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This school board official was sworn into office with his hand placed on LGBTQ porn.

From The Christian Post. Fairfax County has its advantages and disadvantages for conservative residents. The advantage is the proximity to so many workplaces and to the Shenandoah mountains with the invitation to take refuge from chaos in the suburbs. The disadvantage is it’s a county where conservative voices hold very few public offices.

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The morning after the November 2023 elections was another punch in the gut for conservative families in Fairfax County. That’s no surprise by now.

The school board saw a sweep of far-left-leaning candidates. Karl Frisch, an LGBTQ activist was elected by a vote of 67% in his district. His list of action items includes making sure transgender-identifying students can use the bathroom of their choice, enforcing the use of preferred pronouns, and ensuring pornographic material is fully stocked on the shelves of school libraries.

And it gets worse.

In an act of defiance against the Judeo-Christian moral grounding upon which our republic was conceived, Mr. Frisch chose to be sworn into office as vice chair of the Fairfax County School Board on Thursday, December 14, 2023, by placing his hand on a stack of pornography books full of LGBTQ ideology instead of the Bible.

Is this really what 67% of the voters in his district wanted? How many of these residents are parents of schoolchildren?

Can the conservative Christians among the 33% who didn’t vote for him and those left among the rest of the country afford to keep their eyes shut as if they don’t see or understand what he is doing?

Since the founding of our nation, the Bible has been used to swear in elected leaders to their new office. The act of placing the hand on the Bible signifies honesty, integrity, and attention to a moral code of ethics, at the very least.

Biblical principles make up the very core of our Judeo-Christian nation’s history, providing a roadmap for decency, responsibility, and morality.

George Washington took his oath of office as president of the United States on April 30, 1789, by placing his hand on an open Bible. After taking the oath, he kissed it.

His first words addressing the people demonstrated his devotion to God.

He said, “It would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations and whose providential aids can supply every human defect…”

Washington continues, “No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.”

Washington’s moral grounding was sure. Today, that moral grounding no longer exists in the service of Karl Frisch and those who share his ideology.

By replacing the Bible during his swearing-in and instead taking an oath upon narcissist pedophilia and teen pornography, Mr. Frisch is declaring the Bible is obsolete.

With the echoes of Nietzsche, Frisch is unequivocally saying, “God is dead.”

He omitted the phrase, “so help me God” from the end of his oath of office in contrast to the oath other new board members took in the same ceremony.

Choosing to be sworn in with his hand on gay pornography instead of the Bible sets an untenable precedent.

What will be next? Dare I make a guess?

Do not be fooled.

Mr. Frisch is going further than Disney when the behind-closed-doors footage revealed their “not-so-secret gay agenda” to infiltrate children’s films with LGBTQ indoctrination.

Mr. Frisch is openly proclaiming that LGBTQ ideology is his religion.

Are we to bow down to this new “god?”

In essence, if we remain silent, we are doing just that.

Watching from the sidelines while the foundation of our country is stripped away means we are complicit.

Os Guinness in his book Zero Hour America says, “Wake up, America. The trends are coming together and piling up. The day is coming when no clear ethics are known or taught, self-restraint is overwhelmed by consumerism, conscience is silenced by correctness, the moral knowledge that was the capital of the past runs out, and the metaverse deepens the confusion between the real and the virtual.”

Has the very day Guinness forecasted above arrived?

He continues by pronouncing the consequences of such moral failure by stating, “Reality itself will then deliver its bill. The penalty exacted for the sins of American slavery has been crippling enough. What is coming is a devastation of even greater proportions, a moral dust bowl, a carnival of identity confusions, and a hall of mirrors of reality distortions — all brought on by the unaddressed cultural climate change.”

Indeed, we see Guinness’ forecast unfolding in the gender confusion among hundreds of thousands of children and adults in our nation.

Perhaps we need to harken back to the clarity spoken at the great battlefield of Gettysburg. It was there on November 19, 1863, that Abraham Lincoln addressed the ravages of slavery by honoring the men who nobly fought against the atrocities of such a practice in our nation.

He remarked,

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

If the Bible is removed as our source of moral grounding and we are no longer a nation “under God,” we must conclude that this nation could truly perish from the earth, and thereby those who died to end slavery did die in vain.

How can this republic remain if stripped of all moral grounding?

We ought to return our attention to the famous words of John Winthrop who set a clear vision for this nation upon his arrival to New England in 1630.

“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us … We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God …Therefore let us choose life that we, and our seed may live, by obeying His voice and cleaving to Him, for He is our life and our prosperity.”

Like Winthrop, Washington, Lincoln, and Guinness, we must remain faithful to Judeo-Christian values in the Bible upon which this country was founded.

God is not dead. The Bible is not obsolete.

Pornography cannot be the new standard of morality in our country.

When King Solomon had successfully finished building the temple, the LORD appeared to him during the night and said,

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Our nation has not yet perished.

We must remember the power of God to open the eyes of the blind, including our own, and we must never be content to sit on the sidelines.

Now is the time to call upon the name of the Lord. We must turn from our wicked ways and speak out against the deluge of darkness sweeping our land through public office.

As the article says, we know that God will forgive us and heal our land if we pray, repent, and seek Him. Share your prayers for America in the comments below.

(Used with permission. By Kathryn Brunner from The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Maria Sbytova/Canva Pro)

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Ellie Diegelmann
January 5, 2024

Heavenly Father, please open the eyes and hearts of ALL of the Karl Frisches to your truth and bless him with a Saul/Paul-type of loving, enlightening new-man conversion. Please open OUR eyes and hearts to your almighty power of Holy Spirit to recognize, and, whether boldly or afraid, receive and embrace a STRONG faith and obedience to stand FIRMLY:
a. against allowing ANY semblance of pornography and ANY other form of sexual immorality, and
b. for you, your word, prayer, worship and praise to be reinstated in our societies, schools and other government and private industry sectors and
c. in escaping satan’s grip on our children, in shielding and ushering/escorting them completely, out of the public schools and into and through whatever safe, wholesome, holy Christian schooling, to their effective preparation for your plans for their and our lives.
I ask you this in Jesus’ precious name, I accept it (however it all manifests) and I THANK you for it. Amen.

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Ellie Diegelmann
January 2, 2024

Almighty, (L)oving Heavenly Father, thank you for all of your vast BLESSINGS every DAY, but especially for your patient, longing, agape’-loving DESIRE, for us to be with you forever.

I/we are so sorry for our negligence of you, through our materialistically-DISTRACTED and apathetic sedation. Even if and when we’ve earnestly stood strongly for righteous causes, and we’ve taken our focus off of YOU, we’ve failed you! Indeed, filthy rags, and too little too late!

Please help us now to return to you, — to remember:

the horrific price JESUS paid on the cross, for all of our wretched sins, — and, ALSO
YOUR heart-wrenching agony in sacrificing Him,

ALL, just for US (SINNERS) to have abundant lives, even NOW, HERE, on EARTH, and most importantly forever with you in heaven).

Please, PLEASE HELP us to ALWAYS:
– humble ourselves, (as you’ve always SOOO
patiently instructed),
– immediately recognize, reject and abandon our disgusting
pride,
– submit to you, even YEARN for you ALWAYS,
by ALWAYS extending your beautiful, and signature, agape’ brand of love to each other, as our over-arching purpose in ALL that we ever do.

Please help us to get into the HABIT of praying THROUGHOUT our days, keeping YOU in the driver’s seat.

Please help us to continually seek your face, guiding us through your Spirit-filled Word, as a roadmap for US to follow, NOT (to recommend to) others as WEEEE deem appropriate.

Please, help us to turn from ALL of our wicked ways (including, but not limited to: fear, distraction, yielding to temptation and apathetic, lazy contentment), thereby slamming and locking the door to satan, and not giving him even a toxically-dangerous baby-toe-hold! By now, we KNOW right from wrong, but we lack the courage, and trust (FAITH), to submit to you and resist the devil, so that he will flee from us.

Dearest Daddy, I (realize “it’s about time” that I’ve finally utilized your gift of time to):
acknowledge, confess and humbly ask you ALL of this,
gratefully accept it all and
THANK You for it all
in Jesus’ ever-precious Name. Amen.
HALLELUJAH, Father! My Rock, my Shelter, my Refuge, my REDEEMER!

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Darlene Estlow
December 27, 2023

Father, waken the sleeping church from their comfort and from “what will come, will come” attitude. You said we are to occupy till Jesus comes. That means we are to pray and to take an active part in being a citizen. we are to occupy waken your church to occupy, which is to vote and take an active part in being a citizen. Send repentance for our laziness in spiritual issues.

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    Ellie Diegelmann
    January 5, 2024

    … spiritual, social and political issues. Please, God, help us to be and stay sharply alert, focused and not distracted. In Jesus’ precious name. Amen.

Karen Stavrinakis
December 27, 2023

Hear my prayer, Lord; let my cry for help come to You. Psalm 102:1

Father God, I feel so helpless when I read of the boldness of this school board member. I am so disgusted and distraught over how we have gotten to this point. Help us to keep our eyes on You. Nothing is impossible for You. Please stop the corruption of our precious children’s minds. Change the heart of Karl Frisch to what is pure.

Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
Jeremiah 32:17

Amen.

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    Ellie Diegelmann
    January 5, 2024

    God, please also empower and embolden US, in our drowning weakness, through faith-filled OBEDIENCE to you, to speak your truth in love. THANK you, oh God. In Jesus’ precious name. Amen.

DANIELNAGARAJAN
December 27, 2023

I pray GOD never allow the pornography.

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    Ellie Diegelmann
    January 5, 2024

    (Daniel Nagarajan) Amen! Please, God, and THANK you for what you will miraculously do, whether through us or not, on behalf of our vulnerable children and their families. In Jesus’ precious name.
    Amen.

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