Why My Faith and Politics are Inseparable
Indiana congressman Mark Souder says he can't ignore his faith in office.
A Conservative Christian's View On Public Life
By Mark Souder Souder, an Indiana Republican congressman, delivered this speech in a debate with former New York
Gov. Mario Cuomo The text is taken from the book "One Electorate Under God" with permission from the Brookings Institution.
It is clear that Mario Cuomo and I agree on one thing, and that is that most political issues are moral issues. If taxes are a moral issue, then we have a pretty wide berth to include just about any public issue.
We are to many degrees products of our background. I would like to lay out a little bit of the background that might shape a conservative Christian's view on how to approach public life. I begin with a quotation from John Adams: "Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." That was once an uncontroversial statement. It is a little more controversial today.Faith institutions are the key to developing a personal moral foundation.
I begin with a few quotations from John Adams...
"Gentlemen, we are not, nor have we ever been a Christian Nation. The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewishor Mohammedan nation."
Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?
The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
John Adams, second President of the USA
America was not founded on Christianity
Why Politics Should Steer Clear of Faith
Former New York
Gov. Mario Cuomo says religion in public life is divisive.
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In The American Catholic Tradition Of Realism
By Mario Cuomo Cuomo, the former New York governor,
delivered this speech during a public debate with Indiana congressman Mark Souder.
South Dakota Bans Nearly ALL Abortions?
Deaths in the United States in a typical year are as follows
* Tobacco kills about 400,000
* Alcohol kills about 80,000
* Workplace accidents kill 60,000
* Automobiles kill 40,000
* Cocaine kills about 2,500
* Heroin kills about 2,000
* Aspirin kills about 2,000
* Marijuana kills 0
DEA Agent Celerino Castillo testimony
Celerino "Cele" Castillo III
For several years, I fought in the trenches of the front lines of Reagan's "Drug War", trying to stamp out what I considered American's greatest foreign threat. But, when I was posted, in Central and South America from 1984 through 1990, I knew we were playing the "Drug War Follies." While our government shouted "Just Say No !", entire Central and South American nations fell into what are now known as, "Cocaine democracies."
While with the DEA, I was able to keep journals of my assignments in Central and South America. These journals include names, case file numbers and DEA NADDIS (DEA Master Computer) information to back up my allegations. I have pictures and original passports of the victims that were murdered by CIA assets. These atrocities were done with the approval of the agencies.
CIA Report on Contras and Cocaine
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
When our government bureaucrats deliberately sponsored negative marijuana research, time and time again Playboy magazine, NORML, High Times, etc. had to sue under the new Freedom of Information Act to find out the actual laboratory methodology these "experiments" employed. What they found was shocking.
In 1974, California Governor Ronald Reagan was asked about decriminalizing marijuana.
After producing the Heath/Tulane University study, the so-called "Great Communicator" proclaimed,
"The most reliable scientific sources say permanent brain damage
is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana." (L.A. Times)
Senator Eastland of Mississippi used it throughout the mid-1970s to horrify and stop national legislators from supporting NORML's decriminalization bills in Congress, mostly sponsored by the late Senator Jacob Javitts of New York.
The Official Story Debunking "Gutter Science"
The Facts: Suffocation of Research Animals
As reported in Playboy, the Heath "Voodoo" Research methodology involved strapping Rhesus monkeys into a chair and pumping them with equivalent of 63 Colombian strength joints in "five minutes, through gas masks," losing no smoke. Playboy discovered that Heath had administered 63 joints in five minutes over just three months instead of administering 30 joints per day over a one-year period as he had first reported. Heath did this, it turned out, in order to avoid having to pay an assistant's wages every day for a full year.
The monkeys were suffocating! Three to five minutes of oxygen deprivation causes brain damage "dead brain cells." (Red Cross Lifesaving and Water Safety Manual) With the concentration of smoke used, the monkeys were a bit like a person running the engine of a car in a locked garage for 5, 10, 15 minutes at a time every day!
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
The Ganjawar Fraud...
"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette
is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast."
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Ronald Reagan (American 40th US President (1981- 89), 1911-2004)
Cannabis prevents brain damage
Science Daddies Rejoice: Marijuana Prevents Brain Damage!
Marijuana May Spur New Brain Cells
Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth
Marijuana may block Alzheimer's
"Marihuana is “a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine.”*
Authority for this statement is United States Commissioner of Narcotics H. J. Anslinger. . . .
the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization,
and mental breakdown.”
Scientific American - May 1938
