Twatwaffles of the Week for May 1, 2017 (#5)

Music:: "Wisps of Whorls" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-lawyer-its-all-an-act/ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-i-am-not-fake-i-am-completely-real-and-everybody-knows-it/

"Rick Joyner: Liberals Are Hypocrites For Not Criticizing Mexico’s Non-Existent Border Wall". http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-joyner-liberals-are-hypocrites-for-not-criticizing-mexicos-non-existent-border-wall/

"Robert Maginnis: Washington D.C.’s Gays And Witches Corrupt Politicians"
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/robert-maginnis-washington-d-c-s-gays-and-witches-corrupt-politicians/

https://www.facebook.com/NonReligiousStudies/videos/vb.802097536522113/917369568328242/?type=2&theater

"Rick Wiles: Trump Has Been Placed Under ‘House Arrest’ By The ‘Deep State Goon Squad’" http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-trump-has-been-placed-under-house-arrest-by-the-deep-state-goon-squad/

http://www.trunews.com/

"Kentucky coal company to invest in putting an enormous solar farm on a strip mine"
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/25/1656192/-Kentucky-coal-company-to-invest-in-putting-an-enormous-solar-farm-on-a-strip-mine

"Chobani sues Alex Jones, InfoWars for defamation over Twin Falls assault coverage"
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article146411289.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-chobani-yogurt-company-sues-alex-jones-20170425-story.html

"Doc helps patients of all ages... even 6 days old!!
https://www.facebook.com/MichalskiChiropractic/photos/a.963847233684204.1073741829.516354371766828/1316290615106529/?type=3

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/subluxation-theory-a-belief-system-that-continues-to-define-the-practice-of-chiropractic/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/pediatric-chiropractic-care-scientifically-indefensible/

A good library of material concerning chiropractics and why it is wrong no matter the age of the patient https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/chiropractic/

January 22, 2016::End of the day round-up (pg 2)

Pastors deliver petitions to lawmakers opposing LGBTQ rights

Pastor Ron Johnson of the Indiana Pastors Alliance says GOP Senate leader David Long is the “source of the problem.” Johnson joined about two-dozen supporters Wednesday to deliver the petitions with more than 5,500 signatures opposing two Senate bills.

One bill would extend discrimination protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in public accommodation, housing and employment. The other would do the same but exclude transgender people. Both measures contain several religious exemptions.

\Michael Newdow Has Filed Another Lawsuit to Remove “In God We Trust” from U.S. Currency

The federal lawsuit, which was filed in Akron, Ohio, may be unique for relying not on the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, but on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). In essence, Newdow takes the same argument used by Hobby Lobby to get out of covering contraception for its employees and says that the U.S. Treasury can’t push God onto atheists without a “compelling governmental interest,” which he believes they don’t have.
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Again, you can laugh at all this, but remember that there’s a case that’ll go in front of the Supreme Court very soon that revolves around Catholic nuns who say filling out a short form to get out of paying for contraception for their employees is a violation of their faith.

If you have a firmly held religious conviction, the courts don’t get to judge how silly it is. Newdow is using that logic to make a very different kind of argument on behalf of atheists.

John Eidsmoe: Planned Parenthood Deserves 'Some Of The Blame' For Shooting At Clinic

“But I would simply have to say there that if we’re talking about a culture of death, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have in fact contributed a great deal to that culture of death,” he said. “I mean, every abortion results in the death of an innocent human being and they are cheapening life by doing that. So I think some of the blame needs to be right there.”

Ted Cruz To Address Church Led By Extremist 'Prophet'

Joyner doesn’t think America has much time left, telling viewers of his television show “Prophetic Perspective on Current Events” that President Obama’s re-election “could be the end of our republic as we know it” and that a time will come when “our only hope is a military takeover; martial law.”

Joyner cited a prophetic vision he received to predict that the devastating 2011 earthquake in Japan would push America into Nazism, and he has warned that gay marriage will usher in national destruction, a second civil war, divine judgment, a ban on men and women marrying each other and the Mark of the Beast.

He has also boasted of advising several politicians, including one unnamed U.S. senator whom he told that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for homosexuality.

Mike Bickle’s 5 Million Bibles For Russian Theocracy | TWO Care

In a May 2014 Twocare.org special report, I delved into the history of a little known early 1990s U.S. evangelical campaign in which American evangelicals and fundamentalists carried out the religious indoctrination of millions of public school students in Russia, in former Soviet Union territory, and in former Eastern European Soviet ally nations. These American evangelicals were, of course, vehemently opposed to LGBT rights, and one of the leading organizations behind the effort, Campus Crusade For Christ, would later be exposed by Truth Wins Out for its effort to disseminate anti-gay propaganda across an entire continent, in Africa.

But when I wrote that Twocare.org report I was unaware that there were direct ties between leaders of the emerging, dominionist “apostolic and prophetic” movement (now commonly referred to as the New Apostolic Reformation) and the campaign to evangelize Russia which ramped up with the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Now, thanks to video posted by Rick Joyner’s Morningstar Ministries, we have some information on those ties.

While Twocare.org has previously investigated at length the funding behind such US-based anti-LGBT efforts as the World Congress of Families, this report delves into the movement background of evangelists such as Bob Weiner, Mike Bickle (pictured), Rick Joyner, and their New Apostolic Reformation movement fellows working to export the NAR’s dominionist style of Christian supremacy to Russia and the world.

Mike Bickle’s 5 Million Bibles For Russian Theocracy | TWO Care

If it is war they want, it is war they will get

So it has been a little over a week since the Obergefell hearing and the headlines continue to roll out.  Just for fun I thought I would collect a few,,,


What Happens If Same-Sex Marriage Becomes Nationally Recognized?

"One of the biggest changes in this country in the last four or five years is the level of hostility rising toward people of faith taking public viewpoints in their business or in the public square, even in schools and the military," said Former Senator and EchoLight CEO Rick Santorum. "Those who want to live their life consistent with biblical teachings are not being given space to do that. "

The backdrop to the Supreme Court holding this hearing is a number of high-profile cases of Christian business owners being forced by the government to provide services for same-sex weddings. As highlighted in "One Generation Away," which was released last September, there is a growing understanding that the redefinition of marriage cannot be separated from a loss of freedom. 

Peter LaBarbera Is 'Hoping And Praying' For A 'Constitutional Crisis' On Marriage

Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality said last month that he is “hoping and praying” that if the Supreme Court strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage, enough states will follow the lead of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in defying the decision that it will “create a constitutional crisis.”

Calling Moore “a national hero,” LaBarbera told South Carolina pastor Kevin Boling on his “Knowing the Truth” radio program that while “the judicial system has largely sold out to the homosexual activist movement,” Moore has at least “tried to put [on] the brakes.”

“I’m hoping and praying that some state somewhere, more than one, many states will say ‘no’ if the Supreme Court decides to pull a Roe v. Wade on homosexual so-called marriage, which would be to nationalize it or attempt to nationalize this ridiculous homosexual marriage movement,” he said.

“If it is nationalized in June or whenever that decision from the Supreme Court comes down,” he added, “I’m hoping that there is, that this creates a constitutional crisis and states fight back like what’s going on in Alabama.” 

Religious Lawyer Argues Marriage Equality Will Increase Abortions

The argument goes like this: The increase in same-sex marriage supposedly correlates to a decline in the overall marriage rate. Such declines mean an increase in the number of unmarried women. Unmarried women have more abortions than any other group—which is true, but not necessarily because they are unmarried. Therefore, marriage equality will result, in Schaerr’s estimation, nearly one million abortions—a number he seems to have invented out of thin air.

Janet Porter: Supreme Court Marriage Ruling Could Land Christians In Jail

Porter told Drake that the things she predicted in her 2005 book The Criminalization of Christianity: Read This Book Before It Becomes Illegal!” are coming true, and that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality, Christians will have to choose between obeying the ruling and going to jail.

“I’m telling you that if the court dares to issue another Roe v. Wade, in this case the Roe v. Wade for marriage, we will not obey it,” she said. “We’ll go to jail if we have to go to jail, but we will not bow to this agenda and violate our beliefs in God.”

“It’s happening in the state of Idaho,” she claimed. “They’re going after pastors in Idaho right now and saying, ‘Unless you oversee, participate in a homosexual wedding, we’re going to put you in jail.'”

Porter was referring to a case in Couer D’Alene in which the owners of a for-profit wedding chapel filed a lawsuit claiming that they could face decades of jail time for refusing to perform same-sex marriages, which did not turn out to be at all true.

Josh Duggar: If Christians Can't Discriminate Against Gays They're Victims Of Discrimination

"Natural marriage has been clearly defined over the years," Duggar, speaking in the vernacular of the religious right, said.

"Right now in America there is an agenda to silence people of faith, those who hold a dissenting opinion," Duggar told CNS. "That’s not what America was founded on. America was founded on respect, tolerance, and really not discriminating against people based on their religious convictions."

In other words, not allowing Christians to discriminate against gay people is "discriminating against people based on their religious convictions."
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"I think what we have to realize is this is only the beginning of a larger discussion, and what's really at stake here is the American family,' Duggar said, promising to continue to fight against the rights of same-sex couples regardless of how the Supreme Court rules.

End Times broadcaster: God will send a ‘fireball from space’ to destroy Earth if gay marriage is legalized

“I believe I am speaking under the unction of the Holy Spirit,” Wiles explained in a perfectly reasonable tone. “I’m telling you there will be swift, sudden and devastating consequences for the United States of America. America will be brought to its knees, there will be pain and suffering at a level we’ve never seen in this country.”

“The word that I hear in my spirit is ‘fire.’ I do not know if it refers to riots or looting or war on American soil or a fireball from space. I simply know that a sweeping, consuming fire will come across the United States of America and this country will be charred and burned.”

High court: Tool of tyrannical elitist prejudice

A decision degrading the natural right of marriage, endowed by the Creator, to the status of a fiat right, fabricated by government, will be unconstitutional on the face of it, because it disparages an antecedent right, retained by the people, which disparagement is explicitly prohibited by the U.S. Constitution’s Ninth amendment. Under present circumstances, the decision will also invite conflict on account of the openly flaunted prejudice of two of the justices participating in it.  [Referring to the demand that Ginsburg and Kagan recuse themselves.]

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If the United States Supreme Court presumes to impose any redefinition of marriage on the states, respectively, or the people, without addressing the issue of unalienable right it involves, with reasoning that respects God-endowed right (which is the logic by which the American people asserted, and still claim to possess and exercise, sovereign authority over themselves), the Court’s decision will be an attack on the very foundation of constitutional government, of by and for the people of the United States. It will be a high crime and misdemeanor that effectively dissolves the just bonds of government between and among the states, and among the individuals who compose the people of the United States. It will therefore be just cause for war.

Like the Dred Scott decision that heralded the onset of the first Civil War, the Court’s action will bring the nation to the brink, whence “nothing but confusion and disorder will follow. …” If the justices do not tread carefully, their temerity could very well set in motion the death throes of what is still supposed to be their country. “Forbid it, Almighty God!”

Joyner: SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Could Bring About The Mark Of The Beast

Rick Joyner sent out an email to members of his Oak Initiative today, warning that a Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality would be a "dress rehearsal" for the Mark of the Beast.

"Few events in history have so remarkably fit the biblical scenario of this mark as the potential U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage," he declared. "As bizarre as this may sound, this is an uncanny parallel to the biblical prophecy."

Seriously look at the rhetoric they endorse, "creates a constitutional crisis", "this country will be charred and burned", "a high crime and misdemeanor".  They advocate for war and the "coming end-times" based on a false analogy to Roe v Wade and a flawed belief that marriage is being redefined.  Is it no wonder that fear has over taken rational thought?

U.S. Pro-Coup Evangelicals Ally With Putin Inner Circle | TWO Care

This is quite interesting and I am still trying to digest it all but it seems to boil down to this. A group of evangelical leaders (extreme Dominionists and NAR devotees) in the United States have formed an alliance with none other than Vladimir Putin.

A quick overview shows that this palls in comparison to harmless religious rhetoric and the meddling of the Reich in Russian anti-gay laws. Militancy and armed insurrection are constant themes.

I'm going to need serious time to take this all in as there are some huge names in all this,,,

U.S. Pro-Coup Evangelicals Ally With Putin Inner Circle | TWO Care