Dr. Creech's Statement on Va. Marriage Amendment Ruling (who isn't happy at all)

PRESS RELEASE

DATE: July 28, 2014

TO: Media outlets

FROM: Dr. Mark Creech, Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc.

Re: Court's Ruling Declares Virginia's Marriage Amendment
Unconstitutional

The decision today by the three-judge-panel of the 4th Circuit Court
of Appeals declaring Virginia's state constitutional marriage
amendment as unconstitutional is disheartening, but not entirely
unexpected. We've seen this trend by federal courts in more than 20
legal decisions on marriage around the country.

Nevertheless, regardless of how many times such rulings come down from
the courts, they are fundamentally flawed and the worst form of
judicial activism. Judge Henry F. Floyd wrote in the 4th Circuit's
opinion today that Virginia's marriage amendment impermissibly
infringes on a same-sex couple's fundamental right to marry.

Granted, the 14th Amendment protects the fundamental right to marry.
Still, the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions that establish a fundamental
right to marriage have always understood the institution as only the
union of one man and one woman. The debate about marriage has never
really been about who can marry, but what actually defines marriage.
What justices like these of the 4th Circuit Court have done in ruling
against state constitutional marriage amendments is to supply their
own, new answer to the central legal question of how marriage is to be
defined. Of course, the only way they can do this is to impose a view
of marriage, which sees it as a genderless institution and then
pronounces from on high that states must define marriage as the court
declares it.

The point here is the courts, more specifically; in this case the 4th
Circuit Court's three-judge panel has set themselves above the people,
above the Constitution, and above Almighty God - the final authority
who says marriage is and always legitimately shall be between one man
and one woman.

Because North Carolina is a part of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals,
the ruling damages North Carolina's own constitutional amendment to
protect marriage. There are at least three different lawsuits against
North Carolina's state marriage amendment waiting in the wings. After
the 4th Circuit's decision today, North Carolina Attorney General, Roy
Cooper announced he would not oppose these challenges to overturn
North Carolina's marriage laws. Cooper said, "After reviewing the
Fourth Circuit decision, and consulting with attorneys here, I've
concluded that the state of North Carolina will acknowledge the Fourth
Circuit opinion that marriage is a fundamental right, and that our
office believes that the judges in North Carolina are bound by the
Fourth Circuit decision."

Cooper's decision is premature, surrenders to judicial activism, and
abandons the will of the people of North Carolina. Even though Cooper
has spoken out against our state's marriage amendment, he promised
that he would defend it. He now says that he will not. In fact, he
says North Carolina will recognize the Fourth Circuit Court's decision
and that the state's judges are bound by it. Like the 4th Circuit's
decision, Cooper's own decision is not entirely unexpected, although
no less reprehensible.

In Virginia, Fifty-seven percent of its citizens said via the ballot
box they believed marriage should be legally defined exclusively as
one man and one woman. In North Carolina the margin was even higher,
sixty-one percent. But now two federal justices have overturned the
will of the people and ruled marriage must be defined differently in
all states under the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

All Americans should tremble. If the courts can redefine the bed-rock
institution of marriage, they can redefine anything. A government of
the people, by the people, and for the people is disappearing, while a
government of the courts, by the courts, and for the courts, is
raising its tyrannical head to write it's will for all of us.

Rev. Mark Creech is executive director of the Raleigh-based Christian
Action League of North Carolina, Inc. He can be reached at
919.787.0606 or office@christianactionleague.org

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Abortion now causes Breast Cancer, WHAT?

 

I hope I read the bold text wrong..

FROM: THE CHRISTIAN ACTION LEAGUE OF N.C. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Oct. 28, 2011

Pregnancy Care Centers Respond to NARAL Attack

Representatives of pregnancy care centers across the state and nation are speaking out to defend the non-profit organizations in the wake of a NARAL Pro-Choice NC Foundation report attacking their integrity and insisting on the need for increased government constraints.

The NARAL release, based on a nine-month study by NPCNCF staff and volunteers, claimed the centers are giving false information, posing as medical facilities and using "manipulative tactics." It further castigated centers for employing "biblically-based arguments to encourage people to refrain from sex until marriage," and accused the organizations of targeting minority women and purposely locating near colleges and universities.

But Bobbie Meyer, director of Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, called parts of the report "blatantly untrue," including the assertion that Pregnancy Care Centers (PCCs) are trying to pass themselves off as full-fledged medical clinics.

"The services of some of our centers are medical in nature, and 23 of them have volunteer medical directors," Meyer said. "Some offer limited obstetrical ultrasounds to determine the gestational age of the baby. If anything seems unusual, the client is referred to the emergency room or to a physician outside of the pregnancy center."

The NARAL study referred to center staff wearing white lab coats "like those worn by doctors and nurses in hospitals and clinics," but Meyer said in all her visits to centers she has never seen anyone in scrubs or a white coat except a nurse.

She also questioned how NARAL came up with its count of 122 centers in North Carolina.

"There are 76 pregnancy care organizations in North Carolina, five of which have satellite locations for a total of 81," Meyer said. She said women who come to the centers are treated "kindly and fairly,"

and that volunteers are trained to present accurate information about pregnancy and about abortion risks.

"Can I say that every volunteer in every center is going to say everything exactly right? No, but a vast majority of them use the information sensitively as they are trained," Meyer added. "The truth is the abortion industry doesn't want women to think that abortion is anything except a very safe and easy procedure and that when it's over, it's over. But this is a serious choice with a result that may or may not be very detrimental for the rest of their life."

While the NARAL report chastised centers for mentioning post-abortion stress, a study released last month shows women who have an abortion face increased risks for mental health problems including substance abuse, anxiety and depression. The study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, showed women who had an abortion were 34 percent more likely to develop an anxiety disorder, 37 percent more likely to experience depression, 110 percent more likely to abuse alcohol, 155 percent more likely to commit suicide, and 220 percent more likely to use marijuana.

"These are the kinds of studies that the abortion industry doesn't want women to know about, and it's this type of information that they will get at a pregnancy care center," said the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League. "Plus, they will also find out that they are not alone and that there are resources and services available to them so that they do have a choice and shouldn't feel pressured to abort."

North Carolina PCCs served more than 25,000 clients last year offering a variety of services from pregnancy and STD testing to ultrasounds, parenting classes, baby supplies and mentoring.

Although the NARAL report said some pregnancy care centers inaccurately portrayed a link between breast cancer and abortion, Meyer said there are studies on both sides of that issue and that materials provided to women at the centers are referenced and documented with footnotes.

As for the criticism that the centers are locating in areas with high populations of minorities and college students, Meyer said national affiliates Heartbeat International and Care Net had made no secret of the fact that as early as 2005 they began urging new PCCs to locate in urban areas where the need for pregnancy care is greatest, focusing on neighborhoods where "poverty is rampant and alternatives are few."

She made no apologies for the fact that PCC volunteers often share the Gospel with clients.

"We are Christian ministries, and our hearts' desire is that women who come to us have an opportunity to see that in action and to be treated as Jesus would treat them," she said. "What we try to do is open the conversation and explore where she is coming from in her own spiritual journey, listen respectfully and then ask some questions to further that."

Meyer said no one requesting services is ever required or pressured to agree with the center on a spiritual matter." Ancil Overby, executive director of the Crisis Pregnancy Center of Gaston County called NARAL's report a "smear campaign," and told the Gaston Gazette that in his 15 years at the local center, which serves some 4,000 clients annually, only three had complained about services.

In an e-mail to the Gazette, N.C. Sen. Kathy Harrington (R-Gaston) said she was not surprised that pro-abortion groups were trying to discredit those "who encourage women to choose life." She was one of many sponsors of the Choose Life license plate legislation that was also targeted by the NARAL report, which argued that regulation of the pregnancy care centers is necessary because they would be receiving state funding.

Both Meyer and House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R-Wake) pointed out to the media that the potential license plate funds won't come from the state budget but from the extra money people pay for the specialty plates.

"The law does not force anyone to buy 'Choose Life' license plates that help fund Crisis Pregnancy Centers," Harrington wrote. And Meyer added that, as a result of a lawsuit filed by pro-choice activists and the American Civil Liberties Union, not one pregnancy care center has received any funds from Choose Life plate sales.

Like Harrington, Meyer said she was not surprised by NARAL's attack on the PCCs, which appears to follow the same pattern that pro-abortion groups have used in other locations across the nation.

On May 10, NARAL Pro-Choice New York posted a YouTube video revealing its national plans to try to shut down pregnancy centers via the organization's Urban Initiative and instead direct women to abortion providers. As early as December, 2009, an online newsletter had outlined the group's strategy: first to publish "studies" that show that centers "mislead" women; then, to identify lawmakers willing to pass legislation restricting the centers and effectively shutting them down.

According to Peggy Hartshorn, president of Heartbeat International, the studies, like the one just reported in North Carolina, which rely on NARAL members "who act as fake clients and try to trip up the centers they visit," often backfire.

"When such a study was brought into hearings on a law to muzzle centers in Virginia, the expert witness for NARAL was forced to admit that their study contained 'methodological flaws,'" Hartshorn wrote in a recent column. She attributed the increased attacks from NARAL to the fact that "the pregnancy help movement, fueled by Christian charity and equipped by ... leadership training ... is lowering abortion sales and tilting the culture toward life."

"We have one powerful, slander-busting weapon that abortion advocates do not have — precious babies with happy Mothers!," Hartshorn added.

"NARAL's regulatory proposals are self-serving and insulting to women, who are fully able to determine who they seek help from and decide if it is offered in good faith. Using the powerful testimonies of our mothers and their babies, we intend to fight back."

Meyer said the best way for Tar Heel residents to know what truly goes on at pregnancy care centers is to phone their local PCC, ask questions and arrange a visit.

Dr. Creech joined Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in defending the important role of the PCCs in the pro-life movement.

"Crisis pregnancy centers deserve the support of all who cherish the sanctity of life, the defense of the unborn, and the right of free speech," wrote Mohler in a recent column addressing attacks on the centers. "As defenders of life, crisis pregnancy centers should be committed to nothing less than comprehensive truth-telling. It is the Culture of Death, not the Culture of Life, that fears the truth."

For more information, contact Luanne Williams, Director of Communications for the Christian Action League of North Carolina at

(704) 550-4188.

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ACAP takes on fastfood alcohol, alcopops, more

Please note that I don’t agree with this group stand on the LGBT community, However I do support this.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 28, 2011

ACAP takes on fastfood alcohol, alcopops, more

RALEIGH — Tooty-fruity high-octane alcohol drinks don’t belong on convenience store shelves; nor should beer appear on fastfood restaurant menus. With an eye toward protecting youth from aggressive and harmful alcohol marketing, the American Council on Alcohol Problems issued resolutions on these two national matters earlier this month and also addressed statewide prospects for privatizing liquor sales in North Carolina.

The resolutions came at the conclusion of ACAP’s annual meeting held Sept. 20 and 21 at the Cardinal Club and hosted by the Christian Action League of North Carolina.

“Research shows that these alcopops — many with enough alcohol so that ingesting one can meets the criteria for binge drinking — may not be showing up on parents’ radar, but certainly are popular with teen-agers,” said the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League.

In fact, a poll conducted for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, showed that teens (64 percent) are three times more likely than adults (21 percent) to have seen, heard or read about alcopops.

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Fundie Mark Creech to Speak at the Sept 12 Protect Marriage Rally

As of this Post their FB event only have 39 RSVP’s which really isn’t that much, but we know this group might be busing folks in again from all over the state and a few from out of state, to get their numbers high..

This is one of NC’s very own Hate Groups…

Urgent Christian Action Alert

Calling All Citizen Christians: Your Presence Desperately Needed for the Marriage Rally on Monday, September 12, 10:30 am

Christian Action League

September 8, 2011

Marriage Rally

Monday, September 12

10:30 am

Halifax Mall (behind the Legislature Building) in Raleigh

Bring a Sign with a Positive Message and Take a Stand for Marriage!

RALEIGH — The Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, will be one of several speakers leading the North Carolina Values Coalition's Marriage Rally Monday morning at the Legislature.

“North Carolina invests in itself when it allows its citizens to vote on protecting and defending marriage. We urge the Legislature to take this important step for their state, and join the majority of states nationwide in approving a ballot vote on marriage,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. The FRC's legislative arm is running radio ads promoting Monday's rally and urging listeners to ask state lawmakers to support Senate Bill 106, which would allow voters to amend the state Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. The ads running on some 20 stations throughout the state, target specifically about a dozen lawmakers, including representatives Chuck McGrady, Michael Wray, Winkie Wilkins, Annie Mobley, Garland Pierce, Elmer Floyd, Larry Bell, Charles Graham, Earline Parmon, Jim Crawford, Glen Bradley and Senator Eric Mansfield.

One ad features Rev. Patrick Wooden Sr., of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh explaining that marriage is at risk and that "powerful voices in our state capitol are threatening your right to vote on marriage." "It's not about party, it's about marriage," the ads say.

Leaders of the effort will be reminding lawmakers that defining marriage in our general statutes is not enough, especially considering the rulings of activist judges in other states. North Carolina remains the only state in the southern U.S. that has not allowed voters to decide on protecting marriage in its State Constitution.

Join the rally!!! Let lawmakers feel your presence, as well as hear your voice!!! To find out more on this issue, log onto http://www.ncvalues.org

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