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As the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the federal government and undermine the Constitutions are being thwarted by judges throughout the nation, President Donald Trump and his lackeys in Congress have unleashed a coordinated attack against the judiciary.
Appearing on an Intercessors for America podcast on Thursday, right-wing activist Phillip Jauregui of the Judicial Action Group offered some suggestions about what the MAGA movement can do to strike back at the "activist judges" who have been ruling against the Trump administration.
Jauregui suggested that Congress should begin by cutting the judicial branch's budget and then announce that they were appointing "Elon Musk and DOGE to come look at judicial expenditures."
"Hello," Jauregui said. "You think that would spook Chief Justice Roberts and cause him to be concerned?"
During the podcast, Jauregui also twice issued prayers that God will stop judges from engaging in "this wicked lawfare."
"You hold the Supreme Court justices' hearts in your hand, and even these trial court judges that we disagree with so vehemently, you hold their hearts in your hand," Jauregui prayed. "We pray that you'd intervene, Father. Speak to the courts. Speak to the justices and even Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Barrett, who've been key votes on these issues. We pray that they would see the necessity to stop this injustice, to stop this wicked lawfare. That's what it is. It's wicked, Father. It's unconstitutional and it's wicked."
Later, Jauregui prayed specifically for the justices on the Supreme Court, asking God to bring them "into alignment with your will to preserve the proper powers of the presidency."
"Father, we love every one of these Supreme Court justices," he said. "We don't agree with all of them all of the time, but we do love them because we know you love them. And we pray that you give us your heart for them, like the heart of the father for the prodigal son who had done so much wrong and dishonored his family. The father wanted him home. Lord, give us your heart for these justices to have them home, back in your house, back doing the proper job of judges and renewing our national relationship with you."
"Father, we pray that you'd visit them in their dreams, at their home," Jauregui continued. "Send believers who love you around them to give them good counsel, to pray for them and give them good godly fellowship, Lord. We pray that you bless them. Bring all of them individually back to your house, and we pray that you bring the majority of the Supreme Court, Father, into alignment with your will to preserve the proper powers of the presidency right now. We pray these things in the name of Jesus."
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Jauregui is a longtime right-wing activist who, in 2018, was so convinced that God had anointed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court that when Trump instead chose Brett Kavanaugh as his second nominee, Jauregui denounced Kavanaugh as a “usurper” and warned that God would destroy him if he did not withdraw.
More recently, Jaurequi partnered with the American Family Association to launch a Center for Judicial Renewal that seeks to pressure Trump to only nominate judges who share their right-wing "biblical worldview," thereby ensuring that the Supreme Court and all lower courts will be filled with evangelicals who meet their Christian nationalist standards.
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Public anger at the extraordinary "bailout" of Wall Street and other interventions in the financial markets was quickly exploited by corporate-funded conservative groups such as FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity who helped mobilize anti-tax protests around the country on April 15, 2009.6 At this nascent moment of the Tea Party Movement, the Religious Right was there. TheAmerican Family Association, one of the oldest and largest Religious Right organizations, used its extensive online networks to encourage activists to participate in the Taxed Enough Already protests.6 Journalist Adele Stan concludes:...
American Family Radio is split among two networks – AFR Talk, which airs mostly conservative-leaning Christian talk and teaching;[3] and AFR Hybrid, airing Christian talk and contemporary Christian music.[3][2][1]
AFR airs original programs such as Today's Issues, hosted by AFA president Tim Wildmon. AFR also airs nationally syndicated programs such as Focus on the Family, as well as contemporary Christian music by various artists. Other personalities heard on AFR include Dr. James Dobson, Dr. Robert Jeffress, David Barton, Jan Markell and Sandy Rios.[3]
History
AFR was launched by Rev. Donald Wildmon in 1991 as a ministry of the American Family Association, with the flagship station being WAFR in Tupelo, Mississippi.[4][5] It originally aired a contemporary Christian music format.[6] Christian talk and teaching programs were also featured.[7] Eventually, American Family Radio included three networks – Classic Gospel; a Christian AC network; and Inspirational, which included Christian talk and teaching programs.[5][8][9] In 2009, American Family Radio launched AFR Talk, and most of its stations joined the new network.[10] The Christian AC network was discontinued at this time.[10] At its peak, American Family Radio was heard on over 200 stations.[11
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Whether it's a story about prayer in public schools, workplace restrictions on Christians, or battles for biblical truth within our denominations, the American Family News Network (AFN) is here to tell you what the newsmakers are saying.
AFN is a Christian news service - with more than 1,200 broadcast, print, and online affiliates in 45 states and 11 foreign countries- that exists to present the day's stories from a biblical perspective. We not only feature the latest breaking stories from across the United States and around the world, but also news of the challenges facing Christians in today's society.
At OneNewsNow.com, you will get your news from reporters you can trust to give the latest news without the liberal bias that characterizes so much of the "mainstream" media.
For a refreshing and informative change in where you get your news, log on to OneNewsNow.com.
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Founded:
1977
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Tupelo, Miss.
Ideology:
Initially founded as the National Federation for Decency, the American Family Association (AFA) originally focused on what it considered indecent television programming and pornography. The AFA says it promotes "traditional moral values" in media. A large part of that work involves "combating the homosexual agenda" through various means, including publicizing companies that have pro-gay policies and organizing boycotts against them. The AFA has a variety of outlets to disseminate its message, including the American Family Radio Network, its online One News Now and the monthly AFA Journal. In early 2011, the AFA claimed more than 2 million online supporters and 180,000 subscribers to its Journal.
In Its Own Words
"[T]he homosexual lifestyle is characterized by anonymous sexual encounters and celebration of sexual obsession and perversion unparalleled in any other social group."
– Richard Howe, "Homosexuality in America," AFA publication, 1994
"As with smoking, homosexual behavior's ‘second hand' effects threaten public health….Thus, individuals who choose to engage in homosexual behavior threaten not only their own lives, but the lives of the general population."
– Gary Glenn, president of Michigan chapter of AFA, 2001
"Homosexuality is not only harmful to homosexuals themselves, but also to children and to society."
– Stephen Bennett, AFA writer, 2004
"If President Obama, Congressional Democrats, and homosexual activists get their wish, your son or daughter may be forced to share military showers and barracks with active and open homosexuals who may very well view them with sexual interest."
– AFA press release, February 2010
"The homosexual movement is a progressive outgrowth of the sexual revolution of the past 40 years and will lead to the normalization of even more deviant behavior."
– Don Wildmon, AFA website, 1999 (still posted as of 2011).
"Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews."
– Bryan Fischer, AFA director of issue analysis for government and public policy, 2010
Background
Founded in 1977 by Methodist ministerDonald E. Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency, the American Family Association (AFA) worked in its early years to remove what it considered indecent programming from television. Its other major focus was battling pornography. In 1988, the group's name was changed to the AFA, because the organization's concerns, Wildmon said in 2007, had expanded.
In 1985, Wildmon was appointed to former Attorney General Ed Meese's Commission on Pornographyby its director, Alan Sears, who later would become president of the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian-based legal organization. Wildmon successfully orchestrated the removal of Playboy and Penthouse from some 17,000 convenience stores. Also in the 1980s, Wildmon started ramping up the AFA's anti-LGBT propaganda and succeeded in getting some corporations to pull their ads from shows like "Thirtysomething," which had been added to Wildmon's list of "Trash TV" because its plot included a gay romance.
Wildmon has never made a secret of his anti-LGBT views. One of his statements on the AFA's website reads, "I never dreamed I would see the day when sodomy would be called normal, and those who held to traditional values based on Christian teaching would be called bigots." According to the AFA, the primary goal of the "homosexual movement" is to "abolish the traditional, Judeo-Christian view of human sexuality, marriage, and family."
The AFA has been extremely vocal over the years in its opposition to LGBT rights, marriage equality and allowing gay men and lesbians to serve in the military. The group's arguments are filled with claims that equate homosexuality with pedophilia and argue that there's a "homosexual agenda" afoot that is set to bring about the downfall of American (and ultimately, Western) civilization. In one October 2004 article, the AFA Journal suggested that gay influences are leading to a "grotesque culture" that will include "quick encounters in the middle school boys' restroom."
For years, until 2010, the AFA had a section on its website that supposedly exposed "The Homosexual Agenda." There, a reader could find articles and other AFA publications that claimed LGBT people were trying to force the acceptance of homosexuality on children through sex education programs in schools; condemned companies like Disney for supporting LGBT rights and programming; and, also until 2010, featured a particularly noxious booklet the AFA had published in 1994. That booklet, Homosexuality in America: Exposing the Myths, included the bogus research of thoroughly discredited psychologist Paul Cameron as a source. One of the publication's authors, Richard Howe, used Cameron's "research" to claim that LGBT people don't live as long as heterosexuals, that they're more promiscuous and that the "disgusting details of the homosexual lifestyle explain why so many diseases are present in the homosexual community." Another claim was that "[p]rominent homosexual leaders and publications have voiced support for pedophilia, incest, sadomasochism, and even bestiality."
In 1998, in what would become a scandal for the group, the AFA signed on to a huge television and newspaper "ex-gay" campaign called "Truth in Love," a project that advocated an idea popular in religious-right circles: that LGBT people can be "cured" so that they become heterosexual. A man named Michael Johnston was the star of the campaign. In one television ad shot with his mother present, Johnston discussed "leaving homosexuality" and was open about his HIV-positive status. Previously, Johnston had worked with Jerry Falwell as an ex-gay leader and done a "Truth in Love" commercial for Coral Ridge Ministries. He had also started his own ex-gay ministry, Kerusso, in 1989. Johnston was extremely active on the ex-gay circuit, and was the founder of "Coming out of Homosexuality Day" (which coincides with National Coming Out Day).
In 2000, Johnston's story was made available as a film by the AFA, titled "It's Not Gay." In the film, he is joined by other ex-gay activists who load the film with unsupported statistics, like "80% of homosexual men have a sexually transmitted disease." One of the other ex-gay activists in the film, Richard Cohen, has been discredited for his "healing touch" therapy, in which grown men are cradled and held like babies to get used to "appropriate male touch" and to "re-create the father-son bond." A broken father-son bond, Cohen claims, can "cause" homosexuality. In other "therapy" sessions, Cohen has clients beat pillows with tennis racquets while blaming their mothers for making them gay.
Three years later, in 2003, news outlets reported that Johnston, while traveling around the country decrying "the homosexual lifestyle," was hosting orgies, taking drugs and having unprotected sex with other men without disclosing his HIV status. In the publicity and accusations that ensued, Johnston shut down his ministry and sought refuge at a live-in facility with Pure Life Ministries in Dry Ridge, Ky. As of 2011, Johnston was listed as Pure Life's director of donor and media relations. He states in his bio that in 2002 he "was living a completely double life" and is "now walking in true freedom."
The AFA, meanwhile, admitted that Johnston had "relapsed." In early 2007, Wayne Besen of ex-gay watchdog group Truth Wins Out, filed complaints with two attorneys general against the AFA and another anti-gay group, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, for promoting and selling "It's Not Gay," which Besen called "deceptive." The AFA addressed Besen's complaints in an article in its March 2007 AFA Journal. Buddy Smith, AFA executive assistant then, claimed that the AFA had stopped selling "It's Not Gay" as a result of the scandal. But in 2005, the AFA started selling the DVD again, after meeting with Johnston at Pure Life. Smith stated that the AFA felt confident then "that Michael had been fully restored and was walking in victory." The DVD is still available on the AFA's website, without any mention of the scandal. It is described as "a fair and balanced approach to this challenging subject."
The AFA's fundraising appeals are known for their shrillness. One mailer from the early 2000s read: "For the sake of our children and society, we must OPPOSE the spread of homosexual activity! Just as we must oppose murder, stealing, and adultery!" It continued, "Since homosexuals cannot reproduce, the only way for them to ‘breed' is to RECRUIT! And who are their targets for recruitment? Children!" In other appeals, the AFA has used a standard propaganda ploy against LGBT individuals: They're a danger to children.
In the summer of 2010, the AFA announced a boycott of Home Depot stores because Home Depot allegedly supports the "homosexual agenda." The AFA said that the home repair chain was "deliberately exposing children to lascivious displays of sexual conduct by homosexuals" through its support of pride parades.
The AFA has had very active state chapters, many of which have served as training grounds for anti-gay activists like Scott Lively, founder of the anti-gay hate group Abiding Truth Ministries. Lively, a former director of the AFA's California chapter, claimed in his discredited 1995 co-authored book The Pink Swastika that Germany's Nazi Party was full of gay men who were primarily responsible for the Holocaust. In 2007, Lively co-founded the virulent anti-gay group Watchmen on the Walls, which is particularly popular in Eastern European countries and among some Eastern European immigrants to the United States.
Gary Glenn, current president of the AFA's Michigan chapter, maintains a "Homosexual Agenda" link on the AFA-MI website. He has called anti-bullying legislation a way to indoctrinate children – and, by extension, American society – with "the homosexual agenda" (a common claim used by the anti-gay right). He has claimed that gay soldiers would cause disease in the military's ranks through "battlefield blood transfusions" and that gay soldiers are responsible for high rates of sexual assault in the military.
In 2009, the AFA hired Bryan Fischer, the former executive director of the AFA-affiliated Idaho Values Alliance, as its director of issue analysis for government and public policy and as a radio host. Taking a page from Lively's book, Fischer claimed on his radio show in May 2010 that Hitler chose homosexual soldiers as his elite officers because they were far more brutal and savage than heterosexual soldiers. In defense of that show, Fischer wrote that "homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews." He also called for criminalizing gay sex in a February 2010 blog post – because doing so would ensure that "controversies" over "gays in the military" and "gay indoctrination in the schools" would end. He has also advocated forcing gay people into ex-gay therapy, which supposedly can "cure" their condition, because homosexuality should be treated in the same way as intravenous drug use. "Both," he told radio host Alan Colmes, "are equally dangerous and risky to human health." By August 2010, the AFA had appended a disclaimer to Fischer's posts, stating that his opinions are his own.
That didn't stop Fischer's outrageous postings. In early 2011, Fischer called for an end to Muslim recruits in the U.S. military and an end to Muslim immigration to the U.S. At around the same time, he claimed that Native Americans remained mired in poverty because they refused to accept Christianity. The outcry over that blog post was so great that the AFA actually took it down. A week later, Fischer published a blog item stating that Native Americans should have followed Pocahontas' lead, because she had accepted "the superior culture" of the new arrivals to the New World.
In 2010, Don Wildmon stepped down from his chairmanship of the AFA after 33 years, citing health problems. His son, Tim, took over, continuing the group's long tradition of anti-gay propagandizing and activism.
Rebecca Kleefisch Appears on Show Whose Host Compared Unions to Terrorists, Called for Ellen DeGeneres to Be Fired for Being Gay
Submitted by Josh Glasstetter on Wed, 03/28/2012
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch appeared Monday on the American Family Association (AFA) radio network with host Sandy Rios. AFA, which has been classified a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, recently added Rios to its lineup.
Rios gained notoriety early last month when an incredulousBill O’Reilly suggested she was engaging in McCarthyism for calling onJ.C. Penney to fire Ellen DeGeneres because she’s gay. Earlier she wrote that accepting Ellen would lead to “the complete eradication of the traditional family and the acceptance of any sexual choice anyone wants to make.” This month she lamentedthat “the Jewish vote in this country is so confused” and said that secular Jews have been some of “the worst enemies of the country.”
This kind of thing is nothing new for Rios, as Kleefisch had to know. Last year, debating the Obama administration contraceptives mandate, Rios equated birth control and abuse counseling with pedicures and manicures. She also compared unions and the Obama campaign to a terrorist group, writing that “Organizing for America, the SEIU, the NEA and many of America’s labor unions have … more in common with the violence and intimidation of Hamas than with protecting ‘workers.’”
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rebecca-kleefisch-show-host-compared-unions-terrorists-ellen-degeneres-fired-gay
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AFA Video Uses Fake Quote From John Quincy Adams To Prove "The Biblical Foundations Of Government"
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Fri, 04/22/2011
The American Family Association is promoting the lecture series “Biblical Foundations of Government with Erich Pratt,” a graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University and a conservative activist with Gun Owners of America. The group advertises that “the Bible tells us that all governing authorities are instituted by God and are responsible for the reward of good behavior and the punishment of evil,” and by watching the series “you’ll gain a strong, scriptural understanding of the basis of American civil government and your role as a citizen.”
But the one minute trailer prominently features anuncorroborated quote attributed to John Quincy Adams, “The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: ‘It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.’”
But where did Pratt find this unsubstantiated quote of Quincy Adams?
It was included in pseudo-historian David Barton’s America’s Godly Heritage series, one of the many examples of Barton misquoting or selectively editing the words of the Founding Fathers.
Ed Brayton writes that “the quote, to be blunt, is a fake”:
This is another textbook example of what happens when quotes are simply passed along and repeated without anyone bothering to check the original source to see if it's accurate. This is why, in scholarly documents, footnotes are used to provide specific documentation of the source of a quote. Let's follow the trail backwards and see where it leads. The quote is used by David Barton, who is nearly always the modern source of false quotations from the founding fathers. We'll see an example of another one below. Barton did not get it from the original documents, he got it from another book of quotations by William Federer called America's God and Country: An Encyclopedia of Quotations. So Federer got it from the original, right? Wrong. Federer's footnote is to a book by John Wingate Thornton from 1860. The Thornton book is full of quotations and footnotes locating the source of those quotes. But these words, attributed to John Quincy Adams, are not in fact a quote at all. The words belonged to Thornton. The words are not in quotation marks and there is no footnote giving a source. And no one has ever located an original source from Adams that contain those words, of even a similar sentiment to it. The quote, to be blunt, is a fake. Adams never said it. But this is an excellent example of what passes for historical scholarship among the Christian Nation proponents - the truth doesn't matter so long as something can be made to appear as supporting their position.