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Sometimes, the Davids win victories against the Goliaths and the Good News Clubs won a great victory over the radicals in the education establishment and their comrades in the ranks of the ACLU-types; the Anti-God types, etc. Recently, a federal court ruled against a school district in Williamsburg, Virginia, and in favor of the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Virginia (CEF) and the CEF's Good News Clubs.

The Liberty Counsel reported that the Williamsburg school district "will rewrite its policy and pay more than $20,000 in damages. We told school officials before we filed the lawsuit that their policy was unconstitutional. They refused, so we filed suit and they learned the hard way that the First Amendment forbids religious discrimination. We are grateful to the Lord for another victory. This victory opens the door for additional Good News Clubs in the local public schools."

The Liberty Counsel says that the after-school Good News Clubs teach children respect, good citizenship, moral values and character development from a biblical perspective. They said that every school in America needs a Good News Club and that Churches are helping sponsor and provide teachers for these clubs in many cities, but more teachers and volunteers are needed.

LOUISIANA TO THE RESCUE The Christian Coalition, while sticking to its primary agenda, champions Energy Independence such as the discovery and drilling in new oil and gas deposits as well as developing all other alternatives for cleaner fuels. The Christian Coalition is encouraged by the discovery of what appears to be one of the largest natural gas fields in the world in northwest Louisiana. This is also good for Louisiana’s image since the new discovery will impact the nation in a most positive way. The mere mention of Louisiana tends to conjure up all sorts of negative images. It is known for being first in many of the worst categories, and last or close to it, in the best. It ranks near the bottom of states for bu

When guns are banned in schools, only the students and the crazed in the community carry them for nefarious purposes. Violence throughout the planet is increasing. School violence is escalating. Assaults on teachers are commonplace. Boys are bolder, girls are growing more aggressive. Angry students in their rage concoct lethal schemes to carry out deplorable plots.

The Sword of Damocles dangles over the heads of unsuspecting students. Meanwhile, school administrators and teachers are armed with verbal skills, “Why don’t we all just get along.” Education courses teach them in matters of class disruption, to acquiesce, understand, write up what happened, describe the atmosphere in the classroom, what they could have done to prevent the violence, and what they plan to do in the future to prevent its reoccurrence.

Education gurus have backed teachers into the corner and put a dunce cap on their heads in front of the students. They have been put at the mercy of the most belligerent and whatever happens, “it’s their fault.”

The next step in school anarchy will be a “step up” in violence. Guns and knives will become weapons of choice. Assault rifles and shot guns will suffice for the more sophisticated shooters.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is an American embarrassment. He incessantly yearns to be an important player on the world’s stage. Boiled down to the bone, he has been a dismal failure in almost everything he has attempted.

While in the United States Navy he aspired to submarine command. When more qualified candidates prevailed he returned to the peanut farm.

The one place he could get his way was in his hometown church. As the “head deacon” in his Baptist church he pulled rank over all the other deacons and often made the lives of his pastors unbearably difficult. As long as they did as he ordered – all went well. One of his pastors with whom I spent several days, referred to him as a very arrogant and deceptive deacon.

The four decades-old seeds of Values Clarification (revision of family values) and Situational Ethics (nothing is right or wrong, depends on the situation) sown in the Public School have germinated and burst forth with fruit that manifests itself in a steadily corrupting culture. Biblical standards of morality for our youth, embodied in the Ten Commandments, have been replaced with a “feel good” no holes-barred agenda. Evangelists for America’s united church-state religion, Secular Humanism, have sullied the innocence of an entire generation of young people. Hardcore fundamentalists in that church have driven tested morality from the classroom and left our youth adrift in a roiling sea of Hollywoodish immorality.

My father was a sharecropper all the days of my life until I graduated High School and a few years beyond. When I was six years old we lived in a simple four-room bungalow, complete with a storm house and an out-house, nestled next to a beautiful lake. Except for the lake our farm house was surrounded by woods. It was an idyllic setting for a bare-foot boy with a fishing pole.

At the time of America’s Founding the nation’s leaders were almost to the man, Christian, but they deliberately chose to establish a secular government to minister in behalf of all the people equally. It was a very friendly disestablishment. The government would be a friend of the Christian religion, but not a religious state. The Reverend John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian preacher, President of Princeton University, and Signer of the Declaration of Independence had a profound effect upon America’s founding. In his sermon, “The Dominion of Providence over the Passion’s of Men” Witherspoon preached, “He is the best friend to American liberty,