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Positions and Views on Other Issues where Information is Available: |
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| Values, Religion & Family |
Positions and Views |
| American Values |
Tanner: No Response |
| Religion, a General Statement |
Tanner: No Response |
| Religion & State - First Amendment |
Tanner: No Response |
| Religion in Government |
Tanner: No Response |
| Religious Tolerance |
Tanner: No Response |
| A Candidate's Religious Beliefs |
Tanner: No Response |
| Atheists and Agnostics |
Tanner: No Response |
| Mormon Religion and Polygamy |
Tanner: No Response |
| School Prayer |
Tanner: No Response |
| Ordination of Gay Clergy |
Tanner: No Response |
| Ordination of Women Clergy |
Tanner: No Response |
| Evolution vs. Intelligent Design |
Tanner: No Response |
| Family, a General Statement |
Tanner: No Response |
| Family Values |
Tanner: No Response |
| Faith-Based Volunteer Efforts |
Tanner: No Response |
| Child Care |
Tanner: No Response |
| Foster Care |
Tanner: No Response |
| Adoption |
Tanner: No Response |
| Fatherhood |
Tanner: No Response |
| Child Custody and Support |
Tanner: No Response |
| Child Support Enforcement Budget |
Tanner: No Response |
| Teen Pregnancy |
Tanner: No Response |
| Low-Income First-Time Mothers |
Tanner: No Response |
| Values, a General Statement |
Tanner: Given the advances of medical science and the pace of change in our cultural mores, a brave new world is dawning that threatens to eclipse a foundational principle that sustains our humanity, namely the sanctity of life. Yet even angels fear to tread on existential issues that are in the purview of the Almighty, alone.
If life begins at conception, shouldn't it follow that embryos are sacrosanct? If God claims to know us before He knit us together in the womb, who presumes to usurp this relationship? If marriage and its offspring are a reflection of the triune personhood of God, why would we attempt to sanction its counterfeit? And if the life Giver is also sovereign over death, dare we evoke it before its time?
Perhaps it's the billions pending in matching government funds that animates lobbyists, who plead on behalf of experimentation that has yet to bear fruit. Or maybe it's the hundreds of millions at stake, if the abortion industry were to lose its federal mandate, or the gay lobby was to persuade its constituents to shop elsewhere. Follow the money, and most moral conundrums become clear.
And rather than engage in voter referendum or majority legislation, lobbyists prefer instead to venue-shop for sympathetic courts that will overturn the will of the people. Taken together, it warrants question of judicial legitimacy when the U.S. Constitution is deemed a "living document," and new precedent emerges from thin air to protect privacy rights that the ancients deemed reprobation.
When it comes to humanity's moral imperatives, has the abundance that liberty set in motion - given way to the complacent apathy that Tytler warned of? If the Constitution's framers acknowledged an inalienable right to life, bestowed by the immutable God over the caprice of government, will this generation relent in protecting those innocents bound to die from rights born of expedience?
When writing Democracy in America, historian Alexis de Tocqueville concluded that our na [Response was truncated to maximum response length of 2000 characters.]
Source: Submitted by Roy Tanner Date: 10/16/2006 |
| Prejudice |
Tanner: No Response |
| Indecency in the Media |
Tanner: No Response |
| Media Violence and Sex |
Tanner: No Response |
| Pornography and Adult Oriented Media |
Tanner: No Response |
| Desecration of Flag Constitutional Amendment |
Tanner: No Response |
| Foley Page Scandal |
Tanner: No Response |
| Terri Schiavo |
Tanner: No Response |
| Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide |
Tanner: No Response |
| National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) |
Tanner: No Response |
| Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts |
Tanner: No Response |