Christian families are under attack in America! It
is as Communist Soviet Russia today in the U.S.,
just as Brother Lester Roloff warned us about. Parents who homeschool
their kids are increasingly being attacked by the State. The United Nation's
UNCRC program is intended to take your
children away. Parents are having
their children stolen by criminal State workers! It is
unconstitutional and criminal (MP3)
what the State is doing to parents. Public Schools are unconstitutional and
Communist in every way. The “welfare” department is neither well nor
fair!!!
The battle wasn't over
a mere license for the Roloff Homes, it was over Christianity itself. One of
the State's requirements was: “You should not threaten a child with the
displeasure of a deity.”[1] Literally, to
obtain a State license means no Bible-preaching! You are forbidden in a
State-licensed home from telling a child they are a sinner.
A classic example of the
unrestrained use of government force against a child care facility occurred in
1984, when the State of Texas attempted to completely shut down three
children's homes run by
Pastor Lester Roloff. He, like Pastor Silevin
before him, refused to allow the state to license his homes for the children
who had been voluntarily placed there by their parents. The state of
Texas went to court, but in 1981 a state district judge denied its request for
an injunction against the Pastor's homes, concluding that the licensing
procedure as applied to the church running them would violate the
constitutions of both the United States and Texas. The federal Court of
Appeals affirmed the trial court's decision.
However, the state Supreme
Court rejected the churches' contention that licensing would interfere with
religious freedom. The Chief Justice did not object to the quality of
the care provided by the Roloff homes; his concern was the simple fact they
would not submit to licensing. He noted that the homes have "a good
record of high quality service," and that they could "easily satisfy licensing
requirements, but had chosen not to do so."
So the state wanted certain
restrictions on the care provided children in Pastor Roloff's homes.
Several of those restrictions were so incredible that they show that the
majority reason the state went after the child care facilities was simply that
they were too successful.
The first of these
restrictions was (not a complete list):
"You should not
threaten a child with the displeasure of a deity."
In other words, you couldn't
tell a child that he was a sinner. Remember that these children had been
placed in these homes because they had become disciplinary problems to their
parents. The parents, who had seen their children become involved in
prostitution, drugs and criminal activity, had turned to the Pastor for help
in turning their child around. They turned to him because he was a
Christian Pastor, and because he had demonstrated success in hundreds of
similar cases before. These parents loved their children and wanted them
to stop their criminal and anti-social behavior. They cared for them
enough to voluntarily place them in a program that had proven successful. Only a very small percentage of these children had been placed in these homes
by the court system.
One of the reasons the
Pastor was successful was because he turned the children to religion. But the state told him he could not use that as a method of correcting the
child.
The second restriction was:
"The
institution shall see that each child is provided with personal clothing
suitable to the child's age and size. It shall be comparable to the
clothing of other children in the community."
The Pastor and his staff
felt that much of the clothing the children were wearing was too suggestive
and improper. So they attempted to provide the children with modest
clothing less stimulating and provocative. They felt that this
restriction would place the children back into the clothing that in many cases
had caused them to have problems before their arrival at the Roloff homes.
The third restriction was:
"Children
should be encouraged to form friendships with persons outside the
institution."
It would be fair to observe
that such friendships were frequently what brought the children to the homes
in the first place.
The fourth restriction was:
"The
opinions and recommendations of the children in care shall be considered in
the development and evaluation of the program and activities. The
procedure for this shall be documented."
Letting the inmates run the
prison sounds like an excellent idea until the prisoners suggest that the
restraining bars should be removed. Many of these children had become
discipline problems mainly because they had decided that they could best run
their own lives. When this determination had failed, the parents placed
them into Pastor Roloff's homes so that they would learn some discipline.
But the state wanted them to learn how to run their own lives again.
The purpose of all this
incredible pressure on the Roloff homes appeared to be the desire of the state
to weaken the ability of the Roloff homes to be successful with these troubled
children. A secondary purpose appeared to be the desire to weaken the
family, and encourage the state to devise methods that would remove the
control of the children from the parents and to give them over to the state.
Perhaps the role model that
the family destroyers want to emulate is the Soviet Union, where enormous
pressures are intentionally placed upon the Russian family.
SOURCE: The New World Order,
pg. 247-249, by Ralph A. Epperson; 1990; ISBN: 0-9614135-1-4; publisher: PUBLIUS
PRESS, Tucson, Arizona.
Thank God for Pastor Lester Roloff, a true
American hero!
We live in a morally toxic
society in America. Young girls and boys today, they just want to have fun
and party. Young girls wanna go to
a nightclub and have open sex on the floor of the nightclub, and then put it
on YouTube, and if they should get pregnant they want to throw the baby into
a dumpster. That's the new America! No morals. No self-respect. No nation.
No borders. No language. No culture. No responsibility. Now that's America
today!
Pastor Lester Roloff's caring ministry was very
successful in helping reach such troubled teens for God, tuning their lives
around through Bible-preaching and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Roloff homes openly welcomed problematic youths that State-licensed
facilities turned away. Brother Roloff taught troubled teens the truth about
sin and the precious Savior, which transformed hundreds of young people's
lives into something meaningful and respectable. The evil people behind the
Communist moral subversion of America wouldn't
permit that. The wicked State didn't care if the teenagers lived on the
street; they just weren't allowed to remain at the Roloff ministries.
The attack against American families was planned
long ago. The first leader of the United Nation's World Health
Organization (WHO), George Brock
Chisholm openly stated their evil intentions in 1954 in California...
“To achieve
world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their
individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and
religious dogmas.”
—George
Brock Chisholm, in a
Speech given at the, Conference on
Education, Asilomar, California, September 11, 1954
These are not just the words of some heathen
university professor; but the words of the people who control the world.
Everything that we see happening today to destroy America didn't just happen
by accident;
it was
all engineered and carefully planned.
Ecclesiastes 5:8, “If thou
seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and
justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for He that is higher
than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.”
Communist George Brock Chisholm,
the first head of the World Health Organization, who decades ago in
1946 laid the blame for
war and human conflict squarely at the feet of parents and Sunday schools
teachers, said:
“To achieve
world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their
individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and
religious dogmas.”
—George
Brock Chisholm, in a
Speech given at the, Conference on
Education, Asilomar, California, September 11, 1954
Did
you read that? Communists want to remove our individuality! Just
knowing that makes me want to be an individual more than ever! Romans
14:12 states: "So then every one of us shall give account of himself
to God." We all have to give account to God as INDIVIDUALS. So we must learn to think as individuals and not fall into the trap
of the Devil's game of being a "team player."
Chisholm was one of the social engineers of
today's Godless public school system. It was the treacherous Communist
dictator Vladimir
Lenin who stated:
"The best
revolutionary is a youth devoid of morals."
Should it be surprising that the state of Texas
didn't want Pastor Roloff to implement a modest dress code? Why is it
that the state of Texas can teach public school children that they evolved
from apes, i.e., the unscientific "science" of evolution; but, refuses to
allow pastors to teach rebellious youth that they are sinners? Why is
it that public schools can teach teens how to have
homosexual sex; but are not allowed to teach about sin and its
consequences? There's only two problems in America: the PREACHER and
the PAPA! You get those two fellas straightened out and we'll be on our way
to revival.
It is abundantly clear that the U.S. federal government
has an anti-family, anti-God, anti-country, and anti-Christian agenda, which
they have forced upon the states. This is Communism folks! Is a
government which legalizes the murdering of children [abortion] sound enough
in their judgment to tell us how to educate and raise our children? No
Sir! The U.S. government and the states have set themselves against
the God of the Bible.
Pastor Roloff's methods worked, because he
taught young people the truth about sin and the Savior, and taught them
discipline and respect. Young people need to be taught that they are
sinners in need of repentance. To disagree with this is to deny the
Word of God. When I was just 12 years old, I realized that I was a
Hell-deserving sinner, and I turned to Jesus Christ in faith the best I knew
how to be saved, and He saved me.
I thank God for that Gospel preacher
who told me the truth. Thank God for men like Pastor Lester Roloff,
who genuinely cared about others, and stood uncompromisingly for what he
knew was right. Would to God we had many more such men today. END
~by David J. Stewart
“When the Devil decides to
destroy a society, he starts off with the woman.”
"Those who want to destroy the
family will continue to urge mothers to leave the home and 'become fulfilled
in the workplace.' When the mother goes into the workplace to become
'fulfilled,' or to increase the family's income, she leaves the care of the
children to others. Those who warn against such practices will continue
to be scorned by the feminists and others who have a hidden agenda: they want
to destroy the family."
SOURCE: The New World Order,
pg. 245-246, by Ralph A. Epperson; 1990; ISBN: 0-9614135-1-4; publisher:
PUBLIUS PRESS, Tucson, Arizona.
This
demonic attack against mothers has been working,
so
says Time magazine. Mothers are too busy working careers, making
less money, to have children. Suckers! Feminism saw you coming and
ruined
your life!
The state of Illinois
forced me to hire a lawyer in 2002. It cost me over
$20,000 to defend my family against the Godless thugs from Child
Protection Services (known as DCFS in Illinois). What was
our crime? Not making our daughter take a potentially
dangerous, even possibly fatal, non-essential drug for a petite mal seizure condition. You can read the
entire story here.
“You see the State is
making its bid for all the children. Parents don't own them anymore. The
church doesn't own them anymore... That's just like Russia. The parents
are just incubators to hatch out servants of the State, and soldiers of
the State. And we're just about half-a-step away from being taken over
completely; when they get our children, and then they get the liberty
and freedom of the churches. Nobody but a Modernistic preacher would
accept a license; because it's un-Constitutional, un-American,
un-Scriptural.”
What right does the government have to bring criminal charges
against parents, and to force them into financial ruin, and to
make their lives difficult, and to emotionally traumatize the
entire family, simply because the parents are protecting their
children from the
250,000 people which DOCTORS KILL EVERY YEAR IN THE U.S.?
The state has NO God-given right to force dangerous drugs upon
children! Hell will be hot, and God will severally judge
the thugs in authority who abuse their power, force parents into
bankruptcy, cause suicides and nervous breakdowns, and destroy
families.
“There's something haywire in this
country and we need to return to the Word of God and to Jesus.”
—Pastor
Lester Roloff
Some of the
reasons that increasing the standard of living naturally leads to
families having less children are listed below:
Greater Urbanization. An increased standard of living usually leads to
greater urbanization. When a family lives in a rural area, each child
can do necessary agricultural chores and can earn more than it costs the
family to raise the child. When the family moves to urban areas,
children cannot work at early ages and do not make the family more
prosperous, as they would in the countryside. They are perceived as a
financial liability in the cities.
Lower Infant and Child Mortality. Most developing countries do not
have a national retirement plan such as Social Security. This means that
most elderly people must be supported by their children. The daughter
usually goes to live with her husband’s family, so the only chance for
an elderly person to have income is to have a living son in his or her
old age. To make sure one son survives, parents have two or three. As
child mortality has declined, it has become less necessary to have
several sons.
Education of Women. Educated women begin childbearing at an older age
and have fewer children overall. Better-educated women tend not to marry
less-educated men so that a relatively high percentage of educated women
never marry, reducing the number of potential mothers.
Job Opportunities for Women. Employment outside the home usually is
associated with smaller families. Women employed outside the home tend
to have responsibilities, opportunities, and distractions which decrease
factors that might otherwise lead them to have more children.
Higher Expectations. Television and radio bring people in developing
nations a knowledge of how the wealthy (especially Americans and
Europeans) live and give them expectations that their living standard
can become more similar to the wealthy. Many opt for the material
rewards that more money brings instead of the non-material and emotional
rewards of parenthood.
If you believe the Bible is God's
Word, and you want to please God; God wants women to be mothers and to care
for the home, and to stay out of trouble (not causing reproach for their
husbands). So many women today are a major embarrassment to their husbands,
dragging strangers into the marriage, filing for divorce, bringing evil upon
the husband. God will punish such women for being fools and ruining their
families. The Bible says what it says. Just because the times have changed
doesn't mean that the Bible has changed. God never changes (Malachi 3:6).
God's Words are as valid and applicable today as they were 2,000 years ago.
1st Timothy 5:14-15 teach motherhood...
1st Timothy 5:14-15, “I will
therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give
none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some are already
turned aside after Satan.”
(An eye-opening MP3
sermon by Dr.
Jack Hyles from 1970)
“All over the country
people are choosing the wrong heroes. Choose Jesus for your Hero! He'll
never disappoint you. They killed Him, but He got up on the third day.” —Brother
Lester Roloff (1914-1982)
“All
the good news for modern man we need is the King James version of the
Bible.” —Brother
Lester Roloff (1914-1982)
“This is the Book [the King James Bible] that makes great men, great homes,
and a great nation. It's been voted out of the school, kicked out of the
home, and misused in the Church; but look at the shape we're in tonight.” —Brother
Lester Roloff (1914-1982)
“There's only one
power greater than the newsmedia, and that's the power of God.” —Brother
Lester Roloff
(1914-1982)
Douglas Besharov, the first director
of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, has charged that over 60
percent of all child abuse claims are totally unfounded. Child
Protection Services is out of control...
"The definitions of 'child
abuse' have basically made criminals out of every parent in America. A
federally funded study, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health,
and released in November of 1985, defines the victims of 'violence against
children' as being those who have 'slapped or spanked,' or 'pushed, grabbed,
or shoved' their children. It would be difficult to find any parent in
America that wouldn't be included in those categories.
The broad definition of 'child
abuse,' which makes every parent in America into a criminal, makes sense if
the observer remembers that there are people in America today who want to
destroy the family. The way for them to achieve their goal is to
convince the world that families abuse their children, and that 'social
workers' do not. Then, when the authorities come to take the children
away from the parents of America, the overwhelming majority of the remainder
of the citizens will accept the action as being required by the conditions.
And the traditional family, as
was known in America for centuries, will exist no longer.
And some will be pleased."
SOURCE:
The New World Order,
pg. 240, by Ralph A. Epperson; 1990; ISBN: 0-9614135-1-4; publisher: PUBLIUS
PRESS, Tucson, Arizona.
Spiritual Wickedness in High Places!
“Education is
a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and
at whom it is aimed.”
—Communist dictator, Joseph Stalin (1934)
The preceding statement by ruthless Communist
dictator and mass-murderer, Joseph Stalin, explains why the
powers who have hi-jacked the U.S.
government (the same people who
killed U.S. President Kennedy), needed to shutdown Brother
Lester Roloff's ministry. The Roloff Homes were taking in
hundreds of troubled youths from all across the nation, turning
them around and producing preachers and powerhouse Christians
for God... teachers, evangelists and Godly mothers! Brother
Roloff's faith in God and Biblical methods were so effective
that the rotten
dirty criminals behind the
Communist subversion of the United States wanted him
shutdown, or at least to permanently crippled his ministry (and
they succeeded).
Brother Roloff was teaching the Word of God, pounding it
firmly into the minds and hearts of those troubled teens (some who'd come
from prison). It was working and these young people's lives were becoming
meaningful, most of them for the first time in their life. They had found
genuine love, a caring Christian family that no government Human Resources
Department could ever provide, and had found Jesus Christ (the Healer of
broken hearts). The almighty State bucked horns with God's man and built a
fiery furnace to cast him into, just as did wicked king Nebuchadnezzar for
Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. They built the gallows high as did wicked
Haman for God's man, Mordecai. They cast Brother Roloff into a den of hungry
lions as did Daniel's enemies. They literally put Pastor Roloff into prison.
Ah, but Brother Roloff had a Friend in Heaven that is
greater than that whole dirty bunch. Ecclesiastes 5:8, “If thou seest the
oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a
province, marvel not at the matter: for He that is higher than the highest
regardeth; and there be higher than they.” Amen and amen! God never
sleeps! We'll see in eternity who comes out shining, and who rots in Hell as
Psalm 9:17 proclaims... “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and
all the nations that forget God.” God does not play games like the
government does with the court system.
There won't be any juries in Heaven,
because God KNOWS everything about everyone, and He will judge every person
individually (Romans 14:10-12) for even the words they speak (Matthew
12:36). Proverb 24:12, “If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not
He that pondereth the heart consider it? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth
not He know it? and shall not He render to every man according to his
works?” Do you understand that? Proverb 24:12 warns that God cannot be
duped, conned or fooled; God is omnipotent and KNOWS the absolute truth
about everything. Judgment Day is coming!
The State unconstitutionally assumes the role of almighty
God today, reigning down with an iron fist upon parents who resist the
system. Parents who homeschool their kids are under harsh attack. Parents
are being forced to drug their children against their will with potentially
life-threatening drugs, including brain-damaging and autism-causing mercury
laced vaccinations. CPS nationwide destroys families, needlessly costing
parents tens-of-thousands of dollars in legal expenses, stealing children
and putting them up for adoption. It was never the original purpose of
government to educate our children, nor to forcibly vaccinate them, nor to
decide what we feed them, forcibly drugging children with Ritalin or
Depakote, collecting their blood DNA, et cetera. It's Communism!
But even more tragic is that so many Modernistic pastors and
cowardly ministers today have succumbed to the government, bowing to
Nebuchadnezzar's golden image in idolatry. The government's
501C3 State-licensed business for
all churches is Communism!!! Nearly every church today is a 501C3
State-licensed organization, PROHIBITED BY LAW from criticizing the
government! You're bowing to Nebuchadnezzar's image! You're bowing to the
State's authority OVER THE CHURCH!!! That's the big difference! Obeying good
and proper legitimate government is what Romans
13 teaches; but the Bible NEVER teaches for Christians to
support criminals in government.
No Sir!
501C3 licensing is
EXACTLY what Brother Lester Roloff fought against! The State has no place
telling the New Testament Church that they CANNOT preach or stand against
the government when it oppresses its citizens or commits blatant crimes against us, in exchange
for tax-exemption. That's what a 501C3 organization means, i.e., you don't
pay any taxes. Literally, the government has bought the churches off!!! If
you want to keep your tax-exempt status, then you had better teach Bible
stories only and shut up about the
crimes being committed
by your government's leaders!!! The
U.S. Federal
Reserve Banksters are the biggest criminals of the 20th century!!!
They're about to celebrate 100-years of crime without ever being audited
even once (i.e., being investigated to see where all the money has gone).
The Federal Reserve Scam began in 1913. What a bunch of thieving, lying,
murdering, manipulating, criminals!
Preachers are legally forbidden from exposing government
crimes and rising up against their own government (as Psalm 94:16 commands).
Folks, it's OUR government. and they do what they do in OUR name, and with
OUR money, sending OUR children out as
paid mercenaries to
commit evil; hence, it is
OUR business! The early Christians in the New Testament met in each other's
homes (Romans 16:5; 1st Corinthians 16:19; Philemon 1:2). All 501C3 New
Testament Churches are in trouble today, every one of them
supporting the tyranny being committed by OUR government. Once you buy
into the lie, it's human nature to defend the lie.
Government licensing means that you are becoming partners,
and placing yourself under the dominating control, of the almighty
government of men. Since the biggest and most successful churches today have
the most to lose by upsetting the government, they are the biggest sellouts
and disgraces to the name of Christ. They will kiss-up to the criminals who
have taken over Washington D.C., no matter what crimes they commit. Pastors
today who bend over for the tyrants in government, will have a size-12-boot
shoved up their butt tomorrow! God pity the shameful disgrace of a pastor
who supports criminals in government. America has gone to hell to such a
woeful extent that 26,000 pastors are now committed to teach Americans to
get on the trains to Auschwitz. END
Why would OUR government leaders have to recruit
ministers to teach Americans to blindly support government? Do you know why?
It's because the average America is stupid and has no idea what is going to
happen to them. It's just a matter of time. OUR leaders know, which is why
they're recruiting ministers to calm the public down when things get really
bad (and it will). It's because we've been cheated, conned, sold out,
betrayed, lied to, abused and victimized by our nation's leaders since
1913!!!
Our jobs have been given away to foreigners!
They've stolen our homes by manipulating interest rates and the criminal Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) scam. They're stealing us blind! Up until
now, the criminals behind all this evil have kept Americans at bay by
reckless deficit-borrowing (welfare... like misusing a credit card to hide
one's true dire financial condition). Since the American people haven't
really suffered, they don't care. But times are changing. Just wait until
the economy implodes. There will be rioting in the streets, massive social
crimes, and foreign troops policing American citizens with deadly force.
America's love for sin has made our nation weak,
complacent and indifferent. This has been
by design,
by the Communists, who have
engineered this mess. For those who have studied, then you know that
Communism was created by the Banksters
(i.e., the New World Order gang), as a vehicle by which to achieve world
government. This plot goes back not only centuries, but millenniums, as
Satan is the god of this world (2nd Corinthians 4:4) and has desired to
finish what God stopped at the tower AND CITY of Babel (Genesis 11:7-8). The
detached capstone on
The Great
Pyramid (displayed on the back of every U.S. dollar), represents the
unfinished tower and city of Babel, which will be the Beast system of the
coming Antichrist, aka, the New World Order. You'll never hear THE TRUTH
explained any simpler than what I just gave you. This is what is going on in
the world today, from a Biblical perspective by a born-again Christian.
For the New World Order to succeed, they must
destroy all national sovereignty, all loyalty to God and family, all
patriotism, all loyalty and faith to the God of the Bible, and all bastions
of Christianity. They are succeeding! This is why they attacked Brother
Lester Roloff, i.e., because everything he taught, believed and stood for
went against the evil New World Order. Dr. Jack Hyles preached an excellent
sermon in 1970 titled, Why The Antichrist
Must Come Soon(download),
which addresses the social breakdown of our society in the U.S. and the
corruption in government. This must all precede the coming of a world
dictator—THE ANTICHRIST!!! I believe the
Rapture is
VERY near.
The trumpet is
out of the
case my friend!!!
Whether it be the State or Federal governments in
the U.S., they have grown way too big for their own britches and think they
are God, superior to everything and everyone. This is why cold-blooded murder
(conveniently called abortion) is legal in the U.S. This is why they
brutally murdered Terri Schiavo in 2005. This is why vile homosexuals
are given lucrative
government jobs for no other reason than being a sinful homosexual. We
are living in the Last Days.
Hang in there if you're a genuine believer, God
CARES. This is what 1st Peter 5:7 teaches. God does care! And so do I. And
so do you if you're right with God. Brother Roloff cared. The whole problem
with America today is that most professed Christians just don't care. Do you
care? I pray to God for you that the Holy Spirit will work in your heart and
cause you to have a burning fire inside, as did the weeping prophet
(Lamentations 1:16), Jeremiah. Do you know why Jeremiah wept? It's because
Jeremiah cared. Jeremiah 20:9, “But his word was in mine heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I
could not stay.” In other words, Jeremiah was a soul-winner, a preacher
of the truth, sharing the Word of God with everyone he could. Jeremiah
cared!
I'm so sick of all these so-called contemporary
Christian singers, who don't share the Gospel on their websites. Any mention
of God is extremely vague, Catholic-friendly, and lacking a stern warning of
Hell, fire and damnation for all Christ-rejecters. If they really cared,
then they would tell the truth. If they cared they would warn people about
the coming judgment of God, Who will take out His vengeance upon all
Christ-rejecters with flaming-fire, who die in their sins (2nd Thessalonians
1:8-9). God is angry with Christ-rejecters (John 3:36). God is angry with
the wicked (Psalm 7:11). If you don't get saved, by faith alone in Christ
Jesus, then you'll burn in the Lake of Fire forever and ever (Revelation
20:11-15; 21:8). You need to have your SINS forgiven. Only Jesus has the
nail-scared hands and feet; thus, only by faith in Jesus Christ can your
sins be forgiven. Acts 10:43, “To Him give all the prophets witness, that
through His name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive remission of
sins.”
Audiotape of Massachusetts public employees discussing how teens
can fist
their sex partners at a
GLSEN
sponsored conference at Tufts University in 2000.
“Bible discipline is the answer! ... Let me ask you
a question: How would we ever memorize what we memorize, have the
convictions we have, if we watched the boob tube? How would we ever do all
we're doing out here if we ever had all the modern junk that
people have across this country?”
A classic example of the unrestrained use of government force against a child care facility occurred in 1984, when the State of Texas attempted to completely shut down three children's homes run by Pastor Lester Roloff. He, like Pastor Silevin before him, refused to allow the state to license his homes for the children who had been voluntarily placed there by their parents. The state of Texas went to court, but in 1981 a state district judge denied its request for an injunction against the Pastor's homes, concluding that the licensing procedure as applied to the church running them would violate the constitutions of both the United States and Texas. The federal Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's decision.
"The opinions and recommendations of the children in care shall be considered in the development and evaluation of the program and activities. The procedure for this shall be documented."
