Morals in Politics?

I was amazed that much of last nights Republican debate in New Hampshire was about moral issues.  It seems that the media personalities hired to ask the questions stay on some issues involving morals for a long time. 

I find it fascinating that moral people are often made fun of in the media today, yet when it comes to the president of the United States, it's a big deal. Some of the most highly charged issues are moral issues even war comes back to a person's world view and belief system. Last night there were questions on contraceptives, abortion, homosexual marriage, and the implication of gays adopting children.  It would appear the Republicans are solid on some of these issues, and of course that would fall in line with the Republican platform.  Our society's moral foundation however has been under assault for the past 50 years since the 60's when everything was being questioned.  Education and entertainment have been the two entities in our culture who have taken the lead in making changes in our moral code.  Educators have questioned the existence of God, and entertainment has taken a license to implement models of lifestyle that appeal to a sex crazed world of no moral restrictions. We have glorified sex without commitment, and have established same sex marriage as an equal alternative to heterosexual unions. Divorce no longer has a stigma of moral failure, and abortion isn't even considered in a moral category, it is a right. 

So was all the questioning last night at the debates about morals or was it about rights?  We have set ourselves up with a new definition about morals.  We have now implemented that it is a moral right to have rights, even if those rights are morally incomprehensible to what the Bible teaches. In society, our standards of moral fiber do not come from our religious beliefs as much as they do from our education, and what society has set up as an entitlement of rights. The morals in any civilization come from a belief structure, and if that belief structure is in God, morals become the foundation of that society. A moral society is what is best for everyone, and it provides safety and structure for what is right or wrong. The entitlement of rights at the present time wants gay marriage, and what would happen if the next stage of this entitlement is sex with children, or making incest legal?

When you begin to unwravel the Biblical moral code, you will end up with no moral code and gain the entitlement to sin at will, without no restraints or laws against bad behavior. 

So are politics moral?  One has to ask the question, what makes politics moral?  And why are the questions asked of candidates have a moral implication to them?  It's because everything we do in government has a moral foundation to it.  If we govern a nation in righteousness which is good for everyone, there has to be a standard by which governance is based.  In the past the Bible, and it's moral code has been that standard, but today, this foundation is under attack, and a new entitlement of rights has become our the new standard. 

Newt Gingrich made a comment last night that I think is worth noting. He fired back at the media and the government who he accused of having a war with religion.  That war is about taking away the rights of religious entities from ministering to the public who do not agree with the government policies on gay rights, abortion or other moral issues.  He is right, and a government that becomes this powerful and invasive in this manner is a government that needs an overhaul.

Keeping it honest and truthful....K

Proverbs 14:34

³⁴Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.