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New York Demonstration A Success Despite a cold pouring rain, many protesters joined the Religious Freedom Coalition in a demonstration outside the New York City Board of Education on December 14, 1999. The event was a success. The New York City Board of Education has been forced to admit their error in distributing the AntiDefamation League letter by finally issuing one of their own. Unfortunately, the new letter is just as offensive as the old ADL letter. The RFC had been protesting the distribution of a letter written by the Anti-Defamation League and distributed in New York City schools for several weeks.  Joining
me in the protest in Brooklyn were two former New York City teachers,
Mildred Rosario and Simpson Gray. Both of these fine teachers were
removed from their teaching jobs by the Board because they had mentioned
God in the classroom.
In a strange twist the New York Civil Liberties Union agreed with the Religious Freedom Coalition. In a New York Post story the NYCLU executive director, Normal Siegel said, "It would have been better if the superintendent checked it out independently and issued her own memo, instead of just rubber-stamping some private group’s viewpoint." The head of the school board and the ADL representatives refused to comment to the New York Post or other newspapers. As mentioned above, the New York City Board of Education finally did issue a letter regarding "Holiday Displays and Religious Observance" on its own letterhead that was rather strange and poorly constructed. In his letter to "all community school districts" Chancellor Rudolph F. Crew stated: "The display of secular holiday decorations are permitted. Such symbols include, but are not limited to, Christmas trees, Menorahs, and the Star and Crescent." The Chancellor of the School Board states that a Menorah is a "secular" display. Please note that while Jewish and Muslim holy symbols are mentioned as being permitted, that no Christian symbol such as a cross or nativity scene is mentioned by the Chancellor. The only secular item mentioned was a Christmas tree which is certainly not Christian in nature. It is disheartening that the man in charge of educating the youth of New York City believes that the major symbols of the Jewish and Muslim faiths are secular in nature.
BIBLE DISTRIBUTION VICTORY IN MISSOURI? On January 7, 2000 I will travel to Saint Louis to help raise funds for Bibles to be distributed in the public schools by students. The fact that Bibles can be distributed is due in large part to a local teenage girl. Lisa Patterson and her daughter, Crystal, attended a Revival Fires conference in Branson, Missouri where they purchased some "Truth for Youth" Bibles. These youth version Bibles contain an NIV New Testament and other information including a list of the religious rights students have in their schools. In the back of the "Truth for Youth" Bible there is a statement written by me encouraging students of faith to "...carry the Gospel message and the Word of God to those in their schools." After the Columbine shootings in the Spring of 1999, Lisa and her daughter raised the funds to purchase 500 Bibles for distribution and that is when the trouble started. Principal James Cashion of Northwest Valley School informed Crystal and the other students who were trying to distribute the Bibles that they were prohibited from giving them to their classmates. The Bibles were confiscated. He told the students that they were prohibited from distributing any literature without school approval. When approval for distribution of the Bibles was sought, the Superintendent of schools would not approve the Bibles. Since they could not distribute the Bibles in the school, Crystal and her friends tried to give them out at the flag pole before school. Principal Cashion, several administrators and two deputy police officers stopped the teenagers from giving out the Bibles. One police officer threatened arrest of the students. When Lisa Patterson called my office for help last year I referred her to my good friend, Mathew Staver, who is a lawyer and the president of the Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Staver immediately saw that there was a violation of the rights of Crystal Patterson and the other students and wrote a strong letter to school officials which was ignored. The Liberty Counsel, unlike the ACLU, is a genuine civil liberties and legal defense organization that protects the real religious liberties of Americans. On August 12, 1999, Mathew Staver filed a lawsuit against the Northwest R-1 School District and James Cashion, principal of Northwest Valley School. In the lawsuit Staver claimed the Jefferson County School Board policy regarding literature distribution and the principal’s action of confiscating Bibles and threatening arrest violates the First Amendment right to free speech. Staver said, " The Supreme Court has long ago held that students on the public school campuses have a First Amendment right to freedom of speech which includes verbal and written speech." At the close of 1999, the school board realized it was in a no win situation and began negotiations with the Liberty Counsel to settle the case and to allow Crystal and her friends to distribute the Bibles in their school. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit I will still be at a special concert to be held on Saturday, January 8, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. at the Northwest Valley Middle School. This is the very school that first denied the right to these students to distribute the Bibles. The fact that we will be holding a Christian concert there to benefit Bible distribution is a major victory. Thank you Mathew Staver and the Liberty Counsel! Not too many are aware that most of America’s atheist organizations had their beginnings in Saint Louis. Saint Louis has always been a hotbed for atheism and anti-Christian publications and this makes the Bible distribution in these schools an even greater victory. A TIME TO WEEP American citizens can now be purchased! Two newborn American babies, twins named Aspen and Saffron, have been sold to two British homosexual millionaires. The crime goes far beyond the sale of the children; this crime against humanity starts at their conception. The two British homosexuals, Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow, apparently commingled their sperm in a glass jar and sent it to a laboratory in California. The sperm were then used to fertilize one woman’s ova which were then implanted in a second woman, Rosalind Bellamy of Turlock, California who was hired by the British homosexuals to be their incubator. (Oddly there was a fierce British pirate name Black Sam Bellamy who terrorized the high seas and enslaved seamen on his ship the Waydah. I don’t believe there is a relation.) Ms. Bellamy was hired through "Growing Generations", a Los Angeles agency that specializes in "gay and lesbian surrogacy" according to the Modesto Bee. Paid surrogacy is illegal in Great Britain. A San Diego County Superior Court ruled that both men could be listed on the birth certificates as "fathers". On hearing the decision of the court on October 27, Drewitt said, "We are celebrating a legal victory, the nuclear family as we know it is evolving." News stories did not indicate if a "mother" was listed, since the ova were donated by an unnamed woman in southern California. Since the court listed them as the "fathers," they can now take the children wherever they want to and presumably do with them what they want. The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain centered around the capture of American seamen and the "impressment" of slavery on British vessels. But, what was done by the British with guns prior to 1812 is now done with American dollars. These perverted British millionaires used their money to manipulate human life in a test tube and "create" two young children so they could "play house", and pretend that these children manipulated to life in a test tube are theirs. YET ANOTHER HOMOSEXUAL MOCKERY OF GOD The Supreme Court of Vermont has ruled that the state "discriminates" against homosexuals by not allowing them to marry, and directed the state legislature to do something about it. This comes just days after the Hawaiian Supreme Court reversed itself and ruled that homosexuals could not get married in that state. Make no mistake that all of these rulings go back to Roe v. Wade, the original Supreme Court decision that reduced the value of human life in America. From the days of the founding of the Republic, there was a moral line drawn in the sand. Oh, yes, there were always bad people and evil things done, from the day of the Pilgrims. I am sure things were done in private in America 300 years ago that would shame us as Christians, but those things were not sanctioned by the government and certainly not by the church. Today virtually every perversion is sanctioned by the government and courts and most unfortunately by many churches as well. The moral line in the sand has moved dramatically in the Twentieth Century and these precedents will move it further or erase it altogether. If homosexual marriage is deemed lawful, how can we deny the "rights" of polygamists? If two men can marry, then it would be gross "discrimination" to forbid a man to marry two women or to forbid a woman to marry, say, five men. And what about "temporary" marriages for cash? Can we honestly punish a man or woman for taking cash for a few minutes of sex while allowing Ms. Bellamy to bear children for cash and give them to homosexuals? If we can tolerate the designer manufacture and sale of babies, then what can be deemed immoral or unsightly in the eyes of the law? The answer is nothing, not even child prostitution. BAPTISTS LOSE THEIR LIFE SAVINGS Thousands of Southern Baptists, many of them retirees, have lost their life savings. Most of those affected live in Arizona, but many now live elsewhere. For many months this sad story of the Baptist Foundation in Arizona has been carried mainly by the Baptist Press and some financial publications. On December 6, 1999, however, the story came to national attention in a Newsweek magazine story by Andrew Murr. The full page article by Mr. Murr was factual although secular in nature. In the story the author did not point blame nor did he accuse the officers of the Baptist Foundation of fraud. Unfortunately, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona is directly associated with the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention. For decades the Baptist Foundation was a good investment and made money for Baptists in Arizona. Many thousands of retirees invested in the Foundation. Then in the 1980s the Baptist Foundation went beyond managing retirement funds and church bond issues and invested heavily in the hot real estate markets. For awhile the real estate market investments brought huge returns. The Arizona real estate market collapsed and now the Baptist Foundation is $590 million in debt. The managers of the Baptist Foundation had made a fundamental investment mistake; they had put all the eggs in one basket. Many elderly had everything in the Baptist Foundation. Some had sold their homes and put the money in the Baptist Foundation to pay for retirement centers and medical care in old age. Those funds are no longer available to them. Since the Newsweek story appeared I have contacted numerous Southern Baptist leaders about the situation in Arizona. I believe the entire denomination (of which I am a member) has a spiritual responsibility to help their brethren. Unfortunately I have received legalistic answers to my concerns such as, "Our type of church government does not hold us to the liabilities of a single church or state convention." They are correct. Not a single Southern Baptist church has a legal responsibility to help. Not a single church has a legal responsibility to carry out the Great Commission given by Christ in Matthew 21:22, either. The secular law does not apply to the heart of the church, but the commandments of Jesus do. As a church, as Christians, we must act to help our brothers and sisters in Christ. Perhaps the size of the debt scares people away from helping. But, not all of this $590 million need be raised. In fact as much as 40 cents on the dollar can be retrieved in due time and the auditors may have some financial responsibility. This will take years, and some of those in need of care simply don’t have years to wait. Just a few million dollars set aside in a fund to care for urgent needs would be sufficient for now. Our denomination can easily raise many millions of dollars on any given Sunday for mission work. The Southern Baptist Convention of Arizona has in fact set up the Jerusalem Fund for this purpose but has so far received only about one hundred thousand dollars. This is not enough! My ministry is currently sending a monthly amount to the Jerusalem Fund. Can you help to meet the needs of our brothers and sisters in Christ as well? This is not a denominational issue, this is a compassionate need about which all American Christians should have concern. But if any provide not for his own, and specifically for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 1TIM5:8 Contributions may be sent to: Jerusalem Fund Charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of my family have been filed at long last. 
On December 7, 1999 the U.S. Attorney asked for and received an
indictment against Gary Karr from a federal grand jury in Texas. The
five part indictment alleged that Karr "conspired with other
persons to plot and carry-out the kidnapping scheme for financial
gain." According to the first count of the indictment Karr’s part
in the scheme included, 1) interstate travel between Illinois, Florida,
New Jersey and Texas; 2) renting vehicles to transport the O’Hairs; 3)
renting an apartment in San Antonio and a hotel room in Austin; and, 4)
accompanying Jon Murray to New Jersey where they facilitated a $600,000
wire transfer of funds ..."The second count of the indictment accuses Karr of extortion that affected interstate commerce in that he "... and others stole more than $500,000 in personal property belonging to the O’Hairs." The remaining indictments outlined other federal crimes committed in transporting and converting to cash stolen goods. The allegations are very similar to the questions put to the FBI by Congressman Dick Armey after I asked him to involve himself in the mystery of my missing family. The similarity of the indictments and the materials we furnished Mr. Armey’s office requesting his intervention are striking. Of course, our private investigator did not have the resources of the FBI. The FBI has managed to track down to the hour exactly how the kidnapping was conducted. For example, the indictment states that on August 26, 1995 "...the defendant rented a 1995 Ford Windstar in Austin, Texas." And that on "... August 27, 1995 the defendant drove a Porsche automobile belonging to Robin Murray O’Hair to the Robert Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas...." Although not in the actual indictment, it is fair to say that the FBI even has a good idea of when the kidnappers took turns guarding the victims. Federal authorities believe with great certainty that my mother, brother and daughter were murdered on September 29, 1995. On September 27, 1995 Gary Karr had rented a cargo van in Austin, Texas presumably to carry the bodies of my family once they were murdered. My brother handed over $500,000 to Karr and "another person," whom many believe to be David Waters, on the 29th and that was the last day my brother was seen alive. On October 2nd another cargo van was rented, presumably to move the dismembered bodies to a final burial site which may have been in either Texas or Florida. No charges have as yet been brought against David Waters other than the gun and theft charges for which he is serving sixty years in prison. The FBI believes David Waters is the real "bad guy" and ring leader of the kidnapping gang and they want to tie up all the loose ends before seeking his indictment on kidnapping charges. The estates of my mother, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, my brother, Jon Garth Murray and my daughter, Robin remain in question although a great deal of what was not stolen has been spent by the nine executors, receivers, attorneys and others hired by a Texas judge to "manage" their funds. The bulk of the funds recovered by federal authorities have been handed over to the American Atheists organization. My mother was born poor and lived her life in pursuit of wealth. Yet she perished a prisoner without any material thing in her possession. In her final hour she had but one thing to grasp and that was her own immortal soul. Saint Paul writes in I Timothy 6:7, "We came into this world with nothing and it is certain we will leave with nothing". By nothing Paul refers to the material. We do have our immortal souls to take with us and my mother, like each of us has until the last breath to trust Christ and to seek out Heaven as an eternal refuge for her soul. Did my mother, brother or daughter reach out to God in the final hour? At this hour that information is available only to that One who knows all things.
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In modern America liberal educators love to bash
our founding fathers, particularly George Washington. Perhaps
they are just jealous. George Washington didn't become a great
general and a president by happenstance of history. George
Washington was a brilliant and talented man.