What about the sanctity of freedom?

Yesterday, President Bush spoke to the National Association of Evangelicals Convention. His comments were interesting. Jumping in:

As freedom’s home and freedom’s defender, we are called to expand the realm of human liberty.

Unless it involves homosexuals or speech. In those cases, it’s logical to protect the citizen defenders of freedom’s home. Every right-thinking citizen has the right to be free from anything they don’t like. Thankfully, President Bush is there to help.

Yet I know that liberty is not America’s gift to the world — liberty and freedom are God’s gift to every man and woman who lives in this world.

Unless it involves homosexuals or speech. In those cases, it’s logical to protect the citizen defenders of freedom’s home. Every right-thinking citizen has the right to be free from anything they don’t like. Thankfully, President Bush is there to help.

We’re working to build a culture of life.

I have no problem, but why are we ignoring love?

Human life is … a creation of God, not a commodity to be exploited by man.

I agree, yet I believe that the President is hypocritical on this point. He’s speaking in the context of abortion and stem-cell research, but this comment exposes his warped thinking. As governor of Texas, he supported the death penalty. No state executes more prisoners than Texas. Virginia is immediately behind in that energetic race. This is wrong.

Because a person is a criminal, they aren’t worthy of respect as “a creation of God”. They’ve become a commodity to be exploited by man. I’m not encouraging leniency on criminals, but I don’t believe there’s a legitimate purpose for state-sponsored violence. The President’s actions aren’t congruent with his speech.

I will defend the sanctity of marriage against activist courts and local officials who want to redefine marriage. The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in cultures and by every religious faith. Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. And government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all. It is for that reason I support a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

Our government gets its powers from the people. President Bush and Congress endorse the belief that it’s their responsibility to protect morality among the citizenry because self-regulation will lead to chaos. This has to stop now or no one will be safe from scrutiny for every personal belief.

It is time for some members of the Senate to stop playing politics with American justice.

This brings to mind the words “pot” and “kettle” and a little name-calling between the two.

Together, Americans are moving forward with confidence and faith. We do not know God’s plan, but we know His ways are right and just. And we pray He will always watch over this great country of ours.

This scares me. I have no issue with faith and belief in God. The beauty of America is that everyone can believe whatever makes sense to them. But that doesn’t give the president the right to impose one faith’s agenda on the nation. The separation of church and state exists for a reason, yet it’s quickly eroding under this current administration. Until the Bible becomes the supreme law of this land, I will follow the Constitution. Maybe President Bush should consider doing the same.