WB: Senator Sam Brownback

Brownback said that it falls to each generation to pick up the flag of our values and move forward.

He spoke of Wilberforce's two great passions:the abolition of slaver, and the restoration of manners.

Brownback said there are two priorities for us: the end of abortion,and renewing of American culture. He said we would win if we do not stop.

He spoke of the unique and sacred nature of each life, made in the image of God. He said it applies to the child in the womb as well as the person at the end of life. "Each is beautiful and each we will fight for," said Brownback.

Brownback called our attention to over a million abortions each year in the United States and over 4,000 each working day.

He also spoke of the special value of Downs Syndrome children and said that over 90% of them are killed in the womb. HE said if having a Downs Syndrome child was too difficult for the family, we would get them adopted, and mentioned the many people who want to adopt DS kids.

Brownback said that when we stop killing children in the womb here we will be in a better position to encourage other countries to stop killing children.

Brownback said Roe v. Wade was built on lies about Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano.

Brownback said marriage is between a man and a woman, and has been for thousands of years. He mentioned all the research that points to the best environment for children as a home with a husband and wife for life.

He said we need to change the welfare system because when people get married they lose benefits, which provides a dis-incentive to marriage.

"We have to stand for faith in the United States. It isn't a bad thing to be driven out of the public square," Brownback said. "I don't know how you understand America without understanding faith."

How do you understand Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement without understanding faith--he was a preacher, after all.

"The view of government without faith has been tried and failed; it was atheistic communism. It had the idea that somehow man would move himself into a perfected state, and it utterly failed. It didn't look to the transcendent, and didn't pull man out of himself in love," said Brownback.

He clarified he's not for theocracy, for those who might accuse him of that. He said he was talking about a responsible role that allowed faith to thrive in the public square.

He also mentioned the faith-based prison ministry programs and their far superior rate of reducing recidivism.

Brownback said he believed America was a special place, and he believes in American exceptionalism. He said he believed it was our time as Americans, and is our destiny. He said those to whom much is given, much is expected.