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comes the ACLU, guns blazing, ready to defend free of charge an organization that promotes the rape of children.
    Too harsh? Not in my view. I have given you the no-spin truth. This is why I am fighting this culture war. This is why there is such conflict in America. Don’t forget Jeffrey Curley—he is one of the main reasons the secular-progressives must be defeated. I truly believe the ACLU and its supporters are extremely dangerous. If these people win the culture war, the United States as we have known it for 230 years will cease to exist. This is the crux of the culture war: saving traditional America from those who want to change the country drastically—not by popular vote, but by judicial fiat.
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    I guess I have always been a traditionalist. As a history major at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, I admired how the Founding Fathers crafted a Constitution that allowed individual achievement to be protected and rewarded. I saw the United States then, and now, as a generous, brave country that has liberated millions of human beings all over the world from tyranny. I admired the discipline and energy of a country that, in a relatively short period of time by historical standards, has become the strongest and most prosperous nation the world has ever seen.
    But it has not been all good. There is no question that slavery and the systematic annihilation of Native American tribes are troubling, and each demands clear-eyed, honest introspection from those who love America. There is no excuse for either. If John Quincy Adams, who defended the rebelling slaves in the famous
Amistad
case, knew enslaving human beings for profit was an abomination, then Thomas Jefferson and George Washington should have known. And I believe they did. But the Virginians put their own economic security and comfort above justice. Washington owned more than three hundred slaves and they helped make him rich. Jefferson was also a slave owner, despite denouncing the institution as “the most unremitting despotism.” Both Washington and Jefferson demonstrate the fallibility that every one of us carries.
    The failings of America’s great leaders mirror the failings of all human beings. All of us are sinners. But most sinners are also fundamentally good people, and so it is with America. It is a noble country, a place where 300 million citizens have more freedom than anywhere else in the world. Trust me. I’ve been to sixty countries; I know what I’m talking about.
    So I believe we must strive to improve America, but we must also keep faith with the basic tenets of Judeo-Christian philosophy and competitive capitalism that the country was founded on. That’s why I march under the banner of traditionalism. The brilliant men who forged the Constitution understood that Americans should have the opportunity to pursue happiness without government interference. They also believed for both moral and practical reasons that the greater good must always take precedence over individual selfishness.
    Pursuant to that end, the Founders acknowledged that religion and spirituality could be effective bulwarks against anarchy and crime, so they encouraged a society “under God.” But now all of that has been rejected by the secular-progressive movement, which holds that a widespread belief in a higher power is one of the causes of social injustice. In S-P land, “under God” is now “under legal review.”
    You would think the S-Ps would not have a prayer (sorry) of imposing their agenda on America. After all, the polls show that most Americans are traditionalists and the secular-progressives are heavily outnumbered. In fact, when polled, some 84 percent of Americans describe themselves as “Christians,” and whenever things like gay marriage are put on the