Dr. Skousen took that approach I think because he despaired at being able to wake even members of the Church who SHOULD already know better to the danger of our present national course. Church members have no excuse for supporting socialism and irresponsible debt accumulation in any form. We, alone of all people on the earth, have been taught that the Constitution is of divine origin, and yet most are completely ignorant of the blatant warfare that has been waged on the Constitution by our own politicians. We now have the anti-Constitution party (the Democrats) and the semi-anti-Constitution party (the Republicans). There is not ONE Democrat at the national level that isn't overtly hostile to true Constitutional principles, and most of the R's are too.

I can't accept that it's time to just sit and pray for the end or "cleansing". Previous generations abandoned the Constitution, and that means that the road back will be difficult and painful, but it doesn't mean it's impossible. I have to believe that while there are increasing numbers of Americans willing to sell themselves and their children into slavery, there are also growing numbers who are coming to understand the evil being done and are not willing to "go quietly..."

Mark Steyn is one of my favorite authors and his latest essay is a must read: http://www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/Page_4221/ImprimisApril09.pdf