New Mexico Watchman

Dear Friends,

Except of an occasional visit to Saint John’s Catholic Church in Santa Fe, the last time
Mayor Coss attended a Christian event of note was in 2006 when he attended a National Day of Prayer breakfast. Since that time there have been five “Fall Gathering of Churches,” Christian events each September on the Plaza in Santa Fe. Mayor Coss has not attended.

There have been the same number of “Gay Pride” events in Santa Fe. Mayor Coss has attended each of these homosexual events every year.

In September of 2008, Mayor Coss refused to attend a Christian revival in the new Santa Fe Convention Center. A $350,000 effort on the part of the Christian community sponsored by Dallas Bible Church found the Mayor refusing to participate. The issue was homosexuality. “Mayor Shuns Revival Appearance” the headline read. In a front page statement the Mayor said he wanted to be Mayor of “all of Santa Fe.” The truth is the homosexual community got to him with their usual “hate and bigotry” rhetoric.

In the weeks prior to the Santa Fe revival, the homosexual community had been attempting to find an anti-homosexual stance in Revive Santa Fe’s biblical beliefs. Emails to Pastor Kyle Martin, lead pastor, addressed the issue directly. Pastor Martin expressed his love for the homosexual community, then quoted John 8:11. “Go and sin no more.”

The homosexual community found what they needed for Mayor Coss in a quote from Bill Bright, a man who brought many to Christ through his Campus Crusade International Ministry. Mr. Bright was quoted on the website that the United States bore the moniker of “Sodom and Gomorrah” and that we should stop affirming the homosexual lifestyle. The Mayor sent Pastor Martin an email canceling that same day saying simply that he had another event that evening.

In 2006 Mayor Coss did attend a National Day of Prayer prayer breakfast. The Mayor was asked for his prayer request. Santa Fe was in the middle of a draught at the time.

Mayor Coss asked that the Christian community pray that no fire would afflict the water reserve area. None did.

Mayor Coss asked that those New Mexico National Guardsmen station in Iraq be safe.
Those from Santa Fe and his administration returned safely.

Mayor Coss asked that we pray for rain. The rains came.

Last week, on the campaign trail, the Mayor was asked, “What was that last book, periodical or blog you read? Your favorite? The Mayor’s response: “…the Psalms, especially 184.”

We pointed out to the Mayor that the Book of Psalms ends with Psalm 150. There is no Psalm 184. The Mayor call back to say, “The one I like is Psalm 85:3.
Psalm 85:3 reads; “You withdrew all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.”

The preceding verses are: “O Lord, You showed favor to Your land; You restored the captivity of Jacob. You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah.” Psalm 85: 1-2

Just so happens one of our favorite verses is also in the Psalms, Psalms 109:8.
“May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.”

God bless our Mayor Coss and God bless our election on Tuesday.

Jose Vasquez

The Senate Finance Committee voted 7 to 4 to table Domestic Partnership legislation thus ending this year quest to legitimize homosexual relationships in the state. The meeting began with the Chair, Senator John Arthur Smith, reminding the committee that the this years legislature was dealing with unprecedented debt, that the committee’s charge was to address the financial aspect of the bill and that the bill had been presented each year for the past 10 to 12 years.

The legislation at 816 pages was a re-write of every New Mexico statue where marriage law applies with domestic partnership inserted. With this legislative pile-on the mantra became “this is not marriage.” Sponsor Senator Peter Wirth expressed dismay that after changing the numbering system on the bill the Senators were still not convinced.

Testimony presented by both Lynn Pearls, a family law lawyer from Albuquerque and Kelly O’Donnell, Assistant Secretary and Director of Tax. Policy, Taxation and Revenue Department, insisted that the policy was “revenue neutral,” that once the law was printed, taxation and fees would cover all other costs.

Senator Sue Wilson-Beffort questioned the effect on county schools that would be required to supplemental funding for pensions and the like. No listing of those schools was available.

Voting on the bill was as follows:

For Tabling (Ending the bills progress.)
Senator John Arthur Smith
Chair Senator Carlos R. Cisneros
Vice Chair Senator Rod Adair
Member Senator Pete Campos
Member Senator Carroll H. Leavell
Member Senator Sue Wilson Beffort
Member Senator Steven P. Neville

Against Tabling: (Sending the bill to the Senate.)
Member Senator Howie C. Morales
Member Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino
Member Senator Mary Kay Papen
Member Senator Nancy Rodriguez

Thank God for the termination of this legislation and thank you for your prayers, emails and phone calls to our Senators. Contacting them and thanking them for their service to New Mexico would be greatly appreciated.

God bless you today.

Jose Vasquez

To accomplish the goal of changing our social norms, the homosexual agenda must dislodge familial relationships from their biological moorings. An example of this was seen in the UK in a Heinz Deli Mayo television ad in which a small boy and his little sister call a man “Mum”; the ad ends with two men kissing. (Click here to see the ad.)

Here in New Mexico, the Domestic Partnerships Bill (SB 183) attempts to bring about the same result more directly. This legislation will affect every aspect of family life in New Mexico. It will alter paternity, inheritance, the way the law treats familial relationships, and especially marriage and adoption.

According to the proposed legislation, there are three types of “fathers” in New Mexico law as it relates to adoption. There is the “Acknowledged Father,” the “Alleged Father,” and the “Presumed Father.”

The first two types of “fathers” - the “Acknowledged Father” and the “Alleged Father” - are not affected by the proposed Domestic Partnerships law.

An “Acknowledged Father” is one who acknowledges paternity and is named with his consent as the father of a child on the birth certificate.

An “Alleged Father” is one who has not acknowledged paternity but is identified by the biological mother as being the biological father.

According to the proposed legislation, Domestic Partnerships SB 183 the third type, the “Presumed Father,” can be either male or female.

“The Presumed Father.”
According to SB 183, the “Presumed Father” can be:

1. One of two people (possibly both women) who were attempting to create a Domestic Partnership while the other was pregnant with the child.
(32A-5-3 Definitions Paragraph V. (3) Page 308)

2. The Domestic Partner (possibly a woman) of the biological mother is the “Presumed Father” if the relationship exists when the child is born.
(Paragraph V. (1) Page 308)

3. A Domestic Partner (possibly a woman) is the “Presumed Father” if the other Partner is pregnant during the term of their relationship.
(Paragraph V. (2) Page 308)

4. A Domestic Partner (possibly a woman) is the “Presumed Father” if the child is born within 300 days after the domestic partnership has ended.
(Paragraph V. (2) Page 308)

The legislation states that if any of these conditions are met, only a court can declare the woman not to be the “presumed father.”

There was a major outcry following the airing of the Heinz commercial. It was almost immediately removed with the obligatory cries of “homophobe” come from the homosexual community. An interesting side note, however, is that following Heinz ad homosexual men no longer kiss in public. Instead the effort to change a biological edict is by judicial and legislative means.

We would encourage your prayers for both Senator Peter Wirth and Representative Mimi Stewart sponsors of the bill, as well as praying for the defeat of Domestic Partnerships legislation.

God bless you and thank you for your prayers.

Jose Vasquez

Last month an Associate Director from Duke University in Durham, NC pleaded guilty to Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. Mr. Frank M. Lombard, 43, and his partner Kenneth Shipp adopted a now five-year-old African American boy. A web cast of the boy being molested by his adopted father was sent along with an offer of sex to among others, an undercover police officer.

According to the police report Mr. Lombard bragged to the officer that, “the abuse of the child was easier when the child was too young to talk or know what was happening, but that he had drugged the child with Benadryl during the molestation.” Mr. Lombard will be sentenced March 30.

Studies such as the one conducted by Dr. Judith Reisman, Ph.D., suggest that homosexuals are 40 times more likely to than the general public to molest.

New Mexico’s Domestic Partnerships legislation, Senate Bill 183, was introduced by Santa Fe Senator Peter Wirth and Albuquerque Representative Mimi Stewart. The bill would make a “man and his boyfriend” eligible to adopt in the state of New Mexico. More on this tomorrow.

What’s In the “Domestic Partnerships” Bill?

The Domestic Partnerships Senate Bill 183 is legislation that gives people living together the same rights as persons who are married but, primarily because of opposition by the Catholic Church, the arrangement is not called a marriage.

The 816-page bill includes “domestic partnership” language wherever the following are mentioned:

“marriage, prior marriage, marital, not married, spouse, spousal, former spouse, prospective spouse, surviving spouse, legal spouse, deceased or former spouse, death of a spouse, member spouse, out-of-state spouse, beneficiary’s spouse, trustee’s spouse, personal representative of the spouse, wife, husband, widow, widower, divorced, family, survivor father, father-in-law, mother, mother-in-law, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law , former domestic partners, married mother, born out of wedlock, spouse’s child, stepparent, stepparent’s marriage, guardian, custodian, ancestor, inmate’s legal spouse, child of the marriage, issue of the marriage, household member, beneficiary’s child, adult, parent, parent of the adoptee; deceased minor, childless, adoption of a child, premarital, born out of wedlock, parent’s parent, brother, sister, divorce, dissolution, annulment, [or] remarriage, premarital or post marital, prospective, existing or previous marital, participants or their beneficiaries, testator, testator’s surviving spouse, annulment, deaths of husband and wife, death of the decedent, incapacitated person, conservator, unmarried, alimony, common law, designated family member, legal separation, annulment”

Supporters of Domestic Partnerships such as Todd McElroy of Equality New Mexico want us to believe that people who live together deserve the same rights as those who marry. The above language, Equality New Mexico insists, is not equal to marriage. They maintain that marriage will not be the end result of this legislation, and that their efforts are only to allow for an equality of rights granted to people of any sexual orientation who cannot or will not marry.

Equality New Mexico has admitted privately that homosexual marriage is the expected result of their efforts. Other results would be that church teaching on homosexuality and homosexual behavior would be further targeted. Social services that do not recognize these relationships as valid would also end, and recruitment into these lifestyles would increase.

This legislation will be heard by the Senate Committees’ Committee.

Express your opposition to this Domestic Partnership legislation by calling the Governor and committee members. They can be reached by calling the following:

Governor Bill Richardson (D) (505) 476-2200

Senate Committees’ Committee Members are:

Chair Senator Timothy Z. Jennings (D) (505) 986-4733

Vice Chair Senator Michael S. Sanchez (D) (505) 986-4727

Senator Carlos R. Cisneros (D) (505) 986-4365

Member Senator Mary Jane M. Garcia (D) (505) 986-4726

Member Senator Stuart Ingle (R) (505) 986-4702

Member Senator Timothy M. Keller (D) (505) 986-4260

Member Senator George K. Munoz (D) (505) 986-4387

Member Senator Cynthia Nava (D) (505) 986-4834

Member Senator William H. Payne (R) (505) 986-4703

Member Senator William E. Sharer (R) (505) 986-4381

Member Senator John Arthur Smith (D) (505) 986-4363

For on going alerts, SUBSCRIBE to the New Mexico Traditional Values Action Committee at WWW.TVACNM.COM.

We are most grateful for the number of homosexual activists who monitor our site and from whom we receive comments. We would like to take point out how the issue of Obama Care will affect their community.

Because Obama has framed his program as cost cutting (give grandma a pill rather than the surgery) we would caution this community from embracing such care.

We offer the following considerations.

1. Despite the rhetoric and the activism the homosexual community is a small group with households composing less than 2% of the population. Any small minority is vulnerable to manipulation in this system.
2. As a whole, the promiscuity of this group leaves them infection prone, AIDS not withstanding.
3. Once infected “quality of life” issues are enormously impacted – an item not lost on Obama Care.
4. The homosexual community is non-reproductive which is a double-edged sword. Monies that are usually spent on family can be used on substantial health insurance that Obama plans to tax.
5. The community tends to abandon its older members when they are no longer sexually active often leaving them isolated which further eroding their quality of life. The result will be a dependency on a governmental system whose track record in providing care is not good - to put it mildly. Consider for example the now encumbered VA system.

In our estimation, a sexually active homosexual male would be better off with the current system of insurance and care.

May the Lord bless this community and bring them into HIS care.

Jose Vasquez

Dear Friends,

We would like to invite you to a WEEK-OF-PRAYER for the New Mexico State Legislature. We will be meeting Monday, January 11 to Saturday, January 16 noon to 1:00 p.m. at Hotel Santa Fe (Paseo de Peralta and Cerrillos).

Last year’s legislative session brought proposals calling for the harvesting of human life for research purposes (stem cell research), steps toward same-sex marriage (domestic partnerships), and euthanasia of the elderly (death with dignity).

We will be praying for a godly 30-Day legislative session. Please join us in Santa Fe.

Jose Vasquez
Week-of-Prayer
New Mexico State Legislature
Noon: January 11- 16
Hotel Santa Fe
1501 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Week-of-Prayer Information
(505) 438-0437

Last year’s legislative session brought proposals calling for the harvesting of human life for research purposes (stem cell research), steps toward same-sex marriage (domestic partnerships), and euthanasia of the elderly (death with dignity).

The time has come to send a strong message about the moral values held by most New Mexicans. On Friday, January 22, the 36th anniversary of Roe v Wade, a pro-life, pro-family march, rally and conference, will be held in Santa Fe. Project Defending Life and the New Mexico Council of Bishops are the sponsors of Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day.

If you can attend only part of the day’s events, please join us for the procession and the rally. The information below addresses that part of day, followed by all other activities.

Procession and Rally
Gathering: 1:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Assemble in front of Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
(E. Alameda and Paseo de Peralta, behind the Cathedral)

Procession to the Round House Rally:
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
San Francisco Street to the Plaza to the State Capitol (Old Santa Fe Trail and Paseo de Peralta)
Conference, Services and Other Events

Youth Rally,
8:00 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, at Saint Anne Catholic Church
All Night Adoration: Following Youth Rally, at Saint Anne Catholic Church

Breakfast:
8:00 - 11:00 am on Friday, Jan. 22, at Cathedral School Cafeteria (free will offering)

Conference: Exhibits and Speakers (To Be Announced):
8:30-11:30
St. Francis School Auditorium (E. Alameda and Paseo de Peralta, behind the Cathedral)

Bishops Mass:
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Celebrants will be New Mexico’s three Catholic Bishops, Most Reverend Michael J. Sheehan, Most Reverend James S. Wall, Most Reverend Ricardo Ramirez. At Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (E. Alameda and Paseo de Peralta, behind the Cathedral)

Prayer Service and Vigil:
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. This Protestant service will be led by Congressman Bill Redmond and Lt. Governor Walter Bradley at St. Francis School Auditorium (E. Alameda and Paseo de Peralta, behind the Cathedral)
Additional Events

Tour:
9:00 a.m. Santa Fe Holy Site Tour will meet at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (417 Agua Fria and Sandoval)

Baby Goods Collection:
Collection the morning of the event at St. Francis School Auditorium (E. Alameda and Paseo de Peralta, behind the Cathedral)

Fasting:
Fasting (and / or abstain) in some way from Wednesday January 20, 3:00 pm to the end of the event Friday January 22, 3:00 p.m. is also recommended.

For more information please contact Project Defending Life.
The telephone number is 505-266-4100. The email address is frstephen@defendinglife.org.

Please pray for the success of this effort. We are looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe.

Jose Vasquez

Please note: The chair of the Senate Rules Committee is Linda Lopez, not Linda Chavez.

We apologize for the error.

Jose Vasquez

Dear Friends,

The people of New Mexico deserve an opportunity to express their views on same-sex “marriage.” Governor Bill Richardson announced on September 29 that Domestic Partnerships will again be considered this legislative session which begins on Tuesday, January 19.

At no time have the people of this national said “yes” to same-sex marriage.

Thirty-one states have voted on homosexual marriage including the larger states of California and New York. Each time the American people have been allowed a say at the ballot box, the enactment has been voted down.

Currently five states, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and Iowa and now the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage. All have been accomplished by fiat - either by court order, as in the case of Iowa, or as recently noted, by the City Council in the District of Columbia.

In New Mexico, the homosexual community has made repeated attempts to pass same-sex marriage. The legislation has been cloaked as domestic partnerships. Domestic Partnerships are touted as being a desperate need of the elderly and the disabled. Heads of Governor Richardson’s governmental agencies are sent to testify before legislative committees to plead the case.

You rarely see the aged or the disabled at these meetings, however. You see mostly young gay activists populating the halls of the legislature.

Senator William Sharer of Farmington has introduced legislation that would allow New Mexicans an opportunity to decide on the same-sex marriage issue. SJR 1, a one page Senate Joint Resolution, calls for a constitution amendment to be voted on by the citizens of New Mexico. It would define marriage as being between one man and one woman.

The political reality is that the Governor dictates what legislation is allowed on even legislative years, during the 30-day “budget” sessions. By keeping silent, the Governor can wall off this legislation.

If the legislation were allowed, it would be assigned to the “Senate Rules Committee.” The Chair of the Rules Committee would then have to allow it to be presented and voted on. (Committee chairs have a great deal of power.) The Chair of the Senate Rules Committee is none other than Senator Linda Lopez. Senator Lopez last session proposed what might be considered a 15-minute-a-day homosexual indoctrination program for all New Mexico schools in an “anti-bullying” bill. She managed get passed a “Senate Memorial” requiring our schools to develop and incorporate a “Tolerance Curriculum.”

If the citizens of New Mexico are allowed to only play defense against the gay agenda, we can stand only in opposition to same-sex marriage. The citizens of New Mexico should be afforded an opportunity to address this issue in a straight forward way.

Governor Richardson, tear down this wall.

God bless our 2010 Legislature and

God bless you in the New Year.

Jose Vasquez

There was a great deal about Barack Obama that Americans did not know when they voted for him as President. To understand this president, who has now won the Nobel Peace Prize, a careful examination of Saul Alinsky is most revealing. The community organizer’s principles are behind such organizations as the Weatherman Underground and the Association of Community Organizers for Change Now (ACORN).

Community Organizer
In 1985, Barack Obama was employed by Chicago’s Developing Communities Project, an organization based on the teachings and activities of Mr. Alinsky. When Obama announced his run for the presidency, he described his years at Chicago’s Developing Communities Project in this way: “…I received the best education I ever had, and where I learned the true meaning of my Christian faith.” Following law school, Obama returned to the Chicago area and taught the Alinsky method.

Saul Alinsky
The Alinsky approach is simply to generate conflict and mobilize the dispossessed. Alinsky is described as “a tactician of the negative - linked by clear-eyed calculations of self-interest.” The overriding philosophical principle in Mr. Alinsky’s methods can be found in the dedication of his book, “Rules for Radicals.” The dedication reads as follows:

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.

So, with the demonic thus referenced, this president’s “best education” deserves examination.

The Alinsky Model
1. Dedication to Lucifer: One cannot take lightly the dedication to Lucifer because what follows is dependent upon a mentality devoid of “conscience.” Alinsky adopted Machiavellian principles while at the same disavowing the ruling class for whom Machiavelli wrote. Machiavelli, he complained, had shown those in power how to stay in power. His work, he said, showed how the disenfranchised could gain power.

2. Qualification:
Alinsky wanted organizers to be persons who have no moral conscience. He wanted persons who were irreverent and detesters of dogma. They needed to be confident visionaries of change. A sense of humor he found useful as a tool of satire and ridicule. Lastly, community organizers must be able to rationalize away their own behaviors.

3. Object of Division:
Alinsky divided the world into three parts; the “Haves,” the “Have Nots” and the “Want Mores”. It was the job of the organizer to foment discontent against the Haves. A great deal of effort has lately gone into making Insurance companies, for example, the “bad guys.”

4. Moral Arguments:
Make the Enemy Play by their Own Rule Book: Alinsky taught that it was vital to cloak the arguments in moral terms. Words such as “justice,” “equality,” “hope,” and, of course “change” were to be hallmarks of the effort. While having no identifiable moral standards, it was easy to challenge the other as hypocritical.

5. Moral Certainty and Ridicule:
On the other hand, amoral organizer Alinsky taught that goals must be presented with absolute moral certainty. Organizers must be 100% committed to their goals, presenting them as 100% moral and any opposition as 100% evil.

6. Controversy, Discontent and Moral Confusion:
The primary tactic used was “an abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; to fan latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expressions.” Controversy was the lesson Alinsky taught. He wrote, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

7. Multiple Issues and Constant Pressure:
It is not surprising that in the first six months of the Obama administration, highly controversial legislation has been undertaken. The “thousand page” stimulus bill and the “thousand page” health care reform packages are examples of this technique.

8. Mass Impression / Use of the Media:
Obama reportedly had supporters bused into Invesco Stadium in Denver for his Democratic Convention acceptance speech in front of 80,000 people. He has masterminded the use of electronic media. Obama was able to raise an unprecedented $750 million for his campaign.

Saul Alinsky’s 1972 publication, “Rules for Radicals,” defines all of the above tenants and much more. What is remarkable is the consistency with which the Obama administration has applied these principles.

Please pray for President Obama

Jose Vasquez