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The Ghoulish Democratic Party

If you are a registered Democrat and genuine follower of God, you need to RUN from your political party.

If you are a person of good moral character, but not necessarily religious–and a Democrat–take off.

Seriously, run. Your party has gone ghoulish.

Last night, only three Democratic senators voted against infanticide when the Senate took a roll call vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

The bill, introduced by Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, would provide medical care and legal protections to infants born alive after an attempted abortion. Sasse initially called for unanimous consent on the measure several weeks ago, but Democratic Washington Sen. Patty Murray blocked it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought Sasse’s bill to a roll call vote Monday, and it failed largely along party lines. However, three Democrats did break with their party to vote in favor of the bill.

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey voted alongside Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, also from the Keystone State, who had co-sponsored the bill with Sasse. Democratic Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, who recently flipped his seat from Republican hands, also voted with Republicans Monday.

Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin was the third Democrat to cross the aisle on this particular issue — a move that many likely expected after some of his more recent comments. Manchin was one of the only Democrats to stand during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address when the president called for an end to abortions after the unborn baby can feel pain.

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13).

Doped-Up, Docile, Dependent: the Left’s Plan for America

I originally wrote this piece for World Net Daily, it ran on Wednesday…

Many years ago, when my wife and I were about to adopt our first of three sons, a friend who worked with foster kids presented us with a peculiar warning: Nature is stronger than nurture. In other words, he believed that inherited traits within the DNA of our adopted children would outweigh the influence we would have in raising them.

We didn’t buy it.

Our sons are now young adults. Over the years there were numerous times when my wife and I observed traits, tendencies, aptitudes and emotions that seemed foreign to our known personal bloodlines. However, oddly enough, we can say the same thing about our biological daughter, who is the oldest of our kids.

Yes, their “nature” was at times trying, but we confronted that nature with our nurture. We spent lots of time with them, supervised them, loved them, prayed for them, sought out mentors and, when necessary, provided them with professional assistance to properly equip them for future success.

Now, let me share with you a troubling statistic.

In San Francisco, where I live, we have more intravenous drug addicts than high school students.

There are 16,000 high schoolers in this city and 24,500 injection drug abusers (the count is reliable, especially since San Francisco has a free needle-distribution program). This doesn’t count thousands more who are addicted to non-intravenous drugs and alcohol.

Meantime, the number of homeless in San Francisco is roughly 7,500. While a fraction of these people may be temporarily down on their luck, most are either alcohol or drug addicted, out of their mind, or otherwise harmless people who are completely ill-equipped to do life.

I often wonder how much of this mess is because their nature wasn’t properly nurtured.

As this country (and Western culture at large) steadily drifts from time-tested, biblically based family values, we are seeing more and more broken families and an exceeding number of kids who have no contact with a biological father. Even when dedicated to wholesome principles, it’s challenging to nurture nature in such circumstances.

Then there are the kids living in a home with two parents who are being raised, not by proven standards, but by whatever they see on the internet.

I believe a combination of the above scenarios has exacerbated homelessness, drug addiction and the cloud of destitution hanging over so many.

And it’s likely to only get worse.

Now, here’s where the progressive left crawls in. The only cure they propose for the impoverished masses is more government.

These radicals ascribe to what Karl Marx referred to as The Three Laws of Matter. In essence, this decree proposes that to change one’s nature through nurture is a fantasy.

Marx claimed that as each of us were spit out of our mother’s womb, some had a more efficient brain than others. As such, those with a better brain must step up and keep the inferior population in check with heavy-handed laws, regulations and tempting ploys, lest the minions wreak havoc, kill their fellow humans and destroy the planet.

In light of Marx’ theory, look at what the leftists are now openly pushing for: completely legalized marijuana and free needles to keep millions doped up, docile and dependent; promises of free health care and universal income to prevent many more from becoming industrious; and finally, abortion and infanticide to reduce the type of people that are unwanted in their utopian world.

What we’re witnessing is a wildly sinful trend that, unless broken, will curse this nation.

The Bible shows us time and time again that when Israel turned from idols to serve the living God, the “curse” that was before them was broken, and God spared them from the doom that was so near.

We too must return to a firm foundation rooted in authentic faith and validated family values.

And, we must recognize and vigilantly oppose the left’s game plan.