General Boykin’s comments reflect the experiences of many life and family warriors
Image via Wikipedia October 12, 2011 - The comments of Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin at the Value Voters Summit accurately reflect what very many pro-family leaders have experienced for years as they have valiantly struggled to defend traditional family life and sexual morality . This has especially been the case regarding abortion, but even more so on the issue of homosexuality. Religious leaders have mostly been strangely, even ominously, silent or ineffective, if not even hostile, while faithful lay men and women have endured persecution for standing up for what the religious leaders should have been leading. This is no small problem. It is proving to be near catastrophic to our social, moral and even political order as traditional freedoms of religion and conscience and even democracy itself are being gradually swept away. One thing is very much needed: the faithful have got to pray more for their religious leaders. But also - which far too many resist - there is a great n