Letter to the Sons of Confederate Veterans By Kurt Simmons

Dear Editor,

I appreciated the article by Chaplin-in-Chief, Cecil Fayard, Jr, “America is in Trouble.”

America’s biggest problem is the watered-down quality of Christian faith among those that profess to follow Christ. Had our forebears been alive when the present administration declared June “Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Pride” month, they would have demanded immediate secession. Our forebears would have considered it an honor to die fighting to be free rather than allow the basic morals and teaching of the Bible to be perverted this way.

When, a few years earlier, federal Judge Myron Thompson declared that Alabama could not place the Ten Commandments in its State Supreme Court Building (the State could not acknowledge God), the Alabama State Legislature should have begun immediate debates about secession. They should have preferred war than to submit to the suppression of our Christian faith and its emblems. There is no legal, moral, or Constitutional basis for the court’s decision. What possible power upon earth could persuade us to obey it?

When the federal courts abolished Bible reading in our schools or the opening of class with prayer, that, too, should have caused the nation to erupt in calls for secession. Yet, hardly a peep was heard. Great men of faith we are today! America is in trouble and our government is full of criminals because our pulpits are full of cowards!

Why would any people who profess faith in Christ want to be beneath the government of Washington DC, seeing it has made itself the enemy of the gospel, and everything this country was founded upon? Do we have so great love for life in this world that we are willing to jeopardize the next, obeying Caesar more than Christ? Have we been reduced to nation of neuters and castrates? Is there nothing that can move us?

Yes, America is in trouble and will continue to be in trouble until we are prepared to die fighting for what we believe. We use to have names for that: Obedience, Faithfulness, Devotion, and Sacrifice! Lost virtues in this age! The last 50-75 years have been marked by nothing but surrender, abandonment, and apostasy by those professing to be soldiers of the cross. When we care enough about our children, our families, our communities, and our faith to publicly begin calling for secession and working to make it happen, then and not before, can we hope for real change and to regain our Christ-based culture and institutions.

Meanwhile, may God be merciful upon our poor, pathetic, souls!