[Antoninus]

It is appalling to see how many useful idiots there are on Free Republic these days. It's one thing to attack a candidate like Rick Santorum for his record and his occasional less-than-conservative votes. It's another thing completely to attack him for his conservative and laudable defense of the American family. By doing this, you are joining the ranks of the amoral enemy and abetting the activities of those in news, academia, and the toxic entertainment media.

[volunbeer]

The devil’s wishlist.

[unkus]

You are right!

[Antoninus]

Hat tip to you, my friend.

[cripplecreek]

Its frightening how far they’ve gotten.

We have to fight on all fronts rather than concentrating on one or two.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“It’s another thing completely to attack him for his conservative and laudable defense of the American family. By doing this, you are joining the ranks of the amoral enemy and abetting the activities of those in news, academia, and the toxic entertainment media.”

I have seen this quite a bit lately. I don’t expect all FReepers to be christians, but to attack a candidate for being a devout christian, or a devout Jew is sick. Many of our societal problems emanate from the breakdown of the American family. We need more politicians to speak up about this, not less!

[Antoninus]

At least understand what you are defending and whose rhetoric you are using when you claim that a duly elected government has no right to restrict obscenity.

[Antoninus]

Pinging the Santorum list to this. Personally, I think the media/left has once again stepped in it by trying to make Santorum the equivalent of the Taliban for daring to say he will enforce existing laws against obscenity.

50%+ of potential voters are women. How many of them would favor Santorum's position on obscenity?

The problem with the left is that they are surrounded by morbidly perverse people and don't understand that the vast majority of the people in this country do not think like they do on the subject.



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[PGalt]

Very good post/reminder. Thanks.

DEPOPULATE socialists/totalitarians from the body politic. C’mon November!

[OneHun]

Thank you for the post.  It was extremely hard for me to read it.  I had to pause a few times just to cope with the vivid remembrance of 30 years living under socialist/communist regime. 

This is exactly how they think, how they act, up until they destroy you, enslave you, and at the end steal your soul, too.

I noticed for a long time that this is coming to America and unfortunately most people in America seems to be to ignorant to believe it.  If the advance of socialism, communism and fascism is not stopped very soon, then the suffering of  people will be huge, included those useful idiots who advocated for leftist ideology. 

[cripplecreek]

See post number 3. Santorum had nothing to do with the thread but some can’t resist a chance to take a swing at a Christian.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2860360/posts

[llmc1]

Thank you for posting this, Antoninus.

[WPaCon]

More and more, I am thinking that social conservatism is conservatism.

It's been pointed out by a lot of people here that the decline in moral values and the family is the reason that we are in so much of an economic and fiscal mess. But it's not just limited to "fiscal" issues, and also extends to the other leg of Reagan's stool--national defense. If a country becomes weak and decadent, it's not going to defend itself, and it will fold when it encounters hardship. Besides, is a society like that worth defending anyway?

[koinonia]

If Obama wins, then we can officially change the name of our country from the United States of America to the Communist State of Obama. His administration just announced that in Obamacare every person signed up will be contributing $12 yearly to fund abortions - if all Americans are forced to buy in he would be taking about 3 billion dollars out of our pockets and funding “free” abortions (not to mention the “free” sterilizations and condemns). And, as Newt has openly said, Obama has declared war on the Catholic Church, all Christian Churches who still have a conscience and all American citizens who value their freedom: no more inevitable rights endowed to us by our Creator (like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness), oh no! It’s Communism like China and Russia, but the crazy thing is people are voting for it.

God help us! And, please God, Santorum/Newt for President/VP (or vice versa)!

[chemicalman]

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

I KNEW IT! Mitt is up to no good!

[itsahoot]

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

Some may remember that William F. Buckley debated Reagan on this issue and Buckley's position prevailed.(Actually for the return to Panama, which leased it to China)

[DaxtonBrown]

At least I am a useful idiot.

[darrellmaurina]

Thank you **SO MUCH** for this post, Antoninus.

The attacks on Santorum have taken on a life of their own. There are perfectly good reasons why a Christian may think Santorum isn't the best candidate, and that's fine. What's not fine is that people are attacking Santorum for believing that the Christian faith has a role in politics. Driving faith out of politics is a Democratic Party or Libertarian Party agenda, and shouldn't be part of a Republican conservative agenda.

There was a day not that many years ago that secular conservatives believed going to church and living a good moral life was part of being a good citizen and a good Republican. They might or might not meet a biblical definition of being evangelical Christians, but they certainly valued the Christian foundations of the United States and traditional morality.

I know. I was one. Frankly, being American was more important to me than being Christian, but I didn't understand that because I didn't see any difference between the two, except that it wasn't a good idea to get too “radical” about church issues.

I was converted many years ago, and a key passage God used to convert me was Matt 6:1-8, the preface to the Lord's Prayer: “1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”

That passage convicted me of my wickedness; basically everything I was doing by way of living a decent moral life was being done to avoid future political problems, and my moral life was purely intended to please people and not God.

Now a lot could be said about that which is theological, not political, and it doesn't need to be said here.

What's important is that three decades ago, coming out of the radical immorality of the 1960s, most conservative Republicans understood the importance of public morality and being a “good Christian church member” was part of the necessary resume for a Republican candidate for office.

That old system was far from perfect and it had more than a tinge of Pharisaism. However, we've now moved into a world where being a serious Christian seems to draw attacks not only from Democrats but from some Republican conservatives.

That needs to stop, and it's not going to stop until conservative Christians start standing up and saying “NO!”

The radical anti-Christian left has taken over the Democratic Party. We don't need to let anti-Christian conservatives take over the Republican Party.

[chemicalman]

This should be a recurring reminder every few months, or so.

[daniel1212]

• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.^[12]

• In war there is no substitute for victory. There are some who for varying reasons would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier wars.

• There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

• The United States is a pre-eminently Christian and conservative nation. It is far less militaristic than most nations. It is not especially open to the charge of imperialism. Yet one would fancy that Americans were the most brutally blood-thirsty people in the world to judge by the frantic efforts that are being made to disarm them both physically and morally...The effect of all this unabashed and unsound propaganda is not so much to convert America to a holy horror of war as it is to confuse the public mind and lead to muddled thinking in international affairs.^[13]

• In the last 3,400 years only 268 -- less than 1 in 13 -- have been free from wars.

• I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

• The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

• Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.^[14]

• A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

• Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. ^[15]

• It [socialism] discourages development of moral forces which would preserve inviolate our representative form of government, answerable to the will of the electorate.^[16]

• Are we going to squander our limited resources to the point of our own inevitable exhaustion, or adopt commonsense policies of frugality which will insure financial stability in our time and a worthwhile heritage in that of our progeny?

• Are we going to continue to permit the pressure of alien doctrines to strongly influence the orientation of foreign and domestic policy, or regain trust in our own traditions, experience and free institutions, and the wisdom of our own people?

• In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are heading with such certainly. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy, but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

• These pressures have already caused us to depart sharply from the course so long held toward national strength and moral greatness. Our economic statute built under the incentive of free enterprise is imperiled by our drift through the back door of confiscatory taxation toward socialism.

• It is a singular habit in this country to raise high the military when war threatens, but to ignore security needs in the pleasanter times of peace.^[17][18]

• Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces?^[19][20]

• The people have it in their hands to restore morality, wisdom and direction to of our foreign and domestic affairs, and regain the religious base which in times past assured general integrity in public and private life.^[21][22]

• ...The spiritual impulse is strong in many American hearts and constitutes a rugged bulwark in the defense of religious morality against the advance of any atheistic immorality.^[23][24]

• Our great strength rests in those high-minded Americans whose faith in God and love of country transcends all selfishness and self-serving instincts.^[25]

• There are those who seek to convert us to a form of socialistic endeavor leading directly to the path of Communist slavery.^[26]

• There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism - no half-way in the preservation of freedom and religion.^[27][28]

• We all dream of of the day when human conduct will be governed by the Decalogue and the Sermon and the Mount.^[29][30]

• History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed in to political and economic decline.^[31]

• I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

• I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. ^[32]

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