Posted on 02/14/2005 4:56:19 PM PST by Clintons-B-Gone
Recently, on Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes," we were introduced to a man named Jim Wallis, the editor of "Sojourners" magazine. Wallis has been chosen as the person who will advise the liberal Democrats in Washington on issues of faith.
Democrats are still in a state of disarray over the presidential election. They are shell-shocked. They cannot believe that the positions and policies of President Bush were more in line with the American political mainstream than those advocated by John Kerry. Moreover, they stubbornly refuse to believe that Bush's declarations of faith and his stand on moral issues were significant factors in their defeat.
Opinion polls are increasing stating that faith is an integral part of American lives. So why should it be any different for those we choose to represent us? It is possible to learn something about the character of a candidate by the faith he articulates.
Democrats do not think that Americans truly embraced Bush's principled leadership and his bold stands on the moral issues. They think they were the victims of slick marketing and packaging, further revealing that their shallowness is only exceeded by their supreme arrogance.
That is the reason they have chosen to consult with Mr. Wallis. Better packaging! That is their solution for their electoral woes. They have absolutely no intention of changing their positions on moral issues. Liberal Democrats are readily familiar with the issues that truly matter to Middle America. However, they are equally quick to dismiss them and to belittle those who fervently hold those views. Instead, they are seeking to cloud their positions on these matters in such a way as to fool the voting public.
For years, the Democrats have been attempting to politicize morality and moralize politics. In so doing, the great "defenders" of that unconstitutional concept of separation of church and state are deliberately blurring the boundaries between the two.
They equate morality with environmental concerns, welfare, minimum wage, and support for the United Nations. Meanwhile, they attach no morality to the protection of innocent life or the defense of traditional marriage. Liberals want to elevate animal rights, thereby lowering the status of all of us. And when those differences no longer exist in our minds, then there is no animal-like behavior that is too abhorrent for mankind to embrace.
Liberals do not bow their knees to an omnipotent god. They worship only themselves--their intellect, their philosophy, and their public policy. They want to deify humanity and humanize deity. They want us to curse our god and bow our knees only to the state. They want us to make no judgements, to draw no distinctions. It is their goal to eliminate any differences between right or wrong, truth and dishonesty, or good and evil.
They have intimidated and ridiculed those who seek to bring faith into the public square and they are seeking to permanently silence those who would address issues of morality in the pulpit. Whether or not the liberals choose to acknowledge the fact: our liberties are a gift from God, not an act of benevolence from the government. Liberals such as Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi are seeking to remove any last vestiges of faith from our public and private lives.
They deliberately moralize politics by claiming that the president’s actions in the Oval Office with Monica were not an indication that Clinton was a man of low moral character. They claim that his liberal stands on the issues were a more accurate indicator of Clinton’s moral superiority. These same people deliberately politicize morality by telling priests, pastors, and rabbis that they will lose their churches’ tax-exempt status if they tell their congregations what the Scriptures say about homosexuality and the slaughter of the unborn.
To further illustrate my point: whenever you hear anybody in politics use the term “economic justice,” be prepared to grab your wallet. And anytime you hear anybody talking about Jesus and economic justice in a church or synagogue, be prepared to grab your hat. Economic justice is just a polite sounding euphemism for socialism. And the invoking of the Lord’s name is a shameless attempt to put faith and freedom at odds.
In the days following the attacks of 9/11, in the president’s address to Congress, Bush said that “freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”
Jim Wallis, the Democrats’ new faith advisor, will not help liberals in Washington clarify their positions. They want to cloud them, to hide them, to package them in a more acceptable and attractive wrapper. The Democrats’ problem is not that Americans do not know where they stand; their problem is that too many Americans already do!
You mean passing laws is a waste of time? Who knew! Have you told Congress yet?
By the way, I'd encourage you to tell us which Federal laws you've broken recently. Since you're claiming that people in general don't bother conform their behavior to the law, it should be a long list. Include your name, address, and other contact information to make it easy for the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
Another case where you're misusing data. Pre-Roe, single mothers were not subsidized by the American tax-payers. Those subsidies started just a few years before.
If you want to claim that abortion had more to do with the lack of babies for adoption than subsidies for single mothers, you have to have a study to back it up.
I am open to being convinced, if you can point me to the data.
Many abortions were self-induced. (No, I don't know how many those were, because as I've said before, we don't have statistics).
And your silliness about laws is proof that you're not a deep thinker. Let me give you some help - laws that we're not willing to spend as much as it takes to enforce are not worth it. Congress knows that, even if you don't.
They sometimes do pass laws that are popular so they can get re-elected, but they don't fund enforcement measures. I've mentioned local laws before, but immigration and drug laws are 2 examples of laws that Congress has passed that don't mean much to the people who would prefer to ignore them.
And they won't be punished.
Wallis does have a blurb about this on his online travel journal. People might find it an interesting read to see who he's been out trying to win over, and who has been buying his load of manure:
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=special.display&item=050124_JWblog
The Evangelical Covenant church practically fell all over themselves in adoration.
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