An.Overview o.

f 1987
Written for the Members of
Chalcedon Presbyterian Church
by Joseph C. Morecraft, ill
cause job loss. The feal cillprit in our .
trade situation is the federal govern-
JTient, which is using our tax money to
guarantee loans to nations, which are
using our money to subsidize our
competitors in those nations. That
must stop, but it will not in 1987, so
our trade crisis will worsen.
F. Health. Hecii.th and Human
The 1980's has proven to be the de- Contras. aisuring the consolidation of Services Secretary Otis Bowen has re-
cade of choosing sides. Christians are the Soviet-backed regime in Nicaragua; commended an expansion of Medicare
beginning to look like Christians and I believe the battle for this hemisphere tO take over the catastrophic health
anti-christians are looking more and will be determined in Nicaragua this coverage of the elderly that is now
more like anti-christians. While olir decade. provided by private-sector insurance
numbers and influence increase daily, B. South Africa. . Congress companies. this will be a fiscal disaster
the assaults and advances of the anti- will extend the sanctions against South and a dangerous step toward a full-
christians become more intense and Africa, thereby strengthening the blown, government-fun national health
more overt Before this decade is over ist forces of the Comniunist-dominated insurance scheme on the British model.
most Americans will have to choose African National Congress. Congress G. Defense. While raising dc:r
whom they will serve: Christor Baal. may even vote to cut off all U.S. rnestic spending, the Congress will
With humanism as the tax-supported relations with South Africa and foree an continue to slash defense spending,
established religion in America, firmly end to all trade between the two coon- thereby continuing t<> jeopardize our
entrenched in our politics, education and tries. national Security.
churches, I expect the remaining three C. Federal Spending. The H. Strategic Defense Ini-
years of this decade to be stormy, both president's reconunended federal budget tiative. Instead of pressing the
in the increased persecution of Chris- is over one trillion dollars, making bini Administration to work to dePloy this
tians and in the devastating effects of the biggest spender in the history of space-based; non-nuclear, proven effec-
humartism on our economy. However, I American presidents. Congress will con- tive, Peace Shield, Congress will con-
do expect reformed Christianity to in- its reckless, runaway spending tinue to slash funding for it so that
rease_in._its.influence.-and-adberents.-1-spree.-The-budget-will-not-bebalaneed,--even-its-long-term-researeh-ancidevelop---
expect Chalcedon P.resbyterian Church and. even Gramm-Rudman requirements ment will be hampered.
to blossom as it never has before, will be disregarded. I. Judicial Nominations.
In this letter 1 want to share with you D. Education. An education Given the brutal, ideological warfare
my perspective and prospects on the is- paclcage will be put together in an at- waged against the conservative judicial
sues and events of 1987. Obviously my tempt to move quickly to increase fed- nominees in 1986, when the Democrats
views are far, far from infallible. But eral ed.u((_ation spending and to reimpose were in .the minOrity in the Senate,
based on my study of the Bible and of federal controls on local education that things will get even bloodier now that
the concerns and currents of the age in were removed by the Reagan reforms in they are in control.
which we live, I will work out my 1981. Studies; which prove that federal J. Civil Rights
goals and strategies based on the fol- control and subsidizing of local educa- tion Act. Under . the guise of merely
lowing. observations and forecasts. I tion produce massive declines in educa- restoring laws prohibiting discrimina-
pray that these conunents will be of tion, will be disregarded, and public ed'- tion based on race, sex, age or handicap,
some help to you as you strive this ucation will worsen. this bill will be the most massive
year to be a true son of lssachar men- E. Omnibus Trade Bill. expansion of federal control in history
tioned in I Chronicles 12:32, who were Congress will pasS this all-encompas- on vi.rt,ually every aspect of American
"men who understood their times, with sing bill which will liberalize techno- life. It is also referred to as the Grove
knowledge of what Israel should logy transfers to communist nations City bill.
do ....... " like the U.S.S.R .. On the other hand, it II. The of Tax
I. The Agenda of the lOOth will mandate more tariffs and impo.i:t Reform
Congress quotas on pro-western countries like Pespite tax cuts and tax simplifica-
With the Democrats controlling both Taiwan, West Germany, and'Japan. It tion, the amount of taxes we will pay
houses of Congress, we can expect in was this type of bill that deepened and in 1987 will be higher, and the tax code
1987 a full-scale war against a conserva- extended the Great Depression by will be more complicated. Congressiort-
tive agenda. creating international trade wars. Tariffs al deception will call for raising the
A. Contra Aid. Congression- and import quotas, used to protect cer- taxes of high-income people, but inid-
al liberals will cut off further aid to the tain industries, always raise prices and dle'-income earnerS' will pay for the in-
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creased spending, because there are not
enough high-income people to satisfy
the spending appetite of Congress.
Walter Williams predicts: "As taxes rise
people become more innovative in
avoidance and evasion; Congress
responds by getting tougher. I predict
Congress will change our currency for
the 'stated' purpose of catching drug
pushers, but the real purpose will be to
find out who has how much money,
and whether they paid taxes on it.
Additional clamping down will be
found in tax regulations requiring
identity numbers for all Americans over
five-years-old. You will have to march
your children down to the Social Secur- .
ity office and get them an identity
number."
III. The Changing of the U.S.
Constitution
Beginning this year and going
through 1989, we will celebrate the
200th anniversary of the Constitutional
Convention that met in Philadelphia
(1787-1789). Leading humanists and
socialists will use this time to
"reappraise" our nation's governmental
system. Efforts will be made to
"modernize" out Constitution and to
make government more efficient. What
all these suggested "reforms" mean, is
that there will be a move afoot to
change the Constitution by replacing it
will a new one. Perhaps a constitu-
tional convention will be called for this
purpose. Watch out for the hidden
agenda of the Bicentennial Agenda to
trash our Constitution for another one,
perhaps, similar to the parliamentarian
model of Great Britain, thus dismant-
ling, legally and finally, our constitu-
tional republican form of government.
IV. The Threat of Aids
Because homosexuality will continue
to be legalized, even made into a legal
minority, protected by law through
quotas, etc.; and because sexual promis-
cuity, encouraged by, among other
things, rampant ptonography and the
continuing break-down Of a national
moral consensus bases on biblical
standards, A.I.D.S. (Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome) will increase. Dr.
Frank Press, president of the National
AGademy of Sciences said: "Beginning
in 1990, we will lose as many Ameri-
cans each year to AIDS as we lost in
the entire Vietnam War." That was
about 58,000 people. However, in the
light of recent studies, Press's comment
is a gross understatement. Other scien-
tists, researchers and medical personnel
have explicitly described AIDS as be-
coming the worst plague in the past
one thousand years. A few hundred
years ago the Black Plague in Europe
killed about 70 million people! Many
researchers are giving up on a medical
cure. But it has also been shown that
there is a defmite cure that can stop the
AIDS epidemic dead in its tracks: Re-
pentance of homosexuality, sexual
promiscuity and the abuse of drugs.
Learn all you can about this epidemic
and take precautions to protect yourself
and your family.
The solutions that are being offered
only exacerbate the situation. The Na-
tional Academy of Sciences, for ex-
ample, has issued a report recom-
mending a $2 billion federal program of
education and research to combat AIDS.
In addition it has urged a widespread
campaign to warn people to "protect
themselves against AIDS by using con-
doms, avoiding anal intercourse with
infectedindi viduals and notsharing need-
les and syringes for injecting drugs."
Wonderful! Instead of reconunending
complete abstinence from homosexual-
ity, sexual promiscuity and the abuse of
drugs, it recommends safer homosexual-
ity, safer sexual promiscuity and safer
drug-abuse. The Surgeon General's
Report on AIDS is no better. Everett
Koop's report contains similar advice.
In fact Dr. Koop goes so far as to write:
"Education about AIDS should start at
an early age so that children can grow
up knowing the behaviors to avoid to
protect themselves from exposure to the
AIDS virus. AIDS education must start
at the lowest grade possible as part of
any health and hygiene program. There
is now no doubt that we need sex
education in schools and that it includes
information on sexual practices that
may put our children at risk for AIDS."
Moreover, the Surgeon General's report
recommends as resource material, per-
iodicals produced by homosexual organi-
zations.
V. The Hidden Story of Infla-
tion
In 1986, inflation, the increase of the
money supply, increased in a big way,
but hardly anyone has mentioned it
The money supply increased around
14% in 1986. During the last six
months the annual rates of increase
have been even greater--17%. This
enormous money supply growth is
inflation, and it is the first and major
factor that may cause a resurgence of
double-digit price increases beginning
in 1987. The second major factor
indicating a resurgence of price in-
creases in 1987 is the federal deficit and
debt. The deficit in fiscal 1986 was
larger than any federal budget prior to
1972. And the fiscal 1986 deficit was
larger than the combined total federal
budgets from 1789 to 1942.
John Robbins has pointed out that
the "federal debt, now admitted to be
over $2.2 trillion by the government,
has been financed in part by foreign
lenders who, faced with a dollar losing
value on the foreign currency markets
and falling interest rates, may soon be
reluctant to lend any more money to the
federal government. When that happens,
the Federal Reserve will have to create
even more money by buying more
government debt itself and by lowering
the interest rate at which it lends
money. As soon as the owners of real
savings, whether foreign or domestic,
hesitate to lend their money to the
federal government and choose rather to
invest their savings in income or
wealth producing businesses and proper-
ty, the Federal Reserve, as the govern-
ment's banker, must fill the financing
gap. The only way the Federal Reserve
can do that is to inflate (meaning, to
create new money)."
The above information has been ob-
tained from the following periodicals,
all of which I highly reconunend: (1).
The New American, 395 Concord
Ave., Belmont, Mass. 02178, a bi-
weekly, $39 yearly; (2). Human
Events, 422 First Street, S.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20003, a weekly,
$30 annually; (3). Chattanooga News-
Free Press, 400 E. 11th St., P.O. Box
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westminster Presbytery
Media Ministry
. -, 1447, Chattanooga, lN. 37401-1447,
$1_04. In my opinion, this is the best
daily newspaper in the South. (4). AIM
Report, Accuracy in Media, 1275 K St.
N.W., Suite 1150, Washington, D.C.
20oo5, a bi-weekly, $15 _annually. (5);
The Freeman, The Foundation for Ec-
onomic Education, Jr\t4lgton-on-Hud-
son, New York, l0533, a monthly, $10
annually. (6). Conservative Digest,
P.O. Box 2246, Ft. Collins, CO;
80522, monthly, $19,95. (7).
don Report, Chalcedon, P.O. Box 158,
Vallecito, CA 95251, monthly, $10" or
more donation. (8). The , Rutherford
Institute, P. 0. Box 510, Manassas,
VA 22110, five times a year, $10 or
For nearly seven years, this ministrY has t9mB;ke ..
available literature designed to instruct people m the and
Reformed tradition. Recently, it bas made available audio ana v1deo
tapes of outstariding Bible ;tt a very reasonable
price. S()meof these speakers include Gary
Cal John Lofton, Rod Mays, Donald and Henry
Krabbendam. One of the conferences that has been taped the last
several years is the America.
more annually. (9). F AC-Sheet, Ply- Some or" the excellent bookletS that we have are:
mouth Rock Foundation, P.O. Box Dlitirictives of Biblical Presbyterianism, by John M. Otis
425, Marlborough, NH 03455, pub- Infant Baptism: A Duty of God's People, by Kenneth L. Gentry,
lished periodically for any donation. The Usefulness of Creeds, by Ken Gentry
(10). Daily News Digest, P.O. Box Cr'uciaNssues Regarding Tongues, by Ken Gentry
39850, Phoenix, AR 85069, weekly, the Christian Case Against Abortion, by Ken Gentry
$177 annually. (11). The Conservative Understanding ihe Miraculous Gifts Of The Holy Spirit, by Barnes
Caucus, headed by Howard Phillips, is, - The 'Necessity For The Christian School, by John M. OtiS
in my estimation, the best conservative The Praying Christian: (;od's by John M. Otis
organization in Washington. It has a _ _
variety of excellent periodicals. Write Why not write us fot a price list concerning our _materials? Better yet, why not
to: The Caucus, 450 drder a package which includes each one of our booklets? 'fl.le package price is
Mapel Ave. East, Vienna, VA 22180. $6.00 (this includes postage & handling). - ----- _ _
(12)- Cangr.essionaL (Jlu;lr:tt:r-l)L-WeeklJ--
Report, 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washing- Order from: '
ton, D.C. 20037, weeklyj around $800 Westminster Presbytery .
annually. . 'Christian Education Committee
It is my earnest prayer that 1987 will Rt 1, Box 3
be a blessed year for you and your Coeburn v A 24230
family. I firmly believe that we are on '
the verge of the greatest spiritual reviv-
al America has ever expl;l'ienced. May
our daily prayer be: "0 Lord, revive
your work in the midst of the years; and
in your anger remember mercy."
. May the promises of Leviticus 26
and Deuteronomy 28 come true for you
this year as you are faithful to Jesus
Christ. Spend hours m 1987 Studying
the book of Jeremiah and you will
understand what is happening around
you. "Pursue peace (the restoration of
God's order) and holiness (the conformi-
ty of life to God's revealed Law),
without which no one will ever see the
Lord."
Your servant in Jesus Christ,
For a Christian Republic,
Joe Morecraft, ill 0
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