Newt Gingrich warns U.S. at risk of atheism and radical Islam
Posted: March 29, 2011.
Print: CBS News
Former Speaker of the House and probable 2012 presidential candidate declares:
“I have two grandchildren—Maggie is 11, Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they’re my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”
A longer article about Gingrich’s speech to an evangelical church, from Politico, is worth reading.
Excerpt from that article:
Gingrich said he hadn’t intended to fight another political battle, and was looking forward to relaxing in private life after leaving public office. But in 2002, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the phrase “under God” in the pledge of allegiance was unconstitutional (the ruling was later overturned). “I had been watching the courts grow steadily more secular and steadily more anti-religious starting with the 1963 school prayer decision,” he said. “But for some reason this particular decision struck me as so blindingly stupid, so profoundly un-American.”
Gingrich has turned to religion with missionary zeal in recent years, producing two documentaries and a book. He launched nonprofit organization whose goal is to “preserve America’s Judeo-Christian heritage,” and filled its board with evangelical leaders. Renewing American Leadership’s political arm recently raised thousands of dollars to help fund a successful campaign that denied retention three Iowa Supreme Court justices who struck down a ban against same-sex marriage in the state.
“they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists..”
How very contradictory
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