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Upfront - Therefore, the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore, justice comes out perverted. Habakkuk 1:4

This Special Edition eNewsletter is also being sent to my Massachusetts State Senator Robert Antonioni and State Representative Stephen DiNatale, as well as Senate Leader Therese Murray, and Speaker Salvatore DiMasi. 

All four voted against democracy by disallowing their constituents a vote on God's Divine "natural" design of marriage. I believe that the 151 legislators, (including the 12 pro-family representatives who were coerced by Governor Deval Patrick and others into switching their previous votes), are well aware that the popular vote would have revoked the mandate of the Massachusetts' despotic branch of same-sex marriage, a mandate that results in violating "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." This abuse of democracy blatantly proves it is necessary for "legislators" to use judges over a popular vote of "we the people." In this way they do their bidding of promoting a God-less society of secular liberal humanism.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is now the Oligarchy of Massachusetts. By rejecting the initiative petition of over 170,000 voters, the most ever collected, "We the people" no longer have a say in our government, which is now of, by, and for minorities. It is no longer a democratic process of majority rules, but that of a despotic branch where selective compliance is used as an extended arm of extreme rule of liberals, an abuse to obtain absolute power which is exercised unjustly and cruelly producing an autocracy, dictatorship, totalitarianism, tyranny form of government.

"The impious presumption of legislators ... being themselves but fallible ... have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others. ... Thomas Jefferson (See William J. Federer's complete message below, Jefferson hated "hate crimes" legislation.)

Massachusetts Lawmakers Betray Constituents on "Same-Sex Marriage", J. Matt Barber (TheConservativeVoice.com) Now members of the liberal Massachusetts state legislature have surrendered to the demands of the radical homosexual lobby and have betrayed their own constituents and the democratic process by precluding them from weighing in on this crucial issue.

State lawmakers coerced into derailing marriage amendment, says Mass. activist (OneNewsNow.com) A Massachusetts pro-family leader says homosexual activists "brought in the big guns" to lobby enough state representatives to prevent citizens from voting on a marriage amendment. ...Brian Camenker, director of the pro-family group Mass Resistance, says he finds it "bizarre and insane" that more than three-quarters of the Massachusetts legislature wants homosexual "marriage." That includes, he says, a group of traditionally conservative state representatives who he says were pressured into voting against the amendment.

Networks Ignore Crushing of Marriage Vote in Massachusetts The media elite don�t want the American people to know that liberals refuse to let the people vote on this crucial issue. By Robert Knight (Culture and Media Institute) On a pivotal social issue, the people will have no voice in the People�s Republic of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Legislature, meeting as a Constitutional Convention, permitted no debate yesterday and then quickly voted to deny the public the right to decide whether same-sex couples should be permitted to �marry� in the state.

Secular liberal humanist have experienced success through the blessings of a willing alliance of the "mainstream" media in falsely decrying Judeo-Christians as bigots, exactly as Peter said they would, "speaking evil of you," and "wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them." Why strange, because Judeo-Christians subscribe to the Word of God and not the Politically Correct Dictionary where words like discrimination, hate, bigotry, tolerance, diversity, values, and even morality have been redefined to justify their love of darkness and exclude and target those who adhere to a Biblical worldview.

Their deceit is made worse by refusing to proclaim that the lifestyle they are promoting, and have now made legal, is a prominent factor in the health risk of aids.

Democracy without God is man's worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice. Myles Munroe Kingdom Principles

Selected Scriptures for Christians who are politicians to contemplate:

1 Peter 4:1-6: Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

John 3:20-21: And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Special message to Judeo-Christians who honor their Lord, especially politicians: See Hot or Cold?  

2 Peter 2 (Power New Testament): But false prophets were also among the people, as even false teachers will be among you, who will bring destruction by their opinions, even denying the Master, the One Who has purchased them. Although they quickly bring destruction on themselves, many will then follow in their unbridled lusts, because of which the way of the truth will be blasphemed (their immoral behavior will bring shame), and they will use you for their gain with made up messages in their greedy desire to have more, for whom the judgment has for a long time not been idle and their destruction is on its way.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but, after He held them in the pits of darkness in Tartarus, He gave them over, guarding them until judgment. Nor did He spare the ancient world, but when He brought a flood on an ungodly world He guarder Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others. Again with the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, when He reduced them to ashes in destruction He condemned them as He made them an example for those who were going to be ungodly, and He rescued righteous Lot, when he was tormented by the way of life of the lawless in sensuality: for that righteous man, as he lived among them day after day, was tormented, a righteous being, in seeing and hearing unrighteous works, (intentional sin): the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep unjust ones (who sin with the intention of angering God) for a day of judgment when they will be punished, and the most punished of all will be those who go after defiling lust and despise authority.

Daring, arrogant they do not tremble at the glorious angelic beings, blaspheming even angels, whereupon angels, although they are greater in strength and power, do not bear blasphemous judgment from the Lord against them. But these who have been born to be captured and killed as irrational animals, when they revile things in which they are ignorant, they will be destroyed in their corruption suffering hurt as the reward of unrighteousness.

They are thinking of pleasure, reveling by day, spots and blemishes carousing in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you, having eyes full of adulterous and unceasing sins, having covetousness, people worthy of a curse: they were deceived when they left the right way behind, and followed in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of his wickedness but he was rebuked for his own evil doing: a dumb beast that spoke in a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

These men are waterless wells, and miss being driven by hurricanes, in which the gloom of darkness has been kept. For speaking haughty emptiness, they lure those just now escaping, with licentious desires of flesh, those who live in error, promising freedom to them, while they are slaves beginning with their corruption: for in this he has been enslaved to whatever he had succumbed. For if, after escaping the defilement of the world, with knowledge of our Lor and Savior Jesus Messiah, and again entangling with these who are defeated, their last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would be better fro them not to have known the way of righteousness than if they had known, to turn back from the holy commandment after it was delivered to them. The true proverb happened to them, "As a dog returned to its own vomit," and "After a hog was washed, it was wallowing in mud."

Matthew 5:13-16: You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Luke 6:46: And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Take Action - (Alerts, Action, Petitions)

Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) - (VoteOnMarriage.org) Though we were denied the victory yesterday, there were forty-five courageous legislators who stood by their convictions and voted to let the people vote on marriage. These heroic representatives and senators repelled the unprecedented pressure placed upon them by Deval Patrick, Therese Murray and Salvatore DiMasi and stood by their previous pledges to support the Marriage Amendment. These brave legislators need our thanks today! Please call, email and write each of these legislators to thank them. CLICK HERE for the contact information for the 45 legislators. We encourage you to call, email and write to each of these legislators thanking them for their courage and their strength of conviction. A handwritten thank you note would be the most personal way to thank them.

Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is urging all members, activists, and friends to call their Senators and urge them to vote NO ON BOTH CLOTURE VOTES. Please tell them that A VOTE FOR CLOTURE IS A VOTE FOR AMNESTY!!!!! Please let your Senators know that the American people want the enforcement of our laws-not guest worker programs and not amnesty. If you can, please visit the district offices of your Senators and Representatives and tell them the same in person or leave a hand-written note, so they know that the message is coming from a real constituent, not a special-interest group. To find the phone numbers of your Senators, click here.

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Sign Petition to Congress A bill now before Congress (H.R. 1592 / S. 1105) would criminalize negative comments concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a �hate crime� punishable by a hefty fine and time in prison. This dangerous legislation would take away our freedom of speech and our freedom of religion. For a summary of this bill prepared by Alliance Defense Fund, click here.

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Declaration of American Renewal Alan Keyes - Your call to action is compelling! Please sign the pledge demanding that America's leaders honor and be held accountable to the moral principles bought forth in the Declaration of Independence, as our Founders envisioned.

Send a message to your "representatives" in Congress - Right now Congress is working to impose extreme new mileage regulations on auto manufacturers. This misguided legislation will have strong and long-lasting negative consequences on consumers like you. Studies have shown that the new regulations will:

• Reduce power, utility and speed of work vehicles, especially pickup trucks
• Increase the cost of new vehicles by thousands of dollars
• Endanger countless American lives on the highway
• Lead to the loss of thousands of manufacturing jobs in this country

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Please Contact Congress today and urge your Representative to keep your tax dollars away from international abortionists! (Susan B. Anthony List - www.sba-list.org)  Congress to Restore Overseas Abortion Funding Under "Family Planning" Ruse Pro-abortion legislators have stepped up their efforts to reinstate funding for abortion providers overseas.  Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) sponsored an amendment this week to undermine the Mexico City Policy, which currently prevents taxpayer funding of overseas abortion providers through USAID programs.

Same-sex Relationships - (Same-sex Marriage)

Education - (Education or Indoctrination? - Education Resources)

School Board Finds 'Gay Gene' (ChristianNewswire.com) Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays PFOX released this statement in response to the Montgomery County School Board's approval of a new sex education curriculum for public schools: "According to the American Psychiatric Association, there are no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological cause for homosexuality. But now the Montgomery County Board of Education has done what science and medicine could not do by declaring in its newly approved curriculum that homosexuality is "innate" or inborn. The board could not produce any factual evidence for what it will now teach students -- only political "pledges" and payoffs for last year's school board elections as claimed by gay rights activists.

"Hate" Crimes?  (Selective Compliance)

US Dept of Justice Training Uses Christian Ministry as 'Hate Group' Example - See: Repent America Decries U.S. Justice Department's Dangerous Anti-Christian Presentation (MinuteMesUnited.org) and Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance from the US Department of Justice web site.

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Jefferson hated 'hate crime' legislation By William Federer (ElijahMin.com) 

The legislative powers of government reach to actions only, not to opinions." � Thomas Jefferson, "Separation of church and state" letter, Jan. 1, 1802" "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." � Thomas Jefferson, to Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800

Inasmuch as no one, except perhaps Islamic terrorists, advocates injuring innocent people, the question has to be raised: "Is 'hate crime' legislation about preventing crime, or is it designed to promote the homosexual agenda by silencing opposing viewpoints?" The current wording of "hate crime" legislation actually commits a hate crime against those who "think" differently than the State. Jefferson was against this, as Europe, at the time America was founded, had established: "Whatever the king believed the kingdom had to believe." Not wanting government to dictate their beliefs was a major reason why religious refugees fled to America. England established Anglican beliefs, passing the Oath of Supremacy in 1559 and the Test Act in 1673, which barred all nonconformist Protestants and Catholics from holding public office. Today's radical left is establishing a new State-authorized belief, a new Oath of Supremacy, a new Test Act.

On June 29, 2004, Sweden arrested 63-year-old Pastor Ake Green for reading Bible verses at church. The prosecuting attorney stated: "One may have whatever religion one wishes, but this is an attack on all fronts against homosexuals. Collecting Bible cites on this topic as he (Pastor Green) does makes this hate speech." France and Canada fined legislators for voicing opinions that did not embrace radical homosexuality. In Boston, the State ordered Catholic Charities to violate their religious beliefs and place children in gay households or cease all their adoption operations.

Siding with radical homosexuals are Islamic jihadists who want the "hate crime" bill passed to muzzle those who expose them.

Jefferson would be against taxing people to promote a sexual agenda in which they disbelieved, as he wrote in his Draft For a Bill For Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Jefferson would oppose the U.S. Congress coercing with "civil incapacitations" those who "think" differently than the State, those who hold traditional American religious beliefs regarding sex and marriage, as he wrote in his Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty, Jan. 16, 1786: "Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested His Supreme Will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraints."

"That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone. ... "Be it therefore enacted ... that no man ... shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief.

"But that all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."

In light of the Democrat Congress promoting the gay agenda, Jefferson gave interesting insight in his Draft For A Bill For Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779: "The impious presumption of legislators ... being themselves but fallible ... have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others. ... "Proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust ... unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion ..."The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. ... "To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion ... destroys all religious liberty."

The Danbury Baptist Association complained to Jefferson, Oct. 7, 1801, that the state government of Connecticut established the Congregational denomination, thus discriminating against the religious opinions of Baptists: "Sir ... Our Sentiments are uniformly on the side of Religious Liberty � That Religion is at all times and places a Matter between God and Individuals � That no man ought to suffer in Name, person or effects on account of his religious Opinions � That the legitimate Power of civil Government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor. ...

Jefferson agreed with the Baptists, Jan. 1, 1802: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with solemn reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."

Traditional Judeo-Christian religious doctrine believes sex is sacred between a man and a woman. The proposed "hate crime" bill would amount to the U.S. Congress assuming authority over religious doctrine, something Jefferson's "wall" was to prevent, as he wrote to Samuel Miller, Jan. 23, 1808: "I consider the government of the United States as interdicted [prohibited] by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. ... "Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General government. ... "I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct its exercises, its discipline, or its doctrines. ... "Every religious society has a right to determine ... their own particular tenets."

Prior to the Revolution, Jefferson opposed the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774, which treated individuals loyal to the Crown as "more equal" before the administration of justice than American rebels. If "all men are created equal," as Jefferson wrote in the Declaration, then criminals who commit the same crime should be punished equally, regardless of their victim's sexual preferences. To punish criminals more based on who the victim is establishes that all other victims are of less value, unequal. It is a zero sum equation � to give special rights to one group is to take rights from another group. The "hate crime" bill before Congress would amount to a "don't ask don't tell policy" for those of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs.

Radical gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, etc., not only want to come out of the closet, they want to push Christians into it. They want to commit the crime on others that they have accused others of having committed against them. Jefferson would have hated a "hate crime" bill where the legislative powers of government censored people who held traditional Judeo-Christian religious opinions regarding sex. Could it be that the real hate crime is about to be committed by the radical left against those who hold traditional American values?

President Reagan asked the Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, Aug. 23, 1984: "The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance. ... Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion?"

William J. Federer is a best-selling author, former U.S. congressional candidate and president of Amerisearch, Inc. A frequent radio and television guest, his daily American Minute is broadcast nationally via radio, television, and Internet.

Books by William J. Federer

America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations Learn what government-run schools and "higher" indoctrination institutions purposely omit from the "education" of America's children.

Back Fired A nation born for religious tolerance no longer tolerates religion... Where did the idea of "tolerance" originate? It did not originate in Saudia Arabia, where it is still the death penalty if someone converts from Islam to another faith; nor did it originate in the former atheistic Soviet Union, where thousands were persecuted for their faith; nor in Communist China, where illegal house church leaders and Falun Gong members are still arrested; nor did it originate with Robespierre's Reign of Terror, where thousands accused of not supporting the atheistic French Revolution lost their heads via the guillotine. No � "tolerance", as we know it, is an American Judeo-Christian contribution to the world. In William J. Federer's new book, Back Fired, you'll learn how America went from Pilgrims seeking freedom to express their Christian beliefs to discrimination against those very beliefs in the name of tolerance

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