The Patriot Post Brief 7-1-2013

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The Patriot Post Brief 7-1-2013
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Marriage Means Something

July 1, 2013

The Foundation

"In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight." --Thomas Paine

Inspiration

"The Left will say that we are on the wrong side of history, but that doesn't matter if we're on the right side of truth. And the truth is not that #LoveIsLove1, but that the love of a man and woman, for life, is God's design for marriage and family. Forty years ago, many people thought ... that the battle for life was lost. Over time, our movement and technology helped to change people's hearts and minds to a new understanding of the sanctity of the unborn child. And we will do it again. ... But it will take a faithful remnant. People in America's pews and pulpits who have been silent can be silent no longer. ... Are these rulings demoralizing? Definitely. But we will not let a court's definition of marriage define us. As I've told my staff: we were not called to serve results. We were called to serve God. ... Someday -- years from now -- when law students are memorizing this date and its importance in American history, what will they say about our movement? That it united together and changed the conversation on marriage? That it refused to quit until it transformed state and federal laws? Hopefully, they will say that you and I stood on truth -- and restored marriage and the Author of marriage to their rightful place in American policy." --FRC's Tony Perkins2

Faith and Family

"Even a secular person should be required to answer a question before removing such an important cultural underpinning as traditional marriage: If marriage is no longer to be reserved for one man and one woman, as it has for millennia in many different cultures and religions, what is the new standard and on what is it based? Should we change America's motto to 'in polls we trust'? ... Polygamist groups have made it known they wish to be next in line to enjoy full constitutional protection for their lifestyle. ... There are people who favor sex and marriage between adults and children. On what basis should they be denied their 'right to happiness'? Today's 'that goes too far' easily becomes tomorrow's 'right' with a morally vacuous media leading the charge and a morally exhausted people who are afraid to say 'stop,' for fear they'll be labeled 'bigots.'" --columnist Cal Thomas3

Culture

"The Supreme Court has decreed that there is no possible rationale beyond hatefulness to oppose changing the ancient institution of marriage. This sets the stage for nearly all religious institutions to be considered agents of bigotry. As many in the pro-marriage coalition have been arguing for two decades, the case for traditional marriage is not about hostility to homosexuality. It's about staunching the decay of the institution that undergirds everything else in our society. To enshrine same sex marriage is to endorse the idea of marriage as adult fulfillment. Marriage is much more than that. But the argument will have to continue outside the legislatures and the courts -- because five members of the Supreme Court have taken our power, our franchise and our sovereignty from us." --columnist Mona Charen4

Let Your Voice Be Heard

Our Mission at The Patriot Post is to defend Essential Liberty and all it entails. One of the pillars of Liberty is strong families, and we won't shy away from making that clear. We need your help on the front lines, because the battle will continue.

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The Gipper

"Let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. ... Let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died." --Ronald Reagan7

Opinion in Brief

"No crisis should go to waste, an eternal truth highlighted in bold by a purported climate change apocalypse that is now the target of actions newly proposed by President Obama. This so-called 'crisis' will flood not various coastlines, but instead the front pages, replacing other, less flattering political headlines for the administration. ... Whatever the weakness of the evidence on greenhouse gases (GHG) and climate effects, the real goal of carbon policy is a regional redistribution of wealth.... In the president's speech there appears the phrase 'carbon pollution' no fewer than 30 times. In the Orwellian language of the environmental left, 'carbon pollution' is carbon dioxide -- a natural substance that is not toxic to humans at many times greater than current ambient concentrations and that protects plants from various environmental stresses. It is unlike any other effluent regulated by the EPA for which less is better. Too little carbon dioxide would make life difficult, and in the extreme case, the Earth uninhabitable. That obviously will not be the result of the president's proposals if implemented. But the large expansion of government power and centralized planning authority inherent in the proposals is not an end to be pursued." --American Enterprise Institute's Benjamin Zycher8

Government

"A breathlessly exonerative narrative swept the news media [last] week: that liberal groups had been singled out and, by implication, abused by the IRS, just as conservative groups had been. Therefore, the scandal wasn't a scandal but a mere bungle -- a nonpolitical series of unhelpful but innocent mistakes. The problem with this story is that liberals were not caught in the IRS dragnet. ... The case isn't closed, no matter how many people try to slam it shut. On Wednesday Russell George, the Treasury inspector general whose original audit broke open the scandal, answered Rep. Sander Levin's charge that the audit had ignored the targeting of progressives. ... 'We did not find evidence that the criteria you identified, labeled "Progressives," were used by the IRS to select potential political cases during the 2010 to 2012 timeframe we audited.' One hundred percent of the groups with 'Tea Party,' 'Patriot' or '9/12' in their names were given extra scrutiny. ... The revenue-gathering arm of the federal government appears to be politically biased, corrupt in its actions, and unable to reform itself. The only way to make that story go away is to get to the bottom of it and fully reveal it. It's not a bungle, it's a scandal." --columnist Peggy Noonan9

Political Futures

"It is of no concern to the Democratic Party that illegal aliens are lawbreakers and overwhelmingly minimum-wage workers. Liberals don't care about the working class having millions more low-skilled workers competing with them, and they certainly don't care about the country. They just want to win elections. ... As happens with so much mischievous legislation, Republicans are being told, 'We have got to do this yesterday!' ... Democrats love to act like everything's a crisis, so Republicans don't have time to think and can be stampeded into doing something stupid. When it comes to government, doing nothing is often the best course. Republicans have to understand: You are not going to be punished by Hispanics for voting against this Obamacare-like monstrosity of an amnesty bill. If you have Hispanics in your district, they're already voting against you. ... Liberals want the rest of the world's poor to come here not only to raise their children, clean their houses, manicure their lawns and cook their meals, but to give birth to the Democratic children that liberals aren't having." --columnist Ann Coulter10