A bitterly divided Supreme Court vastly increased the power of big business and unions to influence government decisions Thursday by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress.
The ruling reversed a century-long trend to limit the political muscle of corporations, organized labor and their massive war chests. It also recast the political landscape just as crucial midterm election campaigns are getting under way.
In its sweeping 5-4 ruling, the court set the stage for a wave of likely repercussions ? from new pressures on lawmakers to heed special interest demands to increasingly boisterous campaigns featuring highly charged ads that drown out candidate voices.
There have already been calls for a Constitutional amendment (which I agree, we need), as well as a few voices who have had quite frightening reactions. This is our country, and I do not wish to see it descend into Somalia-style fragmentation.
I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them, intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. This is good and pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.... In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy. -- 1 Timothy 2:1-8, NLT
Our nation is under a determined spiritual attack, aided and abetted by an internal apostasy and a descent into dollar-worship centered around helping large corporations (both for-profit and non-profit) to become richer and more powerful. Nine-eleven could have been a positive inflection-point, but instead we see the erosion of individual rights and privacy at the expense of ever more power to corporations. We no longer depend upon God above for guidance in our decisions, but instead we look to "the arm of flesh": lawyers and industry codes of conduct. We no longer depend upon God to amplify our efforts and therefore to grant us success in accomplishing his desires, but instead we depend upon the arm of flesh (government agencies and large, out-of-area corporations [LOOACs]) to make us successful by their own measure.
If this decision means anything, it is that our nation is sick from its head to its feet, and that we must come before God and ask his forbearance (that he not punish us for our wrongdoing) and that his Holy Spirit will cause us to fall on our faces before him and to abandon our own ways.
We have believers offering tacit support to those who would seek to enshrine homosexual marriage in our land. We have believers supporting the slaughter of innocent pre-born babies, simply because their care might inconvenience the mothers. That is not a sign of a tender and obedient heart before God, but of a mind that is so filled with the "Word of the World" that we have absorbed the world's values and priorities. We as believers must get before God and ask him to flush out the world's doctrines and practices. For we can hardly pray for our nation's course to change if we are not willing for our own courses to change.
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