Rev. Frank Pavone is right on it. He gets it! People should know the impact of their members of Congress on the sanctity and quality of life. To read more, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
Voting Records to Go To All Churches, Leading Priest States
Washington, DC – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated this morning that the voting records of members of Congress on the Stupak-Pitts amendment to HR 3962 (and other abortion-related votes) will be distributed to every Catholic parish in America, with instructions to each pastor on how to make clear to his congregation the implications of how that congregation’s representative voted. “Whatever one’s position on abortion itself,” Fr. Pavone commented, “the vast majority of Americans have always opposed the idea that taxpayers should fund it. Our plan to inform pastors of these voting records is phase one of a year-long effort to activate Churches as never before regarding what they can legally do in preparation for next year’s midterm elections. Publishing voting records in a non-partisan fashion is certainly one of those activities.”

Fr. Pavone also said that in his role as President of the National Pro-life Religious Council, he would also involve Churches of other denominations in this project to educate voters on the outcome of the Stupak-Pitts amendment.

Check out the similarities between the decision of Abby Johnson and a recent Law and Order episode. Ms. Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood facility quit and became pro-life after actually viewing an ultrasound of an abortion as it was taking place. The Law and Order episode explores contemporary abortion issues.
Ms. Johnson’s real life prick of conscience lines up with the abortion issues in the recent Law and Order episode. They should meet. Ms. Johnson’s change of heart and the show’s headline inspired account of the murder of a fictitious abortion doctor which occurs in a church, similar to the real life murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, brings the abortion controversy to the forefront again.
The decision that Abby Johnson made and the issues raised on Law and Order are lessons of great hope. No one can escape the power of the truth. They can try to deny it, ignore it, or hide it, but they can’t escape it. As a post-abortive mother, I had to learn these lessons the hard way.
We at Priests for Life minister all the time to former abortion providers, supporters and post abortive women. We love them, and guide them to repentance and healing. And we see people who, like Abby Johnson, repent of abortion only after they have seen it face to face. Let’s hold all of them up in prayer.

A 19-year-old San Antonio man said he murdered a restaurant owner during a burglary to get $300 to pay for his girlfriend’s abortion. His lawyer is trying to keep the man’s confession from being introduced in the capital murder case.

Link: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/68996317.html

http://www.nbc.com/Law_and_Order/video/clips/dignity/1169056/

In the real world, Abby Johnson’s conscience pricked her, causing a change of heart. She quit her job as director at Planned Parenthood and joined a prolife ministry. A similar thing happens on this “Law and Order” episode. Please watch the trailer.
In the show’s customary ripped-from-the-headlines style, the new episode focuses on the murder, in a church, of a doctor who performs late-term abortions. Though the episode, which will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time, begins with the disclaimer that the story “is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event,” its outlines closely track the case of Dr. George R. Tiller, a prominent provider of late-term abortions who was shot and killed in a church in Wichita, Kan., on May 31.
Leading up to what is essentially a character-driven debate about abortion, NBC has tread a fine line between promoting the episode and its topic to attract viewers to an otherwise slow night of television and trying not to draw too much attention to it.
The network ranks last this season among the four major broadcast networks in total viewers and among young adults. It has promoted its abortion episode to television writers, sending a screening copy along with a letter from Dick Wolf, the creator and an executive producer of the series, who called it “the most controversial episode of the series” since it first addressed the topic in its debut season.
The network similarly promoted an episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” that was broadcast on Wednesday that dealt with pedophila.
But Mr. Wolf and NBC executives declined to be interviewed about the decision to explore the topic of abortion. In response to questions, NBC and the producers issued a statement that said: “For 20 seasons the Emmy-winning ‘Law & Order’ has explored a variety of controversial topics, and the episode ‘Dignity’ does just that. Viewers will see a balanced, thought-provoking drama about abortion.”
“Law & Order” has twice before addressed abortion, in 1991 with “Life Choice,” a first-season episode about the bombing of an abortion clinic, and in 1995, its fifth season, with “Progeny,” which also focused on the murder of a doctor who provided abortions.
Friday’s episode does weave some significant twists of plot and character into the drama, with police officers and assistant district attorneys sometimes taking forceful stands on one side of the abortion debate or the other, only to later express doubt when their involvement in the case becomes more personal.
Abortion has been a sensitive topic for networks and advertisers at least since 1972, when an episode of “Maude” on CBS wrestled with the topic. The broadcast drew many complaints and most advertisers shunned the episode when it was repeated during the summer.
The Fox network said in July that it would not show an episode of its popular animated series “Family Guy” dealing with abortion that would have shown this season. Fox said in a statement that although it would not broadcast the episode, “we fully support the producers’ right to make the episode and distribute it in whatever way they want to ‘Family Guy’ fans.” The program’s producers sponsored a live reading of the script last summer to promote the show’s nomination for an Emmy for best comedy series, and they said it would be included on a DVD of the season’s episodes.
Carrie Drinkwater, a senior vice president for broadcast television at MPG, a media planning company, said that most advertisers have clear guidelines about when they will not advertise on an episode of a show that deals with a topic like abortion. It is likely that some scheduled advertisers dropped out of Friday’s broadcast, she said. She said while her firm has clients that sometimes advertise on “Law & Order,” none had been scheduled to have commercial spots in this episode.
An NBC executive said that the network had sold a full complement of advertising for the episode, but he declined to identify which companies would be advertising.

On the heels of releasing the new Martin Luther King Jr. and Planned Parenthood PDF, this breaking story came in. So, not only is PPH still maintaining that Martin Luther King, Jr. supported their nefarious deeds, even though he never even attended their awards ceremony to pick up the award they so often boast about. His wife, Coretta went to the ceremony. Look for the upcoming PDF on this whole thing.

Also,PPH is now taking a former employee to court, because she just couldn’t continue to work for them. They say she is a danger to their clients. Nevermind that the real danger is from the things PPH does to babies and women behind closed doors. Here’s the story:

Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Abortion Ultrasound (Video)
Monday, November 2, 2009, 5:28 AM
Jim Hoft
The leader of Planned Parenthood in College Station, Texas left her post after watching the ultrasound of an abortion procedure.
Abby Johnson told reporters that Planned Parenthood changed it’s business model from one that pushed prevention,
to one that focused on abortion.

She recently joined the Pro-Life organization in her community.
KBTX reported, via Free Republic:
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned.
Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure.
“I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it,” said Jonhson.
She handed in her resignation October 6. Johnson worked as the Bryan Planned Parenthood Director for two years.
According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing it’s business model
from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.
“It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was.
The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem
with that,” said Johnson.
Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently
became convicted about.
“I feel so pure in heart (since leaving). I don’t have this guilt, I don’t have this burden on me anymore that’s how I know this
conversion was a spiritual conversion.”
Johnson now supports the Coalition For Life, the pro-life group with a building down the street from Planned Parenthood.
Coalition volunteers can regularly be seen praying on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. Johnson has been meeting
with the coalition’s executive director, Shawn Carney, and has prayed with volunteers outside Planned Parenthood.

“Dr. King was a Star Trek fan…” Nichelle Nichols (AKA Lt. Uhura)

People often wonder why Alveda King, a licensed minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, often refers to Star Trek and other “sci-fi” films, movies, television projects, music projects, etcetera to illustrate points. My nephew, Derek Barber King, Jr. launched his television ministry recently, citing the film “The Matrix” to make a point about reality. His text was powerfully presented with scriptures from The Holy Bible, and his Matrix and reality analogy fit in with his message.
Young Derek and I are maybe “chips off the old block.” When I was a little girl, and a teenager, my dad, Rev. A. D. Williams King, often took the family to the movies to see Superman, Hercules, and other fantasy films. My dad was an avid comic book collector. When Star Trek and The Jetsons came out in the mid-1960’s, I remember saying that one day, everything we saw on screen would happen in real life one day. For instance, the Jetsons’ moving sidewalk is in almost every airport nowadays. Captain Kirk’s communicator became a flip cell phone. Lt. Uhura’s earpiece is a Bluetooth, and her communications panel is now a GPS system.
I often cite a classic Star Trek episode in my lectures, the one where a race of beings was in danger of annihilation because of a skin color battle. Acts 17:28 says that we are one blood. That means that we are really one human race. In one of my favorite Star Trek shows, there were two “races” on one planet. They were identical except one group was black on one side and white on one side And the other group was white on one side and black On one side. They fought over eugenics and genocide, with one group trying to totally annihilate the other group.
In yet another Star Trek episode, Captain Kirk led the humans and His arch enemy led his “race.” They were losing to a common enemy until they learned to put their differences aside. There is much to be learned in living together as one race of humans in what my Uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my father, Rev. A. D. King and those in the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement termed “The Beloved Community.”
My Uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also saw the value of Lt. Uhura’s role in terms of race relations. Nichelle Nichols, who gave us the first role of Lt. Uhura on Star Trek, considered quitting Star Trek midway through its first season, when her character had been given little to do beyond perpetually opening hailing frequencies. In one interview, she famously described Uhura as “a glorified telephone operator in space”. Then, at a civil rights protest, she met Martin Luther King Jr. — who told her that he was a big fan of Star Trek. According to Nichols, when she told King she was thinking of quitting the show, he was shocked. “Don’t you know you have the first non-stereotypical role in television?” she recalls King saying. “For the first time the world will see us as we should be seen — people of quality in the future. You created a role with dignity and beauty and grace and intelligence. You’re not just a role model for our children, but for people who don’t look like us to see us for the first time as equals.”
In the more recent release of Star Trek, Lt. Uhura is recognized as a talented, brilliant officer, ranking top of her graduating class. Because Nichelle Nichols took us where no Black woman had gone before, our young women today have a classic role model that has bridged the generation gap in a positive manner.
What does all of this have to do with the prolife movement, my critics ask? Well, people respond to illustrations and anecdotes. It just so happens that Star Trek was part of my reality when I was growing up, so it is not so strange that I can find relevant comparisons to use in my talks.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. The
Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice his children
For immediate personal comfort and safety.” Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
How can the dream survive if we murder our children? We must value marriage between one man and one woman, purity in all sexual relationships, procreative reproductive health, and a biblical world view.” Dr. Alveda C. King, Post Abortive Mother, Minister, Activist

Beaming off till next time…

Following up on the incident with Townhall.com and Prelutsky, seems like Townhall.com wasn’t in agreement with the types of things Prelutsky was saying, after all… And again, I found Prelutsky’s remarks very offensive to say the least. Alveda

Here’s what Burt Prelutsky wrote in his Townhall.com column –

It’s not just the politicians, but also their mates, so long as they’re Democrats, who get the star treatment. Take Michelle Obama…please. Every time I turn around, there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I’ll make an exception in her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she insists this is a mean country.
Naturally, the left-wing media is now trying to convince us that this James Brown-look-alike has all the allure, glamour and fashion sense of Jackie Kennedy. I have even heard her upper arms described in the sort of language Wordsworth devoted to flowers in the morning dew and that Keats lavished on nightingales. Frankly, if I were Mrs. Obama and the geeks started rhapsodizing about my triceps, I might consider wearing sleeves.
But there’s no getting around the fact that Barack is the bigger menace….

The entire column is available at:
http://townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2009/03/22/let_us_not_praise_famous_men_-_or_women

You’ll notice that the two lines calling Michelle Obama a bad name do not appear. That’s because one was a fabrication and TownHall either censored the other before publishing the Prelutsky column or deleted it after publishing it. Whichever is the case, the offending line is currently not on the TownHall.com website.

If you look at Prelutsky’s original column, which he has posted on his own blog, the above excerpt reads as follows:

It’s not just the politicians, but also their mates, so long as they’re Democrats, who get the star treatment. Take Michelle Obama…please. Every time I turn around, there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I’ll make an exception in her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she insists this is a mean country. The burning question in my circle is: if the First Family gets a female dog, will she be the First Bitch or will she have to settle for second place?

Naturally, the left-wing media is now trying to convince us that this James Brown-look-alike has all the allure, glamour and fashion sense of Jackie Kennedy. I have even heard her upper arms described in the sort of language Wordsworth devoted to flowers in the morning dew and that Keats lavished on nightingales. Frankly, if I were Mrs. Obama and the geeks started rhapsodizing about my triceps, I might consider wearing sleeves.

But there’s no getting around the fact that Barack is the bigger menace….

The above is taken from Prelutsky’s blog of April 16, 2009, available at www.burtprelutsky.com , then going to his blog archive (on the right side of the page) and clicking on April 2009.

We see here that the sentence, “She’s not pretty, for heaven’s sakes! She’s black! She’s a black bitch!” does not appear. This second offensive sentence was apparently made up by someone and added to make it look like it was part of the original column.

A few other points –

1) The author, Burt Prelutsky, is Jewish, not Christian. He’s mentioned his religion in several columns.

2) Burt Prelutsky was terminated by TownHall.com sometime this summer. Prelutsky wrote of his termination in an August 26 column at his new internet home, WorldNetDaily.com. That column is available at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107914 He thinks his termination had something to do with a column he wrote about Islam.

3) Whatever one wants to say about Prelutsky, TownHall.com seems to have taken the high ground here. It either deleted the line calling Michelle Obama a bad name from Prelutsky’s column before publishing it or after publishing it. The line is not there now. Prelutsky’s columns were carried at different internet sites last April, TownHall being only one of them. Another site or Prelutsky’s own blog surely carried the offensive lines, but it does not appear that TownHall did. Perhaps the author of the attachment you sent saw the Prelutsky column somewhere and just assumed that TownHall reprinted it in whole.

From: - Alveda King -
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:58 PM

Subject: RE: Racist statements against Michele Obama & others

There is a lot of buzz about African American voices who disagree with President Obama’s position on abortion and family values. Some are calling us Uncle Toms, and other things. On the other hand, The Obama’s are being called nasty names, and people are wondering where or why the African American “conservatives” are not speaking out about that. Actually, we are saying that insults and name calling by anybody won’t help resolve anything. We are asking people to stop the verbal abuse and deal with the issues. On both sides, on every side. Let’s stop the insults and deal with the issues.
Here are a couple of mails received, and responses:
Mail 1. Dear HU, Thanks for your mail regarding Burt Perlutsky’s Townhall.com column. For the record, it is very wrong and unchristian to call the First Lady a —ch. I am sorry to hear this. I am copying below a response to a recent op-ed that was brought to my attention, along with my response. However, I do not believe it is racist to disagree with the President’s stand on certain issues. For instance, I do not agree with his position regarding the civil rights of unborn babies and the choice to kill them. My position is not racist, in that I also don’t agree with the Speaker of the House and others who share the same views as the President’s. This position has nothing to do with their skin color, but rather their views on personhood. It is wrong, however not to give respect to their respective offices. As to racism, there is one race on the planet, human. We are fighting the racism battle based on the lie that we are separate races. If you check my website for an open letter we wrote to the President, along with a press conference with several African Americans who voted for him, you will see my position on many issues. I also pray for the President and his family, for their well being, and that they will include unborn babies in their representation of the people. www.africanamericanoutreach.com. Alveda King
Mail 2: Dear Mr. Jackson, I read with interest your recent op-ed on Blacks running from race while running in a race. I noted just a few things:
1. I did write that Joe Wilson’s remarks were inappropriate.
2. I did speak out against calling the Obamas monkeys. What a disgrace!
3. Not only do we embrace our heritage, we are fighting to keep the African American community, and indeed generations of all human families from becoming extinct from abortion, sickness, poverty, disease, domestic abuse, etc. Even as far as the Chicago not getting the Olympics thing goes: I believe we should be sad that a boy was recently beat to death in Chicago, and trying to stop the violence of gang murder, and womb murder, and all the violence against our children, maybe even before we worry about gettting the Olympic games in place. The Olympic loss was not cause for celebration, neither is all the violence going on.
4. As to calling these candidates “Uncle Toms” the real history of Uncle Tom was that he was killed for fighting racism in his day. Check out: Thursday, October 1, 2009 America Needs More Uncle Toms! at: http://talkaboutitcd.blogspot.com/
5. Many of us (African Americans for life, liberty and freedom for the babies in the womb, and for healthy procreative lives) are focused on our defund Planned Parenthood population control/genocide/ eugenics agenda outlined in the recently released documentary maafa21 and are working to keep abortion and euthanasia out of the health care bill.) Perhaps you may have time to review our comments on C-Span and youtube at:
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/08/18/Health/A/22359/National+Black+ProLife+Union+Priests+for+Life+Health+Care+Press+Conference.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TtyDevuRro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFVHfzDstBY&feature=quicklist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scAfKAAtxD4&feature=related
I am asking that you view the video maafa21 which I have provided for you. I would like to discuss it with you. Thank you. Alveda King
Black Republicans Running From Race
October 15, 2009
Raynard Jackson
Black Republicans running for various offices this election cycle seem to be running from race while running their race. This is one of the most asinine things I have ever seen, but not unexpected. This is why Black Republicans have no credibility within their own community.
Last week I was interviewed by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of FOXNews.com. The story was published this past Monday (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/carter-obama-allen-west-race-card/ ).
I was appalled at the comments of these Black office seekers and their obvious lack of understanding of how their words would be interpreted by those in the Black community. Allen West, a retired Army colonel running against Democratic Congressman Ron Klein (FL-22nd), said, “Since (Democrats) have thrown out the race card, it has made me more appealing..because it shows the contrast of our principles-how different we are even though we both have permanent tans (referring to President Obama).” West continued, “A lot of people who don’t want to be part of Obama’s policies are being called racist..Then they say, Hey, this guy, Colonel West-he’s Black and I support him.. It has nothing to do with race.People don’t care about your color, they care about your character.”
But, Colonel West, WAIT! You said it was not about race, then you say you’re Black, therefore people in your district are supporting you (because you are Black). Which is it? So, let me make sure I understand you. White people are supporting you because you are Black so that you can speak out against the Black president, so the white people won’t have to (because they can’t call you a racist since you are Black). Oh, I get it now. You know we have a term for people like that and it begins with the word UNCLE!
Ryan Frazier is a 31 year old city councilman in Colorado and is running for the U.S. Senate in the Republican primary. Frazier said that being Black is an asset. So when he opposes the president’s policies, no one can call him a racist. According to Frazier, “I don’t think they will be able to use that argument against me or engage in those tactics against me.” So, let me interpret this. Because of the skin color that you say doesn’t matter, you are able to criticize the president because of the very skin color that you say doesn’t matter? Ok, now I understand.
Michael Williams has served several terms as Texas Railroad Commissioner and is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat that current senator Kay Hutchinson is vacating to run for governor. He states that his Blackness will be an asset. According to the article, “one of the things it allows me to do..it allows me to speak very, very frankly about what I believe, and what I feel, and nobody is going to call me a racist.” Again, I am confused. His Blackness is only an asset when it comes to denigrating a Black president and his policies. According to Williams, other than giving him cover in criticizing the president, his race doesn’t exist. Wow, either he is color blind or just blind to people of color.
Do these guys hear themselves and how ridiculous they sound? Have you ever heard of a Jewish candidate denying or distancing themselves from their own heritage? Or a Latino or Asian? These groups use their ethnicity to endear themselves to voters from their group while at the same time building coalitions to expand their base of support.
Can you be against the president’s policies and not be a racist? Without question. But, I challenge these candidates to answer a few questions for me.
What does describing Obama as a Nazi have to do with healthcare? What does calling him a liar during a joint session of Congress have to do with healthcare? How does calling him a socialist, fascist, or communist, further the healthcare debate? So, you would think that if this debate was about healthcare, the signs at town hall meetings and rallies would read, “how will you pay for your plan, Mr. President, how will it be implemented, or what if I don’t want your plan?” Those would be legitimate questions.
Another question for the candidates, are there any public statements by them speaking out against the actions of Congressman Joe Wilson during the president’s speech before a joint session of Congress?
Are there any public statements by them chastising individuals and party officials for some of the incendiary rhetoric coming from Republicans (Barak the Magic Negro, calling Michelle Obama a monkey, or the celebration by many conservatives that Chicago was eliminated from Olympic consideration)?
Just wondering because I know they all claim to be candidates of great principles and I know they would stand up for right because they are the voice of the people, right?
Finally, can you tell me if you have any Blacks on your paid campaign staffs with hiring or decision making authority? Are you spending any campaign money with Black vendors (office supplies, computer services, restaurants, caterers, etc)? Are there any Black banks in your area that you are utilizing?
I would be stunned if any of the campaigns could answer yes to these questions. But, this is my offer to them. I am offering 30 minutes of air time on my radios how (www.ustalknetwork.com ) to each candidate to address these issues and talk about their campaigns.
So, while you are running your race, please don’t continue to forget your race!

For the songs from the road, check out cdbaby.com/alvedaking

An extreme of this judge’s attitude is aborting a “mixed” baby because of the challenges the baby would face growing up with parents of differing ethnicities. I wonder what this judge would think of the proposed PreNDA (Prenatal nondiscrimination) ACT? This my race/your race thing keeps up a lot of confusion. Acts 17:28 teaches us that we are all one human race, of “one blood.” the enemy (the father of lies) keeps us thinking that one “race” is different from another “race” so we get eugenics, genocide, population control, etc. There is no such thing as a “mixed” baby. We may mix or blend ethnicity, but not race. What we should be doing is calling all of this what it is, mixed up and messed up. Let’s discover, the truth together… We are one race, no matter if we are pink (what some call white, though there is no such thing as white skin, after all–though albino complexions come close), brown (in all varations), red, yellow and magenta and purple near ebony hue (which some people call black).

http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/10/15/interracial-couple-denied-marriage-license-in-la/
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
October 15, 2009 · Print This Article

A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist.

“I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house,” Bardwell said. “My main concern is for the children.”

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.

“I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves,” Bardwell said. “In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.”

If he does an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.

“I try to treat everyone equally,” he said.

Thirty-year-old Beth Humphrey and 32-year-old Terence McKay, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint.

Humphrey told the newspaper she called Bardwell on Oct. 6 to inquire about getting a marriage license signed. She says Bardwell’s wife told her that Bardwell will not sign marriage licenses for interracial couples.

“It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009,” said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzman. “The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry.”

The ACLU was preparing a letter for the Louisiana Supreme Court, which oversees the state justices of the peace, asking them to investigate Bardwell and see if they can remove him from office, Schwartzman said.

“He knew he was breaking the law, but continued to do it,” Schwartzman said.

According to the clerk of court’s office, application for a marriage license must be made three days before the ceremony because there is a 72-hour waiting period. The applicants are asked if they have previously been married. If so, they must show how the marriage ended, such as divorce.

Other than that, all they need is a birth certificate and Social Security card.

The license fee is $35, and the license must be signed by a Louisiana minister, justice of the peace or judge. The original is returned to the clerk’s office.

AP

This one is a bit long. Please bear with me and read through it. There is a lot of buzz about African American voices who disagree with President Obama’s position on abortion and family values. Some are calling us Uncle Toms, and other things. On the other hand, The Obama’s are being called nasty names, and people are wondering where or why the African American “conservatives” are not speaking out about that. Actually, we are saying that insults and name calling by anybody won’t help resolve anything. We are asking people to stop the verbal abuse and deal with the issues. On both sides, on every side. Let’s stop the insults and deal with the issues.

Here are a couple of mails received, and responses:

Mail 1. Dear HU, Thanks for your mail regarding Burt Perlutsky’s Townhall.com column. For the record, it is very wrong and unchristian to call the First Lady a —ch. I am sorry to hear this. I am copying below a response to a recent op-ed that was brought to my attention, along with my response. However, I do not believe it is racist to disagree with the President’s stand on certain issues. For instance, I do not agree with his position regarding the civil rights of unborn babies and the choice to kill them. My position is not racist, in that I also don’t agree with the Speaker of the House and others who share the same views as the President’s. This position has nothing to do with their skin color, but rather their views on personhood. It is wrong, however not to give respect to their respective offices. As to racism, there is one race on the planet, human. We are fighting the racism battle based on the lie that we are separate races. If you check my website for an open letter we wrote to the President, along with a press conference with several African Americans who voted for him, you will see my position on many issues. I also pray for the President and his family, for their well being, and that they will include unborn babies in their representation of the people. www.africanamericanoutreach.com. Alveda King

Mail 2: Dear Mr. Jackson, I read with interest your recent op-ed on Blacks running from race while running in a race. I noted just a few things:
1. I did write that Joe Wilson’s remarks were inappropriate.
2. I did speak out against calling the Obamas monkeys. What a disgrace!
3. Not only do we embrace our heritage, we are fighting to keep the African American community, and indeed generations of all human families from becoming extinct from abortion, sickness, poverty, disease, domestic abuse, etc. Even as far as the Chicago not getting the Olympics thing goes: I believe we should be sad that a boy was recently beat to death in Chicago, and trying to stop the violence of gang murder, and womb murder, and all the violence against our children, maybe even before we worry about gettting the Olympic games in place. The Olympic loss was not cause for celebration, neither is all the violence going on.
4. As to calling these candidates “Uncle Toms” the real history of Uncle Tom was that he was killed for fighting racism in his day. Check out: Thursday, October 1, 2009 America Needs More Uncle Toms! at: http://talkaboutitcd.blogspot.com/
5. Many of us (African Americans for life, liberty and freedom for the babies in the womb, and for healthy procreative lives) are focused on our defund Planned Parenthood population control/genocide/ eugenics agenda outlined in the recently released documentary maafa21 and are working to keep abortion and euthanasia out of the health care bill.) Perhaps you may have time to review our comments on C-Span and youtube at:
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/08/18/Health/A/22359/National+Black+ProLife+Union+Priests+for+Life+Health+Care+Press+Conference.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TtyDevuRro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFVHfzDstBY&feature=quicklist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scAfKAAtxD4&feature=related
I am asking that you view the video maafa21 which I have provided for you. I would like to discuss it with you. Thank you. Alveda King

Black Republicans Running From Race

October 15, 2009

Raynard Jackson

Black Republicans running for various offices this election cycle seem to be running from race while running their race. This is one of the most asinine things I have every seen, but not unexpected. This is why Black Republicans have no credibility within their own community.

Last week I was interviewed by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of FOXNews.com. The story was published this past Monday (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/carter-obama-allen-west-race-card/ ).

I was appalled at the comments of these Black office seekers and their obvious lack of understanding of how their words would be interpreted by those in the Black community. Allen West, a retired Army colonel running against Democratic Congressman Ron Klein (FL-22nd), said, “Since (Democrats) have thrown out the race card, it has made me more appealing..because it shows the contrast of our principles-how different we are even though we both have permanent tans (referring to President Obama).” West continued, “A lot of people who don’t want to be part of Obama’s policies are being called racist..Then they say, Hey, this guy, Colonel West-he’s Black and I support him.. It has nothing to do with race.People don’t care about your color, they care about your character.”

But, Colonel West, WAIT! You said it was not about race, then you say you’re Black, therefore people in your district are supporting you (because you are Black). Which is it? So, let me make sure I understand you. White people are supporting you because you are Black so that you can speak out against the Black president, so the white people won’t have to (because they can’t call you a racist since you are Black). Oh, I get it now. You know we have a term for people like that and it begins with the word UNCLE!

Ryan Frazier is a 31 year old city councilman in Colorado and is running for the U.S. Senate in the Republican primary. Frazier said that being Black is an asset. So when he opposes the president’s policies, no one can call him a racist. According to Frazier, “I don’t think they will be able to use that argument against me or engage in those tactics against me.” So, let me interpret this. Because of the skin color that you say doesn’t matter, you are able to criticize the president because of the very skin color that you say doesn’t matter? Ok, now I understand.

Michael Williams has served several terms as Texas Railroad Commissioner and is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat that current senator Kay Hutchinson is vacating to run for governor. He states that his Blackness will be an asset. According to the article, “one of the things it allows me to do..it allows me to speak very, very frankly about what I believe, and what I feel, and nobody is going to call me a racist.” Again, I am confused. His Blackness is only an asset when it comes to denigrating a Black president and his policies. According to Williams, other than giving him cover in criticizing the president, his race doesn’t exist. Wow, either he is color blind or just blind to people of color.

Do these guys hear themselves and how ridiculous they sound? Have you ever heard of a Jewish candidate denying or distancing themselves from their own heritage? Or a Latino or Asian? These groups use their ethnicity to endear themselves to voters from their group while at the same time building coalitions to expand their base of support.

Can you be against the president’s policies and not be a racist? Without question. But, I challenge these candidates to answer a few questions for me.

What does describing Obama as a Nazi have to do with healthcare? What does calling him a liar during a joint session of Congress have to do with healthcare? How does calling him a socialist, fascist, or communist, further the healthcare debate? So, you would think that if this debate was about healthcare, the signs at town hall meetings and rallies would read, “how will you pay for your plan, Mr. President, how will it be implemented, or what if I don’t want your plan?” Those would be legitimate questions.

Another question for the candidates, are there any public statements by them speaking out against the actions of Congressman Joe Wilson during the president’s speech before a joint session of Congress?

Are there any public statements by them chastising individuals and party officials for some of the incendiary rhetoric coming from Republicans (Barak the Magic Negro, calling Michelle Obama a monkey, or the celebration by many conservatives that Chicago was eliminated from Olympic consideration)?

Just wondering because I know they all claim to be candidates of great principles and I know they would stand up for right because they are the voice of the people, right?

Finally, can you tell me if you have any Blacks on your paid campaign staffs with hiring or decision making authority? Are you spending any campaign money with Black vendors (office supplies, computer services, restaurants, caterers, etc)? Are there any Black banks in your area that you are utilizing?
I would be stunned if any of the campaigns could answer yes to these questions. But, this is my offer to them. I am offering 30 minutes of air time on my radios how (www.ustalknetwork.com ) to each candidate to address these issues and talk about their campaigns.

So, while you are running your race, please don’t continue to forget your race!
End of Jackson Op-ED