I too was impressed with the Libertarians' numbers and level of organization at the Wake County GOP Convention last night. God-fearing Christians Conservatives and Social Conservatives had better wake up and rise to the battle or licentiousness and hedonism with government approval will soon prevail in our society, if America survives the foreign threats long enough.
Since the Libertarians failed to get their own party authorized in NC, they have taken to an highly organized and energized effort to take over the Republican Party in NC. I have witnessed this at several GOP and other conservative and Christian events around Wake County.
Their local fair haired favorite son is none other than that eloquent and handsome, but deceptively dangerous, B.J. Lawson. Lawson, a GOP primary Candidate for US Congress against liberal Democrat David Price, claims if he went to DC that the two books he would carry with him are the Cato Institute's (Libertarians) Constitution and the Bible.
Remember, Jefferson owned a Koran, but despite what liberal Democrat Muslim Rep. Ellis may protest, Jefferson only owned it because he wanted to study his enemy because he was preparing to wage war against the Islamists of the Barbary Cost. That's why the Marine Corps hymn says "from the halls of Montazoma to the shores of Tripoli" where Thomas Jefferson (the idol of modern Libertarians) deployed the US Marines to defeat Muslim pirates and protect US interests and citizens abroad.
Back on the 1980's, while serving in the US Navy, I read Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika, but I assure you that I had no intention of becoming a Communist. In the same way, some politicians carry the Bible around like a letter of reference to gain the trust of Evangelicals. Christians beware!
I first met B.J. Lawson last fall when we were both at the NC State Fair. I was working the NC Right to Life booth and Lawson was ostensibly working out of the NC Republican Party booth, but was in fact working for Ron Paul, the Libertarian congressman from TX who had to join the GOP to get re-elected (after having run a failed campaign for President on the Libertarian Party ticket). While libertarians have some good economic ideas, they are very dangerous socially.
A couple of months later I began to hear rumors that Lawson was running for Congress. Subsequently, Lawson and I exchanged several email threads (which I still have archived) on issues from legalizing prostitution, to de-criminalizing drugs and bringing all US troops deployed around the world home.
The later an isolationist goal which is tantamount to surrendering the free world to the Communist Chinese and Russians and the Islamo Fascists Jihadists.
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When our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution, they were motivated by a Judeo-Christian worldview. This is a worldview that has long since passed from the mainstream American culture. Today, we are mostly materialists and post-modern thinkers. We do not respect or appreciate that there are absolute rights and wrongs. Unfortunately, this opens us up to all kinds of deceptions invented by mankind. Wisdom would council us to be more spiritually discerning. (Editor's note: See separate blog on the Southern Evangelical Seminary's Third Annual Conference on Spiritual Discernment coming March 28-29th in Charlotte, NC or visit www.SES.edu for details.)
The Constitution was written by Christian men who believed in a Creator and Providence who ruled over the affairs of men. They understood that the "laws of nature and nature's God" placed moral restraints on each citizen. Their idea of liberty was the Biblical concept that we are free from sin and death. Today's post-modern, pop-culture believes and tries to tell us that liberty and freedom are to do whatever feels good. This is the lie of the Devil. God has made us free, but that freedom is to choose to do right. Just because the God of creation, the Alpha and Omega, the LORD Almighty, whose name is Jealous, has given us the freedom to theoretically do wrong, does not mean that we have the right to do wrong.
Today's Libertarians, lead nationally by Congressman Ron Paul of TX, and in the 4th Congressional District by B.J. Lawson, want to remove the moral and social restraints placed upon us by our forefathers and mothers through moral and social laws to protect the innocent and weak from predators, temptation and sin. The purely Libertarian view today is that prostitution, abortion, gambling, pornography, drugs and all other personal behaviors that do not involve violence, should be legalized. Their god is man and personal freedom to do whatever feels good or right, or at least, whatever one chooses for themselves. This is hedonism. It's what God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for and it's the reason He sent the great Flood in Noah's days. This is moral and social anarchy and would be the death of Western civilization just as sure as Communism or Jihad would bring tyranny that would end our great Republic.
For two decades America has poured billions of dollars onto the Chinese Communist economy. They are using those funds to build a blue water navy that includes aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and troop transport ships. The country that could put forward a 200 million man land army, can now project that power via the sea lanes. What's left of the former Soviet Union, is now Russia and they are reaping billions in profits from the high price of oil on the world markets. Russia is using this oil money to rebuild and reactivate it's bear bombers, nuclear subs and ICBM warheads. One of the largest standing armies on the world is Communist North Korea. Another country with aggressive military intentions, part of the axis of evil. Today in Iraq, Syria and Iran are vying for power and influence in a country that is still up for grabs politically. The Muslimization of Europe is fast becoming a reality. Europe, while no longer a Christian continent, is still home to some of America's strongest allies. There are many military dangers on the horizon for Western civilization in general and the US in particular.
It is in this season of hostility and while our US Armed Forces, thanks to eight years of Bill Clinton decimating it and a war that has stretched thin a force too small to face war on two fronts, the Libertarians lead by the likes of Ron Paul, and B.J. Lawson in the 4th Congressional District in NC, want to cut and run. They naively think that if we just abandon the rest of the world and bring all of our forward deployed forces home to the motherland, that the Communists, Jihadists and other tyrants around the world will just ignore us. That's ridiculous and most dangerous to our very existance. If the Libertarians formed a coalition with the Democrats in the US Congress and forced the Commander in Chief to call our soldiers, sailers, airmen and Marines home, it would be just to wait for the barbarian swarms to conquer the rest of the civilized world before turning their undivided attention to the only people left to conquer in the free world, the Americans. Our religious liberties are under assault by the ACLU, secular humanists, militant atheists and now the libertarians too.
I for one can not stand idly by and watch the future security of our country, my children and yours, fall pray to peaceniks who want drugs, free-love, abortion on demand and hedonism to prevail in the decline and fall of Western civilization and America. I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to speak forth truth and confront evil even when it comes smiling in a nice suite and says sweet words that tickle the ears of many otherwise good intentioned people.
Today's 10th Amendment libertarians tell us that the US Constitution is a precious and sacred document that we could not amend to protect the institution of traditional one-man, one-woman marriage. Many of them would rather opt to protect the sanctity of the Constitution over the sanctity of life of the unborn child. Our founding fathers were so convinced that the Constitution should never be changed that they made 10 changes before they would even approve it! The Bill of Rights is the guarantee of our personal liberties and restrains the power of government and the evil intentions of men. If freedom of speech rises to the Constitutional level of protection then so do marriage and life.
B.J. Lawson told me just last night at the Wake County Republican Convention that he would not support an amendment to protect marriage. I find B.J. likable and sincere, sincerely wrong. While it grieves me to put forth this thesis, I must remember to be true to my own children and their future as Americans and Christians. Christians must defend our liberties and the right to have moral restraints to protect our posterity, not our prosperity. Libertarians act as if the document is more precious than my marriage and yours. The militant homosexuals are deconstructing the institution of marriage and the libertarians are more interested in a charade about a document than protecting our children from being indoctrinated in the government schools that homosexuality is good. Looking to California and RINO Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signing of a law last Fall that mandates that homosexuality be taught as a legitimate lifestyle in the K-12 government schools of California, as the future agenda of this militant homosexual elite, we can count on our kids then being recruited by the pedophiles who can not reproduce and so they must prey upon our young to propagate their evil sodomite lifestyle.
Irish stateman Edmund Burke stated "All that is necessary for evil to prevail, is for good men to do nothing." The Reverend Martin Luther King. Jr. in a letter from an Alabama jail wrote "Morality can not be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change men's hearts, but it can restrain the heartless." God said "Thou shall not commit adultery." Our Judeo-Christian worldview demands us to stand for truth in the culture war in America.
Back in my Navy days when I served aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and I believe that the zealots in the libertarian movement are just the ones we need to defend against before there is no moral restraint to stop any tyrant from taking over our great Republic when God's Devine hand of protection is removed for our licentiousness.