Restoring The Primacy of Christian Values in America

by Mark Henry

The fact that America has elected the most pro-abortion and most socialist leaning U.S President and Congress in our Country’s history says much about how far our country has strayed from the traditional Christian values upon which our country was established.

Quo Vadis – where is America headed? With Congress’s passage of the federal health insurance takeover bill, America has lurched down the path of socialism. Emboldened by this victory, the far left leaders of the Democratic party will likely seek to further increase the power of the federal government over the private sector and the individual by way of new laws, regulations and policies.

With the federal health insurance takeover finally completed, a wide array of statist oriented policies are likely to follow which will dramatically expand the role of government and further undermine the important impact that the values of life, faith and family historically have had in America. These new policies will result in the federal government promoting abortion, euthanasia, and non-traditional marriage at an unprecedented level.

Additionally, we will no doubt see new entitlement programs established that will stifle personal freedom and initiative and, instead, will usher in greater citizenry dependence on big government. The unprecedented growth in government that will follow is contrary to the fundamental principle of Catholic social doctrine of subsidiarity. Essentially, this important Church doctrine states that decisions are best made at a smaller, more local level, rather than issuing forth from a more distant centralized source.

The common thread running through the federal health insurance industry takeover and other statist policies the government is pursuing is a modus operandi to transform America into a post Christian nation. What the majority party leaders seek is to subordinate traditional values like faith, family and personal responsibility and to elevate moral relativism, utilitarianism, narcissism and other secular values. We cannot allow them to do this.

Of course, these striking changes in government policy should not come as a big a surprise to most clear thinking Americans. This is because during his campaign for the Presidency, Barrack Hussein Obama often said that he intended to transform America while he studiously avoided saying just what it was he wanted to change. Regrettably, the mantra of unspecified change was good enough for far too many Americans.

Now it is patently clear what the President and the Democratic leadership plan to do to America and its citizens. What they envision is an America that looks more like the secular and socialistic countries of Europe and nothing at all like the traditional Christian values based country our founders established.

Any serious doubt about this euro-centric direction vanishes when you see that the major policy initiatives of the Obama administration are substantially identical to the statist big government policies followed by the dominant countries of the European Union. This administration’s policies concerning health care, abortion, same sex marriage, global warming and taxation are all in lock step with prevailing European Union policies.

Well, what is so wrong with coming back into the fold and returning to the values of Europe, the land where many of our ancestors hailed from? Well, to begin with today’s Europe is a world apart from the traditional Christian values based civilization of either our forefathers or the Europe which American soldiers died defending in World Wars I and II. Foundational American values like respect for life, traditional families and freedom of religion are on the wane in most of Europe.

Our Constitution’s Bill of Rights expressly protects the free exercise of religion. On the other hand, the Constitution of the European Union intentionally lacks any acknowledgment of the singularly important role that Christianity has had in shaping European civilization. While the ramifications of such a collective rejection of Europe’s Christian heritage is beyond the scope of this article, it suffices to say that our American Constitution and the European Union’s Constitution are oceans apart and America is much better off for it, thank you.

Therein lies the crux of the problem. President Obama and the leftist leadership of the Democratic party would like to build a statist bridge to take America down the path towards the European socialist welfare state.

However, to take America on this transformative journey, Democrat leaders will need to cajole more Americans into sacrificing their traditional values like faith, freedom and personal responsibility and, instead, get Americans to accept these new statist policies and leftist secular values. Faithful Catholics need to join together with increasing numbers of Americans who will oppose these efforts to transform America into a nation the Founders would scarcely recognize.

What Can Catholic Christians Do To Restore America’s Christian Values? With the Democrat leadership’s game plan now more obvious, the only questions unanswered are whether the Catholic faithful are prepared to fight for our country’s Christian heritage and, if so, how are we to wage that battle?

There are critically important actions we the Catholic faithful need to begin taking immediately to restore and preserve America’s Christian heritage for future generations. The strategies we need to pursue run the gamut and include ecclesial, cultural, economic, educational, legal and, most assuredly, political action. More will be said in the next issue in this series of articles; The Fight to Preserve America’s Christian Heritage.