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National Sanctity of Human Life Day

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National Sanctity of Human Life Day

On January 18th, President George W. Bush issued a Presidential Proclamation naming Sunday, January 20th, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. As I read the proclamation, I could not help but be moved with compassion for those who lost loved ones in the September 11th disaster, as well as contemplate the blood of the innocents that has been shed in this land of liberty which holds that Life is an inalienable right.

America is at a cross-roads which will determine our destiny. Thank God for a President who is not afraid to take a stand for life. President Bush is to be commended for his stand for life, but more importantly, he needs our continued prayers.

As my wife noted, it is no surprise that in the aftermath of the Enron debacle, the enemy is trying to paralyze the White House and cast aspersions toward George W. Bush.

CBS news reported on January 25th that the Enron situation is indeed embarrassing for Washington, as Enron used to be its favorite company -- passing out millions of dollars all over town.

"They were being generous because they wanted to buy influence, which they got, and they wanted to buy access, which they got," said Rep Christopher Shays (R-Conn.). And they paid plenty ? more than $6 million over 10 years. George W. Bush alone got more than $600,000, but money also went to three-quarters of the Senate and almost half the members of the House, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The company's influence ran so deep that 212 of the 248 members of the Congressional committees now investigating Enron received financial campaign contributions from Enron or their accountants, Arthur Andersen."

Enron's slide into the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history on Dec. 2 cost thousands of employees their jobs and retirement savings. There will be a lot of investigations as to how such a thing could happen, given the layers of regulatory authority, audits, and the like.

CBS News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts reported that the White House on Friday ordered a review of $70 million worth of federal contracts awarded to Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen to determine if the firms measure up to government standards for ethics and integrity.

Somehow this has become political fodder for the enemies of George W. Bush and the Administration.

Our duly-elected President needs our prayers. Read this proclamation, and ask the Lord how He would have you pray for George W. Bush. If the abortion in this land is not over- turned, it will not be much longer before we, as a nation, are held accountable by the Righteous Judge, Jesus Christ.

National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2002 by the President of the United States of America a Proclamation

This Nation was founded upon the belief that every human being is endowed by our Creator with certain "unalienable rights." Chief among them is the right to life itself. The Signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their own lives, fortunes, and honor to guarantee inalienable rights for all of the new country's citizens. These visionaries recognized that an essential human dignity attached to all persons by virtue of their very existence and not just to the strong, the independent, or the healthy. That value should apply to every American, including the elderly and the unprotected, the weak and the infirm, and even to the unwanted.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that, "[t]he care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." President Jefferson was right. Life is an inalienable right, understood as given to each of us by our Creator.

President Jefferson's timeless principle obligates us to pursue a civil society that will democratically embrace its essential moral duties, including defending the elderly, strengthening the weak, protecting the defenseless, feeding the hungry, and caring for children -- born and unborn. Mindful of these and other obligations, we should join together in pursuit of a more compassionate society, rejecting the notion that some lives are less worthy of protection than others, whether because of age or illness, social circumstance or economic condition. Consistent with the core principles about which Thomas Jefferson wrote, and to which the Founders subscribed, we should peacefully commit ourselves to seeking a society that values life -- from its very beginnings to its natural end. Unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.

On September 11, we saw clearly that evil exists in this world, and that it does not value life. The terrible events of that fateful day have given us, as a Nation, a greater understanding about the value and wonder of life. Every innocent life taken that day was the most important person on earth to somebody; and every death extinguished a world. Now we are engaged in a fight against evil and tyranny to preserve and protect life. In so doing, we are standing again for those core principles upon which our Nation was founded.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Sunday, January 20, 2002, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. I call upon all Americans to reflect upon the sanctity of human life. Let us recognize the day with appropriate ceremonies in our homes and places of worship, rededicate ourselves to compassionate service on behalf of the weak and defenseless, and reaffirm our commitment to respect the life and dignity of every human being.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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"I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD Almighty." (Hag 2.7)

"Watch and pray, therefore, that you would be counted worthy to escape the judgment that is coming upon the earth and be able to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).

Maranatha!

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