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 Liberal "Leaders?"
Is Government God?

Election 2008 Warning:
Beware the Democrats "New Direction for America"

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.” Thomas Jefferson

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."  Thomas Jefferson (letter to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802)

“A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” Frank Dane

PatriotPost.us Quote Archive -  "It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice." -- John Adams (letter to Count Sarsfield, 3 February 1786) Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, 264.

“The spendthrifts who mangled America with the nightmare of double-digit inflation, record interest rates, unfair tax increases, too much regulation, credit controls, farm embargoes, gas lines, no-growth at home, weakness abroad, and phony excuses about ‘malaise’ are the last people who should be giving sermonettes about fairness and compassion... Believe me, you cannot create a desert, hand a person a cup of water, and call that compassion. You cannot pour billions of dollars into make-work jobs while destroying the economy that supports them and call that opportunity. And you cannot build up years of dependence on government and dare call that hope.” —Ronald Reagan

A challenge for liberals

Liberals, Democrats, and those who vote for Democrats, and those who promote rewriting history to obliterate America's Judeo-Christian heritage from public schools, "higher" education, and the very fabric of society, instead promote a new American way of life based upon an unnatural family structure that violates "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." It is apparent that these in the anti-virtue and "anti-war" crowd not only ignore history to their doom, but it also reveals a seemingly lack of intelligence as though they have blinders on when confronted with opposing views. When asked a specific question or when provided with facts highlighting the consequences of their words and action, the response almost always avoids the question and instead, in generalities and sound bites attempt to refocus the blame onto conservatives. Try it. Ask a liberal to answer a specific question, like: What is the foundation for "unalienable Rights" being "entitled," or what is their basis for how "civil" rights are defined? If they happen to mention values and morals, have them also provide how they derive at their definition of morals and values? What is their source of reasoning?

"Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect." James Madison (letter to Jacob de la Motta, August  1820)  Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, pg. 333

"The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects."  From: "Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States" (1840) by Joseph Story, Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, A founder of the Harvard Law School.

Called the "Chief Architect of the Constitution," he wrote many of the Federalist Papers, which helped convince States to ratify the Constitution. He introduced the First Amendment in the first session of Congress. This was James Madison, born MARCH 16, 1751. During the War of 1812, he proclaimed two National Days of Prayer, 1812 and 1813. When the British marched on Washington, D.C., citizens evacuated, along with President and Dolly Madison. As the British burned the Capitol, White House, and public buildings, August 25, 1814, dark clouds rolled in and a tornado sent debris flying, blew off roofs and knocked over chimneys on the British. Two cannons lifted off the ground and dropped yards away. A British historian wrote "More British soldiers were killed by this stroke of nature than from all the firearms the American troops had mustered." British fled the city and rains extinguished the fires. Madison then proclaimed a National Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting & Prayer to Almighty God, November 16, 1814. Two weeks after the War ended, Madison proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving & Devout Acknowledgement to Almighty God, March 4, 1815. American Minute for March 16th

More Challenges

"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." Thomas Jefferson

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time;  they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure and which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." U.S. Senator Charles Carroll 1800. He was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence

Yet, socialists, masked as liberal Democrats, are undermining "endowed by their Creator" with a Big Lie and replacing liberty from the Creator with "liberty" from Big Government, or worse, the United Nations.

As the 2008 elections approach, listen carefully to the "morals and values" of the Democratic candidates, and who is supporting them.

The more liberals speak, the more votes they loose. See The Pew study, "Religion & Public Life: A Faith-Based Partisan Divide," Polling data continues to show that people committed to their faith are abandoning the Democratic Party in historic numbers.

“There are only two places where socialism can work; Heaven, where it is not needed, and Hell, where they already have it.” Winston Churchill

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?” Thomas Jefferson

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery ... Jonathan Swift

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." James Madison (Federalist No. 51, 8 February 1788) Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 51.

See these archived pages also: Senator John Kerry - Senator Edward Kennedy - Senator Patrick Leahy - Nancy Pelosi - Barry Lynn - Kevin Jennings - George Soros

Concerning Hillary Clinton see: www.hillcap.org and www.peterfpaul.com for an update on Peter Pauls's progress with US Justice Fdn to expose and stop Hillary before its too late and StopHerNow.com

Questions for Democrats: Are Judeo-Christian parents bigots when they take a stand against teaching our children that homosexuality is "normal," when the Scriptures those parents believe in tell us it is an abomination to God and "goes against nature?" Are "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," the basis for "unalienable Rights" being "entitled?"

Will liberals continue to attempt to compromise the ballot box and voting privileges, and use judges willing to be part of a despotic branch in their effort to transform America from One Nation Under God, into a "progressive" One More Nation Under the United Nations? Do liberals want to change a government of the people, by the people, for the people, to a government of an unelected Security Council, by the Security Council, for the Security Council?

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
Thomas Reed 1886

Are liberals trying to hijack Christianity?

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Titus 1:15-16

Click here to determine if are you a Ted Kennedy "mainstream" American?
Click here for how the Republican Unity Coalition (RUC) and Grover Norquist have "united" not with Republicans, but with liberal Democrats.

A challenge for liberals

Those that support and vote for Democrats are those that have drastically distorted two phrases from two different American leaders: 1. Thomas Jefferson's "separation of church and state" in which he was expressing to the Baptists that the government would not breach the free exercise thereof. Yet those on the left spins this fact on its head and attributes it only to theocracy, which was obviously protected as well. 2. John F. Kennedy's "ask not what your country can do for you." Here, those on the left, today want exactly the opposite, a socialist tax payer funded cradle-to-grave-nanny-state.

Liberals, Democrats, and those who vote for Democrats, and those who promote rewriting history to obliterate America's Judeo-Christian heritage from public schools, "higher" education, and the very fabric of society, instead promote a new American way of life based upon an unnatural family structure that violates "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." It is apparent that these in the anti-virtue and "anti-war" crowd not only ignore history to their doom, but it also reveals a seemingly lack of intelligence as though they have blinders on when confronted with opposing views. When asked a specific question or when provided with facts highlighting the consequences of their words and action, the response almost always avoids the question and instead, in generalities and sound bites attempt to refocus the blame onto conservatives. Try it. Ask a liberal to answer a specific question, like: What is the foundation for "unalienable Rights" being "entitled," or what is their basis for how "civil" rights are defined? If they happen to mention values and morals, have them also provide how they derive at their definition of morals and values? What is their source of reasoning?

See for yourself if Catholics Democrats address these virtues and  define "values and morality?"

President Truman told the Attorney General's Conference, 1950: "The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings...of Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days." (Endnotes at www.AmericanMinute.com)

"By their fruits ye shall know them"  Matthew 7:15-27

Blatant hypocrisy on the Iraq war. Video of liberals on Iraq before the war. (See also the archived page on WMDs. for more on the liberal hypocrisy.)

Proclamation by the Continental Congress, 16 March 1776: "In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by secret machinations and open assaults...it becomes the indispensable duty of [Patriots], with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publicly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God...that we may...through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness; humbly imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enemies...that it may please the Lord of Hosts, the God of Armies, to animate our officers and soldiers with invincible fortitude, to guard and protect them in the day of battle...."

Do Democrats believe liberty comes from God or Government? Listen carefully as Democrats try to persuade voters they have values and morals in their attempt to regain control of the White House and Congress. Liberals refer to morals and values when discussing taxes, economy, Social Security, but not abortion or same-sex unions. And, where is their morality and their values as children of faith-based parents are subjected and indoctrinated by a curriculum teaching what goes against nature is "normal?"

Liberals continue to distort the biblical view, and redefine "morality, values, diversity, tolerance, discrimination, and hate crimes" because they are getting away with it. They call faith-based parents bigots, because the morals and values of faith-based parents are Biblically founded. It is as Jesus stated: "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather that light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest their deeds should be reproved." John 3:19-20

Some secularists and even faith-based liberals, have been quick to accuse faith-based conservatives of judging others when facts, agendas, legislation, and court decisions are being made which support immorality and are less than virtuous. EarsToHear.net knows "no man after the flesh" (2 Corinthians 5:16), not even Christians, and appeals directly to each person's spirit, irregardless that the visitor may be unaware that man is primarily a spirit, who has a soul, and lives in a temporary body. (See "Trinity" for more on this.) Liberals who consider this to be judging one another, confuse judgment with observation and Christians called to be the "salt of the earth" and the "Light of the World." Matthew 5:13-16 (See Judging vs. Reproving)

"...where there is no religion, there will be no morals." Benjamin Rush, speech in Pennsylvania ratifying convention, December 12, 1787, Merrill Jensen, ed., Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, vol. 2: Ratification of the Constitution by States: Pennsylvania (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976), p. 595.

Referring to the Kelo vs. New London, Connecticut eminent domain decision by the Supreme Court which expanded the government's power, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi said, "This is almost as if God has spoken. They have made the decision."

"Democrats have not had a very good run recently in the popularly elected branches. Since choosing the wrong side of the counterculture wars of the 1960s, they have won only three of the last 10 presidential elections. A decade ago they lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years, and now have lost all the elected branches. They are in a panic that they will lose their one remaining ability to legislate -- through the courts." Charles Krauthammer

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-PRSF, offered a peek at the Democrat Party's election-year agenda at a gathering this past week. While their actual goal appears to be the censure or impeachment of President Bush, the Democrats still maintain they have a concrete plan for leading the nation. It reads like a socialist manifesto. Among other things, all employees in America would be given the option to unionize, the minimum wage would be increased while simultaneously raising taxes on upper-income Americans, and there would be a coordinated attack on the salaries of executive-suite personnel. Pelosi also guaranteed universal broadband deployment in five years, "energy independence" in ten years, health care for all Americans in five years, and "100 percent screening of our containers that come into our ports." Mind you, there is no explanation for how all this might be accomplished, but if this agenda were ever to come to pass, it would surely cripple our economy and drive our deficits into the stratosphere. PatriotPost.us 06-11 Digest

“History, by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.” Thomas Jefferson

Is this not the agenda the liberals want to achieve? Yet still claim to be Scriptural with "morals and values?" And, they want liberal Senators to filibuster any judicial nominee who will not support this agenda.

1. Approval of homosexual marriage and teaching our children that it is "normal," while not informing parents about these "lessons," defending NAMBLA's rights to teach how to abduct and sodomize,
2. Legalizing euthanasia
3. Banning prayer in school
4. Banning the public display of the Ten Commandments
5. Banning the Pledge of Allegiance
6. Basing our laws on the laws of other nations
7. Maintaining abortion on demand
8. Forcing the Boy Scouts and similar organizations (including churches) to place homosexuals in positions of leadership
9. Complete protection for all kinds of pornography
10. Creating hate crimes laws to punish those who believe homosexuality is wrong
11. Denigrating Christianity to a secondary status
12. Making secularism the only legitimate religion

Consider the organizations and people which support liberal Democrats:

• Labor Union Bosses who collect forced union dues to fund Democratic campaigns

• National Education Association and liberal professors which have already changed public and higher education into indoctrination,  removing the true America's Christian Heritage from the classroom and allowing GLSEN to spew forth its distorted unbiblical view of "morality, values, diversity, tolerance," and thus "discrimination."

• Pro-death abortion industry which has successfully been a part of killing over 45 million babies since 1973.

• Anti-Christian Organizations such as the ACLU, American United for Separation of Church and State, NOW, etc.

• Hollywood liberal elites

• Liberally biased "mainstream News Media (CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, NY/LA Times, Boston Globe, etc.)

• Michael Moore

• Michael Newdow

• Memo to thoughtful black Americans: The Republican Party is the party of Colin Powell, Condi Rice, and Rod Paige; the Democrat Party is the party of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Maxine Waters.) The Federalist Brief 04-05

"Special interest groups today have a virtual stranglehold on the Democrat Party. The party of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy has strayed so far from its roots, that in order to win the party's presidential nomination in the 21st century, a Democrat candidate must sell his soul to the labor unions, the abortionists, the trial lawyers, the radical environmentalists, and the gay rights activists. Together, these groups provide the money and the foot soldiers for every major candidate running under the Democrat banner. Buck any one of them, and the sledding gets extremely rough. Buck any two of them and you are dead meat. If John F. Kennedy... was alive today and held to the positions he had when he was that party's presidential candidate in the 1960s, he would not stand a snowball's chance of winning the Democrat nomination. He would have to run as a Republican. That's how far left the Democrat Party has shifted over the past 40 years... Democrats have sold their souls for campaign money." --Bill Sizemore -- The Federalist Brief 04-21

The liberal definition of values as Robert Reich declared on The O'Reilly Factor (11/08/2004),  is "doing what is right" for the economy, jobs, health care, etc. But isn't their foundation based upon their own reasoning and the progress socialism they embrace? This opposed to Christians who base all decisions, including Reich's  "core values," on the moral foundations based on Scripture - as did our Founding Fathers.

Howard Dean: "Our moral values, in contradiction to the Republicans', is we don't think kids ought to go to bed hungry at night. Our moral values say that people who work hard all their lives ought to be able to retire with dignity. Our moral values say that we ought to have a strong, free public education system so that we can level the playing field. Our moral values say that what's going on in Indian country in this country right now in terms of health care and education is a disgrace, and for the president of the United States to cut back on health-care services all over America is wrong. Democrats have strong moral values."

Bill Maher captured the basic tenants of liberals when he said:  "I think so much that's wrong with our society stems from religion." And: "If we didn't have religion, there wouldn't be this massive problem with gay people." And: "Jesus is one of the greatest role models I can think of. Its a shame that Christianity has gone so far from the teachings of Jesus. I don't know anyone less Jesus-like than most Christians...And, by the way, the Bible does have wisdom in it, but it is written in parables. It's the idiots today who take it literally."

This opposed to what Thomas Jefferson penned in the Declaration of Independence concerning "unalienable Rights" being "entitled" if they DO NOT violate  "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." And more pointedly, Jefferson said: "A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." AND "[It is] God who gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a Gift of God?"

For the mystery of the one without Torah is already at work: while only He (God) is restraining him at the present time until he would come out from among you. And then the one without Torah will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy by the breath of His mouth and will abolish by the appearance of His coming, whose coming is through the efficiency of the woks of Satan with great power and false signs and wonders and in every unrighteous deception for those who are being destroyed, because they did not accept the love of the truth for them to be saved. And because of this God sends them a working of deception so they would believe a lie, so that all those would be judged who did not believe in the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 (Power New Testament)

The False Claim Concerning a Right-wing Theocracy

Don Feder, a Boston Herald writer and syndicated columnist for 19 years, is president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, or JAACD. He ridiculed the notion that religious Americans want the nation ruled by a theocracy. "It's just absurd," Feder said. "If what the left is talking about constitutes a theocracy, then America was a theocracy in 1961. "American had school prayer, in many states there was Bible reading in the schools, public display of religious symbols, abortion was outlawed except in rare instances, if anyone talked about same-sex marriage they would have been met with derisive laughter," he noted. "I was alive in 1961; if we were a theocracy then, somehow I missed it."

Me, promote theocracy? Hardly! By Steve Voigt - How natural law scholars influenced the Founding Period and why there is a knee-jerk reaction among elites to this simple fact

If liberals are afraid of a Judeo-Christian "theocracy," then why didn't our Christian Founders establish a theocracy? The theocracy they should fear, is that of Islam. However, the "theocracy" fear, is just a front, a deception. What they really fear is liberty defined within the boundaries of morality as "endowed by the Creator," and not by Big Government.

"Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you." 1 John 3:17

"If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the worled, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." John 15:18-19

"They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God: he that knows God hears us. Hereby we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error." 1 John 4:5-6

We all have faith in something by Star Parker (11/16) The 2004 presidential election has been depicted as pitting those of faith against secularists. But this is really inaccurate. ...Many Democratic leaders and pundits are expressing consternation at Republican Party claims that it is the party of values. They claim that Democrats have the moral high ground and that their problem is communication. But check out what they call values: Government-run health care, government-run schools, government-run personal retirement and a politically defined and managed overall sense of social justice. This stuff simply doesn't work, and more and more Americans understand this. The Democratic Party is now perceived, for good reason, like a late-night infomercial selling products that will make you instantaneously rich, thin and beautiful. All that you need is faith that the salesman is telling the truth and a credit card.

House Demo Leader Nancy Pelosi said: "It's not about soul-searching. It may be about how we can educate the American people more clearly on the difference between Democrats and Republicans." --House Demo Leader Nancy Pelosi, sometimes called "San Fran Nan," suggesting the Demo losses are really the people's fault -- for not understanding the marvelous "progressive" utopia Demos are plotting for them. The Federalist Brief 04-44/45

Will Democrats refuse instead to be  "educated by the American people" and distance themselves from the likes of the immoral and socialistic ACLU, AU, Michael Moore, George Soros, Move-On.org, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Hollywood elites, and Labor Union Bosses? Will Christians begin to contact and "educate" their legislators, Democrats and Republicans, on these "foundations" or will Hillary Clinton deceptively run for President in 2008 as a "moderate" and reign as a socialist, if she wins? Will America continue to be a "government by the people, for the people, and of the people," or a government by the "despotic branch," for the liberals, and of the lawyers?

Family Research Council - Washington Update August 31, 2005 - A recent Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll shows that people are seeing the Democrats as more hostile to religion then ever before. Only three-in-ten of the people polled believe that the Democrats are friendly to religion, down over 10 points from last year. The Democratic National Committee is dismissing the recent Pew poll saying that they have already taken steps in hiring religious outreach consultants. While outreach to disaffected communities is important for any political party, the issues that keep voters tied to one party or the other are not so easily answered. People of religious faith tend to follow principle over party and look for shared values in their votes.

A study by Democratic adviser James Carville's consulting group shows that it is "the values, stupid." The Democrats have tied themselves to issues, such as unrestricted abortion or "gay marriage," that are anathema to those of religious faith. Combined with the apparent hostility against judicial nominees who hold "deeply held personal beliefs," the Democratic Party sends a message that those of faith need not apply. No party holds sway over values voters. All the consultants in the world will not help either party unless it takes strong moral stands and holds to them.

Additional Resources
Pew report
Carville study
Poll: Fewer See Dems As Religion- Friendly

Liberals' Use of Words Effective Tool in Promoting Radical Ideologies It's clear that liberals' use of philosophically friendly words has gone a long way in winning over people who may never have entertained liberal ideology in the first place. (Choice, Gay, Fundamentalists, Intolerant, Homophobic, Diversity)

AgapePress News Briefs — August 31, 2005  A new poll shows that efforts by the Democratic Party to attract more of America's religious voters is so far proving to be a failure. In the aftermath of the Democrats' 2004 election loss, party officials have been working to try to find some way to attract the bloc that has become known as the "values voters." But the new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that the campaign is not only not succeeding -- but it may even be backfiring. John Green is a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Center. He notes that, according to the Center's research, "Last summer, about 40 percent of Americans said that they thought the Democratic Party was friendly towards religion, and in our most recent survey it had fallen to 29 percent." And Green says the recent poll also asked people how they felt about creationism being taught in public schools, and once again, the results were unexpected. "Much to our surprise," Green tells Associated Press, "a very large proportion of the population, about two thirds, said, 'Gee, let's teach both. Let's teach something of the creationist perspective but also something from the evolution perspective.'" The poll of 2,000 adults was carried out in the first few weeks of July. [Fred Jackson]

Congressmen Hate Christmas Reprinted from NewsMax.com Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005 5:21 p.m. EST 22

This year's "War for Christmas" – keeping "Christ" in the holiday has apparently been won. And, like many "wars," there has even been a Congressional resolution in support of keeping Christmas alive and well. On December 15 the House of Representatives passed a resolution "protecting the symbols and traditions of Christmas" by an overwhelming 401-22 vote. Representative JoAnn Davis (R-VA), the resolution's sponsor, said the resolution was necessary to counter "political correctness run amok." "No one," she said, "should feel like they have done something wrong by wishing someone a Merry Christmas." Twenty-two Democrats played Scrooge and disagreed. Representative Robert Scott (D-VA) said Republicans were more concerned with the symbolism rather than the substance of Christmas – referring to Republican passage of a bill to slow the rate of growth in federal entitlement programs. Davis lodged a preemptive response to critics who might question the constitutionality of her resolution. "Celebrating Christmas is not a violation of separation of church and state," she said. "The Framers intended that the First Amendment to the Constitution would prohibit the establishment of religion, not prohibit any mention of religion or reference to God in civic dialogue."

The text of the resolution read as follows:

Whereas Christmas is a national holiday celebrated on December 25; and

Whereas the Framers intended that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States would prohibit the establishment of religion, not prohibit any mention of religion or reference to God in civic dialog: Now, therefore be it resolved, that the House of Representatives –

(1) Recognizes the importance of the symbols and traditions of Christmas; (2) Strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas; and (3) Expresses support for the use of these symbols and traditions, for those who celebrate Christmas.

As the Christmas season draws to a close, we thought we would share the names of the 22 Congressman who voted against the pro-Christmas resolution:

Congressman Party-State District

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Gary Ackerman D-NY 5th

Earl Blumenauer D-OR 3rd

Lois Capps D-CA 23rd

Emanuel Cleaver D-MO 5th

Diana DeGette D-CO 1st

Jane Harman D-CA 36th

Alcee Hastings D-FL 23rd

Michael Honda D-CA 15th

Barbara Lee D-CA 9th

John Lewis D-GA 5th

Jim McDermott D-WA 7th

George Miller, George D-CA 7th

Gwen Moore D-WI 4th

James Moran D-VA 8th

Donald Payne D-NJ 10th

Bobby Rush D-IL 1st

Janice Schakowsky D-IL 9th

Bobby Scott D-VA 3rd

Fortney Scott D-CA 13th

Debbie Wasserman Schultz D-FL 20th

Robert Wexler D-FL 19th

Lynn Woolsey D-CA 6th

Sean Rushton, Executive Director of the Committee for Justice

When liberals say . . .

--civil rights, they mean racial quotas and forced busing.
--reproductive rights, they mean underage girls should get abortions without notifying their parents.
--equal pay for women, they mean government bureaucrats determining your pay.
--environmental protection and worker rights, they mean the government has unlimited power to regulate private property and business.
--church-state separation, they mean your town can't display a Menorah or Christmas crèche during the holidays.

“Society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.” --John Adams

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." --John Milton

"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust
must be men of unexceptionable characters." --Samuel Adams

Liberals & The

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

Liberals like Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, and Schumer want to revoke the Second Amendment which would reduce emboldened criminals from being harmed by law abiding gun owning victims. "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them -- Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in -- I would have done it." --Senator Dianne Feinstein on banning guns. "We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!" -- Senator Charles Schumer, NY

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them," warned George Mason.

If criminals are law breakers, why would they obey gun control laws?

"[R]especting the right to keep and bear arms is one of the best ways governments can reduce crime. Conversely, cities where the government imposes gun control have higher crime rates. Far from making people safer, gun control endangers innocent people by increasing the odds that they will be victimized! Gun control also increases the odds that people will lose their lives and liberties to power-hungry government officials. Tyrannical governments throughout the world kill approximately 2,000,000 people annually. Many of these victims of tyranny were first disarmed by their governments. ... I would remind my colleagues that policies prohibiting the private ownership of firearms were strongly supported by tyrants such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung." Rep. Ron Paul

"It is a basic principle of a tyrant to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power." Sir Walter Raleigh

"A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust." James Madison, Federalist Papers

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes ...such laws serve rather to encourage than to prev homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson 'Commonplace Book' 1775  

“The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” Samuel Adams

Justice Joseph Story, appointed to the Supreme Court by our Constitution’s principal author, James Madison, wrote in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”

Communism Morphed to Socialism and Still Targets America By Jan Ireland July 16, 2004 - (Excerpt) It is time to look again at some of the communist goals: - Capture one or both of the political parties in the US. - Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights. - Infiltrate the press. - Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures. - Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."  - Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." - Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." - Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." - Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one world government, with its own independent armed forces. - Those are 9 of the 45. Americans must realize that communism has morphed to socialism, and it still is targeting America. Subsequent articles will address the progress of additional goals.