If America gives up its core values (aka “conservatism”) to survive, has it survived? No. If we lose who we are, we are dead.
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Anything you’re not willing to go to the mat for is just a preference, not a conviction.
I pray enough folks wake up to the mistake of ABO before November.
Thanks. I’d like to take credit for the preference versus conviction idea, but I borrowed it from some of the true heroes of the culture war. Back when homeschooling was unheard of, and they were dragging ordinary Christian parents before judges for keeping their kids out of the state schools, success as a conscientious objector came down to whether the homeschooling was a preference or a conviction.
As I recall, a judge would test the level of commitment by asking what penalty you’d be willing to endure for your belief. If you buckled at any point, it was judged a preference, not a conviction, and you lost. But many brave parents were so sure it was the right and the only thing to do, that they could not be moved. They had convictions. And they are the reason homeschooling today is not only legal, but accepted and relatively easy in most jurisdictions.
Courage is least popular when it is most needed.