This issue touches everybody in a powerful way it really does. Think about
this if everyone of us wasn't given the gift of life we wouldn't be here. In the
prayer we just heard, the prayer for justice, I would submit to you I mean
does our nation deserve the justice we pray for if we continue to kill children
for the inconvenience that they might bring to our lives? It's just sad. It
isn't just because of poverty... sometimes it's because of gender, sometimes it's
because of a physical malady, that the fear that this child might have.
There are people here, including dear friends, who I have seen time and time
again at this rally a year in and year out, who suffer physical setbacks that
some of us don't but who live productive and valuable in inspiring lives. Shame on
us as a nation. It isn't just thousands a year, it's thousands a day, thousands a
day, about 3,000 children a day in America that we decide are somehow not
relevant enough, not important enough, not desired enough by us to allow them the
same gift that our mothers gave to us and we wonder why when we see what has
been happening in our culture, we wonder why these things are happening. I have
said recently, and this wasn't my intent to have this conversation with you, but
I'm gonna speak to you about it anyway and I hope you understand why. We see
these tragic shootings, we see young people taking the lives of other young
other young people in schools in this state, and in other states, and we're
angry and we're upset and we're confused. We want answers, we're outraged
appropriately at this sudden unexpected loss of young life and yet thousands of
young lives are taken every day and where's the outrage? Where's the outrage?
It's not to say we shouldn't be outraged when it happens in schools we should. We
should be. We have every reason to be, but there's no one life
that's more valuable than the next. Every one of us is created in the image of God
that's evident, so why should we care more or less about one life over another?
We wonder in a culture where we allow, and in many instances some celebrate, the
taking of lives before they're born and why we're in a culture where we allow, in
many states, an increasing number of them for people many of whom are, have looked
like some of you in this room, who are on the latter end of life, and we allow
governor or we allow, you know governors and legislators have allowed doctors in
those states, doctors who have taken a Hippocratic oath to first and above all
to preserve human life, to protect human life and yet we now have doctors taking
the lives before they're born and we have doctors at the tail end helping
people to kill themselves when they get old. We have multiple states where
assisted suicide by doctors is now the law. What are we doing as a society? Where
is our respect for the sanctity and the dignity and the value of every single
human life? Not just in Kentucky... in America, in the world...where is our
respect for human life? Do we deserve justice when we are as unjust as we are?
That's the question we need to ask ourselves. It isn't to lay blame or point
fingers this is just an honest question we should ask because when we don't
value life, at the beginning or the end, or when it's inconvenient along the way...
when we celebrate actually the opposite in lyrics of songs and in games that
children play and movies that we watch and television shows that we watch, when
we celebrate the opposite of life rather than rallying for life, we celebrate
death. Popular shows when some of us were kids
were shows like Mayberry. We remember that , now not
exactly didn't win a lot of, you know I don't know it wasn't you know
intellectually deep, but it was, but it was , you know, it was wholesome it wasn't
there was nothing wrong with it. It was, here's the thing now that a 12
year old that might have known that you know Opie or you know Barney were up to
some kind of shenanigans that might have been fifty years ago something a twelve
year old would be talking about at school, now a twelve year old is in
school and they're talking about somebody with a, with a baseball bat
wrapped in barbed wire ripping somebody's face off in a
television show that they're all watching. That's the kind of stuff and
it's on their TVs every single day and on their personal devices every day. It's
not a "rally for life" it's a culture of death. That's the reality, that is what's
happening in America. And we're numb to it. How many of you had occasion to watch
the Olympics? A lot of you. Here's to show you how numb we are to this: I'm not
gonna name the company because that's not my intent here but there is a
company that was a sponsor and that had a new set of advertisements, a new set of
ads that they were using that they rolled out. First time I'd seen them was
during the Olympics. It was a national sandwich chain and they had this new
little edgy kind of little videos and sound track encouraging people to make
sandwiches their own way and to do it their way. And I know they're children here
and so forgive the fact but here was the lyric at the end. This is, when this ran all of us watched it and I
wonder if any of you noticed what I noticed. It was this kind of frenetic little "Di-Di-DI-Di-Di-Di-Di" there was a
soundtrack and there was music playing. This was on all... on the weekends, in
the evenings when families are watching the Olympics and it was about making
your sandwiches your own way which is great... we're Americans, we love to do
things our own way that's what we do, but at the end of it and granted it was
bleeped out, but the last line of that ad that was jammed into every one of the
homes that was watching the Olympics was a line the last line of which was
do what the BLEEP you want. I bet you didn't even notice it. The reason you didn't
notice it is because we have become numb to it. We have a culture that is telling
young people you can do what the BLEEP you like, we don't value life at the front
end, we don't value life at the back end, we as parents have abdicated our
responsibility for instruction, our schools have had removed from them the
ability to provide the instruction that we were given, we have people outside
this state who are suing this state and other states for the fact that people
are praying before a football game and cowing people into removing God from the
public square in any sense of morality and responsibility and telling young
people you can do what you want and what you want doesn't matter if it affects
someone else because none of this matters because life doesn't matter,
and then we're shocked when young people walk into a school and kill other young
people? Really? How are we shocked? We are reaping what we have sown. We are reaping
what we have sown. I'm grateful that you're here to celebrate life. How
blessed we are to be able to be here, as was noted, to celebrate life. But if we as
the adults in this room, if we as the leaders of this state and of this nation,
if we don't take seriously the responsibility we have individually and
collectively for preserving and protecting this culture we will see it
crumble into oblivion. We have a responsibility as adults to protect our
young people. We have a responsibility to protect them physically, we have a
responsibility to protect them emotionally, we have a responsibility,
frankly, to protect their innocence and we have seen a degradation of all the
above in large measure because we
have become apathetic. And it is the greatest danger we have, and the reason
that things like the culture of death that has led to the killing of millions,
50-plus million, since we legalized the ability to kill an unborn child.
The reason this exists is because we've allowed it to happen.
Nations come and go, they rise and fall, they always have throughout history.
Borders move because of conflict and people fighting , but wars and fighting
don't destroy civilizations and cultures. Civilizations and cultures
crumble from within. They crumble from within and they crumble from within
because we, the adults, the people on the wall, the vanguard, the people in
positions of leadership and responsibility, because we allow it to
happen. This is our responsibility. We have a responsibility. There is no one
rule, one law, one decision that is going to fix what ails us. We didn't get here
overnight, we're not going to get out of it but we're not going to get out of it
at all overnight or otherwise if we don't step up. And we owe these young
people that are sitting on the floor here and other young people that are
gathered around and up above, and the young people that are not here in this
rotunda some semblance of the America that we were blessed to be given and we
have a responsibility. So we better step up, because it is the luxury we have in
America of being so comfortable and so wealthy and so blessed on so many fronts
that we can afford to not care and that's what we're doing. We're stopped, we
stopped our caring. We need to look out for our young people, we need to look out
for one another, we need to love our neighbor as ourselves, we need to do unto
others as we would have done to ourselves.
These are remarkably timeless. It's as almost as if the source of those is from
some authority higher than our own... imagine that. Imagine that
In a nation like ours that was founded on these principles, that was made great
on these principles, that still, despite the underpinnings starting to crumble,
stands on these principles, is in danger of collapsing for lack of respect and
appreciation in a rigorous defense of these principles. So I would ask every
single man, woman, and child, frankly, underneath this dome, everybody who's
watching this, everybody that might listen to this, go out of there, go out of
this place with a renewed sense of vigor, and enthusiasm, and encouragement to do
what's right. I pray for my children for two things: I pray that my children will
know the difference between what is right and what is wrong. It's not easy
for you young people, the world is sending you a lot of mixed messages and
on these, whether it's sandwiches or blue jeans or anything else we're sending you
a whole lot of messages about right is wrong and in is out and up is down... it's
nonsense. And it's hard without adults pouring into you and I'm guessing you
probably do or you wouldn't be here, but without adults pouring into you to
tell you otherwise ...Pew recently did a study, a full third of children say they
have no interaction with any of the parents in their home if they even have
parents in their home. Their parents have no idea what they're learning at school
or don't seem to care...that's what a full third of children believe. We're not
doing enough. If we want to rally for life it's more than coming together at one
time, under one rotunda, in one moment to celebrate one issue and then go back to
what we're doing. We had better step up because America is
in trouble. America is in trouble.
Yesterday at this time I was underneath a larger rotunda in Washington D.C. as the
elected officials in the House and in the Senate and all the appointed
administrators in the cabinets, and the President and the Vice-President of the
greatest nation on earth the United States of America were all gathered in a
circle just like this and in the middle of this circle was a simple pine box. And
in that box lay a man who lived 99 years dedicated to the very things we're
talking about, who was unapologetic, and was bold, and was willing to speak
the truth when he was mocked and ridiculed when he was agreed with, or
disagreed with and yet the nation's largest, you know the most powerful
nation on earth and its elected officials were now gathered 24 hours
ago in honor of this man, why? Because he did what I'm asking you to do: he stood
up and he was bold. And I'm asking you to stand up and be bold because the
difference throughout the trajectory of history is more than you might ever know.
I mentioned that I pray for my children that they'll know the difference between
right and wrong but I pray additionally for something
else. It's my prayer and my challenge to each
and every one of you as well, that in addition to knowing the difference
between what's right and wrong, and don't kid yourselves there is right and there
is wrong, and in addition to knowing the difference between what's right and
wrong my prayer for my children is that they will have the courage to do the
right thing. That's the bigger challenge. So often we know what's right, we know it
intuitively. Despite what people in popular culture might tell us, we know
what's right and we know that the abortion industry is an abomination to
America. It is, we know that to be true.
But I will say: to know what's right is sometimes the easiest thing. I pray for
each and every one of you, that you will have the boldness and the conviction and
the willingness to unapologetically stand for what you know to be right. That
you will have not just the ability to discern what's right but that you will
have the courage to do what's right. We owe nothing less to the generation that
is to follow. Thank you very much
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