Different Perspectives vs Progressivism and Perseverance

This last Tuesday was election day in the United States, a day that used to signal the end of something, either as a candidate for public office, or for any number of proposed changes to public law or policies. I am not sure whether the new norm is good or bad, but nothing ends anymore with the results of an election. Two appropriate examples are the failure of the “HERO Act” in Houston yesterday and the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

The Houston LGBT community, with national help from both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, pushed for a city ordinance to allow penis-armed males to use women’s bathrooms by claiming they were of the transgender persuasion. When I was a young boy, a bathroom peephole would have been considered the ultimate in voyeurism. To walk boldly in where no young boy had dared to go before was unthinkable. Even Superman’s X-Ray vision was curtailed at the bathroom door. But true to current form, the LGBT proponents and liberal Democrats everywhere immediately declared that this injustice (Injustice? Who said you couldn’t pee? Just don’t pee in this room.) would not be tolerated and even suggested the 2017 Super Bowl be withheld from the City of Houston. They vowed to never give up the fight.

The US Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973. Liberals argue that the abortion law is decided and that opponents should just get over it. Conservatives, Constitutional lawyers, and Christians have never given up trying to water down or overturn the effects of this law.

Perspective decides which side you are on, but from this point on, the progressives have it in spades with regard to perseverance. They never give up, they refuse to get fatigued, and they never break ranks to achieve their goals. This progressive indefatigable spirit is the true issue. America was founded as a Christian nation with Judeo-Christian ideals, and these ideals are under an unrelenting attack by liberals. But according to the 2014 Pew Research Center report on religious habits (here), Americans are becoming less religious. According to Pew, only 53% of adults say religion is very important in their lives. This is down 3% from 2007. The religiously unaffiliated has increased from 16% to 23%, and the generational replacement of older adults is being replaced by less religious young adults. For example, 67% of the Silent Generation attends weekly religious services while only 38% of the youngest Millennials do likewise. The study notes that over 80% agree that churches and religious organizations have a positive impact on society, but there is a downside in that 80%.  Almost half (52%) state religious institutions focus too much on money and power, 51% focus too much on rules, and 48% state religious institutions are too involved in politics. In plain language, what these last three groups actually tell us is these identified people enjoy the affiliation as a social group, they don’t want the moral rules of the affiliation applied to them, and since this is just a social organization, keep the religious views inside the walls of the church.  

Liberals, progressives, or Democrats, however you arrange them, never give up. They demand to move society and the morals attached to that society to their point of view. They are unbending, unapologetic, and forever scheming to achieve their goals. They use television, a compliant media, and the unconstitutional power of the Justice Department to achieve their results. Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, when speaking on the abortion question said that, “deep seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” (here) I can only imagine the moral landfill that she aspires for America.