Mike Curtiss (5
March 2012)
"The War for America’s
Soul"
The War for America’s Soul
J.D. Pendry ^ | 03/04/2012 | J.D. Pendry
Posted on March 4, 2012 5:23:13 PM CST by JDPendry
What constitutes the true soul of America? What is our authentic
nature? What gives our country its distinctive character?
Answer each for yourself, but know that these are the questions
the answers to which will decide our national fate. In a few
months, we will have to answer them with our votes.
In one of his political ads, Mitt Romney declared that the
general election is not about winning the presidency; rather it
is a battle for the soul of America. It is a very noble sounding
proclamation for a political ad and neither the liberals nor its
establishment republican allies uttered a word about it. When it
was recounted that in a 2008 speech Rick Santorum told a
Catholic University audience that Satan had his sights set on
the United States of America, the liberals and their allies
collectively guffawed and labeled him nutty. They always
challenge the message and messenger that most frightens them.
I believe both are right. Mr. Romney clearly prefers political
nuance over the directness of Mr. Santorum. Sadly, whether
addressed with a political tap dance or a direct affirmation, we
may have already lost the battle for our country’s soul.
One of my favorite quotes was written by Publilius Syrus, a
first century BC writer:
“Trust, like the soul, never returns once it
is gone.”
Is our national soul gone, never to return? Maybe it is, but if
not the death knell is certainly sounding.
The newest manufactured controversy is about contraception. The
Catholic Church does not support unnatural contraception and
therefore its institutions do not provide for it in their
employee healthcare plans. The administration’s healthcare
mandate requires them to provide it. It is clearly an
infringement on religious freedom, but who cares about that
anymore? Most recently, the administration trotted out a
“student” to lament the difficulties endured by female students
at Georgetown University because they have to buy their own
contraception, whatever form that might take. Oh the woe. The
bottom line is that this 30 year old, third year law student who
attends a school that costs about fifty grand annually believes
that someone else should pay for her recreational sex.
When she was called on her asininity by the nation’s biggest
conservative voice, Rush Limbaugh, she was made into a victim.
The poor thing was given martyr status by the liberal media –
the same people who called Sarah Palin and her daughter ever
foul profane name under the sun. Bless her heart she even got a
consoling call from the President. The outcry became so big that
some of Mr. Limbaugh’s sponsors left him. He then apologized for
calling the woman a slut. My view, if it walks like a duck…
Anyway, the big voice out there who always insists that
conservatives can never compromise with these people has now
apologized to them. A big defender of our national soul
capitulated. Our major warrior subdued.
Maybe I just come from a different place. Hell, maybe the place
I believe in exists only in my mind. Maybe there never was such
a place. I thought I remembered a time when an unmarried woman’s
virtue was important to her. Now, I am to believe that it is the
contraception that frees her to pursue unlimited recreational
sex that is virtuous – because, you see, it is not about her
promiscuity it is about preventative health care. If I follow
that logic, then I must conclude that pregnancy is the disease
that we are preventing with our “preventative health care” and
if it cannot be prevented then Planned Parenthood can just cut
out the disease and toss it into a nearby land fill. All of that
preventative care must be subsidized one way or another with
money taken from people who condone no part of it. The remnant
of our soul is left sitting atop a mound of fifty million
un-born babies who were killed by liberal preventative health
care.
It is just the latest battle in the war that we have been losing
for many years because in every skirmish, like Mr. Limbaugh did,
we just throw up our hands and surrender. Do what you want, just
leave me be.
We let them take God from schools and replace him with Darwin.
We let them take away virtue from school kids and replace it
with free condoms. We are sneered at for wanting to teach
abstinence while at the same time allowing them to insist that
our children are taught about the virtues of homosexuality. We
allowed them to force Christian displays including the Ten
Commandments from public, while watching them celebrate gay
pride in OUR Whitehouse. With complicit government, they are now
trying to force Churches to abide by their out of whack concepts
of virtue. The most visible photographs making the rounds these
days is a Marine kissing his boyfriend that follows of course
the lesbian Sailor doing the same to her girlfriend. A few good
men – and women.
If you want to destroy a nation’s essence, you must destroy the
important institutions that support it. Schools, families, the
military, and the churches. They have made it to the Churches.
Those who will steal our soul are winning the war and they are
in power. Power they will not give up easily.
We no longer have those gun-toting, God fearing, Bible clinging,
freedom loving, small government minded men who founded this
country. And sadly, our most prominent warrior voices are
dropping like flies. Mr. Limbaugh always reminds his listeners
that he will tell them when it is time to worry. I think he just
did.
Once lost, it will never return.