“believe that social conservatives, of whom I count myself one on many issues, do a great disservice to our cause and to their own cause when they seek to legislate in areas best left to the grace of God.”/
But what if those same issues(”left to the grace of God”) grow into the very cancers that liberals are using to destroy our country?
For our country and others in the world, it has become a “who is on the Lord’s side” issue not just a freedom issue...there is very little time left. You can sense it in the fear of judgment that has pervaded the fashionable “2012 apocalypse” or the the “planet Nibiru” believing sects. Whether or not these issues have anything thing true about them or not is not the issue, it is the palpable fear of judgment that has been affecting many of late.
Perhaps the alien space people will save us or a “one world government with a new world order”? Who shall lead us out our dull perplexities and our nameless dread?
Speaking of Issues “best left to the grace of God”, Revelation speaks of the “woman giving Birth to a child” who is taken up into Heaven to later rule the Earth “with a rod of Iron”? Could you live in such a world where drunkeness, pornography, fornication, abortion, contraception ect ( all the “bad” various behaviours and thought patterns that “free men” make their own choices about, which should be left to God’s grace, as you’ve stated) are ruthlessly forbidden?
It is why even in America, there was always going to be at some point a breaking away from its founding Christian moorings (and that those of righteous faith will come into conflict with our own systems of governing). For the suceeding generations of peoples have forgotten their Christian roots, even scoffing at the simple faith of our forefathers and scoffing at notions of patriotism and singular nationalism. Washington said that it was “Morality and Faith” that were the “twin props” of our freedoms and when we lost those, we lost the country in that we lost the Judeao-Christian consensus of the population that was in operation when the Constituion was forged.
Thus our constitution and is principles have become twisted and mangled, its contexts misintepreted deliberately by ruthless men governed by that spirit of Lawlessness and by even more shadowy men and forces who hate the Christ because he is Lord, God in the flesh! It is he, by the Spirit,that writes his Laws of Love and righteousness in the inward parts of those who still love him and desire to see his Glory manifested in this nation and in the world!
Thus as our Country darkens, those who are in the Light will shine brighter and shame those darkened “elites” who will, “in the name of the Constituion” ,will behave unconstitutionally against the righteous of this nation!
Post 66 -Great analysis. Wish I could write that well.