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Because America’s social structure has been fundamentally changed in ways which threatens our constitutionally guaranteed freedom and the American family, I feel the need to impress upon my grandchildren some fundamental facts of life. A basic truth promoted by the scriptures and observable in human behavior is the fact that the natural man [humankind] is an enemy to God. Let me assure you that if it were not for the Lord’s influence in my life with the help of my parent’s examples, the Baptist Church and then the Latter-Day Saints, I would not have honored my wedding vows; I would have fathered children by women I was not married to. The tendency to stray from the straight and narrow path varies from person to person and I know where those tendencies would have led me.

God’s plan for the human family is to make bad folks good and good folks better by helping them to get control of their instincts and natural tendencies to behave selfishly. God’s plan in sending us to the earth was for us to pair off male and female in order to form partnerships in the work of creation. Not all of God’s children who came to the earth to obtain bodies were agreeable to that partnership and not all of them were born into bodies which provided the necessary instincts. The radical atheists who have taken control of political correctness are not interested in cooperating with God’s plan of creation. They want to see us become obsessed with things other than his plan of happiness. The “plan of happiness” mentioned in the Book of Mormon symbolizes the Gospel of Jesus Christ and includes God’s work of creation.

The great majority of those who come to the earth and obtain a body come prepared to follow those instincts which result in courtship, marriage, and the raising of children. To those who experience some confusion about their gender or the object of their sexual attraction the Left only offers one suggestion; accept whatever feels right as the proper path you should follow. With regard to same sex relationships they are allowed to tell young children to “try it, you might like it”, but we are not allowed to publically promote Biblical morality. If you experience a thrill when you steal something from a neighbors garden or think about it that does not mean that you were born to be a thief. Neither does it mean you were born to be gay if a member of your sex gives you a thrill by touching you.

A major goal of radical atheists is to thwart God’s command to multiply and replenish the earth. They prefer to have school children obsessed with having sex with the use of a condom and never getting married and raising a family. And, the more people who become turned on to same sex relationships, the fewer child bearing families there will be.

The LGBT community want us to use the term “sexual orientation” because using the term “sexual preferences” suggests that people have a choice and could be cured. Of course we do not know what choices we may have made in our pre-mortal existence about our circumstances in mortality. My point is that people might not have been given a choice regarding their sexual orientation after their birth, but they can choose what they are going to do about it. Some of those who are sexually attracted to members of the same sex have wanted to change that, but laws are being passed to prevent gays from receiving counseling to help them change. Some have transformed from homosexual to heterosexual and vice versa so it is possible.

I have been referring to those who work against Biblical morality as promoting radical atheist priorities. The things promoted by radical atheists in the U.S.A, are done for the purpose of cultural warfare, but are not necessarily what they will promote once they are in power. In the early 1900s intellectual malcontents of many categories were vying for followers through speaking engagements. It was obvious that neither sectarian nor secular governments had  sufficiently reformed human nature so as to create population centers which were secure and safe dwelling places for the family. Radical movements thought that they could do a better job.

Historians give credit to bankers, Wall Street financiers, and various wealthy capitalists and families blessed with inherited wealth for funding the Russian revolution. Because it was an effort to reduce the power of the churches, atheist priorities were adopted. I have seen no studies describing the personal religious beliefs of those involved in funding the revolution. We can assume that some of them had religious convictions. Whatever their personal convictions, they wanted power over the people or at least to empower tyrants who were willing to do whatever it took to control the people as they lessened the power of religion. In the 1900s the Democratic party has shown its willingness to promote radical atheist priorities and so has gained the support of big money, the main stream American news media, much of the entertainment industry, and the Left leaning departments of most public college and universities. Our public schools, k-12, have become tools of the Left in waging cultural warfare against traditional family values. Thank the Lord some of our teachers are on our side.
                
The key to understanding the difference between radical atheist priorities and Christian priorities lies in understanding that it is the Christian concept of heaven versus the atheist view of no life after the death of the body which justifies the differences. Our system of justice is weakened when we allow radical atheist beliefs to influence it. For instance, we believe “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness.” Our feelings about the potential for unfairness and inequalities in mortal life can be lessened by our beliefs in the continuation of life after the death of the body, by the resurrection of the body wherein we have eternal life and rewards and punishments based on our behavior during mortality. But, if we mix in the radical atheist view that there is no life after the death of the body, we may become susceptible to the idea that it is not fair to deal out harsh punishment because life is short then there is nothing for them. What right have we to interfere with the happiness of individuals who follow their instincts as they live only a few decades as mortal beings?

They can be very sincere in their desire to protect the guilty, but when they have been given the power, see what they have done. Because they don’t believe in an after life with a utopian existence, they justify extreme methods to achieve utopia in this mortal existence. According to Jamie Glazov in his book titled United in Hate, the Chinese communists killed seventy million of their own citizens in the 1900s. It was an horrendous oppression which turned the survivors into victims of the Stockholm syndrome. Today, North Korea is the most oppressive on earth, yet a few years ago when their previous leader died the citizens of that country mourned him in spectacular fashion as a testament to the effectiveness of the Stockholm syndrome they were suffering under. According to Glazov, in the 1950s and 1960s many communist citizens of the free world visited China in order to observe the effects of this genocide at its peak. He quoted one of them, Carol Tavris who was an American psychologist, as follows:

“When you enter China you walk through the looking glass into a world that reflects a reality antithetical to ours. You leave Watergate, the energy crisis, crime, privacy, dirty movies, cynicism, and sex at the border, and you step across into safety, stability, enthusiasm, clean streets, clean talk, and positive thinking. Most of all you leave diversity and controversy, the hallmarks of America, to be wrapped in a uniformity of belief and singleness of purpose.”

Let’s get some things straight right now; in a country that has survived the loss of tens of millions of citizens through the actions of its leaders, those who oppose it have learned to do it secretly so a casual stroll through a few neighborhoods will not reveal the discontent hiding below the surface. In the U.S.A. culture warfare is done openly as well as in secret. I dare say that there are many private colleges in the U.S.A. owned by churches wherein an observer would come to similar conclusions about safety, stability, enthusiasm, clean streets, clean talk, and positive thinking as Tavris did about China. Our Lord wants us to choose to do right and serve him with choices which come to us of our own free will.

Our founding fathers had a limited uniformity of belief and singleness of purpose. They believed that everyone had the right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”. I say limited because they  believed that everyone had the right to pursue their own version of happiness. That happiness was built around the family and Judeo/Christian family values was the key to the continued existence of a community. The continued existence of communities was the key to the continued existence of a  nation. Those individuals having an adventurous spirit which led them to temporarily forgo family life for some pioneering effort were tolerated, even admired, but attacking the family in order to promote some alternative lifestyle was not.

The Left’s attack on bullying has not been successful, because they have merely changed the criteria for who is allowed to be bullied. Through legislation, court decisions, and misuse of presidential powers traditional American family values have come under attack, major metropolitan areas have become sanctuaries for non citizen criminals. Because professional agitators, including President Obama, have stirred up so much trouble every time a member of a minority group has been killed by the police, race relations are at a new low and police officers are being ambushed. America is in serious trouble and it will be up to the rising generation to inspire the disenchanted who have not been given a work ethic and a sense of responsibility. Far too many have been seduced by the anger of victim-hood or overwhelmed by fear of the future wherein there is no life after the death of the body. The Left hates Judeo/Christian values because they provide a remedy for anger and fear which are major weapons in their cultural warfare.