Posted 11/29/2009
“I can’t believe this is happening in our country. Why do we not stand up and fight? Some are!
Are we afraid we might offend someone? This country was founded on Christian principles. I wrote about this in my book. If this country is to survive we must start being more outspoken to all organizations, companies and retail outlets that we will not be their customers anymore.
When the signers of the Declaration wrote their names on that document, they did it as Christians, NOT MUSLIMS. Christians, my friends, CHRISTIANS!!!
If MUSLIMS had been in control, life would be as it is in the middle east. Is that what you want? I think not!
State your dismay with all the crap.
Either we have a Saviour or we don’t! Either we have a Christian country or we don’t! Stand up and make your voice heard!”
Terry Bettis 11/29/2009
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Check out the following: Posted 11/28/2009
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Check out the following: Posted 10/04/2009
It is heartening to know that in some American towns Christians are not afraid to stand up and be counted. How about the Christians in your town or city. Are they ready to stand up and defend Christian values?? Or will they continue to cower under their alters??
Tony Passaro
Bel Air Md.
Friday night high school football in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia took a backseat to a battle of another sort in the bleachers and on the sidelines.
Since 9-11 the Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Warrior's cheerleaders have been using scripture verses on the banners that the football team bursts through at the beginning of each game. However, that tradition has been banned by school authorities who fear a hefty lawsuit if they allow the practice to continue. Officials nixed the banners after receiving a complaint from one individual who claims she was offended by the verses. (cheerleaders perform for local news video)
In a surprising turn of events, community members have showed their overwhelming support for the cheerleaders who have since become media celebrities. A local youth pastor, Brad Scott, started a facebook page in their support and organized a rally at a local Chick-fil-a. That rally had to be moved when more than 1,100 supporters showed up. Now in another overwhelming show of support, members of the community showed up to Friday nights football game to cheer the cheerleaders.
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe high school says they have sold the most tickets ever to Friday night's game. All throughout the bleachers people sported homemade signs with scripture verses and t-shirts emblazoned with the school logo and the words "Warriors for Christ." A few enthusiastic male students even painted their shirtless torsos with the school's colors and a scripture verse. (see raw video footage here)
Jay Spokes brought his entire family out for the event and all were waving homemade cardboard signs that read, "I love Jesus," "Warriors for Christ," and "I am not ashamed of the gospel."
"I think the superintendent reacted a little prematurely in banning the signs, I think it was a knee jerk reaction. They were fearful of a lawsuit and I can understand that," he explained to OneNewsNow. But he adds, "[T]hey should research the laws better and actually put it to question...one person's complaint shouldn't stop the whole communities thought process."
Spokes also attended the rally earlier in the week and has voiced his opinion on the issue to the school board. Lisa Curtis is the Varsity cheerleading coach at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe high school. She told OneNewsNow that she was grateful for the support of the community and adds that she was "dumb-founded" when she was told her girls could no longer use the scripture verse banners.
"It just amazes me what kind of impact our little Bible verse signs have had on the community...the girls just want to thank everyone who has supported them this week," she continues. "We are getting messages from all over the country and we just want to thank you all."
Many school employees donned scripture verse t-shirts as well Friday night. The football coaches also sported the shirts and just before the game began the football team prayed on the field and closed that prayer with "in Jesus' name." Another rally is planned for Tuesday night's school board meeting.
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there
is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of selfdefense
which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and
which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with
infi nitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an
individual State. In a single State, if the persons entrusted with supreme
power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts
of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no
regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to
arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their
courage and despair.”
-- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28
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