"...a moral trichinosis "

In a piece he did for WorldNetDaily, titled, Please, leave marriage alone, Pat Boone
applied some oft' missing common sense to the issue of "gay marriage" and our apparent willingness to allow leftist groups like the ACLU to boldly remove any reminders that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.

Boone likens our problem to a moral form of trichinosis:

Have we arrived at some stage in our "evolution" that empowers us to change the very DNA of society, of culture, the structural makeup of the human race?

Or are we just too numb--or dumb-- to protest the incessant, dogged determination of some lobbying groups to corrupt and change, perhaps until we collapse and disintegrate, the very fabric of humankind? I feel I'm watching a "reality" version of "Gulliver's Travels," in which a sleeping giant is gradually staked to the ground by little people and rendered helpless while he slumbers.

Or worse, I do feel we're suffering, as a nation, a moral trichinosis -- that little talked-about malady that occurs when worms, gaining entry through poorly cooked pork, infiltrate a person's muscles, gradually sapping strength and weakening the body beyond recovery. The victim doesn't realize it's happening until it's too late; all he knows is that he's losing energy and muscle tone, and he's becoming strangely and completely weak, and finally helpless.

There are many evidences and symptoms: Some similar affliction seems to be steadily and relentlessly draining us of resolve. Most adults are aware that our Founding Fathers were devout believers in God; aware that the Bible, itself, was a standard textbook in our early colleges; aware that Thomas Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence averred our national conviction that our very liberties are conferred by our Creator; aware that even as recently as the 1950s our Supreme Court acknowledged that America is a Christian nation, founded on biblical principles. Still, we have watched, apparently dumbstruck and powerless, as our kids were denied the right to pray, voluntarily, in school; and now the Ninth Circuit Court has declared the phrase "under God" in our Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional!

To even the most casual of observers, it's really a bit surrealistic to see all this happening to America. Maybe everyone is just so busy with their own little life, working, making ends meet, and reveling in whatever free time they have that they just bury their heads in the sand out of the feeling of abject helplessness. Maybe Joe Sixpack has come to believe that there's nothing he can do about the moral malaise by which we're surrounded.

Our national problems are pretty overwhelming. Still, we can't just not do anything on a personal level to exact change.

As never before, it's encumbant on everyone who believes in God, America and apple pie to do whatever we can to oppose whatever and whomever is trying to foist unAmerican and unGodly ideology and legislation down our throats. It's not a time to go passive and get rolled over. We've got to be pro-active and go on the offensive for a change.

Say what you will about Ann Coulter. Whether or not you think she goes over the top at times, she's constantly on the offensive and never gives her opponents a pass. She effectively fights for what she believes in and reduces her enemies to mere name callers. It's a pity there aren't more like her on the right side of the isle (or pew, if you will).

I think far too many Christians have become dangerously pusilanimous and tend to lay down down too quickly when it comes to politics and policy. Some don't think it's their fight. It is their fight. The fight belongs to all of us. Our country depends on "right thinkers" to stand up for what we believe. It's a battle between right and wrong, good and evil.

As Edmund Burke so aptly said,

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

He's also attributed as saying (paraphrased):

Evil can only triumph when good men do nothing.