I have been so enamored with Mike Huckabee lately I thought it good to post some information on my man Fred Thompson.
The information in this post is from Fred08.com and discusses an affinity to social conservativism. For me this ranks as a war against the Left as much as I root for our military to achieve victory in War on Terror.
Since the 1960’s and the aging of my generation of Baby Boomers, the foundation of Christian Biblical morality has been challenged by the Left. The Left has duped non-political Americans into thinking the moral relativity of Secular Humanism is the modern standard and that Christian morality are based on the myths of a religion.
Thus America has seen prayer taken out of schools. Christian symbolism attacked on America’s public buildings that represent America’s hundreds of years of the Christian standard as the foundation law, justice and community.
My God if a kid takes a Bible to school he is a rebel. If he takes a Quran or some New Age material based on Eastern Religions, he is a progressive thinker receiving praise of teachers or Professors.
In my day I was a rebel if I wore my hair too long and acted just disrespectful enough not to be punished.
Anyway here is a piece from Fred08.com entitled Traditional American Values.
JRH
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Traditional American Values
Fred08.com
Protecting Life Fred Thompson is pro-life. He believes in the sanctity of human life and that every life is worthy of respect. He had a 100% pro-life voting record in the Senate and believes Roe v. Wade was a bad decision that ought to be overturned. He consistently opposed federal funding to promote or pay for abortion and supported the Partial Birth Abortion Act, the Child Custody Protection Act, and President Reagan’s “Mexico City” policy. While Fred Thompson supports adult stem cell research, he opposes embryonic stem cell research. He also opposes human cloning. Supporting MarriageFred Thompson believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman, and that this institution is the foundation of society. As such, he supported the Defense of Marriage Act when he served in the Senate. He supports a constitutional amendment to prevent activist judges from misreading the Constitution to force same-sex marriage on any state and on our society.
Protecting our Kids While censorship is dangerous, obscenity is not legally protected, and laws against it should be vigorously enforced. Parents need to be empowered to protect their children from inappropriate matter, whether on TV, in video games, or on the computer. And we must do all we can to fight the explosion of child pornography over the Internet.
Limiting the Role of the Judiciary For many years, the judiciary has been too eager to engage in social engineering under the guise of interpreting the Constitution. Fred Thompson is a lawyer who understands the difference between interpreting the law and making it. He is committed to appointing judges who understand and respect that difference and who will only interpret and apply the law, not make it. When President Bush needed someone to shepherd the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States, he turned to Fred Thompson, who steered the Roberts nomination to its successful confirmation. John Roberts represents the kind of judges Fred Thompson would seek to appoint as President.
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Fred probably is not as socially conservative as I would like; nonetheless it is a stark contrast from the deviant culture and Christophobic agenda that various Leftist non-organizations influenced by Secular Humanism provide.
What Fred is supporting is a Federalism in which States determine socio-cultural laws. This means neither the Federal Government nor the Judicial System legislating from the judicial bench.
That is a fairness I can live with because as a Christian the consequences of sin will be determined by State citizens rather than Federal Bureaucracy or a Judiciary System overstepping its mandate to interpret law to actively make law.
A stark return to Federalism might be a common ground to reunify Americans rather than the mutual anger that political polarization tends to cause.
JRH
The information in this post is from Fred08.com and discusses an affinity to social conservativism. For me this ranks as a war against the Left as much as I root for our military to achieve victory in War on Terror.
Since the 1960’s and the aging of my generation of Baby Boomers, the foundation of Christian Biblical morality has been challenged by the Left. The Left has duped non-political Americans into thinking the moral relativity of Secular Humanism is the modern standard and that Christian morality are based on the myths of a religion.
Thus America has seen prayer taken out of schools. Christian symbolism attacked on America’s public buildings that represent America’s hundreds of years of the Christian standard as the foundation law, justice and community.
My God if a kid takes a Bible to school he is a rebel. If he takes a Quran or some New Age material based on Eastern Religions, he is a progressive thinker receiving praise of teachers or Professors.
In my day I was a rebel if I wore my hair too long and acted just disrespectful enough not to be punished.
Anyway here is a piece from Fred08.com entitled Traditional American Values.
JRH
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Traditional American Values
Fred08.com
Protecting Life Fred Thompson is pro-life. He believes in the sanctity of human life and that every life is worthy of respect. He had a 100% pro-life voting record in the Senate and believes Roe v. Wade was a bad decision that ought to be overturned. He consistently opposed federal funding to promote or pay for abortion and supported the Partial Birth Abortion Act, the Child Custody Protection Act, and President Reagan’s “Mexico City” policy. While Fred Thompson supports adult stem cell research, he opposes embryonic stem cell research. He also opposes human cloning. Supporting MarriageFred Thompson believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman, and that this institution is the foundation of society. As such, he supported the Defense of Marriage Act when he served in the Senate. He supports a constitutional amendment to prevent activist judges from misreading the Constitution to force same-sex marriage on any state and on our society.
Protecting our Kids While censorship is dangerous, obscenity is not legally protected, and laws against it should be vigorously enforced. Parents need to be empowered to protect their children from inappropriate matter, whether on TV, in video games, or on the computer. And we must do all we can to fight the explosion of child pornography over the Internet.
Limiting the Role of the Judiciary For many years, the judiciary has been too eager to engage in social engineering under the guise of interpreting the Constitution. Fred Thompson is a lawyer who understands the difference between interpreting the law and making it. He is committed to appointing judges who understand and respect that difference and who will only interpret and apply the law, not make it. When President Bush needed someone to shepherd the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States, he turned to Fred Thompson, who steered the Roberts nomination to its successful confirmation. John Roberts represents the kind of judges Fred Thompson would seek to appoint as President.
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Fred probably is not as socially conservative as I would like; nonetheless it is a stark contrast from the deviant culture and Christophobic agenda that various Leftist non-organizations influenced by Secular Humanism provide.
What Fred is supporting is a Federalism in which States determine socio-cultural laws. This means neither the Federal Government nor the Judicial System legislating from the judicial bench.
That is a fairness I can live with because as a Christian the consequences of sin will be determined by State citizens rather than Federal Bureaucracy or a Judiciary System overstepping its mandate to interpret law to actively make law.
A stark return to Federalism might be a common ground to reunify Americans rather than the mutual anger that political polarization tends to cause.
JRH
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2 comments:
Why does religion always have to be aligned with fiscal conservatism and limited government? You don't need the power of any higher being to realize that leftist governments never work. You don't need to believe in a higher power to realize that free-market capitalism is the only fair policy that lowers prices and improves quality for our good and services. And you don't need to power of God to realize that if we had a nationalized healthcare system in the U.S., quality would go down the shithole and our options as patients would be drastically limited.
Religion does not have a monopoly on common sense, as much as they'd like to believe.
In response to anonymous.
I tend to agree with all your points. I bet you are surprised.
Nonetheless, I am religious and could be pegged into the Christian Right. There are many who are religious and do consider themselves Leftist Democrats. I could never figure that out.
The Christian Right pretty much agrees with all the Conservative issues you pointed out yet add "social conservativism" to the list.
Christian morality is a better foundation for a rule of law in America than moral relativity in which secular humanism espouses. There are secular conservatives that buy into the Jeffersonian wall of separation between State and Church; however that is not Constitutional. The wall of separation crap is Slanted Left ideology to expunge Christian morality from American Society.
That is not common sense rather that is common Christophobia.
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