Not on My Watch

INTRODUCTION

I’m a simple homeschooling mom who lives on a small farm with my hubby, ten kids, horses, chickens, cats, and a dog. For a year, I have used Scotch tape to rig my phone to the rearview mirror of my fifteen-passenger van (or bus, as people like to call it) while I rant about the social and moral issues that cause me as a mom and a conservative Christian grave concern. One thing has become clear since I began this journey as the Activist Mommy—God uses simple, willing vessels who can’t be bullied or bribed.

At times Facebook and Twitter have suspended my accounts, YouTube and Google have denied monetization of my pages, and numerous media outlets have written outrageous hit pieces about me and my family. Stories about the Left’s censorship of me have hit Fox and Friends, the New York Times, and beyond.

Why me? Well, to the CEOs at Google, Twitter, and Facebook, I’m a social and political heretic. And, even worse, I’ve shown them that they don’t intimidate me. I’ve learned how to run headfirst into difficult situations and trust God for the outcome. I’ve learned how to embrace controversy and use it to expose the intolerance, hypocrisy, and immorality of the Left. I’ve learned to laugh at their bigotry. (They haaaaaate being laughed at more than anything!) I’ve learned that personal opposition and character assassinations are simply stepping-stones to increase your reach and influence, if you will only stay the course and remain humble. Because I’ve learned to do the above, I am hated by the Left and celebrated by everyday citizens who don’t have a large platform to spread their ideas.

In only one year, my following on Facebook organically grew from seven thousand to half a million. Yes, all while scotch-taping my phone to the rearview mirror of my van, breastfeeding my babies, changing diapers, homeschooling ten kids, burning Teen Vogue magazines, launching a global movement to fight graphic sex ed, and shutting down sex-trafficking brothels. Quite an odd spread of activity there, wouldn’t you say? Desperate times deserve desperate measures.

It should be obvious that the world around us has gone stark raving mad. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Men are now allowed to be in girls’ locker rooms and restrooms and vice versa. Three thousand babies are killed every day in America through abortion,¹ and our tax dollars are paying for Planned Parenthood execs to get rich off the blood money of those innocent babies. Drag queens who identify as alien killer clowns are reading books about gender identity to preschoolers during story hour in tax-subsidized libraries.² Children in public schools are being taught Islamic prayers from the “peaceful” Muslim religion,³ but the Christian God and Christian holidays are deemed dangerous by many and are banned from the public schools. Yes, you heard that right. Muhammad is now peaceful and Jesus is dangerous. Somebody get me some duct tape before my head explodes!

Let’s get one thing straight: the reason we are in this mess is because Christians lack courage and have weak stomachs for controversy and confrontation. Granted, I’ve pretty much always been the kind of person who bucks the status quo, fights for the underdog, and pokes the tyrannical bear with a stick. You might say my personality is kind of built for battle. But I receive frequent messages from people who are gripped by fear that prevents them from speaking up at their jobs, their schools, their city council meetings, and even in the presence of their own family members.

Why are we so fearful, when we have no shortage in God’s Word of examples of courageous believers? Our heritage is chock-full of Christian heroes! Noah was likely ridiculed for 150 years as he obeyed God and built the ark. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego courageously defied their tyrannical king and were willing to be burned alive in order to remain faithful to their God. Daniel prayed with the windows wide open, publicly defying the king’s orders. It was as if Daniel was mocking the leaders with “Nah-nee-nah-nee-boo-boo! Come arrest me!” God defended him and promoted him for his public courage and resistance to an ungodly law. The Hebrew midwives defied orders and saved the little Jewish babies, risking their lives by disobeying Pharaoh’s decree. The apostles turned the world upside down and preached boldly when the authorities forbade them.⁴ These heroic individuals from God’s Word are more than ample examples to imitate, but few are doing so, and now we risk the threat of losing our freedoms.

In a culture that’s trying to silence Christians, how should we respond? How did Jesus respond when His enemies tried to silence Him and Pilate threatened to kill Him? Did He say, “Okay, I won’t rock the boat” or “I’ll go along to get along, lest I offend someone”? No, He said, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above” (John 19:11). We should respond with that same courage and confidence. We are the salt and light of the world! And the Bible says if we lose our saltiness we are good for nothing except to be trodden underfoot by men! (Matthew 5:13–14).

I believe we have a dearth in our nation of bold, unwavering Christians who are willing to address and take action on the burning social issues of the day that are destroying our souls, our families, and our country. I also believe God’s Word has the answer to all of these issues. So I began the Activist Mommy with the desire to apply what God’s Word says to the untouchable, politically incorrect issues of abortion, Islam, radical feminism, homosexuality, and the attack on the natural family.

Just look at some of the stories in the headlines these days:

This is war! And if you’re waiting around for a quick little rapture fix to get you out of this mess, you are not a soldier in this battle. Pastor Wade Trimmer said this about the modern Christian church: “We’re the only team I’ve ever played on that preaches a victorious Christ and roots for the opposition (the anti-Christ) to win so that we can get off the field! After all, ‘The quicker they fry, the quicker we fly!’”¹⁰ Pssssh! He’s right. Think about it. For the last fifty years, the church has been throwing Super Bowl parties and playing Twister in youth group, while the Left has taken crucial battlefield after battlefield. Abortion. Same-sex marriage. Pornography. Education. Removing God from the public square. The Left has been advancing and claiming more and more territory while we have attended church and been content to wait for Jesus to come back. This is not the attitude or teaching of Scripture. Jesus said, “Occupy till I come” (Luke 19:13 KJV). He didn’t say, “Hide till I come” or “Hunker down till I come.”

What are you doing to occupy and build His kingdom till He returns? What would happen to our world if the eighty million evangelicals who are praying, “Come quickly, Lord Jesus” were at the abortion factories every day, praying and witnessing? I’ll tell you. Abortion would end. What if the eighty million evangelicals said we would boycott the internet until pornography is banned and obscenity laws are enforced? I guarantee you in a skinny minute, internet porn would be dealt a huge blow. Eighty million customers are a lot of customers! But we’re too busy entertaining ourselves on our phones and watching television to build God’s kingdom on the earth. We’re too busy arguing about whether we’re Calvinists or Armenians to unite and change things.

Have you ever noticed how soldiers on the front lines of a battle don’t have time for petty squabbles? They’re too busy rescuing the perishing for pettiness. If you’ve got time for pettiness, you need to enlist in the army. You need to get on the front lines. Before long you’ll have so many darts and bullets coming at you and bouncing off of you by God’s Spirit that you will care less about doctrinal divisions and petty differences.

We must unite if we want to win this war for our children, our morals, our freedom, and our culture. Do you want your kids to grow up in an America where the Bible is hate speech and you’re thrown in jail for preaching it? Canadians are already being placed in jail for preaching what the Bible says on homosexuality.¹¹ If you just lie down and take it, what’s next? Do you want your kids to grow up in an America where our country’s leaders are open Muslims and where speaking against Islam is a hate crime? Our country is being transformed before our eyes by godless, Marxist social engineers whose idols are Alfred Kinsey, Barack Obama, and Saul Alinksy. Will you sit silent and let them succeed?

No! Not on my watch! My children and grandchildren will know I worked tirelessly to proclaim the gospel, push back the darkness, and keep our country free. Social Marxists are praying (hexing, voodooing, séancing, or whatever they do) that you don’t read this book, because it is a threat to their comfortable existence. In Not on My Watch, I will show you how to win against the Left’s attack on free speech, the Left’s obsession with the sexualization of children, and the Left’s attack on natural marriage.

I’m sick of losing to the Left. I’m grieved watching my country’s morality and founding principles get flushed down the toilet of political correctness and perversion. I’m done with sucking my thumb after the social Marxists win another Twitter boycott campaign or another million vagina hatters show up for a protest march. I am one simple mom who has gotten off the sidelines and seen some pretty incredible victories in two short, action-packed years. If God can use me to expose Teen Vogue, shut down sex brothels, and launch a global movement to end graphic, gender-bending sex ed, what could He do through each of us if we all engaged in the fight for life, liberty, and righteousness? With God all things are possible.

Who is ready to start winning?