The role of religion and faith in politics is a topic that few people want to discuss. As someone who has worked in sales and customer service throughout his career, I have been encouraged to avoid religious and political topics. Combining the two is a recipe for trouble. However, I believe that religious and faith groups must be active in forming political parties, electing people who reflect their faith, and in doing so, influencing the laws by which this nation is governed. This is not only for their benefit, but also for the benefit of America as a whole. The Great Experiment known as the United States of America began with a group of revolutionaries opposing a tyrannical king. When they wrote the Declaration of Independence, I'm not sure they could have imagined the course of events that brought us to where we are today. Their ideas and their words are so twisted that I am not sure they will want to claim them today. Twice, in the first two sentences of the Declaration of Independence, our ancestors referred to God as a driving force in our quest. He recognizes that there is a "station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them" and "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." Fast forward a little over 200 years and you have a vocal minority who, at best, claim not to refer to a God of a specific faith and, at worst, pretend it doesn't even exist. When you look at the group of men who made up the First Continental Congress I believe you can put to rest the idea that our founding fathers were anything but Christian in their beliefs. In his article, Faith and The American Founding, Michael Novac discusses that in the middle of the article, claiming to be pro-life but not wanting to provide medical care to the mother, or defending the gospel message social while ignoring God's moral absolutes in favor of radical moral relativism. Like Israel, America can once again enjoy God's protection and be a beacon to the rest of the world. A nation that does not tolerate a child going to sleep hungry. A nation where a mother must choose between shopping and taking her child to the doctor. A nation where our grandparents can't afford their blood pressure and diabetes medications, and only take their Toprol XL every other day to save money. The only way to do this is to be Christian in our actions and not just in name. By not settling for the lesser evil and instead demanding leaders who are accountable to the covenant we made over 200 years ago..