As Holy Week descended across the world, the Trump administration sent a shocking yet refreshing message to Americans, “renew[ing] its promise to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government.”
These words are a welcome sight, especially after the horrors inflicted by the Biden-Harris administration over the previous four years. The United States has always been a nation of faith-based values, and President Donald Trump’s statement embodied that very bedrock of our great country for generations.
Trump’s spiritual message holds significance thanks to his predecessor’s decision to mark Transgender Day of Visibility a year prior on one of the holiest days for the Christian faith — Easter Sunday, when millions of people around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Biden White House released a statement ahead of the day, writing, “On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.”
This proclamation from President Joe Biden was likely the most egregious of his administration, although it was one of many during his term in office that insulted the faith of religious Americans and took aim at the values this nation has held dear since its inception. For the entirety of his administration, Biden led a national push to normalize the radical transgender agenda, which included efforts to allow boys into girls’ bathrooms and sports. His actions went as far as to rewrite federal policies involving the definition of sex, empowering individuals around the country to masquerade in assumed genders that they felt empowered to identify as on any given day.
Biden’s denigration of Holy Week and biologically assigned genders cannot be understated for defenders of American values. Biden committed two cardinal sins when he encroached on Easter Sunday with the Transgender Day of Visibility and spearheaded attempts to change the definition of sex assigned to each individual by his or her Creator. Many Democrats around the country, including Arizona’s Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes, have proudly adopted these radical ideals, promoting them in their states to cement the transformation of our nation’s long-standing values.
The radicalization of America’s value system at the hands of the Biden administration was meant to serve as a permanent affront to the pillars laid so meticulously by our founders. Consider some writings from America’s Founding Fathers.
Samuel Adams said, “And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the scepter of Him who is Prince of Peace.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman who wrote extensively on his perception of the inner workings of the fledgling U.S., noted, “Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
It wasn’t just the Founding Fathers who grounded our nation’s values of a faith in a higher power. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, “I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.”
President Ronald Reagan stated, “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” He added, “Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience … without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”
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In retaking office this January, Trump promised, “We will not forget our country, we will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God.” By uttering this statement, the 45th and 47th president echoed the sentiments of the country’s founders, and many other leaders since, who have acknowledged the existence of a deity and pledged fidelity to faith-based values. It’s important to point out that Trump’s words and actions are not radical, but exactly in line with the founding and subsequent rise of America.
Just as Reagan and other leaders have highlighted over the centuries of America’s existence, our nation will not be able to endure if we do not remain grounded in the faith-based values that have been the cornerstone of this great country. So many Americans are thankful for Trump’s boldness and commitment to reversing the previous administration’s deviation from those values, and we support his efforts to realign the U.S. May God bless Trump and our nation that we love so much, and may we always be faithful to the values that have guided us since our miraculous founding.
Warren Petersen is president of the Arizona Senate and a member of the Republican Party.
