Two seats down from him sat former President Clinton. A man who sought to bring down standards as they related to homosexual activity in our nation's military. He did not seek effective responses to the minimum of three related major terror attempts against American interests on his watch. He did not seek to strengthen the education of our youth, the safety of the womb, nor the sanctity of the home. And worse yet, when he should have been meeting with military advisers to adopt effective strategies against al-Qaida, he was instead being "serviced" by interns in the "people's office."
Yet to the churchgoers gathered to commemorate Coretta King, the one who makes a laughingstock of his faith, cheats on his wife, advances the cause of the most unbiblical of behaviors, and was too busy "gettin' busy with it" to defend his nation got a rousing ovation that lasted for minutes.
Everyone focused on the comments that were uttered by Rev. Joseph Lowery and former President Carter, but those were easy enough to see through. The telling deception was in the treatment of a good president who spends his waking hours asking God for wisdom in what to do next, and the treatment of the former president who seems to live as though God is the last thing on his mind.
How embarrassing, how sad, how pathetic.
If this is the temperature of the nation in our struggle against Islamic fascism – much less the measure of our will for morality today – we indeed are a nation deserving of not just our removal of God's favor, but actual destruction.