Legislation: "No Spanking" bill

NORCAL NAE ALERT!

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Pastor A. Dwight Burchett, President

AB 755 is the spanking bill. I am pleased to inform you that it has been dropped by the author from legislative consideration. She said 'there were just not enough votes for this bill.' We have plenty of laws to cover child abuse on the books presently. Thank you for your participation and God's best!

A. Dwight Burchett

NORCAL NAE President

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Evangelicals urged not to shun Romney over his Mormonism

A law professor and conservative talk-show host says Republican presidential candidate "Mitt Romney has a Mormon problem -- and so does the rest of the country." He cautions Christians against criticizing the candidate's Mormon beliefs during the campaign, saying such an approach will inevitably backfire.

Hugh Hewitt is a professor of law at Chapman University Law School and has spent the last year writing the forthcoming book A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every Conservative Should Know About Mitt Romney. The book discusses whether Romney's Mormon beliefs will help or hinder his campaign.

Hewitt, who has been covering the Church of Latter-day Saints since the mid-1990s for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), says the fact that Romney is a devout Mormon may deter Christians from voting for him -- but it should not. Still, he says a "startling" number of Americans say they could never vote for a Mormon.

"Now that is deeply antagonistic to the American civic religion, but it's also 'there,'" he acknowledges. "It's like arguing in 1960 that Kennedy's Catholicism wouldn't be an issue. Of course it was, [and consequently Romney's Mormonism] has to be dealt with," Hewitt continues. "It has to be a conversation with the American public -- and it's a very difficult one to have and a very delicate one to have."

The educator and author explains why he believes it must be a "delicate" conversation. He cautions individuals -- "especially Christians" -- to be "very, very careful" about the conversation "because secular enemies of God in the public square will delight if orthodox Christians use this moment to attack the unorthodox aspects of Mormonism."

Such an attack, says Hewitt, would likely "open the door to a renewal of anti-Christian bigotry in this country the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time," he emphasizes. And if it resulted in Romney losing his White House bid because he is a Mormon, it would be a "truly ruinous moment for Christians in the public square," the author adds.

Hewitt contends that Romney's perceived flip-flopping on issues such as abortion and homosexuality is the "creation of mainstream media and Romney opponents." According to Hewitt, Romney has been staunchly pro-life for several years and is "the most effective American-elected official in the effort to preserve traditional marriage." READ MORE & CCNews - please "pray the news"

Disclaimer: California Christians is not endorsing any specific candidate for office. But, it does want to encourage you to think through the issues for the sake of the future of our country. And then vote -- for whatever political party or person you sense God would have you vote for. Please do not neglect to vote.

Hate Bloggers, Death Threats and Apologies Abound

2/13/2007
By J. Matt Barber

Media outlets have given the story fairly wide coverage. Presidential candidate and former Senator John Edwards (D- North Carolina) recently named two leftist, anti-Christian bloggers to high profile positions within his campaign. In the past, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan have spewed anti-Christian venom containing language that might even make Howard Stern blush. Despite a chorus of disapproval, Edwards said he’d keep the ladies – if you can call them that – on his campaign payroll. But the two women apparently decided they’d rather devote their full attention to anti-Christian hatemongering and quickly resigned.

But another story, with perhaps more serious implications, has gone largely unreported by the mainstream media.

Last week, Concerned Women for America (CWA) broke the news about an apparent threat to the life of pro-family advocate Peter LaBarbera made by a commenter on lesbian activist Pam Spaulding's anti-Christian site Pam's House Blend.

Spaulding is an information technology manager with Duke University Press, and her employer appears quite proud of its blustering left-wing blogger. Duke Press has even publicly praised and promoted her blog activities, calling them a "mixture of snappy prose, funny postings and serious commentary."

So, just for fun, let's see if we can't yuck it up a bit with Duke University. Let's take a look at some of Spaulding's "snappy" and "funny" musings: READ MORE & CCNews says: "pray the news"

Physician-Assisted Suicide . . . ?

Nuñez to assist new suicide bill
By STEVE GEISSINGER, Los Angeles Daily News
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez said Tuesday that he will join Van Nuys Democrat Lloyd Levine in leading a legislative move this year to establish an Oregon-style, physician-assisted suicide law in California. A Senate committee narrowly rejected a similar bill by Levine and Assemblywoman Patty Berg, D-Santa Rosa, last year. But Levine and Berg said odds of passage have risen now that they have the support of Nuñez, a Los Angeles Democrat. The legislation, modeled after the nine-year-old Oregon Death With Dignity Act, would allow adults diagnosed with less than six months to live to receive life-ending drugs from a doctor and take them by themselves.

Lawmakers push for physician-assisted suicide
By Steve Geissinger, Contra Costa Times

Bill would provide terminally ill patients option to end pain, suffering
By Steve Geissinger, Oakland Tribune

Suicide bill backed: Assembly chief Nunez to push for doctor-assisted suicide measure
By Steve Geissinger, Long Beach Press-Telegram

Is this what we want??? . . . pastors in California? Watch it! If it passes in California, it'll be coming to a State near!

Tim McGhee of Inside the Mountain has great insights!

Chambers Trading Priorities

• House Completed: First 100 Hours, FY2007
• House Next: Iraq
• Senate Completed: S. 1 (Ethics Reform), H.R. 2 (Minimum Wage)
• Senate Next: FY2007, Human Life, Iraq (?)
• Conference: Minimum Wage

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Tim

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U.S. Evangelicals Eye Renewed Domestic Drive

DALLAS (Reuters) - The number of southern U.S. evangelical Christians is not growing as fast as the wider population, leading to a renewed effort to win converts on the domestic front from key groups like the Hispanic community.

That was one message that came through at a three-day "Empower Evangelism" conference hosted by the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, or SBTC, which wrapped up on Wednesday.

"There has been a slowdown of the growth of our churches and our converts ... We have not been keeping pace with the population growth," said Frank Page, president of the national Southern Baptist Convention and a pastor from South Carolina. READ More & "pray the news"