get A useful reminder, in the midst of a lot of pseudo-intellectual ranting and accusations, that the United States still represents important values and the best hope of improving the lives of all mankind.

As a Mormon, I believe that we will be accountable for how we use our freedom, both individually and as a nation.

"herefore, choose you by the avoice� of this people, judges, that ye may be bjudged� according to the claws� which have been
given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord.

From the Book of Mormon, Mosiah 29: 26-28:

Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the cpeople to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law�to do your business by the voice of the people.

And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.