Stop the Assault on Religious Liberty and Conscience

Dear Friend of American Life League, To restore religious liberty and protect freedom of conscience,  ALL has joined the Call2Conscience coalition comprised of dozens of national and state pro-life, pro-family, and pro-religious freedom organizations. >>> Take action: Tell your Representatives that conscience protections must be included in must-pass legislation. You see, the Obama administration has launched an assault against religious liberty and conscience by forcing organizations and businesses to pay for coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, regardless of their moral objections. We must fight back, and the time to act is now! Congress will soon be considering must-pass legislation that will fund the federal government, and it is critical that conscience protections are included in this legislation. >>> Take action: Tell Congress that our religious and moral freedoms must be restored immediately. We must take a stand to ensure that all Americans are guaranteed freedom of conscience in their daily lives and work. The government has no business putting religious freedom on the negotiating table, or picking and choosing who is allowed to exercise their faith. We must fight back, and we must fight back right now. >>> It only takes a minute: Contact Congress. Thank you for standing up for LIFE, conscience and religious liberty! Sincerely,   Paul E. Rondeau, M.A.M.  Executive Director  American Life League   PS: We must fight back. Please--many people think contacting your members of Congress is a waste of time but the opposite is true.  Elected officials tell us that that for every contact they get, it really means 10-20-30 people feel the same way.  So, please act today.

 

ALL PRO-LIFE TODAY: Killing a People

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Killing a people By Dr. Levon R. Yuille As I reflect upon the journey of black Americans, it is obvious that we as a people have a history that is filled with many trials, tribulations, and defeats. But that is not the entire story of the black man. We have also experienced in our history times of great progress, victories, and success. And when it comes to black Americans here in the United States of America, all of the previously stated experiences are most certainly part of our journey in this nation, where black people have experienced the worst and best of this great nation.  [ Click here to read more. ]

HEADLINES Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood praises Richard Nixon's progressive idea of family planning to abort 'little black bastards' during 'age of enlightenment' Christian News Wire Cecile Richards, head of notorious abortion provider, Planned Parenthood celebrates President Richard Nixon who supported aborting black babies, calling them "little black bastards." Outraged black leaders launched a video that includes statements made by Richards exposing the racial impetus of Richard Nixon's and Planned Parenthood's mission. "For years Planned Parenthood has denied its founder's Negro Project was aimed at controlling the black birth rate. On November 7, 2012 Cecile Richards finally took the shroud off their secret. In light of this revelation, we call on the Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, one of America's last bastions of racism," said Catherine Davis. Planned Parenthood provides abortion, not health care Bound4Life Here is my question to you, women, pro-life or pro-abortion.  What if every health care facility in America ceased to exist  and only Planned Parenthood remained? What if the fight for  Planned Parenthood's funding overshadowed the funding for every other healthcare organization in the United States and suddenly there were no others? What if the only health care available to us was the "health care" Planned Parenthood provides? If every Planned Parenthood in America ceased to exist, every single service they provide could be attained elsewhere and almost everywhere except abortion. Abortion would still be available in select locations, and even in many hospitals. If Planned Parenthood ceased to exist, all $542 million dollars of the governmental funding they received last year could be given to any other facility that struggles to serve all who need them. The only unique service Planned Parenthood offers over any medical facility is abortion on demand without question or apology. Doctors against Andrew Cuomo's radical abortion- expansion bill National Review Online Dr. Anne Nolte, a family physician, takes time today from her  busy patient schedule at the National Gianna Center for Women's Health and Fertility she directs in Manhattan to protest Governor Andrew Cuomo's Reproductive Health Act. Despite the fact that women have "almost unlimited access to abortion, as evidenced by abortion rates which are nearly double the national average," as Nolte noted in  a letter to an Empire State newspaper this week, the governor's agenda includes expanding access to abortion in New York State, including by allowing non-physicians to perform abortions.

 

Homosexuality, Clergy, And Sexual Abuse…And The Purification Of The Church!

Please Pray For Our Bishops And Priests To Have The Courage To Remain Chaste And To Preach Chastity!

Written by Father Richard Perozich

The rash of priests molesting teenage young men is a prime example of why unrepentant homosexuality in the priesthood doesn’t work. The seduction of adolescent boys by unrepentant priests can be attributed in part to a clerical gay subculture within the Catholic Church that fails to discipline homosexual activity by its supportive silence or subtle protection.

Homosexual promiscuity is rampant in too many seminaries. Indeed, some seminaries are known for their attraction to homosexual recruits. The end result is the existence of a clerical homosexual network and its sympathizers that promote homosexuality in Catholic institutions and fail to discipline priests who act out sexually with male adults or adolescents. In an over compassionate attempt to communicate tolerance for homosexuals, they have also condoned the Catholic sin of homo-genital acts.

What to do? Marriage does not cure homosexuality. Instead, priests struggling with same sex attractions must be given the opportunity to participate in a Courage chapter in their diocese. Founded by Fr. John Harvey in 1980, Courage is the only Vatican approved ministry to homosexuals (http://www.couragerc.net). Although Courage has a successful history of assisting homosexual and lesbian Catholics in leading fulfilled chaste lives, Courage support groups are actively discouraged in some dioceses (including Los Angeles, Baltimore, Detroit, Albany, Rochester and Richmond) in favor of gay affirming ministries which either ignore chastity or celebrate sodomy.

How then are gay clergy and laity expected to refrain from homosexual behavior in accordance with the Catholic Church’s teachings when there is no such support group in their diocese? Priests and laity struggling with homosexuality need real compassion and not a patronizing “diversity” outreach program.

It is time for us Catholics to clean up each one of our dioceses and reach out as Christians to our homosexual brothers and sisters. An outraged laity must replace gay affirming ministries and priests with pacticing Catholics. If there isn’t a Courage chapter in your diocese, then demand one immediately from your pastor and bishop. Our diocese’s children and gay brethren deserve no less.

The statement of the Catholic Medical Association on homosexuality, Homosexuality and Hope (www.cathmed.org), should be made available to all priests, educators and Catholic families. With the Lord’s help, the Catholic priests who struggle with homosexuality can be healed.

The  revelations of clergy sexual activity are very disturbing to me as a priest, and I believe also to you who put your trust in us. Priests are ordained to believe what they read (in the scriptures and tradition of the church), to teach what they believe, and to practice what they teach. Priests are ordained to mediate God¹s presence, love, and grace to you in the sacraments and in personal relationships; a priest must sacrifice his own interests, ideas, will, and passions to do this, spending himself for God¹s faithful in imitation of Jesus to whom he is conformed.

A priest is like other men in his human creation and tendency toward sin. He is like other Christians in his gift of baptismal grace oriented toward everlasting life. He is, however, very different from other men in his conformation to Jesus by sacred orders. A higher standard of behavior and holiness is to be expected of the priest, surrendering his humanity to allow the divinity of Christ to flow through to God’s people.

A priest is to teach God¹s people the whole truth and to embrace it himself. He is to sanctify them with the sacraments. He is to guide them in his conduct and with pastoral compassion, pointing out sin for what it is and the way of truth, whether it be well received or not.

Sexuality is a way of relating to others. Males need to learn to relate to both males and females in a proper way in proper settings and vice versa. Genital expression is only appropriate in a marriage between a man and a woman. If one has an urge to express oneself genitally outside marriage, it is an offense against chastity and an infidelity to God as well as the Church. The Catechism lists these as adultery (involving a married person), fornication (two unmarried persons), masturbation, rape, pornography, prostitution, and homosexual actions.

When a person desires sex with a child, adolescent, or a member of one’s own sex, it is often traced psychologically to a delayed psychosexual development. It is a tendency toward a moral evil. Such a characteristic is not to be expressed by anyone, but in particular never by priests. It can be dominated or even healed with Christ.

Clergy live in a world corrupted by lust. Unless our bishops and priests clearly cling to Christ and teach others to do the same, forming for ourselves a real refuge from the lustful world, the problems will continue. Our bishops need to articulate clearly the truth of human sexuality for themselves, for their priests and for all of us, without pandering to practicing homosexuals, pedophiles, adulterers and those living together in fornication. If not, that which corrupts the rest of society will continue to corrupt God¹s chosen shepherds.

At all levels of our Catholic clergy these sexual corruptions are coming to light. Several bishops have resigned because of homosexual activity with adults and others with adolescent males, those between the ages of 13 and 19, and with children even younger. More than an expected number priests have been disciplined or lost their faculties to celebrate sacraments because of sexual activity with male adults, adolescents, and children, usually male children. The majority of us priests, however, embrace our celibacy as a gift, and continue to walk chastely with the help of Jesus. The majority of us accept our sexual identity as males and all that is appropriate to a man, our conformation to Christ, our roles as “fathers” of the spiritual family, shepherding spiritually those in our care rather than “fleecing the flock” by misleading them or by using them for sex.

Priests who die of AIDS contracted in sexual activity leave us fellow priests with mixed emotions. We feel sorry for their suffering. We feel a loss at the passing of a brother. We feel shame at their betrayal of all of us by acting homosexually. We feel outrage when someone tries to memorialize their homosexual liasons as good by creating a panel on an AIDS quilt when they were unfaithful to God, to Church, to us and to you.

When the Kansas City Star newspaper exposed the number of priests who contracted AIDS through homosexual contact, the Catholic bishops expressed outrage and denied the numbers were that high. When pedophilia is exposed, some bishops are quick to try to separate this from homosexuality, even in the case of adolescents. Fr. Donald Cozzens, psychologist and seminary professor in Cleveland, Ohio, estimates 50% of the priests and seminarians have homosexual inclination, and a great number of these act out and teach others that this is all right. 100% of bishops come from the ranks of the priests.

It seems clear now why little seems to be said against sexual acting out with minors and against homosexual activity either in the clergy or in society from the shepherds of the church. The only sexual teaching that has come from our bishops in the past decade came out of a committee. This bishops’ committee presented homosexuality in a neutral light. Its work was so flawed that the Vatican not only intervened by insisting on changes in this document, it told the bishops that no committee ever again could issue such documents without the support of the entire body of bishops.

Please pray for bishops and priests that we have the courage to be chaste and to preach chastity to you in the fullness of the gospel. Live your own lives chastely. Hold us priests accountable to the promises we expressed when God made us priests. If we’re not hearing it from our bishops who were ordained to shepherd us, we need to hear it from you that you will not tolerate sexual misconduct from us, and that with Christ, priests can live properly to bring His grace to you as we were ordained to do.

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Created Equal: Day 4: The Target ...

FGCU Sees Created Equal Today 

Columbus, OH – March 14, 2013 – www.createdequal.net/" target="_blank">Created Equal will be displaying large abortion and prenatal images at the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) today, March 14, 2013.

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Inspired activists rock the campus

Created Equal at Florida Gulf Coast University

Who: Created Equal  

What:  Anti-abortion display making the case that abortion is age discrimination.

Where: Florida Gulf Coast University, Student Plaza and Library Lawn.

When: March 14, 2013 from 9AM to 3PM

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www.createdequal.net/about/team" target="_blank">Mark Harrington, Executive Director of Created Equal said, "The only way for us to save America's preborn children is remove them from our nation's relativistic rhetoric.  We use our conversation and images to take preborn children away from the morally subjective claims of our time, granting them the humanity and life that they deserve.”

To financially support Created Equal with a special gift, click www.egsnetwork.com/gift/gift.php--Q-giftid--E-89217EA9-AF58-49B1-837B-8CB7CDE..." target="_blank">HERE or send a check to:

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For more information contact Mark Harrington at 614-419-9000 or mark@createdequal.net. 

 

Mark Harrington is the Executive Director of Created Equal. 

From Moonbattery: The Tyranny of ObamaCare Continues to Unfold

According to a lawyer for the Obama Regime, the federal government has the authority to compel you to commit the most appalling crimes against your conscience — even to murder children — regardless of how grievously this would betray your religious beliefs:

The assertion came in the case of Tyndale House Publishers v. Sebelius, a challenge to the Obama administration’s regulation requiring health-care plans to cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.

Tyndale is a for-profit corporation that publishes Bibles, biblical commentaries and other religious works. …

As a matter of religious principle, the foundation believes that human life begins at conception and that abortion is wrong.

The corporation self-insures, providing its employees with a generous health-care plan. But, in keeping with its religious faith, it does not in any way provide abortions. For this reason, Tyndale sued the Obama administration, arguing that the Obamacare regulation that would force it to provide abortion-inducing drugs and IUDs in its health-care plan violated its right to the free-exercise of religion.

In the Regime’s corner: Benjamin Berwick, a lawyer for the Civil Division of the Justice Department.

Berwick argued here — as the administration has argued in other cases where private businesses are challenging the sterilization-contraception-abortifacient mandate — that once people form a corporation to conduct business they lose their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion insofar as their business is concerned.

In the face of this argument, [US District Judge Reggie] Walton asked an interesting question. His wife, a graduate of Georgetown Medical School, is a physician. She has incorporated her medical practice. Does that mean, according to the Obama administration’s argument, that the federal government can force her to act against her religious faith in the conduct of her medical practice?

Berwick’s alarming answer: Yes.

Did you think those manning the ovens at Auschwitz were working on a voluntary basis?

On a tip from Steve A.

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40 Days For Life: DAY 15: Closed!

Dear Deacon, There’s a theme that ties together today’s update -- God hears your prayer ... and He answers. Here’s what I mean…. ----------------------------------------------------- EUGENE, OREGON ----------------------------------------------------- “I want to spread some very awesome news!!!” That’s the email I received from Lynda in Eugene – complete with all three exclamation marks. The Bours Health Center – the abortion facility where faithful volunteers have prayed during EIGHT 40 Days for Life campaigns – has shut its doors. Vigil participants watched as signs, drapes and banners came down. Later that day, “we rejoiced, praising the Lord and hugging and high-fiving during our 40 Days for Life meeting,” Lynda said. The center’s web site announces its closing – and refers any potential clients to a Planned Parenthood facility in town. So, the Eugene team is planning to move its prayer vigil – to Planned Parenthood! “God bless!” Lynda said. “And share the good news!!!” ----------------------------------------------------- PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLOSURES ----------------------------------------------------- One year ago this Friday, our national director David Bereit and I boarded a plane for Iowa – where it was quite frigid. We were on our way to Storm Lake, Iowa – where a former Planned Parenthood manager, who was forced out of her job after 17 years, had prayed long and hard before deciding to do the unthinkable ... … she led a 40 Days for Life campaign outside her former workplace! As a result of this prayerful campaign and her leadership, Planned Parenthood was forced to close that location on March 1, 2012. The closure was an embarrassment for Planned Parenthood, which tried its best to downplay the impact of this courageous former worker. Their plan was to just send their clients to their center down the road in Spencer, Iowa. Not quite a full year after closing the Storm Lake facility, Planned Parenthood just announced they are now closing that location in Spencer! In fact, Planned Parenthood has just announced its intention to close six of its facilities – Spencer plus another location in Iowa, as well as four others in Wisconsin. These are not locations where 40 Days for Life vigils have taken place, but it’s certainly good news. It’s a huge blessing … and proof – to me and many faithful volunteers – that prayer is effective. There have been numerous 40 Days for Life campaigns in both of these states, and these closures show momentum is continuing to build – momentum directly related to this movement of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. The former worker in Storm Lake is Sue Thayer. She is now a leading voice against the controversial new procedure known as webcam abortions, where an abortionist in one location “examines” a client over the internet before pressing a button that dispenses the abortion pill for the woman in a distant facility. Sue’s courage and this controversial new abortion technique both challenge us to do more. Her journey shows what God has done and acts as an invitation to us. Sue’s invitation to trust God is featured in Chapter 37 of the 40 Days for Life book. http://40daysforlife.com/book Today's devotional is from Carmen Pate, a member of the 40 Days for Life board of directors. ------------------------------------------------------ DAY 15 INTENTION ------------------------------------------------------ Pray that we will not become defeated by the enemy's attacks but rather call on the name of the Lord who is on our side and our help in time of trouble. ------------------------------------------------------ SCRIPTURE ------------------------------------------------------ What if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us? They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger. Praise the Lord, who did not let their teeth tear us apart! Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. -- Psalm 124:2,3,6,8 ------------------------------------------------------ REFLECTION by Carmen Pate, 40 Days for Life ------------------------------------------------------ The enemy attacks in many ways, but one of his favorites is to slander us with hopes of tarnishing our reputation and character, and ultimately to defeat our good work for the Lord. It is interesting to note however that it is usually not the slander that causes harm to our testimony, but our response to the slander. Proverbs 24:10 says, "If you faint in the day of adversity your strength is small." If we are applying God's truths to our lives moment by moment, we are not swayed by the lies of the enemy and we will be strong. Standing on the front lines, armed with God's truth, places you in the battlefield for the mind. As you are prepared to present words of love, for the sake of the unborn and for the distraught and confused women and men who are entering the abortion facilities, know that the enemy has prepared his forces to attack your mind. Unkind words from a protester, or vicious lies in the local paper about who you are and what your mission is, can indeed be hurtful. But rather than give in to defeat, that is the time to shine for the Lord, standing firm, as you call on Him to defeat the enemy. Remember the words of Romans 8:31, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Let's stand strong for those who need us most. ------------------------------------------------------ PRAYER ------------------------------------------------------ Dear Lord, help us to ignore the verbal attacks of the enemy and instead turn to You, our refuge and strength. Help us to find shelter in the blessed promises and provisions of Your Word. Thank you that no enemy can defeat us, and we praise You knowing that nothing can separate us from Your love. In the name of Jesus, we come to You, Amen. ------------------------------------------------------ PRINTABLE DEVOTIONAL ------------------------------------------------------ To download today's devotional as a formatted, printable PDF to share with friends: http://40daysforlife.com/docs/spring2013day15print.pdf For Life, Shawn Carney Campaign Director 40 Days for Life PS: Please share the good news! Stories about your own 40 Days for Life experiences are always welcome. You may post a response to today's blog entry at: http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=4101 PPS: To get the rest of the story, get the new 40 Days for Life book at:  http://40daysforlife.com/book

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Anti-Abortion Picketing of Opryland Resort During National Religious Broadcasters Convention

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NASHVILLE, Feb. 27, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) will display large abortion photos at the Opryland Resort & Convention Center, now part of the Marriott International hotel network, beginning March 1-5, 2013, during the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.

Marriott International has admitted in writing that it permits its own hotels and those of Marriott franchisees to donate to Planned Parenthood, America's largest abortion provider. Marriott has also acknowledged in writing that Marriott money has been donated to Planned Parenthood, but refuses to ban this inhumane practice.

The Marriott hotel network consists of many corporations that collectively form a single, integrated, business entity. CBR's anti-abortion pickets will become a regular presence at the Opryland Resort & Convention Center until Marriott International prohibits Planned Parenthood donations from any of its Marriott hotels or those of its Marriott franchisees.

The first time a corporation donates to Planned Parenthood, that corporation becomes, by definition, a Planned Parenthood corporate donor. That donor status places that corporation on a Planned Parenthood donor boycott list. Corporations on that boycott list are subject to picketing. Every Planned Parenthood corporate donor, however, qualifies for removal from the donor boycott list by simply promising to never give again. Marriott International explicitly refuses to make that promise. They will, therefore, be picketed until they change their minds. Marriott guests are entitled to know that Marriott International permits its hotels and the hotels of its franchisees to donate some percentage of their room rates to organizations which kill babies.

CBR staff and volunteers will maintain a lawful presence at the entrance to this property in the same manner in which CBR will soon display identical aborted baby photos at Marriott properties across the country and around the world. Many Marriott guests at other locations have thanked CBR for exposing Marriott's refusal to prohibit Marriott hotels from supporting Planned Parenthood. Many have assured CBR that they would not return as guests until Marriott International reforms its socially irresponsible philanthropic policy. A simple management directive would serve this purpose with regard to its own hotels. A similar prohibition could be imposed by a letter to franchisees, announcing that donations to Planned Parenthood will henceforth be regarded as tarnishing the Marriott brand, in violation of Marriott franchise agreements.

For more information, contact CBR Southeast Director Fletcher Armstrong, PhD at 865-776-1312 or fletcher@CBRinfo.org. Inquiries may also be directed to CBR Executive Director Gregg Cunningham at 714-240-6976 or CBR@CBRinfo.org.