| JIM BRIDENSTINE 1st District, Oklahoma |  | 216 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-2211 | |
| July 22, 2016 | |||
| Dear Mr. *******, Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 5611, the Homeland Safety and Security Act. I value your opinion and appreciate the time you took to contact me. Rep. Kevin McCarthy introduced H.R. 5611 on July 1, 2016. This legislation is aimed at preventing terrorists from attacking the United States and obtaining passports. If enacted, the bill would do the following: · Establish within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the Office for Partnerships to Prevent Terrorism (OPPT) to coordinate DHS efforts to prevent terrorism and radicalization associated with Islamist terrorist networks. · Allow the Department of Justice (DOJ) to delay for up to three business days firearm or explosive sales to persons listed on the federal terrorism or no-fly watch lists as a known or suspected terrorist (or those so listed in the last five years). · Direct the FBI to annually review the terrorist screening database to determine whether the identity of each listed individual is correct. · Prevent the State Department from issuing a passport to, and revoke a passport from, any individual who is affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization or who has aided, abetted, or given material support to such an organization. While H.R. 5611 includes some good provisions to strengthen our homeland security against Islamist terrorism, I am opposed to the bill in its current form. First, the bill does nothing that addresses the root causes of homegrown terrorism. Second, the bill infringes upon both the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and Fifth Amendment due process protections. H.R. 5611 gives the Attorney General unilateral power to deny Second Amendment rights based on inclusion on the Terrorist Watch List. This list has proved error-prone and unreliable, having erroneously included law-abiding citizens and even members of Congress in the past. While this gun control proposal may be well-meaning, it is misguided. Additional gun control measures will fail to solve the problem of Islamist terrorism and the type of violence perpetrated in Orlando, San Bernardino, and Ft. Hood. The real issue is that ISIS and other Islamist terror organizations have declared war against the United States, Israel, Europe, and Western civilization in general. Instead of pivoting to politically-motivated attacks on the Second Amendment, Congress should stop accepting unknown refugees from high-risk, terror-prone countries, deport foreigners suspected of terrorism, reverse the Obama Administration's politically correct "countering violent extremism" policies, secure the southern border, and revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists who are U.S. citizens. Pushing gun control and validating constitutionally dubious secret watch lists is the wrong path. I will continue my efforts to concurrently protect the Second Amendment and take real steps toward keeping Americans safe from Islamist extremist terrorism. | |||
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Monday, July 25, 2016
Response to Inquiry about HR 5611 Homeland Safety and Security Act
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
ABC-Disney producer's stated goal is to normalize sodomy
Executive producer Adam Horowitz tells EW. “Our goal is to make it as we see it in the real world, just as normal and as a part of every day life as it should be.”
(warning, links to articles contain offensive pictures)
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/20/once-upon-time-lgbt-relationship
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/17/once-upon-time-lgbt-ruby-red-dorothy-mulan-spoilers
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/alexa-moutevelis-coombs/2016/04/18/disneys-family-friendly-once-upon-time-airs-lesbian
ABC's "Once Upon a Time" introduced a lesbian couple during this week's episode which 1MM and parents find completely unnecessary. On the other hand, the producers said the inclusion of homosexuality in a show popular with kids was "important." Many families watch the program based on beloved children's fairytales, but unfortunately, ABC has distorted and twisted the storylines in these fables.
In Sunday's (April 17) episode, named "Ruby Slippers," classic fairytale characters continue to push the envelope as Ruby from "Little Red Riding Hood" and Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" lock lips and introduce the show's first LGBTQ couple.
In a series of flashbacks, a romance brews between the two women. A sleeping curse leads Ruby to bestow true love's kiss on Dorothy to wake her. One kiss breaks the spell, but many follow in a brief make out session as the munchkins from Oz watch.
"Once Upon a Time" is a far from innocent fairytale entangling favorite Disney characters in a new, modern storyline. When it debuted in 2011 it was called "the most family-friendly drama on any broadcast network in the past ten years" and Common Sense Media rated it for children 12 and up.
So naturally, with its family-friendly 8:00 pm ET/7:00 pm CT Sunday night time slot, it attracts younger viewers and parents who still think of Disney as wholesome. Of course, 1MM knows that Disney has not been wholesome for some time and, once again, they are purposefully pushing a gay agenda.
"True Love's kiss has been a staple of this show since the beginning. This past Sunday's episode was just another example of how in a fairytale, as in life, love is love," co-creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis said in a statement about the LGBTQ storyline. Horowitz added that the storyline will be as "exciting, emotional, and heartfelt as any other love story."
"Once Upon a Time's" executive producers have also said their gay advocacy is "important to do" and something that needs to be "normalized," not "marginalized." Last year, when hinting the coming storyline, they said, "It (the LGBTQ relationship) is something we think is due and important to do on the show. This is the world we live in." The producers repeated the mantra "love is love" and again admitted that their goal was to normalize and push gay relationships "as a part of everyday life."
Homosexuality continues to be over-represented in the media because producers want people, and especially kids, to think it's normal and everyday life. In reality, that is their fairytale.
TAKE ACTION:
http://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/lesbian-kiss-in-once-upon-a-time/
(warning, links to articles contain offensive pictures)
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/20/once-upon-time-lgbt-relationship
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/17/once-upon-time-lgbt-ruby-red-dorothy-mulan-spoilers
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/alexa-moutevelis-coombs/2016/04/18/disneys-family-friendly-once-upon-time-airs-lesbian
ABC's "Once Upon a Time" introduced a lesbian couple during this week's episode which 1MM and parents find completely unnecessary. On the other hand, the producers said the inclusion of homosexuality in a show popular with kids was "important." Many families watch the program based on beloved children's fairytales, but unfortunately, ABC has distorted and twisted the storylines in these fables.
In Sunday's (April 17) episode, named "Ruby Slippers," classic fairytale characters continue to push the envelope as Ruby from "Little Red Riding Hood" and Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" lock lips and introduce the show's first LGBTQ couple.
In a series of flashbacks, a romance brews between the two women. A sleeping curse leads Ruby to bestow true love's kiss on Dorothy to wake her. One kiss breaks the spell, but many follow in a brief make out session as the munchkins from Oz watch.
"Once Upon a Time" is a far from innocent fairytale entangling favorite Disney characters in a new, modern storyline. When it debuted in 2011 it was called "the most family-friendly drama on any broadcast network in the past ten years" and Common Sense Media rated it for children 12 and up.
So naturally, with its family-friendly 8:00 pm ET/7:00 pm CT Sunday night time slot, it attracts younger viewers and parents who still think of Disney as wholesome. Of course, 1MM knows that Disney has not been wholesome for some time and, once again, they are purposefully pushing a gay agenda.
"True Love's kiss has been a staple of this show since the beginning. This past Sunday's episode was just another example of how in a fairytale, as in life, love is love," co-creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis said in a statement about the LGBTQ storyline. Horowitz added that the storyline will be as "exciting, emotional, and heartfelt as any other love story."
"Once Upon a Time's" executive producers have also said their gay advocacy is "important to do" and something that needs to be "normalized," not "marginalized." Last year, when hinting the coming storyline, they said, "It (the LGBTQ relationship) is something we think is due and important to do on the show. This is the world we live in." The producers repeated the mantra "love is love" and again admitted that their goal was to normalize and push gay relationships "as a part of everyday life."
Homosexuality continues to be over-represented in the media because producers want people, and especially kids, to think it's normal and everyday life. In reality, that is their fairytale.
TAKE ACTION:
http://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/lesbian-kiss-in-once-upon-a-time/
Friday, June 20, 2014
Rand Paul Offers Amendment to Stop Eric Holder’s Operation Choke Point
A few weeks ago, we told you about “Operation Choke Point” -- an effort by Attorney General Eric Holder to put gun stores out of business.
The good news is this: Senator Rand Paul has just filed an amendment to the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations bill which will cut off Obama’s efforts to shut down gun stores by drying up their credit.
The Paul language is Amendment 3292 to H.R. 4660.
The appropriations bill is currently on the floor, but we expect the Paul amendment to be considered Friday or Tuesday. If adopted, the Obama administration would be barred from attempting to cut off credit to guns stores – just because they sell guns.
ACTION: Contact your Senators. Demand that they vote for the Paul amendment.
Sample Letter:
In connection with the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations Bill, Senator Rand Paul will offer an amendment to curtail "Operation Choke Point" - an effort by Attorney General Eric Holder to put gun stores out of business by shutting off their credit.
Basically, it works like this: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), at the behest of Barack Obama, has declared that gun stores are "high risk" businesses. "High risk" businesses have been, up until now, a small category of supposedly disreputable businesses, which have included pornographers, sellers of drug paraphernalia, and payday lenders.
The second step in the process is Eric Holder's Justice Department's "Operation Choke Point." And its function is specifically to choke off any credit or credit card processing for businesses (now including gun dealers) who fall in the "high risk" category.
Already, scores of gun dealers have complained that their banks have cut their credit or otherwise put pressure on them. Three articles detailing this effort to shut down gun dealers may be found here, here and here.
The good news is this: Senator Rand Paul has just filed an amendment to the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations bill which will cut off Obama's efforts to shut down gun stores by drying up their credit. The Paul language is Amendment 3292 to H.R. 4660.
The appropriations bill is currently on the floor, but we expect the Paul amendment to be considered Friday or Tuesday. If adopted, the Obama administration would be barred from attempting to cut off credit to guns stores - just because they sell guns.
http://cqrcengage.com/gunowners/app/bill/421616
The good news is this: Senator Rand Paul has just filed an amendment to the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations bill which will cut off Obama’s efforts to shut down gun stores by drying up their credit.
The Paul language is Amendment 3292 to H.R. 4660.
The appropriations bill is currently on the floor, but we expect the Paul amendment to be considered Friday or Tuesday. If adopted, the Obama administration would be barred from attempting to cut off credit to guns stores – just because they sell guns.
ACTION: Contact your Senators. Demand that they vote for the Paul amendment.
Sample Letter:
In connection with the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations Bill, Senator Rand Paul will offer an amendment to curtail "Operation Choke Point" - an effort by Attorney General Eric Holder to put gun stores out of business by shutting off their credit.
Basically, it works like this: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), at the behest of Barack Obama, has declared that gun stores are "high risk" businesses. "High risk" businesses have been, up until now, a small category of supposedly disreputable businesses, which have included pornographers, sellers of drug paraphernalia, and payday lenders.
The second step in the process is Eric Holder's Justice Department's "Operation Choke Point." And its function is specifically to choke off any credit or credit card processing for businesses (now including gun dealers) who fall in the "high risk" category.
Already, scores of gun dealers have complained that their banks have cut their credit or otherwise put pressure on them. Three articles detailing this effort to shut down gun dealers may be found here, here and here.
The good news is this: Senator Rand Paul has just filed an amendment to the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations bill which will cut off Obama's efforts to shut down gun stores by drying up their credit. The Paul language is Amendment 3292 to H.R. 4660.
The appropriations bill is currently on the floor, but we expect the Paul amendment to be considered Friday or Tuesday. If adopted, the Obama administration would be barred from attempting to cut off credit to guns stores - just because they sell guns.
http://cqrcengage.com/gunowners/app/bill/421616
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Mennonite pastor who helped girl escape lesbian ‘mother’ sent to jail for refusing to testify
Mennonite pastor who helped girl escape lesbian ‘mother’ sent to jail for refusing to testify
January 25, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "I have time for just a short note," Mennonite pastor Kenneth Miller to his supporters as he awaited his inevitable arrest yesterday, "'...Whom having not seen ye love, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.' (1 Pet. 1:8-9) He is risen. His Kingdom reigns forever. All is well."
Hours later, Miller faced federal judge William Sessions III, and informed him that he would not testify before a grand jury against several acquaintances accused of helping the pastor arrange for the escape of Lisa Miller and her daughter, Isabella, from the United States in 2009. According to the Burlington Free Press, Kenneth Miller told the judge that testifying would be inconsistent with his religious beliefs.
BRAVO PASTOR!!
"Mistresses" desensitizes our society to adultry
To: Media.Inquiries@ChurchDwight.com,marketing@t-mobile.com,chturner@pier1.com,macarter@pier1.com,customerservice@pfizer.com,Joan.Chow@ConAgraFoods.com
As a parent and father, I strongly encourage your company to drop all plans of financially supporting the inappropriate ABC program "Mistresses" which airs on Monday evenings at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 CT. This show is degrading to women and damaging to our culture.
I am appalled that your company is sponsoring a show that displays affairs and casual sex, often with multiple partners, as normal and acceptable behavior. ABC's "Mistresses" is attempting to desensitize our society and our children.
While your company is a household name, I do not agree with your financial backing of this program. Not only is this program insulting to conservative viewers and traditional families, but it also focuses on infidelity and adultery.
As a consumer, I am asking you to please pull your ad immediately, and to support moral values and family-friendly programming instead. My decision to support your company depends on it.
I look forward to hearing from you regarding my concern.
http://onemillionmoms.com/
As a parent and father, I strongly encourage your company to drop all plans of financially supporting the inappropriate ABC program "Mistresses" which airs on Monday evenings at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 CT. This show is degrading to women and damaging to our culture.
I am appalled that your company is sponsoring a show that displays affairs and casual sex, often with multiple partners, as normal and acceptable behavior. ABC's "Mistresses" is attempting to desensitize our society and our children.
While your company is a household name, I do not agree with your financial backing of this program. Not only is this program insulting to conservative viewers and traditional families, but it also focuses on infidelity and adultery.
As a consumer, I am asking you to please pull your ad immediately, and to support moral values and family-friendly programming instead. My decision to support your company depends on it.
I look forward to hearing from you regarding my concern.
http://onemillionmoms.com/
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
NBC’s gruesome Hannibal – advertisers need to hear from you!
Your advertisement on "Hannibal" promotes dangerous ideas and disturbing violence, especially in light of the recent shootings that have been on the national conscience. Do you really want to encourage empathizing with psychopathic killers and cannibals? That is the premise of NBC's "Hannibal."
Consider what the Daily Beast had to say about this repulsive show. " All of this talent and effort to burnish a (and let’s face it, that’s what he is here) hero who maims, kills, and eats people (most of them female) while feeling nothing regarding their suffering: ick, to use the shortest, most polite word."
The Salt Lake Tribune calls Hannibal “one of the most violent, bloody shows on TV.”
I strongly urge you to pull yoursponsorship of “Hannibal.” I will be following the advertising results to see whether or not your company empowers this show in the future. If you do, you will lose my business and that of thousands of others who are greatly concerned about the impact of such sickening themes upon our families and the American culture.
You have a choice, obviously, in where you place your advertising dollars. I, too, have a choice in the companies I support with my patronage. Please do the right thing and choose a more deserving and life-affirming show on which to advertise.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Bono and the Gospel
RE: U2 and Bono
I appreciate your program and ministry. I recently viewed the Prophecy In The News program 06/25 Bono and the Gospel with Gary Stearman.
In this program the interview with Bono by Focus on the Family was referenced. (http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2013/june/bono-interview-with-focus-on-family-jim-daly.html)
I definitely agree that it was a good quote from Bono concerning his belief that Jesus was the Son of God and it would be good for that to be spread around.
I urge you to research U2 and Bono's background. There is a very good documentary by Joe Schimmel (http://www.goodfight.org/store/resources_video_tsc.html) called the Submerging Church and a bonus DVD called "THE EMERGENT CHURCH AND THE BONO-SCREWTAPE CONNECTION".
It includes actual footage of interviews and concerts that make it clear that Bono is a deliberate wolf in sheep's clothing.
While Bono does well to make this profession, even the devils profess this (Luke 4:41).
Thank you, and keep up the good work in spreading the truth.
BACKGROUND INFO
Bono may seem to have the right words to say, but it seems Jim Daly hasn't
asked the right questions. "Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure
to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money
it raises reaches the needy. The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman
received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to
good causes (1.2 per cent). The figures published by the New York Post also show
that £5.1million went towards paying salaries" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314543/Bonos-ONE-foundation-giving-tiny-percentage-funds-charity.html#ixzz2XExWAEyC).
Or, consider the following excerpts from "The Rock Group U2," by David Cloud, http://www.wayoflife.org:
"In an interview with Joseph Schimmel, Chris Row of Shalom Fellowship, Bono's former
pastor in Ireland, said that Bono, Evans, and Mullen chose rock & roll over the
Bible. He said that when Bono flew him to Los Angeles to perform his marriage, he
wasn't allowed to go backstage at a U2 concert because they didn't want him to see
the things that went on there (Schimmel, The Submerging Church, 2012, DVD).
"Of sexual activity, Bono says: "You know, if you tell people that the best place
to have [expletive deleted] is in the safe hands of a loving relationship, you may
be telling a lie! There may be other places' (Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World,
p. 83).
"Bill Flanagan, a U2 friend who has traveled extensively with the group, in his
authorized biography describes them as heavy drinkers and constant visitors to bars,
brothels, and nightclubs. He says, 'If I wanted to I could fill up hundreds of pages
with this sort of three-sheets-to-the-wind [drunken], navel-gazing dialogue between
U2 and me' (Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World, p. 145). Bono admits that he lives
'a fairly decadent kind of selfish-art-oriented lifestyle' (Flanagan, p. 79).
"In 2006 Bono said: 'I recently read in one of St. Paul's letters where it describes
all of the fruits of the spirit, and I had none of them' ("Enough Rope with Andrew
Denton," March 13, 2006).
"In October 2008, Fox News reported that Bono and rocker friend Simon Carmody partied
with teenage girls on a yacht in St. Tropez. The report, which was accompanied by
a photo of Bono holding two bikini-clad teenagers on his lap at a bar, said, 'Bono,
Carmody and the girls partied into the night on the yacht' ("Facebook Pictures Show
Married U2 Singer Bono's Rendezvous with Sexy Teens," Fox News, Oct. 27, 2008).]
I appreciate your program and ministry. I recently viewed the Prophecy In The News program 06/25 Bono and the Gospel with Gary Stearman.
In this program the interview with Bono by Focus on the Family was referenced. (http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2013/june/bono-interview-with-focus-on-family-jim-daly.html)
I definitely agree that it was a good quote from Bono concerning his belief that Jesus was the Son of God and it would be good for that to be spread around.
I urge you to research U2 and Bono's background. There is a very good documentary by Joe Schimmel (http://www.goodfight.org/store/resources_video_tsc.html) called the Submerging Church and a bonus DVD called "THE EMERGENT CHURCH AND THE BONO-SCREWTAPE CONNECTION".
It includes actual footage of interviews and concerts that make it clear that Bono is a deliberate wolf in sheep's clothing.
While Bono does well to make this profession, even the devils profess this (Luke 4:41).
Thank you, and keep up the good work in spreading the truth.
BACKGROUND INFO
Bono may seem to have the right words to say, but it seems Jim Daly hasn't
asked the right questions. "Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure
to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money
it raises reaches the needy. The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman
received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to
good causes (1.2 per cent). The figures published by the New York Post also show
that £5.1million went towards paying salaries" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314543/Bonos-ONE-foundation-giving-tiny-percentage-funds-charity.html#ixzz2XExWAEyC).
Or, consider the following excerpts from "The Rock Group U2," by David Cloud, http://www.wayoflife.org:
"In an interview with Joseph Schimmel, Chris Row of Shalom Fellowship, Bono's former
pastor in Ireland, said that Bono, Evans, and Mullen chose rock & roll over the
Bible. He said that when Bono flew him to Los Angeles to perform his marriage, he
wasn't allowed to go backstage at a U2 concert because they didn't want him to see
the things that went on there (Schimmel, The Submerging Church, 2012, DVD).
"Of sexual activity, Bono says: "You know, if you tell people that the best place
to have [expletive deleted] is in the safe hands of a loving relationship, you may
be telling a lie! There may be other places' (Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World,
p. 83).
"Bill Flanagan, a U2 friend who has traveled extensively with the group, in his
authorized biography describes them as heavy drinkers and constant visitors to bars,
brothels, and nightclubs. He says, 'If I wanted to I could fill up hundreds of pages
with this sort of three-sheets-to-the-wind [drunken], navel-gazing dialogue between
U2 and me' (Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World, p. 145). Bono admits that he lives
'a fairly decadent kind of selfish-art-oriented lifestyle' (Flanagan, p. 79).
"In 2006 Bono said: 'I recently read in one of St. Paul's letters where it describes
all of the fruits of the spirit, and I had none of them' ("Enough Rope with Andrew
Denton," March 13, 2006).
"In October 2008, Fox News reported that Bono and rocker friend Simon Carmody partied
with teenage girls on a yacht in St. Tropez. The report, which was accompanied by
a photo of Bono holding two bikini-clad teenagers on his lap at a bar, said, 'Bono,
Carmody and the girls partied into the night on the yacht' ("Facebook Pictures Show
Married U2 Singer Bono's Rendezvous with Sexy Teens," Fox News, Oct. 27, 2008).]
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