These people, values and institutions are today ignorant or contemptuous of our Constitution. Without a moral anchor, we're adrift in a sea of immorality, headed toward economic and social chaos. Our law schools are little more than dens of iniquity that nurture and breed the constitutional derelicts we have in Congress, before the bar and on the bench. Ask a lawyer what' s the constitutional authority for govern- ment's imposing obligations on some to provide entitlements for others. There you sit with three of a kind, and I say my pair of aces wins because Hoyles's rules, our poker constitution, have been adapted to the complexities of my life.
Churches are equally contemptuous of constitutional and moral principles.
Ministers and bishops descend on Congress to lobby for social spending. They differ little from other Washingtom hustlers who beg and promise constituent votes as means to persuade congressmen to use the power of their office to confiscate that which rightfully belongs to one American and give it to those the ministers think should have it. While your bishop or minister may support government welfare, food-stamp and housing programs, ask him if he supports the methods whereby government obtains the resources. Ask him whether he can show the Christian basis for using force to take what belongs to one person to give to another. If it's OK in his book for government to do it, ask him what does he think of it being done privately.