Law & Politics

By Dr. Patrick Johnston

The Indictment

The indictment has been well publicized. On November 8, Mississippi failed to pass their Personhood Amendment, a law which would have criminalized all abortion in Mississippi. Now Mississippians can no longer point their finger the Supreme Court for abortion in Mississippi. They can no longer blame judicial tyranny for treading their democratic consensus underfoot in legalizing abortion. They can no longer blame the pro-choicers for the 3,000 Mississippians dismembered annually in their state. Polls show that the vast majority of Mississippi voters claim to be pro-life and against abortion, yet more than 55% of Mississippians voted against their Personhood Amendment.

Statistically, thousands of Mississippians who claimed to be pro-life went to the polls on November 8, 2011, and voted against the end of abortion within Mississippi. They've sown the seeds of death in the soil of the Mississippi delta - what do you think they will reap? Before God punishes the nation for its sin, He punishes the salt for tolerating it (Matthew 5:13).

The Doom

The Bible is clear that God's curse resides upon the land where innocent people are killed without justice. (See Numbers 35:30-34, Jeremiah 18:7-10, Proverbs 6:16-17, Psalm 9:17, Jeremiah 7:5-7, Isaiah 1:15-17.) God is longsuffering, but sooner or later, judgment will fall on a land that sheds innocent blood.

Numbers 35:30-34 tells us that when innocent blood is shed in the land, the land is "defiled" and "polluted" and only justice can cleanse it. In Deuteronomy 21:1-9, we are taught that the curse of innocent blood falls upon the community nearest the crime. This curse can only be lifted through the dissemination of justice. It is the local community where the assault has been committed that is ultimately responsible for punishing assailants to protect the innocent.

Foreseeing Evil

"A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." Proverbs 22:3

Over 650 Tornadoes spawned in April according to the National Weather Service. That shatters national record by nearly a hundred more than the last three Aprils combined.

This month, the Mississippi River flooded more land than it has in the past forty years.

2010 saw a record number of earthquakes.

Oh how many lives could have been saved if people were only prepared.

My pastor's wife was a passenger in a tragic motor vehicle accident several years ago when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. As a result of that accident, she almost lost her ability to walk. On a trip out of town recently, she commented that she was unable to sleep in a car as a result of that accident.

My thoughts went to how many accidents I had in my life that were avoidable if only I hadn't been "asleep at the wheel." When I was ten years old, I swung from a tire swing two stories in the air from a tree fort I had built. Unfortunately, the tire was tied to the tree branch overhead by copper telephone wire, which, of course, stretched and snapped, sending me speeding to the ground where I landed on my back and was knocked unconscious. My brother found me with a tire around my waist on the ground three hours later. (My head lay in the dirt between two large roots that were sticking out of the ground.)

Jesus warned his followers that when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies, they should flee to the hills. How, you might wonder, could they flee to the hills if Jerusalem was surrounded by armies? Titus, in A.D. 70, abandoned his plan to lay siege to Jerusalem, and Jews celebrated their divine deliverance. However, the Christians who remembered what Jesus prophesied took this opportunity to leave the city and flee to the hills. Titus soon returned and laid siege to Jerusalem until the Jews were feeding off and murdering each other. Jerusalem was totally destroyed, but the Christians survived - if they were prepared. It's not easy to live in the hills unless you were prepared.

Press Release from the Association of Pro-Life Physicians

by Dr. James P. Johnston, D.O., Director, Assn. of Pro-Life Physicians

Having long defended the right to life, I am accustomed the smoke and mirrors arguments of abortion advocates. The case for the right to life of the preborn focuses like a laser on the biological facts of when life begins, for there the cause is won or lost. But rather than deal with the facts of the case, the abortion advocates regularly puff spoke and mirrors into the debate to detract from the moral and scientific clarity on this subject, to excite bias, and confuse the naive.

However, I have never witnessed abortion advocates resort to such absurdity as they have in North Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Oklahoma, and in other states, accusing the proposed Personhood legislation or amendment in those states of having the potential to criminalize miscarriages, to ban or curtail in vitro fertilization, and to ban hormonal contraceptives. These are propositions are patently false, and are either negligent or insincere.

Before we evaluate what Personhood is not, let's briefly establish what it is. Personhood legislation simply declares that for the purpose of state law, life begins at conception, or fertilization.

It is interesting to note that the "father of in vitro fertilization", Dr. Landrum Shettles, concurs with this fact:

"Conception confers life and makes that life one of a kind."

Even the "father of modern genetics", Dr. Jerome Lejeune, added his voice to the resounding chorus of the undeniable truth that life begins at conception:

In regards to abortion, Dr. Johnston may have made up my mind on a topic I was never sure of before.

Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. Our greatest enemy today is not Obama. It’s not the socialists in Congress, the liberal activists that serve as judges, it’s not Islamist terrorists, the Communist Chinese, the Federal Reserve, or illegal immigrants. Those who do not learn from history are bound to – what? - repeat it.

The Roman empire covered the world with roads, trade, soldiers, and technology. It was a thing of pride to be a Roman citizen. Produce and goods were inexpensive. They were the wealthiest people in the world who conquered all her challengers.

But Rome became overrun with illegal immigrants, who at first assimilated and worked as servants, but then came so fast that they did not learn the language or adopt the Roman culture. Romebecame addicted to the cheap labor, and didn’t enforce her immigration laws. Politicians and businesses catered to illegal immigrants.

The highly-trained Roman military, moving rapidly on their advanced road system, was over-stretched in conflicts at the boundaries of their vast empire. For the military industrial complex, business was booming.

Ring, ring, ring.

Elizabeth: Hello?

Republican fundraiser: This is Sarah from the Ohio Republican Party. How are you ma’am?

Eliz.: Fine.

Repub.: This won’t take long at all. We know you’ve been a supporter in the past, and we have many key races coming up and…

Eliz.: Ma’am, let me just cut this short and explain something to you. Until the Republican Party begins to endorse candidates that are pro-family, pro-life, who are for limited government and true to the Republican platform, we are not going to continue to give money to your candidates or the GOP.

Repub.: Well, this is not the first time I’ve heard this. But we have a lot of phone-calling to do so we can stop the liberal agenda…

Dr. Johnston,

Please keep doing what you are doing. I agree that you should run for political office. I am a "timid" Christian, and after I listen to you I become fired up and feel drawn to get involved, especially concerning health care issues, as I am a registered nurse, certified in hospice and palliative care. You are very convincing and convicting when you speak and would motivate us to become actively involved in upholding the values our Constitution intended.

I thank the Lord for what you do and lift you and your family up to Him.

Nancy

Dear Dr. Johnston,

I just wanted to let you know how much my wife, Brigette and I appreciated your speech at the Zanesville Tea Party on Saturday. We are from Akron, but were camping at Salt Fork last weekend. I looked up the closest July 4th Tea Party, so we came to Zanesville. It’s so great to be among like-minded people. It’s easy for me to get downtrodden and say, “Forget it, the country is so far gone, it’s irreparable!” But when I attend a party, it’s so rejuvenating! Your anecdote about whether your descendents would spit on your grave or not was similar to a thought I recently had...

We are here today because our nation is speeding toward a cliff, and our leaders think the best remedy is to pick up speed. We are on the verge of an economic catastrophe the likes of which most of us have never seen. Our government owes $244,000 of debt for every taxpayer. Repaying the interest on the 11.1 trillion dollars of debt is the third largest expense in the federal budget. This is the equivalent of you maxing so many credit cards that your interest payments on your credit card debt takes up 1/3 of your paycheck! That’s just digging yourself deeper into the pit of your economic demise! Yet the budget this year breaks all records by increasing the debt trillions of dollars!

The government thinks that capitalism and free enterprise has failed us, and they want to increase their control as a remedy, when in reality too much government is the problem. Of course the state’s going to prescribe more of the disease to try to better our symptoms because they profit off of our exploitation! The politicians increase the likelihood of their re-election if they can coerce us out of money to give to causes that we would not give to freely if we had the choice. If you want to fund a cowgirl museum in Arizona, bail out a failing bank or a wall street executive, give drug addicts free needles with their Medicaid check, or fund a tattoo removal program in LA, you are free to write them a check. But when you use the power of government to force others, upon pain of fine or prison, to give to causes that they would not give willingly if they had the free choice, then you’ve violate the 8th commandment, which says do not steal.

Unemployment and home foreclosures may be the least of our problems. Tax rates comparable to the former U.S.S.R.’s, the loss of our nest eggs, and the bankruptcy of Social Security and Medicare will be the least of our problems if we continue down this road. The consequences we will face as a nation will be the loss of our liberties and the enslavement of our children under the shadow of an all-consuming communist state.

Our forefathers intended to prevent this in the Constitution. The state’s remedy for our economic troubles is a blatant violation of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which says that any obligation not granted to the federal government within the Constitution belongs to the states or the people. Does the Constitution grant the federal government the right or duty to spend taxpayers’ money to bail out failing private industries? No. Defying the Constitution does not amend it. These bailouts and all this unconstitutional spending is unlawful.

I am jumping JUMPING!!!! at work literally inside. >There are so few preachers preaching the gospel. I am a black american female studying neuro-biology...I defend pro life the Bible and it's standards..but here's the surprise..NOV 4TH!!!!! I proudly DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA....I didn't hesitate, I didn't have to pray, I didn't have to seek God, or fast...My relationship with Christ since I was six gave me enough wisdom to know that any HUMAN that stands for the Anti-Christ message that this man defends CANNOT HAVE MY SUPPORT IN ANYWAY!!! let alone my vote...How glad I am to have stumbled across this site!! Obama is an uncle Tom, Margaret Sanger would be so proud of his evil achievements of helping to abort the very race he is so called "representing"...You have been anointed for this time!!

“CRY LOUD, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show the people their sins”!!!!

Re: your tract “Judge Not Lest You Be Judged”: You don't know how many times I have explained the Judge lest ye be judged scriptures. My atheist friends who don't even know how to spell Bible quote this to me when I tell them to denounce sin, or come against abortion and homosexuality. If they would, I don't know, read the whole thing the concept would probably be bestowed upon them.

Just a letter of thanks I'll keep this devotional in my mind so I won't have to say a word, just hit send. lol

Neshiyqah Nash