In Defense of Judeo-Christian America

This title is better suited for a book or maybe a series of books; the gathering of evidence, analysis and explanation adequate to the task deserves a major undertaking. Yet even a short essay on the topic is worth entering into the webworld, because this is a theme that can never be proclaimed enough.

These thoughts come to mind as we read of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with the full direction and support of the Obama administration, writing up a report on human rights abuses in the United States and submitting it, for the first time ever, to the UN Human Rights Council. This is the Council populated by such stalwart human rights defenders as Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Russia, Egypt, and Kyrgyzstan. And if the mere act of writing up a report on the US and submitting it to this Orwellian joke of a ‘human rights council’ were not offensive enough to Americans, the actual content of the report specifically cites the State of Arizona and its immigration law as worthy of an American mea culpa to the UN, to be monitored and redeemed by the pure and perfect Obama administration.

We’re not sure there are enough adjectives to describe the anger that 70% of the American people feel toward this kind of leftist nonsense.

Could we please have some data on the number of people waiting in line (or sneaking through the borders) to become a citizen of any of these Council nations? Here’s a hint: as to all Council nations except the US, and for all practical purposes, the number is essentially zero. Is common sense still allowed to explain why that is so?

The Obama/Clinton action is the result of decades of godless multicultural non-judgmentalism run amok. And as we have said many times, to the enduring apoplexy of liberals everywhere, it is driven at its core by a hatred of Christianity.

America’s culture originated and has been sustained by Judeo-Christian faith and teachings. This is an inescapable fact beyond question to anyone with access to and a fair reading of the American founding. It is also an inescapable fact that America’s Judeo-Christian heritage has produced without even the tiniest shadow of a doubt history’s most tolerant, compassionate, unbiased, assimilating, and accommodating culture. Those who escape from the Council nations to live in the US know this better than anyone; those who have lived only in the US and skipped out of church in their twenties after taking in a college academic experience full of liberal claptrap have not the slightest clue of what they are talking about.

Perhaps Obama and Clinton should be forgiven on the grounds that ‘they know not what they do.’ But it’s one thing to spout moral idiocy as an individual; it’s completely different to purport to act on behalf of the American people when doing so.

Let’s be as plainspeaking as possible. Judeo-Christian theology and teachings formed the foundation of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America. They have shaped the nation and its citizens from the very beginning; in fact, American society reflects the fact that Judeo-Christian teaching has permeated the laws of the US. The American culture that has evolved from this theology and these teachings is far from perfect in many respects, but it is infinitely better in every material respect—fairness, justice, mercy, opportunity, individual dignity—than any other culture. To say so is to be informed and honest, not arrogant; but to refuse to say so is to endorse and enable a national, cultural suicide that would harm all of humankind.

The UN Human Rights Council is a farce; it has no business reviewing the human rights records of any nation, much less that of the US. It is not a source of definitive teaching on anything, much less of human rights. Nothing good can come from humoring such a sham; doing so only contributes to the moral confusion of the world.

The founding fathers have said pretty much all that needs to be said on the subject of human rights under human government. If their thinking were properly understood, honored and taught in America and the UN, the UN Human Rights Council would soon disappear.

As an aside, Clinton’s actions are worthy of remembering the next time her name is run up the flagpole as a more ‘moderate’ Democrat who would be preferable to Obama. She’s Obama with a skirt, and she deserves to be outed from office just as surely as he does.

America needs leaders who are unapologetic and unflinching in defense of the rightness and superiority of its Judeo-Christian heritage and culture. On November 2nd, Americans will start the process of putting such leaders into place.

Paul Gable

August 30, 2010