Who We Are

One of the most ridiculous arguments I have heard used against President Bush throughout his presidency is that he is too religious. Every time the president makes a remark about The Almighty or the strength that he finds through his faith, the liberal establishment jumps to their feet in indignation. "More and more this country is becoming a theocracy," they say, somehow convinced that the president's faith or openness in talking about God is without precedent. In fact, every U.S. president from Washington to Bush has acknowledged religion in one way or another. President Clinton talked about "our purposes to the Almighty," in the opening sentences of his inaugural speech, while President Franklin Roosevelt was the first to have an invocation at his inaugural.

The argument that President Bush's open expression of faith is slowly breaking down the walls that separate church and state is simply an excuse for fringe elements on the left to further their efforts to remove God from American life. Uncomfortable in their own beliefs, they are trying to take away the rights of the rest of America to express theirs. To do this is wrong, for denying the acknowledgement of a higher being is to deny who we are as Americans altogether. This country was founded on the basis that we are endowed with certain rights by our creator, and as much as they may try, the fringe left can't do anything to change that.