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Will you stand with the unborn? Real Heroes Standing in the Gap.
On January 20, I had the honor to stand on the chilly grounds of the U.S. Capitol and watch as history was being made.
As the 55th Inauguration of a President of the United States unfolded before me and thousands of other Americans, it was hard not to think of the hope and promise that the first President, George Washington, must have felt for the new republic that he would lead. This reminded me of the hope that we pro-lifers have today for our nation and its unborn children.
History has brought us to a time when hope is rife that we can change our laws and our culture so that they protect every precious life, as promised in the Declaration of Independence. Could this be the time in history when the promises of our nation's founding documents are finally fulfilled?
As I was thinking about this, a truly amazing thing happened. On a large viewing screen, I could see the leader of one of the institutions charged with protecting those precious rights, the U.S. Supreme Court, begin to walk down the long series of stairs just inside the Capitol Building.
For most people, this would not be a remarkable feat. But for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who has been fighting what is thought to be a particularly aggressive form of thyroid cancer, it was an act of sheer willpower.
Chief Justice Rehnquist, absent from the court in recent months because of his illness, had said he wanted to administer the oath of office to the President. So he willed himself down those stairs, and then using a cane, but with no human hand to help him, walked purposefully across the platform to perform his constitutional duty.
I thought it was fitting that Chief Justice Rehnquist would go to such lengths to stand and do his duty, just as he has stood for so many years for the Constitution - - the real Constitution as written and understood by those who wrote it and amended it, not the "constitution" as kidnapped by justices eager to substitute their policy preferences for what the Constitution actually says.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Will you stand with the unborn? Real Heroes Standing in the Gap.