NAIVE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS

So many voters who are strong on moral issues are hopelessly naive when it comes to voting. Most will vote for president, a group in Pennsyvania notwithstanding who urges Christians not to vote, arguing all are corrupt, using false equivalencies.   If those in the early church coud vote, I believe they would have voted overwhelmingly against Nero, even if his opponent was quite far from perfect, but who at least looked out for them and chose people who were not overtly hostile to them.

This year, a woman who championed unrestrained access to ALL public school classrooms by the LGBTQetc folks with NO parental opt-out provision was elected governor of New Jersey ith only 12% of the vote and about 20% total turnout!  A decent opponent who was far more qualified but the victim of an absurdly dishonest hevaily financed campaign lost because so many stayed home. 

The existing Democratic AG, Matt Platkin, has been on a crusade against First Choice, a pregnancy center with a great record, doing a targeted and unconstitutional investigation making demands intended to destabilize them financially while of course leaving Planned Parenthood with endless admissions of illegal and immoral activity totally free to pursue their agenda.  Thankfully, the SCOTUS agreed to hear the case, but even if they win, time and resources are spent and those who could have brought about a change in leadership in New Jersey and the dastardly appointments they make.

This scenario has played out nationwide, especially in off-year elections. Radicals and leftist vote and often win, even in deep red areas because naive and clueless voters sit home. The result? Leftist and immoral school boards nationwide. Local leaders who rise up to higher positions. And the worst, perhaps? Mamdani, a communist Jew-hating man quite in tune wirth Hamas won the mayoralty race in New York City - while the turnout in NYC was over double percentage -wise that of NJ, he could EASILY Have been defeated if (1) a decent alternative candidate had been chosen, and (2) those who understood the evil would have gone to the polls.

Apathy ruled. Too many listened to bogus charges againt opponents or failed to weigh the differences between deeply flawed candidates.  When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

CHARLIE KIRK

Many were saddened by this assassination last week. I listened to him occasionally and note he was a very intense person. Some can take that, some cannot. He loved to debate and would take all comers, especially in university settings. This is in huge contrast to the way academics approach things - they think many issues are beyond debate and settled. Actually, if they get drawn into a debate, they often lose because they never have to defend what they believe, while Charlie had to defend this beliefs almost every time he opened his mouth.

I think about evolution, homosexual "marriage," transgenderism, man-made climate change, and an alleged "climate emergency." Those are axiomatic in most academic settings, with most considered true even in self-identified Christian institutions. I debate people online who repeat these fallible and in many cases extremely unscientific ideas ad nauseum. The big one these days on Academia is that Christians are against the environment because they do not abandon the word of God to bow at the altar of ecological religion. They detest the dominion God gave man over the earth and the concept that God is sovereign over EVERYTHING including the state of earth.

I am on X, and the sheer hatred against Kirk by professors, medical people, and just run-of-the mill lunatics demonstrated by the approval of the assassination but slander against Kirk and the stated desire that he would not be the only one to die. The intensity of violence seemed most focused on sexual perversion, though the same charges brought against the president and others were also in the mix. Many with a moral compass pushed back and called out the utter evil they read. 

That said, Kirk was not always nuanced enough in what he said, especially on racial division, which made for some unflattering sound bites. Truth has to be told without watering it down, but there are ways to say things. We have had a ministry for 40 years with the purpose of bringing people together regardless of race, ethnicity, income, education, or religious denomination. We have an inter-racial marriage with eight other cross-ethnic marriages in our extended family, so we try to be careful in all we say, because there are a lot of hot buttons that can be pushed unintentionally. One of his quotes calling MLK an awful person was one the left loves to use. It is an established fact from MLK's own writings on display at the King Center at Stanford University that he did not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ from the age of 13, and was never known to have preached a Biblical gospel message. He was far more comfortable with Ghandi. Yes, it is awful for anyone with those proclivities, as well as very low moral character, as testified to by those closest to him, to present oneself as a Christian. Yet, all people talk about are words charged with emotion, while they themselves practically deify a man. Those in Christ cannot mirror the way the world deals with issues - we must be far better,

I have been to the King Center in Memphis, and it was pervaded by the blatantly racist BLM movement, but that was not in existence when MLK was alive, and it violates perhaps the best thing he ever said - judge a man NOT based upon the color of one's skin, but on the content of one's character. That has been largely lost on most college campuses today.   There is also the truth that blacks made more progress in the 50's than after the Civil Rights Act, though I believe the problems in the 60's had more to do with Lyndon Johnson's policies incentivising the removal of fathers from black homes as well as tone-deaf policies on crime, which dampened any positive effect of that act. I am sure Kirk was opposed to the expansion of that to include protected classes of people based upon morality/immorality rather than race, as well as the tone deafness of the left in terms of biological men invading women's sports and private spaces. He doubtless opposed the expansion of an act to deal with racial fairness to protect those with a stated agenda of destroying moral boundaries. It is always hard to give a qualified answer as people like sound bites, not reasoning, but those following him need to be sure never to hurt by not being crystal clear.

In addition, note that the breakdown of the family crosses racial lines. According to this source, https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2017/07/20/black-family-structure-in-decline-since-the-1960s-the-home-effect/, from 1960 to 2013, children in white single-parent families tripled from 7% to 22%, while children in single-parent black families went from 22% to 55%, a smaller rate of increase actually, but   2 1/2 times as often. I am positive the numbers have risen in both groups since then, as traditional nuclear families are a real minority across the board.

It is FORBES, not Kirk, that documented the situation of low black home ownership, which doubtless has been impacted by the destruction of so many black families by policies of Democrat presidents over the years. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwake/2019/05/16/the-shocking-truth-about-the-u-s-black-homeownership-rate-50-years-after-the-1968-fair-housing-act/

While I wish some of the quotes out there attributed to Kirk were made up, many were not - I do not believe they were intended to hurt, but we must all be wise in what we say and how we say it. The truth often hurts, and Jesus was for sure not politically correct, but straight to the point, but to whatever degree we can bring hope and healing, we should.

TEACHER QUALIFICATION TEST

I received a perfect 34 out of 34 on this test. While I taught math many years ago, I am not currently a teacher, but from what I have observed, many teachers would not do well on this test based on things they post online.  Why not take it yourself?

 

MINNESOTA KILLINGS

So many were horrified about a man impersonating a police officer and shooting four people in Minnesota, two of whom were political representatives and two of their spouses - two died and the other two may make it. The two representatives were on opposite sides of a political argument, so it is hard to determine what the political motivations may have been.

The president and all decent people have condemned the shootings, and this hatred must be dipped in the bid. We have seen multiple attempts to assassinate the President, doxxing of SCOTUS justices, and swatting people supporting the president, which is so dangerous. (This is calling 911 with a report of a non-existent emergency at the target person's address, resulting in a S.W.A.T. team or other aggressive action endangering lives.)  This is typically met with a yawn and a who cares from the left.  

Also silent are those who seek to sanitize and actually CELEBRATE Planned Parenthood and similar abortion mills, whose death march on innocent babes in the womb comes to a number of 50 thousand youth sports teams a year!  That is 1,000 youth teams of 10 each for each state!   If you don't care for sports, is is almost the same as 1,000 super-jumbo jets crashing and killing all aboard every year ( and if any survive, killing them after the crash as often happens to survivors of abortions).  Could you imagine shooting the man on that Air India flight who survived after jumping out of the plane?   It is all insanity.

We condemn violence of all kinds, and to come together as a nation, we need to not exclude those we do not agree with, those who still in a supposedly safe space (their own mother's womb), and those we simply do not care about. We are waiting for the partiality and irrational disconnects to end so the atrocities will grind to a halt.

COURT FOLLIES

 It is an ill-guarded secret how off the rails the SCOTUS is becoming. It used to be John Roberts being the primary offender - now it is spreading like measles.  They let a hostile lower court decision stand that was contrary in spirit to any number of prior. SCOTUS ruling with gross discrimination against a religious school.

The lying left pretends that public schools are neutral.  That was never my experience with books demeaning God and those who believe in Him and pushing books that are hostile to basic decency and morality.

That supposed "neutrality" is a cruel joke just as secularists in power are NEVER neutral - in Colorado they are going after Camp IdRaHaJe which we knew about when we lived in pre-Marxist Colorado in the fifties. They are trying to force the Christian Camp to go all in on the left's radical, unscientific, and deeply harmful gender ideology or else lose their license. How neutral is that??? They hate the President and his executive order on the subject because they have no intention of following the law or all of human history any more than Harvard plans to comply with racially neutral admission and advancement policies.

Check out this excellent article from the UK which isn't much worse than the situation in the USA.

https://education.christianconcern.com/resources/the-myth-of-religious-neutrality-in-education/

Christian educational institutions have largely caved to the godless secularists, much as has been detailed in Dr. John West's book, "Stockholm Syndrome Christianity."  A lecturer at Cliff College, an allegedly "evangelical" institution, who was dismissed for simply repeated God's rules on homsexuality.  West left his career at Seattle Pacific University over their total wokeness. The sae is repeated SO MANY places.

On both sides of the pond, the indoctrination on LGBTQ continues under the guise of celebration - they want us and our kids to celebrate perversion but they NEVER celebrate REAL marriage and healthy relationships.

https://education.christianconcern.com/resources/what-to-do-if-your-childs-school-is-celebrating-lgbt-history-month/

The HOW Matters

I wrote another letter to the President this morning. I noted to him how many people wanted things to really change. I am an Independent, which so many are these days, as so many in each party still look out for their own interests,

The bombshell loss in a State House seat out near Lancaster a week ago meant a turnover of a seat held by the GOP for four decades.  Poor voter turnout was the key, and that happens in off-year elections - the activists so often get their way. With Democrats being 10 times more politically savvy than the GOP, there is so much for conservatives to learn, and Trump got edgy enough about those replacement elections he pulled his nomination of Elise Stefanik for Ambassador to the UN. Many people listen to the criticism and quickly forget the debacle of the last four years under the cabal running the government with Joe Biden out to lunch.  It looks like some of those miscreants auto-penned his signature on pardons when he was not where around to approve them. With a more sophisticated GOP, Trump should have won by 10-15 points. Close to half still have no problem with Joseph R. Biden's utter failures but seek to tank someone who is actually taking some positive steps whenever there is even a minor glitch.

I advised the President of an appropriate scripture - "a soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger".  He is acting like an aggressive and bossy older brother which no one likes. He has tried that on Greenland and it is not pretty. I advised that in 1951 we had broad rights for a military presence there.  Our involvement has inexplicably dropped to only 200 soldiers in a giant island critical to world peace given Russia's closeness to it.  I advised him to work on doing that and winning the Greenlanders with kindness and investment. Even their head of government is very open to this approach instead of "we will get it 100%.

I hope he listens, because the HOW a good idea is implemented is critical, and if NOT done right, it can tank in a New York Minute.  Pray that in terms of DOGE and cleaning out the deep State, he uses a giant scalpel rather than a big stick. There is far too much at stake right now to botch this golden opportunity for change. Pray daily for him as I do, and do not hesitate to go on the White House website to offer your thanks, your suggestions, and your prayers. Just clink this live link to get there...

https://www.whitehouse.gov

BUY LIKE CRAZY FEBRUARY 28th

The radical People's Union that pushes the blatantly racist and sexist DEI nonsense, the people that think that minorities are not able to complete on an equal footing, those who think excellence is racist are pushing a campaign for all people to boycott Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart who responded positively to the President's order to eliminate these departments which violate the Civil Rights Act and Court Decisions.   

The radicals want to send a signal to these companies to restart these grossly discriminatory and divisive efforts in flagrant violation of the law.

Let's BUY, BUY, BUY, and let these companies know that we appreciate their willingness to admit they were wrong and to do the right thing.  

THANK YOU!