I keep hoping any day now that I’ll wake up and this will have been just a bad dream:

• The new Secretary of State tells a congressional hearing, when asked about former VP Cheney, “”It won’t surprise you that I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source;”
• President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists – but he ordered their release anyway;
• A gay man asks – against the rules of the pageant – a politically-charged question in a direct effort to derail a potential winner he disagrees with;
• Seventeen-year-olds will soon be able to buy the “morning after” emergency contraceptive without a doctor’s prescription, after the Food and Drug Administration bowed to a federal judge’s order Wednesday;
• In less than 100 days, our new president has apologized on three continents for what he views as the sins of America and his predecessors.

Everyday we are bombarded with decisions by incompetent politicians, rogue social activists who think they speak for people they don’t, dictators whose threats go unchallenged … and where is the CHURCH? Where are our religious leaders? Why are they silent? I understand that pastors can’t risk their non-profit status by preaching politics from the pulpit. But our religious leaders need to step up and join the fight by identifying the playing field … and get in the game!