MassResistance: How to Kill Bad Bills at the State Legislature

How MassResistance stopped bad anti-family bills in the Massachusetts Legislature in this year’s session

Helping lead the charge in state legislatures across the country

December 30 2016

A group of MassResistance activists telling it like it is, in a State Rep's office in the Massachusetts State House.

This past year the LGBT and Planned Parenthood lobbies continued to file radical, anti-family legislation in state legislatures across the country. They have become even more emboldened in the wake of the “gay marriage” Supreme Court ruling. Unfortunately, they’ve been successful in too many states.

But in Massachusetts, MassResistance was a major force in stopping some truly horrible bills in the 2015-2016 legislative session.

The only major LGBT bill that got passed was the transgender “bathroom” bill. In our opinion, that was due to a terrible and feckless strategy by the pro-family establishment (see below).

Around the country, MassResistance helps pro-family people confront their state legislators to keep bad anti-family bills from passing. Fighting against the well-funded LGBT and Planned Parenthood lobbies isn’t easy. But we’ve been doing it for many years.

Our approach for success is not complicated: (1) Be aggressive, not wimpy. (2) Don’t compromise on the truth or on your principles. (3) Ignore what the mainstream pro-family groups do, as they often make fatal concessions to please their wary donors and the biased media.

Here are the major anti-family bills that were filed in Massachusetts, and what we did to stop them:

1. Bill to ban mental health counseling for youth on sexual orientation issues. (H97)

The LGBT movement is very aggressively pushing this bill in dozens of states. It would ban all professional counseling to youth on unwanted homosexuality or transgender issues. It’s a very cruel bill. Many youths have been sexually molested and desperately want and need help.

What MassResistance did:

We worked with pro-family activists from around the country who came to testify at the public hearing. We made a videos of the pro-family testimony, and also of the outrageous testimony by LGBT activists. Then we lobbied very aggressively in the State House and didn’t pull punches about the harm this bill would cause children. (Here's what we handed out.)

Still, the LGBT used its lobbying skills to get it out of committee and onto the floor of the House on Jan. 29, 2016. We immediately got the GOP leadership (and a few friendly high ranking Democrats) to use parliamentary techniques to stall it until the end of the session. Luckily, that worked!

Important MassResistance links on fighting H97:

About the anti-therapy bill H97
Courageous pro-family testimony at public hearing
Outrageous LGBT lobby testimony at public hearing
Lobbying in State House to stop H97
Bill H97 stalled in Mass. House

MassResistance VIDEO: Nothing but Lies - Absurd LGBT testimony pushing their 'anti-therapy' bill. (1 min 58 sec.)

2. Bill to effectively mandate Planned Parenthood comprehensive sex-ed in all public schools (S2062)

This was Planned Parenthood’s major legislative goal for the session. This bill would require any school “sex-ed” program to use Planned Parenthood’s radical content on sexuality, homosexuality, abortion, and other topics. It is a nightmare. Currently, schools can design their own programs. In addition to that, the bill would water down the Parental Notification Law to make it harder for parents to find out what their kids are being taught.

What MassResistance did:

In previous years we had stopped this bill in committee, so we knew the drill. But this time it got out of committee and went right to the Senate in November, 2015. The Senate has several rabid pro-LGBT/Planned Parenthood Democrats who pushed this hard. Despite a good fight by GOP senators, the Senate passed it on Nov. 18. (See our report here.)

The bill then went to the House Ways and Means Committee. MassResistance lobbied that committee very hard. We described the horrors this would bring to children. They were pretty shocked, and sat on the bill until the end of this session (end of Dec. 2016).

Pushing hard. Planned Parenthood had a huge "lobby day" at the State House to push their bills to legislators. In photo, Attorney General Maura Healey, an "out" lesbian and strong sex-ed supporter, addresses the group. [MassResistance photo.]

3. Bill to repeal the “sodomy laws” and other so-called “archaic” laws. (H4392)

Laws regarding public behavior were originally rooted in biblical morality and kept society intact. Massachusetts law still makes sodomy and homosexuality illegal and specifically bans “the abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or with a beast.” There are a handful of other laws still on the books related to adultery, lewd behavior, providing an abortion, allowing a restaurant or bar to allow prostitution or illicit behavior, etc.  Every session the “progressive” delegation files one or more bills to repeal these.

What MassResistance did:

This session MassResistance lobbied the Judiciary Committee, where the bill was originally filed. But this year it got out of committee and on June 20, 2016, made it to the second reading House floor. But then it stalled and never moved forward. We have a feeling that one of the Democrats we lobbied did something.

But it didn’t end there. The House’s inaction angered the ACLU and its allies. So they decided to try an “end around” strategy. In October 2016, they persuaded the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission, an obscure state agency, to take it up at their State House public hearing (even though this has almost nothing to do with sentencing issues). The Sentencing Commission could then formally request that the Legislature repeal these laws. It would be the push the bill needed.

We jumped right on to that. We got people from across the state to flood the Sentencing Commission with angry complaints that they need to stick to their statutory duties and stay out of the culture war. When we called them recently, they appear to have backed off. They told us they have put off any action “indefinitely.”

4. Bill to help girls get abortions from Planned Parenthood without their parents finding out. (S2138)

This bill, cleverly labeled as a “an act to protect access to confidential healthcare,” escaped notice from everyone but MassResistance at the beginning of the session. Luckily, we don’t just read the titles; we  read the actual text!

Normally, health insurance companies send a statement of all medical procedures and charges for the whole family to the primary person on the policy. This bill – filed by Planned Parenthood – would require the companies to instead send an individual statement to a family member, if requested, and not notify the primary policyholder. It specifically describes “reproductive and sexual health” as one of the types of services it would affect. In other words, if a teenager goes to Planned Parenthood for an abortion, her parents wouldn’t be notified by the insurance company.

What MassResistance did:

This bill meandered through several Legislative committees, and passed the Senate on March 10, 2016 with the help of left-wing senators.  Then it went to the House, but languished in the “scheduling” committee.

But suddenly, on Friday, Dec. 23, State House News mentioned that the House was preparing to pass it in an “informal session” – during last week of the year when no one was paying attention. We quickly got in touch with the GOP leadership and other key Reps, explained what this bill really does and why it’s so outrageous, and got it pulled at the last minute.

The one bad bill that got passed . . .

Transgender public accommodations,
a.k.a. “bathroom” bill (H1577)

Passing so-called “transgender rights” in public accommodations was the Massachusetts LGBT lobby’s major goal for this session. It had the support of the Democrat leadership of both houses and, in the end, of the Republican Governor enthusiastically signed it.

We tried as hard as we could to stop it. We had activists going up and down the halls of the State House with aggressive talking points and literature that did not pull punches. We seemed to be making good progress.

But our efforts were overshadowed by the compromises, ineptness, and bad strategies of the well-funded mainstream pro-family movement who stepped in, and the pro-family legislators who followed their lead.

It pains us to say this because they are good, well-meaning people. But in the floor debates and in interviews in the mainstream press, the “pro-family” position was that accepting “transgenderism” is not a problem. That is, public transgender behavior is not a mental health issue, is not a perversion, is not anti-Christian, and is not anti-scientific. Our problem, they said, is that it allows a “likely predator in the bathroom” and is a “privacy” issue. At some level this may be true, but it’s ultimately a losing argument. The LGBT movement got a free ride on the real issues. And they pushed it hard in the State House.

We are planning a larger report on the transgender “bathroom bill” fight in the Massachusetts Legislature, which we believe will be very informative to people everywhere who are faced with this battle. We think that this is a very winnable issue. But not if we are afraid to engage it.

Brian Camenker of MassResistance gives strong testimony against the transgender "bathroom bill" at Massachusetts State House public hearing on 10/6/15.

The battles go on in legislatures across the country

Our opponents may be well funded and well connected. But we have truth -- and passion.

Our MassResistance affiliate in Nebraska, Nebraskans for Founders’ Values, also had great success this past year stopping bills in the Nebraska Legislature. And as we’ve reported, the only reason that California MassResistance wasn’t able to stop the bill there targeting Christian colleges was that several of the colleges themselves caved in to a “compromise” that was no compromise at all. In California, the other side will be back next year, and so will we!

MassResistance is dedicated to helping pro-family people everywhere use the right skills and strategies to successfully confront the well-funded radical groups that are out to change society through state legislation.

We’ll see you all in 2017!

Christians: It's Time for Our Own Stonewall "Riot"

The homosexual hagiography surrounding the Stonewall Inn in New York  City is well known. President Obama made sure of its exalted status when he declared the location a national landmark!

The inn served as a safe space for people who identified as gay. Following another police raid on the inn, the gays fought back, and started fighting for their rights.

Granted, there were sudden police raids. Arbitrary police force is unacceptable.

And yes, every human being has natural rights.

But homosexuality is not a civil right–it’s a behavior.

And now, the riots which exploded on June 28, 1968 have turned into an all-out war against the rights and liberties of law-abiding Americans.

Apparently, the bar was also a mafia hangout. Not sure there was a connection then, but it would be hard not to draw the distinction today.

The “victims” of 1969 have bred the victimizers. The men and women–Christians then who never bothered anyone are now facing angry rants, raids, and rioting of embittered LGBT activists.

In the United States, over thirty states voted to uphold the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. A rogue Supreme Court struck down the legal authority of the state legislatures and the people to impose a radical redefinition of an institution which predates you and me and everyone else.

Here in California, where eight years ago voters in the most Democratic stretches of Los Angeles as well as the most ruby red Republican regions voted to define natural marriage as a constitutional amendment, they have witnessed eight years later the  complete shakedown of their rights.

One pastor in San Francisco faced an angry mob of LGBT activists, who surrounded his church and yelled inside: “We want your son.”

Christians shouldn’t just sit by and wait for things to work their way back to normalcy.

Enough is enough.

It’s time for us to start swinging, to fight back, but not with our fists, but with faith, with coordinated organization, with truth.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12)

Christians were the first community organizers, after all!

Jesus brought together twelve disciples, who in turn preached the word, and caused many thousands more to believe–and still do today!

Consider how the Early Church operated as one:

“And all that believed were together, and had all things common;” (Acts 2:44)

We are one body in Christ, for those who believe on the Name of Jesus.

There is no reason for us to run in fear. There is no excuse for Christians who know the Truth, who trust God for their salvation (here and now, as well as hereafter) to retreat from this unnatural, evil onslaught.

I was talking with another Christian, a strong lady who works with a well-connected, fearless husband. Her reaction to what seems to be a growing feckless community of Christians? Her reaction to the sudden juggernaut of homosexual marriage, transgenderism, homosexual curricula in public schools, plus the unsettling LGBT assault on individual liberties?

“It’s embarrassing!”

We live in California, and we have seen the next stage of the homosexual juggernaut–an attempt to shut down every Christian college in the state and muzzle Christian education for good. We beat back a large part of that agenda, but we cannot claim victory yet.

What has happened in California? All over the country, if not the world?

The Christians have become like dumb sheep, refusing to speak out!

Indeed. How many of us really believe the promises laid out for us in Isaiah?

“14In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

“15Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake."

16Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

“17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.” (Isaiah 54: 14-17)

Do we believe the certainty of victory offered to us through Christ Jesus today?

“37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 37-39)

How much longer before we see men and women losing their lives, not just their livelihood?!

If a rag-tag group of homosexuals in 1969 could rally parades after a riot and a raid in New York City, then surely Christians connected throughout every city in this country, in the world can rise up and push back against this immoral, unsound insanity.

Our kids deserve better.

Our community needs better.

Let’s fight for what is right.

What better way can I say it?

Christians, it’s time for us to have our own Stonewall Riot.

Except we do not have to destroy property.

We are not parading for something that we should be ashamed of.

It’s time to take to the streets. It’s time to declare our righteousness.

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.” (Isaiah 61:1)

It’s time for us to believe that no matter what weapon they form (and there will be weapons formed against us), they will not prosper!

He died for us. He lives for us.

It’s time for us to stand and resist this great evil!

Call the Assembly Appropriations Committee: NO on SB 1146!

SB 1146 passed out of the State Assembly Judiciary Committee along a total party-line vote.

But California MassResistance has only begun putting on the pressure.

Let us retain the perspective that Ricardo Lara and staff were already running scared from our team in front of his Long Beach office.

He has attempted to offer some vapid changes to his legislation, as though has harsh attacks on religious liberty have now simply turned into a set of determinations to inform the public of their Title IX exemptions.

No one is backing down. We are doubling down and demanding that the legislation be pulled.

The next committee hearing before Appropriations takes place on August 3rd.

This month, more team members are going to contact and put pressure on the following legislators.

Contact them NOW, and tell them "VOTE NO ON SB 1146!"

Lorena S. Gonzalez (Chair) – (916) 319-2080

Frank Bigelow (Vice Chair) – (916) 319-2005

Richard Bloom   Dem - 50 – (916) 319-2050

Susan A. Bonilla – (916) 319-2014

Rob Bonta – (916) 319-2018

Ian C. Calderon Dem - 57 – (916) 319-2057

Ling Ling Chang – (916) 319-2055

Tom Daly – (916) 319-2069

Susan Talamantes Eggman – (916) 319-2013

James Gallagher – (916) 319-2003

Eduardo Garcia – (916) 319-2056

Chris R. Holden – (916) 319-2041

Brian W. Jones  –  (916) 319-2071

Jay Obernolte – (916) 319-2033

Bill Quirk –  (916) 319-2020

Miguel Santiago  – (916) 319-2053

Donald P. Wagner – (916) 319-2068

Shirley N. Weber – (916) 319-2079

Jim Wood – (916) 319-2002

It's time to end this tyranny.

The First Amendment is not a suggestion, and the aggressive LGBT agenda will not stop until the churches, the charities, the small businesses, and all Californians of conscience stand up and shout: "STOP!"

STOP SB 1146: Call CA Assembly Appropriations Committee NOW!

State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach, Huntington Park) is a coward.

He is also a bully. Much of the time, the two issues are not exclusive, but sadly complementary.

SB 1146 did pass out of the Assembly  Judiciary Committee, completely along partisan lines.

Assemblyman Donald Wagner did his best to ensure that everyone knew what Ricardo Lara and the Big LGBT Hate Machine are really up to.

SB 1146 is all about opening up more wounds for Social Injustice Warriors to storm Christian colleges and set them up for lawsuits.

No amount of amendments is going to change the unnerving truth about Lara's anti-Christian, anti-Judeo-Christian value agenda.

Ricardo Lara, El Cobarde (Coward, in Spanish)

This is all wrong.

Now, left-wing interests often rely on this subtle tactic employed in the state legislature.

 A certain bill reaches a moment of passage, an element of momentum.

After certain committees, however, the bill lies low.

The state assembly is now on recess.

There will be another hearing on SB 1146 very soon.

August 3rd, to be precise.

Which committee? The Assembly Appropriations Committee.

These are the members, and they need to hear from every Californian up and down the state.

Call each one of them, especially if the assemblymember represents you directly in the legislature.

Tell them loudly and clearly: "Stop the Bigotry! Vote NO on SB 1146!"

Lorena S. Gonzalez (Chair)           Dem - 80             

P.O. Box 942849, Room 2114, 

Sacramento, CA CA 94249-0080; (916) 319-2080

Frank Bigelow (Vice Chair)           Rep - 05               

P.O. Box 942849, Room 6027, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0005; (916) 319-2005

Richard Bloom   Dem - 50             

P.O. Box 942849, Room 2003, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0050; (916) 319-2050

Susan A. Bonilla Dem - 14             

P.O. Box 942849, Room 4140,

Sacramento, CA 94249-0014; (916) 319-2014

Rob Bonta           Dem - 18             

P.O. Box 942849, Room 6012, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0018; (916) 319-2018

Ian C. Calderon Dem - 57             

P.O. Box 942849, Room 2148, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0057; (916) 319-2057

Ling Ling Chang Rep - 55               

P.O. Box 942849, Room 3149, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0055; (916) 319-2055

Tom Daly             Dem - 69             

P.O. Box 942849, Room 3120, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0069; (916) 319-2069

Susan Talamantes Eggman          

P.O. Box 942849, Room 3173, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0013; (916) 319-2013

James Gallagher              

P.O. Box 942849, Room 5128, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0003; (916) 319-2003

Eduardo Garcia Dem - 56

P.O. Box 942849, Room 4162, 

Sacramento,  CA 94249-0056; (916) 319-2056

Roger Hernández            

P.O. Box 942849, Room 5016, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0048; (916) 319-2048

Chris R. Holden Dem - 41

P.O. Box 942849, Room 3152, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0041; (916) 319-2041

Brian W. Jones  Rep - 71

P.O. Box 942849, Room 3141, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0071; (916) 319-2071

Jay Obernolte    Rep - 33

P.O. Box 942849, Room 4116, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0033; (916) 319-2033

Bill Quirk              Dem - 20             

P.O. Box 942849, Room 2163, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0020; (916) 319-2020

Miguel Santiago                Dem - 53

P.O. Box 942849, Room 5119, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0053; (916) 319-2053

Donald P. Wagner            Rep - 68

P.O. Box 942849, Room 3098, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0068; (916) 319-2068

Shirley N. Weber              Dem - 79

P.O. Box 942849, Room 3123, 

Sacramento, CA 94249-0079; (916) 319-2079

Jim Wood            Dem – 02

Tel: (916) 319-2002

LGBT Bigots Discriminate Against Black Pastor

Bishop Ken Adkins of Georgia has not shrunk from the fight against the aggressive, destructive homosexual agenda.

He has taken controversial turns to voice his concerns.

He took on the Big Gay Hate Machine in Jacksonville, Florida and helped crush their attempt to expand a "Human Rights Ordinance"--really, a special rights entitlement for individuals who misidentify or engage in perverse behaviors.

He won the battle at the local level to stop this insane ordinance.

But the Homosexual Haters are bitter, and want to make a severe, fearful example out of him

They are attack the God-fearing bishop along the following lines.

Bishop Ken Adkins

Arthur Goldberg of the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness informed me of the following:

"1. Concerning his residence, the owners of the quiet residential community in which he lives in Georgia were threatened by the gay activists that they would picket and create demonstrations against the Bishop in the community neighborhood and in front of his house. Rather than standing behind him, the landlords gave him and his family a 60 day eviction notice for potentially disturbing the "right of quiet enjoyment" of his fellow tenants. He is seeking to find a new residence and to move his family." 

Notice that the mere threat of loud, disruptive demonstrations terrified the landlord. Nothing actually happened. There is an easy response to this petty thuggery: "Bring it on!" Demonstrations have to be civil and respect. Noise ordinances diminish the extent of any demonstrators' impact in a region.

Notice, however, how they homosexual activists attack their home, their residence, their base of operations. The Alinksky-ite Left has learned that the power of threats is far more effective than the actual act of protest.

"2. Concerning his faith based public relations firm, the activists pressured several of his major clients and succeeded in getting 7 of his major clients to no longer use his services and thus severely cut off his cash flow. His firm is thus in serious financial jeopardy and in order to survive, several of his 11 employees may need to be laid off."

Pressure! Shame! Fear! Human emotions are powerful, and overwhelm reason. "We will take down your businesses if you continue doing business with that bigoted bishop!" It's a small cost to the clients to stop working with one provider. It's a huge loss for the provider, though. This kind of targeted, unrelenting boycott is a big part of the left-wing play book to silence all opposition.

"3. As to his quest for justice in an unrelated personal injury lawsuit, his original attorney resigned his representation.  The attorney who dropped him cited Bishop Adkins "beliefs" and the attorney's own "family situation." (Apparently the attorney had a gay son who wanted Dad to drop the case).  See e,g, http://www.news4jax.com/news/gay-rights-opponent-claims-discrimination.  The attorney was one of the leading plaintiff attorneys and is known to be able to get really good settlements. So, now Bishop Adkins has had start over again and engage a new negligence attorney to represent him and hope that he can still collect a decent settlement."

Habitation, profession, representation.

Personal, polarize, demonize.

This is the Saul Alinksy "Rules for Radicals" play book at work.

Christians, pro-family activists, and advocates for trut and justice need to stop whining and complaining. They need to stop getting huffy and surprised about such perverse attacks from the cowardly left.

We need to turn these tactics onto the very Big Gay Hate Machine!

Check out this link, and find out which businesses, community leaders, and special interests are supporting this destructive pattern of behavior. 

Let's also consider helping out the good Bishop Ken Adkins. He deserves the support of the Body of Christ!

Go Fund Ken Adkins!

Male and Female He Created Them (Deal With It!)

The attack is on.

SJWs on the ground (Credit: Fibonacci Blue)

The Social Justice Warriors (“SJWs” for the younger generation, who have endured their disruptive folly in full force on college campuses) have not stopped with redefining marriage.

They now attack the very notion of male and female. Transgenderism has turned into a splintered political movement, and the culture wars, in connection with this latest destructive fad, are putting pressure on state governments, private businesses, and individual Americans.

President Barack Obama enjoys another dubious distinction, as the first president to mention “transgender” in a State of the Union speech. He has spoken out against the common-sense North Carolina bathroom bill, and just met a non-binary Pakistani in Great Britain during an open forum.

She (or he, or what?) admitted she was really scared to tell the President, since she had not really told anyone else:

“Now I am about to do something terrifying, which is I am coming out to you as a non-binary person, which means that I don’t fit”

A few questions follow: How can she not fit? She has a female name, and no one had a problem with her.

If she has a problem (yes, I am going with “she” since she identified herself as “Maria”), it begins and ends with herself.

Then she whined to the President:

“We literally have no rights …”

Lady, rights do not get to run rough-shod over reality.

All this “non-binary” nonsense should cause you and me to do a double-take.

Gender is not just a social construct. Biology is more than a matter of belief, but fact.

Yet the Trans-SJWs view gender as bereft of any sense or value.

From Boy George’s gender-bending performances in the 1980s to the Transgenderism movement afoot (afloat, afoul!) across the United States, male and female are blending or leaking into different norms, labels, constructs.

Stop!

There are two genders, or two biological realities: male and female.

The DNA in every individual reveals this blessed reality. No matter how much cosmetic, reconstructive surgery a person undergoes, the DNA in one’s flesh will read XY (Male) or XX (Female).

Deal with it!

Granted, in heaven, we will be redeemed sons and daughters of our loving heavenly Father. Our identity will rest in more than gender. Jesus explained this deep and moving promise to the materialist, skeptical Sadducees (who tried to trip Him up over the Resurrection):

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.(Matthew 22: 29-30)

Yet male and female God created humankind:

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Notice that the divine image of God was imprinted into His chief creation, and this divine stamp of approval included the binary distinction of male and female.

Let’s face this fundamental fact: gender sparks and shapes the divine nature which God intended us to have. The distinction of male and female informs the entire universe that we are God’s creation!

There is so much more we can see about God’s love for us in designing humankind into male and female:

How did God form the man? Straight out of the ground:

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2: 7)

The Man has an earthy aspect to him. He can handle the rugged, the rough, the rumble and tumble of life. He came first, and he is responsible to lead.

What about the female? Yes, She came from He. But let’s understand this origin properly:

21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. (Genesis 2: 21-22)

Notice that the man slept. He was not involved in the process, but rested in God’s goodness to produce a “help meet for him.”

Now, I candidly admit one of my long-held, mistaken assumptions about the Bible. I used to believe that God took the rib out of Man, then drew the dust from the ground and surrounded the rib to create another person.

Yet clearly, that’s not what the Word of God teaches.

Yes, Woman came from the dust, but in full accuracy God took the rib and transformed that one part into an entirely new person, Woman.

She is refined. She is special. She is delicate. She may come from the God, but indirectly, from Man.

She is also blessed with  the opportunity to bring a new life into this world, just as the rib in every body generates new blood!

Male is distinct from female. There is no changing this God-breathed binary blessing. He is denim. She is silk. Both serve as clothing, but for very different purposes.

Instead of trying to change or reject these God-given differences, it’s time for the Body of Christ, from the feet to the top of the head, to embrace and celebrate these differences.

As for the rest of the world, they just have to deal with it!:

9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? (Isaiah 45: 9)

Let Me Tell You What the Hell is Going On, Kasich!

"I have good conservative friends of mine, in Torrance and throughout the country.

They are registered Republicans. They fight the good fight, both in their local cities and for their stat and federal officers, too.

Some of them are Kasich fans.

You know what? That’s fine. I am not a liberal loony totalitarian. They are allowed to stand by their views—however wrong they may be!—and I can fight for mine.

So, with no reserve whatsoever, I will answer a question from John Kasich:

"What the hell are we doing in this country?"

Why did Kasich ask this question? Or rather, shout this surprising, shocking query?

He was talking about the recent passage of Mississippi’s HB 1523, legislation which would allow public servants and private businesses not to participate in certain activities which violate their deeply held religious beliefs.

What has happened in this country, that governments have to codify in clear language the rights outlined in our Constitution?

Let’s review.

According to the protections in the new Mississippi law, if a baker or any other business owner does not accept or agree with same-sex marriage, he would not be forced by the government to bake a cake and participate in that activity. Same holds true for photographers, florists, and the like. A free market is defined by freedom (Go figure!) Proprietors shouldn’t be forced to provide services which they find objectionable. This is America: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.

The governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryant, described in painstaking detail what this legislation did and did not do. The Daily Signal offered him a free platform to explain the law. This reform protects Christians from discrimination. Homosexuals who wanted to buy a birthday cake could still purchase an item without fear of reprisal or rejection because of their status.

Now, this movement to protect individual liberty and freedom of conscience should not shock anyone. Our country was founded by dissidents seeking to follow their conscience in peace, without fear of retribution from the government.

And yet Kasich found this restoration of individual liberty incomprehensible and unconscionable. One wonders if “President Kasich” will take his oath of office seriously on inauguration day. Then again, Kasich is operating under Common Core math, convinced that his abortive presidential campaign can eke out a brokered convention in his favor, despite having so few delegates that 100% victory in every remaining primary won’t help him, and fewer delegates to bargain for anything come July.

 

 

But Kasich has not stopped there.

He has routinely derided the fight for religious liberty in this country. “I’ve moved on,” he shrugged during one debate. On Face the Nation this past weekend, he wagged his hand in desperate frustration: “Why do we have to write a law every time we turn around in this country. Can’t we figure out just how to get along a little bit better and respect one another?”

If it were only that easy, Johnnie Boy! But from the bakers in Oregon to the farm owners in New York state, and the County Clerk in Kentucky forced into a jail cell over her beliefs, it is evident that a militant homosexual agenda is not respecting the rights and views of a key constituency in this country: Christians, conservatives, and just about anyone else who does not believe that marriage can be redefined outside of one man and one woman.

Forget his disputes over freedom of conscience. He even tosses aside the alarming concerns many communities—many states!—have over the encroaching transgenderism agenda.

Leaving off the Mississippi law, Kasich criticized North Carolina’s “groundbreaking legislation” (placed in quotes because it’s really common sense), which ensures that men go into the men’s room only, that women can go into restrooms for women only, and no one has to wonder if someone of the opposite sex is peeping (or video recording) them. Of course, Kasich was not raising alarm over the fact that government entities are treating gender dysphoria as a different identity, instead of a run-of-the-mill mental disorder. The governor of Ohio was taking offense at the North Carolina legislature! He even admitted that he would not sign similar legislation in his state.

Indeed, I have to ask the same question as Kasich: “What the hell is going on in this country?”

Why do legislatures have to explain basic biology and enforce clear demarcations in public facilities? Why do several states have to defy (through legal channels) the encroachment of the close-minded progressives in our federal government and universities?

Why do we have one presidential candidate committed to not facing the reality that the culture wars have just gotten more conflicted, and we need leadership to restore the full meaning of life, liberty, and limited government?

That’s what the hell is going on, Kasich. Get with it, or get out!

It's Time for Mass-Resistance!

I have been a writer for five years, give or take my foray into published commentary during my college days. Not just in my native California, but also in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, a local media source offered me the chance to comment on the local issues there with a California/national flair.

I started following a harrowing account of Big Government gone wild, and unchecked.

In Rhode Island, a civil servant was barred from running for the US Senate because of an arbitrary municipal code, which would have forced him to resign in pursuit of elected office. Unbelievable!

In another series, I followed up on a Rhode Island radio talk show host, whom the labor unions were targeting for removal. Whatever happened to free speech?

 

More family-related issues got my attention, too, even as the national media was refusing to pay attention.
 

Justine Pelletier of Connecticut was held against her and her parents' will as the ward of the state of Massachusetts. The Department of Children and Families had decided that the parents were abusing their daughter. Only pressure from a select number of pro-family groups finally forced the government to release her to local custody in Connecticut once again.

 

According to my editor, he learned about her release and relocation because of my efforts!

During this time, I got in touch with an activist group called MassResistance.

Catchy name. And an amiable goal.

 

Brian Camenker, the President of the organization, explains the purpose of the group at the top of its website: "Had enough? You can make a difference. Get involved! We're the pro-family action center for Massachusetts -- and beyond!"

More specifically, what have they "had enough" with?

The group protects parents' rights and fights to stop the aggressive homosexual, leftist agenda attack on children and families.

The attacks from the Progressive LGBT Left are not just targeting churches, charities, and small businesses.

 

The whole movement focuses on public schools, seeking to indoctrinate children and undermine parental authority.

At first, I thought this concern about individual rights and the attack on the family unit was fear-mongering.

 

My contacts in New England informed me otherwise.

"This is about more than what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their homes. This is an attack on individual liberty," one source was telling me. "This is an agenda that will go into schools. Can you imagine the teacher telling third graders that they could be gay."

Whoa! This has to stop!

But do I really have to worry about this agenda affecting me?

 

I did not believe that the "gay rights" and "gay marriage" movement does not affect you and me.

Then I watched this powerful documentary by MassResistance director Brian Camenker:

What "Gay Marriage" Did to Massachusetts

If you have not watched the video above, you need to right now!

I have worked with young conservatives for a few years. Many of them are pretty laissez-faire about personal decisions. More of them are pro-life, though, because of incredible advances in technology.

When it comes to same-sex marriage, however, many of them don't care or they support it.

When I showed one conservative Millennial the threat posed by the Militant Gay agenda to individual liberty (based on the above video), however, as documented above, he agreed with my sense of alarm.
 

Brian's group has not been afraid to confront this issue head-on.

Homosexuality has become a militant ideology which needs to be confronted ... and stopped.

The health concerns associated with the behavior need to be addressed, too.

 

And MassResistance has not been afraid to address those concerns ... and to fight those fights!

Check out these videos from their "Stand4Truth" conference. Pastors, doctors, professionals of all backgrounds told the truth about homosexuality, and the political, cultural, and economic forces behind the Gay Agenda.

This counter-movement, or rather restorative movement, is about the truth, and every Christian knows: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." (John 8: 32)

If you have not joined the movement to restore and promote pro-life and pro-family values, now is the time.

Don't sit down for an aggressive, destructive, left-wing agenda. Get up, stand firm, and resist!

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Mass-Resistance!