Story originally printed in the Tomah Journal or online at www.tomahjournal.com
Published - Sunday, December 02, 2007
Column: America's Christian heritage slipping away
America, a Christian nation or not?
I consider myself a Christian conservative, and I have many questions about both parties, Democrat and Republican. These are my personal opinions, and I’m looking for feedback from everyone interested in giving your views.
Christmas is just around the corner. I’ve been listening and watching how retailers are handling it. Many, such as K-Mart, Kohl’s and others want to be politically correct by being careful not to use the word “Christmas” in their ads or flyers describing their Christmas items, trees and all. Ridiculous!
I have many discussions with friends, neighbors and relatives about all these issues going on in our country today. These are some of the things I hear: I just don’t want to get involved, or why fight it, they’re going to get their way anyhow, we might as well get used to it. I don’t believe that.
You hear this phrase used quite often anymore. “What would Jesus do?” I rather doubt he’d do nothing or say nothing about what’s going on in the world we live in today.
Some have said, “I’ve worked for a union company all my life, so I’ve got to vote Democrat”; others have said, “I’ve been a Democrat all my life, so I vote Democrat.”
When I question some of these people on issues of abortion, gay rights, the Ten Commandments, prayer in school, they usually give conservative answers, so which is it? Are they making uninformed decisions, or what? They all say they believe God created heaven and earth, Adam and Eve, yet they vote for these liberal issues when they vote for a liberal Democrat or liberal Republican.
“Moveon.org” is a radical left-wing Democrat organization which in my opinion has hi-jacked the Democratic party with its altruistic views and money to burn. If a Democrat congressman like Joe Lieberman or Zell Miller don’t agree with their liberal agenda, they trash them.
The ALCU, an atheist organization, and the Civil Liberties Union profess freedom of speech. Is this just for a select party or group, or what?
Liberal judges, and believe me, they’re not Republicans, making all sorts of rulings against creationism being discussed in public schools, Ted Kennedy calling parts of the Bible hate speech because it doesn’t condone homosexuality, so what’s your interpretation of free speech?
On all the issues, I feel our Constitution, 1st Amendment rights, Separation of Church and State are being so warped out of shape to mean whatever they want it to mean that we’re just going to be a nation of chaos pretty soon. What do you think?
All these cultural issues are hashed over on television. Many are written about in the newspapers, and many editorials are on both sides of all these issues.
My opinion is: unless conservatives, churches and our conservative congressmen start taking a more active role by standing up, speaking out and fighting back, this great country of ours is really going to get messy. The least I think we can do is support many of the good conservative organizations out there beating the bushes fighting for our conservative survival. It’s a tough fight.
I saw a report on TV where 90 percent plus college faculty are liberal. So we have many professors such as Ward Churchill at Colorado University and Kevin Barrett at the Wisconsin University teaching kids liberalism, and boy are they radical. I don’t know what type of government they support, but I get the feeling they don’t support America or our democratic system of government.
I’m lucky, I guess, to have grown up in the 40s and 50s. Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, even Halloween, were all scandal free and celebrated throughout America the way I feel was the right way, and I feel we were all more in harmony with the way our founding fathers had in mind, the way they intended it to be.
I’d love to hear your views. Don’t be scared of what your neighbor, friend or relative might say. It’s a free country yet, so if you have any thoughts, let’s hear ’em.
Ron Lee is a resident of Tomah.
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