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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand October 9, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 3 METRO DONT WORRY. THE LORD IS COMING! REGIONAL $$$ CORRUPTS HOMETOWNERS Copyright Jo A court case, first of its kind, came to a close this month with a citizen convicted by a jury on a charge of obstructing government administration. The sentence, delayed, draws either a prison sentence of one year, or a SI, 000 fine. Testimony at the trial depicted the shambles that occur when federal assistance pollutes a local scene. Those involved included the defendant, a housewife whom the State charged with criminal offense. Also a sheriff, and a chairman of a county commission together with sundry local figures and a gaggle of of three-counCentral regional Oregon Law Enforcement Aty ssistance Planning Agency (COLEPA) that covers. Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes counties COLEPA is a type of (Ore.). dictated by hybrid LEAA-adjunfederal law (42 USC 3723-3and implanted within state and local ct 4) governments. forcement LEAALaw Assistance En- ar The housewife was coordinator, also bookkeeper, paid for one job, unpaid for the other. Fired by the COLEPA, she removed the records to her home, pending an audit. A search warrant ferreted them out and into the hands of a COLEPAs HUMANISIM Ardette R. McLauchlan Hindman 1975 He reported no state auditor. funds missing. Earlier audit instructions to correct incipient laxness had gone ignored by the governing board. Fruitless questioning by the defense attorney failed to reveal a firm chain of local command. Adding to the general disorientation, members of tire jury when first polled knew COLEPA only as an infrequently appearing name in the local newspapers. The federal LEAA supports COLEPA through state channels. In fact the most repeated word in testimony was grants" (qioney). Financial irresponsibility reached new heights when private funds were mixed with LEAA-stat- e grants. Loans from the housewife-defendaand her husband covered many of the paychecks she signed when funds were slow in coming. Turbulent from the start, COLEPAs program appears to be a flop. nt Three Ad- ministration. The action (State of Oregon v. Harbison) initiated by Deschutes County district attorney revealed an issue covering a five-yespan that peaked in a squabble over COLEPAs set of books and records punctuated by testimony-reporte- d clashes, personality broken locks, rifled desks. An underlying weakness in the situation was that too many persons were holding dual jobs and titles with no one exercising top authority. For instance, a sheriff was puzzled when the defense attorney probing a certain event, asked. Did you make that remark as a sheriff, or in your position as the chairman of COLEPA? The sheriff seemed unable to unscramble his wits for a reply. SECULAR planning projects survive from the many that were started. Under oath the state auditor opines that COLEPAs budget ran somewhere between 560- - or 570,000 each year. OLEC (Oregon Law Enforcement Council) approved funds. Application forms require detailed information. The data, of course, computer-processe- d could later pinpoint COLEPAs deficiencies in meeting federal LEAA standards and goals. The Feds pour money into a community, get the locals hooked on easy spending. The reckoning comes later. The infighting among the would-b- e crime fighters shows what happens when local jurisdictions play around with easy-com- e tax dollars they easy-g- o themselves havent raised. The same type of mixup can be reenacted, anywhere in the United States because the same regional setup exists uniformly throughout the nation. Federal regional governance should have been on trial, not the housewife. non-complian- ce KERSHNER COMMENTARY Continued from page 2 Little by little the Courts have enlarged the First Article of the Bill of Rights to mean that the states themselves must not allow any relationship to exist between religion and the state. The result is that God has practically been eliminated from the public schools. Our children are denied any knowledge of the basis of morality. Of course, they can be taught in our churches and synagogues and at home but they soon acquire the idea that if religion is not of sufficient importance to be acknowledged, let alone practiced or referred to in the public schools, it is not very important. It can be argued with great force that some knowledge of ones creator, the power that makes the wheels of the universe go around and that keeps our bodies and minds active, is the very basis of education. The Scripture says, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Here is another recognition of the principle of stare decisis. God exists from time immemorial. Great weight should be given to the record of His dealing with mankind. Nevertheless, many, probably most, of our children are growing up without having been taught anything about the Creator of the universe, His dealings with men, and what the men of greatest insight throughout the ages have believed to be the moral and ethical principles which God himself created. How can we expect a moral society to grow out of dense ignorance of the God who created the moral standards by which one can distinguish between right Economics Department and wrong? NORTIIWOOD INSTITUTE An old acquaintance of mine often spoke of Christians who were so heavenly minded they were no earthly good. That is a fairly accurate analysis of most people who call themselves Christians these The earth is full of days. wickedness and tyranny, and our own country is reeling on the precipice of destruction, but these Christians, when asked to help in the fight, turn up their eyes, sigh, and say resignedly, Well, its all been prophesied. These are the last days, and the Lord will soon take us out of this world. They may think they believe that, but their actions indicate the opposite. They are digging in here in this world as though there were no hereafter. They are after every comfort and security they can wangle, and most of them are doing it by robbing their neighbor through government, just as the sinners" are. The Bible plainly says that no one knows the hour of Christss Yet Christians of all return. persuasio ns continue to outdo each other in predicting the exact time. Meanwhile, they discard the clear teachings of the Bible which forbid stealing. Their grab list is endless. They rob each other to educate their children, to find jobs, to provide for their old age and pay medical bills, to bury their dead, or to ride the bus to church. They continue to indulge in trusting government officials to take care of them, in spite of the Biblical command, Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm. (Jeremiah 17:5) They consistently flaunt the Higher Power, the Constitution, in defiance of Romans 13:1. They live in a state of suspended animation in which all rules are off because "the Lord is coming soon. This is not looking for His appearing. This, rather, is using a Scriptural promise as an excuse for laziness and irresponsibility. It is a stench in the Lords face. When did the Lord say His commandments could be disregarded because His coming seems near? When did He drop His standards of right and wrong? The answer is that He hever has. And unless Christians stop their sinning, judgment on our nation is not far off. It will be the natural result of our sins. Christians must accept a large share of the guilt for the terrible troubles of our country today, because we on our reshave defaulted ponsibility as moral leaders, and have instead, joined the sinners, and are acting like atheists. We cannot shift all the blame onto Satan and the politicians. Next, a sure-fir- e recipe: and politics. mixing religion and comments may Questions be addressed to 9121 - 210 NE, Redmond, Washington 98052. man-worshi- p. IN UTAH By Thomas O. Breitling had planned to write about the committee reports of Wasatch Front Regional Council, but recent reports in the local news caused me to change to these comments on secular humanism. In the Humanist Manifesto of 1933 the first affirmation said, Religious humanists regard the and not universe as created." Moving from that error the humanists of 1973 issued Manifesto 11 in which the sixth afI self-existi- firmation says: In the area of sexuality, we believe that intolerant attitudes, often cultivated by orthodox religions and puritanical cultures, unduly repress sexual conduct. The right to birth control, abortion, and divorce should be recognized. While we do not approve of explitive. denigrating forms of sexual expression, neither do we wish to prohibit, by law or social sanction, sexual behavior between consenting adults. phasis added.) The above is not all that was stated in the sixth affirmation, but it gives the points needed as background for the remainder of this article. Starting from affirmation one of Humanist Manifesto I, which says there is no Creator of the universe, it is logical to conclude that moral rules of conduct promulgated by the Creator are null and void and do not exist, because the Creator does not exist. But while it is logical to arrive at the false conclusion, which follows from the false major premise, it is. of course, a mistake to accept as true a false premise. troom at Pioneer Park; and in the second case it appears the humanists want to open the door to all forms of incest, so long as both parties to the affair are adults. WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN But. even prior to Humanist Manifesto II there was another document which served as a beacon to the nations perverted. This was Report to the President White House Conference on Albert C. Walsh Children. reviewed that report in Social Justice Review for April 1975. Walsh said in the review, Thus, says Chairman Hess in his covering letter in the Report to the President: We need, to recognize that there is more than one type of American family including the homosexual couple-and-chi- ld (p. 229)". family. Utah offspring of Report is a document called Focus A direct on Children and Youth, which claims to be, on its cover, the Report of Governors Committee on Children and Youth to Governor Calvin L. Rampton and the citizens of the state of Utah. This Utah report, issued in 1972, tells the Governor and the citizens of Utah on page 18: 1. It is strongly recommended that government at appropriate levels should control RESULTS OF HUMANIST (a) licensing, (b) the importation, MANIFESTOS distribution, sale, retailing, A philosophy built on error advertising, (c) the purity and makes a very sad case, and this is potency, (d) the age of the user, and the case of secular humanism. In (e) the tax revenues as each relates Manifesto I there were 15 af- to marijuana with a view to permitfirmations. and in Manifesto II ting its general use under af17 were numbered there reasonable standards. firmations and a final one labeled In closing. Because of so much volume to be considered we will not discuss any of the other affirmations. but just consider the ramifications of the sixth. For example, our intolerant attitudes unduly repress sexual conduct, w hile the humanists do not 'wish sexual behavior to prohibit In between consenting adults. plain language the humanists could say in the first case that we who do not accept secular humanism do not want Utahs Director of the Department of Community Affairs committing obscene acts in the res The above is followed on page 40 by another provocative statement: We demand sweeping I. repeal of legislation which restricts and represses individual freedoms. Laws such as those forbidding for ni cat ion, adultery, homosexuality, lesbianism and unnatural acts restrict dividual freedom. Another section so-call- in- attacks institutional religion," while still another calls for all educational institutions to initiate a code of student rights and on page 6 res-Contin- The JL1 Independent Salt Lake City, Utah DANIEL WEBSTER Plymouth. Mass. 1820 "...More than all, a government and a country were to commence, w ith the very first foundations laid under the divine light of the Christian religion. ...Who would wish that his countrys existence had otherwise begun? Let us not forget the religious character of our origin." The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. Second Class Postage c-- nd ed Paid at Salt Lake City. change of addreii forma and correspondence to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly |