02/22/10

From The Voice

If we compromise on our core beliefs what else will we compromise?

Carolyn Hileman

It would have been easier for our founding fathers to accept the atrocities rather than to leave their homes and families to fight, never knowing where the next meal would come from, when the ammo would reach them, whether reinforcements had indeed received their message or if just beyond the next hill was the enemy. They could have compromised, allowed those they were against to become part of their army in order to strengthen their resources but they did not, they held true to their principles, they clung to their beliefs and they won their war.

Today those who hold conservative beliefs are being asked not only by unscrupulous politicians but by members of their own party to sacrifice their beliefs for the so called good of the party, we have been told if we will just soften our stance on abortion, embrace the gay and lesbian population we could have more members, we could win more elections if we will only compromise. If we will just ignore our beliefs, if we will just try to be more like those we stand against, the day that happens is the day our party beliefs become null and void.

In our country it is now more normal to be homosexual than heterosexual, abortion although no where to be found in our original founding documents is a right. If you are against either you are called names, subject to punishment, even possible imprisonment. And there are factions in our own party who would have us follow right along with these people in punishing those who believe in living a clean, healthy untainted lifestyle. If we are to just espouse their beliefs, just go along with the crowd, then what are we fighting for here? If we are not to be different, then there is really no need for two or more parties is there?

I am aware it has been a rough past few years; it seems that evil has taken over our land and is refusing to let it go, but you do not fight evil by becoming what you are fighting against. There is republican platform, that was created by people who went back to the polls after the primaries and voted for those words and those beliefs, people just like you and I and those people felt it necessary to make it clear what it is that we believe, I for one will not be the one to tell these people who took time out of their life to try and make sure that we had a platform we could believe in that it is not good enough, that we must be more inclusive, we must be more like the party that is in office now. If we compromise on our core beliefs what else will we compromise?

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