A Prayer for the Bridgeport Lincoln Day Dinner

I was elated when Mike Garrett asked me to give the blessing. I will say a short prayer in my mind that he doesn't regret asking.

In any event, I have recently found renewed faith so it's fitting that I deliver the blessing.

But before that I want to give context as to why we are here today. We are the Republican Party of Bridgeport. We stand together in an effort to help guide our society in the right direction.

A group of men hundreds of years ago did the same thing, we call them our founders. The were deeply faithful people. They constructed a country based on Judeo-Christian ideology. They recognized that if we were to create a country rooted in Natural Law which is also God's Law, that our country would prosper and it did.

So they also said: All men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. And that Governments are instituted among men to defend these rights.

Thou Shalt not Kill (Life),
Thou Shalt not Covet (Liberty)
Thou Shalt not Steal (Pursuit of Happiness or Property)

John Adams perhaps the founder most deeply rooted in his God. Said this:

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free."

As John Adams said, protection of our property is the most important role of government.

C.S. Lewis a preeminent defender of God wrote these words:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his greed may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

My prayer for us today is that we learn the righteousness of protecting property. Also that we learn that some Americans need to be liberated from an oppressive government which denies them the American Dream.

We ask our Lord to hear our request to be modern day abolitionist as we defend property from a hungry government. We ask that He give us the strength, the language and the courage to help liberate the oppressed.

Please also Lord, bless the food we are about to receive.