Several months ago, a debate happened among conservative (and not so conservative) Baptist bloggers about whether one should vote for Mitt Romney who is a Mormon. Personally, while there were other viable candidates, I couldn’t vote for him and I didn’t. Today he has bowed out of the presidential race, but before he did, he said some intriguing words concerning the future of America. Below is a portion of what he said:
The threat to our culture comes from within. The 1960’s welfare programs created a culture of poverty. Some think we won that battle when we reformed welfare, but the liberals haven’t given up.
At every turn, they try to substitute government largesse for individual responsibility. They fight to strip work requirements from welfare, to put more people on Medicaid, and to remove more and more people from having to pay any income tax whatsoever. Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity. Dependency is a culture-killing drug-we have got to fight it like the poison it is!
The attack on faith and religion is no less relentless. And tolerance for pornography-even celebration of it-and sexual promiscuity, combined with the twisted incentives of government welfare programs have led to today’s grim realities: 68% of African American children are born out-of-wedlock, 45% of Hispanic children, and 25% of White children.
How much harder it is for these children to succeed in school-and in life. A nation built on the principles of the founding fathers cannot long stand when its children are raised without fathers in the home.
The development of a child is enhanced by having a mother and father. Such a family is the ideal for the future of the child and for the strength of a nation. I wonder how it is that unelected judges, like some in my state of Massachusetts, are so unaware of this reality, so oblivious to the millennia of recorded history. It is time for the people of America to fortify marriage through constitutional amendment, so that liberal judges cannot continue to attack it!
Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality. Some reason that culture is merely an accessory to Americas vitality; we know that it is the source of our strength. And we are not dissuaded by the snickers and knowing glances when we stand up for family values, and morality, and culture. We will always be honored to stand on principle and to stand for principle.
My partial reprinting of his statement here is not an endorsement of Mormonism. It is a cult and needs to be shown how it does not measure up to God’s word. Being a Baptist and an American, I will defend anyone’s right to believe as he/she wants (religious liberty), but I will also speak truth. Like my good friend Tim Rogers has told me, “Even a blind hog will find an acorn every now and then.” I believe Gov. Romney found an acorn with the above statement.
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