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Are pro-family groups afraid of GOP governors?

Tuesday, January 6, 2015, 1:07 pm | Randy Thomasson

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It’s a fact that homosexual “marriages” are happening in three dozen states, many during the watch of Republican governors. Because that’s what these professing “conservative”/”pro-family”/”constitutional” Republican chief executives are doing — watching and allowing children to be indoctrinated with unnatural, unhealthy, unbiblical, and tyrannical “marriages.”

I don’t expect any defense of real marriage from Democrat governors, who are virtually locked into the delusion of homosexual “marriages.” But Republican governors who say they believe in man-woman marriage — well, that’s an entirely different story with different expectations.

Governors have the duty and power to defend marriage in their states

You see, each governor pledges themselves to “support and defend” the plain words written in their state constitution, including the definition of marriage “for a man and a woman.” Governors raise their right hand and publicly promise to “faithfully execute” (or implement) these written laws!

What’s more, governors are commanded by their state constitutions to enforce the written laws.

Each governor is also authorized to call out his/her state’s militia or national guard to enforce written laws and maintain public order against foreign and domestic enemies.

And each governor has an administration that serves his/her pleasure that is in charge of state marriage forms (licenses and applications) that county clerks use.

Constitutional governors will take action, not merely go to court

Given these facts, it is state governors that are allowing homosexual “marriages.” And it’s not good enough for governors to merely protest by appealing to a higher court the unconstitutional decisions of judicial activists.

No, governors who are loyal to the written constitution of their state and of our nation must take action — instead of making excuses that they must “follow the law.” That is both a fallacy and a misnomer. The law is written in the constitution and was put there by the People or the People’s representatives. The law is not what is dreamt up by judges, which is only their opinion and is definitely not “the law.”

Pro-family organizations must lobby Republican governors now

So where does this leave us? America is in a constitutional crisis against forces of tyranny and immorality. It is high time for the moral majority to rise up. And it’s imperative that pro-family organizations take bold action now to lobby Republican governors.

Realize that in the last 12 months, unconstitutional judges have tyrannically opined that homosexual “marriages” must be publicly honored in a number of states: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

In the midst of this severe crisis, SaveCalifornia.com issued our December 2 alert urging calls to Republican governors in pro-man-woman-marriage states.

Yet we have not seen similar “lobby the Republican governors” alerts from other pro-family organizations, neither at the state nor national level. This is unacceptable. For if pro-family organizations won’t urge “pro-family” governors to defend real marriage, who will? (And no, appealing a bad judge’s decision is not “all” a governor can do.)

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Please contact as many national pro-family organizations as you can
–as well as the state-based pro-family groups in the above threatened states — and urge them to “Lobby Republican governors to not permit unconstitutional homosexual ‘marriages’ on their watch.”

Pro-family voters place conservative governors into office. Don’t these “pro-family” governors owe their allegiance to God, the written constitution, the voters, and to the pro-family groups that represent pro-family voters?

Now is the time for you to speak out so that pro-family organizations will speak out and lobby professing pro-family governors to use their own executive powers, not merely legal appeals, to defend the constitution and the People and preserve real marriage for one man and one woman.

“A governor’s oath is to defend the Constitution of both the federal government and his own state. Defending something by definition means protecting it when it is under attack, regardless of where that attack comes from — even if the attack comes from a federal judge, a federal court, or the Supreme Court itself. Governors have been meekly capitulating to judicial tyranny, one after the other, and timidly abandoning their posts.”
Bryan Fischer, “Time for a governor to stand up against judicial tyranny,” Nov. 26, 2014

Join us in saying no to ‘recreational’ marijuana

Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 8:10 pm | Randy Thomasson

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You may have heard that highly potent “recreational” marijuana legalization could be placed on California’s 2016 ballot.

You’re concerned and so am I. Remember, SaveCalifornia.com strongly opposed marijuana legalization in 2010, and we celebrated that was known as Prop. 19 was ultimately defeated.

But now, with virtual legalization in California already taking its toll, and children being damaged by marijuana in the few states that have legalized it, the evidence is mounting on why highly potent pot and a “stoned” culture is a very bad idea.

Today, I talked on the phone with our anti-marijuana colleague James L. Lambert and we both committed to reignite our MarijuanaHarmsFamilies.com campaign if full-blown marijuana legalization returns to the California ballot.

So please stand with SaveCalifornia.com as we stand for God’s best for children and families…which is definitely not “stoned” families and a “stoned” culture!

Heavy marijuana use in the teenage years could damage brain structures vital to memory and reasoning, a new study suggests. The study found changes in the sub-cortical regions of the brain, which are part of the memory and reasoning circuits, NBC News reports. Young people who had changes in this region of the brain performed more poorly on memory tests than their peers who did not use marijuana. The heavy marijuana users in the study had not used the drug on average for more than two years before the memory testing occurred.
“Heavy Marijuana Use in Teen Years Linked to Damaged Brain Structures,” Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, 12/18/13

The most important thing for parents

Saturday, December 6, 2014, 2:47 pm | Randy Thomasson

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Every parent wants to think of themselves as a “good parent.”

But “good” is a result, not merely an intention. Because, most of the time, virtuous adults come from good parents who do good training of their children’s minds and bodies, and good ministry to their children’s hearts and souls. This is where great-character adults come from!

And think about this — we’re all going to die. Then the only people alive will be the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who are gone. Ask yourself, “What kind of adults are we shaping in our children?” What we do and say here answers the other question, “What kind of world will we leave our children?”

For the principled parent, all this means purposefully, lovingly, courageously, and consistently training your child’s character. It means having the goal of building a better adult that you are. Because this is the key way to make society better. Think about that!

To help parents to prioritize shaping their children’s character, SaveCalifornia.com has put together these top picks for humble dads and moms.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV