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November 06, 2008
My
dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
We
have lost this battle, but the spiritual war rages
on, and we are on the victorious side!
We
take comfort in the results of the constitutional
amendments. But there is much work to be done. At
the least, this election should have awakened us,
and should bring us out of our comfort zones. We realize
that even the enemy is within CFC-FFL, with some of
our sisters using contraceptives, with some of our
young favoring the pro-abortion candidate. God already
chastised us for our infidelities, resulting in a
great crisis in 2007 that almost destroyed CFC. But
out of that has emerged a remnant, restored to its
authentic charism. Hopefully we have learned the lessons
of Lamentations. Hopefully we will truly strive to
grow in holiness. Hopefully we can become even more
focused on what God wants of us.
God
has already made clear our mission, the mission of
the restored CFC. Our mission is to renew the family
and to defend life. FAMILY and LIFE. These are the
two most important areas of mission today, throughout
the whole world, but especially in America. Let us
give all of ourselves to God and to His work. And
let us fully trust in Jesus and the victory that he
has already won.
God
bless you all. God bless America.
frank
The
People Have Spoken
In
the weeks ahead, there will be plenty of speculation
about the kind of change Americans are seeking. On
election night, however, there was one issue where
voters refused to bend-traditional marriage. In an
emotional battle that was fought on the soil of three
different states, Americans dug in their heels on
man-woman marriage and declared that this "new
direction" did not apply to the family. In the
most watched ballot initiatives of the year, pro-marriage
forces scored an overwhelming victory-winning all
three constitutional amendments in convincing fashion.
In Florida, where conservatives faced the steepest
climb, voters surpassed the 60% majority they needed,
crossing every racial, age, party, and religious line
in the process. Seventy-one percent of African-Americans
and 68% of Hispanics, many of them drawn to the polls
by a man who supports a redefinition of the family,
raised their flags high in support of traditional
marriage.
And
they were not alone. These same trends continued in
Arizona, where marriage was finally enshrined in the
state's constitution with 57% of the vote. But it
was California, which Obama carried 61% to 36%, that
held off the state's wealthy liberal foes in the most
expensive social issues campaign in U.S. history to
preserve marriage for the entire country. By 52% to
48%, they vowed that it would be the people of California-not
its radical courts-who would ultimately define marriage.
Unfortunately,
not every effort was successful. Connecticut's hope
of convening a constitutional convention to decide
the issue failed. Fifty-six percent of Arkansas voters,
however, did manage to safeguard the welfare of children
by passing a ban on all unmarried couple (homosexual
and heterosexual) adoptions. Although the pro-life
measures fared far worse (South Dakota's abortion
ban, Colorado's personhood amendment, and Michigan's
unethical stem cell measure were all defeated), it
did prove to the nation that Americans are capable
of debating these issues without the courts' interference.
Neither the federal government nor the judicial branch
should play a defining role in these social questions
that the Constitution provides for the people to decide.
While
the outcome was not what pro-lifers had hoped, it
was important for South Dakotans to engage in this
conversation. We must find consolation in the fact
that our nation remains closely divided on these issues,
and that we debate them and resolve them as a people.
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