Today, I sent out the following e-mail to Jay Sekulow, the head of American Center for Law and Justice, and copied many of the top conservative and Christian pro-family, media legal and political leaders in the country. 

Listening to Sekulow on his national radio show portray himself as a pro-family, pro-life, rule of law conservative Christian, I had to ask him this question. I know that he received the e-mail since I sent it to his private e-mail address as well as his assistant’s. We’ll see if he has enough honesty and integrity to answer my very direct and pertinent question. After all, Sekulow is one of the top “Christian” “conservative” leaders in the country and a huge Romney supporter and Romney, after winning the CPAC straw poll last month (with a whopping 21% of the vote), is the leading GOP presidential candidate in 2012.

Jay,

As as the head of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), you claim to stand for and defend the rule of law, separation of powers, religious liberty, and the sanctity of human life and the natural human family. In fact, you have raised tens of millions of dollars promoting these causes (much of which you have used to enrich yourself and your family.

Yet, you endorsed (and continue to support) the man for President of the United States (Mitt Romney) who:

• Established abortion with a $50 co pay as a “healthcare benefit” (AFTER his supposed “pro life conversion”) in his socialist healthcare plan that was endorsed by Hillary, Teddy K, and Planned Parenthood.
• Appointed a Planned Parenthood member to his healthcare advisory board (AFTER his supposed “pro-life conversion”) and no pro-life appointed representative.
• Illegally instituted same sex “marriage” without an accompanying legal statute to fulfill an earlier promise to the Log Cabin Republicans not to oppose same sex “marriage” in return for their endorsement? (There was no “court order” as Romney has falsely asserted as you know.) 
• Boosted government funding for pro-homosexuality indoctrination of schoolchildren, and refused to order his education officials to enforce parents’ legal right to protect their own children from unwanted indoctrination about homosexuality.
• Forced Catholic Charities to place children with homosexual couples or go out of business (which they ultimately did) even though he was not required to do so by law.
• Forced Catholic Hospitals to provide the abortion pill claiming that he was required by law to do so even though Mike Dukakis admitted there was no law that existed which required Romney to do so.
• Opposes a ban on homosexual scoutmasters.
• Favors sexual orientation “anti-discrimination” laws for homosexuals, lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgenders.
• Opposed the Bush Tax Cuts.
• Raised taxes and fees by over $900 million as governor which has destroyed the Massachusetts economy.
• Implemented a socialist healthcare plan endorsed by Planned Parenthood that in the words of the Wall St. Journal is in “intensive care” whose costs are estimated to more than double and which the Cato Institute and Boston Globe has said is a total failure.
• Lied about seeing his father march with MLK, being a hunter “pretty much (his) whole life,” and about being endorsed by the NRA in 2002. 

 

 

 

Jay, how can you continue to claim every day on your national show on Salem Radio that you are championing the very Christian and conservative values, institutions and causes that Mitt Romney (the man you endorsed for president of the United States of America and continue to support) achieved so much success in destroying?

Isn’t it time Jay, that you come clean with the millions of Christians you speak to every day and who donate millions to your organization and apologize to them for portraying the Founding Father of sodomy “marriage” and the 50 dollar tax-subsidized abortion as a pro-family rule of law conservative and retract your endorsement of Romney and any support for him in the future?

I think they deserve to know the truth.

 
Don’t you Jay?

 

Gregg Jackson www.greggjackson.com

About 9 months ago, I wrote an article in Townhall.com entitled “Gay Marriage: Illegal in All Fifty States.” 

In the article, I explained that Governors Romney in Massachusetts and Schwarzenegger in California, both illegally and unconstitutionally authorized the alterations to and issuance of marriage certificates to same-sex couples without a binding accompanying enabling statute. Both “conservative” “Republican” governors speciously claimed that they were enforcing the “new law” even though they were both “personally opposed to same-sex ‘marriage.’”

About a month ago, Democrat Iowa Governor, Chet Culver, took a page out of the Romney-Schwarzenegger playbook by claiming that he must honor the court’s decision to “strike” down the current Iowa marriage statute which currently limits marriage to one man and one woman.

The bottom line it this: Governor Culver is breaking the law by altering marriage certificates (from “husband” and “wife” to “partner A” and “partner B”) and issuing them to same-sex couples without a binding accompanying statute enabling him to do so.

Governors are only constitutionally permitted to enforce the laws and stautes in their state.

Period.

The Iowa Supreme Court merely issued a declaratory opinion that the current marriage statute limiting marriage to one man and one woman in Iowa was “unconstitutional.”

But their unconstitutional opinion is only an opinion pertaining to the individual case before it. It has no effect on the current marriage statute which can only be amended or revoked by the legislature. And since the legislature has not done so, the marriage statute still limits marriage to one man and one woman. Period. End of story.

Abraham Lincoln acknowledged that court opinions are binding on the specific parties names and “entitled to very high respect and consideration (by) other departments of the government.” But like the Founding Fathers, he utterly rejected the assertion that judges’ opinions are the law of the land:

 “..if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

Sadly, most “conservaitve” and “Christian” pro-family, legal, and media organizations continue to perpetuate the toxic liberal lie that the Iowa Supreme Court “legalized” same-sex “marriage” instead of boldly proclaiming the THE TRUTH which is that Iowa Governor Culver is breaking the law by issuing marriage certificates to same sex couples in direct violation of the current marriage statute and the oath Culver swore to uphold before Almighty God.

“Rule of law” “conservatives” should be calling for Culver to be impeached and put behind bars for his unconstitutional and illegal actions.

Hamilton understood the basic constitutional principal that courts possess no power to enforce their opinions when he wrote in Federalist 78:

“…the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution. … [T]he judiciary … has no influence over either the sword or purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL…”

These self styled “rule-of-law” “conservatives” should thoughtfully consider the famous 1886 Supreme Court case, Norton v. Shelby  when the court opined:

“An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties. It is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.”

Is there any “conservative” “law and order” legislator or Christian leader in Iowa aside from my friend and Iowa talk show host, Steve Deace, who will defend the Constitution that our soldiers, sailors and air men are dying for all around the world in the “war on terror,” and call for Governor Culver to be impeached and removed from office?

And if there aren’t, will somebody please give me one good reason why every Iowa legislator who is complicit in allowing Governor Culver to subvert his oath and break the law, should not be impeached and removed from office themselves?

The President of one of the largest “pro-family” organizations in America, Family Research Council, Tony Perkins continues to claim that the man who ushered in homosexual “marriage” (illegally) and $50 dollar government subsidized abortions, Mitt Romney, is a “friend to the pro-family movement.” Romney, whose record is to the left of any liberal Democrat, was a featured speaker at FRC’s “Values Voter Summit” last year and is again scheduled to speak there in the fall.

This week I sent out this e-mail (below) to many of the top conservative and Christian “pro-family” “leaders,” lawyers and pundits–some of whom have responded to me personally that they believe Perkins needs to retract his support for Romney and should resign immediately for deceiving millions of pro-family and pro-life Christians about Romney during the election. Many of them asked me not to quote them and told me that they were going to confront Tony personally. But, just as I expected, many of the so-called “leaders” have been deafeningly silent and reveals exactly why president of American Family Policy Institute, Brannon Howse wrote about Bauer, Sekulow, Perkins and Dobson last year:

“…Your time has now passed and you have failed a huge test and thus I must no longer follow your lead or trust your instincts. If others can still follow you then I believe they may do so at the peril of our cause. 

 

“From now on I will take your advice, counsel, and opinion with a grain of salt because of your incompetent leadership and lack of discernment during the presidential race of 2008. Your decisions seem to have largely been based upon pragmatism.

Here is the letter I sent. We’ll see how many conservative and Christian “leaders” actually lead…

Friends,

As many of you are aware, I have called on Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council (FRC) on numerous occasions to retract his support for Mitt Romney and return any money he and FRC have received from Romney and/or his surrogates.

Yet, Mr. Perkins continues to promote and support Romney, recently calling him a “friend to the pro-family movement” in a fundraising e-mail (from July 22, 2008) as well as featuring Romney at the upcoming FRC/Values Voters Summit in Washington D.C.

As all of you know (including Mr. Perkins), Mitt Romney:

• Established abortion with a $50 co pay as a “healthcare benefit” (AFTER his supposed “pro life conversion”) in his socialist healthcare plan that was endorsed by Hillary, Teddy K, and Planned Parenthood.
• Appointed a Planned Parenthood member to his healthcare advisory board (AFTER his supposed “pro-life conversion”) and no pro-life appointed representative.
• Illegally instituted same sex “marriage” without an accompanying legal statute to fulfill an earlier promise to the Log Cabin Republicans not to oppose same-sex “marriage” in return for their endorsement. (There was no “court order” as Romney has falsely claimed.)
• Boosted government funding for pro-homosexuality indoctrination of schoolchildren.
• Refused for his entire four years in office to order his education officials to enforce parents’ legal rights to protect their own children from unwanted indoctrination about homosexuality.
• Forced Catholic Charities to place children with homosexual couples or go out of business (which they ultimately did) even though he was not required to do so by law.
• Forced Catholic Hospitals to issue the abortion pill claiming that he was required by law to do so even though Mike Dukakis admitted there was no law that existed which required Romney to do so.
• Opposes a ban on homosexual scoutmasters.
• Favors sexual orientation “anti-discrimination” laws for homosexuals, lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgenders.
• Opposed the Bush Tax Cuts.
• Raised taxes and fees by over $900 million as governor which has destroyed the Massachusetts economy.
• Implemented a socialist healthcare plan endorsed by Planned Parenthood that in the words of the Wall St. Journal is in “intensive care” whose costs are estimated to more than double and which the Cato Institute and Boston Globe has said is a total failure.
• Lied about seeing his father march with MLK.
• Lied about being a hunter “pretty much (his) whole life.
• Lied about being endorsed by the NRA in 2002.

Isn’t it time that Tony Perkins and FRC cease from portraying the Founding Father of sodomy “marriage” and the 50 dollar tax funded abortion, Mitt Romney, as a “friend to the pro-family movement?”
Isn’t it time that we shine the light of truth on the man and his “pro-family” organization who continues to deceive millions of pro-family Christians and grassroots conservatives about a very wicked man?
Will you take a stand as a pro-family and pro-life leader and join me in calling for Tony Perkins to:
· Return the $250,000 that Perkins/FRC received from Romney and his surrogates?
· Retract his support for Romney and claim that Romney is a “friend to the pro-family movement?”
· Resign as President of FRC?

If you choose to take a bold and courageous stand for truth and righteousness, please hit “reply all” and let every other leader on this e-mail including Tony Perkins, know where you stand.
I will post this letter on my site www.greggjackson.com along with those leaders who choose to stand with me in calling for Mr. Perkins to resign as the President of Family Research Council (with a list of those who chose not to) and will distribute to the entire news media.
I will assume that if you don’t respond and call for Mr. Perkins to resign, that you support Mr. Perkins’ backing of Mitt Romney whose legacy as governor is even to the left of much of today’s ultra-left wing Democrat Party and is one that Barack Obama would be proud of.
Looking forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely Yours,
Gregg Jackson

I can’t for the life of me understand how it is that those who call themselves “rule of law” “conservatives” aren’t asking the following questions:

How can gay “marriage” be legal in Iowa if the only constitutionally prescribed body of government authorized to make laws, the legislature, has not amended the current marriage statute to accommodate same sex “marriage?”

By what legal authority are marriage licences being altered and issued since there is no legally binding accompanying enabling statute authorizing anybody in the executive branch to alter or issue marriage licences to anybody accept one man and one woman?

Why is not one “conservative” politician in Iowa calling for the impeachment of the judicial autocrats who have violated their oaths by issuing the anti-constitutional and illegal opinion?

Why has not one “conservative lawyer, leader or pundit stated publicly that the Iowa opinion is a toothless anti-constitutional ruling that should be ignored and is under no circumstances the “new law?”

Why is not one “conservative” politician stating that it is illegal for any executive branch official to alter and issue marriage certificates to any same sex couples without a binding enabling statute and calling for the impeachment of any who do?

Are those who have sworn an oath to uphold the constitution violating their oaths if they allow executive branch officials to alter and issue marriage licences to same sex couples without a binding enabling statute?

Why do we even need a legislative and executive branch if the judicial branch (which the Founders intended by design to be “by far the weakest of the three branches with neither the power of the sword or of the purse”) can make and enforce laws merely by issuing opinions from the bench?

If heterosexual marriage is now “unconstitutional,” why can’t marriage licenses be issued to polygamous and polyamorous couples? Why limit it to homosexual couples? Why can’t licenses be issued to members of the same family? Can a man or woman now marry his/her dog or other animal now that the court has opined that limiting marriage to one man and one woman is “unconstitutional?”

Can we honestly say that we have a constitutional Republic under-girded by the rule of law in which we are a “self-governing people” if we are actively complicit in submissively allowing courts to essentially make and enforce laws?

It’s one thing when AP writes as they did yesterday:

Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage

But why are purportedly “conservative” sites like World Net Daily perpetuating this lie that an advisory court opinion on an individual case involving the constitutionality of “gay marriage” in Iowa akin to “legalizing” it since, of course, only the legislative branch of government can amend, revoke or make any law?

Worldnetdaily ran the following story yesterday:

QUEERLY BELOVED
Iowa 3rd state to legalize ‘gay’ marriage
Court rules ban violates constitutional rights of homosexual couples

In response, I sent the following e-mail to Joe Farah of WND:

Mr. Farah,

Ýou published the following headline today at WND:

QUEERLY BELOVED
Iowa 3rd state to legalize ‘gay’ marriage
Court rules ban violates constitutional rights of homosexual couples

Knowing that the judiciary is constitutionally prohibited from making laws and can only issue declaratory/advisory opinions on individual cases before it, why do you continue to perpetuate the toxic liberal and anti-constitutional lie that courts possess the authority to “legalize” stuff?

I know that you understand that both Governors Romney and Schwarzenegger both illegally authorized the alterations to and issuance of marriage licences, without binding and enabling statutes authorizing them to do so, in direct violation of their sworn oaths and the marriage statutes that limit marriage to one man and one woman in both Massachusetts and California.

So, why is it that you continue to prop up the lie that the Iowa Supreme Court’s anti-constitutional and illegal opinion belched forth today somehow “legalized” same-sex “marriage” considering the only branch of government that possesses the enumerated constitutional power to amend, revoke, or change any laws or statutes in any way (the legislature) never changed the actual marriage statute in Iowa which STILL defines marriage as between one man and one woman?

You don’t actually believe that court opinions are actual law?

Do you?

Before you answer that question, I would strongly urge you to consider these words spoken by Abraham Lincoln and consider whether advancing the shibboleth that un-elected judges can make law is really something we as “rule of law” conservatives and Christians want to perpetuate if we are serious about preserving what little remains of our Constitutional Republic:

“..if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

Respectfully Yours,

Gregg Jackson

While I have a great ammount of respect for Mr. Farah and WND, I have brought this issue to his attention on numerous occasions in the past when he has run similar headlines proclaiming that the court has “legalized” gay “marriage” in other states.

My hope is that Mr. Farah realizes his error, runs a retraction and ceases running similar headlines in the future.

My friend Steve Deace has written a very fine piece on World Net Daily. If you are one of those who oppose abortion except cases “of rape or incest” you should definately read this. It might make you reconsider your position.

How about ‘focus on our principles’?

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Posted: March 31, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

By Steve Deace
© 2009

With those of us who consider ourselves voters with a biblical worldview on the defensive more so than ever before in American history, a discussion is happening within our ranks about principles versus pragmatism that is long overdue.

Recently on my radio program, this vital discussion was given another forum when I had the chance to interview Tom Minnery, the longtime head of the political arm of Focus on the Family. (A podcast of that interview can be found here.)

I played for Mr. Minnery a clip of a 1990 vow his boss, Dr. James Dobson, made when he said for as long as “God lets me live” he’ll never vote for any man or woman “who will kill one innocent baby.” I asked Mr. Minnery if Dr. Dobson had violated his heroic pledge by supporting phony pro-lifer John McCain for president after previously saying he could not support him, and why shouldn’t voters of biblical conscience return to the standard Dr. Dobson so courageously articulated.

rest of article here