Open Letter to the pastor of the Walnut Creek United Methodist Church
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Rev, Eileen Lindsay
Walnut Creek United Methodist Church
1543 Sunnyvale Avenue
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Dear Eileen,
This is a letter I regret I must write to tell you that I am not able to continue any further support or participation in the life of WCUMC. I have waited over two weeks to decide what to say to you. My reasons are as follows:
1. For several years now I have witnessed an ever-increasing dogma of Marxism and Socialism being advocated from the pulpit. Not only your predecessors but also you have continued to advocate clearly ‘social justice,’ which is a Marxist tenant and not appropriate to the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which should be your first priority. Remember Jesus said, “ You will always have the poor, but you will not always have me.” Your focus is on the wrong target.
2. Your sermon on 26 September in which you supported the class warfare that is clearly taken from Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” obviously presented your stand to undermine the freedom and liberty of the United States of America. I could not sit and listen to any more of the garbage. That is why I walked out in the middle of your sermon!
3. It is clear to me and to others, who may not have the courage to tell you, that you are being used as a ‘useful idiot’ to further the propaganda advanced by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barack Obama and all the lefty Loonies to use churches and synagogues as their mouthpieces for spreading the bilge of Marxism. Pelosi was very blunt and up front about recruiting the religious left to further her BS. By the way, that is the same way the Communists used the Churches in Cuba, China and Venezuela to spread their lies. If you think that Socialism/Communism is sooo great, you need to go and live in Cuba, Venezuela, Korea, or China as a regular citizen, not a visitor for a while and see just how far your freedom of speech will get you. A one way ticket to a re-education camp or prison. Communism has been the means for murdering millions more than Hitler ever killed. Check out the truth on Mao, Stalin, Castro and Kim Jong ‘Mentally’ Il. The truth may surprise you. I pray to God that you and anyone who shares your view will wake up to these facts or be taken up in rapture. Maybe God himself will convince you that freedom and liberty are from Him. They are not rights granted by governments. If that is the case, then governments can take away those freedoms and liberties.
4. Every time I have tried to say anything that even borders on political, I have been told not to discuss it because the church might loose their tax-exempt status. That is a lie. Furthermore, it is an infringement of my 1st Amendment rights! Yes, I still do retain those rights, something the liberals?? In this area don’t seem to understand. I am tired of being silent and I will not be silence any longer!
Here is the truth about the poor on Welfare:
CalWORKS fraud: $69mil funds gambling, Hawaii trips
When the Legislature votes on the budget this Thursday, they will not be debating cuts in the CalWORKS (welfare-to-work) program, and rightly so: helping people with job training and child care while they contribute to the productivity of the economy is common-sense governance
And today's Los Angeles Times calls attention to another common-sense governance: the need to protect both the taxpayer and the program clients by insuring the integrity of the program. While the suspected abuse/fraud reported here (the amount is from 2007-May 2010) "accounts for less than 1% of the $10.8 billion spent by welfare recipients during the time covered," the news is a poison dart in the arsenal of anti-CalWORKS rhetoric.
In the front-page story, reporter Jack Dolan writes:
More than $69 million in California welfare money, meant to help the needy pay their rent and clothe their children, has been spent or withdrawn outside the state in recent years, including millions in Las Vegas, hundreds of thousands in Hawaii and thousands on cruise ships sailing from Miami.
State-issued aid cards have been used at hotels, shops, restaurants, ATMs and other places in 49 other states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, according to data obtained by The Times from the California Department of Social Services. Las Vegas drew $11.8 million of the cash benefits, far more than any other destination.
There is no rule preventing welfare recipients from leaving California, as long as they get clearance from their county caseworker to be absent from the program's 32-hour-a-week job training requirement. County investigators, who state authorities say are responsible for rooting out fraud and abuse, typically don't question a recipient's whereabouts until transactions on a welfare card show that he or she has been gone for more than 30 days.
5. The poor don’t need more welfare! They need jobs! The way to jobs is to cut taxes, cut the red tape for small businesses where the most jobs come from and get out of the hair of small entrepreneurs who create business, create products and services and who take the risks involved and work their buns off trying to create something. The government has NEVER created anything but a pain in the ass for every small businessperson. The ‘poor’ need to stop breeding, get off their fat fannies and go to work. If I can mop floors, clean toilets and do what I have to to earn a living, they can too!
6. We work until July now just to pay taxes! God only asks for 10%, since when does the government have the right to steal 50% or more from us every year? Federal, State, County, City, Sales, Excise, Telephone, Utilities, etc. When does it stop. If we all had more of our own money to keep, we would not need so much WELFARE! Taxation is the road to serfdom. Just what Communism brings: “Equal Poverty for All!” Just ask any Cuban who escaped from the Castro paradise how great the lie of Marxism is?
7. You need to do some homework. I recommend the following:
”Liberty and Tyranny” by Mark Levin
”Culture of Corruption” by Michelle Malkin
”Catastrophe” by Dick Morris
”Common Sense” by Thomas Paine
”The Federalist Papers” by James Madison
”The Road to Serfdom” by F.A. Hayek
”Hurtling down the Road to Serfdom” by John Stossel
There are many other books, which will educate you on the founding principles of this country, and I will do everything in my power to stop the madness from the loony left. You need to reeducate yourself on what makes this country the best in the entire world and I refuse to apologize to anyone or any nation for my country. We have NOTHING to apologize for! We are the most generous and giving nation on the planet!
It is really a sad state of affairs that since 1974 since I first came to WCUMC that I have seen the decay of the American pride and spirit. Sadly, you will be losing the best soloist and loyal choir member you have ever had. But you are wrong on these issues and I must tell you so. You are being duped by the propaganda from the idiots in Congress and the White House. I continued because I wanted to help Carol Morris with the choir. But I have been very uncomfortable for a long time with what I have heard in sermon after sermon. You and the Methodist Church have been a great disappointment to me. The church I grew up in.
You can redeem yourself and become enlightened about Marxism. Please, read the above books and you will learn the truth about our country.
“Give a man a fish you feed him for one meal, teach a man to fish you feed him for life”
If you will change your mind and attitude, I might see my way to return, but not until you prove to me and others that your priority is the gospel of Jesus Christ not Karl Marx or Saul Alinsky and that you understand what is great about our country. You must stop the propaganda from the pulpit.
My best Regards,
Sonia E Harden Lemke
PS: Please read this letter to the congregation. They need to hear it too. If you don’t, I must conclude that you are a coward.
CC: President: Larry M. Goodpaster



