OCPAC Weekly Insights Monday Edition January 13, 2020
| | This Wednesday's OCPAC Meeting January 15, 2020 Noon to 1 PM | | In Person and... Live on Blue Moose TV & Facebook | | Lynda Steele Raised Without A Father Advocating for Legislative Reform | | OUR SPEAKER THIS WEDNESDAY:
Lynda Steele is a woman of amazing energy and ability. Her interest in remediating Oklahoma family law developed when she observed the devastating impact of Oklahoma's bureaucracy on children who were separated from their fathers.
She is founder of A Child's Worth, a non-profit designed to enable others to help provide children of broken families access to their fathers. Among other things, this means promoting legislation which removes the many roadblocks preventing fathers access to their children.
She is working with legislators to revise state law in order to facilitate opportunities for fathers of broken families to play their appropriate co-parenting role in the life of their child. This involves developing a range of resources to strengthen fatherhood.
Among her many ambitious projects is the plan to purchase a major property in Oklahoma City to enable non-custodial fathers who have been impoverished through the courts to have a place to live and to exercise their fatherly roles with their children.
She will bring to us specific examples of what is common in the life of the broken family. She will explain legislation most of us are unfamiliar with. For example, once the child is grown, legislation requires the non-custodial parent (typically, the father) to re-pay to the state funds the custodial parent (the mother) has received from government programs. All the while, he is required to pay child support but is rarely allowed to claim even one child as a dependent.
Her goal is to re-unite children with both their parents and to remove excessive financial and other penalties from the non-custodial (financially committed but child deprived) parent. | | SKYPING IN: Jesse Lee Peterson As of the weekend, unconfirmed | | We have extended an invitation to Jesse Lee Peterson to join us...
Jesse Lee Peterson is the most courageous, outspoken critic of the so-called “civil rights” establishment and “social justice” movements today.
Jesse grew up on a plantation in Alabama under Jim Crow. He moved to Los Angeles at 18, worked for 20 years, and created a cleaning business. At 40, Jesse founded BOND, a nonprofit dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man.”
He runs a home for young men, helping them learn responsibility. He led after-school character-building programs, and founded a private school, BOND Leadership Academy.
| | Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks glowingly about Jesse’s writing. Justice Thomas smiled when he received his copy of one of Jesse's books and said, I like this guy. He is not afraid. | | In an August 14, 2013 interview with the L.A. Times, Jesse stated:
Welfare took the authority figure out of the home. When the father is not there to discipline and guide the children, kids don’t normally listen to mothers after a certain age. She tries to force her way on them and then they become angry. When fathers were part of the family, they worked together with the mothers. The family has been broken. The father is the spiritual head as well as the provider, and the mother and children respect that because it’s from God. | | This is an area of legislative interest to OCPAC and introduces the potential of working productively on both sides of the political isle.
Join us this Wednesday! | |
LOCATION We will meet at The Greens this Wednesday | |
The Greens 13100 Green Valley Drive, OKC, OK 73120
THIS WEDNESDAY NOON to 1 PM
$20 Full Buffet/Drink/Tax/Tip
$2 if not eating
| | Today's Content
LBJ's Great Society The Destruction of America's Backbone by Bob Linn
Last Week at OCPAC
Dr. David Deming A packed house A profoundly important presentation
THE NATION and the WORLD
SCOTUS Watch Religious Freedom on Trial
TRUMP & IRAN Promoting Freedom in Iran
OCPAC ~ CITY ELDERS
Book Recommendations | | LBJ's Great Society The Destruction of America's Backbone by Bob Linn | The leftist policy which we will be discussing at this week's mid-week luncheon is best described as a slow-burning fuse leading to the destruction of the core of our national culture.
When, in the 1960's, the Federal government developed a set of domestic programs called the Great Society, the result was quite the opposite of great. Families most in need of societal support were wedged apart. | Welcome, American cultural villain, Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) of Texas. He was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. In 1965, the LBJ administration embarked on a program advertised as healing fractured black families. | Johnson and his policy team said that expanding government funding for broken families would help save them. Instead, it incentivized single mothers to remain unmarried.
By expanding welfare state programs to Americans who were already experiencing serious stress and hardship, it deepened the problems of illegitimacy, fatherless homes, and other cultural problems. Millions of Americans soon were engulfed in permanent chaos and dysfunction.
A plague of fatherlessness ensued, with nearly 72 percent of all American black children being born to single mothers by 2015.
OCPAC policy analyst, Steve Anderson, wrote on the topic in the October 7, 2019 OCPAC letter. It is an excellent analysis of the LBJ cliff! Steve reveals how LBJ intentionally impoverished an entire society. Find it here.
So much for the Great Society of the political left!
When Johnson came to office in late 1963, more than 90 percent of American babies were in homes with married parents. Illegitimacy rose from 4 percent to 8 percent in the 25 years between 1940 and 1965. Under the policies of the “Great Society”, the next 25 years saw a rise from 8 percent to 30 percent!
Today, 40% of Americans are born to unwed mothers. | Award-winning writer, Myron Magnet, pointed out that the Great Society’s “dream” had become a “nightmare’’ for those it was designed to help.
Poverty and single-mother childbearing were both higher after the Great Society than before. The number of intact families has declined significantly. | Harvard and MIT graduate, Dr. Charles Murray wrote perhaps the most influential criticism of LBJ's Great Society. His book was titled Loosing Ground.
Author Brigitte Berger comments on Murray's book:
On trial stands the whole array of federally defined, designed, delivered, controlled, and financed efforts known collectively as the War on Poverty.
In demonstrating how and why the most massive governmental intervention in American history failed to erase the “scandalous blemish” of poverty from the midst of the world’s most affluent society, and how, in the final analysis, its main achievement may have been the institutionalization and expansion of what it had set out to destroy, Murray’s book also constitutes a brilliant critique of the liberal vision of the welfare state.
It has already attracted much attention and controversy; if it succeeds in arousing the nation to rethink the direction and purpose of our social policy, it will have made a lasting contribution.
| Come this Wednesday to learn about how your state and federal government is working to unravel families.
Don’t miss Lynda Steele this Wednesday! | Dr. David Deming University of Oklahoma Geophysics | Last week, we packed the Twin Hills ballroom and were not disappointed with Dr. Deming's amazing ability to cover both the political and the scientific underpinnings of the global warming hysteria which has captivated the American news media, the American educational institutions, and U.S. politics. | The United Nations is the author of the educational curricula used in all government schools in America. It is driving this mythological paradigm.
Our children and grandchildren are becoming the tools of a government bent on ever-increasing control over our lives. | If you missed the meeting, be sure to watch it on the OCPAC Facebook site. Watch the video here. | U.S. Supreme Court Hearing Religious Freedom Case Tomorrow | The 2020 Supreme Court session kicks off on January 13. The court will hear oral arguments for eight cases this month, including one case that is monumental for religious freedom. | Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
In 2015, Montana established a new law providing a $150 tax credit per year for donations taxpayers make to scholarship granting organizations. These organizations then offer scholarships to income-eligible students to attend a private school of their choice.
Recipients were initially permitted to use the funds to attend any school of their choosing, including religiously affiliated private schools. However, in 2016 the Montana Department of Revenue enacted a new rule prohibiting scholarship recipients from choosing religious schools. The rule was challenged by families of scholarship recipients who argued that the rule violated their constitutional right to free exercise of religion. They argued that because the tax credit only incentivizes taxpayers to make private donations towards the scholarship fund, there is no public funding used directly for religious schools.
The Eleventh Judicial District Court of Montana ruled in favor of the families. However, upon appeal, the Montana Supreme Court reversed the Eleventh Court’s ruling and dismissed the free exercise clause and deemed the scholarship program violated the “no aid” constitutional provision for religiously affiliated schools. The families appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court writing that the Montana Supreme Court’s ruling, "deepened the long-standing split on whether barring religious options from student-aid programs violates the federal Religion and Equal Protection Clauses." This case carries broad implications for Christians and religious institutions across the nation.
The central question in this case: Does it violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution to invalidate a generally available and religiously neutral student-aid program simply because the program affords students the choice of attending religious schools?
Oral arguments for this case will be heard on January 22, 2020.
| | AFTER TRUMP TAKES OUT SOLEIMANI... FREEDOM MOVEMENT IN IRAN | | Protests in Iran have exploded! Chants include:
Commander-in-Chief Resign (referring to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)
Death to Liars
They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here | | Trump is demanding:
To the leaders of Iran - DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. Thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you, and the World is watching.
More importantly, the USA is watching. Turn your internet back on and let reporters roam free! Stop the killing of your great Iranian people! | | The OCPAC compact with City Elders is significant for both organizations. Most importantly, the partnership is significant for the future of Oklahoma.
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