OPINION:
What has happened since the Bible was ejected from public schools and the public square by the Supreme Court in 1962? The steady rise of broken families, divorce, fatherless children and poverty, resulting in drug use, increased crime and a spike in violence. Perhaps now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, the Supreme Court has finally seen the light.
Since the eve of the present administration, there have been secularist politicians from California to Maryland wanting to expunge religion from life in America. If we were to become so secularized, how different might we become from authoritative, communist nations such as Russia and China?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said that extremist ideologues “are people that don’t really have, I think, a religious foundation or any type of … relationship with God, and so they turn to radical politics as kind of what they’re going to do.” The Supreme Court and the federal government should cooperate with the church and faith-based efforts to support biblical values, which in turn would help form united families once again.
In “Suicide Of A Superpower,” author Patrick Buchanan writes, “When the faith dies, the culture dies, the people die. This is the progression.” We are presently witnessing this dying by way of violence on our streets and in our social mores. As David Horowitz writes in “Dark Agenda”: “[W]ith few exceptions the most rational, compassionate, and successful decision makers, both military and civilian, have been people guided by a belief in God …”
BERNARD BUDNEY
Cutler Bay, Florida
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