Good News

So much sad and depressing news reaches our eyes and ears. We need something upbeat for balance. Here are some recent good news items:

Donald Trump, owner of the Miss USA pageant, stood and defended Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who was first runner-up in this year’s competition. Trump even went so far as to suggest that the very low vote of Perez Hilton, Prejean’s homosexual antagonist over her
support of marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman, may have kept her from being first in the competition. Trump’s solid support of Prejean may have been a factor in the resignation the next day of the woman in charge of California’s state pageant. It turns out she is something of a gay activist. Prejean is an outspoken believer is Christ and unashamed of biblical marriage as God’s norm. Chalk one up for the biblical Christianity, inadvertently supported by Donald Trump.

Then there is the encouraging statistic that for the first time a slight majority of Americans are pro-life, and a commensurate percentage has moved away from pro-choice, which is pro-death. Mike Huckabee pointed out on a talk show that the shift is significantly among younger women. This signals a continuing move in the moral direction that preferential killing of the unborn is tragically snuffing out those created in God’s image.

Further, the mounting protests over President Obama speaking at Notre Dame, a Catholic university whose parent church is vehemently opposed to abortion, shows that the pro-life factions of our society are indeed alive and well. Usually, politicians and courts lag behind the electorate. I hope this is another instance where the politicians and court catch up before God’s judgment falls for ignoring the basic God-given rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

And third, I hope the faint glimmer of returning financial sanity that was heard from President Obama brightens into a streaming shaft of light. Speaking at Arizona State University, he warned that we will not be able to repay the huge debt in coming generations because of mounting interest and possible inability to borrow more money from countries skeptical of our repayment ability. Huckabee also commented on the President’s remarks in Arizona and noted that he hopes the President comes home to Washington and also says that there. We hope so, too. If he does, it may signal a return to sanity in Washington politics which has been absent too long.

Dave Virkler