Guest Opinion: After the Election. Resistance with Respect

By Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
11/13/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

True marriage benefits all and bashes none. It is the foundation of society.

We must in all candor admit that we have opposed most of your policies. We believe your administration daily fails to recognize the God-given right to life. We assert that what was wrong in slavery, what was wrong in segregation, is what is wrong in abortion. It treats millions of humans as less than human.

Bob Morrison and Ken Blackwell

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WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic online) - When President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his fourth term, Kansas editor William Allen White, a staunch Republican, wrote: "We who hate your gaudy guts salute you." President Obama: We have never hated your gaudy guts. And we acknowledge that a majority of our fellow citizens of this Great Republic have saluted you and conferred upon you for the second time the office of President of the United States. We thank God that more than 120 million Americans voted in a peaceful and orderly election. That alone is a wonder of the world. (You will pardon us, Sir, if we also thank Heaven for the Twenty-second Amendment, another legacy from FDR.)

Our favorite portrait of you is the inaugural cover of The New Yorker. Over the past four years, we have written more than 600 columns singly and together about your administration's policies. Throughout those years, we have kept the high promise of that Inaugural Portrait in mind. We have endeavored always to remember that you hold the office held by Washington and Lincoln. We believe that office deserves respect.

We also recall the amazing spectacle of millions of Americans attending your first Inauguration. We feel deeply what your taking the presidential oath must mean, especially to our fellow citizens whose ancestors survived the horrors of the Middle Passage. Those forebears came here in chains. For our fellow citizens of African descent, your rise to the presidency holds profound spiritual and historical meaning. With our fellow Christians, we share a belief in the redemptive value of suffering.

We must in all candor admit that we have opposed most of your policies. We believe your administration daily fails to recognize the God-given right to life. We assert that what was wrong in slavery, what was wrong in segregation, is what is wrong in abortion. It treats millions of humans as less than human. TIME's Joe Klein admits that ultra-sound makes it "impossible to deny that that thing in the womb is a human being." Mr. President, your administration denies this reality every day. Abraham Lincoln said it well: "Nothing stamped in the divine image was sent into the world to be trod upon." President Obama: Are not unborn children so stamped?

We have also opposed your administration's policy of refusing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. One of these laws, the Defense of Marriage Act, you have flouted from the first days of your presidency. Now, we have seen voters in four states decide to permit same sex couplings to be recognized as marriages. Thirty-two states have voted to preserve true marriage. We will see what some call "marriage equality" only when Zero equals One. We are not surprised that some today hail Tuesday's results as proving that Four is greater than Thirty-two.

True marriage benefits all and bashes none. It is the foundation of society.

The moving story of 10,000 more marriages being recorded in Tennessee in 1866 should be more widely known. Recently freed black couples came to Tennessee that year to have their slave marriages legally recognized. That's how strong was the desire to preserve family life then. That's how important marriage was for the black community. The breakdown of marriage among blacks, Hispanics, and whites has caused untold heartbreak for the nation. If you are against traditional marriage, Mr. President, you cannot have a successful administration. We will fight for this ideal with or without your support.

Your administration is paying billions to tormentors of Christians in a number of Muslim majority lands. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said that Christianity is the most persecuted religion on earth. You were received with joy and admiration in Germany, Mr. President. We appeal to you to change your policies in your second term. Those who oppress neighbors who worship differently will never enjoy democracy. This must stop. You must cease taxing us to support treacherous allies who shoot us in the back.

We doubt you will be moved by our appeal. In your first term, you proved deaf to the cries of the oppressed of many lands. American blood has been shed and American treasure sunk in foreign entanglements that will result in neither freedom nor peace. And today, our strongest ally in the Middle East, Israel, is in mortal peril. No president had been as hostile to Israel's survival needs as you have been.

For the sake of our beloved country, we urge you to reverse your Mideast policy. Embracing regimens which have vowed to eradicate Israel, will bring nothing but blood and dishonor.

Finally, we pray for you, President Obama. We hope you and your family are kept safe from all harm. We believe that as we pray for you and for all those in authority, we are following God's Word.

We pray, too, that you will remember President Washington's words to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport. Washington wanted to see an America "where each shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May that be our America, too, Barack Obama.

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Ken Blackwell is a Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council, as well as the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow for Public Policy at the Buckeye Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Bob Morrison is a Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council. This article is used with permission.

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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Ken Morrison, Ken Blackwell, Barack Obama, resistance, respect, presidency, marriage, life, family, pro-life

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Jalen
6 months ago
This article inpired me and provided hope in one of this county's darkest hours -- the re-election of this Godless man as Commander-in-chief -- of this great country that offers the greatest potential for those of us who are prepared to embrace God's grace and to allow him to work through us for the greater good.

I am still "depressed" that so many Americans were duped and could re-elect a man who approves of infanticide in the form of "state-sponsored butchering of innocent children" in the form of abortion on demand, same-sex marriage and sodomy on demand in all echelons of life including our military and the encroachment of our borders from illegal immigrants and who has the "audacity" to reward them for breaking our laws with de facto amnesty and benefits that ordinary Americans have had to fight, suffer and die for to achieve and maintain.

I ask myself every day: how could this happen in our country? And, the answer is becoming strikingly clear: too many of our fellow citizens have not only turned away from God but the idea that religion is an important foundation for a sane and moral life and have chosen the various "Gods of man" like the false God - Obama - who really only cares about "his power" and to use his presidency as a conduit to carry out his agenda of socialism and world view of "fairness" and his inherent belief in secularlism that will ultimately destroy this great nation. We have come too far in overcoming our great evils to embrace a new and more virulent strain that will infect anyone that it comes in contact with.

That is why sites like LifeSiteNews.com and conservative organizations like The Family Research Council are so important to preserving the traditional values and moral foundation of this nation. They seem to be at the forefront of this war and if they can only find a way to mobilze the "silent, massive army" of Christians, other religious affiliates and those who care deeply about the course that Obama and his liberal army are steering this country, we will be able to take control of this great ship and put it back on course.

But, if individually, we sit back and allow Obama, other liberal politicians, the LGBT and their surrogates to spiritually and morally bankrupt this country, we will have noone to blame but ourselves and they will think that they have a mandate to "fundamentally transform this country as we know it" as Obama's mantra has proclaimed to his legions of liberal extremists.

To Zalmon P Saperstein:

I am sure that you and others would love to remove religion from the government and public discourse. But, that will never happen. Religion is very important to people of faith. It shapes our values and helps to define us as giving and humble beings who see ourselves as extensions of God and his grace.

Often times, it is this value that we place on our relationships with God and the mercy that he bestows opon us every day, that keeps us sane in this increasingly insane and Godless world where our leaders (even in God's houses of worship) seem to have abdicated their responsibilities of moral and spiritual leadership and wordly restraint in favor of immoral and Godless dictatorships and hedonism.

We need more "true people" of faith, not less. But, more importantly, we need the people who call themselves Christians and believers to not just "talk the talk", but to "walk the walk" and live their lives as true advocates for Christ. That is the ultimate problem we face in this country: the worship of false Gods and prophets like President Obama and the willingness of people to shelve their Christian and life-affirming values to support the policies of this president and other Godless entities even when they are the direct antithesis to scripture.
mike robertson
7 months ago
I congratulate you on your ability to remain civil. I only draw comfort knowing God can protect His people from the harm caused by the social and economic policies of this administration

Catholic democrats tragically support economics based on breaking Commandments against covetousness and theft. I am on the lower half of the economic ladder and in order for there to be a buyer's market for job seekers like myself, we need low taxes across the board, entitlement reform and lower levels of government spending. The sinful desire to hurt the rich is wrong morally and economically. The justice coming from Catholic democrats' "social justice" policies is that in hurting the rich, they end up hurting themselves. Sometimes God lets us suffer consequences when we try to hurt others. The injustice is that the Catholic democrats hurt innocent people like me and the poor, who will suffer from a shrinking job market wrought by so-called compassion.

I believe God arranged for the world to see and hear Catholic and other democrats booing His Holy Name at their convention. It should surprise no one that such a thing happened at a convention of a party led by a man who supports infanticide (even after a baby girl survives the attempt to kill her in her mom's womb), equating sodomy with Holy Matrimony and threatening the Church, our institutions and personnel with the "health care" laws. At least one bishop said, perhaps only half-jokingly, "I do not want to go to jail".

The Catholic democrats support for economic policies destructive to the poor and unemployed may be attributed to naive, kindergarten-like knowledge of economic reality. But their support for the evil social polices mentioned above might not be able to be explained in the same way. Again, I praise the God who is not bound by economics. As I face unemployment is this evil man's economy, I know God can provide me with a job. Nothing is impossible for Him.
DarthJ
7 months ago
We are peaceably resisting.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-alabama-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/2TvhJSSC

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-louisiana-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/1wrvtngl

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-texas-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/BmdWCP8B
Zalman P Saperstein
7 months ago
Time is long past for all religions to get out of politics. Your bias is obvious and consequently your political advocacy makes the Catholic Church ineligible for tax immunity! Reversing the old phrase: SHUT UP OR PUT UP!!!
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