea, evangelists would often assume that I was an active Christian, and they would occasionally chase me down the street, waving pamphlets in my face, trying to convince me to join their church.

The Buddhists are infinitely more low key about their religion. Two consecutive Christian presidents who, like George W. Bush, pandered heavily to the evangelists for political power, have given them an outsized influence. The growing gay movement is something of a chicken and egg relationship. As the evangelists have grown more vocal, the gay movement has begun to fight back, and vice versa.                                                   http://reverbpress.com/world/struggling-gay-movement-side-world-celebrates-lovewins/

Today in History

Today is Saturday, June 27, the 178th day of 2015. There are 187 days left in the year.
June 27, 1955
Illinois enacted the nation's first automobile seat belt law. (The law did not require cars to have seat belts, but that they be made seat belt-ready.)
1787
English historian Edward Gibbon completed work on his six-volume work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
1844
Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
1864
Confederate forces repelled a frontal assault by Union troops in the Civil War Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia.
1905
the Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago.
1922
the first Newberry Medal, recognizing excellence in children's literature, was awarded to "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik Willem van Loon.
1944
during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.
1957
more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
1963
President John F. Kennedy spent the first full day of a visit to Ireland, the land of his ancestors, stopping by the County Wexford home of his great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, who'd emigrated to America in 1848.
1974
President Richard Nixon opened an official visit to the Soviet Union.
1985
the legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, passed into history as officials decertified the road.
1990
NASA announced that a flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was preventing the instrument from achieving optimum focus. (The problem was traced to a mirror that had not been ground to exact specifications; corrective optics were later installed to fix the problem.)
1995
Jodi Huisentruit, 27, an anchorwoman for KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa, mysteriously disappeared; her fate has never been determined.
Ten years ago:
The Supreme Court ruled, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, that displaying the Ten Commandments on government property was constitutionally permissible in some cases but not in others. BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to ten murders that had spread fear across Wichita, Kansas, beginning in the 1970s. (Rader later received multiple life sentences.) Wal-Mart heir John Walton died in a plane crash near the Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming; he was 58. Civil War historian Shelby Foote died in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 88.
Five years ago:
Wary of slamming on the stimulus brakes too quickly but shaken by the European debt crisis, world leaders meeting in Canada pledged to reduce government deficits in richer countries in half by 2013, with wiggle room to meet the goal. Pope Benedict XVI lashed out at what he called "deplorable" raids carried out by Belgian police as part of an investigation into priest sex abuse. Cristie Kerr cruised to a 12-stroke victory in the LPGA Championship, closing with a 6-under 66 for a 19-under 269 total.
One year ago:
Over Russian objections, Ukraine's new president, Petro Poroshenko, signed a free-trade agreement binding his country more closely to Western Europe. Leslie Manigat, 83, a prominent figure in the Haitian political establishment whose rule as president was cut short by a military coup in 1988, died in Port-au-Prince. Bobby Womack, 70, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who had influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, died in Los Angeles.
Today's Birthdays:
Business executive Ross Perot is 85. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is 77. Singer-musician Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) is 73. Fashion designer Vera Wang is 66. Actress Julia Duffy is 64. Actress Isabelle Adjani is 60. Country singer Lorrie Morgan is 56. Actor Brian Drillinger is 55. Writer-producer-director J.J. Abrams is 49. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., is 47. Olympic gold and bronze medal figure skater Viktor Petrenko is 46. Actor Edward "Grapevine" Fordham Jr. is 45. TV personality Jo Frost is 45. Actor Yancey Arias is 44. Actor Christian Kane is 41. Actor Tobey Maguire is 40. Rock singer Bernhoft is 39. Gospel singer Leigh Nash is 39. Musician Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) is 33. Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian (kar-DASH'-ee-uhn) is 31. Actor Drake Bell is 29. Actor Sam Claflin (Film: "The Hunger Games") is 29. Actor Ed Westwick is 28. Actress Madylin Sweeten is 24. Pop singer Lauren Jauregui (Fifth Harmony) (TV: "The X Factor") is 19. Actor Chandler Riggs is 16.
Thought for Today:
"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything — or nothing." — Viscountess Nancy Astor, American-born British politician (1879-1964).

Criminal Shoots Cop – Friend Defends Action saying “He ain’t do no Wrong – He just Shot a Cop” : By Onan Coca

I can't even...

This is the sickness that has developed in our culture – a man shoots a police officer in cold blood and a friend of his defends him to the media by saying, "Because to me he ain't do no wrong — he just shot a cop. And then everybody comes around when they shoot a cop. But when the cop shoots people, do they come around?"      http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/24/friend-of-man-who-shot-detective-says-he-didnt-do-anything-wrong-he-just-shot-a-cop-video/

Our upset over modern understanding of overly aggressive police officers has reached a fever pitch, and it is leading us down a dangerous road. Baltimore is a good example of the dangers of neutering a police force by blaming them for all of society's ills. Crime in Baltimore has skyrocketed since the death of Freddie Gray some months ago, and there doesn't seem to be any easy fix on the horizon.

I sympathize with the argument that our police officers have grown (generally) more aggressive in recent years and perhaps our local police have even gone too far in militarizing... but our cultures' response has swung too far in the opposite direction. Our heroic police officers are now looked upon dubiously, and in some cases, even derisively. Good police officers are no longer given the benefit of the doubt by the media and those on the Left. All too often our police officers are treated as if they were the criminals instead of as the protectors most of them truly are.

No example of this rings truer than the words of Stephanie King on Milwaukee's local news station WISN earlier this week.

"I'm going to keep loving him. Because to me he ain't do no wrong — he just shot a cop. And then everybody comes around when they shoot a cop. But when the cop shoots people, do they come around?"

What do you think?                                                                                                               http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/24/friend-of-man-who-shot-detective-says-he-didnt-do-anything-wrong-he-just-shot-a-cop-video/

President Obama Continues to Sabotage Race Relations in America : By Gary Fouse

This week, we were once again treated to an example of President Obama's negative contribution to race relations in this country. During an interview with Marc Maron, Obama used the n-word and said that racism was part of our DNA.

It is not the use of the n-word that I object to though I maintain that the word should have disappeared from our lexicon by now except for its embrace by rap artists and other blacks who have incorporated it into their street language. Obama, for his part, used it in the proper context.

I do object, however, to his saying that racism is part of our DNA. He should have saved those words for Jeremiah Wright, in whose church he sat for 20 years. The President's words are a slap in the face of a nation whose people have worked hard for 60 years or so to transform a nation whose institutions were, in fact, racist so dramatically. They were a slap in the face of the good citizens of Charleston, who came together so positively after the horrific slayings of last week.

Even those who voted against Obama in 2008 had hoped that his election might turn a page in our sad racial history. Instead, this man and his minions-people like Eric Holder- have taken us back decades to a place we thought we would never see again. Now too many of us, black and white, are looking at each other with suspicion and blaming each other for Ferguson, Baltimore, and other places that have seen tragic events unfold.

http://eaglerising.com/20154/president-obama-continues-to-sabotage-race-relations-in-america/#YrI6VTDmk0TmX2pm.99

Re: Ben Carson Had a Mic-Dropping Response To An Atheist Who Denigrated His Belief in God

Excellent! Thanks for a good laugh.