With the (hopefully) continuing maturity of our republic in mind, and considering my ardent, if breathless, advocacy in defense of the rule of law and the rights of two mature adults to love as they see fit, I’m left to consider the larger question:
Have we reached that point in our common history as a nation where civic self-preservation demands that we rightly refrain from indulging our national inclination to partisanship and cynicism, they having become luxuries we can no longer afford.
This is not a call for yet another “red state” – “blue state” dichotomy. Instead, it’s a quiet contemplation into our individual roles (and responsibilities) in keeping our government honest . . . and healthy.
We are, each of us, the checks and balances . . .
“. . . that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
From Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, November 19th, 1863
© 2008 Renée Thomas all rights reserved
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