Monday, December 16, 2013
From: Gary L. Bauer
Backlash To Ryan Deal Grows
Is the Ryan-Murray budget deal going to die in the Senate? Its entirely possible. The budget deal gets $6 billion of its savings by implementing cuts in military retirees’ pensions. Republican senators are not happy, and more of them are announcing that, because of the cuts, they will vote No. Veterans of Foreign Wars has come out strongly against the provision.
Democrats have a clear majority in the Senate, and most of them are for the deal. But if too many jump ship the legislation would require some Republican votes. Whatever happens tomorrow, the deal is unlikely to be a plus for Rep. Paul Ryan if he decides to compete in the 2016 GOP presidential campaign.
Here Comes Polygamy
We said it would happen and it has. Late on Friday a Federal District Court in Salt Lake City struck down a sizeable portion of Utahs law that prohibits polygamy. The judge cited the same legal theories that have been used by the homosexual rights movement to weaken and attack the legal consensus that marriage is one man and one woman. The prohibition against incest will be the next assault of the revolution being forced on us by the cultural left led by Hollywood and the political left led by Barack Obama.
Over a decade ago, Dr. James Dobson and I predicted this outcome in the book we coauthored, Children at Risk. We were quickly labeled as fear mongering extremists. I will stick close to my phone waiting for apologies from those who attacked us.
If this breakdown in moral and social norms continues, it wont matter what our marginal tax cuts are or the size of the budget deficit. Great nations dont fall from only economic stresses. Americas leftist elites want to rip our nation away from Judeo-Christian values. If they succeed our shining city on a hill will just be another brothel.
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