I am responding to the most recent but frequent accusation that many of us, in exercising our political rights as citizens, are "one-issue" people.
The charge is true, and we stand convicted. However, our one issue is not that we are "pro-life" or "pro-marriage amendment," our one issue is that we are "pro-prosperity and success" for all people everywhere, including ourselves and our fellow citizens.
The basis for our one issue is our belief in recorded history, which shows over and over again that "blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord." The Founding Fathers of our nation obviously believed this too, as witnessed in their many writings.
In the Old Testament, the Lord told Joshua to think about his recorded words day and night, so that he would then be careful to do according to all that was written, with this promise following: "For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success." In the New Testament, the Lord put it this way, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things (other necessities of life) shall be yours as well."
We therefore believe that not only for our own well-being, but for the prosperity and success of our nation, that we should stand for and vote in accordance with what the one who claims to be the God of all the earth has revealed as "right in his eyes."
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The recorded history of the nation of Israel shows that when they ignored what was right in God's eyes and instead did what was right in their own eyes, they did not prosper or have success. And the consequences that they experienced because of their wrong choices are not something we want for ourselves or our nation. (See the book of Judges for that history.)
Our standing and voting in agreement with this one issue has not made our nation a theocracy, but a prosperous and successful "republic ... one nation, under God," like we say in our Pledge of Allegiance.
Lyle H. Nelson
New London
