No Freedom of Speech in Rains County, Texas at the Rains County Leader

I've been out of town for 2 or 3 weeks for a family emergency, but want to detail an experience I had on my way out of town on Friday, November 7, 2008. Barack Obama had just won the election and it was most troubling to me. I know as sure as I know anything that the majority of Americans do not believe in what Obama stands for. If everything was truly fair and there was not so much deception and bias and fraud, I KNOW Obama could have never won. I know that there were Christians all over this country praying HARD for the outcome of this election, but he won anyway, and that was very troubling to me. Even though I know most Americans don't want to kill live babies or to glorify homosexuality or to erase God from the public square, I'm afraid they have been lukewarm about it all. In Revelation 3:16, God said He wanted to spew the lukewarm out of His mouth. He hates lukewarm Christians!! I also know that God said He would heal our country if HIS people called by HIS name would humble themselves, pray, seek HIS face, and turn from their wicked ways. He didn't say that homosexuals had to change their ways; He didn't say the corrupt or wicked or atheists had to change their ways. He said HIS people called by HIS name - Christians. Christians are the ones who had to humble THEMSELVES, pray, and seeks God's face, and turn from THEIR ways. Christians are the ones who allowed this to happen. They either turned a blind eye to all that was wicked about Obama and voted for him anyway for some selfish reason or they were lukewarm and didn't care enough to stand up for what was right. Either way, I felt very strongly that Christians needed to think hard about what they had done. I wrote an ad for my local weekly newspaper. I learned long ago that the editor considered my opinions "controversial" and he often wouldn't print my letters to the editor, so I would just pay for an ad. On Friday, November 7, 2008, I went to the Rains County Leader office in Emory, Texas, to place a paid ad in the church section of the paper, an ad in the form of a prayer like the one I posted here on November 5, and the editor, Earl Hill, refused to accept a PAID ad. I realize freedom of the press doesn't mean he has to accept any ads he doesn't want, but I found it very interesting that even here in li'l old rural America, Texas, that the media wouldn't let anything bad be said about their anointed candidate, not even in the form of a personal opinion AD. Amazing!!

Father, Forgive Us for Electing Barack Obama

Our Father in Heaven, please forgive us for electing Barack Obama. We have been a wicked nation and we the people have turned our backs on You. We turned a blind eye to the million innocent babies murdered every year to the idols of lust and convenience, electing someone who promised to go farther than any president has ever gone to protect the slaughter, someone who promised to sign into law a bill that would federally guarantee a woman's right to kill her baby through all nine months of pregnancy, including a fully developed baby within days of birth. This law would abolish all existing state and federal limitations on abortion, including parental consent and notification laws for minors, state and federal funding restrictions on abortion, and conscience protections for pro-life citizens working in the health-care industry, protections against being forced to participate in the practice of abortion or else lose their jobs. We elected a man who will insist on our paying for the slaughter with our tax money. We elected a man who three times voted to refuse care to a baby BORN ALIVE after a botched abortion, allowing precious babies to die of starvation and exposure on cold hard shelves in back rooms of hospitals. How could we be so wicked?

Father, please forgive us for ignoring what you said about homosexuality. You told us to use the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as an example to those who AFTERWARD lived as the Sodomites did! But we turned our backs on You and elected a man who not only vowed to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act that protects marriage as a one man/one woman union but who also wants to repeal the rights of states to decide marriage issues for themselves, thus paving the way for nationwide homosexual marriage. We didn't care that you called homosexuality an abomination but have voted to have it taught to our kindergarteners in school! We elected a man who wants to silence Your people who would dare to speak Your words about homosexuality through so-called "hate crimes" legislation and a so-called "fairness doctrine". We elected a man who supports legislation to make it illegal for an employer to not hire, or to fire, someone because of his sexual orientation, squashing the rights of any of Your people who may have a conscientious objection to hiring someone practicing what You called an abomination.

Father, please forgive us for ignoring Your word about all sexual immorality, and for electing a man who voted for sex education for kindergarteners, is against abstinence-only education, but supports tax-payer funded contraception. Forgive us for electing the ONLY person in the Illinois legislature at that time to vote to give good time early release to sex offenders. Forgive us for electing a man who voted against school boards installing software on public computers accessible to minors to block sexually explicit material.

Father, please forgive us for ignoring Your word and turning a blind eye to You, the Creator, instead worshiping the created world and denying that you had any part in its creation. We save the trees and kill the children! We elected a man who said he doesn't want intelligent design taught in schools, only evolution. Even though You told us NOT to look to the world, we elected a man who called us to be citizens of the world. We elected a man who blasphemed Your word, but we chose to overlook that. We were not ashamed to elect a man called the "Messiah", "God", "God-like", "the Savior", "the One", "an advanced soul", the "New Testament", "an evolved leader", "Son of Promise", "Child of Hope", a "Lightworker", an "attuned being", the "Platonic Philosopher King", and he has "a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth". People fainted in his presence, children sang songs to him, and paintings made of him depicted people kneeling before him. It was said that we would now have to measure time "Before Obama" and "After Obama" and that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle the significance of Obama's nomination as president. You warned us about many antichrists in the world, but we ignored Your word and embraced the man who epitomizes this spirit more than any other ever has.

Father, please forgive us for looking to a man to save us. We chose to ignore Your words that You would provide our needs, but instead elected a man to give us all that we need and many things we desire. We had to turn a blind eye to the promise of continued innocent bloodshed and abominations and looked to a man for personal gain.

Father, You told us You would bless those who bless Israel, but we decided we didn't need Your blessings and elected a man who vowed to "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" and one who has now reportedly promised the Palestinians all of Jerusalem.

You told us in Your word to always seek You and love Your law, but just like your people in the Bible, we decided we wanted our own king to give us what WE want. Please forgive us for rejecting You! Please forgive us for ignoring Your word. Just as You gave Your people what they wanted when they decided You alone were not sufficient for them, just as You gave Your people meat when they decided Your manna was not good enough, we wanted more, and You have given us what we wanted. Please forgive us and have mercy on us for we knew not what we were doing.

I am so sorry, Lord, that we have done this exceeding wickedness to You!

On Election Day Nov. 4, Choose This Day Whom You Will Serve

It's Election Day and I pray that people will see this day for what it is, a day to choose whom they will serve - the Lord God or their pocketbooks. "God or mammon" the Bible calls it, and it says that you cannot serve both. You will love one and hate the other, but you will not and cannot serve both. I think it's odd that anyone would perceive Obama's policies as good for his pocketbook, but that is really beside the point. If you can turn a blind eye to the ungodly policies of Obama such as abortion including partial-birth abortion and the denying of care to a baby born alive after a botched abortion, or to the abolishment of all state DOMA's thus paving the way to homosexual marriage being the law of the law. God repeatedly spoke of how He hated the killing of innocent life and child sacrifice. He called homosexuality an abomination and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of it, and even warned nations in the future to use Sodom and Gomorrah as an example. If you can read the Lord's words and dismiss them for personal gain, then you have chosen mammon, and you do not serve the Lord no matter what loftier reason you try to give. I don't think you'll find any loftier reasons, not if you care about what God cares about. He told us to look to Him for our needs, but we have pushed Him out and looked to the government to supply our needs. He didn't speak too favorably about those who would worship the created more than the Creator, which is what we do when we seek to save the trees, turning a blind eye to killing the children. Perhaps you care about the poor, not for yourself! Jesus said you'll always have the poor, not always Him. And there will come a time when you can no longer come to Him because it will be too late. Perhaps it's the war and our young men dying. That may be a true heartfelt emotion but how do you compare adults who choose to enlist and fight for their country to innocent lives who never get a choice, and there are as many of those in a day as have been killed in all of the Iraq war! No way you slice it can you come up with godly reasons to support Obama, so if you do, you have made a choice, but it is not God you are serving.

Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live! -Deuteronomy 30:19

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. -Matthew 6:24

And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. -Joshua 24:15

Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. -Exodus 18:21