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It is beginning to look like America will re-elect George W. Bush in November after all. The two events that have saved the president from the prospect of serving a single term like his father are, in order of importance, the strong recovery of our economy and the recent capture of the Bush family’s arch-nemesis, Saddam Hussein. Some conservative pundits are even going so far as to say that the election will see a historic rout of the Democratic party in the Senate and Congress. For most Evangelicals here such a profound realignment of political power can only be seen as a blessing.

We have watched, horrified, the ongoing legacy of 8 years of Bill Clinton. His administration presided over an accelerated moral rot in the United States that has left many Christians feeling like America is no longer their nation. This is nowhere more true than in the entertainment media. On television and in the movies, on radio and on the internet community standards have lowered to the level you might expect when the moral example of our last president was embodied in the semen stains on a White House intern’s dress. It is difficult to turn on a TV and surf through the channels without encountering at least one sexual image along the way. Soft pornography has staked its claim not only late at night but in primetime as well. A few more years of a Clintonesque Democratic president and one has to wonder whether hard porn would have been next.

Speaking of pornography, specifically child pornography, the federal government did little to enforce the laws we have on our books to combat this threat to our young during the 1990’s. Thankfully the current administration, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, has begun to prosecute child pornographers again.

Recently Evangelicals rejoiced over the passage of a ban on partial-birth abortion that was championed by the White House. While the slaughter of over a million babies a year continues unabated at least this most heinous form of abortion, in which a child is partially delivered and its brain suctioned out by a "doctor", has been stopped cold. It is heartening to think that a Republican controlled Washington might take this victory further and begin to roll back the bitter legacy of Roe Vs. Wade. With at least 30 million legal abortions performed in the United States since 1973 it would not be a second too soon. Perhaps we will finally see this state-sanctioned genocide brought to an end or at least severely restricted.

In other areas, too, a second Republican "revolution" riding on the coattails of a Bush victory would be something for conservative Americans to cheer about. Possible happenings we might hope to see include continued improvement in our national defense in the post 9/11 era, the advancement of "faith-based" social programs, the curbing of the radical homosexual rights movement and a halt to the radical Left’s constant assault on the inclusion of God in any aspect of the governance of our nation or the education of our children

While it probably is going too far to assume that America will be deeply redeemed by a national political shift to the Right (individual and collective morality cannot, after all, be completely recaptured by legislation) it is very possible that the slide towards collective moral ruin that we watched during the 1990’s can at least be arrested. Perhaps spiritual revival will follow; although the movement of the Spirit is not necessarily calibrated to political change. The bottom line is that, as we enter 2004, Evangelicals here have much to be thankful for and much to work towards between now and November.