Don’t Burden Our Grandchildren

Thursday’s Family Update with Michael Geer:

This week on Family Update, we’re looking at the huge and troubling growth in government debt, and warnings given by one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson.

Just last week, the news reported that in stimulus spending and bailouts, the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year.

Thomas Jefferson called such borrowing, “Swindling futurity on a grand scale.” Let’s not let our political leaders burden out posterity – our children and grandchildren, with such debt.

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Senator Leach’s Press Conference

In the capitol rotunda today, the first couple of steps behind Senator Leach’s podium held a variety of faces.  The ones introduced were an older gay couple, a younger lesbian couple with their child, and a college girl whose mother became a lesbian thirteen years ago.  There were brightly colored signs and rainbow flags that read similar sayings like “Stop the Hate” or “Legalize Marriage.”  Cheers would echo in the rotunda of the capitol when the speaker’s voice rose, hinting that the next phrase will be important.  Meanwhile cameramen were creating a semi-circle around the group, filming the words and faces in action as the people behind the podium demanded what they believe is “right.”

It’s human nature, we fight for what we believe to be right. 

In the same way, we have a government to help guide people to do right and to practice good morals.  So when same-sex couples are not legally recognized as married by the government, this is because the government is holding the people to a standard of marriage according to what is right.  It is not hate.  Homosexuals are not hated by those who want to protect marriage as between husband and wife.

Our “wants” can be a scary thing.  If we had this magical “fair world,” meaning people should be able to do what they want, then this world would be chaotic.  If people could always do what they wanted to do, then the system of government would not exist.  If we continue to twist the government to believe that our wants should always be pleased, then by what foundation and truth will we be judging our state?  If the homosexual “movement” is proposing that the foundation and truth we live by is our wants, then how does government protect anything?

Senator Leach said that there is “no rational argument” against same-sex marriage.  But is it irrational to say that there is a right and a wrong?  He claims that we are not being “competitive with other states,” when only four other states have just recently recognized same-sex marriage and two by activist court order!

Right now, the fight over whether homosexual couples should be able to marry or not is about Pennsylvanians (and all Americans) deciding what is right and what is wrong.  This is not about discrimination or fairness.  It is about the truth of life by which we will choose to govern and judge our actions.  In the end, this fight will determine what our state believes is right.

Swindling Our Children

Wednesday’s Family Update with Michael Geer:

Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and our nation’s Third president, was very concerned about the Federal Government taking on debt. During the debate over the constitution, he consistently pressed for limits on the ability of the state to borrow. He made his perspective clear in many writings and speeches. Consider the wisdom in this one, for example,

“I sincerely believe… that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

Indeed. We are swindling our children and grandchildren.

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Pennsylvania: Enslaved to Debt

Tuesday’s Family Update with Michael Geer:

The book of Proverbs tells us that the Debtor is the Slave to the Lender. I think that applies to nations as well as individuals.

The huge debt that our Federal Government has acquired to nations like China has put us at peril, and to a great extent has muzzled our government’s willingness to call China out for human rights abuses.

Even here in Harrisburg, our state government has been digging a hole of debt, some of it hidden from
public view. State worker pension obligations are vast and will gobble up more and more of our budget in years to come. It’s time to say enough is enough.

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Protecting Your Community Against Adult Businesses

Sometimes we may feel that businesses have authority over us.  We are not always sure that we have the power to make a difference.  However, this is not true.  When it comes to sexually oriented businesses or adult businesses, community members do have a say.  Community members can play a huge part in the zoning ordinance and/or licenses of sexually oriented businesses.  If the business is not already “zoned in” or granted permission, members have the opportunity to direct the placement of the business.  Although if it is already established, this does not mean the fight is over.  As citizens we are able to place certain restrictions on these businesses, such as the hours of business or type of lighting within the club.  Therefore it’s time to become pro-active and stand for the morals we believe in.  Whether you have a sexually oriented business in your community or know of one in another community, educate yourself on the power you have in your local government and help to spread the word.

You can contact the Independence Law Center (affiliated with the Pennsylvania Family Institute) www.indlawcenter.org
Or read more here on the specifics of Protecting Your Community

Your Voice Counts! Take Action Against Gambling!

Michael Geer with Friday’s Family Update:

All week here on Family Update, I’ve been telling you about the troubling plans in Harrisburg to approve a massive expansion of gambling across Pennsylvania . Gov. Rendell and some legislative leaders want to legalize video poker at thousands of locations throughout Pennsylvania , and approve table games like roulette, black jack and poker at the slots casinos.

This is the last thing our state needs. It will bring more addiction, bankruptcy, crime and corruption, and further devastate our state’s weakened economy.

You’re the only thing standing in the way of this happening. Please contact your legislators – your state representative and state senator, and tell them to oppose any expansion of gambling in Pennsylvania . You can use the Citizen Action Center on our website to find their contact information.

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Standing for His Law

Delaware Notches Pair of Pro-Family Wins CitizenLink (2 July, 2009) -A bill restricting mothers to talk to their child within 100 feet with the abortion clinic was defeated.  While in the meantime, a stricter ordinance on sexually oriented businesses was passed!

“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.  What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.  I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ- the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”  Philippians 3: 7-9

What Would Jefferson Do?

Monday’s Family Update with Michael Geer:

Spending your way out of financial trouble seems to most people to be the opposite of common sense. Borrowing more and spending more is no way to dig yourself out of a canyon of debt.

Yet here in Harrisburg, in state Capitols throughout the nation, and in Washington, the tax, borrow and spend mentality continues unabated. And it’s our families and our children’s future that are the most at risk.

This week here on the Family Update, we’ll look at the perils of debt, and especially some wise words of one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence.

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Your Voice Counts! Take Action Against Gambling!

Michael Geer with Friday’s Family Update:

All week here on Family Update, I’ve been telling you about the troubling plans in Harrisburg to approve a massive expansion of gambling across Pennsylvania . Gov. Rendell and some legislative leaders want to legalize video poker at thousands of locations throughout Pennsylvania , and approve table games like roulette, black jack and poker at the slots casinos.

This is the last thing our state needs. It will bring more addiction, bankruptcy, crime and corruption, and further devastate our state’s weakened economy.

You’re the only thing standing in the way of this happening. Please contact your legislators – your state representative and state senator, and tell them to oppose any expansion of gambling in Pennsylvania . You can use the Citizen Action Center on our website to find their contact information.

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Family Newswatch

What we’re reading:

Connecticut Governor Rell Signs Bill Banning Ultrasounds Without Medical Reason Steven Ertelt, LifeNews (29 June, 2009) -If abortion advocates believe that there is no life in the womb (due to confusion of when conception occurs), then why are they so worried about ultrasounds?  I suspect that abortion supporters truly do know that there is life within the womb during the entire pregnancy process.  Hence why they fear the influence that ultrasounds could have on women deciding on an abortion.  This being true, abortion advocates knowingly support murder, or the “right” to murder.  With eyes wide open to this, the crime at hand is very evident: abortion permits murder.

Some 2.6 Million Abortions Happen in Indonesia Annually AntaraNews (29 June, 2009) -”The abortion rate in Indonesia reaches around 2-2.6 million annually, or 43 abortions per 100 pregnancies…The majority clients are between 20 and 29 years old.”

Pro-Life Group Challenges Federal Order to Sell Morning After Pill to Minor Girls Steven Ertelt, LifeNews (29 June, 2009)

Their reasoning: 1) Parents are out of the loop 2) Doctor is not given the chance to check for a sexually transmitted disease 3) Implies safety 4) Minor girls are not mature enough for the decision 5) Easier for men who abuse women to cover up their crimes

Where does our society gain with this pill again?

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