By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League

RALEIGH — “There is no issue of greater significance to this state than the way we will define marriage. It is the definitive issue of this generation,” the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, said this week as Vote FOR Marriage NC officially launched its campaign in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment.

“Victory will require an ‘all hands on deck’ approach,” he said of the referendum which is set for the May 8 primary and will determine whether North Carolina inserts the definition of marriage as between “one man and one woman” into its Constitution. Presently ours is the only Southeastern state without constitutional protection for this sacred institution.

“How important is the institution of marriage to you? If we wish to save it and protect it for future generations, it will require being informed and participating with zeal and sacrifice in the campaign,” Dr. Creech added. Read the rest of this entry »

Vote For Marriage NC welcomes Democratic primary
By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League

RALEIGH — N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue’s Thursday afternoon announcement that she will not seek re-election sets the scene for an intense contest for the state’s top elected post this election season.

While the governor said in a statement widely reported in the media that she “does not back down from tough fights,” she also added, “… I understand this: We live in highly partisan times, where some people seem more worried about scoring political points than working together to address the real challenges our state faces. And it is clear to me that my race for reelection will only further politicize the fight to adequately fund our schools. A reelection campaign in this already divisive environment will make it more difficult to find any bipartisan solutions.”

The Governor’s announcement came on the heels of low poll ratings (she consistently trailed Republican Pat McCrory by 6 to 10 points) and in the wake of indictments of three of her former campaign workers. Read the rest of this entry »

By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League

RALEIGH — Family and friends continue to mourn the loss of a Milbrook High School student killed in a Jan. 7 drunk driving wreck, an ordeal which has led to charges against four teens and one adult, who helped supply the alcohol.

“Underage drinking breeds bad decisions; decisions to drive after drinking and to ride with intoxicated drivers,” said Jeff Lasater, Special Agent in Charge of the Alcohol Law Enforcement Raleigh District Office. “This tragedy is an unfortunate reminder of the seriousness of both underage drinking and providing alcoholic beverages to minors.”

The Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, expressed his sympathy for the family of 17-year-old Elizabeth Molloy, who was killed when the 1999 Jeep she was riding in, driven by 16-year-old Garrett Prince, left Rainwater Road at a high rate of speed and struck a tree.

Dr. Creech said the tragic wreck illustrates the importance of keeping strong alcohol laws and adequately staffed enforcement agencies. Read the rest of this entry »

By Tami Fitzgerald, Chairwoman
Vote For Marriage NC, info@voteformarriagenc.com
January 23, 2012

Dear Marriage Supporter,

North Carolina’s drive to preserve marriage as God designed it – the union of one man and one woman – has been officially launched!

As you likely know, a bi-partisan majority of the North Carolina Legislature voted to put a Marriage Protection Amendment before voters on the May 8, 2012 primary ballot. To ensure this amendment passes, we have been busy putting together a coalition of marriage supporters who have come together and formed the Vote FOR Marriage NC campaign. This campaign is off to a fast start and we need your help to keep the momentum going to Election Day.

Today we launched our website www.VoteFORMarriageNC.com. Here you can sign up to receive campaign updates, find out ways to volunteer, download materials and also donate directly to the campaign. Over the coming weeks we will need marriage supporters like you to help grow our grassroots effort, make phone calls to voters, knock on doors, and place a yard sign in your lawn. We must start spreading the word now about this important amendment. You can also help spread the word by liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Read the rest of this entry »

By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League

Pro-life advocates in North Carolina will no doubt greet this weekend’s Sanctity of Human Life Sunday with a mixture of emotions — thankful that the state’s General Assembly took some positive action this session to protect the unborn, but also heartbroken for the thousands of babies still being aborted each year.

“Since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 more than 50 million abortions have been recorded in the U.S.,” said the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League. “It’s not easy to picture the bodies of more than 50 million babies.  So let me put it to you this way.  In the years since the Supreme Court legalized abortion, we have snuffed out a population approximately the size of Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming combined.” Read the rest of this entry »

By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Dr. Patrick Wooden, senior pastor of Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, was among a group of pastors and ministry leaders who gathered in Montgomery on Tuesday to challenge the Southern Poverty Law Center to stop attaching its “hate group” label to Christian organizations that hold fast to God’s truth.

“It breaks my heart that a time-honored Civil Rights organization that has done so much good would, for whatever reason, whether it is for financial considerations or whatever, buy into this lie,” the Rev. Wooden told Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality during an interview about Tuesday’s event.

“For any Civil Rights organization to label any other group a hate group because they are pro-family, because they believe in the model that the God of the Bible designed and introduced, it is sad; and they are wrong.” Read the rest of this entry »

North Carolina Family Policy Council

As pro-homosexual activists gear up to oppose a Marriage Protection Amendment in North Carolina, an impressively broad array of religious leaders have signed an “open letter to all Americans,” affirming the definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman, and warning of the significant threat that marriage redefinition poses to both religious freedom and “the common good.” Released on January 12 by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the letter, “Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,” is signed by religious leaders from a variety of faiths, including: Leith Anderson, President of the National Association of Evangelicals; Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York and President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Bishop David Burton, Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Dr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission; Commissioner William Roberts, National Commander of The Salvation Army; Reverend Samuel Rodriguez, President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; and Nathan Diament, Executive Director for Public Policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Conference of America, among others. Read the rest of this entry »

By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League

WINSTON-SALEM — Disappointing and alarming — those are the words Christian leaders are using to describe the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Forsyth County’s appeal of a case regarding prayer prior to public meetings.

The Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, said the court’s decision to let stand a 2-1 ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will lead not only to the “repression of religion and its positive influences on our culture,” but also to the “ascent of atheistic dogmas that threaten to reduce us to a fraction of what we were.”

The 4th Circuit had ruled in July 2011 that even though the County Commission invited any and all faith groups to sign up to offer an invocation prior to its meetings, giving them free rein to pray as they saw fit, its policy was unconstitutional because the majority of those who responded were Christians and prayed in Jesus’ name. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Mark H. Creech, Executive Director
Christian Action League

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill for the celebration of a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known for his peaceful civil rights activism. An African-American, King knew well the prejudice and social injustice committed against African Americans in the history of this country. King peacefully organized protest marches and even encouraged African-Americans to quietly go to jail if necessary. His highly moving and beautifully written speech about his dreams for civil liberty is, perhaps, the best-known public speech on civil rights ever given.

Reformed theologian James Danne, in Dictionary of Christian Ethics, marvelously defined the problem of racism. He wrote: “Skin color or different national origins are racial differentia. These differentia are incidental and relative to what constitutes authentic humanity. When these relative differences are turned into absolutes, race turns into racism. When the relative factor of white skin color is absolutized, white racism emerges. When Hitler absolutized Nordic origin, Nazism was born. When a feature of race incidental to our humanity is absolutized, the race possessing this feature exalts itself as a superior race, develops the consciousness that it is the historic bearer of a transcendent destiny to lead the world, by whatever required means, into its future. Its manifest destiny, however, is only manifest in its peculiar racial difference.” Read the rest of this entry »

By L.A. Williams, correspondent
Christian Action League

GREENSBORO — A lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s marriage license requirements has been amended to show that the plaintiffs, which include Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen, do not represent other registers of deeds across the state.

According to a letter from the plaintiffs’ attorney, Norman Smith, to Wayne Rash, president of the N.C. Association of Registers of Deeds, he amended the complaint removing the “class action allegations.” His amendment came after Rash, register of deeds in Caldwell County, and those in at least three other counties had written to clarify that they did not share Thigpen’s opinion of the state’s marriage laws and did not want to be affiliated with the case. Read the rest of this entry »