He calls proponents of abstinence “select religious leaders and ideologically very narrow advocates”
By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League of North Carolina

Despite new evidence that abstinence-until-marriage (AUM) education is working to help teens delay sex, at least one state lawmaker spoke out late last month promoting comprehensive sex ed (CSE) and giving clues of the legislative battle to come.

According to the Fayetteville Observer, Rep. Rick Glazier (D-Cumberland) told a group of about a dozen parents April 29 that “select religious leaders and ideologically very narrow advocates” were keeping the state from adopting comprehensive sex ed and that children were being exposed to diseases as a result. Read More

By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc.

A mixed reaction to mixed drinks — that’s the result of May 6 voting in more than a half dozen towns across North Carolina. But alcohol opponents celebrated decisive victories in at least three communities, with a fourth contest — Erwin’s liquor-by-the-drink issue — still hanging in the balance.

When polls closed Tuesday night in the Harnett County town, the vote was 531 in favor of mixed drinks and 529 against. But election officials still have 26 provisional ballots to consider, with the final result expected to be announced May 13. Read More

By Penna Dexter
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention

A recent Newsweek cover story, entitled The Divorce Generation Grows Up, chronicles the history of divorce by spotlighting a middle class suburban community. A generation ago, learning that someone was divorced was still a bit shocking. No longer. Back then, divorcing parents reasoned that a split was better for children than conflict in the home. Today, that’s a tough case to make.

Newsweek’s David Jefferson used a captivating device to write his story. He interviewed several of his classmates at Ulysses S. Grant High School in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley to see how the class of ’82 had been affected by divorce. Read More

By Rev. Mark H. Creech, Executive Director
Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc.

It’s been said that no other force in life is as great as that of a mother. Theodore Roosevelt put it this way: “The mother is the one supreme asset of the national life. She is more important, by far, than the successful statesman, businessman, artist or scientist.”

Truly, a mother’s influence can be marvelously seen in the lives of some of the most famous people from every strata of social order. Read More

The following article was published in the September 1952 edition of To-morrow magazine, which was the official publication of the Allied Church League. (The Allied Church League was the precursor organization to the Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc.)

What Kind of World Will We Leave Our Children?
By J. Marse Grant
September, 1952
Allied Church League

During the 1951 hunting season in New York state, an incident took place which illustrates the chasm between those who care and those who are thoughtlessly brutal. Outside of Rochester, Lambie, a pet Japanese doe, was felled, but purposely killed by a hunter who fired into a private kennel. The veterinarian gave Lambie penicillin, tetanus shots, and a blood transfusion. Neighborhood youngsters loved the deer and one of them slept next to her those first few nights to keep her warm and calm.

Our world is filled with godless people like that hunter, who, with cruel actions, are trying to kill the hope of tomorrow’s children. The Christian faith assures us that the future belongs to the neighborhood youngsters all over the world to whom “caring” and “kindness” and “love” are the great works of a universal language. Read More

By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League of North Carolina

“Too extreme” for North Carolina - that’s how a recent GOP ad characterizes Barack Obama as it challenges Democratic gubernatorial candidates Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore for supporting the “most liberal person in the United States Senate.”

Meanwhile, Obama has finally taken issue with the extreme and divisive racial rhetoric of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an outspoken advocate of Black Liberation Theology who has categorically condemned the very government that the Illinois senator aspires to lead.

But the question remains, how many of Wright’s views does Obama secretly share even as he shuns the man who was his mentor for more than two decades?

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By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League of North Carolina

WAYNESVILLE - When Barberville Baptist Church pastor Jack Holland decided to take a stand against liquor-by-the-drink, he expected to do battle with alcohol proponents. What he didn’t expect is to have to fight city hall just to be able to share his point of view.

But that’s exactly what happened when Holland, at the request of former Barberville pastor Johnny Foster, put a demolished car and a sign saying “Alcohol kills - Vote no” on display on the back of a trailer on church property. The wrecked car had belonged to Foster’s wife, Linda, who was killed by a drunken driver in a head-on collision last year.

On April 14, Waynesville town officials ordered Holland to remove the display, deeming the banner a “political sign” and saying it violated sign rules. He suspects they simply resented the display’s effectiveness. Read More

By Bob Steinberg

During the 1950s and ‘60s, the late actor Jack Webb played Sgt. Joe Friday, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. “Dragnet,” a hit television series, always opened with Webb saying, “My name is Friday; I carry a badge.”

Friday also liked to say, “All we want are the facts.” With the upcoming presidential primaries, followed by November’s general election, voters also will need to focus on the facts.

The battle to see who will occupy the White House for at least the next four years will soon wind down to two candidates. For the Democrats, it will be either Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama. The Republicans are poised to nominate John McCain. Read More

Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc.
By Rev. Mark Creech, Executive Director

As executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina, I rub shoulders with a lot of lawmakers and other political figures in our state. I deeply admire their commitment to public service. Nearly all genuinely want to make a positive contribution to society. But most, unfortunately, haven’t the slightest clue concerning the purposes of God for their office. What is just as sad; their constituents don’t know either.

From whence does all authority and dominion flow? To what end are all powers appointed and judged of Almighty God?

Such questions introduce a concept, which is so far removed from the collective memory of Americans, it sounds like an intrusion of religion into the serenity of a nation that has almost become completely secularized. Nevertheless, it is a view that must be revived, if America is going to be true to her pledge of “one nation under God.” Furthermore, it is an understanding that must be rekindled, if we are to avoid the judgment of He who is Sovereign over all the nations. Read More

By Alan Branch
The Pathway

Christians around our country have been deeply disturbed by the recent events in Eldorado, Texas. On April 4, law enforcement officials raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch outside Eldorado and removed women and children from the polygamist compound. Yearning for Zion Ranch is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), a Mormon splinter-group founded in 1935 near Short Creek, Ariz., a town now known as Colorado City. This group claims that the main LDS church is apostate because it abandoned its public advocacy of polygamy in 1890 in order to facilitate statehood for Utah.

The head of the church, Warren Jeffs, was sentenced in November 2007, to two consecutive five-year sentences in Utah after being convicted of charges related to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who wed her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001. The raid at the compound in Eldorado was prompted by an anonymous phone call from a 16-year-old girl who claimed she had been forced into an arranged marriage with a 50-year-old man and had given birth to a baby when she was 15. Read More