Two Witnesses for 'Life' at SC Inauguration Ceremony
"STOP ABORTION NOW"
"REPENT AMERICA - JESUS is the Standard"
"GOD BLESS AMERICA ?"
Republican Governor Mark Sanford and eight other SC State Officers
sworn-in with 'So Help me God' Oaths of Office - but not a single word
in Mark Sanford's Inaugural Address mentioned the 6,500+ humans slain
each year in SC's government-protected child-murder death camps
As SC'sExecutive, Legislative, and Judicialleaders assembled January 10,
two pro-life witnesses for Christ pictured below attempted to call attention
to the plight of SC's innocent children being slaughtered in the womb
Press Release
February 13, 2007
Columbia, SC (CCL)
[Note: The offices of the SC Governor, LT Governor, and Attorney General; as well as
both the SC Senate and the SC House, are all controlled by the RepublicanParty !]
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Two Witnesses for 'Life' at SC Inauguration Ceremony:
Steve Lefemine, 51, director of Columbia Christians for Life, at SC State House, near
south steps, January 10, 2007 during the Inauguration Ceremony. One law enforcement
supervisor initially tried to move our witness further away from here, but we did not move,
and a "command decision" was made to allow us to remain. Praise the Lord. This and
other Inaugural Activities had been widely publicized as being "Open to the Public."
"REPENT AMERICA - JESUS is the Standard"
"GOD BLESS AMERICA ?"
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'Johnny Gardner, 58, director of Voice of the Unborn, at SC State House,
near south steps, January 10, 2007 during the Inauguration Ceremony, an example of
'prophetic theater' - visual imagery attempting to enable people to "see" the babies in the womb
"STOP ABORTION NOW"
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News coverage:
Sanford says it’s time for big changes in S.C.
The State, Columbia, SC (Posted on Thu, Jan. 11, 2007)
[Excerpts, emphasis added]
'Saying he’s wiser and more humble than he was four years ago, Gov. Mark Sanford
took the oath of office Wednesday on the State House’s south steps at high noon
under a striking, cloudless blue sky.'
'Sanford, 46, sworn in by S.C. Chief Justice Jean Toal...'
'Sanford told the estimated 2,000 people gathered in white chairs on the Capitol grounds
and thousands more watching or listening on radio and television,...'
'As he did four years ago, Sanford referenced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and again
quoted the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes. Then, it was the biblical message that
“where there is no vision, the people perish.” Wednesday it was Ecclesiastes’ message
that, “for everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven.”'
(Note from CCL:
It is Proverb 29:18 (not anywhere in the Book of Ecclesiastes) that says:
"Where there is no vision, the people perish:..." Considering the failure of SC's political leaders
to perform one of their highest duties as civil ministers, to establish justice, and to prevent the
shedding of innocent blood, including politically-calculating Republican Governor, Mark Sanford;
and the Republican SC Senate President Pro Tempore, Senator Glenn McConnell (Charleston);
and the Republican SC House Speaker, Representative Bobby Harrell, Jr. (Charleston); in light of
the horrible slaughter of over 6,500 human beings per year, primarily in South Carolina's three
main abortuaries in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston ( it is clear that we as a people
are perishing, in a land where there is no vision, but rather great blindness, in our state's political
leaders, and the people who vote to elect them to office. Here in "Bible-belt" South Carolina, we
continue to elect "politicians" instead of Christian statesmen. )
[Governor Sanford:]
“Our vision is that South Carolina becomes a state that is second to none in offering economic
opportunities to its people. A place where its citizens are better educated, healthier and ready
to meet the challenges of the 21st century.”
( Note from CCL:
Here above, is Mark Sanford's vision. What's missing is a vision of a land of righteousness, and
without God-honoring righteousness, such as that which caused God to bless and prosper this
land and people for four centuries since 1607, neither will we be able to sustain prosperity,
neither economic nor political: )
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May Governor Mark Sanford consider this Bible verse as it pertains to SC and America:
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."
Proverb 9:17, KJB
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Text of Gov. Mark Sanford's inaugural speech
The State, Columbia, SC (Posted on Wed, Jan. 10, 2007)
[Excerpts, emhasis added]
Prepared text of Gov. Mark Sanford's second inauguration speech
Jan. 10, 2007, Columbia
Gov. Mark Sanford: 'Thank you for that warm welcome.'
'Thank you as well to all the people of South Carolina for the honor of
serving our state for the next four years.'
'While on the subject of thank yous:'
'I want to thank my Maker. I believe that God brought all of us to this
moment. I am humbled in simply being here, and I'm humbled in how
important the task of bringing change to our state is for every one of us.'
(continued...)
'I'm struck by how fundamentally the decisions of today will impact the
South Carolina of tomorrow that each one of our children will one day inherit.'
(CCL Note: Yes Governor, and your failure, along with that of the SC Legislature to
ban the murder of South Carolina's children in their mothers' wombs will continue
to increase the judgment of God upon this state and nation in terms of crime, violence
(Hosea 4:2), foreign invasion, and war (2 Kings 24:1-4). ALL of these judgments
have already begun. Or have you missed the student violence in SC's government
schools, and betweengangs, the invasion of our state by illegal aliens from south of
our nation's border, and the deployment and deaths of members of the South Carolina
military in war zones ? ). Yes, it is God Who gives peace and prosperity to a land (e.g.,
Leviticus 26:5,6), when the people in a land obey His commandments. However, here in
South Carolina, we refuse to obey His Sixth Commandment forbidding the murder of the
innocent: "Thou shalt not kill (murder)." Exodus 20:13 )
[Governor Sanford:]
'I believe in the inherent dignity of each human soul. Our founding
fathers were very deliberate in setting up a republic wherein each
person was guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'
( CCL Note: Well Governor, then demonstrate that belief by your public support of the
Right to Life Act of South Carolina, a bill first filed in 1998, and active every year since,
to vest legal personhood at fertilization, thus protecting the right to life of those human souls
from being unjustly extinguished by violent acts of child-murder by abortion. )
[Governor Sanford:]
'Five, we must commit to taking everyone with us on the voyage before us. In the Bible
it talks of when you do it to the least of these you do it unto me.'
( CCL Note: Yes Governor, and that includes murdering children by abortion - that also
is something we are doing to the least of these, and thus also doing to Jesus Christ. )
[Governor Sanford:]
'So we must be very deliberate in not only thinking of every South Carolinian as a brother or
sister who deserves our respect and careful attention...'
( CCL Note: What about South Carolinians who are in the wombs of their mothers, and not yet
born Governor Sanford ? Are we to also give them "our respect and careful attention" ? When
are you going to give them more attention using your "bully pulpit" ? Why is it not yet worth an
expenditure of your own "political capital" to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
the most defenseless, the most judicially innocent, the murdered unborn in South Carolina ? )
[Governor Sanford:]
'In his second annual message to Congress in 1862, Abraham Lincoln said:...'
( CCL Note: Governor Sanford, you quoted from President Lincoln's 1862 second annual message
to Congress, but have you read this part of President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
given on March 4, 1865 ?:
' Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass
away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's
two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three
thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous
altogether." ' ( )
Governor Sanford, one of God's "end-game" judgments upon a people and a land for the shedding
of innocent blood is war - read 2 Kings 24:1-4. The War Between Americans (1861-1865) cost
over 600,000 American lives, our nation's costliest war, more than WWII. What will God require
of America TODAY, if "every drop of blood drawn with the abortionist's knife is paid for
by another drawn on the field of military conflict" ? We've killed close to 50 million by
surgical abortion alone ( in America since the 1973 unconstitutional Roe decision. )
[Governor Sanford:]
'Two hundred years ago South Carolinians like Rutledge, Lynch, Middleton and Heyward pledged
their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a new form of government, and the question for each
one of us is what will we commit.'
( CCL Note: Yes, Governor Sanford, 'what will [you] commit' to end the shedding of innocent
blood of thousands each year in the state you govern ? Since your first inauguration in 2003,
it is estimated that over 26,000 pre-birth children have been butchered on your watch as
governor, by surgical abortion alone in the State of South Carolina. The land is polluted
with their innocent blood - Numbers 35:33. )
[Governor Sanford:]
'In our collective hands are the keys to change. I need your help. I need not only the full participation
of everyone gathered here today * but more powerfully the participation of citizens across this state.'
( CCL Note: Governor Sanford, we need your help to Establish Justice for pre-birth human beings
in South Carolina ! More importantly, the thousands and thousands of pre-birth children who are
in danger of being butchered in South Carolina abortuaries, between now and the end of your term
of office in January 2011 need your help ! )
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"And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off:
for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter."
"Yea, truth faileth: and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey:
and the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment."
Isaiah 59:14,15
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No king but King Jesus !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
(803) 765-0916
February 13, 2007
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