THEY WERE BELIEVERS WITH STEVE FARRELL

Wrote American Founder John Dickinson in 1787, in his Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania:

Is grief an evil? More to the point, is there something fundamentally wrong with you or me, or a family member, or the neighbor down the road, or the poor fellow across the ocean having an absolutely devastating day, week, month, year, decade or, perhaps, lifetime – as some of our politicians, physicians and psychologists seem to believe?

A close friend of mine suffers from a common human malady – the inability to give tough love.

The first indication that the DNC bounce has worn out its welcome comes from The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday, September 15 which shows GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney up by 2 points over President Barack Obama in a nationwide sampling of voters.

There are basically two takes on homosexuality which have become the ruling dogma of the national political ‘churches’ left and right; they are:

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch writes in a congressional alert to his constituents today:

As a child growing up in New York, I was attracted to the opposite sex. When I saw a pretty little girl flash a smile, my heart fluttered, my cheeks blushed, I shuffled my feet and shyly looked the other way.

Liberty and license are not synonymous. Parents know better. Too many of them have had the unfortunate dilemma of dealing with the “I am free to do as I please” child who routinely, or upon occasion, exercises that egocentric proclamation to reckless extremes. These parents stand as witnesses that a widely accepted notion that “freedom and moral responsibility are not connected” is at best a delusion instilled by mis-education, not experience, and is at worst a diabolical lie.

Not far removed from Marx’s elitist man-as-God theory (meaning, more particularly, Marx, or the ruling class, or the State, as God), of all the popular takes on religion in law in America that miss the mark none is more pervasive, none strike closer to the root, than the worship of the Humanist God of Democracy — the Almighty Self.

Again I pose the same question, but with slight variation: Do religion and morality have a place in public policy, public law, and public education — or are they to be scorned, shunned, and silenced?

Things are not always as they seem. Marxism’s war on religion presents evidence-a-plenty that this notion is true. From both the left, in the name of Social Democracy, and from the right, in the name of Secular Government, Marx’s Atheistic teammates have pushed, shoved and pressed upon religion in public life until a bipartisan squeeze has effectively crushed what was once publicly pervasive into the less than popular enclave of that which is now publicly suppressed.

Essay one addressed Modern Liberalism as the religion, albeit the false religion, that it is. Next, enter stage right, Libertarianism.

One of the most controversial and confusing of all issues for many is, just what is the proper role of religion and morality in public life?

Sometimes secularism sounds legitimate. One of the more thoughtful arguments used by proponents of a secular state, or of a state that mandates the removal of all religious and moral speech and symbols from public life, is Frenchmen Frederic Bastiat’s 1840 classic treatise, “The Law.”

Yesterday Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a House panel that a “reduction in the number of human beings born in the United States will compensate employers and insurers for the cost of complying with Obamacare mandates that require all health-care plans to cover sterilizations and abortifacients.