Three seemingly unconnected events are taking place in this nation, two on the national scene and one in Arkansas. The conduct of the three and the issues aren’t related except when they are looked at in a particular way which will be revealed at the end.

First, on the national scene, President Bush and a majority of the Senate want to give citizenship to law breakers. The question is why? The Constitution gives to Congress the responsibility to create laws for naturalization which they have done over the years. Never in the wildest dreams of the founders or the lawmakers of  the following years, who had modicum of common sense, would they have countenanced rewarding criminals which are what the illegal inhabitants are, whether Bush or the other poobahs like it or not. The fact they are here illegally makes them prima facie (evidence enough to establish a fact of violation) law violators. How can an illegal refute the fact that he or she is here illegally? Since they can’t, their presence is evidence enough to prove the crime of illegal entry to the nation. But yet, the leaders are trying to reward them with citizenship and all kinds of other benefits that aren’t available to the taxpaying citizens. That last sentence makes sense when it is remembered that those who pay the bill in a socialist system have only one duty; to pay the bills for all those who the government deems to be worthy of sharing through force of law the efforts of others.  

The second national event is the push by homosexuals and their supporters to legalize homosexual marriage. The question is why? The most disturbing part of the scenario is that   leaders of certain churches are abandoning the teachings found in the Bible in attempt to validate that which God says is sin. The next is public officials who are pandering and do as they wish against the will of the people. The proponents of such liaisons claim it is about love, but in God’s teaching homosexual conduct isn’t called love. The quest by homosexuals for acceptance into all areas of life is similar to the “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” mania that swept the nation in the late 60s and 70s. No matter what the nature of the behavior, the doer was okay according to the author. The issue in both of the aforementioned is that God has been declared not applicable to our now enlightened society that embraces sin. When God is allowed in ones life, sin must be admitted.

In Arkansas the death of Janie Ward is being booted around like a football by a bunch of amateurs on a practice field. The cause of death was suspect from the beginning, but no one seems to care to find the truth. The original investigation reads like a Three Stooges caper though one would expect the Stooges to mess it up. The witnesses weren’t interviewed under oath; the evidence was mishandled, including the loss of x-rays; and no one questioned why the deceased showed up in the bed of a pickup truck several hours after the purported time of death. A noted forensic pathologist did an autopsy (which the state opposed) and stated that the death was a homicide. Even though a special prosecutor (who according to Mike Masterson of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette hasn’t done a lick on solving the case) says the death is a homicide, the state continues to resist the change for the cause of death from undetermined to a homicide. The question is why?

Now the fourth question of what is the relationship that links the three events. It is that in all three cases, those who have taken oaths of office and who are in positions of leadership, are refusing to honor that which has been given to them by God (in the case of church leaders) and by the people in the case of the elected and appointed public officials. The word is dereliction of the duty that they have been given to carry out through affirmation of faith (church leaders) and by sworn oath for public officials.

In Sorting It Out, it is apparent that though the commonality of not doing their duty exists, the questions for each section remain unanswered. Not to be redundant, but the question of why remains.  

© 06-04-2006 DEC