Worthy is the LAMB+... worthy is the LAMB+... worthy is the LAMB+ that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing! Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto HIM that sitteth on the throne and unto The LAMB+ for ever and ever. Amen.
9/19/2016
JESUS WEPT...
Yes, JESUS Wept…
Then JESUS Lifted
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9/11/2016
A Tribute to UNCLE KARL, a CHRISTIAN MAN
This is the recent funeral tribute for a Christian man who died suddenly of a massive heart attack.
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In the Name of The FATHER,
And of The SON+,
and of The HOLY SPIRIT.
Amen.
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Greetings of love to each of you in the Life-giving Name of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST... the same yesterday, today, and forever... Who+ ever liveth to make intercession for us.
My relationship with Uncle Karl goes back about 69 years. He was staying with my family before I was born. Thus, our hearts were knit together for the rest of our lives.
During his youth, Uncle Karl would share things with me and I , with him. I would always give him bites of my popsicles... until my good aunts would chase him away!
He would call me to help him ... yes, to help him skin all those rabbits he was so fond of shooting. "Here, hold these legs... now hold them TIGHT! " he would insist. I would , but OH, how they stunk !
Through his young adult years, Uncle Karl had many hard knocks. He had some harsh experiences that left him broken-hearted and hurt.
Now Uncle Karl was a hard-worker all of his life. He lived with my family while he worked in our town on the railroad, away from his family. Uncle Karl did not have a lazy bone in his body.
He would call me to help him ... yes, to help him skin all those rabbits he was so fond of shooting. "Here, hold these legs... now hold them TIGHT! " he would insist. I would , but OH, how they stunk !
Through his young adult years, Uncle Karl had many hard knocks. He had some harsh experiences that left him broken-hearted and hurt.
Now Uncle Karl was a hard-worker all of his life. He lived with my family while he worked in our town on the railroad, away from his family. Uncle Karl did not have a lazy bone in his body.
Uncle Karl possessed another character trait.
That was HONESTY.
He was not a cheat.
That was HONESTY.
He was not a cheat.
And, he did not lie.
Uncle Karl carried his responsibility and commitments. He took care of what was entrusted to him from his own labors. But still, the hard knocks came.
One day, through his middle years, he looked into the mirror... the MIRROR of GOD'S Word. It stopped him cold. Because of his deep inner honesty, he saw himself as he REALLY was.
He saw that his own CHOICES produced the hard knocks. He could not blame GOD for them.
He said,
" I, I am wrong.
LORD JESUS,
YOU+ are right."
Uncle Karl said,
" I am the sinner.
YOU+, LORD, have not mistreated me,
but I have
mistreated YOU+ . "
And he bent the knees of his heart and heartily repented... ashamed of choosing sin... and very hurt at himself; Uncle Karl repented.
He pledged allegiance to JESUS CHRIST from that moment on. NOT to a LIST of Laws, but to The LORD JESUS CHRIST went his allegiance.
He yielded the CONTROL of his life unto the Savior+ of his soul.
Uncle Karl rose up from his knees and entered the cleansing waters of baptism. He was immersed and his soul was cleansed of sin.
And when he emerged from that sanctified water, The LORD did something to him: HE+ made Uncle Karl into A New Creature in CHRIST!
MARVELOUS! MARVELOUS GIFT!
Now, how do we KNOW Uncle Karl became that New Creature in CHRIST?
Well, that was easy: we ALL KNEW that JESUS changed him !
First, he put away the booze bottles. He would not have that devil water in his house. He hated even the smell of it... because it had helped to ruin his life.
It is hard to ask the LORD'S blessing before you drink your beer, isn't it ?
Then, he stopped gambling and throwing his money away on fine race horses. He stopped going to the race track.
JESUS said,
" I+ don't go there;
don't you go there,
either. "
" I+ don't go there;
don't you go there,
either. "
THAT is what a New Creature in CHRIST does.
Uncle Karl kept a clean heart and a clean house. He cleaned up his language... and kept it clean. He had no filthy magazines under his bed.
He forgave those who hurt him or ignored him or turned a cold shoulder to him. And he kept on forgiving unto his dying day.
Uncle Karl kept a reading rack in his bathroom. It had a Bible in it. A daily reading Bible, with portions for each day for a year. He read through it several times.
That is what a New Creature in CHRIST does !
He set his priority to keep his commitment to The LORD JESUS with at least as much diligence as he gave to his worldly jobs... and THAT was quite a lot.
Uncle Karl asked the LORD'S blessing over his food at home, and in public restaurants. He would NOT DENY CHRIST before men.
Uncle Karl developed a deep companionship with JESUS by doing these things.
As a result of his companionship with CHRIST JESUS, Uncle Karl grew tender-hearted toward those in need. He opened up his heart... and his pocketbook followed... to the hurting and hungry and handicapped.
He didn't blow a trumpet before him, so we are just finding out now some of the things he did.
We discovered that he found a way to help the American Indians, a down-trodden people, the under-dogs... because he had been an under-dog for so many years himself and he never forgot the pain of it.
We discovered that he found a way to help the American Indians, a down-trodden people, the under-dogs... because he had been an under-dog for so many years himself and he never forgot the pain of it.
He said,
" This is what GOD
wants me to do. "
" This is what GOD
wants me to do. "
A Companionship with CHRIST is what he prayed for his family and friends and acquaintances he met in passing.
I hate to say good-bye to such a man as this: an elder in CHRIST, an excellent example.
So now, we have this confidence: because Uncle Karl was a New Creature in CHRIST, the LORD received him into His+ Heaven.
So now, we have this confidence: because Uncle Karl was a New Creature in CHRIST, the LORD received him into His+ Heaven.
Yes, Uncle Karl IS absent now from the body, but he is present NOW with The LORD. But, Uncle Karl will not ALWAYS be absent from the body. He is not in these ashes. He is alive in soul and spirit... the Uncle Karl we know ... and in Heaven.
These ashes sitting here in this urn are going to be changed ! Uncle Karl will be restored --- complete, whole, healthy, and happy --- in his body, AT THE LAST TRUMPET!
These ashes sitting here in this urn are going to be changed ! Uncle Karl will be restored --- complete, whole, healthy, and happy --- in his body, AT THE LAST TRUMPET!
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised...
the DEAD shall
be RAISED
incorruptible !
at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised...
the DEAD shall
be RAISED
incorruptible !
And those who follow JESUS in a daily, honest, and responsible companionship shall be raised from their graves too... with bodies glorified like unto our LORD'S glorified body, according to the working whereby, CHRIST JESUS is able to subdue all things unto HIMSELF+.
So... we say good-bye ... just temporarily ... to this dear man, as his spirit and soul enters into that Continuing City, whose Builder and Maker is GOD.
Uncle Karl cannot come to us ... but we can go to him.
I KNOW he wants to see you there, too.
In the Name of GOD the FATHER,
WHO created us ---
and unto Whom we must give an account;
and unto Whom we must give an account;
And in the Name of His Beloved SON+, JESUS CHRIST, Who+ knows every little thing about us
... and still loves us.... enough to save us;
... and still loves us.... enough to save us;
And in the Name of that Blessed HOLY SPIRIT Who+ sanctifies us by the BLOOD of JESUS CHRIST.
AMEN.
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9/03/2016
LUSTING AFTER FLESH? Pluck out the EYE !
If YOU...
are caught up in personal sins ... the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life ... you LOVE DARKNESS.
If you hunger after what the EYE sees, pluck it out and turn to
CHRIST JESUS
for the True Vision of Life in HIM+.
It is far better to lose an EYE than to be cast into HELL... where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, torments and flame, and of course, DARKNESS.
Afraid of the DARK ?
You WILL be !
Just as soon as you close your EYES in death, you will SEE DARKNESS for all Eternity.
If you hunger after the lusts of the flesh and REFUSE TO TURN AWAY from them, you have CHOSEN YOUR OWN CONDEMNATION... darkness for all Eternity... from which there is NO ESCAPE.
You will forever be aware of your foolish and sin-filled CHOICES you have made to put yourself under this condemnation.
Remember: if you commit IMMORALITY IN YOUR HEART, it is LAID TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
If you lust after the flesh through pictures and photos, you are walking in SERIOUS DARKNESS. THIS IS DANGEROUS.
REPENT before it is too late...
and the DARKNESS
CHOOSES YOU !
Men banished into darkness died, in prison camps. But there is a darkness greater than physical darkness.
JESUS said:
And this is the condemnation,
that LIGHT+ is come into the world
and men LOVED DARKNESS
rather than LIGHT+
BECAUSE
their deeds were EVIL.
For,
everyone that does evil
hates the LIGHT+
neither does he come
to The LIGHT+
lest his deeds
should be reproved.
Who can save us from DARKNESS ?
For GOD sent not HIS SON+
into the world
to condemn the world,
but that the world,
through HIM+,
might be saved !
For GOD SO LOVED
the world, that HE GAVE
HIS only-begotten SON+
JESUS CHRIST,
that whomever believes into HIM+,
should not destroy himself,
but have ever-lasting life.
John 3:16, literal Greek.
May The LORD hear your cry in the darkness. May your heart turn to HIM+ Who+ is the TRUE LIGHT+ available for every man in this world.
HE+ has the POWER to chase that darkness away ... if you do not love evil.
COME TO JESUS.
COME NOW.
HE+ will deliver you from the death-grip of pornography if you ask HIM+.
Leave that pornography behind in the ash heap. Sooner ... rather than later.
8/24/2016
The DESTRUCTION of the Wicked
That GOD will destroy the wicked is common knowledge. HE brings the FINAL “final solution” to evil in this world.
But before GOD’S destruction of the wicked occurs, there is another one who brings destruction to us human beings, even as we live.
Hidden in the language of John 3:15 ( and the same phrase in verse 16), “who” brings destruction to man is identified. [ It may surprise us.]
Here is the WORD spoken by Our LORD JESUS CHRIST :
3:14
And as Moses
lifted up the serpent
[ ophe0n = sharp-eyed one,not herpaton, a reptile ]
in the wilderness,
even so must the SON+ of Man be lifted up:
3:15
That whosoever believeth in HIM+
should not perish,
but have eternal life.
3:16
For GOD so loved the world,
that HE gave
His only-begotten SON+,
that whosoever believeth in HIM+
should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
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“Perish” is the verb of focus. The Greek root may sound familiar to us: apollumi,
Strong’s # 622, which means
to destroy.
We recall this well-known verse in Revelation 9 :
9:11
And they had a king over them,
which is the angel of the bottomless pit,
whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon,
but in the Greek tongue hath his name
Apollyon.
From Strong’s: (623) Apolluwn, — ap-ol-loo’-ohn; active participle of (622) (ajpollumi); a destroyer (i.e. Satan): — Apollyon.
Thus we see that the verb APOLLUMI means to destroy, in its various forms.
Now then, translators have assigned “perish” to this verb “DESTROY.”
This
is an arbitrary designation that somehow, they have all agreed upon
because the verb is in the simple MIDDLE voice, in the Greek language.
However , briefly note this: a verb in the simple MIDDLE form carries a reflexive meaning. The subject does an action that REFLECTS BACK upon himself.
Thus, a more basic, more honest translation of this verb phrase is this:
That whosoever
believeth in HIM+
“…should not destroy himself “
but may have everlasting Life.
“Perish” indeed happens to oneself, but WHO is making the perishing to happen ? In the translators’ versions, no-one; it just “occurs.”
Some people refuse to come to CHRIST JESUS on the grounds of this protest:
Why would a Loving GOD
put anyone in Hell ?
The answer is:
HE DOES NOT.
WE PUT OURSELVES THERE.
We do it to ourselves.
We choose not to believe.
We choose to put our trust elsewhere instead of upon The LORD JESUS CHRIST.
We choose to ignore HIM+, His+ servants, His+ Word, and His+ warnings.
We have free-will. The choice is ours, not His+.
.The LORD JESUS CHRIST
will NOT choose for us;
we must do it ourselves.
If we fail to make a choice, then by default our Adamic nature has chosen Hell .
Originally, Hell was not created for man but for the satan and his rebel angels. Matthew 25:41.
When Adam and Eve chose to break the companionship they had with The LORD, they infected the entire Adamic race with the curse of sin.
The LORD JESUS CHRIST, however, re-established a Way for fallen, sinful man to come out from under the curse and have companionship with The FATHER again.
When man refuses The LORD JESUS, then we go with the being we follow. We have no power to stop our decline into Hell, apart from The LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Now, there is yet another gem of Truth hidden within this great passage in John 3:15 and John 3:16:
That whosoever
believeth in HIM+
should not destroy himself
but may have everlasting Life.
The verb phrase “may have” or “might have” is in the subjunctive mood. We would understand this to be CONDITIONAL, hopeful, allowable perhaps … if the conditions are met.
Those CONDITIONS are important !
We may obtain eternal, everlasting Life … IF… IF… IF… we stay with JESUS, nothing wavering.
IF we stay anchored on HIM+ through the testings that come our way, THEN we are allowed to retain our hope of Eternal Life with JESUS in Heaven with certainty.
If we leave HIM+, though, and deny HIM+ before men, HE+ will deny us before His+ Heavenly FATHER and HIS angels.
Whosoever therefore
shall confess ME+ before men,
him will I+ confess also
before My+ FATHER
which is in heaven.
But whosoever shall deny ME+
before men,
him will I+ also deny
before My+ FATHER
which is in heaven.
Matthew 10:32-33
Scriptures Courtesy of Bible Gateway
We have NOT MET THE CONDITIONS to obtain Eternal Life, at that point.
And, worse. Unless we repent, we will lose our soul in Hell. A Living, tormenting Hell, not a perpetual soul-sleep, as some teach. See the account of the beggar Lazarus in Abraham’s Bosom and the wicked rich man in Hell. Luke 16.
Furthermore, “may have” is present active. What does being “present active” in Greek tell us ?
It tells us that “may have Eternal Life” is a continuous happening occuring right now… if we stay anchored in JESUS CHRIST The LORD.
John 5:24
Verily, verily, I+ say unto you, He that heareth My+ word, and believeth on HIM that sent ME+, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation;
but is passed from death unto life.
IF we remain, abide, stay anchored
in The LORD JESUS, we are passed
from death unto Life even now, JESUS told us.
He that overcometh,
the same shall be clothed
in white raiment;
and I+ will not blot out his name
out of the Book of Life,
but I+ will confess his name
before My+ FATHER,
and before HIS angels.
Revelation 3:5
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8/19/2016
ALERT ! The Purple UNICORN is COMING to DESTROY Your CHILDREN ! The New GENDER-CHANGING School Curriculum
A guest post by Brother Brendon ....
Do
the STATE and FEDERAL
Governments
REALLY OWN Your Children ?
They DO . . .
. . . as PARENTAL RIGHTS are being stripped away in the public schools by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the Obama Mis-Administration.
The public schools “owe their souls” to the federal purse strings attached to the states’ departments of education.
That is why COMMON CORE, a federal curriculum, is mandated by law to be enforced in all public schools, no matter the state.
The federal government pours BIG MONEY into the states for education; hence, the Federal government controls it. The states MUST do as the federal DOE says and follow its “guidelines” ( read: mandates) … or the money is with-held.
The most recent FILTH emanating from the federal DOE into the States’ DOE, is the UNICORN GENDER Curriculum.
This program is NOW being implemented by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC school system… which is doing its best to ignore and out-shout the local parents who are enraged about the UNICORN GENDER program.
Usually, schools do everything they can to enlist parental support. Indeed, special education programs are swamped with paperwork needing parents’ signatures, input, and approval for every nuance of change in the student’s special ed. program and behavior plans.
But NOW … when it comes to SEX EDUCATION, this federal program is telling parents:
“YOU have NO RIGHTS.”
From a Christian news site, End Times Headlines.org:
Schools Push For New Identities
For Boys and Girls
by End Time Headlines.org
8 August, 2016
http://endtimeheadlines.org/2016/08/schools-push-disturbing-gender-unicorn-on-your-kids-read-more-at-httpwww-wnd-com201608schools-push-disturbing-gender-unicorn-on-your-kidsc6ucp4lupswdweel-99/Are you aware that Public Schools are pushing for a plan to re-identify your boy or girl?
This Charlotte school has just introduced “The Gender Unicorn.” which is the Charlotte school system’s new teacher’s assistant.
His mission ( i.e., the friendly purple UNICORN ) is to help our children explore and discover
who they “go to bed as,”
and who they like to
“go to bed with.”
Excerpt From WND:
1) Parental involvement dependent on student’s permission: “Involvement of parents in the plan is determined in working with the student, considering the student’s age and health, wellbeing and safety concerns” (Page 34).
2) Students can choose their bathrooms and changing facilities: “Students must have access to the restroom/changing facilities that correspond to their gender identity” (Page 42).
3) CMS ( CHARLOTTE – MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS ) will remove some gender-based activities: “CMS will evaluate all gender-based activities; maintain only those that have clear and sound pedagogical purpose” (Page 46).
4) Students can choose their gender-based activities (intramural sports, dress codes, classes, ceremonies, photos, extracurricular activities, etc.). This includes choosing which gender they participate with during overnight field trips: “Students are permitted to participate in gender-based activities consistent with their gender identity” (Page 46).
5) Students shall not be referred to as “boys and girls” in classrooms, but “scholars” or “students”: “Avoid gender-specific classroom management techniques” (Page 46).
Parents have been very VOCAL in opposition to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system’s decision on this, but to NO AVAIL.
Ministers and well-known Christians, like Franklin Graham, have warned parents of the evils of the Purple UNICORN GENDER Curriculum.
Outrage Grows Over School’s “Gender Unicorn” Program | Women of GraceFrom WOMEN OF GRACE. blogspot…Outrage Grows Over School’s “Gender Unicorn” Program | Women of Grace
Even the Rev. Franklin Graham weighed in on the controversy, warning everyone that the innocent-looking purple unicorn seems harmless but is actually being used as a tool to brainwash children into accepting homosexuality and transgender behavior.
“Parents, watch out,”
he warns on his Facebook page.
“They are using this unicorn to grab the imagination of children and make this seem acceptable. Their new school policy, set to go into effect August 29, includes very concerning gender neutral bathroom/locker room policies and more.”
Even though the Supreme Court ruling in the Grimm case has caused the school to put a hold on its policy of opening restroom and locker room facilities to students according to the gender identity, they insist that the Gender Unicorn regulations “will remain intact as we welcome students back to school later this month.”
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Why are SCHOOLS even INVOLVED in a gender ( sex ) education curriculum ? So many of the young people graduating from high school cannot even read and comprehend a written report or story.
So many graduates cannot write a coherent paragraph. Look at the colleges and universities which have HAD TO ESTABLISH “remedial” reading and writing programs because their in-coming freshmen DO NOT HAVE THESE BASIC SKILLS.
[ We have first-hand knowledge of this fact from a Developmental
Studies teacher in a Technical College. The students may have the
intelligence for the technical training in computers and such … but
they cannot read nor write coherently. So, the colleges insist they take
remedial coursework BEFORE they enter into their major field of study.
This is also true in the medical field. ]
It cannot BE because the public schools care about the character and well-being OR EVEN JOB-MARKET SKILLS of the young people entrusted to them.
This gender-changing program has
NOTHING TO DO WITH EDUCATION
and MOST CERTAINLY,
NOTHING THAT SCHOOLS
SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN DOING.
At best, a program of this sort should be handled by medical clinics CHOSEN by parents of these poor, mixed-up youth.
This EDUCATIONAL program is opening a flood-tide of evil, promising to engulf the younger generation, wrenching them away from parental controls and family values… not to mention, CHRISTIAN values !
NO, the reason the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board is being DOGMATICALLY “politically-correct” and pleasing to their masonic friends in Washington, D.C. , must be because of …
… MAMMON.
[ Does not one always find mammon and sex and the free-masons as bed-fellows with the devil, yes ? Where one is, the others are also, yes ? ]
So, for mammon’s sake, the school board of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is selling the souls of over 140,000 young students to the devil and teaching them his ways.
BE AWARE: This is part of the over-all plan
that is being worked out,
to destroy
the Body of CHRIST / MESSIAH in the US.
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When the wicked rise,
men hide themselves:
but when they perish,
the righteous increase.
Proverbs 28:28
There is nothing more to do now except to hide the children, like they did in Nazi Germany… those who could. HIDE IN HIM+.
Conscientious Christian parents might want to consider home-birth, registration with the church and certificate of Dedication to The LORD for the Baby’s official birth records, and home- or church-schooling.
Remove
your children from the corrupt US public Education System. It is a
tool of satan, run from the “city of ba’al” called Washington DC. Do
what you have to do or what you can do.
Christian
parents who do not wish to hand over their youngsters to the state,
might seriously consider a move to an area not so closely monitored by
“Uncle Sam” and his evil cohorts.
Most importantly, Christian parents might want to re-consider “attaching” their youngsters to government money.
A sacrifice of a few tax dollars , if need be, may be in order, to hide your baby and children from the Federal government if you do not declare them as dependents. Why should you sell your child’s information — and safety — for mammon’s ease for a few dollars and a few short years ?
Otherwise, the State will be demanding your compliance with mandated sex education given to your YOUNG CHILD, along with knowledge of contraceptives and sexual behavior. It is likely that “animal demonstrations” will be done in “science class” in the near future.
The public education system
is programing the children for hell.
As the “right” to be a Christian is diminishing swiftly in this country, we will all be shuttled to the out-skirts of society and closed out of the job market.
Are you ready to make the sacrifice
in order to stay true to JESUS?
( How easy is it going to be for ANY conscientious Christian teacher who remains in the public schools nowadays ? Evaluations involve working with the “team spirit” of the school system. )
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The shew of their countenance doth witness
against them;
and they declare
their sin as Sodom,
they hide it not.
Woe unto their soul!
for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isaiah 3:9
Courtesy of Bible Gateway
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SEEK THE LORD. HE+ knows what you have need of before you ask. Do not hide your head from these unpleasant tidings, but be forewarned.
Make plans NOW, while we are still in a SOFT “police state.” It will soon become a “HARD” Iron-Fisted Police State.
Mr. Obama , heading to the U.N., has an “international, global” police force envisioned… as well as “NATIONALIZING” all local US police forces.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/20305-obama-unveils-plan-to-further-nationalize-local-police
Then Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that an agreement has been reached to move toward a GLOBAL POLICE FORCE to combat extremists. Can you say “Global Gestapo”? See link below.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/02/obama-administration-and-un-announce-global-police-force-to-fight-extremism-in-u-s/
( Why else are there FEMA camps everywhere, and processing centers set up in quickly-abandoned Wal-Mart centers ? Maybe Sam Walton IS Uncle Sam himself ! ? ! )
The LORD continues to call,
” COME OUT OF HER, MY+ PEOPLE,
and touch not the unclean thing.”
HE+ MEANS IT.
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MORE NEWS LINKS:
The link below has information on the GENDER CURRICULUM developed… ( by whom ? the muslims ? ?) … and is translated into several major languages.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/20305-obama-unveils-plan-to-further-nationalize-local-police
From the National Conference of State Legislatures, here is a summary of states’ policies on sex education. How does your state deal with it ?
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