As I write, Breitbart.com is highlighting comments made from Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez on the topic of immigration reform. The Democrat Congressman puts it bluntly; without immigration reform George W. Bush will be the last Republican President, and Tom Donohue, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce "half-joked" that the GOP "should not bother to run a candidate in 2016 if they do not pass amnesty legislation.
To make statements like this one must be very confident that America will reach 2016, at least in its present form as a republic that holds elections. One must also have an extreme case of tunnel vision in that they see no possible major events in America that might change the perception that Americans have on any issues. In other words one must be like the majority of Americans today.
Both political parties are scrambling....no scurrying....no there's got to be a better word....stampeding, stampeding over our Constitution to get votes through amnesty. They think that there is a
mother load of votes here and they want their fair share.
These are the leaders of our government! These are our public servants, but let me take the original thought a little further. As America is today we have no hope. Corruption is everywhere in our government. Our educational system is a tool of the Progressive Left in this country, our military might is shrinking while our enemies are getting stronger and bolder, and the Bill Of Rights has a bullseye on it. Our churches have lots of 'ministries' but very little preaching of the blood of Christ and the cross of Calvary, save for Easter of course where it is expected. All of this and more and the big issue in our Congress is amnesty legislation!
The Latino is a religious person, very much like the average American, maybe even moreso, struggling for a sense of meaningfulness in life.....like the average American, and like the average American, struggling against the temptations that our narcissistic, idol-craving society fills our lives with at just about every level of our lives. We, as a people, have little wisdom and no hedge of protection around us that God has always provided.
No election, no candidate, no political party, no government can change nor even make a dent in this. We need a mighty movement of God over our hearts and minds and we need a reformation in our churches. If God should deem it fitting to humble us and to bring us to repentance, to renew our minds and reform our churches, Latinos would be effected as everyone else. It wouldn't matter what party led the House of Representatives and the Senate or who occupied the Oval Office for many of them would be humbled also. The election of 2016 is not the problem, getting to 2016 is... and the
Great Humility and Fear of God Railroad is the only line even capable of getting us there....and that only should God will it and have mercy upon us!
The following Proclamation is taken from from abrahamlincolnonline.org, was written by our Senate in 1863, and placed on the desk of President Lincoln to sign. Please make the effort to read it in its entirety. You may also want to Google 'National Day of Prayer 2014' to see how much our prayers have changed and how far we have fallen as a people and as a government in intellect, in wisdom and in reverence for God:
Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day
Washington, D.C.
March 30, 1863 Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter later married President Lincoln's son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30, one month before the fast day was observed.
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation. And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh. By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
