Mark DeMoss, a prominent, republican evangelical Christian (goes by the Gospel), in January of 2009, initiated the ‘Civility Project”. (CivilityProject.org) The Project was a letter sent out to each sitting governor and member of the Congress to sign a pledge that stated:
1. I will be civil in my public discourse and behavior
2. I will be respectful of other whether or not I agree with them.
3. I will stand against incivility when I see it.
He created this pledge in reaction to an increased violent tone in American Politics. Many today are wondering if this same tone contributed to the shooting of Congresswoman Gifford and many innocent victims in Tucson, Arizona this past week. Following the incident, many liberals across the nation accused Sarah Palin’s rhetoric of causing this assassination attempt by Jared Loughner.
After 2 years and $30,000 in expenses to send out 585 letters, only Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, Representative Frank Wolfe of Virginia and Representative Sue Myrick of North Carolina have signed the pledge.
Mr. DeMoss said, “I must admit to scratching my head as to why only three members of Congress, and no governors, would agree to what I believe is a rather low bar.” This makes me wonder who these people are in our government that represents our country. It seems as if they would rather have chaos rather than peace. Does this mean that without signing the pledge, these representatives in Congress will not be civil when they take action towards any situation in our country? I hope not. At a time where our economy is in debt, and we need to put all the pieces back together, every representative in Congress and our government as a whole should be signing this pledge and enforcing it to people everywhere.
With civil rights comes civil responsibility. How can our elected government officials be responsible and accountable for our countries actions when they are not civil amongst themselves? As memtioned earlier, many left wing democrats are looking to point the finger and place blame with conservatives for the blood bath in Arizona. Civil Rights, are the rights that an human is entitled to whether tall, skinny, black, white, female, male, old, young, etc. according to the Fourteenth Amendment. Those in our government who serve our country are entitled to not sign this pledge. However, they should want to achieve political harmony and work together for the betterment of the country they are elected to serve.
“Whether or not there’s violence, whether or not incivility today is worse than it’s been in history, it’s all immaterial. It’s worse than it ought to be.” DeMoss Said.
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