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

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/

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.

http://americandecency.org/take_action_form.php?message=285

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).]

NBC's 'New Normal'

As a corporation that has chosen to sponsor the NBC television show “The New Normal,” I’m outraged by your support of a show that not only crosses the line with offensive, lewd verbiage and sexual imagery, but also pushes the gay agenda, while it offensively labels those who hold traditional values as bigoted homophobes.

Millions of Americans hold views regarding the gay agenda and same sex marriage that differ from the opinions pushed by Hollywood elites.  This is made clearly obvious by the voters in dozens of states from the east coast to the west who have overwhelmingly upheld traditional marriage.

“The New Normal” blatantly mocks me and those millions of Americans by labeling us as “intolerant haters” when in fact the message you sponsor through this show is one of hate and intolerance toward those of us who hold a different viewpoint regarding the gay agenda.

Do you really want your company name associated with a show that mocks and offends millions of potential customers?  If you continue to sponsor “The New Normal” I will do my best to tell my family and friends to include you on their “no shop” list.

I look forward to your response.

http://americandecency.org/full_article.php?article_no=1380

Hardee's at it again

Dear Mr. Puzder:

I am appalled at your new Hardee’s commercial and its representation of your views regarding women and pornography.

This graphic, raunchy advertisement degrades women, is an assault upon families, and is not welcome in my home.

There are many others like me who don’t appreciate companies that promote illicit sex.  While you continue to use crude and offensive advertising ploys, many of your competitors choose not to degrade women and push the envelope of taste and decency in the way they advertise.  That speaks volumes to me.

Please let me know when your advertising standards have improved, and then I will decide whether or not I will again make your restaurants a dining choice.

http://americandecency.org/full_article.php?article_no=1343