December 5, 2006 | By Nathaniel Ward

What ails our country

Speaking at The Heritage Foundation, Pat Boone explains the problems facing America.

 

“In 2006, our country is again gripped and increasingly bound by tyrants—not regents and despots from afar, but by cancerous growths from within,” entertainer and best-selling author Pat Boone said last week in The Heritage Foundation’s Lerhrman Auditorium (link in PDF).

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“Powerful forces,” he said, are “robbing us of the very liberty to perpetuate the vision of our Founding Fathers.”

• Ignorance—With knowledge of our nation’s history and even basic literacy on the decline, “left-leaning media and even liberal church groups abandon ‘first principles’ and historic guidelines, constantly brainwashing the masses, cutting them adrift from ancient moorings into a sea of aimless relativism.”
• Apathy—“Today, too often half or more of our citizens who are eligible don’t even vote! They feel left out, unnecessary, distracted, cynical, and alienated—and, of course, ignorant of the issues—so they stay home and grouse.”
• Materialism and need—“Well-intentioned politicians keep calling on Big Brother government (the groaning taxpayers, namely, us) to solve the problems with bureaucracy. Citizens, socialism is not the answer! Social responsibility is—individual, local, and active response to our brother’s needs.”
• Humanism, Immorality and Godlessness—“Remove God from public life (as a number of perverse, determined, and well-funded activist groups are doing very effectively), and a cancerous spirit of immorality seeps relentlessly across the land like a poison gas, corrupting all forms of entertainment, encouraging drugs and violence and rampant promiscuity in the streets, in schools, homes, businesses, politics, and even some churches, with the inevitable surrender to humanism.”
• Judicial activism—“ In just two or three decades, renegades in black robes, ignoring or perverting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, have been responsible for taking prayer from school children, taking every mention of God from the public square, authorizing 40 million abortions, dictating severe reversals of states’ rights and individual freedoms, and even now they are redefining the institution of marriage, flying in the face of all recorded history and the very foundations of society.”

“[O]ur muscles and our will have been sapped and weakened by insidious forces from within,” he concluded. “Do we still have the will, the vision, the zeal—and the plain old gumption—to stand up to these invaders, root them out, overturn their unconstitutional rulings, and reestablish our republic that represents not just all its citizens, but our traditional morals and guidelines? If we do, let the revolution begin!”

Nathaniel Ward is the Editor of MyHeritage.org—a website for members and supporters of The Heritage Foundation.

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