I believe it was the realization that many religious liberties were being seriously questioned and that the moral climate of this country had entered a free fall that many Christians began to see their God-given responsibility as citizens to take action.  With the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion and subsequent legislation that broadened abortion “rights” to include every pregnancy right up until delivery, religious conservatives heard a call to arms.  It was no longer possible to consider yourself a Christian if you just went to Church on Sunday, went to Bible study, and memorized Scripture if by your neglect the country was being destroyed.

 Christian marginalization has always been popular among liberals, for Christians are the last bastions of traditional, conservative values.  It becomes easier to pass liberal legislation if Christian can be marginalized as those people who hold archaic values from another age who must somehow be curtailed so they don’t “push their values down our throats.”  One of the most significant liberal agendas has been to remove the education of children from the parents to the government schools.  In the schools, the educational establishment can have the children for the majority of the day, removing them from the influence of the parent, and probably teaching them lessons their parents wouldn’t approve.  For instance, sex education has been a battleground for many years.  Most parents have no idea what their children are being taught about sex in the classroom, and were rudely awakened during the liberal Clinton administration.  Parents learned their children were being taught how to use condoms correctly but not how to abstain from sex.  It was perfectly natural for their children to give in to their natural desires to have sex as long as they were “careful” and both were consensual.  They learned that their children could obtain condoms and medical care without their parent’s permission or even knowledge, and even that it was possible for their daughters to have an abortion without the knowledge or consent of their parents.  While this training was occurring in the later grades, their younger children were frequently being taught that their parents really didn’t know much and that they need to rely upon their teachers and the educational establishment for their morals, and that all values were after all, really relative.  Situational ethics is frequently taught to elementary school children, where they learn that your ethical principles are often dictated by the situation you find yourself, they are not absolute for all situations.  Ridiculous scenarios were thought up to illustrate this point; you can’t have a universal moral code for all situations; rather, it depends upon your particular situation.

 Parents gradually awoke from their ignorance and slumber too late after their children had been so thoroughly indoctrinated by the liberal education establishment, and their role in their children’s education and moral upbringing so compromised that it was too late.  Parents frequently awoke to find their children as total strangers with different moral understanding, maybe having gone through an aborted pregnancy, sexually active outside of marriage, and thoroughly disinterested in the Church or anything having to do with Christianity.  Their liberal philosophy becomes even more ingrained when the kids go off to college where they are then frequently lost forever to a liberal world-view totally foreign to those who brought them up.  The liberal establishment is fully aware that their fight with conservative, Christian philosophy has its primary battleground in the schools.  If they are able to successfully remove children from their parents’ oversight for only one generation, then they will have succeeded in re-educating and re-casting American values in a liberal, anti-Christian mold.  It is our responsibility in the religious community to see that this does not happen.

 Another liberal agenda is to promote the concept of a “New World Order.”  Certainly, during the Gulf War Crisis of the early 90s, we heard much how the outlaw country, Iraq, threatened this new order.  Certainly, there was considerable public agreement that Iraq was an outlaw country; however, few people had any real concept of what President Bush meant when he alluded to a new world order.  This vision of a new world is rooted in the philosophy that the national state system we have experienced over the past several thousand years is archaic and needs to be revised in the age of worldwide communication and commerce.  It means that protecting the sovereignty of the United States will no longer be the primary goal of our country’s politicians.  Instead, they will be working toward blending our country with all the other developed countries in the world.  We will be blended with these other countries in terms of our economy, finance, money, education, politics, military, etc.  It will become more and more difficult to discern our country from others because we will all have so much in common.  It is thought that this political union and blurring of national boundaries will make future wars and local conflicts more difficult, since there won’t be distinct political entities to have this conflict.  Rather, there will be much more in common between and among countries than what there is different; there will be less to fight about.  While this may sound good, there are several very substantial practical difficulties.  First, for whom do our soldiers fight?  We are involved now in a war in Bosnia – our troops are there under the auspices of the United Nations to establish the peace by force if necessary.  About two years ago, our military forces were asked to wear the uniform of the United Nations; some refused.  One particular U.S. Army Specialist, Michael New, refused to put on a U.N. uniform and take commands from a foreign commander.  For this act, he was court marshaled.  Then there are the treaties, which reduce our national sovereignty whether or not you might agree with the underlying premise that they might help our economy (which also seems doubtful).  One of these most infamous treaties is NAFTA, the North America Free Trade Association.  This is a treaty between the United States, Canada, and Mexico that virtually assured job loss from the United States to Mexico as factories relocated where labor is cheap, profit margins increase, and American jobs are lost.  But even more important than job loss in the United States is the economic, political, and military union taking place in Europe.  The European Economic Union (EEC) has importance that is literally of Biblical proportions.