Wednesday, January 27, 2010
AN OPEN LETTER TO: Jay Inslee, State Representative, Washington State; and
The Democratic Party
FROM: MW
SUBJECT: Abortion in Health Care; Your Email, Jan 6, 2010
Although we disagree on basic principles of healthcare, Congressman, I do appreciate the recent update you sent regarding abortion in health care. Allow me to restate the points you made concerning this complex issue – correct me if I’m wrong:
H.R. 3962 - Stupak Pitts Amendment - This amendment sought to close the gap; guarantee that no funds for elective abortion, authorized or appropriated by H.R. 3962, would be allowed in the public option. Federal credits for low income were said not to be available for elective abortion services through either public or private plans. Of plans included within the Health Insurance Exchange (the insurance marketplace established by H.R 3962), individual and family plans offering abortion coverage could not be offered unless an alternate, identical plan was offered which did not offer abortion coverage.
I am truly sorry you voted against Stupak/Pitts, Congressman. I am, however, a bit confused. How could you vote against it when PITTS-STUPAK WAS REJECTED IN COMMITTEE AND EVEN DENIED A FLOOR VOTE? Was that because democrats knew they wouldn't get bipartisan agreement on a moral issue to which conservative republicans are diametrically opposed? It is incredible to me that the democratic Congress cannot see the moral side of this issue.
Let people pay for their own abortion. Abortion has no place in health care, in my opinion, except in cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother.
But you didn't vote for Stupak/Pitts. Instead, you voted for HR 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act passed during the Energy and Commerce Committee markup of the bill. HR 3200 claims to prohibit the availability of public funds for elective abortions within the public option. Enrollees in the public option plan would pay for (and here it gets tricky) abortion services out of private funds; (i.e., premiums. Are conservative taxpayers supposed to be relieved at this)? How much do abortions cost these days? How many premiums does it take? Do you suppose government would kick in any remainder due? Can you say taxpayer-funded abortion services?
Here is the kicker: Why use client premiums at all? Isn’t that tantamount to insider trading or something? Isn't that the back door giving the front door permission to proceed with the legislation, via carefully worded phrasing and back-door funding?
Here is the ultimate kicker: Why is the U.S. government in the abortion business at all?
What does abortion have to do with reproductive health?
CONTRACEPTION, NOT ABORTION
Abortion is an elective decision, just as normal sexual relations; both involve willful consent. Contraceptives are widely available these days. Why don't people use them? Could it be they've chosen to live in the moment and act irresponsibly because if a pregnancy results, they know they can get an abortion? - And you think the government (i.e., taxpayers) should pay for this? Instead of protecting life, agencies such as Planned Parenthood (PP) consider the fetus a collection of pre-human cells, easily dispensable. Millions of pre-borns are lost each year because of PP and Roe v Wade.
In logical circles, this makes no sense at all. After the horse gets out of the barn, why kill the horse?
MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
God put firm boundaries around the creative, regenerative expression of sex for a reason. Children are to be conceived within the security of a marriage contract between a man and a woman. Why support an abortion directive that encourages promiscuity, devalues human life and eliminates the consequences of sexual relations by destroying evidence? Elsewhere in the courts, we call that illegal, punishable by law.
Within a traditional marriage base, children, both planned and unplanned, arrive in a family setting to be nourished in their march to adulthood after the order of creation. That is the base God intended for humanity. Traditional marriage and the family are the basic building blocks of society.
Unintended pregnancies outside marriage need shelter. If the birth mother/father cannot keep the child, there are millions of couples in our country who desperately want to adopt. Allowing such a child to be placed in their home gives the child and those parents another chance at family life. Assistance must be available to unwed mothers and fathers who elect this option.
ROE V WADE
Congressman, you state that your intent in voting against Stupak/Pitts was to uphold the principles of Roe v Wade. You endorse the concept of women's reproductive rights which gives the mother pre-eminent rights to decide whether her pregnancy goes to term or not.
Forgive me, but I was not aware that women are solely responsible for pregnancy; more or less self-perpetuated, I guess?; the human father serving as an impersonal sperm bank with no decision-making processes or responsibility in the matter? - Sort of on the level of a cicada?
As I am aware, supernatural conception occurred only once in history, to the Christ of Bethlehem, conceived of the Spirit of God and sent to earth as the only one qualified to offer redemption to mankind. I don't believe this concept is spread unilaterally. It still takes two - male and female - to make one baby, and both mother and the father should be obligated to weigh in on the decision of whether to marry, adopt out, or for one or both to accept responsibility for the child from an outside position. Unfortunately, the male in the arrangement often completely opts out of the decision-making process and leaves his ex to figure things out by herself.
To proceed with your line of reasoning, Congressman; since you view pregnancy and birth as woman's responsibility, then why not eliminate the middleman altogether; i.e., who needs men anyway?─the ruddy bips. Women desiring to become pregnant on purpose may simply apply to a sperm bank (government sponsored, of course) and the procedure will be carried out in the laboratory. Sperm donor. Petri dishes. Surgical implantation. Voila! Instant baby - or babies, depending on the mother's choice and actual conception(s) and implantation(s).
In the course of mucking around with nature; man (referring to the species, here) has come up with some interesting variations on the traditional model. I believe the record for multiples is eight living children. Of course the doctor following the mother's instructions may face investigation for acting irresponsibly. Imagine that.
LESSON ONE - THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION
The point here is this, and it isn't just Democrats that don't get it: Pregnancy occurs through sex - the mating of male and female subjects; plain old garden-variety, or courtesy of the Petri dish. Stop the sex thing, and no b - a - b - y. Or keep going with the sex thing, but block conception. That's contra-ception, as in before the fact.
Remember the days when society frowned upon single parenthood and shuttled pregnant unwed mothers to unwed mother's homes, often Catholic-sponsored, to give birth? Heavy pressure was put on the mother to adopt out. A wrenching life experience for her, but in most cases, a successful outcome for the adopted child. Then on with life, the mother never forgetting the child she adopted out. In many cases, these children ultimately reunite with their birth mother. Today, we're a little more progressive. We have open adoption where the birth parents, most often the mother, maintain ongoing communication with the adoptive family.
If, instead, today's mother chooses not to have her baby at all; in today's post-modern liberal environment it's much simpler than before and, of course, quite legal. Mothers-to-be make an appointment, and an abortionist destroys the evidence. Nothing but cells; not a baby. That's what mothers are told. End of story. For the fetus, that is. Lifetime of pain for the mother.
When will we ever learn?
THE RIGHT TO BE RESPONSIBLE
It is a fact of the human condition that rules make many humans cranky. We want what we want when we want it and we don't want anyone to say no. In caving to our (normal) heterosexual desires - setting timing and preparation in override mode - we forfeit our own future, allowing sexual expression to prevail over temptation, the moral law and our own God-given common sense. Today, it's all about the moment, not the holiness of life.
─Remember the days when people thought that if contraception was cheap and accessible it would drastically alter the birth rate? ─Remember when we decided that women's rights were more important than the actual child she carried; that it was the mother who should determine whether to give birth or not; and if we took care of the accidental (whoops!) sexual byproduct, everyone would benefit and the unintended birth rate would drastically fall?
The only considerable right we have in this case is the right to be responsible. When will we learn?
Why should we, when the opposite of respect and limitations is taught on street corners, public schools, magazines, films, video and the internet; and the theme is: LIFE IS CHEAP AND SEX IS NO BIG DEAL.
After that quantum leap in moral philosophy beginning in the 60's, men and women morphed into new being (sic). There is now an abundance of Manly Strut and Sexy and Wanton with slim barbaric bellies and implants. There's a cat for every dog and all of them are panting. Why did we give in to this terrible disease of romantic lust, diminished humanity and irresponsibility?
Instead of old fashioned morality, our society has become 'Progressive'. What's next on the big live screen? Don't tell me, I don't want to know.
THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN CULTURE
The excesses of American consumerism are disgusting. Metaphorically, we are a nation of the obese, wandering in search of a diet that allows us to eat all we want. Exercise of better judgment makes us frantic. We're anorexic or bulimic. We've become a nation of dependent ninnies, fixated on food, easy-believism, TV and the media to fill our anxious moments.
I am repulsed by the violent, undisciplined, sex-satiated elements of our society. Scantily clad females and bare-chested males parade their vacant lives across every public venue, often drowning themselves in drugs and alcohol to forget and blot out the pain. The cult of celebrity paints the pages of magazines and newspapers everywhere with a very fine brush as we hear every detail of their exploits and serial arrangements. On the home front, endless commercials for sexual products hog TV stations; interrupting conversations, blurring the news, imposing on family values, family time. I am also tired of the endless blather about bathroom products, sanitary products and 'wings'. With few exceptions, our media focuses on tawdry and vulgar, sexually-loaded ads.
Roe v Wade is part of the fallout in a society where sacred and moral have been shown the door and locked out of too many rooms.
REVERENCE FOR LIFE
I consider abortion on demand as moral reasoning at its worst. The only moral way to reduce unintended pregnancies, Congressman, is through adherence to the following equations:
─Promoting traditional moral values in the home, school and media – preaching abstinence before marriage and faithfulness after, with emphasis on modesty and respect;
─Developing a Culture of Life and ideology which values the life of the unborn;
─Passing tightly restrictive national abortion policies, but preserving compassion for those who abort;
─ Passing laws that Require PP and other abortion clinics to present pro-life literature to the mother at each clinic, giving factual information, including sonograms, on the development of the unborn.
─ Instituting high standards and accountability in Public Education, along with requisite funding for remedial needs;
─ Promoting a national "character model" which exemplifies public service, honor, respect, discipline and charity in public and private life;
─ Promoting the teaching of self-restraint and delayed gratification in the media, classroom, government, business and home;
─ Preserving the sanctity of traditional marriage through the rigors of national law;
─ Denying federalist rights to individual states to alter the Defense of Marriage Act as it currently exists - a legal covenant marriage contract between one man and one woman;
─ Teaching the truth regarding dangerous social and health effects associated with promiscuity, premarital sex, abortion and homosexual practice.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE
The least we can do for our children and grandchildren is to get the national moral model right. We must promote the basic moral principles of life, modeled on principles that have served humanity well over the ages; not the immoral/amoral serial flap that travels under the guise of 'liberal' and 'progressive' these days.
Show me in history where sexual liberalism worked. Modern-day insistence on so-called progressive health policies which include funds for abortion on demand is a wildly skewed, anti-social value system that disrupts society at its most basic level. This kind of sexual liberalism has utterly failed us and our children; consider the millions of babies born to single mothers and the scandal of millions of pre-borns lost since Roe v Wade was passed.
Life begins at conception; every characteristic of human life coded in DNA. Time and nourishment are the only ingredients needed for development. It is God who creates life. We are participants in the process. Be responsible. Give life a chance.
THE PERIL OF GAY RIGHTS AND SEXUAL FREEDOM
The stream of numbing sexual messages we are continually bombarded with in the media these days are broadcast by a dollar-hungry, sense-driven, news and entertainment industry. Nobody in media seems to give a rip if this national message is sane, let alone good for our children or our national conscience. Men and women model parodies on the wide screen - male/female caricatures in sensational roles involving lust/power/money/violence/infidelity - and sexual anything, anywhere.
Violence and lust is glorified as entertainment - on the screen and in video games - the gorier and more horror-ridden, the better. Ghastly sexual anything is considered better entertainment than moral-something-else.
Gay rights, that panacea of the homosexual community, have been greatly expanded in Washington State and now take precedence over heterosexual rights (we do have some rights, don't we)? In 2009, Conservatives filed a referendum challenging gay rights legislation in Washington, and citizens had the chance to turn back the clock. They caved instead, and the latest round of gay rights was passed into law, based solely on the testimony of the anecdotal say-so of homosexuals; not science, not history, and certainly not the safe and sane morality outlined in the Bible.
The pampered subjects of today's liberal sexual culture will again hammer the Legislature for yet more legal, social and sexual freedom backed by more new law, yet will continue to be victimized by their own skewed moral philosophy and disregard for others. "Gay pride" as the new sexual brand, demands equality under the law on a number of fronts on a par with heterosexual rights; to include domestic partnership/marriage, adoption of children and gay partners blessed by clergy and the state.
Incredibly, some religionists have followed this dog and pony show. The liberal branch of some Protestant denominations including the Lutheran Church, ELCA; United Methodist; Episcopalian and even a few aberrant Baptists have been trumpeting gay rights as if they invented it; insisting that homosexuals have a right to a gay partner and to serve openly as a gay cleric in the pulpit. It is astonishing to me that the very ones who purport to serve the God of the Bible and act as His shepherds, advocate policies God entirely condemns.
WHO IS GOD?
"God is Love", the errant ones giddily insist, conveniently setting aside the truth that the God of the Bible promises to pour out His wrath on the disobedient and unwilling. You say that's not the God you believe in? ─ I have to agree. It seems the only God the religionists believe in is the 'God of Yourself', where only precepts to your liking are followed. God help you.
Sanity demands that liberal doctrine regarding homosexuality not be allowed mainstream, but it has intruded nonetheless, in the Legislature and many schools, backed by activists demanding acceptance of homosexual practices. Society will pay a horrific price by honoring a culture based on self-absorption, sexual confusion, deviancy and lies.
GOD IN OUR FINANCES
If the promulgation of gay rights isn't a measure of our country's moral downfall; financially speaking we're scraping the bottom of the barrel as well. Most everything in the marketplace is exploited for, or cued up for, the money. Sex sells, and the marketing machine knows it. I am appalled by proliferation of sexual bait in advertisements for products like perfume, clothing and cars. But out-of-bounds sexuality in marketing isn't our only financial and cultural disease.
Judgment fell on the world-wide financial community beginning in 2008, promulgated by greedy dishonest lending and investing practices in the U.S. and abroad; can you say bank failure, foreclosure, foreign debt; business failure, unemployment and recession? Can you say, "Prop up with taxpayer money?"
It's amazing how some Democrats lie. One day following the vote in Massachusetts that swept Independent Scott Brown into office; President Obama was on the airwaves as the new Populist in Washington, scolding banks for their arrogant and irresponsible policies.
In the wake of the current disaster in Haiti, why wasn't he speaking to the issue of coordination of emergency services? Instead, he had to bring a political financial message into the media to jack up his shrinking public image. Suddenly he's a Populist? Does this mean there will be no more back-room deals in health care? Is this the new transparency-phase in politics?
This country is furious over what Obama and the Democrats have accomplished in the name of job programs and health care. Politically and economically, our nation continues to go down hill. Engraved on our currency is the motto "In God We Trust", but it's obvious that many do not trust in God at all. They only care how much they get and how much more they can accumulate in the process. The back-room deals and pork projects vetted through our state and the democratic congress in the midst of this recession are disgusting.
Metaphorically, we are a nation of the obese in search of a diet that allows some to eat all they want while others starve. Exercise of better judgment makes us frantic - anorexic or bulimic. We are binging and purging on excesses of food/entertainment to fill the anxious hours. How does one vet that?
NEWSPAPERS AND SPORTS
Absolutely, we depend on media to keep us informed on current events. But as newspapers shrink and lose revenue, sports takes up space, gobbling more than its share of the paper. National sports heroes - often fallen heroes in their personal lives; like some politicians - are treated like gods by media and rabid fans and paid outlandish sums to perform. We are a nation of cultists. Doesn't anyone have any sense?
PUBLIC EDUCATION
Educationally, our school system remains rundown, unskilled and un-tooled. Everyone complains about education, or the lack thereof. Teachers are underpaid, schools and programs under-funded. As if that wasn't bad enough, our educational system also fails to educate. We excel at producing drop-outs and misfits, even in the DC capital.
The schools themselves are partly to blame for low scores, lack of discipline and student motivation, but not entirely. Schools fail, not just because of money, but because of unskilled teachers and the chaos and emptiness that reigns at home. Our children are drowning under the weight of poverty and rampant materialism, the press of instant gratification, poor role models in the culture and home and the absence of present parents.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH BLUE COLLAR LABOR?
Underachievement is a killer disease, alright, but too often college is overemphasized at the expense of skilled, blue collar labor. This is the height of foolishness in a country built brick by brick by strong hands. What would we do without truck drivers and carpenters and plumbers?
─Where would we be without pipe fitters, clerks and mechanics? ─Iron workers, machine operators, salespeople and musicians? We have become an army of snobs, charmed by the rich and powerful, the university-educated and the proud.
SOCIAL SERVICES
Currently exacerbated due to Recession, Washington State is currently millions of dollars over budget; the governor talking about raising taxes and shutting down special-needs services for places like Frances Haddon Morgan for the autistic, in Bremerton, and the Rainier School for the developmentally disabled, in Buckley. Where does the Governor expect these people to go??
I would rather cut the governor out of a job than cut special services and upset the lives of our most fragile citizens. Citizens must not allow the Governor to make "hard business decisions" as she put it recently, at the expense of the disabled. What kind of a state is this?
It is a sacrilege to balance the budget on the backs of social services while state and federal revenue continue to feed special projects. The homeless poor and disabled are our most vulnerable and undervalued citizens and it is telling of our government what it does or doesn't do to protect them.
We allow the homeless to sleep in alleys, out in the woods, under an overpass, in vacant or deserted buildings or curled up on a sidewalk bundled in rags while the well dressed, well-fed and politically correct step around.
Fragile human beings burdened with neurological and developmental injuries are shuttled around like pieces of wood; their funding cut because care is expensive and they just aren't worth the revenue. Do you in the Legislature consider cutting your salaries and benefit packages? You say there's not enough money these days for funding disabled services? Poppycock! There's money enough for any priorities the State and the Congress sees fit to fund.
NEW REVENUE STREAMS
I don't understand the beef about raising the sales tax a penny, or closing business tax loopholes. Additional revenue to fund basic services has to come from somewhere. It seems people would rather scream about their pet projects being cancelled than pay a little more revenue to fund basic needs. The cost/benefit model we're talking about here is human life and hope, not mere dollars and cents. Human Services is definitely the place where dollars and cents make sense.
Government is so woefully out of touch. Chronic drunks and addicts are allowed to penny-pinch on the streets and chronically end up in the most expensive room of all - the Hospital Emergency Room for reoccurring problems. Mental health beds and budgets are another item on the State's 'Do Not Call' list. Mentally ill people fill the jails and roam our streets but no state legislature is willing to pass a law that compels them into treatment to prevent them from harming themselves or others. Why? Are you all dispossessed of common sense?
You&'re authorized to do something about it. As a citizen, I demand that you build better treatment facilities and add more beds. Create a well-publicized public services volunteer force dedicated to social services; paying a small stipend to those who serve. Hire professional staff to oversee. Build another big-time toll bridge and dedicate a collected percentage to human services, including food banks.
Tax 10% of every source of gambling revenue in the state. Raise the liquor tax a nickel a bottle; the car tax, $30 bucks. Use it for the Washington State ferry system and public transit. Make ferries self-supporting; not by continually raising fares, but by selling good (as in moral) advertisement space on ferries (not too many, please) and serving really good food on ferry runs at decent prices; and taxing a portion of the millions of dollars the Seattle Mariners and Seahawks rake in.
Why not? Why is it right to pay sports figures millions of dollars, along with their owners for participating in baseball when millions need basic assistance?
With everybody on board, rowing his or her boat, this state can go a long long way funding social services. Everybody should be responsible in some small way for helping the disadvantaged. Who knows? You may be there sometime yourself. Our State is only as strong as its weakest member. You say you don't know how? ─ That there isn't political consensus?
Develop a social service model that works! One that Washington State (or any state) can be proud of! Pretend you are out of work and homeless, you are poor and dysfunctional. What kind of hope and assistance would you need? Work to bring that about. That's what your job is for.
IT'S NOT JUST THE MONEY, STUPID
Washington State can find big money pots for sports stadiums, rapid transit, bridges, highways, political parties, high rise buildings, industry, land, ports, tunnels and airports, roads, green technology; the all-holy environment; of course the salmon, and of course, outlandishly expensive public art! But to our shame there is little enough for basic health care (that's BASIC, no frills); mental health; low-income housing; policed, public showers and toilets in our cities, and counseling and vocational services for the homeless poor.
To our shame we say instead to the homeless, "Get away from my property, my business, my church. I don't want your stinkin' selves around my ──── (fill in the blank).
When will we learn to treat others as we, ourselves, would want to be treated?; with compassion and respect and a firm helping hand?; with new law that makes public drunkenness a crime punishable by community service and mental health and vocational counseling; and work farms for those who can't make it.
It should be illegal to sleep or panhandle on the streets; everybody needs to have provision to housing and a basic diet, so feed them and house them and God forbid that any more police officers dump a newly released prisoner under an overpass.
PRISON REFORM
Although it costs taxpayers millions, our penal system is flawed, recidivism sky high, court dockets jammed, jails and prisons overcrowded with career criminals, addicts, cons and deviants. There is not enough money or staff to house and rehabilitate all the incarcerated, so the least lethal are turned out in the street. At least we wish it was the least lethal. Too often, the worst gets out first, while the vaguely guilty are locked up for life. God help us. We need a new model.
THE PROBLEM WITH WOMEN'S RIGHTS
As for women's reproductive rights, our original subject; abortion is currently considered an approved form of birth control sanctioned by national law. Do you really think, Congressman, that the best way to reduce unintended pregnancies is to uphold Roe v Wade?; ─ like Roe v Wade is some kind of high priestly calling? Shall we follow the pigs out to the pig pile and encourage the others to dig in?
Instead of permissiveness, we need a new-born moral philosophy that values life and law. What exactly has Roe v Wade accomplished, Congressman, that you're so danged proud of? All I see are train wrecks.
I see first-hand the damage done to human life in the wake of the grief of abortion. Instead of providing a cure for what ails our moral and spiritual lives, Roe v Wade has contributed to the breakdown of moral principles; encouraging sex without consequences in the name of reproductive freedom.
In addition, millions of children have no father in the home because both parents were not exactly models of responsibility. Most often it is the mother who pays the price of an unintended pregnancy; then the children. In the wake of an unwed pregnancy carried to term, or ended in abortion, it is generally the men who run off. Where is the national accountability for fathers? We must build character into men, women and children; not moral permissiveness and flabby emotional thinking.
Statistics tell us that one-parent families, usually headed by mothers, battle instability, unemployment, poverty, crime, addiction, grief, guilt, hopelessness and loss; and the cycle perpetuates, one generation to the next. Children give birth to children; men and women drift partner to partner, unable to stand on own or form a moral framework; sexual confusion reigns and expands; anything goes in the name of sexual freedom.
Despite the advances of medicine and education, STDs run rampant across all age groups and have become progressively harder to treat. Despite billions of dollars pumped into education and assistance, the horror of AIDS causes multiple millions of deaths worldwide and orphans millions of children, adding to the world’s burden of moral failure, chaos, death and disease.
Within this decade, Washington State decided to get righteous on one front and took on the Tobacco Lobby. The Governor cracked down hard on those social pariahs, the smokers; taxing the dickens out of their tobacco products and discouraging smoking everywhere because of its evil dangers, you know; it must be the vice of the hour. Heavy drinkers, no paragon of virtue, still proliferate, yet nowhere do late-night bars and dance halls close down. Liquor is $Money in the state's greedy pocket, but Native casinos remain blissfully untaxed. Millions abuse drugs despite the dangers and attendant penalties and now the Legislature is considering legalizing Marijuana?
Death roams the streets and highways with heavy machines and out-of-control humans with guns; hating, killing and being killed. We are in a massive identity crisis for meaning, crying out for answers we don't want to hear.
This country doesn't have a substance abuse problem or a gun control problem; we have a human values system malfunction.
Why isn't somebody paying attention to the evidence? Instead of tempering personal conduct on traditional values; modeling and teaching discipline and moderation (think rules, boundaries and limitations (thank you, Dog Whisperer!); promiscuity, abortion and homosexuality (PAH) have expanded exponentially and are today's hot liberal causes; responsible for more death, disease and social chaos than any tobacco or liquor product; HPA's duly endorsed and ratified by our liberal Congress and a dumb electorate outfoxed at the polls.
Why do you suppose that is?
There has always been an outlaw element in the human race, one that resists rules and regulations meant to keep society stable. Humans dont like to be told what to do, especially if it involves curbing their urges. Mankind struggles in its fallen state, but it doesn't have to remain that way. Changing the paradigm involves choice, but it seems that freedom with few limitations is the only choice this generation is willing to make.
RELIGION AND FREEDOM
In our Bill of Rights, freedom OF religion has been misinterpreted to mean freedom FROM religion. All religion, parenthetically, but particularly the Christian religion, is anathema in the public eye. Students can't speak reverently of God or Jesus Christ in a public school or college classroom without being challenged and made fun of for their faith.
Anti-Christian activists try to do away with Christian chaplains in the military and Christian literature on the battlefield, for pity's sake. U.S. citizens can't even, legally in many places, wish anyone a Merry Christmas, lest some yahoo become offended. What craziness.
Do any of them still approve of the breakdown we find in our nation (besides atheists and the ACLU)? You say You don't want anyone stuffing religion down Your throat? And you'll vote as liberally as you choose? Fine ─ live with the consequences befalling a faithless, godless society. You have all the freedom to go to hell, that you want.
This is a rant, alright, because there is a day of judgment coming. God writes his law on human hearts and we are accountable for our actions. At the very least, we must agree with God that He is right about His principles and promises, and ask forgiveness for our sins. We must do better, and with God's help we will do better.
We cannot expect to ignore His counsel, act like pigs and be treated like pampered saints. It is one thing to sin and admit you are sorry, and another thing entirely to defy and deny the God who made us and gave us rules for our good.
Our Bible - that ancient document upon which Christians and Jews take their stand for time and eternity because it contains the verifiable historical, prophetic and spiritual truth - contains the moral and religious code that has sustained man through the ages.
Our country, in its proud infancy, has been provided a distinctly Judeo/Christian legacy in the drafting of its mighty democratic Constitution; framed into law by profoundly godly, Christian men who revered God and His Son, Jesus Christ, and understood the need for redemption (John 3:16).
Some today wish to throw that document out, remove God's name from our currency, our monuments and our national identity in favor of a more liberated society. Instead of a more perfect union.
When will we ever learn?
MW
cc: Governor Gregoire
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