State Of The Union: Alan Keyes Takes Obama To Task For Definition Of Citizen

OBAMA AND RUBIO: NEITHER ACCEPTS GOD'S AUTHORITY

Exclusive: Alan Keyes takes president to task for definition of 'citizen'

By Alan Keyes @ WND

On Tuesday of this week we should have commemorated the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. I spent the day working on an article, since posted on my blog, reflecting on the profound acknowledgment of God?s authority Lincoln bequeathed to the nation in the words of his Second Inaugural Address. I refer, of course, to the famous passage in which Lincoln spoke on the supposition

?? that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, ? and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came. ? Yet if God wills that it continue ? as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said ?the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.??

Tragically for us, though the political spokesmen of our day mention God when it suits their purposes, they never accept the simple logic of God?s authority, as Lincoln did. Their lip-service inevitably reveals their abandonment of the stark premise of true reverence Christ left to us in his prayer to God in the Garden of Gethsemane: ?Not my will but thine be done.? In contrast with Lincoln, the words of our un-statesmanlike politicians always betray the fact that they regard human will as the only real judge, the ultimate arbiter of human affairs.

We see this in Barack Obama?s peculiarly deceitful description of citizenship in the peroration of his State of the Union Address this week:

?? as Americans we all share the same proud title: We are citizens. It?s a word that?doesn't?just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we?re made. It describes what we believe. It captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations; that our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others; and that well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the next great chapter in our American story.?

Obama has refused to deal candidly with the question of citizenship as it arises in the constitutional provision that raises questions about his own tenure as president of the United States. So it?s more than ironic that Obama should purport to speak as an authority on the meaning of the term. However, he slyly addresses the controversy when he says that the word ?citizen? ? doesn't just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we?re made.? In fact, ?nature? is the word that refers to the way we are made, not ?citizen.? Citizenship is ordinarily an artifact of human law. But according to the Declaration of Independence, the document that declares ?what we believe? as Americans, not human law but ?the laws of nature and of nature?s God? prescribe the way that we are made. Our rights, therefore, do not arise merely from ?obligations to one another and to future generations? but from our obligation to the Creator, whose will has determined the right ordering of our natural and reciprocal human relationships. Nor are our rights simply ?wrapped up in the rights of others.? They derive from the debt that, in our very being, we owe to God, who is the transcendent source of the law that supersedes the artifacts of human will.

CONTINUED HERE:?http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/obama-and-rubio-neither-accepts-gods-authority

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