WHEN GOOD PEOPLE ARE PUSHED TOO FAR

Wayne D. Leeper

 

   There is an old story about a New England farmer during the Revolutionary War.  He did not join the Continental Army, nor did he participate in any of the great debates concerning America’s grievance against King George and Britain.  He had a farm to run, a family to support and children to raise.  The day came, however, when the sounds of war could be heard from his front porch.  He saddled his horse, took his rifle from above the fireplace and hung his powder horn around his neck.  “Where are you going?”, his wife asked.  He replied, “I am going to find out who owns this here farm.”

   That story demonstrates mindset behind the recent overwhelming victory of moral, middle class America at the polls on November 2.  What the Democrats, liberal left, and their soul mates do not understand is that America is not a place, it is an ideal.  It is the fulfillment of the hopes and dreams of mankind from time immemorial.  The ideal was born of adversity, nurtured by hardship, strengthened by patriotism and enshrined in our matchless Declaration of Independence and Constitution.  These two documents, stand second only to the Bible, as the preeminent documents in the history of mankind.

   America is the embodiment of the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of mankind.  Some people move to America to enjoy the benefits of a free society while others seek to become Americans.  It is this latter category that have formed the heart and soul of America.  They began to arrive long before America was an independent nation and continue to arrive today.  They are greeted with open arms by a people who understand the blessings that God has bestowed on America since its inception.  They seek to become a part of the dream that is America and desire nothing more than to be allowed to proudly wear the name “American” with no prefix.

  They are a tolerant people because they came to escape intolerance.  They are those beckoned by the words on the Statue of Liberty:

 

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

 

   It was to these shores that they came; our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.  With a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other they carved  a nation out of the wilderness and then made it the greatest nation on earth.  Like the New England farmer we also have jobs to do, homes to care for, and families to raise.  We don’t have time to march in protest, threaten civil violence or cast aspersions against the nation that has given us all that we have.  We are by-in-large satisfied to let the malcontents, near-do-wells, and socially immoral misfits do their thing.  We work hard, raise our children, pay our taxes, and worship our God which is what America is really all about.  All we ask is an opportunity to be all that we can be.

   But, also like the New England farmer, we can be pushed just so far and no father.  There are those who, in the name of tolerance, want to introduce upon these shores every form of licentiousness and ungodliness ever conceived in the hearts of men.  They seek to turn our nation into a jungle of unrighteousness, filth and moral decadence, unparalleled since the fall of the Roman Empire. This, they will not be allowed to do.

   On November 2, 2004 We the People went to the polls and gave our president a resounding victory and a mandate to put a stop to the immoral nonsense that has become a cancer on our national soul.  Americans correctly understand that we will either remain one nation, under God, or descend into the abyss of immorality that has claimed so many nations before us. 

   To accomplish this we will demand that judges be appointed who understand and appreciate our constitution, uphold the values that have led to our national greatness, ban lifestyles of perversion, and protect the lives of the unborn.  Those who disagree will be accorded every protection of the law but they will not be allowed to undermine the moral fiber of this nation.

   May God bless our President and may God continue to bless the United States of America.