President Obama has done this nation a great service by exposing the chasm between him and people of faith so starkly. Recent polls already showed the less religious a person is, the more likely they are to vote for Obama. Now, embracing gay marriage and calling for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, he has made the issue crystal-clear.
My biggest worry about Obama is the volume of regulations coming out of Washington, imposing on this country the "soft-despotism" of regulations written by unelected staff. Regulations come at a double cost. The cost of compliance is an indirect tax because those costs are always paid by consumers. The direct tax is the cost of enforcement. Furthermore, we bear the burden of overturning regulations that overreach. It is a devious way to enact a political agenda, unaccountable and out of the limelight, and I would hate to see his administration get another four years of such regulatory merry-making.
Now, Obama's opposition to moral values stands exposed. This ought to unite not only the right, but an even larger block of social conservatives who oppose the efforts of the far left to make homosexuality appear normal and acceptable.
Richard Smurthwaite
Bountiful