On the recordAugust 1, 2012
I thank my friend from Minnesota, my very, very dear friend. This is an important day, Priests for Life marking 20 years. As a Christian, as a Southern Baptist, it is an honor to pay tribute to the Catholic priests who have stood strong, stood for life, that precious one of the trilogy that was set out in the Declaration of Independence. But first life. Only if you have life can you then go to liberty and have a chance at a pursuit of happiness. For those of us who believe the scripture written in the Old Testament, as did our founders, most all of them--in fact a third of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, over a third, were ordained Christian ministers--but certainly George Washington and even Ben Franklin, even though some history teachers mislead their students these days. They all believed in those scriptures. When you look at the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, it's a little scary, because, as I've read, one of the things that God was angry over was that people had fallen into such incredible idol worship that they were willing to sacrifice their own children. That is so abominable. How could anybody love such idols and idol worship such that they would sacrifice their own child and allow the taking of their own child's life? And then I thought about abortion in this country, and we have no room to talk.…
