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Conservatives and Christians all over America are vacillating between a sense of fear of socialistic control by our current government and a hope that a revolt against such government is beginning to arise. The evidence of discontent toward these “changes” in our American way of life was revealed by the overwhelming response at the recent tea parties occurring throughout our nation.

Suddenly, there is a ray of hope. People are uniting, we hear. Americans are mad and they aren’t going to take it any more. We will band together and show the liberals that we surround them as opposed to them surrounding us. 

Maybe. But I am doubtful. 

Why? 

When I attended a tea party on April 15th I took a good look around me. While there were a few children and young adults among the crowd, the majority of the people at these tea parties were over fifty. Gray heads and middle aged spread abounded. The people who are angry, the Americans who are fighting against socialism and our new leadership are aging America. 

Where were the young people? 

In school, you say. 

Bingo. That’s our problem. Our kids are sitting in classrooms all across America. Classrooms controlled by our government. Classrooms where they are being thoroughly indoctrinated with socialism and its brother communism. Classrooms where evolution is taught as fact and creationism as a myth. Classrooms where tolerance toward deviant sexual behavior, more than reading, writing, and arithmetic, is drummed into our children’s brains from 9 till 3 everyday. 

Our children are learning history that has been filtered, twisted, and completely re-written to conform to the ideologies of the very people moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas are revolting against. They are being instructed that Islam is merely another path that leads to God, who by the way doesn’t really exist. Christianity? Well it’s just some antiquated belief held by dangerous radical extremists in America’s dying churches. 

Have you ever taken a hard look at America’s kids? They are covered with tattoos and marks from cutting themselves. They watch filth on television and the internet, they play with violent and sexually exploitive games on their play stations, they listen to mind-numbing music that is filled with profanity and encourages its listeners to violence. 

But... we want them to be socialized. We want them to fit into their society, profane and perverted that it is. Heaven forbid that our kids should be different! 

But unless our kids are different, America is toast. We can’t take back America until we take back our kids! 

Our kids have fallen for the evolutionary, anti-God, socialistic agenda that permeates American schools and the parents of this country are responsible. Moms and Dads have abdicated their authority over their children by handing them over to people who hate everything that they, the moms and dads, supposedly stand for. 

If we want to save America we must do two things. One, repent! Ask God to forgive us for relinquishing the control of the precious children God has entrusted to our care and training, into the hands of the God-hating world. Two, take back our authority over our children, accept the God-given mandate to diligently train them in the ways of God, and fill their minds with Scripture as opposed to the filth of this world. One of the best ways we can do this is by homeschooling our children (or at the very least enrolling our children in SOLID Christian schools.) We must teach them what we believe rather than allowing the enemies of God to indoctrinate them with their beliefs. 

Very soon the young people and children will be the ones governing our nation. To repeat a cliche, "children are the future". They are our hope for the survival of the America we once knew and loved and if they do not hold our beliefs, but rather the empty and ugly and frightening philosophies of those currently in power, then as Ronald Reagan once said... 

“One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Dear Senator Obama,

I am impressed with how you have been able to rise from being relatively unknown four years ago to become a major party Presidential nominee. As an African American, I am proud of your accomplishment and pleased to see the day come in which a black man can contend for the Presidency and in which most Americans are willing to vote for someone who does not look like them. I am praying for you just as I also am praying for Senator McCain and for our leaders in general. I strongly disagree with a number of your policies but I do like you personally. And because I like you, I want to tell you a few things that you really need to hear.

Let me start by explaining why I will not vote for you. 

While I disagree with you on a number of issues, there is one issue that I disagree with you above all others. Senator, in every year since the late 1970's, at least one million unborn babies a year have been aborted in the United States. The overwhelming majority - more than 90% - were aborted for reasons other than rape, incest, or issues involving the life or health of either mother or baby. It has long been acceptable in this country to terminate the developing lives of unborn babies at almost any stage of development for any reason. And you have not only steadfastly supported abortion in general but also voted against banning partial birth abortion - a procedure that occurs at a point in time after the unborn baby can in most cases live outside the womb, can smile and can recognize her mother's voice. In fact, you have defended the practice of abortion under essentially all scenarios. Your positions seem to reflect your answer to the question that you were asked at the Saddleback forum in August about when life began. You stated that to answer that question with specificity is above your "pay grade."

You are already a very educated man, but perhaps you've never known the following facts. Senator, the human heart begins beating 21 days after conception - only a week after most women can discover that they're pregnant. By six weeks after conception, some brain activity is detectible and the lungs have started to develop. By the eighth week, every major organ that an adult will ever have has begun forming and is in place in a tiny little body that with every passing week begins to more closely resemble how he/she will look at birth - an event that will take place in less than seven months. All of these prenatal developmental activities occur on a fixed time schedule at some number of days after conception. After conception, if a baby is not aborted or miscarried, these things will generally happen like clockwork. Without conception, none of them will happen at all.

Senator, you have given your campaign a clever tagline - "change" - something so simplistically clever than several of your opponents have tried to copy it. But did you know that God is the one who first suggested the word "change?"

I'm sure you have probably heard the word "repent" a lot before in church. But do you know what the origin of the word means? It means literally "to change your mind." And although you've talked a lot about how this country needs change, I feel obliged to tell you that you yourself also need change. You need to change your mind about this issue.

In fact, I believe that your steadfast and constant support of abortion is a contradiction of everything that you claim to be and everything that you claim to represent. I'll explain why.

You are obviously an intelligent man and have also pledged to both be respectful to people who see things differently than you as well as to incorporate dissenting points of view in your decision making. You have frequently criticized President Bush, claiming that he failed to consider viewpoints that contradicted his own when making decisions. But when it comes to the issue of abortion, I need to ask whether or not you've ever considered alternative viewpoints? Have you ever studied the human development process or the statistics on abortion? Ever talked to a former abortionist or any of the masses of women who are horrified that they once believed the things they were taught about it? Senator, do you investigate and make your decisions based on a wide range of evidence or do you simply believe your "gut" or what those closest to you tell you? You present yourself as a cerebral and considerate man. But have you thought and considered the evidence about the many tiny beating human hearts whose fate will be determined largely by whoever is next elevated to the Presidential pay grade?

You are an African American man and you have a wide level of support from the black community. But do you have any idea how heavily abortion has devastated the black community? Are you aware that the abortion statistics among African Americans are so high that one out of three black pregnancies ends in abortion? That one unborn black baby is aborted for every two black babies that are allowed to be born? That more black babies were aborted in 2004 than the total number of already-born black people who died for all causes of death put together that year? But you support the policy of allowing abortion for all reasons and at all times and have been endorsed by Planned Parenthood, an organization which is believed by many to place a higher concentration of abortion clinics in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. If you are elected President, should I feel better that the Chief Executive who supports the policy that is wiping out a significant portion of our race is also black? Actually, that thought makes me feel even worse.

You are an Attorney and were a Constitutional Law Professor. But you continue to express support for what both conservative and liberal legal minds regard as one of the worst opinions ever rendered by the High Court. Bob Woodward reported two decades ago after reviewing notes from the Justices involved in the case that even those same justices called key parts of that ruling "arbitrary" and "legislative." Some of them even mocked the presentation of the ruling, calling the written opinion itself "an abortion." The other abortion case decided the same day as Roe, Doe v. Bolten, involves a plaintiff who claimed that her name was forged on the Supreme Court position and that she never supported legalized abortion in the first place. The two women who were the plaintiffs in both of these landmark Supreme Court cases have both lobbied, unsuccessfully, to have the High Court overturn the cases that bear their pseudonyms. But you have staunchly supported Roe in spite of the legal flaws that scholars on both sides of the debate see as blatant.

You identify yourself as a Christian and have referenced Scripture in making some of your public speeches. But I wonder if in your many years in church you've ever flipped a few books back and read Jeremiah 1:5, which reads "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." Or gone back a bit more and seen in Psalm 139 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb" and "your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Since you are the one who has highlighted your Christian faith and referenced Scripture in explaining your take on some issues, I have to ask what do you think about those passages? Do you feel that it's okay to pay close attention only to the parts that talk about alleviating poverty and suffering and to ignore the parts that strongly suggest that life begins before birth?

Let me appeal to you in a more personal manner. Senator, have you ever considered your own life story when thinking about the issue of abortion? How your beautiful late mother found out she was pregnant with you around the time of her eighteenth birthday and had to deal with two sets of unaccepting parents who might have preferred that you - and all the inconveniences and complications your birth brought - could be made to just "go away?" Have you ever thought that if the Roe ruling had been handed down a bit earlier and if abortion were as easily available and encouraged as it is now that you might not be here? Have you ever thought of how many other baby Baracks - unborn babies whose mothers faced situations no more trying than your mother faced with you - never were allowed to be born?

Think about how many people have felt inspired by your story. How many other children in your exact situation could have touched people if they had not been killed en utero because their mothers thought that they had a right to make "a choice" to do so. How many would-be community organizers never got a chance to be be born so that they could work with hurting people? How many would-be lawyers never got a chance to be born so that they could one day pass the bar exam and one day add their unique perspective to the political scene? And think of the ripple effect of abortion. Because if your mother had "chosen" to abort you, your beautiful little children would have never been born either. Have you ever thought how many similarly adorable children who are full of hope and promise never came to be because their parents were never given an opportunity to be born - because their would-be grandparents made a "choice" to terminate their already-beating hearts prior to birth?

This, Senator, is why you need to change. Because, in this one area especially, the things that you say you care about don't line up with the things you appear to believe or the things that you do. And so, sir, I urge you to utilize your campaign slogan and apply it to yourself and your policy. To take a long look at yourself, the things you believe, the things you've said and the way you've voted. And then truly, from the heart, change.

I am not suggesting that you change the way politicians "change" - in blatantly insincere attempts to modify outward behavior without altering inward beliefs. I'm urging you to make a real change. Fundamental change. A change in what you believe in.

And if you do one day really change and establish a track record of thinking differently over a period of time, you might be pleasantly surprised at the warmer reaction you get even from many white rural voters who have resisted you. There are a lot of people in this country who currently oppose you but who at first really wanted to like you. But they, like I, cannot support someone who supports a policy that allows for the lives of the most vulnerable among us to be taken away. We all are praying, politics aside, that one day you will change.

- The Values Voter

Originally posted at http://thevaluesvoter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F3D4C1BC1D8B0D91!1339.entry