The following is a speech I made at the Kosciusko County Tea Party on April 15. I would like to see it published in your newspaper.
Thank You for your consideration.
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Two hundred thirty-two years ago, America was born. Our founding fathers worked diligently to ensure that our country would be free for as long as time would endure. Comparatively speaking, we are a very young nation, and were men like George Washington and Alexander Hamilton still alive today, we can only imagine how they would feel to see their dream fading into the distance.
I'm not deeply involved in politics. Like most of you I'm here tonight simply because I love this country. Everything about it. Its basic principles that set its foundation. The way that its liberty has been courageously and sacrificially defended time and time again. Its democratic system of checks and balances. Its endless opportunities. The panoramic landscape and mixture of people. And most of all, it's freedoms. I want all of that to still be intact when my grandchildren are adults and able to enjoy the bounty of America. Yes, we gathered here because we want to send our nation's leaders a strong message about taxation, but at the heart of it all is our love for this land.
When America was founded, God was welcomed. His Word set the cornerstone of the Constitution. He was there when the Bill of Rights was penned. For most of our nation's history, He was honored in our government and in our communities, and in spite of our struggles, we were blessed. But our people began to drift from the principles that once made us strong. And now, we are a nation that is divided, and the times that we are living in are demanding our allegience; so that leaves each of us with some soul searching to do and some choices to make because this goes much deeper than taxation. If we continue to remove God, who is the author of freedom - from America, then it will cease to exist as we have known it; and all that we truly love about living here, will be gone.
If each of us decide within ourselves to stand up and do all that we can to bring about peaceable change and our liberties are then taken from us, then God will still be here. And we will have the consolation of looking into the faces of our children and telling them that we tried.
So thank you for being here. Thank you for caring ...and for trying.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abidging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceable to assemble, and to petition the government for the redress of grievances. The First Amendment to the Constitution.
