Note: This archive version of the e-newsletter is in ASCII text. To view this in Rich Text Format/HTML (with pictures & links), use the Contact page to send an e-mail to request that edition. Dear Friend, This Early Thanksgiving Edition of InfoQuest* brings you a look at Thanksgiving, my Restore the Constitution Rally Report, and an Alert to keep SkyAngel Christian! CONTENTS: (1) Restore the Constitution Rally Report (2) SkyAngel Alert - KTV Promotes Anti-Christian U.N. Again! (3) Happy Thanksgiving! ==================== ==================== (1) Restore the Constitution Rally Report Dear Friend, Thank you so much for your prayers. My trip to Harrisburg was wonderful. As you know from last week's edition of InfoQuest* a rally was held at every state capitol in our Republic on Saturday, November 22, 2003 to launch a petition drive seeking congressional limits on the federal courts in the area of religious matters. The National Coalition to Restore the Constitution (NCRC) launched the petition in the wake of numerous federal cases that have focused on prohibiting certain religious speech and activities, like the recent court case concerning Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Please download/print/sign/forward the Petition! This was the Agenda for our Harrisburg Rally: Welcome - Jim Clymer Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance Introduction and Explanation of the Rally - Jim Clymer Group Singing - Bob Baral Remarks - Erich G. Lukas, Director of InfoQuest* for Truth Ministry Remarks - Diane Gramley, President of American Family Association of Pa. Remarks - Ron Harper, Jr., 5thEstate.com Group Singing - Bob Baral Remarks - Ron Susek, Susek Evangelistic Association Closing Remarks - Jim Clymer Closing Prayer and Song I've had many requests for copies of my speech, so, here it is: The Federalization of Morality Law Erich G. Lukas, Director of InfoQuest* for Truth Ministry November 22, 2003 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania The removal of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore by a federal court is just one example of a judicial trend that has been going on in our country over the past few decades; the federalization of morality law. Morality law, like capital punishment, is reserved for state legislatures and courts. When our Federal Congress allowed our Federal Supreme Court to hear a state abortion case, what happened? Every pro-life state in our Republic was forced to become pro-abortion, all at once, with one flick of the switch! When our Federal Congress allowed our Federal Supreme Court to hear a state case on prayer in government schools, what happened? Every pro-prayer state in our Republic was forced to become anti-prayer, all at once, with one flick of the switch! When our Federal Congress allowed our Federal Supreme Court to hear a state case on sodomy, what happened? Our Federal Supreme Court sodomized every anti-sodomy state in our Republic, all at once, with one flick of the switch. Now some members in our Federal Congress are pushing for a federal marriage law amendment to the Constitution. Beware, my friends, because such a switch can and will be pushed both ways if we allow it to fall under federal jurisdiction! Displaying the 10 commandments on government property is a morality issue that is reserved for state legislatures and courts. The federal courts have no right to intervene. There is already a solution in our Federal Constitution for this federalization of state morality law problem. Allow me to quote George Detweiler, Esquire, who writes for The New American Magazine. “The proper remedy to judicial usurpation is to employ a little-known power contained in Article 3, Section 2 of the [Federal] Constitution, which allows Congress to make exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. This power applies, by extension, to all federal courts, since the Supreme Court is the only federal court established by the Constitution, and Congress established all other federal courts. This power could be used to prevent the federal courts from hearing cases from abortion to the Pledge of Allegiance. If this were done, myriad pretexts for endlessly tampering with the Constitution would be lost.” The founding documents of our country have never been broken and have never required post-Bill-of-Rights amending. Our Declaration of Independence, the legal document that defines the purpose of our nation, declares that All people, which includes all races, are created equal. The preamble of our United States Constitution states that the Constitution is written to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” our posterity, as we all know from any dictionary, are unborn Americans! Hold your federal representatives accountable to Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution to which they swore to uphold. Remind them of state rights over state morality law. Demand that your state representatives fight to retain and take back morality law from federal government. Demand from your state and federal representatives that they are to impeach judges who ignore our constitutions. To help you with this effort, I implore you to visit the InfoQuest* for Truth website and click on the “Federal Marriage Amendment – Trojan Horse!” link for more information. Look to the John Birch Society for understanding our government. And most of all, pray to God that the hearts and minds of our citizens are opened to His Truth, for as John Adams wrote, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” I leave you with fantastic news, my friends. I know for a fact that the following is true! “Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.” (Galatians 6:9) ------- References: National Coalition to Restore the Constitution http://www.restoretheconstitution.org/ the Petition http://www.restoretheconstitution.org/campaigns/10cffr/10cffr.aspx Jim Clymer http://www.constitutionparty.com/ Bob Baral http://www.electgop.net/vt/baralforhouse/index.html 5thEstate.com http://www.5thestate.com/ Susek Evangelistic Association http://www.ronsusek.org/ federal marriage law amendment http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/Federal_Marriage_Amendment.htm The New American Magazine http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/07-29-2002/vo18no15_constitution.htm Declaration of Independence http://www.ushistory.org/documents/declaration.htm United States Constitution http://www.ushistory.org/documents/constitution.htm ==================== ==================== (2) SkyAngel Alert - KTV Promotes Anti-Christian U.N. Again! Well, they did it again! On Saturday, November 24, 2003, 6:30PM (Eastern) SkyAngel's KTV, through "Come Meet Jesus" promoted the Anti-Christian United Nations by asking little children if the United Nations is Christ-like (they answer 'yes') and successful in solving problems (the answer from CMJ Club is 'yes')! I was able to tape about 85% of this show. If you live near Bucks County, Pa., I'll loan it to you! You can order this episode of Come Meet Jesus at their contact information below so that you can review this blatant in-your-face propaganda using little children! First, I'll share their contact information, after which I'll include the description as I did in a previous edition of InfoQuest*. PLEASE take just a couple of minutes to contact SkyAngel, KTV, CMJ Club Zone, and the main sponsor, Guardian Angel. SkyAngel's Online Contact form is here: http://www.skyangel.com/ Dominion Sky Angel Attn. Robert Johnson, CEO and Founder P.O. Box 7609 Naples, FL 34101 CMJ Club Zone PO Box 156 Berrien Springs, MI 49103 614-471-5733 #9703 KTV-Kids and teens Television 239-403-9130 e-mail: mailto:programming@skyangel.com Website: www.ktvzone.com The "Ark of Hope," (above) a blasphemous mimicry of the sacred Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible, has become one of the totems of the UN’s new global eco-religion. October, 2003 [Christian] Citizen U.S.A. National Newspaper reports on the U.N. Earth Charter! November, 2003 [Christian] Citizen U.S.A. National Newspaper reports on the U.N. Earth Charter for a follow-up article! ------- Dear Friend, As you know, I've installed SkyAngel Christian Satellite TV for my family. Believe me, it's one million times better than the trash TV on PBS and all the other channels on broadcast TV (and most cable stations). However, being the guy you know I am, my eyes are always peeled, even when watching SkyAngel with my family. I've written two letters so far to Robert Johnson, CEO and founder of SkyAngel. My first letter dealt with some of the ads that appear on KTV, which are from the Ad Council. One Ad promotes Sesame Street, the primary reason why we stopped watching PBS. See these InfoQuest* editions in the IQ* Archive: http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest/iq_archive.htm "#2 - TV, Movies, & Video Games - The NEW COLOSSEUM" (6/19/03) "Sesame Street Terrorist, Sanger, and Great News" (5/2/02) Sesame Street brings role models like the following people onto their show: Pedophile Elton John Learn about Elton promoting pedophilia here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=13210 Elton John appeared with the Muppets: http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/treereview.php3?ID=3863 Lesbian Activist Melissa Etheridge appears on PBS: Melissa Etheridge, a lesbian activist, has appeared on Read Between the Lions. Go to http://www.kcts.org/ and search on "Melissa Etheridge" Terrorist Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Atta Annan appears on Sesame Street. Learn about Kofi here: http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2001/10-22-2001/vo17no22_un_not_friend_print.htm On Saturday August 9th at 6:30 PM, KTV's "Come Meet Jesus" promoted a known terrorist organization, the United Nations. Here's just one small example of this fact about the U.N.: "Syria won a seat on the U.N. Security Council ... with overwhelming global support and no opposition from the United States, despite its prominent position on the U.S. list of nations sponsoring terrorism." - Associated Press October 8, 2001 http://www.getusout.org/un/index.html "Come Meet Jesus" even tied Holy Scripture to the United Nations, trying to convince Christians that somehow this terrorist-majority organization was somehow good. The United Nations is the most anti-Christian organization in the world. It has, for its official religion, Earth (Gaia) Worship. Please learn about this here: http://www.getusout.org/earthcharter/index.htm Ever since I posted this information on the SkyAngel Users Forum, the forum has been "unavailable." The Users Forum is still down, even after I contacted SkyAngel customer support on August 11: ----- Original Message ----- From: Customerrelations To: Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: RE: Web Inquiry Dear Mr. Lukas, Thank you for contacting Sky Angel. We appreciate your input and have notified our technical department. They will be working to fix the problem. In His Name, Stephanie Customer Relations Sky Angel / Dominion DBS ----- End of Original Message ----- It grieves me to see that KTV is moving in the same direction as PBS and Sesame Street. Please join me in contacting and educating SkyAngel and KTV to educate them in the Truth. ==================== ==================== (3) Happy Thanksgiving! --- In 1621, in his Thanksgiving Proclamation, Governor William Bradford stated: Therefore, I, William Bradford (by the Grace of God today, and the franchise of this good people), governor of Plymouth, say - through virtue of vested power - ye shall gather with one accord, and hold in the month of November, thanksgiving unto the Lord.<204 Footnote: 204. Bradford, William. 1621, in his Thanksgiving Proclamation, as governor of the Plymouth Plantation. George Otis, The Solution to the Crisis in America, Revised and Enlarged Edition (Van Nuys, CA.: Fleming H. Revell Company; Bible Voice, Inc., 1970, 1972, foreword by Pat Boone), p. 66. --- On November 29, 1623, three years after the Pilgrims' arrival and two years after the first Thanksgiving, Governor William Bradford made an official proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving: To all ye Pilgrims: In as much as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetable, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience; now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November ye 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings. William Bradford, Ye Governor of Ye Colony.<20 Footnote: 206. Bradford, William. November 29, 1623, in an official Thanksgiving Proclamation. William Bradford (Governor of Plymouth Colony), The History of Plymouth Plantation 1608-1650 (Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856; Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1898, 1901, from the Original Manuscript, Library of Congress Rare Book Collection, Washington, D.C.; rendered in Modern English, Harold Paget, 1909; NY: Russell and Russell, 1968; NY: Random House, Inc., Modern Library College edition, 1981; San Antonio, TX: American Heritage Classics, Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge, Bulverde, Texas, 1988). Herbert V. Prochnow, 5100 Quotations for Speakers and Writers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1992), p. 529. ------- Special Edition - THE HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING The first day of thanks in America was celebrated in Virginia at Cape Henry in 1607, but it was the Pilgrims' three-day feast celebrated in early November of 1621, which we now popularly regard as the "First Thanksgiving." The first real Calvinist Thanksgiving to God in the Plymouth Colony was actually celebrated during the summer of 1623 when the colonists declared a Thanksgiving holiday after their crops were saved by much needed rainfall. The Pilgrims left Plymouth, England on September 6, 1620. They sailed for a new world with the promise of both civil and religious liberty. For almost three months, 102 seafarers braved harsh elements to arrive off the coast of what is now Massachusetts, in late November of 1620. On December 11, prior to disembarking at Plymouth Rock, they signed the "Mayflower Compact," America's original document of civil government and the first to introduce self-government. The Puritan Separatists, America's Calvinist Protestants, rejected the institutional Church of England. They believed that the worship of God must originate in the inner man, and that corporate forms of worship prescribed by man interfered with the establishment of a true relationship with God. The Separatists used the term "church" to refer to the people, the Body of Christ, not to a building or institution. As their Pastor John Robinson said, "[When two or three are] gathered in the name of Christ by a covenant made to walk in all the way of God known unto them as a church." Most of what we know about the Pilgrim Thanksgiving of 1621 comes from original accounts of the young colony's leaders, Governor William Bradford and Master Edward Winslow, in their own hand: "They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being well recovered in health & strenght, and had all things in good plenty; for some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were excersised in fishing, aboute codd, & bass, & other fish, of which yey tooke good store, of which every family had their portion. All ye somer ther was no wante. And now begane to come in store of foule, as winter aproached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degree). And besids water foule, ther was great store of wild Turkies, of which they took many, besids venison, &c. Besids they had aboute a peck a meale a weeke to a person, or now since harvest, Indean corne to yt proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largly of their plenty hear to their freinds in England, which were not fained, but true reports." -W.B. (William Bradford) "Our Corne did proue well, & God be praysed, we had a good increase of Indian Corne, and our Barly indifferent good, but our Pease not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sowne, they came vp very well, and blossomed, but the Sunne parched them in the blossome; our harvest being gotten in, our Governour sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a more speciall manner reioyce together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little helpe beside, served the Company almost a weeke, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming amongst vs, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoyt, with some nintie men, whom for three dayes we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed fiue Deere, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed upon our Governour, and upon the Captaine, and others. And although it be not alwayes so plentifull, as it was at this time with vs, yet by the goodneses of God, we are so farre from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty." -E.W. (Edward Winslow) Plymouth, in New England, this 11th of December, 1621. The feast included foods suitable for a head table of honored guests, such as the chief men of the colony and Native leaders Massasoit ("Great Leader" also known as Ousamequin "Yellow Feather"), the sachem (chief) of Pokanoket (Pokanoket is the area at the head of Narragansett Bay). Venison, wild fowl, turkeys and Indian corn were the staples of the meal. It likely included other food items known to have been aboard the Mayflower or available in Plymouth such as spices, Dutch cheese, wild grapes, lobster, cod, native melons, pumpkin (pompion) and rabbit." By the mid-17th century the custom of autumnal Thanksgivings was established throughout New England. One hundred and eighty years after the first day of Thanksgiving, the Founding Fathers thought it important that this tradition be recognized by proclamation. Soon after approving the Bill of Rights, a motion in Congress to initiate the proclamation of a national day of Thanksgiving was approved. Mr. [Elias] Boudinot (who was the President of Congress during the American Revolution) said he could not think of letting the congressional session pass over without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings He had poured down upon them. With this view, therefore, he would propose the following resolution: "Resolved, that a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he would recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God..." "Mr. [Roger] Sherman (a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution) justified the practice of thanksgiving on any signal event not only as a laudable one in itself, but as warranted by a number of precedents in Holy Writ...This example he thought worthy of a Christian imitation on the present occasion; and he would agree with the gentleman who moved the resolution...The question was put on the resolution and it was carried in the affirmative." This resolution was delivered to President George Washington who readily agreed with its suggestion and put forth the following proclamation by his signature: "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness." "Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the Beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplication to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best." Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3rd day of October, AD 1789 George Washington After 1815, prophetically, there were no further annual proclamations of Thanksgiving until the Civil War when Abraham Lincoln declared November 26, 1863, the last Thursday in November, a Day of Thanksgiving: "No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy... I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens...[it is] announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord...It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people." October 3, 1863, Lincoln's proclamation passed by an Act of Congress. That proclamation was repeated by every subsequent president until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day up one week earlier than had been tradition, to appease merchants who wanted more time to feed the growing pre-Christmas consumer frenzy. Folding to Congressional pressure two years later however, Roosevelt signed a resolution returning Thanksgiving to the last Thursday of November. Roosevelt's inclination to manipulate Thanksgiving for commercial interests, foretold much of the secular nature of "thanksgiving" to come. But, amid all the oppression of secular materialism in advance of that day in December when we give thanks for the birth of Christ, oppression vastly different but somehow remarkably similar to that of our Pilgrim forefathers, we are still at our core, a nation eternally thankful to God. On this Day of Thanksgiving, 26 November 1998, may God rest your heart and mind, may He bless and keep you and your family, and may He extend His blessing upon our great nation, guiding us one and all by His calling. Amid the haste, we remember His words, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:3-10) Source: The Federalist ------------------- NOTEWORTHY QUOTE: "Remember ever, and always, that your country was founded, not by the 'most superficial, the lightest, the most irreflective of all European races,' but by the stern old Puritans who made the deck of the Mayflower an altar of the living God, and whose first act on touching the soil of the new world was to offer on bended knees thanksgiving to Almighty God." SOURCE: Former U.S. Senator Henry Wilson (1855-72), and Vice-President under Ulysses S. Grant (1873-75), AMERICA'S GOD AND COUNTRY, William J. Federer, 1994. ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. ------------------------------------------------------------ Family Policy Network P.O. Box 1199 Forest, VA 24551 434-846-0500 http://www.familypolicy.net/