Posted on 09/30/2014 6:49:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
No one grows up with aspirations of government dependency. Social issues give Conservatives the perfect opportunity to prove they’re the big brothers to Americans and not the bullies. Can you imagine what America might look like today if the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, had not taken on the social issues of his day, slavery and polygamy?
Imagine being the parents of Sandra Fluke as you observe your child beg for subsidized condoms on national television during the 2012 DNC. How disappointing. No father tells his son "work hard, go to college and get on food stamps as soon as possible." No little girl wearing a princess dress and a blinged out plastic tiara dreams of marrying her prince charming then aborting her firstborn. Leftist are transforming our men into boys, our women into usable goods, and their favorite targets are minorities.
According to BlackGenocide.org, 78% of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in minority communities. Who's going to fight against the existential threat that's being perpetrated against my people due to the Left's social policies? Republicans used to be the definitive answer.
Welfare, chronic poverty, and moral decadence are by-products of the left's social issues and not vice-versa. In other words, democrats sell welfare under the guise of "help," knowing their programs create perpetual government dependency rather than improve the lives of their constituents. Democrats vote for their leaders because they believe they "care" about the personal plight of "the little man" - social issues.
I'm dumbfounded when I hear some of my fellow Republicans say "stay away from the social issues." As if the Democrat platform is about anything but social issues! Whether it be civil rights, equitable pay in the workplace, "women's rights" - aka abortion - or gay marriage, Democrats often win votes by capturing the hearts, ire and imagination of their constituents. To be frank, the Left has successfully courted Hispanic and black communities because they run towards social issues, not away from them!
Hard core leftists will never agree with Conservatives on entitlements. However, the two issues the GOP have in common with most minority groups are freedom of religion, and love of family. These issues serve as a bridge to the hearts and minds of those that often disagree with us on numerous policy issues.
If you've read my bio you know that I'm a former liberal. What you may not know is that it was a social issue that led me on my journey to conservatism- father's rights. Mired in a long and arduous custody battle (seven years on and off) for my child, my political philosophy began to evolve from left to right. I began expecting a miracle from God rather than government. Once I personally experienced government overreach in the courtroom, it wasn't a far stretch to believe that my political worldview was suspect.
Consequently, I began questioning virtually everything Democrats would say. I even went so far as to begin reading black conservative authors such as Frederick Douglass (oldie but goodie), Larry Elder, Star Parker, Thomas Sowell, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, and Walter Williams. I learned about the Negro Project, and eugenicist, racist and founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger for the first time. Thanks to others like Michelle Malkin, and David Barton of Wall Builders, who's in depth research connected the dots between American history (including black republican congressman during Reconstruction I never knew existed), leftist lunacy of the day, and the lefts co-opting of civil rights, the scales quickly began to fall from my eyes. I was enraged that I had supported the very policies as Margaret Sanger. I attribute much of my ignorance white liberal propaganda and guilt that plagued my school textbooks and media.
I felt as though I was discovering America for the first time. It wasn't long before I could no longer justify much of what I once believed with my newly found Christian faith, as well as a fresh knowledge of history. In all conceivable matters, intact families and marriage, economically and spiritually, blacks were better off prior to the Democrats War On Poverty and Roe V. Wade. Don't you believe they deserve to know the truth?
As the old cliché goes, "people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." Social issues, when communicated effectively, proves we care.
“According to BlackGenocide.org, 78% of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in minority communities.”
Margaret Sanger’s dream come true.
Fail. No need to read further as this author is clueless and delusional.
Wow, somebody who gets it.
No, you are. Read it, read it all.
Unfortunately many don’t understand the difference between pandering and reaching out. It causes some to pander and others to attack reaching out as panderers.
Another great resource is http://www.klannedparenthood.com/Planned_Parenthood_Ku_Klux_Klan_KKK_Nazis/
It gets better, although he hasn’t shed all of his liberal skin.
Yep. A large percentage of people in the ‘hood never aspire to anything higher than the ‘hood.
In America, all our constitutional protections rest on the Founders' premise that all human beings are "endowed by their Creator" with rights to both life and the liberty to "pursue happiness." That is the sole reason those rights are deemed unalienable--because they are derived, not from another human being, not from a government, not even from the mother, but from God.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
That understanding underlies every other consideration embodied in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It is the very basis of our rights to life, liberty, and laws to protect them.
Since the 1970's, technological advances have enabled us to observe God's tiniest creations in the womb. We no longer have an excuse for imagining that these are blobs of tissue labeled "fetuses." They are living babies who will have life and liberty if we do not "destroy" them.
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa stated: “And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
Indeed, if we cannot protect the life and liberty of these smallest versions of ourselves, even with their so-called "imperfections," then Mother Teresa's words take on significant meaning.
My church and several others in my community worked together with a few churches in the Atlanta area. We sponsored a Community Day there this past Saturday in Washington Park. This is a very poor area of Atlanta. We set up a clothes tents, medical tent, food pantry, hospitality center, game center for kids (lots of blow-up slides, games, etc.) a music stage and an evangelism out reach group. We had perfect weather (cloud cover both Fri. for set up and Sat.). We touched lives for the Lord Jesus and got to share His love by this very practical approach. It was a lot of work (collecting items, boxing them, shipping them, advertising, coordinating, setting up, taking down, cleaning up, training folks, traveling there and back and money for a stay at the Holiday Inn) but we saw lives touched. This was done in Baltimore on June 6th and has been done in a few other cities I can’t remember. We can show our faith by our works. More cities are planned for next year - Jackson Hole, Wyo. and Toronto, Canada. If you live near Jackson Hole perhaps you could attend. If not perhaps you could do the same thing in the area where you live. Ask your pastor or priest or coordinate with friends and family or local Tea Party group. There are a lot of needs in our nation.
No one grows up with aspirations of government dependency.
Ever been to Chicago Detroit Los Angeles............
The problem is if the Republicans send a white spokesperson in to raise these issues, it will be seen as condescending and he’ll be rejected out of hand.
Did you grow up with aspirations of government dependency? I certainly did not and neither did most
Exactly and the reason he got it because he was a former liberal as he stated in the article
Read it, read it all.Bump
“No one grows up with aspirations of government dependency. “
Chortle.
Excellent post as always
Well what do you expect from these 2 cities? They are all dominated by the rat party
Indeed
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