@GadSaad I'm all for it as immigration policy, but as a Christian, freedom of religion is all important to me. It's why my ancestors came here from Germany 300 years ago. How do you deal with Muslims and not shred the Constitution?
@GadSaad Genuine question: is there a way to keep constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion, while dealing with a homegrown Islamic threat to our democracy?
@miles_commodore I hate to say it, because up until recently I never thought it was a big deal, but the change has come through uncontrolled immigration! We're not the same people we were. And it's not as simple as a race thing. It's people coming here to destroy us.
@oliverhenry@LibertyLynx Freedom is under attack world-wide right now, even here in the States! The people who made your experience here so memorable are a tribute to, and a feature of, that freedom and the sense of gratitude from those who have it! Freedom's worth fighting for, so fight hard! 🇺🇲
So were mine. I know their names and where they’re buried.
However…
Their descendant is free. He has an education. He worked a job making people safe. He bought a house. He has a family. He can read and write. He can walk around wherever he wants. He takes care of himself, his family, and his neighborhood.
My ancestors would be proud of me and the country I live in. They would be proud of the progress that was made. They would be proud of the freedoms we all have today.
You’re mad just for the sake of being mad. I’m happy and free because that’s what I am.
“Now, are we a people or are we an idea? We’re both. That’s the honest answer. We are a people with a story, a language, a history — and we are a creed that anyone can join. That’s the miracle of it. A Taiwanese boy eats his first cheeseburger and decides he’s moving to the country that invented it, and twenty-five years later, he’s a citizen, married to an American, and an ordained minister standing before his church thanking God for 250 years of this nation. He loves this country more than the tenured cynics who were born here and can’t stand it. I’ll take a thousand of him. When you bind yourself to the ideal, you become one of the people. No other country on earth has ever really offered that. To this day, none does.”
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“And what about our sins? Slavery was the original sin, and I won’t sand it down. The founders knew it. Jefferson knew it, and he owned slaves — the hypocrisy was staring right at them, and they kept kicking the can down the road. But here is what a poisoned telling of our history leaves out: the New England colonies began rejecting slavery before England itself did. And when the reckoning finally came, hundreds of thousands of men died on battlefields to make other men free. “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,” read the original lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. That’s propitiation. One man suffers so others go free. A nation that will bleed that much to right its own wrong is not an evil nation. It is a great one, straining toward becoming a more perfect one. We had a black president. We had a black vice president. Our Secretary of State is the son of Cuban refugees. Anyone telling you the story that nothing here ever gets better is selling you something.”
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