Columbia Christians for Life
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 765-0916 * www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
"JESUS is Pro-Life" Rally
Monday, January 22, 2007, 12 Noon: North Steps, SC State House, Columbia, SC
Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life: ( http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ )
Re: ‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [H.3284 in 2007/2008 session]
Good day, my name is Steve Lefemine. I am director of Columbia Christians for Life. I wish to report on the ongoing effort to ESTABLISH JUSTICE for ALL pre-birth human beings in SC, beginning at fertilization, and to renew the now 10-year-old call for passage of the Right to Life Act of SC, legislation first introduced in 1998, and active in the SC General Assembly every year since, including 2007. This bill, if passed into law, would recognize the legal "personhood" of human beings in the womb, thereby meeting the criterion set 34 years ago in the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision itself, for the "collapse" of the fallacious, unconstitutional, and wicked pro-abortion argument. If South Carolina were to pass this bill, H.3284, into law, our state could lead the nation in overturning Roe v. Wade. No doubt such a law would be challenged in court by the abortion industry, including Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest chain of abortion centers, with one even right here in Columbia that kills over 1,000 babies each year. Could our state provide the test case that the Lord might use to end abortion not only in SC, but to pave the way for other states also ? The Bible says in Matthew 19:26, "… with God all things are possible." In the 2005/2006 legislative period, over 20% of US States had abortion ban legislation of one form or another active in their state legislatures. So far in 2007, three States: Georgia, Montana, and SC, are known to have active abortion ban bills filed in their state legislatures. 11 State bills in 2005/2006 banning abortions: www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-121.doc
Next, the status of the daily war on the unborn being waged in the midst of the so-called Bible belt, primarily in SC's three major cities of Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston: the number of child-murders-by-abortion increased in 2005 over 2004 to a statewide total of 6,715 babies torn to pieces in their mothers' wombs, or over 125 / week in SC. Since 1973, SC has murdered over 317,000 children on its own soil: the land is polluted by their shed innocent blood (Numbers 35:33).
Last year, the Republican-majority SC Senate (26 R, 20 D) had an opportunity to pass the Right to Life Act of SC, which had already passed the SC House in April 2005, albeit with a "fatal flaw" rape exception amendment. However, the bill was killed in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Republican Senator Jim Ritchie (Spartanburg), on a subcommittee where 4 of the 5 senators eligible to vote were Republicans, including Senate President Pro Tempore Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston). We need Christians like yourselves to let your voice be heard by these men. Jesus Christ is Lord.
Incredibly, even after the lesson of the Republican Party losing both the US House and the US Senate, for their failures on multiple issues, including Illegal Immigration, the Iraq War, ABORTION, and federal spending, the Republican leaders in the SC State House, including Speaker Bobby Harrell, Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell, and Governor Mark Sanford have still not gotten the full message. Did any of you listen to the legislative priorities of Governor Mark Sanford in his recent State of the State address ? Was preventing the shedding of innocent blood of babies even mentioned ??? No, it absolutely was not ! Ending the murder of SC's children is simply still not a priority for these men who lack vision and who lack a healthy fear of God's wrath upon this state and nation (Proverb 29:18; Proverb 9:10; Proverb 8:13).
Perhaps part of the "problem" for this negligence is two-fold: Ending abortion is quite achievable as a legal matter - statutorily declaring legal personhood at fertilization would end the abortion holocaust, as explained right in the text of the Roe v. Wade decision itself. However, these political leaders apparently lack the courage, passion, and fear of God to be willing to pay the political price to do what is known, achievable, and effective to bring an end to 34 years of child-killing-in-the-womb. The 1973 Roe decision stated that if legal "personhood" was vested for the unborn, that the pro-abortion argument would then collapse. In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
However, the Texas law at issue in Roe had an "exception" to a complete ban on abortion for the "life of the mother," and so their argument for legal "personhood" failed in part because of that. One of the lessons from Roe is that when it comes to establishing a legal ban on abortion, "exceptions" are unconstitutional, violating the Constitution's Equal Protection clause.
In conclusion, the Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 34 years ago. The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 34 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma. Thank you. Amen.
January 22, 2007
January 19, 2007
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE, Columbia, SC - January 21, 2007
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE
Sunday, January 21, 2007
2:30 - 3:30 PM
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, January 18, 2007
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, Columbia Christians for Life,
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250, (803) 765-0916;
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net ,
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/,
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
A call to Christian pro-life men, women, young adults, and children to a time of repentance, prayer, praise, worship, and declaration of Gods Word as we:
1) Repent and ask the Lords forgiveness for our corporate bloodguiltiness. Bloodguilt is upon us, our city, our state, and all its inhabitants (Jeremiah 26:15), especially the Church (2 Chronicles 7:14), which has failed to love her unborn neighbors as herself, for the over 317,000 unborn children who have been murdered by surgical abortion alone on South Carolina soil since the wicked and unconstitutional Roe v. Wade supreme Court decision of 1973, and most certainly several times more that number aborted chemically by birth control that is abortifacient (e.g., birth control pills and Depo-Provera). Their shed innocent blood pollutes the very ground of our city and state (Numbers 35:33), and cries out to God for divine vengeance and recompensation (Genesis 4:10).
2) Beseech the Lord, end completely the sin of shedding innocent blood in the city of Columbia, and in South Carolina, not by our might and power, but by His Spirit, as HE is already doing, having already closed at least four abortion centers in the Columbia area and six other abortion centers in our state (Psalm 24:7-10; Matthew 16:18; Genesis 22:17).
Location: Columbia, South Carolina SC State House, south steps
(facing Pendleton St., between Sumter and Assembly Streets)
If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Numbers 35:33
What hast thou done ? The voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:10
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,... shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. Be merciful, O LORD, unto Thy people..., whom Thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto Thy people... And the blood shall be forgiven them. So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 21:6-9
... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:18
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If child-murder-by-abortion were to end today in America, there would still remain the need to REPENT for all the innocent blood which has been already shed.
Bloodshed following bloodshed (e.g., gang, domestic, and school violence), foreign invasion (e.g., 11 to 20 million illegal Mexican and other aliens through our intentionally undefended southern border), and our nation being turned over to tyranny, are all scripturally predictable consequences of our ongoing murder of innocent children in the wombs of their mothers.
See Hosea 4:2; 2 Kings 24:1-4; and Psalm 106:37-42
But we have blind leaders being followed by a blind people in America, and it is neither a Church nor Civil Government priority to bring child-murder to an end... when it could be ended in a week, because Congress has the power to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court ! Just listen to the new Legislative Priorities of both State and Federal leaders, both legislative and executive (e.g., the Governor of SC's "State of the State" address delivered to a Joint Assembly of the SC Legislature on Jan. 17), and you will see there is a normally a total absence of even any mention of the murder of 3,000 plus pre-birth human beings PER DAY in America. The level of blindness is astounding. And it's the same in the Church - which is actually more responsible and culpable than civil government. The Church is both the problem and the answer to ending child-murder in America.
National Right to Life and the Republican Party are wrong. The composition of the US supreme Court is not what has to change to end abortion. If the Christians of America would simply read Article III., Section 2. of their ownnational covenant, the US Constitution, perhaps they would understand that Congress and the President have had the power to end abortion in America in a week's time, for now almost 34 years !
US House limits jurisdiction of Federal Courts regarding the Pledge of Allegiance Employs Article III., Section 2. constitutional power of the US Congress to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court:
This same Article III., Section 2. constitutional power of the US Congress to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court can be further applied to protect the God-ordained institution of marriage, to protect state-level laws banning acts of sodomy, to protect federal and state laws banning abortion, and to protect the freedom of religious expression that is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, vis-a-vis public displays of the Ten Commandments, and public prayer in the Name of Jesus.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CONSTLAW06-01.DOC
PRESIDENT BUSH and CONGRESS COULD END ABORTION IN AMERICA IN ONE WEEK:
President Bush and the US Congress have the power NOW to end abortion in America in one week:
Pass HR 552, the "Right to Life Act", amended with the addition of the Article III., Section 2. power of the US Congress in the US Constitution to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court, and the complete jurisdiction of the lower federal courts (US District Courts and US Circuit Courts of Appeal, which were created by Congress by federal statute, and could even be eliminated by Congress by federal statute, let alone have their jurisdictions limited).[ see HR 552 and HR 776, 109th Congress, at http://thomas.loc.gov ]52, the "Right to Life Act", amended www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CCL05-21.doc
"Where there is no vision, the people perish:..." Proverb 29:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
January 18, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
2:30 - 3:30 PM
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, January 18, 2007
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, Columbia Christians for Life,
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250, (803) 765-0916;
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net ,
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/,
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
A call to Christian pro-life men, women, young adults, and children to a time of repentance, prayer, praise, worship, and declaration of Gods Word as we:
1) Repent and ask the Lords forgiveness for our corporate bloodguiltiness. Bloodguilt is upon us, our city, our state, and all its inhabitants (Jeremiah 26:15), especially the Church (2 Chronicles 7:14), which has failed to love her unborn neighbors as herself, for the over 317,000 unborn children who have been murdered by surgical abortion alone on South Carolina soil since the wicked and unconstitutional Roe v. Wade supreme Court decision of 1973, and most certainly several times more that number aborted chemically by birth control that is abortifacient (e.g., birth control pills and Depo-Provera). Their shed innocent blood pollutes the very ground of our city and state (Numbers 35:33), and cries out to God for divine vengeance and recompensation (Genesis 4:10).
2) Beseech the Lord, end completely the sin of shedding innocent blood in the city of Columbia, and in South Carolina, not by our might and power, but by His Spirit, as HE is already doing, having already closed at least four abortion centers in the Columbia area and six other abortion centers in our state (Psalm 24:7-10; Matthew 16:18; Genesis 22:17).
Location: Columbia, South Carolina SC State House, south steps
(facing Pendleton St., between Sumter and Assembly Streets)
If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Numbers 35:33
What hast thou done ? The voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:10
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,... shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. Be merciful, O LORD, unto Thy people..., whom Thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto Thy people... And the blood shall be forgiven them. So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 21:6-9
... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:18
_____________________________________________________
If child-murder-by-abortion were to end today in America, there would still remain the need to REPENT for all the innocent blood which has been already shed.
Bloodshed following bloodshed (e.g., gang, domestic, and school violence), foreign invasion (e.g., 11 to 20 million illegal Mexican and other aliens through our intentionally undefended southern border), and our nation being turned over to tyranny, are all scripturally predictable consequences of our ongoing murder of innocent children in the wombs of their mothers.
See Hosea 4:2; 2 Kings 24:1-4; and Psalm 106:37-42
But we have blind leaders being followed by a blind people in America, and it is neither a Church nor Civil Government priority to bring child-murder to an end... when it could be ended in a week, because Congress has the power to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court ! Just listen to the new Legislative Priorities of both State and Federal leaders, both legislative and executive (e.g., the Governor of SC's "State of the State" address delivered to a Joint Assembly of the SC Legislature on Jan. 17), and you will see there is a normally a total absence of even any mention of the murder of 3,000 plus pre-birth human beings PER DAY in America. The level of blindness is astounding. And it's the same in the Church - which is actually more responsible and culpable than civil government. The Church is both the problem and the answer to ending child-murder in America.
National Right to Life and the Republican Party are wrong. The composition of the US supreme Court is not what has to change to end abortion. If the Christians of America would simply read Article III., Section 2. of their ownnational covenant, the US Constitution, perhaps they would understand that Congress and the President have had the power to end abortion in America in a week's time, for now almost 34 years !
US House limits jurisdiction of Federal Courts regarding the Pledge of Allegiance Employs Article III., Section 2. constitutional power of the US Congress to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court:
This same Article III., Section 2. constitutional power of the US Congress to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court can be further applied to protect the God-ordained institution of marriage, to protect state-level laws banning acts of sodomy, to protect federal and state laws banning abortion, and to protect the freedom of religious expression that is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, vis-a-vis public displays of the Ten Commandments, and public prayer in the Name of Jesus.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CONSTLAW06-01.DOC
PRESIDENT BUSH and CONGRESS COULD END ABORTION IN AMERICA IN ONE WEEK:
President Bush and the US Congress have the power NOW to end abortion in America in one week:
Pass HR 552, the "Right to Life Act", amended with the addition of the Article III., Section 2. power of the US Congress in the US Constitution to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court, and the complete jurisdiction of the lower federal courts (US District Courts and US Circuit Courts of Appeal, which were created by Congress by federal statute, and could even be eliminated by Congress by federal statute, let alone have their jurisdictions limited).[ see HR 552 and HR 776, 109th Congress, at http://thomas.loc.gov ]52, the "Right to Life Act", amended www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CCL05-21.doc
"Where there is no vision, the people perish:..." Proverb 29:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
January 18, 2007
January 15, 2007
Roman Catholic majority in SC's National RTL chapter annual march in Columbia
South Carolina Citizens for Life (SCCL) is the SC state chapter of National Right to Life (NRL). SCCL is based in Columbia, SC.
S.C. Citizens for Life hold 34th annual march to the State House
The State, January 14, 2007
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16455306.htm
On Saturday, Jan. 13, SCCL conducted its annual march and rally to the SC State House, attended by hundreds of participants, a large majority of whom appeared to be Roman Catholic, including a sizable contingent of the Knights of Columbus (with swords drawn) and a large poster of the "Our Lady of Guadalupe," an idolatrous, perverted rendering of the biblical Mary, the mother of Jesus (not the "Mother of God" !).
"The National Right to Life Committee which had been founded in 1968 under the auspices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, in1973 became autonomous and non-sectarian."
Dictionary of Christianity [sic] in America, 1990, pp. 1017, 1018.
National Right to Life is today still largely led by Roman Catholics, especially at the national level. It is also ecumenical. For example, in South Carolina, the current SCCL executive director is Roman Catholic (and a former nun), and the woman who is president is Presbyterian. In the past, SCCL has had Roman Catholics, born-again Christians, and even a Mormon on its Advisory Board.
Knights of Columbus, lined up at the front of the SC Citizens for Life march, swords drawn, on Greene Street,
in front of the USC Russell House Student Union, Columbia, SC (1/13/07).
The Virgin of Guadalupe "is a 16th century Roman Catholic Mexican icon depicting an apparition of the Virgin Mary."
"Mainstream Catholics believe that Guadalupe was a manifestation of the Virgin Mary in the Americas, and recognize her as "Empress of the Americas."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe (see article and picture, just like the picture below
taken at the beginning of the SC Citizens for Life march in Columbia, SC on January 13, 2007).
Idolatrous image of "Our Lady of Guadalupe" (left), lined up in the assembly area of the SC Citizens for Life march,
on Greene Street, in front of the USC Russell House Student Union, Columbia, SC (1/13/07).
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness ?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel (unbeliever) ?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM, AND WALK IN THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, saith the Lord, AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING;
AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU, AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, saith the Lord Almighty."
S.C. Citizens for Life hold 34th annual march to the State House
The State, January 14, 2007
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16455306.htm
On Saturday, Jan. 13, SCCL conducted its annual march and rally to the SC State House, attended by hundreds of participants, a large majority of whom appeared to be Roman Catholic, including a sizable contingent of the Knights of Columbus (with swords drawn) and a large poster of the "Our Lady of Guadalupe," an idolatrous, perverted rendering of the biblical Mary, the mother of Jesus (not the "Mother of God" !).
"The National Right to Life Committee which had been founded in 1968 under the auspices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, in1973 became autonomous and non-sectarian."
Dictionary of Christianity [sic] in America, 1990, pp. 1017, 1018.
National Right to Life is today still largely led by Roman Catholics, especially at the national level. It is also ecumenical. For example, in South Carolina, the current SCCL executive director is Roman Catholic (and a former nun), and the woman who is president is Presbyterian. In the past, SCCL has had Roman Catholics, born-again Christians, and even a Mormon on its Advisory Board.
Knights of Columbus, lined up at the front of the SC Citizens for Life march, swords drawn, on Greene Street,
in front of the USC Russell House Student Union, Columbia, SC (1/13/07).
The Virgin of Guadalupe "is a 16th century Roman Catholic Mexican icon depicting an apparition of the Virgin Mary."
"Mainstream Catholics believe that Guadalupe was a manifestation of the Virgin Mary in the Americas, and recognize her as "Empress of the Americas."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe (see article and picture, just like the picture below
taken at the beginning of the SC Citizens for Life march in Columbia, SC on January 13, 2007).
Idolatrous image of "Our Lady of Guadalupe" (left), lined up in the assembly area of the SC Citizens for Life march,
on Greene Street, in front of the USC Russell House Student Union, Columbia, SC (1/13/07).
The Roman Catholic false goddess known as the (perpetually) Virgin Mary is but a re-worked version of the false goddess referred to in the Bible as the "queen of heaven" (e.g., Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 44:17,18,19, 25), the worship of which by the people of Judah, God said, "provoke[s] me to anger." (Jeremiah 7:18, KJB).
The Roman goddess Mary; and the "queen of heaven" idolatry referred to in the Bible in Jeremiah; the Egyptian goddess Isis, and the historical, ancient pagan self-proclaimed goddess Semiramis (mother/wife of Nimrod, builder and king of ancient Babylon), all represent different names/manifestations of the same demonic, satanic, blasphemous idolatry.
There is a traceable stream and history from ancient Babylon to modern Rome of this false goddess worship. An excellent source and scholarly study on the roots of Roman Catholicism in historical, ancient Babylon is available in the book, The Two Babylons - Romanism and Its Origins, by Alexander Hislop (Scottish minister), 1916.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hislop
(The book can be ordered on-line at www.chick.com/catalog/books/0185.asp)
How many evangelical Christian pro-lifers grasp the serious danger of following Romanists in the noble battle for the lives of the unborn ?
Of course there are many individual Roman Catholics who have given much, and sacrificed much, to save the lives of the unborn. There are many examples of individual Roman Catholics who have exemplified lives of dedication and sacrifice for the cause of the unborn which quite frankly put many less-committed evangelical efforts to shame. Sadly, unless these Roman Catholics are saved, or become saved, all their good "works" will not "earn" them heaven. We are not saved by "works," but by grace alone,through faith alone, in the Messiah alone (Ephesians 2:8,9).
The Messiah said, "Ye must be born again." (John 3:7, KJB)
As laudable and praiseworthy as it is for anyone, saved or unsaved, to be about the work of speaking up for the innocent unborn being slaughtered with the de facto consent of both Republican and Democratic officeholders, born-again Christians should still avoid being "unequally yoked" with those of false religions, such as Romanism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventist's, Muslims, etc., etc.
The Bible says:"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness ?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel (unbeliever) ?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM, AND WALK IN THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, saith the Lord, AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING;
AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU, AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, saith the Lord Almighty."
2 Corinthians 6:14-18, KJB
Perhaps the failure of evangelical Christian leaders to honor God's command to be separate and not unequally yoked to unbelievers, however "pro-life" they may be, is part of the reason that God has not chosen to bring an end to child-murder-by-abortion in America, despite all our efforts for 34 years.
For an excellent, first-hand testimony and insightful history of the on going damage that has been done to the cause of Christ and His Church by ecumenical efforts within the pro-life movement, read "More Than These: A Call for Reformation,"by Mr. Ralph Ovadal, pastor (Wisconsin).
More Than These: A Call for Reformation
270 pages
© 2004 Heart of the Matter Publications
www.pccmonroe.org/Ecumenism/morethanthese.htm
"This book details how Roman Catholic influence and even doctrine has permeated the pro-life movement,including street-level activist ministries, Christian radio, the pregnancy center networks, and the hearts of major Christian ministries. It documents the damage that such influence has had on the cause of Christ, including actual stories of Protestants converted to the Roman Catholic Church due to Christians being involved in pro-life ministry with Catholics. More Than These is an exposé and a history book, but it is so much more than that. It is a personal story, a testimony, a documentary, a Bible study, and a clarion call for reformation. The lessons learned from this book should be applied not only to pro-life ministry but also to any and every Christian ministry work."
May the day come, when the people of God, will follow the true men of God, to do the work of God, in "Establishing Justice" for the innocent unborn, for the Glory of God !
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Five Reasons Why Roman Catholicism is not Biblical Christianity
www.ianpaisley.org/tiara.asp?printerfriendly=true
The http://www.bereanbeacon.org/ website is the ministry outreach of former Catholic priest Richard Bennett.
The Pope Kissing The Koran [photo]
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/popekiss.html
Here is a photo of the Pope at the end of an audience with Patriarch Raphael I of Iraq where "the Pope bowed to the Muslim holy book the Qu'ran presented to him by the delegation and kissed it as a sign of respect".
Quotes from "The Two Babylons - Romanism and Its Origins," by Alexander Hislop (1916):
[highlighting emphasis added]
"It has been known all along that Popery was baptised Paganism; but God is now making it manifest, that the Paganism which Rome has baptised is, in all its essential elements, the very Paganism which prevailed in the ancient literal Babylon,..." (Introduction., p. 2)
"In the Apocalyptic visions,..., John sees the Apostate Church with the name Babylon the Great" written upon her forehead" Rev. xvii. 5)." (Introduction, pp. 2-3).
"Her judgment is now evidently hastening on; and just as it approaches, the Providence of God, conspiring with the Word of God, by light pouring in from all quarters, makes it more and more evident that Rome is in very deed the Babylon of the Apocalypse; that the essential character of her system, the grand objects of her worship, her festivals, her doctrine and discipline, her rites and ceremonies, her priesthood and their orders, have all derived from ancient Babylon; and finally, that the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar." (Introduction., p. 3).
"If the position I have laid down can be maintained, she must be stripped of the name of a Christian Church altogether;..." (Introduction., p. 3).
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See text, history, and additional information on RTL Act of SC (H.3213 and S.111 www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, homepage, and also click on "RTL Act of SC" www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
National Right To Life: The Judas Of The Preborn
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-159.doc
Anti-abortion constitutional amendment petition falls short in Michigan National Right to Life does it again - this time in Michigan...
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-160.doc
Roman Catholicism is not Biblical Christianity. The religious system of Romanism is a "Christianized" form of the ancient pagan religion of historical Babylon.
Among the many unbiblical practices, beliefs, and doctrines of the Roman Catholic system of religion are: transubstantiation (witchcraft); the Rosary (praying to Mary); the Mass (the blasphemous "re-sacrifice" of Christ); papal infallibility; the claim of the "Immaculate [sinless] Conception" of Mary herself, prayer to a host of other "saints," and on and on it goes.
That said, as a former Roman Catholic (raised and infant-baptized as an Episcopalian; infant baptism being another unbiblical practice), who made a profession of faith as a boy, but who then lived wickedly as a young man in high school, at West Point and in the Army, before becoming active in Roman Catholicism in the 1980's, I would not be one to absolutely assert that it is completely impossible for a particular individual who at the moment is involved in the Roman Catholic system, to be a Christian (in spite of the false teaching of this false "church"), because salvation is a sovereign work of God, by the Holy Spirit. However, if such a one is a Truth-Seeker, and reading his or her Bible daily, and walking in obedience to the opportunities that the Lord may put before them to come to a knowledge of the Truth, then I believe that God can deliver such a one from the spiritual bondage of the idolatrous, blasphemous, unbiblical, and heretical Roman system, just as He did for me, by His grace and mercy, in 1989. Today I am a born-again Christian, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) for my salvation, set free of the chains of Rome !
Hallelu-Yah !
Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) said,
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
January 15, 2007
January 14, 2007
SC's National RTL chapter not supporting RTL Act of SC
South Carolina Citizens for Life (SCCL) is the SC state chapter of National Right to Life (NRL). SCCL is based in Columbia, SC.
As National Right to Life and their chapters have done in other states as well,the SC chapter has thus far refused to support, and even opposed, the passage of the Right to Life Act of SC, SC's principled "no exceptions" Abortion Ban bill.
See text, history, and additional information on RTL Act of SC (H.3213 and S.111)
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, homepage, and also click on "RTL Act of SC" www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
National Right To Life: The Judas Of The Preborn
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-159.doc
Anti-abortion constitutional amendment petition falls short in Michigan National Right to Life does it again - this time in Michigan...
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-160.doc
In fact, the executive director of SCCL, reportedly 2-3 years ago, actually tried to convince the SC House sponsor not to pursue passage of the bill. This in spite of the fact that the RTL Act of SC has been an active bill, and re-introduced into the SC Legislature, every year since 1998. The House version of the bill (H.3213) passed the SC House of Representatives inApril 2005, albeit with a "fatal flaw" rape exception amendment. The bill was then killed by neglect by the Republican-majority SC Senate in 2006.
The SC Legislature came back into session on January 9, 2007, and so far, for the first time since 1998, the RTL Act of SC has thus far not been re-filed.
On Saturday, Jan. 13, SCCL conducted its annual march and rally to the SC State House, attended by hundreds of participants, a large majority of whom appeared to be Roman Catholic. Hundreds of copies of the text of the flyer below (many accompanied by Gospel of salvation tracts) were distributed to the march and rally participants through the efforts of Columbia Christians for Life.
S.C. Citizens for Life hold 34th annual march to the State House
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16455306.htm
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Is SC Citizens for Life really "Pro-Life" ?
Why is South Carolina Citizens for Life not supporting the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213/S.111 in 2005/2006 session), South Carolina's principled "no-exceptions" Abortion Ban bill !?
Ask SCCL (803-252-5433) why their executive director, Miss Holly Gatling, reportedly 2-3 years ago, tried to convince the sponsor of the Right to Life Act of SC, Rep. Ralph Davenport, not to pursue passage of the bill ? Davenport did anyway, and the bill passed the SC House of Representatives in April 2005, albeit with a "fatal flaw" rape exception amendment. The bill was killed by the Republican-majority SC Senate in 2006.
Call your SC House and SC Senate members and ask them to support the Right to Life Act of SC. For more information and background, go to: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net (click on "RTL Act of SC"), or also www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
11 State bills in 2005/2006 banning abortions: - ALA, GA, IND, KY, LA, MO, ND, OH, SC, SD, TENN (over 20% of States in U.S.)
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-121.doc
Prepared by: Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 / (803) 765-0916
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Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) said,
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
January 14, 2007
As National Right to Life and their chapters have done in other states as well,the SC chapter has thus far refused to support, and even opposed, the passage of the Right to Life Act of SC, SC's principled "no exceptions" Abortion Ban bill.
See text, history, and additional information on RTL Act of SC (H.3213 and S.111)
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, homepage, and also click on "RTL Act of SC" www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
National Right To Life: The Judas Of The Preborn
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-159.doc
Anti-abortion constitutional amendment petition falls short in Michigan National Right to Life does it again - this time in Michigan...
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-160.doc
In fact, the executive director of SCCL, reportedly 2-3 years ago, actually tried to convince the SC House sponsor not to pursue passage of the bill. This in spite of the fact that the RTL Act of SC has been an active bill, and re-introduced into the SC Legislature, every year since 1998. The House version of the bill (H.3213) passed the SC House of Representatives inApril 2005, albeit with a "fatal flaw" rape exception amendment. The bill was then killed by neglect by the Republican-majority SC Senate in 2006.
The SC Legislature came back into session on January 9, 2007, and so far, for the first time since 1998, the RTL Act of SC has thus far not been re-filed.
On Saturday, Jan. 13, SCCL conducted its annual march and rally to the SC State House, attended by hundreds of participants, a large majority of whom appeared to be Roman Catholic. Hundreds of copies of the text of the flyer below (many accompanied by Gospel of salvation tracts) were distributed to the march and rally participants through the efforts of Columbia Christians for Life.
S.C. Citizens for Life hold 34th annual march to the State House
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16455306.htm
_____________________________________________
Is SC Citizens for Life really "Pro-Life" ?
Why is South Carolina Citizens for Life not supporting the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213/S.111 in 2005/2006 session), South Carolina's principled "no-exceptions" Abortion Ban bill !?
Ask SCCL (803-252-5433) why their executive director, Miss Holly Gatling, reportedly 2-3 years ago, tried to convince the sponsor of the Right to Life Act of SC, Rep. Ralph Davenport, not to pursue passage of the bill ? Davenport did anyway, and the bill passed the SC House of Representatives in April 2005, albeit with a "fatal flaw" rape exception amendment. The bill was killed by the Republican-majority SC Senate in 2006.
Call your SC House and SC Senate members and ask them to support the Right to Life Act of SC. For more information and background, go to: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net (click on "RTL Act of SC"), or also www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
11 State bills in 2005/2006 banning abortions: - ALA, GA, IND, KY, LA, MO, ND, OH, SC, SD, TENN (over 20% of States in U.S.)
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-121.doc
Prepared by: Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 / (803) 765-0916
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) said,
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
January 14, 2007
January 11, 2007
Abortion Ban bill Introduced in State of Georgia
Focus on the Family
citizenlink.com
www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003578.cfm
01-09-2007
Abortion Ban Introduced in Georgia
A Georgia lawmaker today introduced a bill that would protect human life from the moment of conception and outlaw the killing of preborn children.
HB 1, sponsored by Rep. Bobby Franklin and co-sponsored by Rep. Melvin Everson, directly challenges Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
The legislation reads, in part: "Justice Blackmun, writing for the majority in Roe v. Wade … wrote: ‘when those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and the theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer (to the question of when life begins).’
"Now, 30 years later, the General Assembly knows the answer to that difficult question, and that answer is life begins at the moment of conception."
Members of a state House committee heard testimony from Franklin and Everson as well as Dr. Alveda King and Sandra Cano. Cano was "Doe" in the Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton – the follow-up to Roe v. Wade that made way for unfettered access to abortion services. King is the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The legalization of abortion on demand has resulted in a dramatic rise in the incidence of child abuse, committee members heard, as well as a dramatic weakening of the union of family.
Abortion has pitted "mothers against their children and women against men," the bill contends.
© 2006 Focus on the Family. CitizenLink is a registered trademark of Focus on the Family. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. (800) A-FAMILY (232-6459).
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Georgia State bill HB 1 includes the following declaration in SECTION 1.:
"A fetus is a person for all purposes under the laws of this state from the moment of conception;..."
www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/fulltext/hb1.htm
Over 20% of the States in America had active abortion ban bills of various kinds in the 2005-2006 legislative year (Note: "exceptions" to a ban on abortion are unconstitutional, as illustrated in the text of the Roe v. Wade decision itself):
11 State bills in 2005/2006 banning abortions:
- ALA, GA, IND, KY, LA, MO, ND, OH, SC, SD, TENN (over 20% of States in U.S.)www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-121.doc
The 1973 Roe decision stated that if legal "personhood" was vested for the unborn, that the pro-abortion argument would then collapse. For almost 34 years now, the pro-life movement has failed to achieve that goal by a state-level, statutory declaration that pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, without exception. As illustrated by the Roe decision itself, "exceptions" to legal personhood are unconstitutional:
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists…
But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 33 years ago. The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 33 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
Jesus said, "... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Matthew 16:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on "RTL Act of SC")
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
January 11, 2007
citizenlink.com
www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003578.cfm
01-09-2007
Abortion Ban Introduced in Georgia
A Georgia lawmaker today introduced a bill that would protect human life from the moment of conception and outlaw the killing of preborn children.
HB 1, sponsored by Rep. Bobby Franklin and co-sponsored by Rep. Melvin Everson, directly challenges Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
The legislation reads, in part: "Justice Blackmun, writing for the majority in Roe v. Wade … wrote: ‘when those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and the theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer (to the question of when life begins).’
"Now, 30 years later, the General Assembly knows the answer to that difficult question, and that answer is life begins at the moment of conception."
Members of a state House committee heard testimony from Franklin and Everson as well as Dr. Alveda King and Sandra Cano. Cano was "Doe" in the Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton – the follow-up to Roe v. Wade that made way for unfettered access to abortion services. King is the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The legalization of abortion on demand has resulted in a dramatic rise in the incidence of child abuse, committee members heard, as well as a dramatic weakening of the union of family.
Abortion has pitted "mothers against their children and women against men," the bill contends.
© 2006 Focus on the Family. CitizenLink is a registered trademark of Focus on the Family. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. (800) A-FAMILY (232-6459).
___________________________________
___________________________________
Georgia State bill HB 1 includes the following declaration in SECTION 1.:
"A fetus is a person for all purposes under the laws of this state from the moment of conception;..."
www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/fulltext/hb1.htm
Over 20% of the States in America had active abortion ban bills of various kinds in the 2005-2006 legislative year (Note: "exceptions" to a ban on abortion are unconstitutional, as illustrated in the text of the Roe v. Wade decision itself):
11 State bills in 2005/2006 banning abortions:
- ALA, GA, IND, KY, LA, MO, ND, OH, SC, SD, TENN (over 20% of States in U.S.)www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-121.doc
The 1973 Roe decision stated that if legal "personhood" was vested for the unborn, that the pro-abortion argument would then collapse. For almost 34 years now, the pro-life movement has failed to achieve that goal by a state-level, statutory declaration that pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, without exception. As illustrated by the Roe decision itself, "exceptions" to legal personhood are unconstitutional:
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists…
But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 33 years ago. The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 33 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
Jesus said, "... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Matthew 16:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on "RTL Act of SC")
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
January 11, 2007
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