SPEAK UP – PULPIT FREEDOM SUNDAY – OCTOBER 7, 2012

The future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America. Join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpits on October 7, 2012

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Everyone,


You may already know about this, but if not, please take the time to check this important initiative out. The time has certainly come to take a stand for religious liberty. In fact, it's been a long time coming. For all those who remember growing up in a school system where prayer was said or at least religion was respected and the Ten Commandments were displayed to remind us of certain fundamental limits on conduct and remember the safe, moral, family-orientated communities that were conducive to raising families... For all those who remember the consequences in our communities when the great Wall of Separation was erected and the ACLU became a legal force for the promotion of evil and immorality.... For all who are becoming increasingly frustrated over the fact that we are going from a "Nation Under God" to a "Nation Under the Control of the Federal Government"........ For all who were offended to the core when the Democratic delegates took God out of its platform at its Convention in Charlotte and then, even after an ordained Methodist minister made a motion to re-insert the language, they fought that motion with everything they had, in full view of the American people. They denied God three times, and even after that third vote, they expressed their collective will - to remove God from their ideological and political platform. The moderator may have declared that the motion to re-insert "God" had passed, but all those who heard the vote know that that it did not. The boo's that emerged after the moderator's decision was what sealed it and will be seered in our collective conscience for a long time....... We need it will be fresh in our minds on November 6th.

For all those who are frustrated, disappointed, disillusioned, and personally affected by the growing trend on the part of government to show hostility to religion, to promote immorality, to force Americans to choose between duty to government and their rights of conscience, to ignore the rights of the unborn, to promote the misuse of a woman's body, to erode traditional marriage, to fight against the rights of parents to raise their children with religious and other productive values, and to support such groups as the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups that want "an America without God," then please, please, please take the time to help promote this Pulpit Freedom Initiative.

Contact your churches and see if they will be participating. If they haven't heard of it, please send them the information below. Help spread the word !!

I've pasted the email that I sent the priests at my church. Please feel free to cut and paste and use as you will to send to the leaders of your church.

Father,
I wanted to send you this information about the Pulpit Freedom Initiative on October 7th. It is an Alliance Defense Fund initiative.


I support the NC Family Policy Council and the organization helps to promote the work of the ADF, which is the counter-part to the ACLU, the un-American organization that works tirelessly to erode religion and conservative institutions from all aspects of society. The ADF is a non-profit legal group which takes on cases to advocate for religious liberty, the rights of conscience, the rights of the unborn, and traditional marriage. I'm an attorney and I try to keep up with religion cases here in the state and I know the ADF has been fighting over the years to protect the right of faithful Americans to say a prayer in school and to open public meetings and hearings with a prayer that does not exclude Jesus Christ.

There is a lot of information on the website: http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/4702
http://blog.speakupmovement.org/church/tag/pulpit-initiative/ (Why the Pulpit Initiative Movement)

From the website: "The future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America. Join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpits on October 7, 2012."

Alliance Defense Fund, overview - http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/about Alliance Defense Fund, on their mission to promote religious liberty - http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/issues/religious-liberty