Hidden No Longer

As many of you know, my guest this morning was Kevin Annett who informed us about the history of abuse, torture, and genocide of Aboriginal Canadian children in the Jesuit modeled, Church/State-run boarding schools and the concerted efforts of the churches, the Canadian government, the British Crown, and the Papacy to ignore it and cover it up and to prevent prosecution of those responsible. Here are vital links given during that interview, which will be re-aired on www.libertyradiolive.com at 2 PM and 11 PM Central time today and possibly this weekend.



The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State http://itccs.org/



To download Kevin's revealing book, "Hidden No Longer" (pdf) http://hiddennolonger.com/



Kevin Annett's website www.hiddenfromhistory.org



If you wish to contact Kevin, or to support his efforts, his email address is:  hiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com



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Barack Obama will be in New York tonight to wine and dine wealthy homosexuals that are waging war against Traditional Marriage

Barack Obama will be in New York tonight to wine and dine wealthy homosexuals as they wage war against Traditional Marriage.



The fundraising event, designed to curry favor with the Homosexual Lobby cost up to $35,800 to attend with 600 guests.



It's been described as a "star-studded gala" to court prominent and generous "allies of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community."



Fiddling as Rome burns...



But we still have a chance to stop them!



According to the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Stephen Saland and Sen. Mark Grisanti could give in and become the single Republican vote the homosexuals need to pass their radical bill.



Please call them immediately.



Sen. Stephen Saland at 518-455-2411



Sen. Mark Grisanti at 518-455-3240



Please take action today.



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Eugene Delgaudio

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THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES

Delta adopts Saudi 'no-Jew' fly policy

Challenge to discrimination building as Congress, lawyers warned of plan

By Bob Unruh

© 2011 WND

Delta Air Lines' plan to add Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance of partnering companies would require the American carrier to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights from New York or Washington bound for Jeddah, prompting outraged accusations of illegal religious discrimination.

The issue, which has caught the attention of the American Center for Law and Justice already, was raised when Washington attorney Jeffrey Lovitky was perusing airline procedures for travel.

"As we learn more about the issue and facts, we are determined to ensure that American citizens do not face discrimination by airlines like Delta that are passenger code-sharing with Saudi Arabian Airlines," said Colby M. May, director and senior counsel of the ACLJ.

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"We will be communicating our position with members of Congress, the State Department and Delta Air Lines to ensure that the rights of American citizens are protected," he said.

The issue first was presented to Congress, the public and others by talk radio host and former U.S. Rep. Fred Grandy, whose own battle against discrimination was documented when his former radio station demanded he tone down criticism of Islam on his program. He then left the station.

Grandy and "Mrs. Fred," – Catherine – recently were interviewed by Talk 1200 show host Jeff Katz about the controversy, which was described as "outrageous."

Their conversation has been posted online

"Creeping Shariah? Now [it is] jetspeed Shariah. Hat's off to Delta. It looks like Delta will be the first Shariah-compliant airline in the United States," Catherine Grandy said.

Katz noted, "As a Jewish man, I might not be able to fly on Delta Air Lines in the future."

Fred Grandy told Katz that he spent time already this week in Washington briefing members of Congress and other policy makers "on this kind of threat."

"This creeping Shariah, economic jihad, gets you everywhere you turn," Catherine Grandy said. "This is just not right. I'm sure this will be tested."

Fred Grandy said there were several questions raised by the controversy, including would passengers continue to fly on Delta, what should the government do and the advance of Shariah in the United States.

"If this isn't one landing strip at a time, I don't know what is," he said.

Delta officials did not respond to a WND phone call asking for comment, but their sentiment is clear in letters they wrote to Lovitky when he complained about their plans.

Lovitky told WND that he personally raised the issue with the Delta CEO Richard Anderson when he discovered the plan while making travel arrangements. He said Anderson didn't respond, but Kathy M. Johnston, a coordinator for the airline's "Customer Care" did write a letter.

She blamed the plan to discriminate on Saudi Arabian requirements and said Lovitky should consult the State Department.

"Delta must also comply with all applicable laws in every country it serves and by the same token passengers are responsible to obtain the necessary travel documents required for entry into another country prior to their day of travel," she wrote. "If a passenger travels without proper documents, the passenger may be denied entry into that country and our airline may be fined. Delta assumes responsibility for ensuring that each passenger boarding our aircraft has the proper documents for travel to their ticketed destination."

Lovitky told WND that whatever discrimination the Saudis choose to enforce in their nation, it becomes a problem when Delta applies it to American citizens on American soil.

"Delta Air Lines acted in a purely voluntary manner in agreeing to this alliance with Saudi Airlines," he wrote in a letter asking the Delta board to act on the matter. "Accordingly, Delta has made itself responsible for ensuring that passengers on any flight jointly operated with Saudi Airlines will not be subject to discrimination on the basis of their gender, religion, or any other inappropriate grounds."

Fred Grandy

He told WND he has not yet heard back from the board members he contacted, nor have specific action plans been adopted by the ACLJ. But he noted the other restrictions that could be forced on Americans at Washington's Dulles airport and New York's JFK.

The restrictions could include clothing requirements for women and banning passengers from "carrying and reading religious literature of their choice."

"This includes, but is not limited to, both Christian and Jewish sacred texts, such as the Old Testament and the New Testament, as well as any objects that reflect their religion, such as a cross necklace," Lovitky said.

"You can imagine how foreign it is to our values as Americans," he told WND. "To adhere to restrictions of this nature is extremely burdensome.

"This needs to be addressed in a way which is consistent with our Western values," he said.

The plan apparently is proceeding through negotiations with a goal of having the Saudi airline aboard the Delta alliance in 2012. Delta's website lists Aeroflot, AeroMexico, AirEuropa, Air France, Alitalia, China Southern, CSA Czech Airlines, Kenya Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Korean Air, TAROM and Vietnam Airlines as "SkyTeam Partners" already.

But Lovitky pointed out to Delta that Congress recently considered a plan to address Saudi Arabia's discrimination, noting the government there confirms visas will not be issued for an Israeli passport holder or a passport that has an Israeli arrival/departure stamp, "those who don't abide by the Saudi traditions concerning appearance and behaviors" and "Jewish People."

"Delta is prohibited from engaging in religious discrimination by a variety of state and federal laws, as well as its own Code of Ethics," he wrote. "However, Delta would be directly involving itself in the most heinous form of religious discrimination if it were to enter into any code share or other reciprocal travel arrangements with any airline which refuses boarding to individuals of specific religious persuasions.

"I urge Delta to shun any reciprocal travel arrangements with Saudi Arabian Airlines until the government of Saudi Arabia provides assurances that persons who acknowledge being Jewish on their visa applications will be granted visas."

He also was upset that Delta's response to a followup letter was to say, "we respectfully consider this matter closed and we will not be responding to this matter again."

Grandy previously had a talk show on WMAL in Washington, on which his wife was a periodic guest to discuss "creeping Shariah," the advance of Islamic law in the U.S.

Some of her comments have been posted on YouTube.

Already, in the United Kingdom, Shariah courts are given authority to resolve certain issues outside of ordinary judicial proceedings. Islamic law, as it is practiced in many Muslim countries, includes penalties such as the chopping off a hand for thievery and execution for adultery and abandoning Islam.

The Muslim Brotherhood's stated goal is to restore the caliphate, the Islamic empire under Ottoman Turkish rule for five centuries, and expand it throughout the world.

Grandy said his wife was "the one running point on this," joining the show every Friday.

Grandy said his wife would discuss issues in the news, such as Christian missionaries who were arrested in Detroit for attending a city-sponsored "Arab Fest" and discussing their religious faith as well as a Tulsa, Okla., police officer who said he was demoted for refusing to attend an Islamic religious event and prayer service as ordered by his department.

"We had FBI agents calling after the show, [telling us] 'We're glad you're talking about this. We're not even getting this in our briefings,'" Grandy said.

The former congressman said the situation reached a climax in February after the show supported a large public forum on the agenda of radical Islam in the United States.

At the forum, a number of experts discussed Shariah, Islamic fundamentalism and other topics.

"To our amazement, we got back to the station [and were] told to tone it down," he said. But because of the importance of the issue, his wife continued raising questions, and was told, "You're off the show."

Grandy said he was told to take or leave it and, "I left it."

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, routinely criticized Grandy for reading on air FBI reports and federal court documents identifying the group as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the federal Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial and a member of the "U.S. Muslim Brotherhood."

"CAIR has been identified by the government at trial as a participant in an ongoing and ultimately unlawful conspiracy to support a designated terrorist organization – a conspiracy from which CAIR never withdrew," wrote assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Jacks, who won an award from Attorney General Eric Holder for convicting the Holy Land terrorists.

"From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders," said assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg in a separate terror case, "CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists."

As a result, the FBI cut off all ties to CAIR's national office and its 30 chapters around the country.

WND also has reported about a suspected case of honor killing in which authorities suggested a woman died by beating her own face and an opinion from a leading Muslim that to chop off the hands of a thief is "compassionate."

Also, there are those who are warning that Islam is coming to the United States, whether citizens like it or not.

There also is a recent report that documents how dozens of mosques around the United States have been identified in a new study as incubators for jihad against America, with more than 80 percent of those surveyed advocating violence.

"Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51 percent had texts on-site rated as severely advocating violence; 30 percent had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19 percent had no violent texts at all," said the survey compiled by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi and published by the Middle East Quarterly.

"How's this for a wake-up call?" asked Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, in a commentary in the Washington Times.

"America's most cherished civil liberties and the Constitution that enshrines them are enabling Muslim Brotherhood operatives and other Islamists who have the declared mission of destroying our freedoms and government 'from within … by [our] hands.' Specifically, our enemies are using our tolerance of religion to create an infrastructure of mosques here that incubate the Islamic holy war called jihad."

Among the findings in the study, "Shariah and Violence in American Mosques" by Kedar, an assistant professor at Bar Ilan University in Israel, and Yerushalmi, the general counsel for Center for Security Policy, were that:

Mosques identified as being more Shariah-adherent -- that is, their imams wore beards, they segregated men from women and the like -- were more likely "to feature violence-positive texts on-site." In 84.5 percent of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts. Of the 51 percent of the mosques with texts severely advocating violence, 100 percent were led by imams who recommended that worshippers study texts promoting violence. Nearly three in five of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad.

"Such findings strongly suggest that Shariah-adherence is a useful predictor of sympathy for – and, in some cases at least, action on behalf of – jihad, to include both the Islamists' violent or stealthy forms of warfare aimed at supplanting the U.S. Constitution and government," Gaffney said. "Indeed, the study confirms the anecdotal reports by Muslims themselves and earlier, less rigorous empirical studies of Saudi hate-filled literature permeating mosques in the United States." Read more at www.wnd.com

 

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Video: Sen. Rand Paul Questions Invasive TSA Searches - 06/22/11

Sen. Paul spoke at a full committee hearing of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee regarding invasive TSA searches.

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Sen. Rand Paul Questions Invasive TSA Searches - 06/22/11

Sen. Paul spoke at a full committee hearing of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee regarding invasive TSA searches.

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Sunday laws and Ecumenism, a fast-spreading trend unto a Theocracy

Dionne Sabbay Thompson Christian Religious Liberty Examiner

"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence" John 18:36 Credits:  Google Photos

Video: The Sunday Law is coming

Listen to a Bible study relating to Sealing and Christ.

Revelation 13:3, 12 speaks of a “deadly wound” healing.  Since 1798, with the occurrence of France’s epidemic of "giddy" licentiousness, the earth’s inhabitants have been under the influence of rising godless ideology – please see Spirit of Prophecy volume 4 p. 191.  America’s freedom of religion remains fairly new, relative to Papal Rome’s kingdom and its 1260 year reign.  “The time period of 1260 is mentioned seven times in the bible and seven is the number of completion, emphasizing the completeness of the scriptures in prophecy, highlighting the delay of God’s work and its closure Daniel 7:25; 12:7; Revelation 11:2,3; 12:6,14; 13:5”, A Soul Sealed at Character Perfection p. 84. “In no land had the spirit of enmity against Christ and the truth been more strikingly displayed than in giddy and godless France” Spirit of Prophecy volume 4 p. 191, also see Rev 11:7,8.  The "Two Witnesses" are the Old and New Testament mentioned in Rev. 11:3.

One Sunday-Sabbath for the Globe >>> One Sabbath

A Theocracy, per the Oxford Dictionary (American edition) is “a form of government by ‘god’ directly or through a priestly order”.  A Theocracy implements religious laws within its political governing system, requiring compliance from all its citizens.  There are many who seek to erase the Decalogue, God’s character Transcript:  however, attention must be called to this serious matter, as no human can erase what God writes with His finger Exo. 31:18.   God’s Ten Commandments mentioned in Exo. 20 is the original Immutable, Divine Moral law, but what is its counterfeit?  History reveals that in 321 AD Emperor Constantine enforced (by law) a counterfeit Sunday-Sabbath, which consequently caused seventh-day Sabbath keepers to be martyred for non-compliance.

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"Protestantism shall give the hand of fellowship to the Roman power. Then there will be a law against the Sabbath of God's creation, and then it is that God will do His 'strange work' in the earth" - Last Day Events p. 130.  Please see video below for present truth regarding this quotation.

Ecumenical Movement - Video "Protestantism shall give the hand of fellowship to the Roman power"

Conversely,Waldenses or Vaudois, were known for their compliance to the seventh-day Sabbath, and they were the first of Europe to receive a translated copy of the Holy Scriptures, possessing it hundreds of years before the Reformation - see Great Controversy pg. 65.   The Great Controversy pg 68 reveals that these individuals were known to congregate beneath the shadow of mountains, in the Alpine valleys of Europe.  “The Vaudois churches, in their purity and simplicity, resembled the church of apostolic times. Rejecting the supremacy of pope and prelate, they held the Bible as the only supreme, infallible authority. Their pastors, unlike the lordly priests of Rome, followed the example of their Master, who ‘came not to be ministered unto, but to minister”. They fed the flock of God, leading them to the green pastures and living fountains of his holy Word”.   The historical enforcement of Sunday laws legitimized torture and murderous acts of God's law-keeping Waldensians who were labeled heretics.

Today, Catechism of the Catholic Church by Libreria Editrice Vaticana  1994 misinterprets God’s holy-finger written Ten Commandments.  The third commandment is completely revised and the Lord’s Day or Sun-day, the day of the Sun, is inputted – please see p. 524.  God’s fourth commandment regarding His non-negotiable, sanctified Sabbath day of rest is replaced with a directive for children to honor their parents’ – see p. 530-31.  This is problematic as the authentic, genuine Sabbath was instituted by God, our self-sustaining Creator: and, it is immutable or unchangeable Gen. 2:3, Exo. 20:11, Isa. 43:10-12.  Man’s tradition should never seek to supersede God’s Decalogue, as such an ordinance will remain in effect for eternity:  and, it is housed in the holy of holies, the second apartment of the heavenly sanctuary Gen. 2:3, Exo 20:8-11, Psa. 111:7-10, Heb. 9:4, Rev. 22:18-19.  The above mentioned literature upholds self-focused directives regarding Sunday as a day of:  “rest”, “meditation”,  “relaxation”, “cultivation of mind and body”.  These self-oriented principles undermine God’s sanctified Sabbath day of rest.

Papal Rome’s historical edicts and encyclical documents have never met Jehovah’s non-negotiable standards.  Historically, after Christ’s ascension to heaven in 31AD “Christianity” apostatized, gradually conforming to paganism and its heathen practices Great Controversy p. 384.  This caused the emergence of the infamous “Dark Ages”, under the earthly jurisdiction of the kingdom of Papal Rome.  Such an issue of apostasy is evident today, under the guise of “Ecumenism”:  and, its ground-work will lead to a far worse persecutory-time than the Middle ages of times past.  Contrary to God’s loud-cry message, Ecumenism seeks to include all in its universal, Babylonian worldwide congregation Rev. 18:1-5.  Ecumenism’s totalitarian, all-inclusive strategies point to a dangerous, unsanctified trend:  and, its ultimate goal will evidence a change of times and laws; an action prophesied by Daniel within Dan. 7:25.  Deceptively, this will lead to the Mark of the Beast, Enforced Sunday law; a day that will appear lamb-like in its focus on family values and lawful order Rev. 13:11-18.   Mimicking the proceedings of the past, Papal Romish systems (beginning in the United States of America), will seek to use force, withdrawing protection from citizens who honor the Divine, genuine, biblically-supported laws of God Exo. 20.  Its enforcement and penalties will be an indication to God’s remnant church that Christ is on the verge of completing  His Priestly, intercessory duties: and, He will be returning to reap His righteous harvest shortly thereafter Lev. 23:33-44, Dan. 12:1, Matt. 22:1-36, Mark 4:29, Eph. 5:21-33, Rev. 3:7-13, 14:14-16.

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Inception of European Sunday Alliance in Brussels

Sunday Observance is the Mark of the Beast!!! Saturday is God's Chosen day for the Sabbath. The Sabbath was created for man, not man for the Sabbath.

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Inception of European Sunday Alliance in Brussels

Brussels/Belgium , 20.06.2011 / APD

© Logo: European Sunday Alliance

On 20 June 2011 the European Sunday Alliance was formed on the occasion of an expert conference on Sunday Protection at the seat of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels. The European Sunday Alliance is a network of existing national Sunday alliances, trade unions, civil society organizations and religious communities which promotes fair and balanced work conditions and the harmony of a balanced lifestyle comprising work, family and free time to strengthen social cohesion. The alliance further requests for Sundays to be work free in the new working guidelines (2003/88/EG) to be negotiated among EU member states.

According to the alliance the ‘first European Conference on the awareness of a work free Sunday’ in the European Parliament in Brussels on 24 March 2010 was the trigger for the formation of the European Sunday Alliance. The representatives of the various organizations formulated a founding charter which stresses fair, healthy, safe and dignified working conditions as well as the right on a limitation of the maximum working hours, on a daily and weekly rest period and paid annual leave.

“A work free Sunday and appropriate working hours are a well deserved right for all citizens of Europe” states the founding charter of the alliance. All employees have the right for appropriate working hours which in principle exclude “late evenings, nights, public holidays and Sundays” from regular work.

Work on Sunday harms a healthy work life balance According to a study by Deloitte Consulting commissioned by the European Commission non-regular working hours would harm the social rhythm which would increasingly lead to stress and illness with the employees. Non sustainable working rhythms in conjunction with minimal employment were a substantial source of the increasing phenomena of the ’working poor’ in Europe.

“Sunday work would harm a healthy work life balance” according to the ‘Austrian alliance for a work free Sunday’, one of the leading founding members of the European Sunday Alliance in Brussels. A work free day during the week as a compensation would not alleviate the negative effects. People who work on Sundays or during irregular hours would do this because of financial necessity and not by choice. A common weekly day of rest would provide a common focal point for the time rhythm in state and society which would strengthen the social cohesiveness in all EU member states.

Reactions to the Inception of the European Sunday Alliance The retired roman catholic bishop of Linz and former professor bishop for social questions at the Austrian bishops conference, Maximilian Aichern, expressed his delight to the inception of the European Sunday Alliance and made the following statement through the communications department of the Linz diocese: “A Sunday free of work is the oldest social law of the Christian-Jewish civilisation rooted in the old testament covenant (3rd of the 10 commandments). The common day of rest, the social contacts which go with it and the praising of the Lord are the most important Christian values and which are indispensible for the human dignity.”

“The fight for a work free Sunday in Europe ought to be fought on national, regional or local levels”, says Hannes Kreller, human resources expert of the catholic employee federation (KAB) in Germany. According to the KAB it is hoped, with the inception of the European Sunday Alliance, to better coordinate the activities between the various alliances as well as to increase the pressure on the EU Parliament and the EU Commission

The Jewish community as well as the Seventh-day Adventist church, an independent evangelical church does not rest on Sunday but recognises the Saturday (Sabbath) as the biblical day of rest. When approached by APD the European Jewish Congress (EJC) had no comments yet on its assessment of the inception of the European Sunday Alliance.

Pastor Raafat Kamal, director for Public Affairs and Religious Liberty of the North European Headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in St. Albans, near London, commented on the launching of the European Sunday Alliance as follows: "We support the notion that people need a day of rest to achieve a life/work-balance to maintain the health and safety of workers. This is modelled by God in the biblical creation week where he worked for six days and rested on the seventh. At the same time, we want to be sure that those who don't have Sunday as a designated religious day of rest will be respected and tolerated. I hope that the partners in the European Sunday Alliance network who are trying to raise awareness of the value of synchronised free Sunday for European societies will appreciate the pluralistic dimensions of the European Union countries and the importance of respecting those with different religious beliefs and practices. I also trust that this advocacy campaign for protection of a work-free Sunday will not result in escalation of tension among different groups.”

Adventist Press Service (APD) P.O. Box 104 CH-4020 Basel/Switzerland E-Mail: APD-CH(at)apd.info Web: http://www.stanet.ch/APD/

Herbert Bodenmann (verantwortlich), Journalist SFJ Christian B. Schäffler, Journalist BR/SFJ Tel: +41 61 311 73 70

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Video: Dead fawn dropped by bald eagle knocks out power in East Missoula

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Posted 10:54 PM 6/16/2011 : Dropped dead fawn knocks out power in E. Missoula



EAST MISSOULA - Nature dropped a line in East Missoula. Literally. NorthWestern Energy officials confirm that a baby fawn, dropped by a bald eagle, was responsible for Wednesday morning's power outage.



Lee Bridges was outside taking photographs of a bald eagle sitting in the tree above her

Posted 11:04 AM 6/16/2011 : Deer, eagle cause East Missoula power outage

EAST MISSOULA- Here' something you don't hear about every day...even in Montana. An East Missoula power outage was apparently sparked by a dead deer on a power line. Yes...a deer on a powerline.



Lee Bridges sent us these pictures and tells us that the tiny fawn was caught by a bald eagle.

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Have mayor's religious convictions crossed the line?

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By Chris Cekot

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - Harrisburg's mayor certainly doesn't hide the fact she's a religious person. Linda Thompson plans to fast and pray for three days. She hopes that will help her guide the city. Does her faith-based approach cross the line? Thompson reportedly told an employee he needs forgiveness for not accepting Jesus.



Stover Clark, the man who wrote grants for the city, quit in February after filing a complaint with the ACLU. He said it was Thompson's practice of opening staff meetings with a prayer.



Clark resigned from city hall and applied for unemployment. The state denied it, and Clark appealed. There was a hearing on the matter Monday. A man who left the city for similar reasons testified.



"I believe Stover was entitled to his unemployment because he was certainly uncomfortable in the work environment," said Thompson's former Communications Director Chuck Ardo. "Her religious practices don't belong in the office."



Something that happened in Thompson's office came to light at the hearing. According to the Patriot-News, Thompson and staffers prayed for Clark while he was there, asking for him to seek forgiveness for not accepting Jesus as his savior.



Ardo had already quit, but doesn't doubt it happened.



"It would not surprise me," Ardo said.



"As to the issue of religious intolerance in the workplace, that's absurd," Thompson's Communications Director Bob Philbin wrote in a news release. "Anyone employed by the City of Harrisburg knows there is no religious, gender, race, or sexual orientation bias in the city workplace."



Thompson isn't abandoning her religious convictions.



"The prayer and fast is really a vision that I had," Thompson told abc27 News on  Monday.



She's planning three days of sacrifice to encourage cooperation among government leaders on Harrisburg's financial fix.



"Everybody in city government has known for months that the city was going to run out of money, that the budget was untenable, yet no one has done anything about it," Ardo said. "That needed immediate actions, not immediate prayer."



As of Tuesday evening, abc27 News could not reach Philbin or Clark for comment.

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Harrisburg Mayor Fasting In Hopes Of Solving City's Financial Crisis

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Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson will participate in fasting and prayer for more cooperative spirit in the city

By MARY KLAUS, The Patriot-News The Patriot-News

HARRISBURG — To help Harrisburg out of its financial crisis, area Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have called for three days of fasting and praying for a more cooperative spirit among Harrisburg government leaders, the business community and residents.

View full sizeJOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News, 2010Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson

The voluntary event will start at midnight on Tuesday and run through 5 p.m. Friday. During that time, various churches and temples will be open to the public.    Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson said she will participate in the event.    The Rev. Herb Stoner, pastor of adult training at Christ Community Church of Camp Hill, said the answers to problems in Harrisburg and the region won’t be found in the wisdom or ability of humans.    “Therefore, united, we turn our hearts to God, knowing that he is good, and that his plans for the capitol region will give us a bright future and a glorious hope,” Stoner said.    An ecumenical service ending the fast will be at 4 p.m. Friday in Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church, 2447 Green St. Read more at www.pennlive.com

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