Recently it
was announced that a number of Evangelical Christian leaders met
in Houston to choose their candidate for president. This group decided
to endorse Rick Santorum, a decision that mirrors your own the week
of the Iowa caucuses. It is my hope that the two of you will reconsider
your choice of candidates this election season, and instead of backing
Santorum, use your influence in support of Dr. Ron Paul. Below I've
outlined many very important reasons why Dr. Paul is the best choice
for Evangelical Christians.
I'll begin
with an issue very dear to our hearts: the subject of children. A
family man, Dr. Paul has been married to his wife Carol for more
than fifty years, and together they have five children, eighteen
grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. As you may know,
Dr. Paul is a medical doctor, specializing in obstetrics. During
his career in the medical practice he's helped deliver over 4,000
babies.
A champion
of the unborn, Dr. Paul believes that "unless we understand that
life is precious we can't protect liberty." Because he recognizes
the federal government never had the proper legal authority to decide
the issue, he has repeatedly proposed legislation to strip the federal
courts of jurisdiction. Such an act would effectively and immediately
overturn Roe v. Wade. Working to appoint sympathetic justices to
the Supreme Court who will hopefully overturn that decision
at some point in the future has been fruitless thus far. Also, it
is constitutionally speaking, not the proper remedy. We cant hope
to have lasting change by circumventing the legal system and forever
having the prospect of another court ruling overturn the previous
decision.
A constitutional
amendment is also, practically speaking, a difficult if not impossible
task. Instead, Dr. Paul believes it is with the states that the
issue should be dealt. Ultimately however, it is up to the traditional,
as well as Biblical, pillars of morality the Church and the Family
to change the culture. In the Book of Jeremiah we are told that:
"
Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm
." Dr. Paul writes in The
Revolution that "[w]e seriously mistake the function of
government if we think its job is to [...] supplant the role of
all those subsidiary bodies in society that have responsibility
for forming our moral character."
