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Trouble in Leftyville?

From time to time I like to check out the websites and blogs of organizations that battle IFI in our efforts to make the Hoosier state an even better place to live, work and raise a family.  This time I came across a post by Bil Browning over at The Bilerico Project.  Many of our VR readers will remember that The Bilerico Project is a left-wing gay activist blog housed in Indianapolis. 

It looks like there is a rift developing between a few factions within the gay rights movement here in Indianapolis.  Bil calls out Indiana Equality (the lobbying arm of the militant gay activist community) for letting IFI get the scoop on them regarding the Marriage Amendment's reintroduction in the Special Session of the Indiana General Assembly.  One commenter even slammed IE's lobbyist, Mark St. John, and called for new leadership. 

IFI Banquet June 11th!

 

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When:  Thursday, June 11
Where:  The Fountains, 502 East Carmel Drive, Carmel 
What time:  6:30pm doors open, 7pm dinner 
How much:  $50 per person

Moody Radio is like family to its loyal listeners—it’s more than just a  radio station!  Help us honor Moody Radio with our “Friend of the Family Award” this year. WGNR 97.9 is where we turn for life—for teaching, music and most of all hope!

Meet Moody Radio WGNR station manager Ray Hashley, on-air personalities
Kelli Thompson, Linda Yeager, Kirk Hayman and Tom Winn and enjoy our live auction with auctioneer and State Senator Dennis Kruse!  

We’ll also tell you more about the many pro-family, pro-life, pro-faith activities of the Indiana Family Institute. 

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White House Issues LGBT Pride Proclamation

Some people will get really mad about this and rightly so.  It mainly saddens me.  The Alliance Defense Fund has on their website the proclamation below.  It seems that it is not on the White House website, but is on 365gay.com (go figure). 

The President of the United States of America, a country God has blessed perhaps more than any in the history of mankind because of the Biblical principles that make up her foundation, is now issuing a proclamation declaring June 2009 "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month."  How sad.  President Obama may as well have proclaimed June "Give into your temptations month."

It seems to me that many "straight" people who support things like this really don't care about LGBT identified people at all.  The topic just makes them uncomfortable and they don't want to feel the wrath of the highly active and in-your-face activist groups, so they say the politically correct thing and move on.  However, if these "straight" people, and the President, really cared for self-described lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered citizens and those who love them, they would promote life changing counseling to help them confront and defeat their temptations.

Exodus International is the largest information and referral ministry in the world addressing homosexual issues.  They work with a network of counseling ministries worldwide to help LGBT identified individuals deal with the difficult issues that are pushing them into alternative sexual lifestyles.  Love Won Out also has great resources for people who want to resist and defeat sexual temptation in their lives.  Thousands have sought help and gained control over their temptations. 

From a President who proclaimed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ during the campaign, this new proclamation stands in stark contrast to the first.  Our Lord and Savior came to set the captives free from their sins...not mire them further into temptation. 

Politics too messy for Christians?...San Diego Pastor might have a different opinion.

Fox News is reporting that San Diego, California Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.  According to the report:

"On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county." David Jones told FOX News.

"We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all," Jones said.

A few days later, the couple received a written warning that cited "unlawful use of land," ordering them to either "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit," the couple's attorney Dean Broyles told San Diego news station 10News.

But the major use permit could cost the Jones' thousands of dollars just to have a few friends over.

If spiritually mature Believers were on that San Diego County Council would this even be an issue?  Of course not.  The problem is that too many of us believe that politics is too divisive for us.  We have been tricked into believing that if we really want to serve God we need only involve ourselves with certain "sacred" things like serving our local church, taking a mission trip or working at a soup kitchen.  Those outlets for service are great, but we must not limit the body of Christ to those alone. 

The institutions that are the darkest need Believers to shine the Light of Christ all the more.  Christ did not come for the healthy.  He came to redeem the sick...including sick institutions.  The more spiritually mature Believers take on the call to public service the more citizens will be able to enjoy a quite and peaceable life. 

Will Sonia Sotomayor Shift the Court to the Left?...continued

Many within the mainstream media are falling all over themselves to highlight the compelling personal history of President Obama's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor.  As nice as this might be, the real question that should be asked of any nominee is what sort of judicial philosophy will they implement once they are confirmed and on the bench...for life?  A new website:  http://aboutsoniasotomayor.com/  has some interesting thoughts on the question.   

It seems that Sotomayor is clearly comfortable with legislating from the bench.   Regardless of the ideology, that model of judicial philosophy is flawed and dangerous to the separation of powers.  We need judges who will cling to the William Blackstone model of judicial restraint rather than the "living breathing document" model that the ivy league law schools have shackled us with over the last several decades. 

Anti-Christian Bias and the Federal Hate Crimes Bill

Coral Ridge ministries has a great video up on youtube explaining the dangers of the Federal Hate Crimes bill.  Check it out:

President Obama Attempts to Move Supreme Court to the Left

Karl Rove had some very interesting comments about Sonia Sotomayor as soon as it was announced that Justice Souter was retiring.  It looks like President Obama has stepped over the "dividing line" that Rove mentions into the land of the ulta-liberal.  Many will try and sell this nomination as the status quo...replacing a "moderate" with a "moderate."  However, this pick is actually replacing a liberal with an ultra-liberal.  If Judge Sotomayor is approved by the Senate, there should be no doubt that she will move the Supreme Court to the left.

It is dangerous to appoint judges who will hold their personal feelings about a case before them in higher esteem than the original intent of the Constitution.  President Obama has made public statements indicating that he is comfortable with this concept and nominating Sotomayor is living proof.

Who Will Replace David Souter?

Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court has become the final arbiter on many important social issues.  Of course, this wasn't the role the judiciary was designed for.  Rather than deciding whether abortion (for example) should be legal or not, the judiciary was designed to interpret the laws that the legislature creates under the authority of the Constitution and ultimately, God.  However, the modern U.S. Supreme Court has in many cases acted as the legislative body, deciding cases based on the outcomes they desire rather than acting as an impartial referee. 

With the retirement of Justice Souter the Obama administration now has the opportunity to select someone who will either embrace her (it is likely that they will pick a woman) Constitutional role as an impartial referee or dive head first into policy making without having been chose by the people to act as their elected representative. 

The Judicial Confirmation Network seeks to shine light on the potential nominees that the Obama administration is rumored to be considering. 

Check out their new website:  http://www.obamasfrontrunners.com/

Gallup Poll Shows Growing Majority of Americans Oppose Abortion

This gallup poll is a fantastic.  It shows that Americans are more pro-life (51% "pro-life", 42% "pro-choice") than they have been in a long time.  What's even more interesting to me is that those numbers are probably low.  When you take into account that many American's don't even know what "pro-choice" means, the real pro-life number is probably higher still. 

I'd like to do a man on the street interview session sometime and find out how many average citizens (who are not enmeshed in politics) believe that "pro-choice" means something other than allowing someone to pay an abortion doctor to murder an unborn child.  "Pro-choice" is a term that should be used when discussing the topic of where to go out to eat or which school to choose for your child...not whether to kill him or her. 

It's a shame that more moderate to liberal members of both parties have a tendency to see "social issues" as ugly stepchildren...unfit to discuss at their wine and cheese cocktail parties (though, to be fair, liberal Democrats do tend to make up the heart of the pro-abortion movement).  It seems they are growing out of step with the American people.

  

U.N. Undermining U.S. Sovereignty and the Family

IFI, along with many other Family Policy Counsels across the country, is co-releasing a study entitled, "How U.N. Conventions on Women's and Children's Rights Undermine Family, Religion, and Sovereignty" with authors Patrick F. Fagan, William L. Saunders, Michael A. Fragoso of the Family Research Council.  

You can download the study here: Download CEDAW Paper from FRC May 4_2009 - Final. 

This study highlights activities with the United Nations that are undermining American sovereignty, undermining the sovereignty of the family unit and diminishing our ability to live according to the dictates of our faith.

Here are some of the arguments by the other side on this topic and our responses: