Evangelical Christian minister, Blaine Smith, is head of Nehemiah Ministries, and guitarist in the "Newports," a band that frequently performs at Outta the Way Cafe. The Newports stole one of my gigs in 2006.

Evangelical Minister/Guitarist Steals My Gig

Perhaps the strangest character I met at Outta the Way Cafe was a guitarist named Blaine Smith, who played in a band called the Newports. Chip Berman hires the Newports for some reason, but I've seen them and was not at all impressed. Gary Garvin raved about them, but I apparently didn't hear what he heard. In addition, there were at least ten people in the band, which I don't particularly like. I prefer rock bands with four or five members. If a larger tight horn section is added, that's okay. But I don't like large bands where several people are just standing around most of the time.

Blaine Smith is an Evangelical Christian Minister and founder of Nehemiah Ministries in Damascus, Maryland. Mr. Smith has appeared on television with well-known Evangelical Christians such as Pat Robertson on the TV program, The 700 Club, until they fell out over Republican politics. In November 2007, Blaine Smith wrote a scathing message for Pat Robertson on a CNN blog after Robertson endorsed pro-choice Republican presidential candidate, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Blaine Smith blew his cool and wrote the following message:

I wonder if the patrons at Outta the Way Cafe are aware of Blaine Smith's extreme views about women, abortions, and homosexuals. Perhaps Pastor Blaine brings members of his flock to his gigs at OTWC, which would certainly please Chip Berman, but I seriously doubt that regular patrons of OTWC realize what an extremist we have in Pastor Blaine. (For more information about Blaine Smith, click here.)

I noticed that Salvador Astucia has the transcript of a 60 Minutes program on his website that describes how Evangelical Christians do the bidding of Zionist Jews, and comprise a significant amount of political support for Israel in the United States. Here is a link to the transcript:

Zion's Christian Soldiers
60 Minutes, Bob Simon, October 6, 2002

http://www.jfkmontreal.com/zions_c_soldiers.htm

I've talked to Blaine a couple of times, although I'm not sure if he remembers me or not. He's an intelligent, articulate individual, but my personal discussions with him dealt primarily with guitars, amps, and rock and roll. I didn't realize he was a born again Christian minister until I began having problems with people I had met at Outta the Way Cafe. Then I began googling people from OTWC, which included Blaine Smith.

I was not exactly a fan of Blaine's band, the Newports, because they essentially stolen one of my gigs after Gary Garvin destroyed the band I was playing at the time, Luisa and the Reverbs. (For more information about Gary Garvin, and how he destroyed Luisa and the Reverbs, click here.)

Mr. Garvin was bassist for Luisa and the Reverbs, and got everyone except Luisa Rose and myself to quit Luisa and the Reverbs while several pending gigs remained on the books. One pending gig was at the Olney Tavern. I told Luisa and her husband Ken that I could get replacement player because we had over a month to prepare for the Olney Tavern. But Ken refused. Luisa and Ken had gotten the Olney Tavern gig, and I felt we have plenty of time to get substitute players. But Gary Garvin had apparently convinced Luisa that she could sing backup with the Newports if she gave them the Olney Tavern gigs Luisa told me the Newports had tentatively offered her a permanent position in the band playing private events in exchange for her giving them the Olney Tavern gig. She thought this was a good opportunity because private events paid a lot of money. I knew this was a pipedream because Luisa could not sing harmony well, and backup singers have to sing harmony. In the end, Luisa's dream of becoming a full member of the Newports never occurred. I never heard that the Newports played again at the Olney Tavern. It was a low-paying gig of $200. Since they had approximately ten members, they made approximately $20 each for the stolen gig.

While googling people I met at OTWC, I made quite a discovery about Blaine.

He has a PhD (Doctor of Ministry) from Fuller Theological Seminary, a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary, and a bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University. He is an ordained Presbyterian Minister, and served as assistant pastor of Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis. Blaine is a born again Christian Minister who founded Nehemiah Ministries in 1978. Nehemiah Ministries is a non-profit corporation with 501-C(3) tax status. Their website shows a P.O. Box in Damascus, Maryland; however, I obtained their tax returns (public information) which shows them located at a Silver Spring, Maryland address. Information about the church is available on the following website:

http://nehemiah.gospelcom.net

Anyone familiar with the book of Nehemiah from the Old Testament would naturally associate it more with Judaism than Christianity. Nehemiah Ministries attempts to portray itself as a blend of Old Testament teachings and the teachings of Jesus, but I think this is hogwash. Nehemiah is a book for Jehovah worshippers, who were people that Jesus detested more than the devil hates holy water. These Jehovah worshipers evolved into the Pharisees during Jesus's lifetime. Anyone who has read the Gospels knows that Jesus detested the Pharisees, and they accused him of blasphemy, and ultimately plotted to have him killed, and were successful in that endeavor.

Nehemiah was "of Judahite descent and stood high in the Persian king's favor (as Zionist 'advisors' today habitually stand at the right hand of British Prime Ministers and American Presidents; the parallel could not be closer)." The history of Nehemiah is described in an Old Testament book by the same name. According to the scriptures, Nehemiah and Ezra placed a ban on mixed marriages in their tribe because they wanted every man to establish "the undisputed purity of his stock." This was a continuation of the ancient racial creed of the Levites. Ezra read to his people the "New Law" of Nehemiah which forbade Jehovah worshippers (aka, ancient Jews) to marry outside of their tribe. Punishment for anyone who intermarried was death. At the time of the New Law, many people had already married outside the tribe. Consequently, the people "wept" when the New Law was read to them by Ezra as Nehemiah witnessed.(2)

Blaine has written and published eight books with InterVarsity Press which he sells on the church's website. Some of these books deal with marriage, but I have not read them, so I do not know if they ban on intermarriage between church members and those who belong to other churches. If Blaine's church follows the history of Nehemiah in a literal sense, then the members would have to be secretly Jewish and intermarriage with Gentiles would be forbidden. If that is the case, then any reference to Jesus is apparently a hoax.

There may be something to this because I discovered that one of the Church founders, Tom Willett (vice-president), is married to a Jewish woman, Fangette Willette. Fangette has an Internet webpage where she openly acknowledges that she is an orthodox Jew, and she insinuates that her husband is Jewish as well. Tom Willet is also a singer in the Newports.

According to Nehemiah Ministries' website, Blaine Smith also associates with ultra-right-wing fundamentalist/Evangelical Christians like Pat Robertson, and has appeared on Roberson's TV program, The 700 Club. Many people may be aware that Pat Robertson believes in Armageddon. Evangelicals believe Jews are needed to establish a Jewish state so that when Jesus returns, he will gather all Jews in Israel and build a Temple. At that point, the world ends and practically all the Jews are killed at Armageddon. The few Jewish survivors convert to Christianity and live happily ever after in Heaven.

As previously mentioned, Blaine Smith is a rabid anti-abortion advocate and wrote a scathing message for Pat Robertson on a CNN blog after Robertson endorsed pro-choice Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani in November 2007.(1) It's a moot point now because Giuliani is now out of the race. Nevertheless, the incident provided a lot of insight about Blaine Smith.

Again, I met these fruitcakes at Outta the Way Cafe, where I met several bizarre people.

SOURCES:

(1) On Nov. 11, 2007, Blaine Smith posted a nasty message about Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani on CNN blog: Political Ticker: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/07/robertson-to-endorse-giuliani/

(2) The quotation that described Nehemiah is from journalist Douglas Reed's book, "The Controversy of Zion," ref. page 46.