Woman Arrested for Assaulting Her Boyfriend… With a Hamburger

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During an argument over infidelity, a Florida woman threw a hamburger at her boyfriend, striking him in the eye and landing her in jail.

According to cops, Rykihia Moore and Mario Thornton were bickering Saturday evening over Moore reportedly “being unfaithful.”

In the midst of the verbal beef inside a Clearwater home, the 27-year-old Moore “took a hamburger” and threw it at Thornton, her beau of 12 months. The burger, a criminal complaint alleges, struck Thornton in the eye. (Read more from “Woman Arrested for Assaulting Her Boyfriend… With a Hamburger” HERE)

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Why Are Americans Renouncing Their Citizenship in Record Numbers?

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In a survey conducted by the University of Kent between December 2014 and January 2015, 1,546 U.S. citizens and former citizens were asked why they no longer wanted to be Americans. Survey participants stated that high taxes were the primary reason for renouncing their citizenship. But the survey also found that contrary to popular belief, income was not a key factor in their decision.

“Of those who have renounced or relinquished US citizenship (142 of the total respondents), nearly half (43%) have annual pre-tax household incomes of under $100,000 (USD). There is, similarly, very little difference in renunciation intention between those with lower incomes and those with higher incomes: of US citizen respondents with annual household incomes under $100,000 (USD), 28% are actively thinking of renouncing; of US citizen respondents with incomes above $250,000 (USD), 33% are actively thinking of doing so.”

In 2014, the government raised the fee for those wishing to formally relinquish their U.S. citizenship from $450 to $2,350. But nearly a third of those surveyed say they are still thinking about doing it anyway. . .

The record number of American natives who have renounced their U.S. citizenship is in sharp contrast to the much larger rise in immigrants coming to America. An estimated 41.3 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, currently live in the United States and their numbers grew by 1.4 million people between 2010 and 2013, according to the Census Bureau. The largest number – 11.6 million – are from Mexico. . .

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) explained that during the next decade, immigrants will make up the largest share of the U.S. population ever recorded in American history:“The [Census] Bureau projected the future size of the immigrant (foreign-born) population and found that by 2023 immigrants will account for more than one in seven U.S. residents (51 million).” (Read more from “Record Number of Americans Renounced Their US Citizenship in 2015” HERE)

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Alaska’s Joint Army-Air Force Base Promotes, Sponsors First Drag Queen Event for Families, Children

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Using federal tax dollars, Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) is promoting a “family event” involving drag queens and the transgender “Rev. Drew Phoenix” – formerly Ann Gordon – who made national headlines over her sex change and effort to keep her Methodist credentials several years ago.

The base’s first drag queen event, published on JBER’s official Facebook page, announces “special drag performances by: Hank and Callie”:

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Apparently, the military base believes that this is a family-friendly event, stating that “family members are encouraged to attend.”

The military base’s efforts to promote the LGBT agenda has drawn a sharp reaction from service members. The comments on the military installation’s Facebook page are overwhelmingly opposed to the event and the efforts of the military brass to characterize it as “family” appropriate. Here are just a few of the comments:

The keynote speaker for the event – the so-called “Reverend Drew Phoenix” – told the annual United Methodist Church conference in 2007 that, “My transition to live fully as the male I know myself to be is very personal and deeply spiritual,” Phoenix told the annual conference. “As I continue to transition, to fully claim myself as a male, I find myself coming home to the child God created me to be. I find myself joyful, whole, and peaceful. And I find myself even more effective as a pastor.”

Walt Heyer, another individual who lived the transgender lifestyle and actually went through a surgical gender reassignment surgery – and then regretted it – fundamentally disagrees with the former Rev. Ann Gordon, and the efforts of the U.S. Military to promote transgenderism as “normal”:

Hillary Clinton State Dept Accused of Covering up Investigations on Sex Crimes [+video]

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By Jim Hoft. The Obama-Hillary State Department was accused of covering up the illicit sexual escapades of US Consul General Donald Moore in Italy . . .

Now this…

A new report from a State Department whistle blower suggests that key sections from an inspector general’s report were removed to protect Hillary Clinton politically before she stepped down as Secretary of State in late 2012.

Similar accusations made headlines in 2013. (Read more from “Hillary Clinton State Dept Accused of Covering up Investigations on Sex Crimes” HERE)


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As the Democratic Field Grows, Hillary Clinton Campaign Urges Focus on the Primary

By Dan Merica. Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager had one message for her top supporters ahead of her kick off next week: We now have three opponents, so keep your focus on the primary.

In a memo obtained by CNN from a recipient, Robby Mook, the campaign’s manager, told supporters that while they now have “more than 11,000 active volunteers in all 50 states,” the Democratic side is not going to be a cakewalk.

“The field is competitive,” writes Mook in a memo titled, “The Next Phase of the Campaign.” “In the last two weeks alone, we have seen three new candidates enter the Democratic primary. And polls show that our party wants that competitive primary.”

Mook adds that “Becoming the Democratic nominee is never easy. Nor should it be.”

“Voters and caucus-goers want to know their candidate is tested and ready to represent their values and priorities in the general election,” Mook writes in the memo that was sent Tuesday afternoon. “While we know all that Hillary has done in her life to stand up for our families and our country, we also know that she’ll have to work hard to earn every vote and every delegate.” (Read more from this story HERE)

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Feds Now Trying to Force Employers Nationwide to Allow Transgender People to Use Opposite-Sex Bathrooms [+video]

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The federal government is strongly urging employers to give transgender employees access to bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, marking a new policy front in the fast-moving campaign for transgender equality.

“… It is essential for employees to be able to work in a manner consistent with how they live the rest of their daily lives, based on their gender identity,” the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wrote in a four-page Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers posted last week on the agency’s Web site.

[Listen to this interview with an ex-transgender man who went through surgery and has strong views on the transgender debate]

The guide is explicit that restroom access for transgender workers is both a civil rights issue and a health and safety one.

“Restricting employees to using only restrooms that are not consistent with their gender identity, or segregating them from other workers by requiring them to use gender-neutral or other specific restrooms, singles those employees out and may make them fear for their physical safety,” OSHA, an arm of the Labor Department wrote, calling its guidance “Best Practices” for employers throughout the country.

In some workplaces, “questions can arise… about which facilities certain employees can use,” OSHA said, then explained that someone’s “internal gender identity” may be different from the sex they were assigned at birth. “A person who identifies as a man should be permitted to use men’s bathrooms, and a person who identifies as a woman should be permitted to use women’s restrooms.” (Read more from “Feds: Transgender People Should Use Bathroom of Gender They Identify As” HERE)

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Pastor Calls Sharpton out When He Asks for Money in Church: ‘You’re Nothing but a PIMP!’

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A black pastor fed up with charlatan Al Sharpton called out the race hustler as a “pimp” during anti-violence rally Saturday in Connecticut.

And oily Al promptly proved the man’s point by acting just like one, according to news reports.

According to CT News Junkie and Fox CT, the scene unfolded at Shiloh Baptist Church in Hartford where an overwhelmingly black crowd had marched in an anti-violence rally following the deaths of four people in a spate of shootings since mid-May . . .

In the church, Sharpton was challenged from the pews by the Rev. Marcus Mosiah Jarvis, pastor of Christ the Cornerstone Praise and Western Tabernacle church, CT News Junkie reported.

“How dare you ask the people of Hartford to give you their money?” Jarvis shouted. “You’re nothing but a pimp!” (Read more from “Pastor Calls Sharpton out When He Asks for Money in Church: ‘You’re Nothing but a PIMP!'” HERE)

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Franklin Graham: Boycott Businesses Promoting Homosexual Sin

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The Supreme Court is on the verge of making a decision that will change the way gay couples are perceived in the United States. It is poised to make a decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, a same-sex marriage case against a florist who refused her services to a couple wanting a floral arrangement for their wedding. The decision could come any day now.

This case has liberals and conservatives alike on the edge of their seats in anticipation. One person who has expressed concern over which way the court will lean is evangelist Franklin Graham.

As a popular Christian leader, Graham is using social media to voice his concerns over this landmark court case. On Friday, Graham posted a comment on Facebook, attacking the idea of doing business with establishments that promote or associate themselves with homosexual couples. He urged his followers to take up the cause and not frequent companies that “promote sin.”

The statement from Graham is causing a stir in the internet world. It has 92,936 likes, 9,611 comments, and has been shared 41,358 times. The reactions to Graham’s call to boycott businesses that promote gays are split. While some are applauding his effort to support businesses that are keeping their standards more in line with Christian values, others are accusing him of being a bigot and a false prophet. (Read more from “Franklin Graham Facing MAJOR Backlash After Urging Boycott for Businesses Promoting Homosexual Sin” HERE)

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The Obama Administration Trained Muslim Terrorist; Now He Is Working for ISIS and Just Made This Message to America [+video]

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Photo Credit: Shoebat By Theodore Shoebat. A major Muslim terrorist commander, Gulmurod Khalimov, was being trained by both the Bush and Obama administrations and is now using his training to plan attacks against Americans and others. He just recently declared this message to Americans:

Allah willing, we will find your towns, we will come to your homes, and we will kill you

According to the report:

A Tajikistan man who received counter-terrorism training in the United States has now joined the barbaric Islamic group ISIS and is threatening to do harm to Americans in a newly-released video.

“Listen, you American pigs: I’ve been to America three times. I saw how you train soldiers to kill Muslims,” Gulmurod Khalimov declares in an online video, dressed in black and holding a sniper rifle. “You taught your soldiers how to surround and attack, in order to exterminate Islam and Muslims

(Read more from “The Obama Administration Trained Muslim Terrorist, Now He Is Working for ISIS and Just Made This Message to America” HERE)

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Iraqi Shiite Militia Commander Threatens to Attack US

By Bill Roggio. The leader of a powerful Iraqi Shiite militia that is operating against the Islamic State has threatened to attack the US after members of allied militia were killed in a blast in Anbar province over the weekend. Shiite militias have claimed that the US killed the militiamen in an airstrike, but US officials denied that aircraft were operating in the area when the blast took place.

Akram Abbas al Kabi, the “secretary general” of the Harakat Nujaba, an Iranian-backed Shiite militia, blamed the US for a an explosion near Abu Ghraib last weekend that purportedly killed 10 members of the League of the Righteous, or Asaib al Haq. Some Iraqis have claimed that the US executed an airstrike that killed the militiamen.

Kabi, who is listed by the US as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist for activities in Iraq, said all Shiite militias will get “vengeance” for the purported airstrike, which was carried out by “the treacherous American aircraft.”

“All resistance movements will seek revenge in a timely manner,” Kabi stated.

Kabi is the second militia commander who has threatened to attack US interests in Iraq so far this year. In early May, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr threatened to attack US personnel inside Iraq and beyond if the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would have recognized Kurdistan and the Sunnis in western Iraq as their own independent countries. (Read more from “Iraqi Shiite Militia Commander Threatens to Attack US” HERE)

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China: Staking Claim in the New World Order

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In 2009, billionaire establishment power broker George Soros, a close ally and financier of Obama, called for the communist regime ruling mainland China to “own” what he referred to as the “New World Order.” Speaking to the Financial Times about what Obama should discuss while in Beijing, the self-styled philanthropist declared that the United States and the U.S. dollar were on their way down, and that the Communist Party regime must step up to the plate.

“I think you really need to bring China into the creation of a new world order, financial world order,” Soros told the Financial Times. “I think you need a new world order, that China has to be part of the proc­ess of creating it and they have to buy in, they have to own it in the same way as the United States owns … the current order.”

It was hardly a slip up. The next year, while receiving the Globalist of the Year award from the Canadian International Council, Soros again called for China’s participation in the emerging global-governance regime. “They have now got to accept responsibility for world order and the interests of other people as well,” declared Soros. “Today, China has not only a more vigorous economy, but actually a better functioning government than the United States” . . .

In a joint statement put out by Obama and then-Chinese dictator Hu Jintao, Obama made clear that he was fully on board with the agenda. “The United States reiterated that it welcomes a strong, prosperous, and successful China that plays a greater role in world affairs,” the declaration reads.

The internationalists’ intent to make China an integral part of the New World Order — to even “own” it, according to Soros — should tell us a great deal about the type of New World Order Soros and his ilk envision. After all, not only does the People’s Republic of China hold the distinction of murdering more people than any other regime in history, but China today still brutalizes and oppresses its citizens, from forcing women to undergo abortions in compliance with its one-child policy to persecuting believers for practicing their faith (see the related article “Chinese Tyranny 2.0”). If such a regime is “actually a better functioning government than the United States,” as Soros claims, how would Soros have the new world function? How about his fellow globalists? (Read more from “China: Staking Claim in the New World Order” HERE)

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Marriage: It’s Not Political, It’s Biblical‏

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Dozens of books have been written in recent years by liberal theologians in an attempt to demonstrate that homosexuality, homosexual relationships, and homosexual marriage are fully consistent with Biblical Christianity. I have grown weary of reading that King David was a homosexual because he loved Jonathan, or that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of a lack of hospitality, or — my personal favorite — that the Bible never actually addresses the issue of homosexual behavior. I would suggest that the fact that some of such foolishness comes from persons who once professed to be Christians is yet further evidence of the fact that the nation — indeed the world — is well along in the Biblically-foretold age of apostasy. During such a period, we are warned about the prevalence of false teachers. How can we tell whether a teacher is false? Who can rely on? But for the fact that we have the Word of God, we would be adrift on such matters.

One ubiquitous question asked among Christians for a decade has been: What Would Jesus Do? A recent article by Dave Daubenmire thoughtfully addressed the topic: Would Jesus Officiate at a Same Sex Marriage? His article discusses how we can know, for certain, the answer to this question by studying exactly what His Father has revealed to us through the Holy Scriptures as to what He intended marriage to be. If you do not believe that the Bible is the Word of God, this article may mean nothing to you. But even if you don’t believe the Bible, I challenge you to read through it, so that you at least you can say you have heard the other side.

Before we address homosexual marriage it is imperative that we seek to know how the Definer of marriage identifies marriage. We begin in Genesis 2:18-25 18Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” 24For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

God is the one who said that it was not good for man to be alone. So when He created a helper for man He created a woman — not another man. God established monogamy as the pattern for marriage. From Genesis 1:1 1In the beginning God…. We know that the universe is not a chance happening. God is intimately involved with our existence. God putting His stamp on creation in a unique way creates man. Genesis 1:26-28 26Then God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 27And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.4

Man is created to have dominion over the earth. Before family comes purpose. The purpose was that mankind would have dominion. Remember, the fall of man has not occurred, yet. Man is still in a perfect environment. Genesis 1:31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. When God created man, He created the capstone of His creation whose job it is to run His creation.

In Genesis 2:18 the woman comes on to the scene. 18Then the Lord God said, it is not good for man to be alone, I will make him a helper suitable for him. Woman was conceived in the mind of God not Adam’s. Please note that this is different than the creation of male and female animals. Male and female animals were all created at the same time. The first creation of man and woman occurred at different times. I believe the reason why this happened is because male and female human beings were given the responsibility of dominion. Animals were not. Whenever you delegate dominion you necessarily have hierarchy.

Genesis 2:21 21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. Eve is created out of Adam. So Adam is only half the man he used to be because he loses one side. In order for him to become a whole man he has to get his rib back. But his rib is now located in somebody else. He can’t take the rib out of somebody else and put it back. So in order to get his rib back he has to take hold of somebody else’s life, and make this somebody part of his life to get the rib back that he lost. But getting his rib back means he gets another half he didn’t count on, because he not only gets his rib, he gets her rib, too.

That means, gentlemen, that what marriage does is bring back what you lost, with a bonus. That is why she is different from you. And, that means, ladies, if you are going to understand your rib, you have got to understand Adam because half of your ribs belong to him. So in order for you to understand who you are, in the marriage relationship, you need to understand who he is, because half of what makes you you, is part of what makes him him. So in order for both of you to become all that both of you were meant to be, both of you have to merge into each other. If you don’t take from your mate their strengths you do not become all you were created to be.

God performs the marriage ceremony and Adam says Genesis 2:23 23This is now (he doesn’t say “she” is now) he says “This is now” meaning this new relationship, he is talking about marriage. This is now bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman because she was taken from man. Adam names her. He names her after himself. His name in Hebrew is Eish. The Hebrew word for woman is Eisha. In the first marriage, she takes his name. All Eve knows when she is created is that she is there. She doesn’t know who she fully is until she receives his name. That is why in marriage there is a transfer of names from the woman’s last name to the man’s last name, because she is now merged into another purpose.

There are at least six purposes for which God create marriage and family. The first reason for marriage is procreation: having babies. The Bible makes grand statements about having babies, the more the merrier. Why the big deal? Remember God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply so that you will have dominion over the earth, the reason was not just to have people that looked like them, it had to do with the theology of dominion. Dominion meant to reproduce yourself and spread out all over the earth, so that all over this planet there would be somebody ruling under God’s authority. Mankind cannot perpetuate itself based on homosexual marriage.

Secondly, marriage is self-realization. “Adam I will make a helpmate for you.” As long as you are single, God is your completeness. When it is time to marry, God is in the process of bringing someone along to fix up the rest of us to make us complete. The reason Adam was given a wife was to complete him. God doesn’t give you somebody just like you. For if both of you are the same, then one of you would be unnecessary. He gives someone who is different from you so that you can make up the differences, so that you can fulfill the complete purpose of God that He has ordained.

Thirdly, marriage is a divine Illustration. You are a type of Christ in the church. The Bible says that you are the bride and Christ is the bridegroom. You are to illustrate a greater reality of God to His people. So a bad marriage means a bad illustration. Ephesians 5:32 tells us that this is an illustration of the relationship of Christ. Homosexual marriage is not a reflection of divine illustration. In fact, one could make an argument that it borderlines on blasphemy.

Fourthly, marriage brings about companionship. God created marriage for companionship. Genesis 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.” There is a great blessing in sharing life with the one you love — your companion. God created Adam and Eve when He declared that it was not good for man to be alone.

Fifthly, marriage brings enjoyment. God created sex for enjoyment, in the context of marriage. I Corinthians 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Outside of the context of heterosexual marriage there might be “pleasure for a season,” (Hebrews 11:25) but there can be no true, lasting enjoyment.

Sixthly, marriage is for protection. God desires a godly seed. Malachi 2:15 15But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. God knows that marriage provides protection for the family.

But we now live in a lost and fallen world. And America is not exempt from this broken world. In fact, there are many reasons to believe that America, far from being an example for the nations, is now leading the nations in the wrong direction. A recent article on systemic corruption in America is an eye-opening compendium of the near complete fallenness of government, corporations, and the people.

The Book of Romans gives us a description of the end-times society when Jesus will return and God will pour out His wrath, beginning with Chapter 1. 21For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Professing to be wise they became fools. I have seen men with degrees, piled on top of degrees that get up and say how you and I evolved from monkeys. Maybe they did, but I sure didn’t! Some of the greatest intellectual minds of the universe talk about how we evolved from a single cell protoplasmic blob! That is beyond the comprehension of the mind. If you saw a Boeing 747 flying across the sky, wouldn’t you assume that because it could fly, it can carry people, its seats are placed in rows, and that it can do all the things it can do; wouldn’t you assume that somebody thought it up, and somebody put it together? Certainly you would not conclude that it was the accidental product of a tornado blowing through a junkyard. Yet, the same mind can look in the sky and see a bird fly by and say, “product of chance.”

23And they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. They worshiped the creature rather than the Creator. We have the worship of the creature going on around us on a global scale. Then look what happened — here is the tragic payoff. 24Therefore God gave them over in the lust of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. 25For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever, Amen. Now look what God did, because they worshiped the creature rather than the Creator, God steps back. It is as if God has parameters, or limits, as to how far evil can go. He says that evil can only go so far. But, God says if you are going to knock against those limits, and if you knock against them long enough I am going to step back. I will let you foul your own nest and if you want to live like a pagan, you can. When He steps back what happened? There was an outbreak of immorality. Does that sound familiar?

26For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way the men abandoned that natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own person the due penalty of their error.5 God says if you are going to live like that I am going to step back. What happens? An outbreak of sexual immorality begins. It culminates in an outbreak of homosexuality. We are there! We have arrived!

28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper. When God steps back there is an outbreak of immorality. When we continue to push up against those limits God will step back again, and there is an outbreak of homosexuality. When we continue to push those limits, God steps back again and turns us over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper. It is a time when lawlessness begins to rule and mankind does not have any standards by which they live by. Paul finishes the chapter by listing signs of depravity.

29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. With all the attention given to homosexuality in the media, it is no wonder that Gallup recently found that the American public estimates that 23 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian, while the actual number Gallup finds to be 3.8 percent. And the Williams Institute finds a total of 390,000 married same-sex couples. However, regardless of the number of homosexuals in America, the definition of marriage is not decided by plebiscite. God has defined marriage as between one man and one woman. If a man and a man or a woman and a woman desire to be together, that is not marriage. Marriage has been defined from the beginning, by the One who created us male and female.

Most people know the story of Jonah: he was a prophet whom God told to go to Nineveh and preach a message of repentance. Nineveh was the capitol of Assyria which was located 550 miles Northeast of Israel. But Jonah decides he would go to Tarshish, which was 2,500 miles to the Northwest. Jonah is a renegade preacher who does not want to do what God called him to do. In his rebellion, he is tossed overboard of a ship and is swallowed by a big fish. He was there three days and three nights and was regurgitated on to dry land.

After Jonah goes on the first submarine ride in history, he agrees to do what God asked him to do. Jonah goes to Nineveh and preaches to the city, and in one day the entire city repents. Jonah 3:5-9 5Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. 6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. 7He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flocks taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. 8“But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. 9“Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

Notice this about the people of Nineveh. Conversion changed the political environment of Nineveh. It didn’t happen because they made better laws, hired more policemen, or provided more arms for the people to reduce the violence. The violence was removed because the people met a living God. The thing that changes people and brings about peace to an environment is when men repent before a living God. Nineveh still had the same King, the same Congress, the same Supreme Court, and the same city Council. The difference now was there was a heart transformation and that translated into actions and behavior. That is the only thing that will help America change. When the people of America, leaders of America, and Supreme Court Justices of America encounter the Living God who has the power to forgive, and to transform our hearts, then we will see a new America. It doesn’t matter who is in public office; it matters if their hearts are committed to the Living God.

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Dr. James Taylor, Senior Pastor at Christ’s Church of Norman in Norman, Oklahoma. https://www.ccnonline.biz. He is the author of the forthcoming book “It’s Biblical, Not Political: How to Line Candidates up Biblically.”

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