PA Pro Life Federation Dinner

I had the pleasure of attending the PA Pro-Life Federation Dinner last night. The speaker was Rick Santorum. Mr. Senatorum made me remember some key aspects of being an American. To better remember them I reread the Declaration of Independence last night. I remembered that in declaring our independence from England we stated that:
* All men are created equal
* Our Creator has endowed us with inalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
* Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

We long ago defined men as humans in our law (not gender or race).

We have forgotten some very important parts of the these three points. These equal humans include those born and unborn and sick and imperfect. One of the inalienable rights is the right to Life. And finally, that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.

We must reclaim these attributes of being an American. We can no longer consent to a government that tells us that our lives may be inconvenient or too expensive to allow them to start or continue.

We must not allow our government to tell us what is good enough for what we are or who we are in the delivery of our health care.

We must not consent to government by those who read polls that state that over 50% of Americans are Pro-Life or that over 70% of Americans are against government control of our health and our health care system, and yet dismisses us as too scared or stupid to know what we really want.

We must not continue to consent to the patronizing attitudes of liberal or conservative politicians who do not respect the people who elect them or the system in which they serve.

We must reclaim these attributes of being an American on November 2nd. Do not compromise and do not consent to allowing those who do not respect us and our system of government to continue to govern us.