Mike Delph was given the title ‘King Maker’ because he was preparing the way for Governor Pence to make a bid for the White House. Delph tried to get a vote on banning same sex marriage, but failed. The Religious Freedom Act Pence signed in the presence of Delph, was the same thing. Delphn also backed a bill to recognize the State of Israel. His ally, Rabbi Gettinger honored Delph, and was present when Pence launched his covert bid to be the Great White American Zionist, a title held by Delph, but, like John the Baptist, the Jew – and never a Christian – Saint Mike would pass the baton.
The reason I began to study the Bible twenty-eight years ago was to prevent what Delph and his Christniks have done to our Democracy. They have turned our secular government into their church, and have invented their own brand of history. Delph is like the High Priest of Israel. On twitter he launched a all night rant that granted God-given permission for he and his ilk to make laws in the name of God Jesus. You have to understand the Red State Neo-Confederates hate the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King, and have used the oppression of Israel, and the Jews, in establishing a replacement theology. Delph speaks of God’s “natural rights” which excludes giving civil rights to gays, who are not the primary target. The black churches are the target because they put a black man in the White House, and, are on the side of Liberal Jews and Democrats who back Gay Rights – that goes against God-Jesus, and thus, they forfeit the Moral High Ground. God’s “natural rights” means only a white Christian, or a Jew, should be elected to office in God’s Democracy that failed to free slaves and give women the right to vote.
Delph claims there was no atonement but animal sacrifice when God dwelt amongst his chosen people. John the Baptist preached Atonement of Sins. His mother was a ‘Daughter of Aaron, and his father of the priestly lineage of Moses. John was a Nazarite for life.
I am a Republican. My kindred founded the Republican Party and were Abolitionists. My kindred were involved in the Treaty of Tripoli and Article Eleven. My relative, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, was a Jewish Convert in favor of Gay Marriage. If she was alive she would be speaking out against Muslim prigs stoning women to death according to YHWH, the God of the Jews, and, Islamic Law that is inspired by the Torah.
Jon the Nazarite
“OK back to this Bible deal to place in context. Atonement for sins in the Old Testament was by animal sacrifice in the New via JChrist.
At the founding of America our forefathers believed natural rights came from God, same God from the Bible which we now app don’t like.
To protect these God given or natural rights govts were instituted amongst men for that express purpose. God was in it from the beginning.”
http://indydemocrat.blogspot.com/2014/02/delphs-bizarre-twitter-rant-on.html
The 2015 session of the Indiana General Assembly barely has started and Gov. Mike Pence’s flirtation with running for president already casts a shadow over it.
Days before the session opened, the news broke that Indiana Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, planned to push a bill that would allow Pence, also a Republican, to run for president and stand for re-election as governor at the same time. At present, Indiana law prevents a person from running for a state office and a federal office simultaneously.
It’s hard to know how seriously to take this push of Delph’s.
As soon as the news broke, Pence’s press office took some pains to emphasize that Delph’s bill wasn’t on the governor’s agenda and that Pence wouldn’t be commenting on it. The GOP leaders in the Indiana Senate and House of Representatives also said they wouldn’t be commenting on it – hardly a ringing endorsement.
And then there’s the matter of Delph, who found himself pretty much banished from the Senate Republican caucus for lambasting his colleagues and party leaders in a marathon Twitter rampage and press conference a few months ago. Delph was upset because one of his pet measures, a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions, had been altered, which meant the constitutional amendment process had to start all over again. The courts later struck down Indiana’s ban on gay unions.
Unless Delph and his GOP colleagues have done some serious family counseling to repair their relationship, it’s difficult to believe he’s the vehicle they would use to carry a measure they were serious about.
But, clumsy as it might be, Delph’s proposal does illustrate the dilemma in which Pence finds himself. Like a monkey in a jungle, he can’t swing to the next tree – the presidency – without letting go of the vine he currently holds, the governor’s office.
That’s the piece that pundits and partisans who counsel Pence to position himself for a vice-presidential nod tend to miss.
Years ago, the national party conventions at which vice presidential candidates were chosen came in the summer. That gave state parties time to select another candidate for the fall election if a governor found himself or herself on the national ticket.
Now, though, the national conventions come late in the process, often after Labor Day. That means a state party can be left with a huge problem if a governor running for re-election gets tapped for a vice-presidential bid.
In Indiana, for example, having Pence become the Republican vice-presidential candidate while he was running for re-election as governor would leave the state GOP with the challenge of finding a strong candidate for the general election less than 10 weeks before the voters would go to the polls.
Unless the law is changed, that is.
Delph’s solution is not a new one, even if he does push the idea to new extremes. (The man’s not a fan of moderation.)
Indiana law already has a provision that allows candidates to run for two federal offices at once. Indiana lawmakers put that provision in place when former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, and U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana, were under perpetual consideration as vice-presidential possibilities.
It’s also been done elsewhere – the most notorious examples being in the South when all the states in Dixie were both determinedly Democratic and solidly segregationist. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, ran for re-election as a senator in Texas the same year that he was elected John F. Kennedy’s vice president.
The southerners’ reason for making moves like LBJ’s possible was similar to Delph’s stated motivation – to allow state bigwigs to influence national politics without jeopardizing their power bases back at home.
That also was the objection to such laws.
Many devotees of representative government don’t care for the notion that any elective office – governor, senator, representative or dog catcher – would be treated like the ante in a high-stakes political poker game. They tended to believe public service should involve, well, service, not just ambition.
Mike Pence has some difficult decisions ahead of him. Mike Delph apparently wants to make a few of those decisions easier.
The next few months will tell us whether Delph helped or hurt the governor who maybe, possibly, sort of, might be running for president.
I agree that it is difficult to imagine that Thomas Jefferson thought of gay marriage as one of the rights that he was addressing in the Declaration of Independence. Then again, it’s also hard to imagine that Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner, meant “all men” and not just “white men”. And clearly, when Jefferson wrote “all men” he meant men and not women (who, of course, didn’t get the right to vote until 1920). Or think of it this way: The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in 1967 that a state could not ban interracial marriage came from a lawsuit in which the defendant was Thomas Jefferson’s very own Commonwealth of Virginia. So, I wonder whether Jefferson’s view of the right to the “pursuit of happiness” was meant to exclude just gay couples, or gay and interracial couples. I guess that his list of people who were exempted from the right to the pursuit of happiness got edited out of the final draft. On the other hand, if we believe that Jefferson was making a broad, hopeful statement about equality and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all, then it’s hard to understand how he would have objected to treating two people, who want nothing more than to share their love and happiness with one another as being equal to “all men”.
Sen. Delph also makes the claim that the “Creator” referenced by Jefferson “is the same Creator from the Bible”. Maybe. Or maybe not. Historians and theologians are quite divided on this subject. I don’t want to go too far astray here, but Jefferson, like many of the Founding Fathers, was a deist who rejected the notion of a deity with direct influence over the affairs of man. And Jefferson, in particular, rejected all supernatural elements of the Bible (going so far as to edit his Bible to remove all supernatural elements!). Thus, it is no coincidence that the Declaration of Independence refers to a “Creator” and to “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” but never directly references G-d or Jesus or even Judeo-Christian principles. However, in their zeal to convince others that America is, indeed, a “Christian Nation”, people like Sen. Delph have tried to co-opt the Declaration and the Founding Fathers for their purpose. (For more on this subject, I recommend both Liars for Jesus and Alan Dershowitz’s Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence.)
One other thing worth noting here: Sen. Delph talks about self-government being “predicated on a strong moral foundation usually anchored by our value system based in large part on the Bible.” Um, no. Not really. Our self-government and laws have very little to do with the Bible, notwithstanding the efforts of folks like Sen. Delph and other members of the religious right and Christian nationalist movement. When Sen. Delph went on his first Twitter rant, he seriously claimed that our legal system was based on the Ten Commandments:
STATEHOUSE (March 14, 2011) – With Holocaust survivor and author Hart Hasten looking on from the Senate balcony, State Sen. Mike Delph led his colleagues today in unanimous passage of House Concurrent Resolution 12, which formalizes support of the Indiana General Assembly toward Israel.
“Israel is the truest, longest-standing democracy present in the Middle East,” Sen. Mike Delph today told fellow state lawmakers. “With the widespread uprisings in the region, it is both timely and critically important for Americans to recognize this steadfast ally and to reassure the Israeli people of our continued support during these times of uncertainty.”
Hasten wrote a personal memoir of his experiences during the Holocaust entitled “I Shall Not Die!”
Delph’s non-binding resolution promotes democracy worldwide – particularly in the Middle East where constant violence and turmoil is fueled by heavy-handed regimes.
Recent news suggests that threats to the Israeli democracy are on the rise. Troubles in Cairo and Libya, as well as other neighboring nations in the region put pressure on Israel’s freedom, Delph said.
“Israel is an island in a sea of hostile neighbors,” Delph told Senate colleagues. “Indiana recognizes Israel has a right to self-defense against attacks. It’s important as elected officials that we take a stand and support our democratic allies.”
Delph authored a similar resolution, Senate Concurrent Resolution 19, in the Senate that acknowledged Israel’s dedication to the promotion of democracy in a volatile part of the world.
“I would like to thank two constituents, Dr. Allon Friedman and Doug Rose, along with the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana for their assistance on this resolution,” said Delph.
“Israel is the greatest friend and ally of the United States in the Middle East,” Delph said. “Continuous attacks on the people of Israel are a major concern for the people of Indiana, and therefore, the Indiana General Assembly. With the passage of this resolution, our state government expresses a strong commitment to the security and welfare of the Israeli people and encourages citizens and members of Indiana’s congressional delegation to give their support to the nation of Israel.”
http://jaaci.org/unanimous-approval-of-jaaci-sponsored-resolution-recognizing-israel/comment-page-1/
Hart Hasten, an Indiana entrepreneur, author and Holocaust survivor who attended the vote in the Indiana Senate, recognized that “the defense of Israel is nothing less than a defense of American ideals and interests.” Testifying on behalf of the resolution in the Senate were Rabbi Yisrael Gettinger of Congregation B’nai Torah; Doug Rose; Dr. Allon Friedman; Sam Zitin on behalf of Alpha Epsilon Pi, the global Jewish fraternity; and political scientist Elliot Bartky.
The resolution in support of Israel was sponsored by the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana, composed of Jews from synagogues, organizations and communities in Indiana.
Repeated attempts by the Israeli government to resume peace negotiations continue to be held hostage to demands that Israel accept indefensible borders as a condition for the resumption of peace talks. The most recent excuse for the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to negotiate is Israel’s continued building of homes in the West Bank. This bluff was exposed when the Israeli prime minister agreed to cease building homes for 10 months, yet the Palestinian Authority still refused to enter into negotiations. The clearly stated goal of Hamas and the ongoing hostile actions of the Palestinian Authority make it clear that they have no intention of negotiating a peace deal.
The United Nations’ continuous passage of one-sided anti-Israel resolutions only adds to the urgency for the United States to stand with Israel. While Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the U.N., vetoed the most recent U.N. attack on Israel, she also sought to mollify Israel’s enemies by criticizing Israel. Her attempt to placate the Palestinians by ignoring the fundamental cause of continued hostilities, namely the goal of destroying the Jewish state, highlights the need for Jews and all Americans to remind their legislators of Israel’s importance.
http://blog.wallack.us/2014/04/sen-mike-delph-lashes-out-again.html
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