A Nation Adrift(JESSE HELMS )

in the brief history of our own country since we gained our independence, we can look bock upon a tremendous heritage of political freedom founded upon a biblical faith and a biblical understanding of the nature of man. Moreover, we ' can look back upon the material signs of God's blessing in a fruitful and bounteous country, with success in almost every enterprise in war and peace.

But within my own lifetime. 1 have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government Especially in the last 25 years, the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion; now, with many of our churches in disarray, the attack is being prepared against the family as the last bastion opposing the totalitarian state.

Militant atheists and socialists have gone very far in imposing their view of life and man on almost every American institution.

And what have we reaped as a nation from our many personal and collective delinquencies? Atheistic schools, rampaging crimes, God forsaken homes, drugs, abortion, pornography, permissiveness, a sense of cynicism, and spiritual desolation absolutely unprecedented in our country's history.

The Israelites in their time also .pied for the "New Morality." They - ore as enthusiastic as many of our contempo-rary thinkers about situation ethics, for we read, "In those days, there was no king in Israel; but every man did what was right in his own eyes" (Judges 17:6).

It is debatable at just what point the United States began to drift away from its Christian heritage. But I think we reached that point when many Americans turned away from the idea of salvation through Christ to that of salvation through technology or science or material affluence or the welfare state.

When all these turned out to be dead ends, Americans began to seek escape, and the purveyors of drugs and pornography and vicarious violence were there to meet the need. Human nature left to its own devices has always been a wretched failure at explaining the meaning and destiny of life.

and upon all the debris of human pride and presumption there came forth the anointed Saviour. From that day to this, there has been only one Light of the NXforld, one Hope of Mankind.

All through His earthly life, this Person took pains to point out that He was not in anyway a political messiah. Quite the reverse holds true in Wishington today, where many politicians and many factions contend relentlessly for the honor of being the very political messiah who will solve all our problems if only we give them more money and more power. Our People

I have often meditated upon why God chose the time and place He did for his Son to be bom into the world. In the long preparation for the coming of Christ, the world had seen the tremendous achievements of many civilizations. But neither the intellectual brilliance of the Greeks; or the sober morals of the ancient Romans; nor the technological and organizational genius of the later Romans were enough to still the discontent of human hearts.

God chose an obscure outpost of a decadent empire as the birthplace of His Son, Looking the Right Direction, Learning the Rigjit Lessons. By and large, our people look in the wrong direction for their deliverance. As Christians we need to work with missionary zeal to reinstate the rule of Christ in our sadly demoralized country.

As the Israelites learned time and again from the last of their enemies, it was only by repentance and submission to the God of their Fathers that they could survive and prosper.

I pray every day for a rebirth of the spiritual values that made us a nation in the first place. If the Spirit of God were to rouse 200 million Americans to action, there is no describing the greatness and glory in store for this country, or the blessings forthcoming to nations now held captive if and when, once again, the United States rededicates itself to the cause of freedom under God's Law.S"

Log Cabin leader tied
to radical 'queers'
Website urged murder of President Reagan, Christian leaders

Posted: May 3, 2003

2003 WorldNetDaily.com

The leader of a Republican homosexual activist group that considers itself a moderate influence in the party is linked to radical "queers" urging the murder of Christian leaders, according to a family advocacy group.

Eva Young, president of the Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans, is co-moderator of a discussion group associated with usQueers.com, a notorious website shut down by a court order, according to a report written by Allyson Smith for Concerned Women for America.

The website, which debuted in March 2001, displayed a "Wanted" poster calling for "A Horrible Death By Any Means Soon" for "Well-Known Het [heterosexual] Supremacists."

Webmaster Bruce Allan Ross included on his hit list former President Ronald Reagan and former Sens. Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. The site also called for the deaths of Focus on the Family's James Dobson and CWA founder Beverly LaHaye.

Ross was jailed last year after storming a Baptist Church in San Diego and threatening its pastor with a broken glass bottle.

CWA discovered Young's link to the website when a writer for its Culture and Family Report publication, Gary Morella, came under fire for his article defending Sen. Rick Santorum's remarks about a Supreme Court sodomy law case.

Young e-mailed Morella to question his qualifications and possibly jeopardize his job as faculty member at Penn State University.

The Log Cabin leader insisted to CWA in a phone interview she was not trying to get Morella fired, but said perhaps he should be "disciplined" by the university because his Penn State affiliation was noted in the article.

Won't exclude 'any methods'

Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture and Family Institute, called on the Log Cabin Republicans' national leadership to disassociate itself from Young for her involvement with "usQueers" activists, the family advocacy group said.

CWA said it obtained an archived copy of the website, which has this disclaimer: "usQueers.com does not authorize, ratify or directly threaten acts of violence toward the people or organizations on this list."

Other pages on the website, however, show photos of weapons and describe their use, including guns, a sword cane, a bow saw and a throat slasher.

The website asked visitors to supply personal information about its targets, including: their home, office and church addresses; favorite hangouts; family members; phone numbers; automobile license plate numbers; and "just about anything which could be useful in spotting these dangerous het supremacists when they are wandering around loose."

Its "About Us" section explains:

We are trying to provide information on this website which is not easily available elsewhere, and to serve as a conduit for communications between those who also have this mission. We do not automatically exclude the validity of any methods for achieving this mission.
Young told CWA she did not support calling for the death of critics of homosexuality, but contended, in the interest of free speech, usQueers.com should not have been shut down.

CWA noted a November 2001 radio talk show interview with San Diego's Rick Roberts in which Ross and CWA's Peter LaBarbera were guests. During the broadcast, Ross said he hoped LaBarbera would die of a heart attack.

LaBarbera, senior policy analyst at CWA's Culture and Family Institute, at the time was head of a group called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.

On his website, Ross described LaBarbera as "a true bottomfeeder, a scum-sucking weasel who is obsessed with Queer sex beyond all reason, except where one watches him step on the bodies of those he kills with his lies in order to create his career as a Queer hater and hunter."

"His death should be soon, since he is rotting now from the inside out," Ross wrote.

'Bang, bang'

CWA said a recent check of the Yahoo discussion groups "usQueers" and its successor, "us_queers," shows Ross and Young are current contributors.

Young is shown as a co-moderator of the new us_queers discussion group, which lists as its co-owner Rusty Morris, who recently implied death threats against the leader of a pro-family San Diego group, Courageous Christians United.

In her interview with Culture and Family Report," Young said she "does not run" the us_queers discussion group, and contended her involvement on the list is a private activity not associated with Log Cabin Republicans.

"I'm on all sorts of lists," she said.

Young also moderates "sodomlist," a Yahoo chat venue "for folks to discuss tactics and approaches to get rid of sodomy laws."

Morris, also a member of sodomlist, posted a threatening response to Courageous Christians United director Steve Klein for his criticism of the "Day of Silence," a national protest event held April 9 by homosexual activists.

Morris wrote:

Bang Bang...they shot him down, BANG BANG ..that lovely sound... BANG BANG... filthy christo-het...Bang Bang...got what he should get bang bang...facist nazi pig...bang bang...big mouth and little [expletive] bang bang...this is my disclaimer...bang bang...free speech fantasy waiver bang bang...that beautiful sound...bang bang...IN MY DREAMS...my baby shot him down
Young insisted she does not "celebrate the deaths of anybody," and condemns more extreme statements by Morris and usQueers, but called Morris "an interesting guy."

"This is an edgy list," with lively opinions, she said "I don't support everything that people say on that list."

Mainstream status

CWA's Knight said "it will be interesting to see if Log Cabin Republicans – which has blasted a leading Republican senator for merely voicing his opinion in defense of sodomy laws – will now fully disassociate itself from Ms. Young and her fanatical usQueers allies."

In an interview for Culture and Family Report, LaBarbera asked Young whether or not Log Cabin Republicans should allow one of its state leaders to be involved with extremist "gay" activists who celebrate the murder of opponents and use incendiary rhetoric such as "Christo-het supremacists" to describe people of faith.

Young replied, "It's up to the LCR to respond to you. If they're going to [let me go], they're going to do it. I don't expect them to. It would be stupid. It will hurt them in the gay press, but it's their call."

She told LaBarbera she doesn't use phrases like "Christo-het supremacist," but said, nevertheless, "You are one."

CWA's Knight asserted the GOP should factor in Young's radical associations when confronted with the temptation to confer mainstream status on the Log Cabin group.

"There is nothing conservative about consorting with vicious anti-Christian bigots," he said, "just like there is nothing conservative about supporting the redefinition of marriage to include two men or two women, or pretending that two male lovers adopting a baby is as healthy for the child as having a mom and a dad."

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