There is but one way back to morality

The White House is bathed in rainbow colors to celebrate the glorification of sodomy. Abortionists proudly proclaim the murder of the soon-to-be-born. Christians are persecuted, fined and jailed because they choose not to participate in the heathenish, immoral lifestyles of the sodomites. Pedophilia is now being called a “sexual orientation.”

We see these things and wonder what has happened to our country, to our morality. These things cause the right thinkers among us to ask: How have we fallen so far so fast?

The answer is simple, and it was predicted by the founders:

• Benjamin Rush, On the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic: “[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
• John Witherspoon, A Sermon Delivered at Public Thanksgiving after Peace: “Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from the ignorant? Fidelity from the profligate? Assiduity and application to public business from men of a dissipated life? Is it reasonable to commit the management of public revenue to one who has wasted his own patrimony? Those, therefore, who pay no regard to religion and sobriety in the persons whom they send to the legislature of any State are guilty of the greatest absurdity and will soon pay dear for their folly.”
• Samuel Adams, letter to John Trumbull: “Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.”
• John Jay, letter to Peter Augustus Jay: “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
• George Washington, Farewell Address: “[W]here is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths … ?”
• Benjamin Rush, letter to John Adams: “In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful ‘whether morals can exist without it,’ but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.”
• Gouverneur Morris, letter to George Gordon: “Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.”
• Benjamin Franklin, letter to the Abbes Chalut and Arnoux: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”
• Thomas Jefferson, in Sheridan, Liberty and Virtue: “The Christian religion, [when] brought to the original purity and simplicity of its benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty.”
• Fisher Ames, during the Massachusetts Constitution ratifying convention: “The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.”

We have lost our bearings. The only way back is through “the way, and the truth and the life.”

Remember, brother and sister Christians, as Patrick Henry said: “We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

Be strong and courageous.

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