The Freedom To Succeed

Is Romney as good as some of us thought he was when he appeared on the scene as a presidential contender?  Is Donald Trump as bad as Romney says he is?  We now have almost four years to evaluate the scenario. As to a key issue, we see that Trump holds a clear pro-life anti-abortion on-demand public policy position and Romney never could articulate his stance so that people knew where he stood. As a Latter-day Saint and an American, I desire the benefits of freedom for my family's religious expression and the blessings of liberty for all people.  This opportunity is unique in many ways to America. The US constitution is unique from all others in the world.  It was designed to preserve the ideals benefits of freedom and individual liberty. Their efforts have been substantially proven to work for some 240 years.  Wise prophets have commented for centuries that any threat to the principles of the constitution, and the freedoms and the country it has established, would come from within

The platforms of the candidates for president of the United State represent  very distinct ideology.  Joe Biden represents a culture that supports abortion on demand as a central component and societal right. The platform is one of growing government control of our lives. It isn't the party of JFK as some say. Donald Trump represents a culture of respecting the life giving process and the liberty and pursuit of happiness that is at the foundation of our freedoms. It isn't the same Republican party of yesteryear and his disrupting influence has upset some of the establishment. It is known and been discussed that Donald Trump, like many of his predecessors and I suppose millions of others, had extra-marital affairs where adultery was involved. How long ago was his last incident and to what extent is he pursuing such now?  It would seem based on what little I know about it 12-15 years ago. It isn't like Bill Clinton's carrying on in the White House while he lived there. Ha

Pope Francis in November 2014 at the colloquium on marriage and the family opened with this statement: “We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment. This revolution in manners and morals has often flown the flag of freedom, but in fact it has brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. … It is always they who suffer the most in this crisis.” In referring to those of the rising generation, he said it is important that they “do not give themselves over to the poisonous [mentality] of the temporary, but rather be revolutionaries with the courage to seek true and lasting love, going against the common pattern”; The movements of sexual freedom have sought to establish the idea that it is not the governments business or anyone's for that matter what two people do in the privacy of their own bedroom. It is however the combined effects o