I just learned about an international meeting called the World Congress of Families. It facilitates representatives from pro-family groups around the world meeting and learning together and developing relationships.
The World Congress of Families is sponsored by the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, which is based in Rockford, Illinois.
In any event, the big news is that the World Congress of Families will take place in Moscow later this year. This is an intentional effort to connect pro-family organizations and leaders from the West with those in the East.
It is entirely fitting that the meeting be held in Russia. After all, as the Rev. Billy Graham's son Franklin points out, Vladimir Putin is much better than Obama on family issues.
What is Putin doing when he emphasizes these issues? Perhaps, at least in part, he is acting with the foreknowledge that Russia will be stronger as a nation if its families are stronger.
Putin is saying the new ideological struggle is between a debauched West led by the United States and a traditionalist world Russia would be proud to lead...
He is also tapping into the worldwide revulsion of and resistance to the sewage of a hedonistic secular and social revolution coming out of the West.
In the culture war for the future of mankind, Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity...
The West’s capitulation (is) to a sexual revolution of easy divorce, rampant promiscuity, pornography, homosexuality, feminism, abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, assisted suicide — the displacement of Christian values by Hollywood values...
But the war to be waged with the West is not with rockets. It is a cultural, social, moral war where Russia’s role, in Putin’s words, is to “prevent movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.”
Would that be the “chaotic darkness” and “primitive state” of mankind, before the Light came into the world?
This writer was startled to read in the Jan-Feb. newsletter from the social conservative World Council of Families in Rockford, Ill., that, of the “ten best trends” in the world in 2013, number one was “Russia Emerges as Pro-Family Leader.”
In 2013, the Kremlin imposed a ban on homosexual propaganda, a ban on abortion advertising, a ban on abortions after 12 weeks and a ban on sacrilegious insults to religious believers.
“While the other super-powers march to a pagan world-view,” writes WCF’s Allan Carlson, “Russia is defending Judeo-Christian values. During the Soviet era, Western communists flocked to Moscow. This year, World Congress of Families VII will be held in Moscow, Sept. 10-12.”
Of course, the United States government is now aligning itself with the European Union in favor of the new Ukrainian regime. This is a multicultural, trans-Atlantic, Eurosocialist alliance that also happens to be increasingly Godless.
The great Obama has not explained why he supports a Ukrainian government comprised, in part, of neo-Nazi's.
But heaven forbid if anyone were to disagree with Obama's foreign policy on the matter of Ukraine. It turns out that he has issued an Executive Order that promises consequences for those who oppose his foreign policy:
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of persons -- including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine -- that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
I hereby order:
Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States… of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:
(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, [emphasis added] any of the following:
(A) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine;
(B) actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine [ … ]
We are all living in a different country now. Citizens would be justified to conclude that America is no longer great-- because she is no longer good.
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