James Ruglia
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- Posted: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:08:18 +0000
This entry is deals with political subject matter, and is therefore prone to induce strong feelings that may be negative or disturbing. If you think that this may make you uncomfortable, I invite you to look ahead and move on, rather than suffer unnecessary grief.
These analyses and opinions are those of my own self. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the United States Air Force are both expressly neutral and do not endorse or condone any partisan entity. I am receiving no compensation or favors for this work, financial or otherwise, and it is born through only my own efforts.
The President of the United States of America is a unique secular position in the world, because there isn’t such anywhere else in our government, nor in the government of any other nation that carries quite as much interest or attention, domestic as well as international, as it does. The President carries more influence in the government of the most economically, industrially, and socially influential nation on the face of the entire earth than any other single person, and the question of who to fill the seat is therefore one that draws in part from a person’s most core beliefs and understanding of the world.
Upon my own review of the world’s events and the society around me, it’s clear to me that Governor Mitt Romney is indisputably the most qualified person to fulfill this role not only out of this election’s candidates, but perhaps out of every candidate that’s ever sought the position in my lifetime.
Inarguably the most widely discussed issue in the United States today is in the rapidly increasing financial deficit. President Obama has attempted to address this issue with numerous stimuli, “big-government” policies, and disguised tax increases. Through these four years, the minor downturn born from irresponsible spending in the housing sector has spiraled into a debt that’s growing out of control. Who better to address our national debt and decreasing relative employment opportunities than an experienced businessman with a highly successful track record? More jobs, more businesses, and less of the socialist-style governmental influence that’s failed so many of our more “hostile” international neighbors.
One of the fields that President Obama has attempted to curb in extra funds from is the Department of Defense. Between troop withdrawals and vast, sudden downsizing, we’re left with a national defense bereft of the experienced staff to mentor our incoming young enlisted and officers-or what’s left of them and their shaky job security, eliminating tens of thousands of jobs-jobs so desperately sought after, and opening the door to the kind of attacks and destruction we’ve seen in Libya and elsewhere in recent times.
Rather than defend this country and its people overseas, President Obama has excused these criminals, apologized on behalf of this country for no criminal wrongdoing, and played down the national pride that accompanies the productivity of true Americans. Governor Romney’s clear stance on the matter is to defend our own people, the people of other nations, and to open much-needed employment opportunities in the Department of Defense and elsewhere.
The economy, however, is not my own most significant concern. It is a shameful truth that our most fundamental social structures and personal freedoms are under vicious attack. Our national motto is “In God We Trust”, but we can’t pray publically in schools, nor does our justice system seem to have place for the Bible, or the display of the Ten Commandments. In a world where ”everything is gray” and “good and evil are human abstractions”, you are singled out publically as a vile, sub-human villain if you don’t think like the “open-minded” people saying these things do.
There are a few in the nation concerned about the fact that Governor Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and are ready to vote against him on the basis of religious discrimination, as he is not what some understand to be “Christian”. If Governor Romney is a faithful member of the Church in good standing-and I have full reason to believe that he is-then he is a man who believes that God is our Heavenly Father and that Jesus Christ is His Begotten Son who suffered and performed the Atonement, so that we may be cleansed of our sins and return to live in Eternal glory with Him one day.
He believes that the Holy Bible is a record of God’s dealings with mankind kept by prophets through history, and that The Book of Mormon is also a record of God’s dealings with ancient prophets, that testifies of the validity of the Bible, and which does not add to nor take away from the Revelations of John. He also believes that God calls prophets to mediate between Himself and mankind, that angels minister unto us, and that miracles may be wrought through faith on the name of Jesus Christ. If this is not what one defines as a “Christian”, then I can’t consider that one’s understanding of religion to be credible. Imagine the potential of a President who has the gift of the Holy Ghost and who righteously exercises Priesthood authority.
While missionaries of the Church and other Christian people share the gospel and give people the choice to accept or decline it, there are people who pervert the laws and use intimidation to force others to accept their own world views-all the while trying to tell us that we’re the ones “forcing our beliefs” on to them. In a world of sexual confusion and selfishness in relationships, there are people who want to destroy the family entirely, eliminating distinctions between “father” and “mother” who are both so crucial for the social and emotional development of children, and who seek to force the entire world around them to accept their own concept of what “marriage” is.
If Governor Mitt Romney is true to his word, I can rest easy knowing that at least one part of our government is free from such a gross corruption. If President Obama is re-elected, that peace of mind is gone and we face a near future in which those around us will have legal right to teach our children that their parents are bigots for exercising human society as it has been through all time, and attack our churches and our freedom to make and keep sacred covenants with God because they’re not willing to go against the Eternal truths of a loving Heavenly Father whose sole purpose is to show us how we can have the same joy and power that He does.
It shakes my very frame, if I could but help so much as a single other person to understand how or why this is not only how I think, but why it’s so significant to me, then this work will have accomplished its purpose. If I do not even that, and this worth availed nothing in the end, it has still served its purpose-the freedom to write it and share it at all is something that countless people have suffered and died for us to have, some in uniforms, one of which I wear, and some through standing up through discrimination and even martyrdom to perfect our freedoms. I could not consider myself a worthy citizen of the United States of America if I did not share it.
These analyses and opinions are those of my own self. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the United States Air Force are both expressly neutral and do not endorse or condone any partisan entity. I am receiving no compensation or favors for this work, financial or otherwise, and it is born through only my own efforts.
The President of the United States of America is a unique secular position in the world, because there isn’t such anywhere else in our government, nor in the government of any other nation that carries quite as much interest or attention, domestic as well as international, as it does. The President carries more influence in the government of the most economically, industrially, and socially influential nation on the face of the entire earth than any other single person, and the question of who to fill the seat is therefore one that draws in part from a person’s most core beliefs and understanding of the world.
Upon my own review of the world’s events and the society around me, it’s clear to me that Governor Mitt Romney is indisputably the most qualified person to fulfill this role not only out of this election’s candidates, but perhaps out of every candidate that’s ever sought the position in my lifetime.
Inarguably the most widely discussed issue in the United States today is in the rapidly increasing financial deficit. President Obama has attempted to address this issue with numerous stimuli, “big-government” policies, and disguised tax increases. Through these four years, the minor downturn born from irresponsible spending in the housing sector has spiraled into a debt that’s growing out of control. Who better to address our national debt and decreasing relative employment opportunities than an experienced businessman with a highly successful track record? More jobs, more businesses, and less of the socialist-style governmental influence that’s failed so many of our more “hostile” international neighbors.
One of the fields that President Obama has attempted to curb in extra funds from is the Department of Defense. Between troop withdrawals and vast, sudden downsizing, we’re left with a national defense bereft of the experienced staff to mentor our incoming young enlisted and officers-or what’s left of them and their shaky job security, eliminating tens of thousands of jobs-jobs so desperately sought after, and opening the door to the kind of attacks and destruction we’ve seen in Libya and elsewhere in recent times.
Rather than defend this country and its people overseas, President Obama has excused these criminals, apologized on behalf of this country for no criminal wrongdoing, and played down the national pride that accompanies the productivity of true Americans. Governor Romney’s clear stance on the matter is to defend our own people, the people of other nations, and to open much-needed employment opportunities in the Department of Defense and elsewhere.
The economy, however, is not my own most significant concern. It is a shameful truth that our most fundamental social structures and personal freedoms are under vicious attack. Our national motto is “In God We Trust”, but we can’t pray publically in schools, nor does our justice system seem to have place for the Bible, or the display of the Ten Commandments. In a world where ”everything is gray” and “good and evil are human abstractions”, you are singled out publically as a vile, sub-human villain if you don’t think like the “open-minded” people saying these things do.
There are a few in the nation concerned about the fact that Governor Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and are ready to vote against him on the basis of religious discrimination, as he is not what some understand to be “Christian”. If Governor Romney is a faithful member of the Church in good standing-and I have full reason to believe that he is-then he is a man who believes that God is our Heavenly Father and that Jesus Christ is His Begotten Son who suffered and performed the Atonement, so that we may be cleansed of our sins and return to live in Eternal glory with Him one day.
He believes that the Holy Bible is a record of God’s dealings with mankind kept by prophets through history, and that The Book of Mormon is also a record of God’s dealings with ancient prophets, that testifies of the validity of the Bible, and which does not add to nor take away from the Revelations of John. He also believes that God calls prophets to mediate between Himself and mankind, that angels minister unto us, and that miracles may be wrought through faith on the name of Jesus Christ. If this is not what one defines as a “Christian”, then I can’t consider that one’s understanding of religion to be credible. Imagine the potential of a President who has the gift of the Holy Ghost and who righteously exercises Priesthood authority.
While missionaries of the Church and other Christian people share the gospel and give people the choice to accept or decline it, there are people who pervert the laws and use intimidation to force others to accept their own world views-all the while trying to tell us that we’re the ones “forcing our beliefs” on to them. In a world of sexual confusion and selfishness in relationships, there are people who want to destroy the family entirely, eliminating distinctions between “father” and “mother” who are both so crucial for the social and emotional development of children, and who seek to force the entire world around them to accept their own concept of what “marriage” is.
If Governor Mitt Romney is true to his word, I can rest easy knowing that at least one part of our government is free from such a gross corruption. If President Obama is re-elected, that peace of mind is gone and we face a near future in which those around us will have legal right to teach our children that their parents are bigots for exercising human society as it has been through all time, and attack our churches and our freedom to make and keep sacred covenants with God because they’re not willing to go against the Eternal truths of a loving Heavenly Father whose sole purpose is to show us how we can have the same joy and power that He does.
It shakes my very frame, if I could but help so much as a single other person to understand how or why this is not only how I think, but why it’s so significant to me, then this work will have accomplished its purpose. If I do not even that, and this worth availed nothing in the end, it has still served its purpose-the freedom to write it and share it at all is something that countless people have suffered and died for us to have, some in uniforms, one of which I wear, and some through standing up through discrimination and even martyrdom to perfect our freedoms. I could not consider myself a worthy citizen of the United States of America if I did not share it.
