If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting
the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,
... the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having, to that extent,
practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent
tribunal.
–Abraham Lincoln
"They want every group to become so diverse in their values that all groups would become fundamentally the same. Any differences in organizations, churches and clubs would be reduced to matters of only style and interest. Gone would be voluntarily associations based on shared religious beliefs, principles and timeless moral values. Make no mistake: The goal of the activist gay network isn’t just to make their lifestyle acceptable — it’s to destroy the very essence of churches, organizations and even institutions such as traditional marriage. Organizations that teach both about God and his moral absolutes are unacceptable, making the gay network both highly hypocritical and viciously intolerant."
from: By Rebecca Hagelin - Special to The Washington Times/Sunday, February 3, 2013
I don’t think it’s hard to figure out which sort of knot many in the media would like to use on the Boy Scouts.
My question to them is: What part of the Jerry Sandusky Penn State molestation convictions don’t you get when it comes to the Boy Scouts?
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"The Scouts’ own board of directors may very well end up being the cause of the organization’s demise as it meets this week to consider making the Scout pledge meaningless and Scouting irrelevant. If the board votes to destroy the Scout standards, it will have caved in to the hateful demands of one of the most hypocritical and intolerant movements in America, the gay activist."
Women's studies all over needs to stop worrying about themselves & start worrying about the children!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TPCsm-MgpTg#!
President Obama has not asked congress to pass a law which would require
LDS bishops marry same sex couples. We doubt that he will every try to
do that. Remember that it is the legislative branch of government that
makes laws in America. We represent the Church at the UN of Geneva. The
work of the Church, including its image in the world, is made harder by
misrepresentations and the peddling of fear about what might happen. The
US government including its permanent mission at the UN, believe that
tolerance and respect and equality before the law are the best public
policy.
Dear Mr. Holsinger, What are you saying? That we should not do anything until it is too late because it makes your job harder? Blame it all on congress because nothing bad has ever come from an executive order? I beg to differ--see links below.
The administration is also doing the same thing abroad by threatening other countries with aid cuts unless they accept/teach LGBT doctrines & practices.
This is literally killing those countries by reversing any gains they had made in curbing AIDS. As you are a UN representative, I am sure you are aware of this edict linked below. I don't believe my church would condone this, the same as they do not condone fear mongering.
In the beginning of the country, there were NO GOVTS. to build roads. Basically, the guys at the taverns/tollhouses collected money from people who stopped there & gave it to another guy in town to go get some tools to hand out to the locals whose turn it was to work on the new road that week. If someone stayed at these inns and the road stopped there but they wanted to continue on, they handed them a tool & said have at it!
So, the conservative argument is that there is no magic "government" that did all this work to "pave the way & provide a means" as you say. Government is NO more than any corporation, it IS the people.
There is no chicken or the egg argument of who did it first--we do not believe there is a such thing as an omnipotent government that magically knew what ingenious men & women would need to succeed & beneficently provided.
Men & women worked together with each other to make their way in this land, often gathering money we call taxes to pay other men and women to do the work for them.
Now days that work is often over budget and way beyond schedule and shoddy because the men and women of the country have paid corrupt men and women they elect, via taxes & DEBT incurred, to pay others via welfare to NOT do the work for them in a timely and effective manner in order to buy votes.
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation,
commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to
study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and
porcelain." -John Adams
Conservatives get the label of violent while Progressives (as defined by the Occupy movement) are violent spoiled children who want what other people have.
In the first third of the Book of Mormon it describes people as being in slavery/bondage when the sovereign took 50% or more of their earnings and valuables, flocks, etc. What percentage do we have to be "taxed" before we feel we are enslaved? Many people under those circumstances chose to flee. There were a few who were humble enough just to ask God to help them carry their burdens as they worked to enrich the government.
We ignore moral leaders like him, we do not produce good fathers to the peril of our nation. The slippery slope we are sliding quickly down is a result of doing that very thing for my entire lifetime & beyond.
Since the Obama administration has taken power--the facade is gone. Congress & the fed feel no more need to hide. People are scratching their heads wondering why the world has turned upside down these days--it actually turned upside down many decades ago, it's just that now, being freed from gravity we are finally at the end of our chain that is tethering us to our "lives". It may have felt like a thrill ride but at the end it isn't a bungee cord to bounce us back to where we were--either the chain breaks or we do!
"We, the people are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men, men who pervert the constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
Treaties...Shall Be the supreme Law of the Land--Beware of Treaties!
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
US Constitution, Article 6
Latter Day Saint Charities
The Enemy Within
A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself... for the traitor appears no traitor: He speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their faces and their garments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the souls of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is to be less feared. — Cicero
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