PaulineDisciple
12-16-2007, 03:05 AM
I am going to be delivering a 10-15 minute speech here in KC for the Ron Paul Tea Party rally. I would like for any additions, subtractions or re-phasings if you would be so kind to do so. They asked me to speak on a topic, so I told them that I was going to speak on why I support Ron Paul as a Christian.
As a Christian I support Ron Paul because:
We both agree that our rights come from the fact that we are created in God’s image and as our founding fathers believed that it was because of this fact that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. These rights as our founders so aptly expressed were the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Ron Paul is the only candidate that will faithfully protect these rights. I intend to illustrate this claim by the following examples.
First of all, Ron Paul is the only candidate that is making a strong principled stand for life. As a gynecologist, he knows that unborn babies are a human life with legal rights and protections. He believes that in cases where a human life is being taken that these cases should be taken care of in a similar fashion as murder cases are handled and that is on the local level. Ron Paul believes as do I, that the case of Roe vs. Wade was a case where the federal government overstepped its bounds and gave a single federally mandated solution to this very complex problem. Ron Paul will work hard to end this tyranny of the federal courts. He is also the only one that is trying to defend the lives of our troops and innocent civilian’s over-seas. He has done this through his strong insistence on continuing the Biblical principle of just war theory and by opposing preemptive war to protect certain corporate interests in other nations at the cost of American lives and massive amounts of debt borrowed from the Chinese. He also insisted that the congress follow the constitution and vote on going to war, but instead they abdicated their responsibility and gave this unconstitutional power to the president. Therefore, it is for these reasons that I can confidently assert that Ron Paul is the only candidate that has a strong stance on defending life.
Secondly, Ron Paul is the only candidate that will protect our liberties. He is one of the few that voted against that deceptively misnamed “patriot act”. Ron Paul also opposed the The Military Commissions Act which permits torture, or what politicians like to call “enhanced interrogation techniques”, it allows for the arbitrary detention of American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants at the full discretion of the president and without the right of Habeas Corpus, and grants warrantless searches by the National Security Agency. It also gives to the president the power to imprison individuals based on secret testimony. These assaults on our liberties are outrageous and Ron Paul is the only candidate in this race that has shown the intestinal fortitude to stand against these attacks.
Thirdly, Ron Paul is the only candidate that will protect our pursuit of happiness, otherwise known as our right to keep an own property. As a mature Christian statesman, Ron Paul recognizes that the Bible only gives government a very limited role in society. He realizes that the civil governments role is limited to protecting these individual rights that God has granted to us in lieu of our status as human beings created in His image, and when a government violates these rights, through whatever means, they are breaking God’s law and liable for such offenses. In God’s eyes theft is still theft, even though civil laws may be passed to make it legal for the government to engage in it. Therefore Ron Paul is very cautious not to engage in these unlawful acts against humanity. In one radio interview, Ron Paul has agreed that Biblically speaking it is not the role of the civil government at any level, federal, state or local to house, clothe, feed or educate anybody, for in doing so, they would have to violate the rights of individuals by forcibly taking from some individuals in order to give to others. To give you an idea of why these politicians would do such a thing, studies have shown that 60-70 percent of this money goes into their pockets and only 30-40 percent actually gets to the people in need. This demonstrates that centralizing these benefits is in fact the most inefficient way to provide them. The Biblical way to help the needy is for the local Church to provide for them. I have personally witnessed that when a Church provides for the needy, over 90 percent of the money goes to those in need. Here are just a few ways in which Ron Paul has demonstrated his refusal to engage in the many forms of theft that our government is currently involved in. He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year. He opposes the actions of the FED that think nothing of stealing our money by devaluing it when they print money out of thin air. This is usually done to allow politicians to funnel this money to the military-industrial complex, all of which makes our money worth less and therefore should also be considered a form of theft.
One last related item that affects me personally is Ron Paul’s understanding that those that object to having the government educate our children for religious reasons should have that portion of our taxes returned to us. Here are some quotes from Ron Paul’s speech on the house floor introducing these bills on educational freedom.
"Mr. Speaker, to be a home schooling parent takes a unique dedication to family and education. In many cases, home school families must forgo the second income of one parent, as well as incurring the costs of paying for textbooks, computers, and other school supplies. Home schooling parents must pay these expenses while, like all American families, struggling to pay state, local, and federal taxes." "In order to help home schoolers, and all parents, devote more of their resources to their children's education, I have introduced the Family Education Freedom Act (H.R. 935). This bill provides all parents a $3,000 per child tax credit for K-12 education expenses. This bill would help home school parents to provide their children a first-class education in a loving home environment."
"The reality, though, is that parents - not "well-meaning" politicians - know what options are best for their kids' education. Unfortunately, America has been saddled with a tax system which limits the ability of parents to pursue the academic options best suited for their children's individual situations. With combined taxes taking almost 50 percent of the average family's income, there is little left over for low- and middle-class parents to even consider other educational opportunities."
In particular, the resolution refers to American `democracy' and the `democratic' principles upon which this country was founded. However, this country was founded not as a democracy but as a constitutional republic. Madam Speaker, the distinction between a democracy and a republic is more than just a matter of semantics. The fundamental principle in a democracy is majority rule. Democracies, unlike republics, do not recognize fundamental rights of citizens (outside the right to vote) nor do they limit the power of the government. Indeed, such limitations are often scored as `intrusions on the will of the majority.' Thus in a democracy, the majority, or their elected representatives, can limit an individual's right to free speech, defend oneself, form contracts, or even raise ones' children. Democracies recognize only one fundamental right: the right to participate in the choosing of their rulers at a pre-determined time.
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So Ron Paul understands that Christian parents are the ones responsible for raising their children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and not in the nurture and admonition of the state. The so-called “neutrality” in the classrooms that has removed all catechisms, Bible readings and prayers are anything but neutral. What this is teaching children is that their religion is irrelevant to everyday life. Well whether you realize it or not, this has the effect of indoctrinating this nation’s children into a religion known as secular humanism. So much for separation of Church and state, I can only wish that they would separate their church from “we the peoples” state. Education is unavoidably religious in nature and your view of human nature, philosophy or theology, history, political or natural science are greatly affected by your view of reality and so are your desired outcomes of the educational process. Everyone has to ask the question, “what kind of person am I trying to produce.” To which my answer to that question and the governments answer to that question are diametrically opposed with each other. Therefore I do not believe that the government has the right to take from me in order to educate my or anyone else’s children.
I am convinced that what is happening in this nation is what is known as Statism or Nationalism. Over the last hundred years, we have seen individual rights eroding away and government power expanded. As individual rights have diminished and government powers have expanded, the level of government corruption as a result has escalated at the same rate. The Marxism and Socialism that has been in the universities for decades is finally permeating all levels of government. I also believe that with the dollar on the verge of collapse, the national debt insurmountably high coupled with the government acting as if we are not in serious trouble as a prescription for a disaster.
I believe that now is the time to continue the revolution that our founders started with tyrannical governments. Only I am not calling for the kind of bloody revolution that our founders fought, but a revolution that is calling on all Americans to repent. Repentance from people that would take innocent lives, as well as those that approve of the taking of innocent lives. Repentance from those that take away our liberties, as well as those that sit idly by and allow our liberties to be taken. Repentance from politicians that would steal from the people as well as those that accept that which is stolen. You see, I think we all need to change, not just those that lead us. As Ron Paul put it so well, “we need to change our ideas about what the role of government ought to be.”
So please join in on the revolution to restore the constitution and if you can, donate to the Ron Paul campaign and send our government a shot that will be heard around the world.
Thank you, and God bless.
As a Christian I support Ron Paul because:
We both agree that our rights come from the fact that we are created in God’s image and as our founding fathers believed that it was because of this fact that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. These rights as our founders so aptly expressed were the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Ron Paul is the only candidate that will faithfully protect these rights. I intend to illustrate this claim by the following examples.
First of all, Ron Paul is the only candidate that is making a strong principled stand for life. As a gynecologist, he knows that unborn babies are a human life with legal rights and protections. He believes that in cases where a human life is being taken that these cases should be taken care of in a similar fashion as murder cases are handled and that is on the local level. Ron Paul believes as do I, that the case of Roe vs. Wade was a case where the federal government overstepped its bounds and gave a single federally mandated solution to this very complex problem. Ron Paul will work hard to end this tyranny of the federal courts. He is also the only one that is trying to defend the lives of our troops and innocent civilian’s over-seas. He has done this through his strong insistence on continuing the Biblical principle of just war theory and by opposing preemptive war to protect certain corporate interests in other nations at the cost of American lives and massive amounts of debt borrowed from the Chinese. He also insisted that the congress follow the constitution and vote on going to war, but instead they abdicated their responsibility and gave this unconstitutional power to the president. Therefore, it is for these reasons that I can confidently assert that Ron Paul is the only candidate that has a strong stance on defending life.
Secondly, Ron Paul is the only candidate that will protect our liberties. He is one of the few that voted against that deceptively misnamed “patriot act”. Ron Paul also opposed the The Military Commissions Act which permits torture, or what politicians like to call “enhanced interrogation techniques”, it allows for the arbitrary detention of American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants at the full discretion of the president and without the right of Habeas Corpus, and grants warrantless searches by the National Security Agency. It also gives to the president the power to imprison individuals based on secret testimony. These assaults on our liberties are outrageous and Ron Paul is the only candidate in this race that has shown the intestinal fortitude to stand against these attacks.
Thirdly, Ron Paul is the only candidate that will protect our pursuit of happiness, otherwise known as our right to keep an own property. As a mature Christian statesman, Ron Paul recognizes that the Bible only gives government a very limited role in society. He realizes that the civil governments role is limited to protecting these individual rights that God has granted to us in lieu of our status as human beings created in His image, and when a government violates these rights, through whatever means, they are breaking God’s law and liable for such offenses. In God’s eyes theft is still theft, even though civil laws may be passed to make it legal for the government to engage in it. Therefore Ron Paul is very cautious not to engage in these unlawful acts against humanity. In one radio interview, Ron Paul has agreed that Biblically speaking it is not the role of the civil government at any level, federal, state or local to house, clothe, feed or educate anybody, for in doing so, they would have to violate the rights of individuals by forcibly taking from some individuals in order to give to others. To give you an idea of why these politicians would do such a thing, studies have shown that 60-70 percent of this money goes into their pockets and only 30-40 percent actually gets to the people in need. This demonstrates that centralizing these benefits is in fact the most inefficient way to provide them. The Biblical way to help the needy is for the local Church to provide for them. I have personally witnessed that when a Church provides for the needy, over 90 percent of the money goes to those in need. Here are just a few ways in which Ron Paul has demonstrated his refusal to engage in the many forms of theft that our government is currently involved in. He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year. He opposes the actions of the FED that think nothing of stealing our money by devaluing it when they print money out of thin air. This is usually done to allow politicians to funnel this money to the military-industrial complex, all of which makes our money worth less and therefore should also be considered a form of theft.
One last related item that affects me personally is Ron Paul’s understanding that those that object to having the government educate our children for religious reasons should have that portion of our taxes returned to us. Here are some quotes from Ron Paul’s speech on the house floor introducing these bills on educational freedom.
"Mr. Speaker, to be a home schooling parent takes a unique dedication to family and education. In many cases, home school families must forgo the second income of one parent, as well as incurring the costs of paying for textbooks, computers, and other school supplies. Home schooling parents must pay these expenses while, like all American families, struggling to pay state, local, and federal taxes." "In order to help home schoolers, and all parents, devote more of their resources to their children's education, I have introduced the Family Education Freedom Act (H.R. 935). This bill provides all parents a $3,000 per child tax credit for K-12 education expenses. This bill would help home school parents to provide their children a first-class education in a loving home environment."
"The reality, though, is that parents - not "well-meaning" politicians - know what options are best for their kids' education. Unfortunately, America has been saddled with a tax system which limits the ability of parents to pursue the academic options best suited for their children's individual situations. With combined taxes taking almost 50 percent of the average family's income, there is little left over for low- and middle-class parents to even consider other educational opportunities."
In particular, the resolution refers to American `democracy' and the `democratic' principles upon which this country was founded. However, this country was founded not as a democracy but as a constitutional republic. Madam Speaker, the distinction between a democracy and a republic is more than just a matter of semantics. The fundamental principle in a democracy is majority rule. Democracies, unlike republics, do not recognize fundamental rights of citizens (outside the right to vote) nor do they limit the power of the government. Indeed, such limitations are often scored as `intrusions on the will of the majority.' Thus in a democracy, the majority, or their elected representatives, can limit an individual's right to free speech, defend oneself, form contracts, or even raise ones' children. Democracies recognize only one fundamental right: the right to participate in the choosing of their rulers at a pre-determined time.
[End of Quotes]
So Ron Paul understands that Christian parents are the ones responsible for raising their children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and not in the nurture and admonition of the state. The so-called “neutrality” in the classrooms that has removed all catechisms, Bible readings and prayers are anything but neutral. What this is teaching children is that their religion is irrelevant to everyday life. Well whether you realize it or not, this has the effect of indoctrinating this nation’s children into a religion known as secular humanism. So much for separation of Church and state, I can only wish that they would separate their church from “we the peoples” state. Education is unavoidably religious in nature and your view of human nature, philosophy or theology, history, political or natural science are greatly affected by your view of reality and so are your desired outcomes of the educational process. Everyone has to ask the question, “what kind of person am I trying to produce.” To which my answer to that question and the governments answer to that question are diametrically opposed with each other. Therefore I do not believe that the government has the right to take from me in order to educate my or anyone else’s children.
I am convinced that what is happening in this nation is what is known as Statism or Nationalism. Over the last hundred years, we have seen individual rights eroding away and government power expanded. As individual rights have diminished and government powers have expanded, the level of government corruption as a result has escalated at the same rate. The Marxism and Socialism that has been in the universities for decades is finally permeating all levels of government. I also believe that with the dollar on the verge of collapse, the national debt insurmountably high coupled with the government acting as if we are not in serious trouble as a prescription for a disaster.
I believe that now is the time to continue the revolution that our founders started with tyrannical governments. Only I am not calling for the kind of bloody revolution that our founders fought, but a revolution that is calling on all Americans to repent. Repentance from people that would take innocent lives, as well as those that approve of the taking of innocent lives. Repentance from those that take away our liberties, as well as those that sit idly by and allow our liberties to be taken. Repentance from politicians that would steal from the people as well as those that accept that which is stolen. You see, I think we all need to change, not just those that lead us. As Ron Paul put it so well, “we need to change our ideas about what the role of government ought to be.”
So please join in on the revolution to restore the constitution and if you can, donate to the Ron Paul campaign and send our government a shot that will be heard around the world.
Thank you, and God bless.