BY RUSSELL TURNER
THE TROUBLE WITH COMPROMISE
As I watch the news headlines today I am reminded by the old song that states, “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything”. I believe that we Americans had better start remembering and standing up for the principles that made our country a great nation. Over the past weeks there has been much discussion about the Obama health care bill that requires faith-based organizations to provide reproductive services that these organizations are totally opposed to. Namely, the Catholic Church is voicing their objections to being required to provide contractive benefits to their employees. This mandate is set to take effect August 1, 2012. When the Catholic Church challenged this mandate, instead of respecting their deeply held religious beliefs, Secretary Sebelius insulted the Catholic Church by granting it a one-year extension to comply with the mandate!
The Obama Administration pretended to offer a compromise to this policy by requiring insurance companies providing policies to religious institutions to offer a separate coverage package to religious organization’s female employees covering contraceptives, sterilization and abortion drugs at no charge. Anyone that has an IQ above that of a grasshopper knows that there is no free lunch; anytime a service is required someone, somewhere, is going to have to pay for it. What the left-leaning people of this country fail to understand is that many of us have a strong faith in our religious beliefs and to accept compromise nullifies our beliefs.
What many people fail to understand, when we compromise on some issue it is only a first step in a downward spiral. If we compromise on an issue that is not the end of it, we will be asked to compromise on the same issue time and time again. Before we know it our compromised position bears little resemblance to the position we originally had. Just look at the way all aspects of our government are operated today. The policies of today are a far cry from what our founders envisioned for this country.
It is a sad fact that many Americans are not paying attention to the assaults on our freedom because they think they are going to get free health care. We need to remember that government will do anything to maintain the status quo. During the collapse of an empire, freedom doesn't disappear in a blink. As we can all see by the events around us, it disappears very slowly. Little by little, laws are enacted that remove it. One day, there's nothing left.
Our laws are based upon the belief of core principals, if we continue to bargain away those beliefs the America of tomorrow will not resemble the great nation that our founders gave to us.
THE TROUBLE WITH COMPROMISE
As I watch the news headlines today I am reminded by the old song that states, “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything”. I believe that we Americans had better start remembering and standing up for the principles that made our country a great nation. Over the past weeks there has been much discussion about the Obama health care bill that requires faith-based organizations to provide reproductive services that these organizations are totally opposed to. Namely, the Catholic Church is voicing their objections to being required to provide contractive benefits to their employees. This mandate is set to take effect August 1, 2012. When the Catholic Church challenged this mandate, instead of respecting their deeply held religious beliefs, Secretary Sebelius insulted the Catholic Church by granting it a one-year extension to comply with the mandate!
The Obama Administration pretended to offer a compromise to this policy by requiring insurance companies providing policies to religious institutions to offer a separate coverage package to religious organization’s female employees covering contraceptives, sterilization and abortion drugs at no charge. Anyone that has an IQ above that of a grasshopper knows that there is no free lunch; anytime a service is required someone, somewhere, is going to have to pay for it. What the left-leaning people of this country fail to understand is that many of us have a strong faith in our religious beliefs and to accept compromise nullifies our beliefs.
What many people fail to understand, when we compromise on some issue it is only a first step in a downward spiral. If we compromise on an issue that is not the end of it, we will be asked to compromise on the same issue time and time again. Before we know it our compromised position bears little resemblance to the position we originally had. Just look at the way all aspects of our government are operated today. The policies of today are a far cry from what our founders envisioned for this country.
It is a sad fact that many Americans are not paying attention to the assaults on our freedom because they think they are going to get free health care. We need to remember that government will do anything to maintain the status quo. During the collapse of an empire, freedom doesn't disappear in a blink. As we can all see by the events around us, it disappears very slowly. Little by little, laws are enacted that remove it. One day, there's nothing left.
Our laws are based upon the belief of core principals, if we continue to bargain away those beliefs the America of tomorrow will not resemble the great nation that our founders gave to us.
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