Hope to Overthrow Political Liberty? Take Aim at Christian Foundations
Our dangers are of two kinds, those which affect our religion, and those which affect our government. They are, however, so closely allied that they cannot, with propriety, be separated. The foundations which support the interests of Christianity, are alos necessary to support a free and equal government like our own. In all those contries where there is little or no religion, or a very gross and corrupt one, as in Mohometan and Pagan countries, there you will find, with scarcely a single exception, arbitrary and tyrannical governments, gross ignorance and wickedness, and deplorable wretchedness among the people.
To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoy.
In proportion as the genuine effect of Christinity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism. I hold this to be a truth confirmed by experience. If so, it follows, that all efforts made to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness.
Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of govenment, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.
Dr. Jedidiah Morse, April 25, 1799, Election Sermon
Liberty Letters Comment: With the decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court to impose gay marriage on the people of New Jersey, by fiat, we see proof this very hour of Jedidiah Morse s insights two centuries ago.
Not only will this decision be utilized to impose the legitimacy of this unnatural, unholy, and unhealthy practice on everyone else, whether school children and their parents (via curriculum guidelines and tax financed gay lesbian clubs), or private organizations (e.g., The Boy Scouts of America), or insurance companies (by mandating, for instance, AIDS coverage, which bids up everyone else s insurance premiums), or other states (via the good faith clause), or churches (via discrimination laws) - but note how it was accomplished, via fiat, via an appeal to a legal body that under the Constitution ought never to legislate.
Finally, engaging in homosexual behavior is one thing, making it legitimate in the age of busy body socialism quite another. There is no end to how these radical anti-Americans will exploit homosexuals, as they have every other minority group, to the benefit of The Revolution. Mark my words.
Liberty Letters editor Steve Farrell is a pundit with America's Newspage Newsmax.com, associate professor of political economy at George Wythe College, and the author of the highly praised inspirational novel, "Dark Rose.
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