Our Serious Condition...

The United States of America is no longer founded upon nor governed according to the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence nor enumerated in the Constitution. The problem is worse than just the government having abandoned and trampled upon the principles defined by those two documents: the populace at large has abandoned the civic virtue and integrity that must exist for a free country to endure.

John Adams said "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Ben Franklin issued an equally dire warning to that effect: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

Sadly, our condition today accurately reflects the degenerate nature of our national character and the aggregate absence of virtue from the people. Before we can right our government, we must first right ourselves.

Before we can reclaim our liberties, we must personally reclaim our civic virtue. And before we can reclaim our civic virtue, we must reclaim our faith in God. We would to well to consider the comment by General Douglas MacArthur: "History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."