The State of America

When McDonald’s corporate officials consider the gay political agenda, they don’t see a family friendly clown but lots gay dollars bills.

As reported by The American Family Association’s Boycott McDonald’s, McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner intends to aggressively promote the homosexual agenda. Why?

In remarks on McDonald’s Web site concerning the company becoming a member of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Skinner wrote: “Being a socially responsible organization is a fundamental part of who we are. We have an obligation to use our size and resources to make a difference in the world … and we do.”

What kind of difference to they intend? Blinded by the potential of making more profits, Skinner cannot see the terrible wrong of taking sides in the moral culture war. The sexual politics of gays and supportive secularists have already done great harm to the moral basis of public law, public culture, and family. They do so only to legalize their anti-Christian and immoral behavior. The difference McDonald’s will make is to help gay and liberals create a totalitarian society. (I have reported on its occurrence in some major cities.)

Supporting McDonald’s is to support the anti-family and anti-moral politics of gays.

The report continued by showing McDonald’s involvement in the big business plans of gays.

The company gave an undisclosed amount of money to the NGLCC in return for being recognized as a major promoter of the homosexual agenda. In return, NGLCC placed Richard Ellis, vice president of communications of McDonald’s USA, on the NGLCC Board of Directors.

Ellis was quoted as saying: “I’m thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work. I share the NGLCC’s passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community, and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward.”

McDonald’s openly supports all of the LGBT agenda including same-sex marriage.

The way to end McDonald’s charade of support for children and families is for people across American and around the world who still support the family, morality, and freedom to stop buying anything from McDonald’s. Without patronage, McDonald’s will go out of business. To McDonald’s, I say good riddance.

To learn more about Boycott McDonald’s, go to here.

Under the red banner of communists, high stepping fascists of all kinds march to the beat of mainstream socialism, Marxist-Lenninism, and non-classical liberalism. The smiling face on the red flag is none other than their beloved leader Barak Hussein Obama. If you think I’m making this up, then read Cliff Kincaid’s researched article on Obama’s American communist support.

Cliff Kincaid is the editor of Accuracy in Media, which is a media watchdog. He wrote that Obama’s white step-father had Obama mentored by Communist Party leader Frank Marshall Davis during high school. Kincaid also reveals that…

Obama showed his gratitude by going to socialist conferences and selecting Marxist professors as his friends in college. Later, of course, he would arrive in Chicago and launch his political career in the arms of communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, according to declassified intelligence information (PDF), were members of a group with connections to the CPUSA, foreign communist regimes, and even the Soviet KGB. The information shows that their close terrorist associate, Kathy Boudin, attended Moscow University and was subsidized by the Soviet government. Her father was a CPUSA member and a registered Cuban agent, documents show.

Alan Maki, an avowed Communist Party member and long-time Democrat Party activist, said he learned that Frank Marshall Davis mentored Obama while reading his book Dreams From My Father. Maki, Joelle Fishman, the chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Political Action Commission, and communist bloggers see both Obama and his devout Communist mentor as champions for civil rights, for the rights of working people, and opponents of war. Kincaid asks an interesting question concerning this.

If Davis was indeed a “voice for civil and human rights,” why didn’t Barack Obama proudly identify Frank Marshall Davis by his full name in Dreams From My Father? Instead, Obama refers repeatedly to somebody named “Frank” giving him advice on various matters. Obama does note, however, that “Frank” was a contemporary of black poets Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. This is a hint of his real identity. The reference is significant because Wright and Hughes broke with the CPUSA while Davis did not. Indeed, Davis, in Livin’ the Blues (page 243), refers to Wright’s “act of treason” for exposing the CPUSA. Davis favored cooperation between what he called “Reds and blacks.” This demonstrates how much of a committed communist Davis really was. And this may be why Obama didn’t want readers to know his true identity.

To further substantiate his discovery that Obama is actually a communist like Frank Marshall Davis, Kincaid points to evidence found on the computer of Paul Reyes, the deceased leader of the communist narco-terrorists known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The records show ‘gringos’ representing Obama were seeking to schedule a meeting with FARC. The gringos indicated that they were opposed to U.S. military aid for the Colombian government. Bush supported giving giving aid to the Columbian government so that it could defeat the one of the suppliers of American drug addiction. Obama, however, opposed this support to Columbian government because of its human rights violations.

What I found interesting while checking out Kincaid’s sources was that the human right to kill the unborn advocates were leading the American progressive communists/socialists. They are not really against human carnage of war which is death. They vigorously support it as long as it against genuine human morality. Theirs is the utopia of lawless made lawful by force of deceit, greed, murder, and immorality made respectable by the philosophy of tolerance and arbitrary rights as they alone define them.

The fact that Obama is a millionaire with billions of dollars and much Wall Street clout backing his campaign proves he is actually entrenched in the quasi-capitalist and socialist political economy of globalist America. The big corporate, big military-industrial complex, and big welfare government have their roots in the fascist-socialist ideals and programs of fascist-communist Europe. Therefore, it is difficult to believe that the change Obama preaches is real. It is most likely mere rhetoric of utopian deceit. The only change Obama intends is the reversal of any movement towards the actual restoration of a government based on Republican Constitutional principles and capitalism with a moral conscience. Such was the view of Adam Smith, who was neither socialist nor secularist.

Bertram Gross was once among the fascists who constructed legislation to make the planned society of the New Deal and Great Society a reality. In his book titled Friendly Fascists, Gross wrote, “Almost all of my fellow planners, reformers, social scientists, and urbanists presumed the benevolence of more concentrated power.” That is the type of leader communists like Joelle Fishman believes Obama to be. Unlike Fishman, democrats, and Obama, he repented of his friendly fascist ways and views. Gross went on to write: that he now saw Big Business and Big Government as a joint danger, or in Obama’s terminology as one united.

Gross also agreed with William L. Shirer, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and who said that “America may be the first country in which fascism comes to power through democratic elections.” Contrary to the propaganda of the Left, fascism is not the the provenance of the political or religious Right but of the Left as Jonah Goldberg delineates its history in his hot book Liberal Fascism.

The difference between Bush and Obama is this: Conservative Bush has made decisions to carry out legislation made by Congress that erodes some essential freedom. Obama is apparently a communist and member of those who both violate and support the violation of American Constitutional principles and rights as part of their winning strategy. It is their way of political life.

Americans must make the final decision. We will either have a globalist nation based on fascist-socialism relabeled and repackaged as liberal democracy or a constituted federal republic based on the rule of natural and moral law. We cannot have it both ways. A truly divided nation will sooner or later fall–so will an ungodly one.

by Rev. Dallas E. Henry

“When in the course of Human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men   are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Signed on July 2 and adopted in the Congress on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence set free the 13 colonies of America from its rule by Great Britain. Richard Stockton, a Quaker from New Jersey, was one of the 56 signers of that declaration. Stockton, in 1758, helped to construct the Quaker Meeting house near his home. Stockton was a prominent lawyer and landowner until the day that he signed that declaration. The English army routed him and his family from their home, and he was imprisoned as a traitor to the crown. As a result of his harsh treatment, his health was broken. After his imprisonment he returned to the burned and sacked remnants of his home and died there four years later at the age of 51. His is only one of the stories of these 56 men- many others tell the same story of men who gave their life for freedom.

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence:
 5 were captured by the British and tortured before they died.
12 had their homes ransacked and burned.
 2 lost their sons in the war.
 9 either died from war wounds or from hardships suffered in the war.

We conclude from this that freedom is never free.

Rev. Henry goes on to compare the ancient occupation of Israel led by Joshua to our founders and the price they paid for gaining freedom.

The Lord, through Joshua, makes clear that the price of our continued freedom is two-fold:

1) The price is Devotion to God [Joshua 23:6]. Joshua reminded Israel that their continued freedom rested on their willingness to follow God. If they were to turn from God their downfall would surely come. It is true for us today. James Madison, 4th president of the US and one of the framers of the constitution said, “We have staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.¨ He knew as Joshua spoke so many years before him that freedom and democracy can only be maintained if men walk with God. You cannot write enough laws to govern a godless society. You cannot make enough rules to make moral an immoral nation. Often we look at our nation and become discouraged as we see the continual practice of abortion, homosexuality, same sex marriage, pornography, violence, crime, and hatred. We see it and we become discouraged. We see it; and we hear that the downfall of America is inevitable as God’s judgment comes upon us for our sin. We feel helpless to change our society and our world. But the truth is far different. We are far from impotent to affect the world around us.

Rev. Henry says we can make a difference. It does not begin with them but with ourselves. That is, changing our world begins with reforming the Church. He quotes the familiar scripture: “If My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Many who use this verse imply that if the Christians repent then God will heal and restore America to its former goodness. The implied magic is not part of Rev. Henry’s view.

Like Israel, America was founded as a nation upon a national covenant with God. Read the entire Declaration of Independence for what it actually states and not as your particular political bias dictates. The Church is not synonymous to the whole of America. Nevertheless, the biblical law and morality is synonymous with freedom and the natural law basis of the Constitution. That is why Rev. Henry goes on to say:

Revival will not come to a nation until reformation comes to the church. We must be willing to pay the price. The saddest commentary on our society today is that in all its decay and decadence no one seems to care. The people revel in their debauchery and the church remains silent. It’s as if people shut their windows and doors and refuse to become a part of the national debate. For far too long we have shut ourselves out of the arena of ideas and our Nation and our churches have suffered for it. The fact is that if we don’t fight for what is right no one will.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “All it takes for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.”

2) The second price of continued freedom is vigilance. We must be vigilant. We must protect the right. We must demand better than we have. James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, wrote this in 1877: “Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”

Rev. Henry seems to assume everyone realizes that out religious liberty is eroding away. Gay rights, abortion rights, the spread of public corruption makes it obvious. However, I think many people’s view of religious liberty has become fuzzy. It is not just the erosion of actual liberty but the erosion of our view of what religious liberty is. The so-called Separation of Church and State defined and defended by the secular Left is not the same as it was defined and defended by our mostly Christian founders. The divorce of Christian religion from public and political life was never intended by those who established wrote the final draft of the Declaration or the First Amendment. There was a very good reason Congress intentionally left out the wall of separation clause and why in the 1870s Congress rejected it again. Secular neutrality represented by the Lemon test did not exist until the 20th Century secularists gained political power. The Ten Commandments in U.S. the Supreme Court chambers is proof.

Rev. Henry concluded his commentary saying,

If our nation’s leadership has become dominated by liars, adulterers, cheats, and nare-do-wells, then it’s time we use the power of the voting booth and vote them out. It’s time Christians begin to run for office and take back what has been taken from us. Our nation’s pride, morality, and freedom are at stake; and we must not be shut out of the arena of ideas. We must stand up and be counted as those willing to pay the price for freedom.

Source: Christian Civic League of Maine.

See also Declaration of Independence Banned from Calif School classroom. [From banning the Declaration and Nature's God]; The Real Issue [to embracing fascism and gay sexual politics.].

How could any one criticize Obama’s sincere sup- port of religion. After all, he worked with churches   to help inner-city needy. Sarcasm aside, it is com- mendable that he was willing to get a little dirty by helping the needy. The same can be said of his supporters like the Nation of Islam. They have help quit a few people achieve moral and social reform. The appearance of supporting the many religious organization who live among the people they serve is commendable.

However, the Nation of Islam and all other faith-based social services have a something to be concerned about.

In an e-commentary written by someone at the Catholic League, the author points out that Obama intends to secularize the hiring practices of faith-based services.

“Any church or religious agency that agrees to take federal money on the condition that it must operate in a secular fashion—in hiring and in disseminating its values—is selling out. If Orthodox Jews running a day care center are not allowed to exclusively hire Orthodox Jews, there is nothing kosher about it. If a Catholic foster care program cannot place Catholic children with Catholic parents, it is doing a disservice to the children. If an evangelical drug rehab program can’t deliver a Christian message to its clients, it may as well close up shop. But that’s what Obama wants—he wants to secularize the religious workplace.

In secularizing the workforce at religion community service organizations, Obama would also make it possible for gays and like-minded people to further their sexual politics against the morality and faith of the religion; that is non- liberal religion. Remember, it is the Christian faith to which Obama says he is genuinely committed.

The Catholic author continued by mentioning Obama’s belief that religious social service are no better than government or secular non-profits at helping people in poverty, addiction, and many related problems. As for the secular non-profits, a majority of their employees are Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Protestants. Washington, DC gave a Christian non-profit, who lived and worked in the inner-city neighborhood serving mostly single-mothers and their child- ren, some large properties for a few dollars because they were much more effective at helping those people than government social services.

It proves that the government slogan “what works” is very apropos concerning faith-based social services.

In Obama’s winning multi-million dollar sermons, he has repeatedly identified his religion as progressive. Historically, progressives have been democrats, socialists, fascists, and non-classical liberals. Many of the founders in Congress are identified as classical liberals. FDR and his New Deal ideas and programs resembled those of fascists like Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin. Liberal churches and their theology are the born-again children of Germany’s pseudo-scientific ideas of its evolution-based higher criticism. Like George W. Bush’s accusers, they are more like wolves in sheep clothing, which may also apply to Obama. He talks the religious talk. His stories and preaching are wonderful. I image God is even impressed, but not deceived. When the billion dollar prize is Pres- idential power, the religion men and their financiers must be regarded with a salt shaker or two of skepticism. Looking closely at Obama religious rhetoric, I see the flip-side of Hitler who used Christian talk to woo and awe the masses into his lair. Talking religion and big-daddy provider of people’s welfare is a sure ticket to the heart, stomach, and iPod of many a voter. So is supporting faith-based socials services while overtly planning to destroy their basis of faith.

The Catholic author said, “Obama wants to gut the religious values and bar religious agencies from hiring people who share their religion.” This is partly correct. I think Obama would argue that religious agencies could hire people of their religion but not exclusively. It is his progressive inclusiveness that would destroy their exclusive religious values.

For all of these reasons more, “his initiative [and politics] is a fraud.”

On June 27, the FDA reported that it has completed the traceback for some tomatoes associated with the salmonella outbreak. The agency has been able to trace the pathway of some tomatoes from the point of purchase (e.g. supermarket) or consumption (e.g. restaurant) to each point on the distribution chain down to certain farms in Mexico and Florida.

The FDA is now working to narrow the investigation. As part of this, the agency is sending teams of multi-disciplinary experts to both Mexico and Florida this weekend to conduct joint inspections of the farms and other critical points on the supply chain where the tomatoes may have become contaminated.

The FDA investigators will conduct joint inspections with regulators in Mexico and Florida at the farms and other distribution points. Meanwhile, the FDA will continue to collect samples of tomatoes and conduct traceback activities.

Raw red plum, raw red Roma, or raw red round tomatoes may be consumed only if grown and harvested from the following areas that HAVE NOT BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTBREAK:

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida (counties of: Jackson, Gadsden,
  Leon, Jefferson, Madison, Suwannee, Hamilton,
  Hillsborough, Polk, Manatee, Hardee,
  DeSoto, Sarasota, Highlands, Pasco, Sumter,
  Citrus, Hernando, Charlotte)*
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Nevada New!
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Belgium
• Canada
• Dominican Republic
• Guatemala
• Israel
• Mexican States (Aguascalientes,
  Baja California Norte, Baja California
  Sur, Campeche, Colima, Chiapas, Chihuahua,
  Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato,
  Guerrero, Hidalgo, México, Michoacán,
  Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León,
  Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana
  Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sonora,
  Tobasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz,
  Yucatán, Zacatecas)
• Netherlands
• Puerto Rico

Source: US Food and Drug Administration.

The proof that industrial farming is hazardous to our health may not be in the puddling but it is in the beef and tomatoes. There are two epidemics occurring in America. One is a national epidemic caused by eating tomatoes infected with salmonella. The second is an outbreak of illness in Ohio and Michigan caused by infected hamburger with E. coli O157:H7. In this post, only the national outbreak will be considered.

According to the CDC, 552 people in 32 states have been infected with salmonella by eating tomatoes. At least 53 persons have been hospitalized. The specific type and source of tomatoes is under investigation; however, the data suggest that illnesses are linked to consumption of raw red plum, red Roma, or round red tomatoes, or any combination of these types of tomatoes, and to products containing these raw tomatoes. At least 53 persons were hospitalized.

The map above marks out the states where outbreaks have occurred. The 10 states with the highest number of reported illnesses are Texas (265), New Mexico (73), Illinois (34), Arizona (29), Virginia (20), Maryland (18), Georgia (11), Missouri (10), New York (10), and Kansas (9). There have been 3 related illnesses reported in Ohio.

New Scientist columnist Ewen Callaway interviewed Keith Warriner, a food microbiologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Warriner said that the source of the salmonella bacteria probably comes from groundwater contaminated with animal feces. Once the bacteria get on or into a tomato, the fruit acts like an incubator. Bacteria divide even in the cool temperatures of packing houses.

It takes a lot of manure to contaminate ground water. The only sources producing large amounts of infected manure are either meat processing plants or industrial animal farms. Regulations regulating meat processing plants are usually not adequately enforced and industrial animal farms should never been allow to exist. Large corporate meat processing plants rely on the mass production animals at industrial farms. There is nothing good about those types of farms except the profits of their owners and corporate meat production plants.

There has been an average of three salmonella outbreaks involving fruit or vegetables each year since 1996. Five of the 33 have involved tomatoes, according to Callaway.

People in the Midwest including Ohio and Michigan have been infected with E.Coli by contaminated hamburger in 2006, 2007, and now 2008. The first outbreak was tied to contaminated meat at Taco Bell. In 2007, Topps frozen hamburger patties was the culprit. The source of the current outbreak is not yet known.

Democrat leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have scheduled a hearing this Thursday on discrimination against “transgendered” individuals in the workplace.

“Homosexuals and their transgender activist allies hope to use this hearing as a way of forcing the imposition of gender confusion upon all Americans,” said Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) Executive Director Regina Griggs today. “Instead of treating transsexualism and cross-dressing behaviors as Gender Identity Disorders (GID) as defined by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Democrats seem determined to make these behaviors into federally-protected minorities.”

“Why should Congress force Americans to provide workplace accommodations for people who are confused about whether they’re male or female? How can Congress force us to make believe that a man is really a woman or a woman is really a man?”

“If Democrats were truly concerned about these gender confused individuals, they’d push for expanded mental health services for GID. A person can’t change his or her sex – and many of these individuals think they’re a woman one day and a man the next day. Why is Congress catering to such insanity?”

Griggs notes that citizens in Montgomery County, Maryland are requiring the government there to permit them to vote on a recently-passed transgender housing and employment policy enacted by the county board of supervisors. “This policy – if left intact – will force restrooms and shower facilities to be open to gender confused individuals. Imagine a young girl being exposed to a cross-dressing male in a restroom! This policy endangers all of us.”

Griggs urges every American to contact Congress to oppose any bill that recognizes cross-dressing behavior as a federally-protected minority group. This includes such legislation as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Congress should not legislate changeable behaviors nor undermine mental health classifications set forth by the APA. Tell Congress it’s time to provide equal access for ex-gays and former transgenders — they are the living proof that change is possible.

See PFOX’s article about how and who to contact in Congress about stopping this bill.

PFOX leads the nation in providing outreach, education, and public awareness in support of families, former transgenders, and the ex-gay community.