America: Worth Living and Dying For

They claim America is evil, America is immoral, America is the Great Satan, America is the nation of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll.

At first glance, many of the Islamic terrorist's charges against America seem credible.

As a mother I am all too aware of the evils in my country's culture.I often feel powerless in protecting my son from the toxic influences in American culture that wish to destroy his innocence. But I must accept that no matter what I do I will never be able to completely shield him from these influences.

Pornography, abortion, secularism, and homosexuality are not only tolerated in America, but also accepted, and often times promoted.

However, despite all this, there is no other country in the entire world which I would rather raise my son, Jonathan. I am confident that Jonathan will have a better life in America than he would anywhere else. I do not mean that he will necessarily be better off, or have an easier life, but I mean to say that his life will have more meaning and more fulfillments in America.

You see, the Islamic terrorists are missing one vital fact when they determine themselves as morally superior to Americans: the fact that morality is dependent on, and inseparable from freedom.

When Muslim women wear a veil on there head in order to not be beaten, is that modesty?

When Muslim women remain faithful to their husbands in order to not be stoned to death, is that virtue?

Of course it is not. It is compulsion. There is no virtue in compulsion.

Freedom, by definition, must include the freedom to do good and the freedom to do evil.

Thus, in a free society, there will always be a significant amount evil. For that reason, those Americans who have opted to do good when evil was also an option, deserve our admiration and respect. For they have exhibited true virtue.

America does not promise Jonathan a life of virtue, or a life of happiness. But it does provide him the opportunity to pursue both.

I have no respect for Islamic terrorist. They are morally inferior to Americans.

Only in a free society can true virtue exist. Despite the evils rampant in American culture, America is still, as author Dinesh D'souza writes, "the greatest, freest, most decent country in existence."

America is a country I cherish, a country we should fight to preserve, and a country worth living and dying for.

When faced with reality...get angry?

On a recent trip to Washington, DC I visited the Holocaust Memorial for the second time. Once again, I was stirred.

The Holocaust Memorial always reminds of another atrocity: abortion.

I long for the day when abortion, like the Holocaust, will be merely an injustice of the past. The day when there will be an Abortion Memorial built in Washington, DC filled with unbelievable images and a room where you can sit and listen to the stories of abortion survivors; and people will shake their heads in disbelief that this injustice actually happened in the United States.

Yet, abortion is far from being an injustice of the past. In fact, it is occurring by the thousands right now, as you read this.

I've been involved in numerous pro-life demonstrations on college campuses; and during some demonstrations we have displayed images of mangled, dismembered, partially developed children that had just been aborted.

It never fails that when we do this many of the pro-abortion people passing by harass us about displaying these images on campus --claiming they are too offensive.But what I have come to realize is that these people aren't offended by the fact that these innocent human beings were slaughtered and tossed aside like trash. They are only offended about having to be confronted with the images of it happening.

If abortion is truly a simple surgical procedure, then what is so offensive about seeing images of it?

On The Learning Channel (TLC) there is a show called, "A Baby Story," in which they show vaginal births and cesareans that are just as bloody and gory as the abortion images. Yet, I never hear people complaining that the images on TLC are too offensive.

The reason people are offended by images of abortion and not other surgical procedures is because abortion, unlike any other surgery, is a horrific, intensely violent act against innocent children.

However, instead of getting upset at them selves, the pro-abortion people attack us, the ones showing the images.

Why?

Because they don't want to face reality: that they have been complacent in the face of injustice.

When pro-aborts are confronted with these images they are forced, for a moment, to quit hiding behind their rhetoric and face the truth. The truth that abortion isn't just something we debate in Philosophy class, but it is real. And nearly one in every three children conceived in the United States are undergoing the hideous acts shown in these pictures.

But if abortion is merely another surgical procedure, like the pro-aborts still continue to allege it is, then what is their fuss all about?

After all, Naomi Wolf, an abortion nazi and famous feminist once wrote, "How can we charge that it is vile and repulsive for pro-lifers to brandish vile and repulsive images if the images are real? To insist that the truth is in poor taste is the very height of hypocrisy. Besides, if these images are often the facts of the matter, and if we claim that it is offensive for pro-choice women to be confronted by them, then we are making the judgment that women are too inherently weak to face a truth about which they have to make a grave decision."

However, Naomi is wrong -- and so is anyone else who attempts to convince themselves of the lies told by the pro-abortion advocates.

Just to think, if I would have fallen for their lies then I would have never heard my child, Jonathan, laugh, or see him draw his first picture, or watch him finally cross the monkey bars all by himself!

Abortion is a reality that can be photographed and displayed in pictures. If those who support the act can't bear to face images of it, then maybe they shouldn't be supporting it.