2011 Cruise for Liberty Speakers

Speakers are subject to change
	KENNETH GENTRY www.kennethgentry.com Kenneth Gentry offers "Serious Studies for Serious Christians" in a broad range of theological and exegetical issues from a Reformed theological perspective. Some of the key issues for which we have educational materials include: Calvinism, reformed theology, Presbyterianism, eschatology in general, postmillennialism, preterism, the Book of Revelation, theonomy, six-day creation, presuppositionalism, predestination, lordship salvation, infant baptism, the Christian worldview, Christian education, the Christian and alcohol, and more. Dr. Gentry, is a graduate of Tennessee Temple University (B.A., cum laude), Reformed Theological Seminary (M. Div.), Whitefield Theological Seminary (Th. M.; Th. D., summa cum laude). He also attended Grace Theological Seminary for two years, while a dispensationalist. He is the Executive Director of GoodBirth Ministries, a non-profit religious educational ministry committed to sponsoring, subsidizing, and advancing serious Christian scholarship and education. For more information on his conference and research ministry please see the GoodBirth Ministries website. You will also find some helpful eschatological questions answered under the page titled "Questions & Answers." He has published scores of articles in various periodicals including: Tabletalk, the Chalcedon Report, Westminster Theological Journal, The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today, Christianity & Society, The Banner of Truth, The Presbyterian Journal, Contra Mundum, Christian Statesman, Evangelical Beacon, Ordained Servant, The Fundamentalist Journal, Pulpit Helps, The PCA Messenger, The Freeman, and Antithesis. He has written several books on eschatology, including The Beast of Revelation; Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation; He Shall Have Dominion: A Postmillennial Eschatology; and The Greatness of the Great Commission: The Christian Enterprise in a Fallen World. He is a contributor to four eschatological debate books: C. Marvin Pate, ed., Four Views of the Book of Revelation (Zondervan); Darrell L. Bock, ed., Three Views of the End of History (Zondervan); Thomas D. Ice and Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., The Great Tribulation: Past or Future? (Kregel); and Keith L. Mathison, ed., When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism (P & R). He also has published other books on a variety of subjects, including creation (Yea, Hath God Said: The Framework Hypothesis / Six Day Creation Debate), abortion (The Christian Case Against Abortion), the Christian view of wine drinking (God Gave Wine), charismatic phenomena (The Charismatic Gift of Prophecy), salvation (Lord of the Saved), and biblical law (God's Law in the Modern World; and Covenantal Theonomy) He may be heard from time-to-time on Christian radio and television programs. He has spoken on the following programs, to name but a few: Janet Parshall's America (Washington, DC); KKLA (Hollywood, CA); WMCA (New York City); WMUZ (Detroit); WLFJ (Greenville, SC); "The Peggy Denny Show" WGGS-TV (Greenville, SC); KJSL (St. Louis); KGBI (Omaha); BNN Network (Savannah), WNIV (Atlanta); the Peter Weissbach Show (Talk Net Radio), WHCB (Bristol, TN); WPMH Radio, Chesapeake, MD; "Cross Talk Program" with Rich Agazzino, KBRT Costa Mesa, CA; "On the Mark" (Mark Gillman, WMUZ); Pilgrim Radio with Bill Feltner; KORE Radio (Eugene, OR); KNEO (Missouri); "Andy Andersen Live" WMCA (New York City); KCSI (Seattle); and many others. He and his wife, Melissa (married since 1971), have three grown, married children, Amanda, Paul, and Stephen, and two grandchildren (Caroline and Levi).
	JERRY JOHNSON www.nicenecouncil.com www.reformed.org Jerry Johnson is the Founder and President of NiceneCouncil.com and The Apologetics Group, Inc. (Apologetics Group Media). He has earned a Master of Arts in Christian Studies and a Master of Philosophy in Theology and Apologetics from Whitefield Theological Seminary. He is currently working on a doctorate from Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Jerry was the senior writer and researcher for the best selling documentaries Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism and The Marks of a Cult: A Biblical Analysis. He also was the author of corresponding study guides for both films. Jerry is a member of the Board of Regents for Whitefield Theological Seminary and serves as an adjunct professor at Knox Theological Seminary and Veritas Theological Seminary. Since 2005, Jerry has been a Chaplain for Baseball Chapel serving the Seattle Mariners' minor league team, the Pulaski Mariners
	BOB BARR www.bobbarr.org Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, and was the 2008 Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States. He practices law with the Law Offices of Edwin Marger, and runs a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Barr is a registered Mediator and Arbitrator. From 2003 to 2008, he occupied the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union. Since 1997 he has been a Board Member of the National Rifle Association. Bob is also a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security; and he served from 2003 to 2005 as a member of a project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University addressing matters of privacy and security. In fact, recognizing Bob Barr’s leadership in privacy matters, New York Times columnist William Safire had called him “Mr. Privacy.” Barr serves as a board member for Privacy International, an international privacy watchdog group headquartered in London. Bob has appeared on virtually every major cable and network television program dealing with public policy matters, and has served as a contributor for CNN. Bob writes a weekly column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and occasional pieces for other publications; he has hosted a nationally-syndicated weekly radio show, and served as a Contributing Editor for The American Spectator. Bob’s writings appear in numerous academic, local, regional, national and international publications. He is the author of three books: “The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton,” “Patriot Nation: Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe Volume One,” and “Lessons in Liberty.” He is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy and The Texas Review of Law and Politics. Bob has served as an adjunct professor at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw; and currently teaches constitutional law at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia. GA. He is a national officer for Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Bob was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (1986-90), and served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation (1990-91). He was an official with the CIA from 1971-78. Barr is a speaker with the All American Speakers Bureau (www.allamericanspeakers.com). He has traveled widely and spoken to audiences across America and internationally, and has served as an official member of the U.S. delegation at several major United Nations conferences. Bob Barr was awarded his law degree from Georgetown University; and obtained a master's degree from The George Washington University and his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Jeri, live just outside Atlanta, Georgia.
	GARY KREEP www.usjf.net A 1972 graduate of the University of California at San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics, Mr. Kreep graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1975 with a Juris Doctor. Professional: Mr. Kreep passed the California State Bar Examination on his first try, and started practicing law in 1975. He has been in private practice since that time, both as a sole practitioner and as the sole owner of a small law firm, employing as many as three attorneys and ten staff members. Mr. Kreep co-founded the UNITED STATES JUSTICE FOUNDATION (USJF) in 1979 with two other California attorneys. Since that time, he has served as the President and Executive Director of USJF. In 1992, Mr. Kreep reduced his private practice to part-time status to work full-time for USJF. USJF is a nationwide, nonprofit, conservative, legal action foundation. Mr. Kreep co-founded the JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (JPAC) in 1985 with two other conservative activists. He has served as President of JPAC since then. JPAC is a federal political action committee registered with the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Kreep co-founded the CALIFORNIA JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (CALJPAC) in 1996 with two other conservative activists. He has served as President of CALJPAC since then. CALJPAC is a California political action committee registered with the California FPPC. Mr. Kreep co-founded the FAMILY VALUES COALITION in 1998 with two other conservative activists. He has served as President of FVC since then. FVC is a non-profit California corporation organized under IRC 501 (c)(4). Mr. Kreep currently serves as General Counsel to the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, an unpaid position. Political/Civic: Mr. Kreep served on the California Delegations to the 1976 and 1980 Republican National Conventions. He has been a member of a number of Republican organizations, including several California Republican Assembly Chapters. Mr. Kreep also served as elected General Counsel to Region 16 of the Young Republican National Foundation, and General Counsel to the California Young Republicans. Mr. Kreep served for one year on the San Diego County, California PUBLIC WELFARE ADVISORY BOARD (PWAB). PWAB is an advisory board to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors concerning the San Diego County Department of Social Services. Mr. Kreep served for two years on the SAN DIEGO HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION (HRC). HRC is an advisory board to the San Diego City Council, charged with the task of enforcing the San Diego City non-discrimination ordinances, including its gay rights ordinance. Mr. Kreep was a member from 1969 until 1984 of YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM (YAF). He served as San Diego County Chairman, California State Vice-Chairman, California State Chairman, and a Member of the National Board of Directors of YAF. Mr. Kreep served in the BIG BROTHER Program for four years. Legal: Mr. Kreep is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of California, the United States Federal Court for the Northern District of California, the United States Federal Court for the Central District of California, the United States Federal Court for the Southern District of California, and all state courts in California.He is also admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and for the Sixth Circuit. Published Articles/Radio and Television Appearances: Mr. Kreep has written a number of articles published by a variety of newspapers and other publications. This includes the San Diego Union Tribune, the Escondido Times Advocate, the North County Times, the Christian American, the Arizona Star, Media Bypass, and many more.Mr. Kreep regularly appears on a variety of radio and television programs. These include radio programs such as the ROGER HEDGECOCK SHOW, the WEISSBACH SHOW, ISSUES IN EDUCATION, the MASON WEAVER SHOW, the BOB NOONAN SHOW, the DUFFY SHOW, and the MICHAEL LAW SHOW. Mr. Kreep regularly speaks at conferences. These include the annual CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION CONFERENCE (CPAC), the annual CONSTITUTIONAL COALITION CONVENTION, and the annual CHRISTIAN COALITION CONVENTION. Awards: Mr. Kreep has received numerous award for his services to the community, including the WILLIAM WILBERFORCE AWARD from the National Lawyers Association, the MALACHI AWARD from Operation Rescue West, the BEVERLY CLARK FREEDOM AWARD from the East County California Republican Assembly, a COMMENDING RESOLUTION from the California State Assembly, several CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION for the San Diego County Superior Court, a CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION from the City of Dana Point, California, an AWARD OF EXCELLENCE from the California Republican Assembly, and a CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION from the Boys & Girls Club of Escondido, California.
	WILLIAM GREENE www.rightmarch.com Dr. William Greene is founder and president of RightMarch.com, an online conservative organization formed as a “rapid response force” to enable its members to take effective action against activities by online liberal groups like MoveOn.org. RightMarch has been responsible for over four million activist messages sent from conservatives to Congress, the President and other leaders. He heads up the RightMarch.com PAC as well, which targets federal races where they can support staunch movement conservatives against liberal Republicans and Democrats. Greene is also president of Strategic Internet Campaign Management, Inc. (SICM.com - pronounced “sic ‘em”), an online political consulting firm that enables organizations and candidates to harness the power of the Internet for fundraising and grassroots activism; in 2004, Greene’s firm was instrumental in raising nearly half a million dollars online in less than three months for the upstart U.S. Senate candidacy of Dr. Alan Keyes in Illinois, and in 2005, his firm was responsible for raising over a quarter of a million dollars for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation. In its April, 2002 issue, Campaigns and Elections magazine, the trade publication for political professionals, featured Greene as one of its "Rising Stars In Politics," and in 2005 SICM received a “Pollie Award” from the American Association of Political consultants; he is also listed in Who's Who In America, and his organization was a Politics Online “Golden Dot Award” nominee for several years running. Greene was formerly VP Internet Marketing & Development at ConservativeHQ.com Inc., a conservative online activism and fundraising company headed by political direct mail legend Richard A. Viguerie; prior to his work there, he was the Director of Internet Marketing at The Grizzard Agency of Atlanta, a top ten direct marketing agency, as well as Internet Manager at Jesus Fellowship, Inc., in Miami, which was in the vanguard of Internet use for religious nonprofits with sites like Churches dot Net and the Christian Internet Broadcast Network (citv.com). Initially, Dr. Greene was in academia, teaching political science and international relations at Florida International University (fiu.edu) in Miami for a number of years; he still takes time out to teach political science college classes at Gainesville State College (gsc.edu) and the Verity Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana (verity.iblp.org). Greene has been a speaker at many meetings and conferences, including the Campaigns & Elections Politics Magazine Annual Conference, George Washington University’s annual Politics Online conference, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the Personal Democracy Forum, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and others. He ran for U.S. Congress in Georgia, in a special election in 2007. He has appeared on Bill Moyers’ NOW, NPR’s “Fresh Air” and “Morning Edition,” CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” & “NewsNight with Aaron Brown,” MSNBC Live, the CBS Sunday Morning News, and dozens of local television news and radio talk shows around the country; the Washington Times called Greene a “conservative internet guru.”
	ALAN GOTTLIEB www.ameripac.org www.saf.org www.ccrkba.org www.cdfe.org Dynamic and articulate are two accurate descriptions of Alan Gottlieb. Alan is a Nuclear Engineering graduate of the University of Tennessee and has attended the Institute on Comparative Political & Economic Systems at Georgetown University . He is recognized as a member of the working press, maintaining active membership in the Outdoor Writers Association of America. His articles have appeared in the Seattle Times, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cincinnati Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram and USA Today. Alan is the Publisher of Gun Week and The Gottlieb-Tartaro Report. He is the Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, serves on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union, President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, President of the American Political Action Committee and President of NoInternetTax.org. His handiwork has received notice in the New York Times, Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Time, People, Rolling Stone, National Review and Outside magazine. Alan has received the prestigious Golden Eagle Award from the American Federation of Police, and was commended by the Kentucky House of Representatives for his “outstanding leadership in preserving our American heritage of freedom.” He is listed in Who’s Who in America , Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in American Politics. Alan has appeared on over 3,800 TV and radio talk shows, including the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, ABC’s 20/20, The Michael Reagan Show, The Ken Hamblin Show, PBS All Things Considered, CNN Crossfire, Fox TV’s Crier Report, NBC Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor, ESPN, Larry King Live, CNN Special Reports, Hannity & Combs, CNN All Politics, Fox News Channel, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, Lou Dobbs Tonight and Good Morning America. Alan is President of Merril Associates, a noted direct response advertising agency specializing in direct mail, fund raising and public relations. He is also President of Merril Press, a non-fiction book publishing company. Alan is also President of radio stations KBNP in Portland, Oregon, KITZ in Seattle, Washington , KGTK in Olympia, Washington, and KSBN in Spokane, Washington and former Chairman of the Talk America Radio Network and former President of the Universal Talk Network. In addition, Alan is the author of seventeen books including Politically Correct Guns, Trashing the Economy and She Took a Village: The Unauthorized Biography of Hillary Clinton, Alan Gottlieb's Celebrity Address Book, Double Trouble: Daschle and Gephart Capitol Hill Bullies, and Gun Rights Affirmed, America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age and These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War on Guns. Alan currently resides in Bellevue , Washington with his wife Julianne, his daughters Amy Jean, Sarah Merril, and Alexis Hope and son Andrew Michael.
	GARY DEMAR www.americanvision.org Gary DeMar grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Western Michigan University and earned his M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary. Gary has lived in the Atlanta area since 1979 with his wife Carol. They have two grown sons. Gary and Carol are members of Midway Presbyterian Church (PCA). Gary has been the president of American Vision since 1981. American Vision seeks to equip and empower Christians to restore America’s biblical foundation. A prolific writer, Gary has authored over twenty-three books covering a full range of topics. He is the editor of the monthly Biblical Worldview magazine and hosts a Saturday radio show, The Gary DeMar Show. Gary is in demand as a speaker on worldview topics and eschatology. He has written books and articles dealing with the founding of America as a Christian nation and debates this subject frequently.
	Julianne Versnel Julianne Versnel is the Director of Operations for the Second Amendment Foundation. In this role, she helps direct the management and organization of the Foundation. She is Publisher of Women & Guns magazine and editor of the Journal on Firearms & Public Policy. She is actively involved in the constitutional litigation of the Second Amendment Foundation. On an international level, Julianne serves on the Executive Committee of the World Forum on the Future of Shooting Sports Activities and is one of the original incorporators of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights. She spoke at the 2010 United Nations Biennial Meeting of the States concerning women’s right to self defense. She attends U.N. and EU meetings concerning the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research, Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and other topics. She is the Editor of the Shooting Sports Survey, an international view of gun rights around the world.
	Victoria Jackson Born Aug. 2,1959 in Miami, Florida, Victoria was raised in a Bible-believing, piano-playing, gymnastic home with no TV. Her dad was a gym coach, so she competed in gymnastics from ages 5-18. Cheerleader..homecoming queen.. attended Florida Bible College; received a gymnastic scholarship to Furman University, attended Auburn University one year, and ended up in Hollywood, CA via summer stock in Alabama, where she met Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman) who promptly put her in his night club act and sent her a one-way ticket to the show-biz capital. Supporting herself as a cigarette girl, a typist at the American Cancer Society, and a waitress at a retirement hotel, she performed stand up comedy for 2 years until "The Tonight Show" starring Johnny Carson put her act (which consisted of her doing a handstand while reciting poetry) on national TV. Following her 20 appearances with Johnny, she starred in many movies and TV shows, most notably six seasons on "Saturday Night Live" Starting in 2008, she has appeared on various secular and Christian religious television shows, and has become active in the Tea Party movement.