Conservative Culture

Sources close to the process seem to think this is a decent bill. I appears that it is also one of the smallest budgets with growth slower than that of inflation.

State Rep. Williams said today that he voted for the $52.1 Billion, two-year state operating budget, which passed the full House on Tuesday, with a surprising 97-0 vote. This Budget represents a spending increase of 2 percent pet year, which is lower than any budget in the last 42 years. 

Wow. Now they act like Republicans who believe in their core principals. So what message are they sending to the rest of us. It could be only one of two… and  I have my pick.

1. They want you to know that they will vote for lower taxes and limiting the growth of Government every time you put a Democrat in the Governor’s mansion.

2. Remember… don’t vote for Moderate Republicans. Every time we have a Republican governor the moderates act like drunken liberals (Taft… need I say more). Every time they get a Democrat in they start to be more conservative.

My pick? Number 2… Put in leaders that solid core values and demonstrate consistent Republican values.

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Even the mainline church’s have abandoned their positions. Mainline churches such as the Episcopal church are helping spearhead the liberalization of the culture. Once stance defenders of the truth they have been mired in deception and a complete moral breakdown. Who he slept with aside… he quites office and then decides maybe church might be nice. No repentance or anything close.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP)  -- James E. McGreevey, the nation’s first openly gay governor, has become an Episcopalian and wants to become a priest in that faith, according to a published report.

The former governor, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at St. Bartholomew.

McGreevey has entered the church’s “discernment” phase that usually precedes any seminary work, Bean told The Star-Ledger of Newark in a report posted Wednesday on its Web site.

“This process that he’s in right now, is not going to be some snap of the finger, overnight process. That will not happen. That’s not how it works. He knows that,” Bean said. “And so at the parish level, and at the diocesan level, everyone knows that this is a process that … intentionally is deliberate. You don’t enter into it unadviseably.”

St. Bartholomew’s spokesman Bob Johnson said he could confirm that McGreevey was received into the faith because the former governor’s name was listed on a program for the service. The step is for those who have already been baptized and confirmed in another Christian denomination, but wish to become Espiscopals, he said.

Not surprised and I expect to see more of this. Just wonder if anyone else even wonders about this.

I would have liked to see the stack of papers shooting out of the faxes. Perhaps more pressure will be felt because of this.

CHESAPEAKE, Va., May 1 /Christian Newswire/ — Grassfire.org Alliance, one of the key organizations in the on going push to free imprisoned Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, launched a massive fax initiative last week to rally Congressional co-sponsors and support for Rep. Duncan Hunter’s H.R. 563, legislation calling for a full pardon of Ramos and Compean.

Less than one-week into the campaign, more than 70,000 faxes have been scheduled to members of the House and House leadership–with more citizens scheduling faxes each day. “Grassroots Americans refuse to forget about Ramos and Compean and the horrific miscarriage of justice perpetrated against them,” says Steve Elliott, president of Grassfire.org Alliance. “The fact that we’ve far exceeded our goal in less than one week is proof positive that Americans want justice on behalf of Ramos and Compean.”

The FaxFire fax initiative gives citizens an opportunity to send personalized faxes to their Congressman as well as the more than 300 members of Congress who have yet to sponsor the Hunter bill.

Sounds nice. The terror gap and all will make it a sure sell right? Hope not. Gun rights are removed on conviction already… now it could be done (if it passes) on suspicion. I’m not sure I would like this if Reno was Attorney General. Think about it.

(CNSNews.com) - A Second Amendment group says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign as the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer, given his “troubling support” for a new gun control bill that seeks to close the “terror gap” in federal law.

S. 1237 would give the attorney general, a presidential appointee, the authority to suspend or cancel someone’s Second Amendment right, even if that person has never been charged with a crime, the Second Amendment Foundation warned.

At the Justice Department’s request, the bill was introduced last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), whom SAF describes as one of the most extreme anti-gunners in Congress.

The “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007″ would give the attorney general discretionary authority to deny the purchase of firearms (or the issuance of firearms and explosives licenses) to “known or suspected terrorists.” The bill has been referred to Judiciary Committee.

Yes, up to six figures to go to Iraq. Dangerous granted but heck… they already face bullets and prosecution if they shoot someone in the backside. On the other hand Iraq is like surrounded by more than one nation eager to get in. Would you go?

The pay is tempting, but the mission is tough — helping to stop illegal immigrants from crossing a long, rugged and remote border.

But the border in question isn’t between the United States and Mexico or Canada. It’s in Iraq.

At a time when federal officials are stressing the need to beef up U.S. border security, the State Department has hired a firm to recruit veteran law officers who will serve as “mentors” and train Iraqis to guard their borders.

Critics of the plan acknowledge that the goal of hiring 120 officers won’t seriously impair America’s border security. They wonder, however, what it says about the government’s priorities.

“Our Border Patrol agents are going to be saying, ‘Goodbye, Arizona. Goodbye, Texas. Hello, Iraq,’ ” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

A lot has happened. One of the developments was NH embracing the move toward same sex marriage… currently billed as civil unions.

New Hampshire Passes Law Allowing Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples
Date Published: Thursday, April 26th, 2007
New Hampshire became just the fourth state in the nation to allow same-sex civil unions after the state Senate passed a bill today. Democratic Gov. John Lynch has said that he intends to sign it into law, which would allow the civil unions to begin in 2008.

New Hampshire joins New Jersey, Connecticut, and Vermont as the only states to approve the civil unions. Nearby Massachusetts is the only state to allow same-sex marriages, although the Rhode Island attorney general ruled earlier this year that the state’s residents can legally pursue same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. New York governor Eliot Spitzer also announced plans to push a same-sex marriage bill through the state legislature. In the states of Washington, California, and Maine, same-sex domestic partnerships have been given varying degrees of legal legitimacy as well, while Oregon plans to follow suit in the near future.