Thursday night’s GOP Presidential Debate in Florida was, for the most part, a Mitt-Newt mud fight with their hands tied behind them (re: all they could do was just roll in it). Lots of dirt to spread around. However, Rick Santorum made the most of it, and I believe finally was able to lay in a few good licks, especially on ObaneyCare.
But as far as I am concerned, he uttered the most important words of the evening:
When an audience member asked the candidates how their religious beliefs would affect their decisions as President, Santorum turned to the nation’s founding documents to reference the relationship between faith and governance:
“The Constitution is there to do one thing, protect God-given rights,” said Santorum. “That’s what makes America different than every other country in the world.”
“When you say ‘faith has nothing to do with it’– faith has everything to do with it,” Santorum went on to say over applause. “If our President believes that rights come to us from the state, everything government gives you, it can take away.
“The role of the government is to protect rights that cannot be taken away.”
Even as the present one keeps taking them away by ignoring the Constitution more and more. As our nation proceeds more and more in the steps of Europe in becoming a Post-Christian nation, the more our educational system no longer really covers the real philosophies of our nation’s founding, we may indeed lose the essence and heart of American Exceptionalism – that God granted us our Rights and not the State. While we are secular nation (as opposed to Iran which is a real theocracy under the mullahs and Islamic rule), many on the Left are adamant that there be such a secularization that God and religion cannot be mentioned at all (or, at the best, simply as a dust old facet of long ago history that has no relevance for today). I put Obama and the entire Progressive into this category in that while they might believe in God (or that our Founders did), they do wish that the populace would come to their point of view – that Government grants all.
And if so, as Rick points out “everything government gives you, it can take away“. I’ve oft decried that politics is everywhere in our daily lives – imagine if this last bastion of restraint on Government is removed?
(H/T: The Blaze)
