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  • Art Fettig, “The World At Our Fingertips”

    Dove - A World of Peace
    I wish I could just send out a memo on the Internet and declare peace for all as a special Christmas blessing.

    The other day I heard from a friend in Australia who reads this newsletter. It brought home to me the fact that with the Internet, the whole world is right there at our fingertips. I had an e-mail with photo attachments from a friend in China just two weeks ago. Until I went to the Far East to fight a war at the age of twenty-one, the farthest I had ever been from our home in Detroit was to a beach near Toronto, Ontario.That experience sure broadened my horizons and when I began traveling to Europe with airline passes I felt that I surged light years ahead in my outlook. You’d think that with our modern means of communication we might do a better job of getting along with one another. The war goes on and I haven’t even a clue how we might declare peace and bring the troops home. The one major thing that was not achieved on my wish list again this year was world peace. I just don’t understand why we can find peace for everyone in this world but l’ll sure pray for it on a continuing basis. I wish I could just send out a memo on the Internet and declare peace for all as a special Christmas blessing. 1

  • Remember When There Was Honor in the Office of the President of the United States

    The Final Minutes of President Obama’s Farewell Address: Yes, we can.

  • Connert Media Supports Mark Kelly

    Candidate for US Senator, Mark Kelly, will help pass the Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United. Citizens United is one of the most destructive things that have brought huge money donations from wealthy people and corporations to unjustly influence our US elections.

    Mark Kelly, Candidate for US Senator
    Mark Kelly, Candidate for US Senator

    President Jimmy Carter, The Citizens United ruling is ‘the most stupid decision that the Supreme Court ever made.”

    President Barack Obama, “We have to reduce the influence of money in our politics.”

    Congresswomen, Nancy Pelosi, “Without the help of End Citizens United, we NEVER would have elected a wave of reformers.”

  • The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Has A Member That Is Part of A Hate Group

    Tony Perskins [Member of a SPLC hate group] appointed by Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) – Photo from USCIRF Website

    The Family Research Council 2 has been listed as a anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Tony Perkins, Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom3, is president of this organization.

    Tony Perkins, serving as chair, was appointed by Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) for a term expiring in 2020.

    The videos are titled ‘It Gets Better.’ 4 They are aimed at persuading kids that although they’ll face struggles and perhaps bullying for ‘coming out’ as homosexual (or transgendered or some other perversion), life will get better. …It’s disgusting. And it’s part of a concerted effort to persuade kids that homosexuality is okay and actually to recruit them into that lifestyle. – Tony Perkins, FRC fundraising letter, August 2011

    Today[July 18, 2019], the State Department is holding a major international conference on religious freedom — but as long as hate-group leader Tony Perkins is in charge of American efforts, the U.S. will have no credibility on this issue.

    In 2015, Perkins argued that Muslims do not deserve religious liberty because Islam is “incompatible with the Constitution.” He has also said that pro-LGBT clergy should not have the religious liberty to conduct LGBT weddings. Perkins is clearly unfit for his new role as chair of the U.S. committee on religious freedom. Worse yet, he’s chairing the committee while remaining president of the Family Research Council — which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated an anti-LGBT hate group since 2010. Faithful America has beaten Perkins before, and we can do it again. Our grassroots advocacy convinced TV producers to stop booking him to represent Christianity. Now we must tell Congress to protect religious freedom from his hateful agenda. 5

    Faithful America is encouraging their members and friends to “fight hatred” by signing their petition which can be done by Clicking Here.

  • Real Christians Don’t Define the Religious Right

    Christians putting faith in action.

    Faithful America is the largest and fastest-growing online community of Christians putting faith into action for social justice. Their members are sick of sitting by quietly while Jesus’ message of good news is hijacked by the religious right to serve a hateful political agenda. They are organizing the faithful to challenge such extremism and renew the church’s prophetic role in building a more free and just society. 6