Recently I renounced conservatism in favor of constitutionalism as an assertion of political self-identification. The goal of conservatism is to slow the progressive agenda. The goal of constitutionalism is to totally roll back the progressive agenda through the pursuit of our own agenda which was set by the Founders: to make America a Shining City on a Hill consistent with their pro-active Biblical worldview.

My first act as a constitutionalist was to expose the false choices of Conservative vs Progressive, Capitalist vs Socialist and Left vs Right because these all define a debate framework created by the Marxist elite to advance their agenda and keep the masses neutralized through polarization.

We must think “outside the box” because that box is actually a trap built by the elites to control us.

The next step, therefore, is to establish a new framework and nomenclature of our own, and strategies and tactics for enacting our agenda.

To that end I am forming a Revolutionary Remnant Regiment.

Revolutionary in the sense that we reject the defensive conservative model in which we react to each new initiative of the Marxists and instead set our own policy objectives that reflect our vision for the future. And revolutionary in the manner in which we operate and the philosophy we hold about political alliances and the essentials of a healthy public consensus.

Remnant in the sense that only Yahweh-worshipers whose worldview is defined by Holy Scripture can grasp the true vision of the Founders. It is group with wide theological parameters as implied by the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, that can roughly be summarized as “adherents of Creationist Natural Law presuppositions as reflected in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, capable of distinguishing church from state as separately sovereign ‘coadjuvants’ in a Christian-stewarded “secular” society as the term was understood by the Founders.”

Regiment in the sense that there must be an order to the campaign for restoration of liberty, an order that was best represented during the Revolutionary War by the Black Robed Regiment of Christian clergy who led militias of the continental army. As a long-time member of that regiment philosophically, and by the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, I am forming my own “militia” whose weapons of warfare “are not physical, but are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God” 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.

I will expand on each of these revolutionary concepts in future essays.

In the meantime, send me an email at scottlivelyministries@gmail.com if you want to enlist.

The pro-family movement was slow to emerge in response to the Marxists’ “sexual revolution” strategy for dismantling Judeo-Christian civilization that was launched just after WWII. It began to coalesce during the national pro-life backlash to Roe v Wade in 1973, and had it’s first taste of cultural-street fighting specific to LGBT issues in the brutal Anita Bryant media takedown following her successful campaign to repeal a “sexual orientation” anti-discrimination ordinance in Dade County Florida in 1977.

Mrs. Bryant (we were still allowed to use “Mrs” as a prefix for prominent women then) was the first national symbol of pro-family activism, and thus the first victim of the Marxist smear-machine to be publicly vilified as a social pariah for opposing so-called “gay rights.”

During the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s the pro-family movement became a major political and cultural force, perhaps best represented by the 1986 Supreme Court ruling in Bowers v Hardwick, recognizing the right of states to regulate all sexual conduct (but especially homosexual sodomy) in the public interest. JFK appointee Justice Byron White wrote the majority opinion. Justice Harry Blackmun of Roe v Wade infamy wrote the dissent.

The power of the pro-family movement peaked in the mid-1990s and began to swiftly decline after the irresistible force of Christian constitutionalists met the immovable object of Marxist constitutional revisionism – in the form of Romer v Evans (1996), the first of four majority opinions written by Justice Anthony Kennedy establishing “gay” cultural supremacy in America.

Kennedy’s nomination to the high court had been forced on Ronald Reagan, after the same leftist power-block that destroyed Anita Bryant did the same to Reagan’s first choice, Robert Bork.

In Romer v Evans Kennedy taught the leftist bullies to frame all conservative messaging on LGBT issues as “hate” to render any laws based on conservative values invalid on their face as outside the scope of legitimate legislative authority. That turned the national battlefield over sexual health and morality in public policy into an anti-conservative “killing field” where virtually no-one who stands for traditional Biblical values can survive, since the presumed motive of “hate” by conservatives is deemed so threatening as to justify virtually any act of “self-defense” by leftists: what I call “the Antifa Sanction” and my friend and co-author Kevin Abrams calls the “Victim/Plunder Strategy.”

That’s why so few conservatives stand up to the hard left on LGBT issues and why those who do are true heroes. Here’s my top ten list of them, which I encourage you to use as a guide in your year-end giving. Apologies to other heroes not listed here, but the Lord put these on my heart.

1. Mat Staver and Horatio Mihet of Liberty Counsel
2. Brian Camenker of MassResistance
3. Pastor Stephen Broden and Pastor Paul Blair of Gone2Far.org
4. David Kupelian of WorldNetDaily
5. Ex-Gay Spokesman Steven Black of First Stone Ministries
6. Dr. Michael Brown of The Line of Fire radio show
7. Bryan Fisher of American Family Association Radio
8. Pastor Greg Young of Chosen Generation Radio
9. Peter LaBarbera of AFTAH
10. Scott Lively Ministries www.scottlively.net or via WePay
    

My son Samuel has written his first book, titled The Trojan Mouse: How Disney is Winning the Culture War. You can easily find it online, but I’m hoping you’ll get it from me as a premium for subscribing to my ministry.

If anyone in your extended family or social circle watches Disney films this is a great resource for spotting and neutralizing the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle leftist messaging in the films which are designed to engineer incremental social change through steering the hearts and minds of children.

Sam is a phenomenal film critic and historian, and he’s done a masterful job of detailing the history of the Walt Disney company through several distinct phases, and identifying the specific leftist narratives in the enormous Disney catalogue of films – every one of which he watched and analyzed in his research for The Trojan Mouse.

Sam needs help raising awareness about the book. You can contact him through me at scottlivelyministries@gmail.com.

Sam’s ministry from his early teen years has always been to have a Christian influence on Hollywood and the film industry. We saw this early on because Anne and I home-schooled our children – which frankly was the best decision we ever made as parents. We not only prevented Sam and his older brother Noah from being indoctrinated in Humanism in public schools, we had the chance to identify their natural talents and interests and actively facilitate their growth and learning along the tracks God had established in them.

As the boys were becoming more aware of the things of the world in their pre-teen years, Anne and I grew increasingly angry at the “gotcha” strategy of TV broadcasters who ran crude and obscene advertisements during otherwise family-friendly programming. There was no way to guard against it, so we shut off the TV for good and switched our family entertainment plan to classic films. Five years later, Sam was a full-fledged, home-grown teenage classic film historian who could watch 30 seconds of just about any classic film and tell you the year, plot, cast and director, and had his sights set on a career in film.

In his late teens we were living briefly in Lake Elsinore, CA. One evening Sam called for help because his car had broken down on the I-15 coming home from church youth group in Corona. When I got there, a man had already stopped to help, and I was so grateful I immediately gave him my law office business card and told him to call me if he ever needed help.

“A Christian lawyer?” he said, “I’m a Hollywood stunt coordinator and I’ve always wanted to have a ministry to help young people have an impact on Hollywood.” A true story of God’s Providence! His name was Randall Huber and I set up a nonprofit corporation for him called The Star Above, and last I knew he was doing ‘USO” style entertainment for relief workers of Hurricane Katrina.

He got Sam an internship with a film company at Universal Studios. That springboarded into a script-writing Master’s Degree at Cal State Fullerton, where his professor liked him so much he sponsored him to teach film there immediately after graduation.

Publishing The Trojan Mouse is the next major step in Sam career, and I ask you to help him continue aong that path by buying his book and promoting it to your friends.

However, if you make a donation of $20 or more to my ministry via scottlively.net, I’ll send you a free signed copy of The Trojan Mouse and add you to my postal-mail newsletter The Lively Letter, which is how we fund our missionary lifestyle.

That’s all for now. God bless you, and see you next time.

Civilization as we know it was made possible by sexual self-restraint through the institution of marriage. Sex is like fire – a great blessing when safely contained, a deadly curse when unleashed: the difference between a campfire and a wildfire. Indeed, the word “fornication,” from the root for “furnace” means “to misuse the fire burning within you.”

The natural order of sexuality is taught by God as a set of moral laws backed by cautionary tales.

He first established the model to follow in Genesis 1:27 and 2:24, the “One Flesh” Paradigm: we’re made in His image as male and female for lifelong monogamy at the initiation of the male.

He then tells a series of Bible stories showing the consequences of deviating from the model:

• the story of Abraham’s polygamy that produced the anti-Hebrew nation of Ishmael;
• the story of Sodom and Gomorrah;
• the story of Lot’s incest with his daughters from which came the anti-Hebrew nations of Ammon and Moab;
• the story of Balaam’s weaponization of Moabite sexual rebellion as a strategy to weaken the Isralite society from within; and
• the consistent Old Testament narrative theme identifying adultery as synonymous with idolatry, best recognized in the story of Hosea and Gomer.

Leviticus 18 lists these plus the derivative sin of child sacrifice as the reason God tasked the Hebrews to purge the Canaanites from the Holy Land.

I learned this from Rabbi Samuel Dresner who, incapacitated by cancer, hired me in the late 1990s to complete his unfinished book on the subject.

The systematic deconstruction of Judeo-Christian America in law and culture follows a satanic strategy, using these sins to unravel the social fabric in the reverse order to which God made it. Follow the sequence:

Fornication (sex before marriage): Griswold v Connecticut (1966), legalizing “contraception on demand.”

Adultery: via state-by state adoption of the No-Fault Divorce model statute created in 1967 by the Uniform Law Commission.

Child Sacrifice: Roe v Wade (1973), legalizing “abortion on demand.”

[Long Pause due to pro-life backlash and Reagan Revolution of Christian conservatives]

Sodomy: Lawrence v Texas (2003).

Nullification of Biblical Marriage Norms: Obergefell v Hodges (2015), purporting to establish a constitutional right to “gay marriage.”

Transgenderism: the current stage, attempting to nullifying Genesis 1:27 as a legal and cultural norm.

Transhumanism: the emerging next stage in which the sciences of genetics, robotics and artificial intelligence combine to blend humans with animals and machines, nullifying Genesis 1:24-26.

I’ll continue this analysis in my World Net Daily column of December 31st so please look for that next Tuesday.

The real reason Nancy is slow-walking the fake impeachment

A few weeks ago I stated in my WND column The Democrat Crime Scene Called Ukraine, that the Russian collusion strategy was always about covering up what the Dems A-Team of Evil — the Clinton/Obama/Biden/Soros crime family – did in Ukraine.

They knew from election night 2016 that their crimes would not stay hidden without Hillary in the Oval Office, so their legal defense strategy was to go immediately on the attack. Remember that the Dem elites and their deep state assets aren’t just cold-blooded politicians, they’re cunning lawyers, professional war-gamers, and regime-change super-stars.

The “Russian collusion” narrative was an extortion tactic to pre-taint any Trump investigation into Ukraine as evidence of collusion and force him to drop the case. They picked the wrong guy!

When Mueller’s efforts failed and the Trump team began to expose facts about Ukraine in the build-up to prosecution, the Dems fell back to impeachment, trying to spin Trump’s Ukraine investigation itself as a crime, and the emerging truth as a Trump conspiracy theory concocted as his legal defense to his alleged “extortion efforts.”

But as masterful as their A-Team is, Trump has outmaneuvered them.

People wonder how the Dems (even the Dems) could persist in an impeachment process so embarrassingly baseless and unethical. It’s because they have no choice. They are utterly desperate. All of their collective power and aspirations stand at risk if what their party leaders did in Ukraine is prosecuted in open court!

Now it is clear that the prosecution will proceed, so what’s left in their arsenal? It’s civil war or worse, and, considering that Ahab and Jezebel Clinton are leading the team, I assume all options are open, with civil war being most likely.

What is the key to triggering civil war? It is hyper-polarization even beyond what we’ve yet seen.

Who has the power of hyper-polarization? The Trump-hating corporate media, including now Christianity Today (whose shocking Christmas-time sabotage suggests Dem collusion).

Why then is Pelosi slow-walking the impeachment process? My guess is she was told to delay the start of the acquittal phase to time a riveting false flag incident – a bloody showdown in Virginia over gun rights, perhaps? – during the holiday season when the power of media-driven spin and propaganda can be maximized.

Call me a conspiracy nut, but they really are the A-Team of Evil and they’re cornered. Just do the math.

This is the first of a series of autobiographical videos and essays that will be published on the page titled A Lively Life

Tribalism is an unnecessarily derogatory term for the normal human tendency to form affinity groups. Most tribalism is healthy and benign. What makes tribalism unhealthy is polarization into opposing camps of “Us” vs “Them” in which honest objectivity about ourselves and our opponents gives way to “jingoism:” meaning we lionize our side and demonize the other to a dangerous extreme. Jingoism was coined to describe patriotic fanaticism in wartime, but is most commonly seen in American politics.

The elites have perfected polarization as a tactic for neutralizing the masses, and that phenomenon of orchestrated jingoism-driven polarization is what we see on display today, not organic tribalism. As Jesus said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand” and thus we are being driven deliberately toward civil war to defeat our stand against globalism.

The elites of the British Empire perfected the divide and conquer technique in geo-politics following World War I, carving up the conquered people into new nation-states to dilute the cultural cohesion of the populations, especially in Europe and the Middle east. Reuniting the “German-speaking people” whom the British had split apart to weaken them politically was the issue that propelled Adolf Hitler to power during the Weimar era leading to World War II.

After WWII, and the stunning advance of mass communication technology, it became easier to manipulate the public, and the Socialist elites who had fled Europe to the United States in the 1930s recognized this was the key to reshaping the world in their image. They quickly infiltrated Hollywood and the media but pushed too hard too fast, triggering a legitimate back-lash in the 1950s that they still mock today as the “Red Scare” as if it was all a baseless conspiracy theory.

By the 1960s they had refined their skills and the rest is history – specifically the history of the culture war that we Constitutionalists have been losing steadily for seventy years as mass-media driven leftist “narratives” supplanted self-evident truths in the public mind.

The elites are a relatively small group of people who are united in the Marxist theology of Humanism (notwithstanding nominal religious affiliations) and in the agenda of globalism. The measure of their success is the percentage of non-elite Dupes they convince to align with them.

What they fear most is unification of we Constitutionalists and our rescue of the Dupes, so keeping is polarized is essential

How polarization works as a neutralizer is best shown in their response to the Tea Party movement, which arose spontaneously in 2009 against Obama’s Marxist agenda.

To counter the Tea Party, the elites did two things. First, they created a polar opposite called Occupy Wall Street and deployed their standing army of street activists Dupes to make it newsworthy. That was to shift the Tea Partiers focus away from the elites toward a visible and familiar adversary. Second, they tasked the Republican establishment to absorb the Tea Party into the GOP and diffuse it. Viola, the Tea Party was neutered.

However, being a true ground-up revolution it continued to spread and grow across the world – fanned by the hubris of Obama, who thought he could force the global socialist order into reality during his presidency. He turned up the heat too fast and the sleeping populist frog woke up and jumped out of the pot. That in turn triggered Brexit in the elites’ stronghold of London, and Donald Trump in the elites’ stronghold of New York. And because of those two victories, there is real hope for defeating globalism.

Now back to the problem of forced tribalism in the United States. Although it can work in our favor in the short term, while the “Us” is a partnership of Constitutionalists and Conservative Populists, and the “Them” is the Purple Uniparty of the Clintons/Bushes/Obama/Biden and Soros, we’re headed for civil war unless – after we re-elect President Trump – we transition from war-time tribalism to the peacetime reconstruction.

Here is where the unparalleled wisdom of Christ comes in. He is the one told us that we must love our enemies, and inspired Paul to advise us that “inasmuch as it is within your power, live at peace with all men.”

Today we’re fighting a defensive war with the hard left who are vicious aggressors working to overthrow our president and constitution and install a Marxist regime. It’s not possible to live at peace with these opponents now. We must defeat them!

But after we reelect President Trump, as I am certain will occur, we will have the power and opportunity to reconstruct America in the same way that the God-fearing Greatest Generation reconstructed Germany and Japan after WWII.

Our war-time jingoism – in which all our adversaries have one group identity – must give way to what Chuck Colson called “restorative justice” in which our goal is to identity and rehabilitate those individuals whose minds and hearts are reclaimable, while stripping power from those who are not.

Yes, the main culprits behind the anti-Trump coup must be prosecuted and jailed. Yes, the deep state must be purged like cancer from our government. Yes, the Marxists must be gently but firmly removed from all the institutional seats of power and influence, starting with our public schools and universities. But we must never allow tribalism and jingoism to make us behave like our adversaries who cannot see the humanity in each person. We must have sympathy for the Dupes whose primary fault is believing the leftist propaganda their lives have been steeped in since childhood.

What then must our post-war agenda be? It must be the reimposition of the rule of law and ethics, and a return to the “melting pot” mind-set in which all tribes and cultures within our borders are one American family – all subject to the values and vision of Constitutionalism.

So by all means let’s make the best of this forced tribalism until we win, then let’s get back to showing the world what true American greatness really looks like.

“Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed” John 8:36.

Freedom in Christ extends far beyond the fundamental truth usually discussed in sermons: our life-saving liberation from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2), which occurs the instant we accept the free gift of salvation in Him.

His freedom extends even beyond liberation from addictions and other behavioral disorders. He freed me from sixteen years of bondage to drugs and alcohol in 1986 – at the precise moment I surrendered my life to him on my knees in a secular rehab center.

Importantly, our Messiah also liberates us from obligation to human-created customs, traditions, rituals and other expectations of men, which are even stronger chains than physical or psychological addictions.

It was precisely the human tendency to bind ourselves by man-made rules that the Pharisees exemplified and that Jesus rebuked more forcefully than any other human sin. In His preamble to the seven counts in His legal indictment of the House of Judah in Matthew 23, called the “Seven Woes,” he explained:

“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them….But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.”

This exhortation from the lips of God Himself is the theological foundation-stone of individual sovereignty which makes the rule of law through Constitutionalism possible.

But it also explains why all Bible-based religions and denominations have strayed from the Biblical Worldview (to varying degrees), in that so very much of what we Yahweh-worshipers do and think about serving and following God is based on human interpretations of the Bible and not the Bible itself.

Total liberation lets us follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in anything that is truly from God, regardless of what anyone else thinks about it. The more our minds are conformed to the Biblical Worldview the easier it is to exercise and enjoy the fullness of that freedom.

I have reorganized my life around this profound truth and I encourage you do so as well.

From Chic-Fil-A to Hallmark to the Southern Baptist Convention to Josh Harris’ public recanting of Christian faith, there is ample evidence to suggest that the “Great Falling Away” has begin — and, of course, it is all the bitter fruit of “gay theology.” As prophesied, homosexuality is the last-days litmus test for Biblical faithfulness vs surrender to the world. That is the theme of my book, The Petros Prophecy, which I offer freely in PDF HERE Please use this book and flyer as tools to strengthen and encourage the faithful remnant and to reprove and exhort those who are wavering in their faith.

As part of my law program I minored in human rights and in 1997 earned a Certificate’ in that field at the University of Strasbourg, France.

The history of human rights in Western Civilization is the history of Constitutionalism and of the Common Law. They all begin at Runnymede, England in 1215 with the Magna Carta, a set of restrictions on the power of the British monarchy. The Magna Carta was the first constitution in the western world, and the origin of the rule of law in place of rule by monarchs.

Importantly, Rule #1of the Magna Carta was “The English church shall be free.” Not accidentally, our First Amendment to the United States Constitution also begins “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Constitutionalism eventually became a full-fledged Bible-based political ideology in England.

In 1620, America’s first constitution took the form of a coventental oath by British separatists. Their “Mayflower Compact” was adopted in part “to advance the Christian faith,” and the goal of their government was soon afterward envisioned as the “Shining City on a Hill” of Matthew 5.

Constitutionalism was fleshed out in Thomas Hobbs’ Leviathan (1651), and elegantly refined by John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690).

Locke’s first treatise rebutted Sir Robert Filmer’s defense of the “Divine Right of Kings,” in which Filmer argued that God intended humanity always to be subject to one divinely appointed king in an unbroken line of succession from Adam. Locke countered Filmer’s argument with a point by point explication of the Biblical concepts of individual freedom and equality originating in our creation as individual sovereign beings under His rule.

Locke’s second treatise applied those principles to the social contract theory of government, essentially creating what would become the core of American political philosophy as summarized in the Declaration of Independence.

In the 1700s, a heavy political battle in England between constitutionalist Whigs and the pro-royalist Tories spilled over to the American colonies, essentially setting the stage for the American Revolution, which operated in a sense as their proxy war — of which Americans were the biggest winners.

To be a constitutionalist is thus to align with the Founders love for the Bible-based rule of law, and to diligently pursue their vision to make and preserve America as a Shining City on a Hill.