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| + | 30 years ago, 1990, when I was a candidate for the Iowa legislature, I had hour-long interviews with the 30 pastors in my district about their theological reasons for not allowing information about any candidate or any government-entangled Biblical issue (called "politics") to be shared in any forum of their church. | ||
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| + | My two goals were to thoroughly understand their theological objections which had confused me in years prior, and second, to see if there were ''any'' accommodation they would consider of the need I see in Scripture to shine the "light" of what God says about national abominations out in the "darkness" outside the church walls - out in those forums where voters decide whether to pattern our laws after the principles of Heaven or of Hell. | ||
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| + | There was to be no accommodation. No pulpit announcements, no bulletin boards, no permission for those handful of members so inclined to meet on church property to organize to take action on issues identified in their pastor's sermons with which government had become entangled. | ||
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| + | I tape recorded most of those interviews, for my own study. At that time there was no internet to post them. No access to radio or TV that I had. There were books, and I had started publishing the Prayer & Action News, and my studies of pastors' answers resulted in my first self-published book, "The Gift of Governments". Subtitle: "An assault on the noninvolvement theologies | ||
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Contents
Politics
God's Coronavirus Cure in 3 Verses (Probably a situation that brings most politics to a screeching halt, shutting down entire legislatures, should be classified as "political")
Judicial Accountability Act: How Legislatures can stop judges from legislating
This Judge ruled like a Christian Historian
Life
A Law Designed to Force Courts to Address Evidence of Life
Four Drawbacks of a "No Right to Abortion" State Constitutional Amendment
Answers to Lawmakers' Objections
The consensus of court-recognized fact-finders that babies are people even before they are born
Missouri’s Encyclopedia of Abortion Arguments
Outreach to 2800 Republican Lawmakers in 30 States where Republicans Control Both Chambers
Immigration
Many of our ancestors documented THEMSELVES
The Immigration Solution best for our Economy, our Security, and our Faith
Cruz, Trump, Keyes, and the Bible
Democrat Platform on immigration
Republican Platform on immigration
Immigration (Comparing what parties and candidates say)
Setting Immigration Quotas - the Mystery of the Wages (There is no measure of the number best for citizens)
Whose Expertise Inspired Our Immigration Laws? (U.S. immigration policy is driven by those who have least studied the key facts)
Sudan
Saving South Sudan (How refugees can open U.S. refugee quotas so their families can come, and How Refugees can heal the government of South Sudan so their families won't have to leave)
Saving South Sudan - general discussion
Optional: Turn your Response into a New Article
Principles of the proposed UTSS Constitution in the Bible
Other Political Issues
Spiritual Preparation for Action
Multitude Of Counsellors Project
Upon this Rock I will build my Congress <> Part Two: WHICH "Rock"? <> Part Three: Politics in the Gates <> Part Four: Congregation/Congress v. “Church” <> Part Five: The Congress of Living Stones
What God says we will accomplish by meeting His way (Invitation to join a "Multitude of Counsellors", Proverbs 15:22)
Bible Guidelines for Relationships
The Bible on Equal Rights for Women: Did God Write "For Men Only" on the Pulpit?
What we can Pray for that isn't Forbidden by Prophecy
Evidence that in God All Nations May Trust
Shining "the Gospel" Outside the Bushel
Gospel Light turned off by Christians
Reasoning with Pastors
Introduction
30 years ago, 1990, when I was a candidate for the Iowa legislature, I had hour-long interviews with the 30 pastors in my district about their theological reasons for not allowing information about any candidate or any government-entangled Biblical issue (called "politics") to be shared in any forum of their church.
My two goals were to thoroughly understand their theological objections which had confused me in years prior, and second, to see if there were any accommodation they would consider of the need I see in Scripture to shine the "light" of what God says about national abominations out in the "darkness" outside the church walls - out in those forums where voters decide whether to pattern our laws after the principles of Heaven or of Hell.
There was to be no accommodation. No pulpit announcements, no bulletin boards, no permission for those handful of members so inclined to meet on church property to organize to take action on issues identified in their pastor's sermons with which government had become entangled.
I tape recorded most of those interviews, for my own study. At that time there was no internet to post them. No access to radio or TV that I had. There were books, and I had started publishing the Prayer & Action News, and my studies of pastors' answers resulted in my first self-published book, "The Gift of Governments". Subtitle: "An assault on the noninvolvement theologies