More stealth jihad.
PING!
Pastor Fields talked about her determination as a young woman to not become part of the drugs, crime, and despair in the community that surrounded her where she grew up, in Baton Rouge.
She shared the devastation she experienced after becoming pregnant at age 17 and withstanding the pressure from those around her who told her to abort the child.
"I had a big decision to make," she said. "Do I get rid of my baby and proceed as normal as though nothing happened ...? Or do I live the rest of my life knowing I had killed my baby?"
Mahan and Fields conveyed how they rejected abortion, how they married, struggled, home-schooled their children and are now proud parents of children with university degrees.
Rather than holding up Fields' story of faith and courage as a shining example of what works, Omar mocked her.
"[We] hear someone say, 'It was a choice made — up to me, to have my children and not be like other black people' ... We don't get to have those kinds of conversations," said Omar.
What kind of conversations do we get to have, according to her? "The kind of systematic barriers that exist in prosperity — that's the conversation we should be having," she said.
The great hymn "Amazing Grace," composed by repentant slave trader John Newton, ends with "I was blind but now I see."
Congresswoman Omar is blinded by hate for the nation to which she had the privilege of immigrating. She is blinded by the distortions of the statist ideology that, despite years of experience and tens of trillions in government expenditures to the contrary, she chooses to believe will improve impoverished lives.
Two courageous Christian pastors presented themselves before the House Budget Committee as living examples that the faith and freedom that made America great is still the formula that works — even in the most difficult and challenging circumstances.
We're now entering election season. Democrats are betting they can still drown out the truth and continue to sell the same failed big-government lies to blacks.
My bet is stories like those of Pastors Fields and Mahan are too powerful, even for the screaming and ranting of Ilhan Omar. Even those who were once blind are coming to see the truth.