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Has America Lost Its Way?
Culture War/Frank
Salvato, Managing Editor |
November
23, 2004
- Anyone who is familiar with American history, not
the American history summarized in our schools today but a comprehensive
search for the truth about how our country was founded and where it has come
since then, can only surmise that we have strayed from our founding
principles. In a land that was founded on individual freedoms and the
concept of liberty we stand on the brink of accepting the principles of a
socialist state. The truly frightening thing is that some among us applaud
the transition.
It cannot be denied that our country was founded using Judeo-Christian
principles. For those whose "liberal alarms” just went off I will clarify.
This country was founded by men who believed in a philosophy that determined
there existed good as well as evil. They believed the sun did not rise on
their whim, rather that they were subservient to a higher calling. They
believed there was something more important than self. That’s what made
these men humble. It is also what made these men great.
In almost every writing by every Founder, from Madison to Jefferson, John
Jay to George Washington, there was mention of a higher power. In most
presidential proclamations and speeches, including Abraham Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address, there is reference to a higher power. It wasn’t until
recently that the Judicial Branch of our government, with no validating
precedent set, decided that the idea of a higher power was inappropriate for
our nation.
It’s an undeniable fact that nowhere in the United States Constitution do
the words "separation of church and state” exist. The only mention of
religion comes in the First Amendment to the Constitution, which states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…”
These words guarantee Satanists and Secularists – which are
both recognized religions, as is Atheism – as well as Christians, the right
to practice their religion.
With the coming of the Industrial Age and our nation’s concentrated urban
areas came the likes of Margaret Sanger and Roger Baldwin, urban liberal
elites. Also emerging as a force to be reckoned with for the first time in
the United States were the liberal philosophies of secularism, socialism and
communism.
While Baldwin’s creation – what is today known as the ACLU – considers
itself a voice for civil liberties there is growing evidence that its
secular agenda many times crosses over the line of inclusion to exclusion.
Where they once fought to have evolution taught side-by-side with
creationism in our public schools, they now work diligently to have all
traces of religion of any kind erased from our public enterprises. These
endeavors are clearly not in line with the ideals used by our Founding
Fathers in the creation of our country. Combine that with the fact the ACLU
gets to recoup their legal costs from the taxpayers for every lawsuit they
pursue with regard to the non-existent separation of church and state and we
see an extortion of monies from the American taxpayer while a secular and
socialist agenda is pursued to our nation’s demise.
Sanger, the founder of what is now known as Planned Parenthood and a devout
Socialist, further championed the pursuit of socialism. While her efforts to
educate women about reproductive issues and socially transmitted diseases
were commendable, her belief in eugenics and that the influence of economic
considerations on choice of spouses was to blame for causing suboptimal
human breeding was, and is, considered an egregious violation of human
rights. "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its
infant members is to kill it," Sanger said. This philosophy was taken to the
extreme in Nazi Germany where forced sterilization and the murder of those
considered inferior were the doctrine. In the end, genocide prevailed in
Hitler’s Germany.
Today these organizations are revered as institutions that champion the best
for our society. President Jimmy Carter even awarded the Medal of Freedom,
the highest honor that can be granted by our country to a civilian, to Roger
Baldwin. As our American culture embraces this generation’s "sitcom
attention span” it would seem that we embrace the rewritten and fictional
history of questionable institutions while we neglect the civic
responsibility of protecting and defending the very principles with which
our country was created.
While encroachment on the true wording and intentions of our Constitution is
achieved every day by organizations like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood and championed by an activist judiciary, we find ourselves at a precarious
crossroad in our history. Whether we choose to survive as a sovereign
nation, firm in the principles used to create our great country, is
completely dependent on whether we as a society are strong enough to combat
extremism on every level. If we do not we shall cease to exist.
Relevant Reading:
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
http://arar.essortment.com/acluamericanci_rmal.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACLU
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/baldwin.html
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Frank
Salvato is the Vice Pres. and Exec. Director of the
Basics Project, a
political media strategist and the Managing Editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a
contributing writer for GOPUSA, CNS News and scores of other Internet and
print publications nationally and internationally. He has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor
and has been a
guest on The Right Balance with Greg Allen on the Accent and USA Radio
Networks, The Kyal 2K Show (KTKK, Salt Lake City) and a host of other radio
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