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LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has now spoken with Liberty Counsel, the legal defense for Lisa Miller. For those who would like to financially help with Lisa and Isabella’s legal defense, please send contributions to Liberty Counsel and earmark checks for Lisa Miller. You can also contribute directly online on their website. Please continue praying for Lisa and Isabella’s protection as they have become fugitives in their own country and scapegoats for activists of the homosexual movement in the U.S.

Charles Butts
One News Now

A Vermont judge has ruled that the birth mother of a Virginia girl must turn custody of the child over to a former lesbian partner.

Lisa Miller was in a homosexual relationship with Janet Jenkins in Vermont, but Miller became a Christian, gave up her former lifestyle and moved to Virginia with her daughter. Although Jenkins is not the biological mother and never tried to adopt the now seven-year-old Isabella, Vermont Judge William Cohen ordered Miller to turn the girl over to Jenkins this Friday. Attorney Steve Crampton tells OneNewsNow that Liberty Counsel argued before a Virginia judge last week, asking for Miller’s protection.

“There’s a very serious constitutional issue regarding whether Virginia must enforce the Vermont court order,” the attorney notes. “So the clock is ticking quite loudly right now, and it remains to be seen whether we can get any relief in Virginia.”

Virginia is a state that only recognizes the union of one man and one woman, and Crampton explains that “there is an enormous conflict between the laws of Vermont that have decreed a lesbian legal stranger to be a full parent and the laws of Virginia….” Click here to continue.

Related Article:

Lesbian-Turned-Christian Mom Fails to Give Up Child to Ex-Partner

Related:

You may join Lisa Miller’s Facebook account by going to www.facebook.com and searching for: Only One Mommy: The Story of Lisa and Isabella Millerstrong

Liberty Counsel Update on the Hearing in Lisa Miller’s Case (Jan. 09)

Biological Mom Ordered to Give Up Child (Nov. 09)

Lisa Miller and daughter “disappear” (Jan. 10) – World Magazine

Added 1/10/10: YouTube, Protect Isabella

LTRP Note: For parents or grandparents who have thought it is harmless to let their little children or grandchildren watch an hour of Sesame Street once a day, we offer this warning. While many Christian parents have most likely seen the liberal slants of the popular T.V. show, and perhaps kept their children away from the show, turning to Mr. Rogers instead, many Christian parents have allowed Sesame Street into their homes, feeling that the underlying New Age, liberal message was subtle enough to bypass the hearts and minds of little eyes and ears. But the following articles show that Yoga (the heartbeat of Hinduism) is alive and “well” on Sesame Street, and parents should beware. While warning a 4 year not to participate in any Yoga exercises they might see on Sesame Street can make parents feel they have done their job in protecting their kids, it isn’t likely that a 4 or 5 year old will understand the dangers when Big Bird tells them how fun it is or when they see their favorite personality on Sesame Street telling a room full of kids to do the Yoga exercises. Check out the following articles and see the video clip below.

New York Times:  ”Same Street, Different World: ‘Sesame’ Turns 40″:

The pedagogy hasn’t changed, but the look and tone of “Sesame Street” have evolved … Now there are green spaces, tofu and yoga…. 

This season has an Om sensibility. “My mom takes me to yoga class, I love doing yoga,” a little girl in pigtails says in an episode that ran in October. She is narrating a short film that shows a pixieish teacher and her pupils folding into the downward dog position. After class her mother arrives with a plastic water bottle. “She says it’s important to drink water when you exercise,” the girl explains. “When I grow up I want to be a yoga teacher.” 1

The Independent (London, UK): “Why Sesame Street still counts”

In recent years Sesame Street has faced challenges. It can sometimes seem at odds with the era of political correctness. The Cookie Monster has been accused of promoting obesity and sponsorship by McDonald’s was drew wide criticism. The show still attracts big name guest-stars but is up against competition from newer forms of entertainment. Even the programme’s core values have changed. In 1970 it taught racial tolerance, now young viewers hear about the environment or healthy food. In an episode of the new series a child talks about her mother’s yoga class. “I love yoga,” she announces. “When I grow up, I want to be a yoga teacher.”2

Check this out:

(from Sesame Street, Season 9, Episode 52)

(Courtesy Underground News)

“Yoga helps even little ones channel energy, emotion”

CNN: Decatur, Georgia (CNN) — Gigi reaches up into her sun salutation. She steps back into her high lunge and kicks her legs straight into plank pose, a push-up she holds without wobbling for 10 seconds before looking up impatiently at her yoga teacher.

It’s close to 6 p.m. She’s had a long day.

She collapses on her mat, rolls on her back and closes her eyes. And then sends one finger digging up her nose.

What? C’mon, she’s only 5.

This is yoga for kids. Once an oddity reserved for only the crunchiest communities, downward dog for the grade-school set is now being taught in studios from Minnetonka, Minnesota, to Moscow, Russia. And educators, including Chicago’s Namaste School, which serves mostly poor kids who speak a language other than English, are turning to yoga to connect with a generation that many say has been dismissed as deficit this or hyperactive that.

At Decatur Yoga and Pilates studio, just outside Atlanta, Georgia, Dylan Laakmann, sits quietly next to his mother. The lanky 12-year-old whose fashionably shorn hair hangs in his face, describes himself as a “downer” before he started taking yoga two years ago.

“I wasn’t really that happy a kid, I guess, and my grades, they weren’t that good,” he says, his taut mouth easing as he relaxes in conversation. “I wasn’t that joyful.”

To read our research on Yoga and reasons we believe it is New Age and NOT spiritually beneficial but rather harmful, click here.

By YOAV GONEN Education Reporter
New York Post
(Courtesy of Underground News)

Thousands of city public-school students and teachers are participating in a “Brain Education” program run by a group with ties to an alleged cult.

For the past three years, the Department of Education has shelled out nearly $400,000 for 44 schools to participate in the Power Brain Education company’s lessons and workshops.

But dozens of former employees of an organization called Dahn Yoga — whose founder developed the teachings for Brain Education — said the school program is run by a group that is part of a vast web of interrelated companies conning participants into investing all their time and money in unproven health and healing activities.

The former workers of Dahn Yoga, which operates 130 health centers and two training retreats across the country, filed a federal lawsuit in Arizona in May charging that its activities are abusive and grow increasingly devotional over time to the group’s founder and spiritual leader, 57-year-old Seung Huen “Ilchi” Lee.

“If my child was [participating in Power Brain], I would pull them out in about two minutes,” said lawyer Terry Brostowin, who settled a wrongful-death suit against Dahn Yoga last year. “I would be very scared.” Read more: click here.

By Debra Rae
NewsWithViews.com

Recent shopping trips underscore the inevitable—namely, “the holiday season” is upon us. Everywhere I turn, I’m greeted with a hodge-podge of images depicting spiders, witches, vampires, turkeys, Santa Clauses, elves, and affable reindeer. You name it.

For many, such displays spark “spirit.” What’s not to enjoy about Christmas and Thanksgiving themes that are conciliatory, family-honoring, and laden with goodwill toward men?

Now, contrast thankfulness and “peace on earth” with dark, death-centric Halloween icons of witches, tombstones, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, and monsters. Couple these with practices of vandalism, mischief, and extortion; and perhaps you get my gist.

Despite plain distinctions as these, television spook programming and video rentals of violent horror films reach their peak at this time of year. And 2009 is no exception.

Twilight Saga

Just last month in Forks, Washington, the mayor read a proclamation celebrating Stephenie Meyer Day. You may know that Meyer authored four New York Times best-selling novels packaged as the Twilight Saga. Eager attendees entered Twilight character lookalike, trivia and theme-specific, car-decorating contests. Click here to continue reading.

Related Information:

Movie Review: Twilight – An Assault on the Atoning Blood of Jesus Christ by Bill Randles

Movie/Book Warning: Twilight by Berit Kjos

“The sex industry endangers all children, women, and families. The largest group of Internet porn viewers are children between ages 12 and 17.”

By Dr. Judith Reisman
NewsWithViews.com

Arizona’s a “happen” place! Digital City’s Digitalicity.com recently reported that Big Pornography is “moving to Phoenix, Ariz….Phoenix may replace San Fernando Valley, Calif. as the porn capitol of America.’

Why? “In September the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed complaints against 16 porn studios” to OSHA “for failing to require porn actors to wear condoms.” Does this mean Arizona will allow Big Pornography to illegally subject its workers to infectious sex acts for profit? Digital says new Arizona pornographers are turning their homes into pornography agencies where they film erototoxic sex abuses “sans neighboring onlookers.”

However, the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health (ADOSH), like California, “operates under an approved plan with the U.S. Department of Labor to retain jurisdiction over occupational safety and health issues within Arizona.”

Like California, Arizona also requires that employers “provide a safe and healthful workplace for employees, and pay the costs of their health and safety program.” The Act has jurisdiction over employers in the sex business like all other businesses.

Arizona law requires its “Workplace Safety Poster must be no smaller than 8.5 x 14 inches” and that it be posted in all workplaces. Laws on “safety and health protection” require that workers are “free from recognized hazards that might cause serious injury or death.” Click here to continue reading.

Lighthouse Trails Note on our coverage on this issue:
Dr. Reisman is featured in American History Films documentary, Kinsey Syndrome. This powerful and sobering film (produced by Christian Pinto and Pastor Joe Schimmel) exposes the truth about the sexual revolution that stemmed largely from the work of a man named Dr. Alfred Kinsey, considered by many to be the main influence on today’s views of homosexuality, pedophilia, and other sexually deviant behaviors.

Lighthouse Trails has now begun to carry this film. However, we must issue a warning that the nature of this film is heavy and disturbing and should not be viewed by children. But in order to bring light to this area of darkness in our society, discerning Christians need to be aware, and thus our reason for carrying the Kinsey Syndrome.

You may view four short preview clips of this 2+ hour project (see links below). You may also purchase the film by clicking here or calling 866/876-3910. In view of the ongoing efforts by mainstream media to convince society that Dr. Kinsey’s work is a credible and viable contribution in this field (with his books on human sexuality), including a 2004 feature film, “Kinsey,” starring Hollywood favorite Liam Neeson (portraying Kinsey in a favorable light), Lighthouse Trails stands boldly and rejects the work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey and acknowledges that he is much to blame for the increasing incident of child molestation, child porn, and child kidnapping and murder, and his research altered and propagated the present immoral sex education in elementary and high school extensively. We think when you view this documentation, you will agree and be more inclined to protect your children and grandchildren from it.

The Kinsey Syndrome

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LTRP Note: The following article is a follow-up to a previous article about the surviving Beatles working together with the David Lynch Foundation to raise money to teach children around the world Transcendental Meditation.

The article below states that the David Lynch Foundation threatened a group that was speaking up against teaching mysticism to children. Researcher Ray Yungen, when hearing this story, said it made perfect sense. Recently, when he was researching the top two major chain bookstores in the country (both of which begin with the letter “B”), because of the upcoming Easter religious holiday they each feature a table with the theme Faith, Religion, and Inspiration. At the first store, there were forty-six titles on the table, none of which represented evangelical Christianity. Rather there was books on Wicca, two or three by channeled entities, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, and Marianne Williamson. In essence, mysticism was the overriding theme. In the second store, there were forty titles on this table, with only eight or nine representing evangelical Christianity. The rest represented predominately Hinduism (Autobiography of a Yogi) and Buddhism. This illustrates, like none other, that the paradigm shift Lighthouse Trails has been warning about for the past seven years is already here! Even the most hardened skeptic would have to acknowledge that something dramatic and unprecedented has taken place.

“David Lynch Foundation Bullies Anti-TM Webcast Offline”
by Watcher’s Lamp

In anticipation of the David Lynch Foundation’s star-studded benefit concert to promote Transcendental Meditation in public schools, cult recovery expert John Knapp organized a no-cost webcast, TELL TM, HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! that was scheduled to take place April 2, 2009. Panelists included University of So. Carolina sociologist and researcher Dr. Barry Markovsky, and Dr. Meera Nanda, author of Prophets Facing Backward.

Here’s the details from the Knapp Family Counseling website:

Join us for a free Web Event, April 2, 8 pm EST, to learn a side of the Transcendental Meditation story they won’t tell you.

Concerned scientists question research claiming benefits. Former members allege secret agendas. Clergy are unsure if TM contradicts their religion.

In this atmosphere, the David Lynch Foundation sponsors Paul McCartney & Friends in concert April 4, 2009. Reminding many of Tom Cruise’s marketing for Scientology.

DLF states this “World Harmony Concert” will raise millions to introduce “TM/Quiet Time” into public schools.

We believe this violates the separation of Church & State. Many consider meditation valuable. Our concern is religious meditation forms do not belong in public schools.

On the eve of the webcast, General Counsel for the David Lynch Foundation contacted John Knapp and warned of potential legal action against Knapp and the panelists. Click here to read this entire article.

Critics of Teaching Children Transcendental Meditation Are Threatened