God, the election and where's my country?

The Ontario Liberals won a huge majority in last month’s election. But the actual number of people voting reveals that most people overwhelmingly do not support the Liberal Party and about half of the population doesn’t care enough about who runs the province to go out and vote.

While the Liberal party won a stunning 71 of 107 seats, looking at raw numbers, the Liberals and everyone else got pounded. An astounding 77.68 per cent of voters did not vote for the ruling party with majority status. Only 22 per cent of voters did. Of 8.4 million Ontario voters, only 1.85 million voted Liberal. Everyone else chose someone else or stayed home. An abysmal 47 per cent of voters did not vote. That’s almost 4 million people. The election saw the worst voter turn-out in Ontario. Some pundits argued that few people cared because few people saw any real distinction between the parties, while other voters are disillusioned and simply trust no one. Wrote National Post columnist George Jonas: "We’ll now have a Liberal government carrying out half-baked Liberal policies under Dalton McGuinty, instead of a Conservative government carrying out half-baked Liberal policies under John Tory."

We’ve been getting half-baked ideas for years. Most candidates, and the entire NDP party, would have been run out of town, for being morally bankrupt, if they showed up with today’s ideas 30 years ago. It’s not the economic issues but the social issues that are most worrisome. Among the few things that Liberals, and many Conservatives stand for that affects me is sex education in the classroom. Here’s what the provincially-run education system encourages: Underage sex between minors, sex between girls and sex between boys, multiple partners, experimentation with oral sex and the use of condoms. I didn’t hear any Liberal, Conservative or NDP candidate stand up against that. And it affects me and every farm family because we’re trying to shield our children from it until we can raise them with the intellectual tools and arguments to recognize perversion when they see it.

We got here through a progressive series of watered-down convictions and politicians taking the least path of resistance to get re-elected and a populace that doesn’t know what it believes anymore because their parents didn’t teach them. I don’t suppose anyone remembers sitting around the kitchen table hearing their parents argue: "Dammit, when are our schools going to start teaching oral sex to my kids?"

But that’s what schools are now teaching and they start when your kids are 10 or younger. Which is why Conservative leader John Tory’s idea of faith-based school funding was a good one but he got run out of town for thinking it. Faith-based schooling provides an alternative to the secular propaganda on issues from atheistic positivist law to condoms. Tory, however, was not promoting faith-based schools based on morality but on discrimination.

It’s time to take back our country. The place to start is to remember our beginning. We do not believe, as we hear shouted today, that there are no absolutes. There are absolutes. The sun rises in the east. Two and two equals four. There is a law of gravity. Do not kill. God exists.

Our founders believed in God, our great-grandparents believed it, our constitution recognizes it, and it helped to make our country great. When our Judeo-Christian heritage taught men to treat other men as they would have wanted to be treated, we blossomed and prospered. Now, we need to get back there. We need to rediscover who God is and what He wants from us and how He wants us to treat others.

Of course, God wants a complete overhaul of our lives, which is why in our post-modern world most people reject Him. We don’t want to recognize we are wretched and we don’t want to suffer and sacrifice in order to change. But the hard work of seeking the truth about why we exist is the most important question we’re going to answer in our entire lives. You’d think no one would want a half-baked effort when it comes to his own life. But that’s what we accept because we have become comfort-seekers who don’t even stop to think what the most important questions are. Yes, God loves us just the way we are but He loves us too much to let us stay this way. He wants us to get involved, transform society and then vote.