IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE?

Newt Gingrich makes a good case for impeachment against Pres Barack Obama because of his recent rejection of defending the law (specifically the "Defense of Marriage Act" -- that's the law that declares that marriage is between a man and a woman).

In an article in Newsmax, Newt says “Clearly it is a dereliction of duty and a violation of his constitutional oath and is something that cannot be allowed to stand.”

Indeed, imagine any other president coming along and just arbitrarily citing which laws he was going to adhere by and which ones he would not. Remember they already came into office swearing on a bible, affirming that they would uphold the laws of the land.

Suppose he decided that defending the nation against terrorism wasn't his cup of tea anymore. Which come to think of it, he may have been doing already by rejecting the war on terrorism, dismissing any clear threat from Islamic terrorists and by handling all such terrorist defendants in civilian courts.

Continuing Newt said that his decision sets a “very dangerous precedent” that must not be allowed to stand. I agree.

There was another issue as well. Do you remember when Obama sued the state of Arizona over the state's attempt to enforce the federal illegal immigration laws?

What? In this wildly illogical scenario, Arizona was actually trying to follow the federal law by protecting its borders against illegal immigrants and the U.S. government sued that state!

That may have been unconstitutional as well.

Sidenote here: Speaking about "dereliction of duty," what about those democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin fleeing the state and their duties in order to not pass legislation that they want no part of.

What is happening to our elected politicians? -- specifically our leftist-democratic officials? They are creating a political culture of immoral and unethical behavior, such as we've never seen before.

We are in desperate need of a tidal-wave change in our leadership -- we must have a new breed of political leadership that values our constitution and Judeo-Christian heritage, with convictions of right and wrong, wisdom and folly, righteousness and evil.

But getting back to the impeachment: I'm not at all for impeachment, but I would hope that presidents and all elected officials would uphold the laws of the land. That's what they were elected to do.

Chicago Politics?

A great deal has been said about Sen Jon Kyl's (R-AZ) statement suggesting that President Barack Obama does not want to control the Arizona border because the President wants to tie any border security with comprehensive immigration reform.

This is Kyl's actual statement:



The White House has denied that the President ever said that, BUT an audio interview with Obama surfaced showing Obama's point of view of politically coupling secured borders with comprehensive immigration reform.





Who do you think is telling the truth: Kyl or the White House?

CULTURE AFFECTS CHRISTIANS!

Recently I've been brooding over a conviction: a deep desire to "change the culture of a nation, from one that tolerates sin to one that tolerates righteousness."

Why should we care about changing the culture? We Christians are separated from the world! -- aren't we? We live apart from the world! -- don't we?

We're not affected by the world, or its culture, now are we?

Don't be too sure. The scriptures show us that culture can indeed ensnare Christians and lead us off the path of righteousness.

Scriptures describe the city of Sodom as wicked and sinful -- it was so bad there could not be found ten righteous people there. But a righteous man lived nearby named Lot. Genesis 19 speaks of a time when angels came to the city to pronounce judgment upon it. The men of Sodom were so sexually deviant that they wanted to rape the heavenly visitors.

Astonishingly, Lot proffered his virgin daughters to appease the crowd. What?

Can you see how the sexually permissive culture negatively affected his own judgment and morality so that he offered his own daughters to be molested? And he thought nothing of it! Various New Testament translations say that Lot was "vexed, oppressed, distressed" by the conduct in Sodom (2 Peter 2:7). Young's Literal Translation says that Lot was "worn down" by what was going on around him, day in day out.

His convictions were seriously seared by his culture.

The same today: one's perspective of issues can change with the constant bombardment of negative influences on TV, from classroom teachers, from devious politicians.

Prayerfully, Christians can "come out" from the ways of the world. Our allegiances and behavior are not those of the world (-- or so we would hope!).

Thankfully, the Holy Spirit, once empowered within an individual, can help us discern both good and evil as mature Christians (Heb 5:14).

But ponder the landscape of Christendom throughout the world. Pick a social dilemma in the world and see if there is unanimous Christian consensus on it. Don't you think there should be?!

Let's go down the list:

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Do we side with law and order; or do we side with the poor?

ABORTION
Do we side with the life of the child; or the rights of the mother?

GOVERNMENT
Do we want government to punish the rich to give to the poor in equal distribution; or do we want free enterprise that doesn't limit our potential?

POLITICAL PARTIES
Do we want liberal/socialistic candidates; or do we want those with traditional, more conservative values? Do we vote for someone according to ethnicity; as opposed to righteous behavior?

Unfortunately, Christian perspectives vary. And, quite often it's due to culture.

This is why I say that we need to change the culture from one that tolerates sin to one that tolerates righteousness. Today you can say the most outlandish, disrespectful, sinful thing and you get a pat on the back.

Talk about righteousness and you get a sneer.

Yes, it's time to do all we can to change the culture.

From the "let's-shoot-ourselves-in-the-foot" Department...

Would someone please send this to video to Los Angeles and San Francisco city officials, who are boycotting Arizona for trying to curtail illegal immigration.

This report shows that not only illegal Mexicans cross the border, but many terrorists from the Middle East.