Flash Points USA III - God & Country - Gary Bauer
Flash Points USA III - God & Country - Gary Bauer
Flash Points USA III - God & Country - Gary Bauer (raw material of interview with Gary Bauer - President of American Values) 03.17.22 Gary Bauer states his views on abortion, "I have a long record of being pro-life, I believe that all children in America ought to be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. I think Roe v. Wade was a terrible decision, even if one disagrees with me on the life issue, because what Roe said is the American people have no right to decide this question. With one stroke of the pen five justices took away from every American the right to work through their state legislatures to come to some sort of consensus on whether to allow abortion and under what circumstances. So, I think the case was terrible and I think abortion on demand has been a disaster particularly for women and children." 03.18.1 Gary Bauer says "I believe that all abortion is wrong and I have supported legislative proposals that would guarantee a "right to life" to the un-born child. I have never, nor has the pro-life movement ever supported criminal penalties for women who get abortion, and in fact there weren't criminal penalties for women before Roe v. Wade. To the extent that criminal law comes into play if we were ever able to overturn Roe v. Wade, that criminal law would come down on the head of the Abortionist that continued to perform abortions, not on the women that were being exploited." 03.19.00 Mr. Gary Bauer responds "What history teaches us is that when a law is made you severely limit the prohibited behavior, but you don't end the prohibited behavior. We have laws against murder, and murders still occur. But, I think passing a law would have a tremendous educational effect on the American people, and I suspect that of the one plus million abortions we have every year 95% of them would end because most American's want to obey the law." 03.19.50 Mr. Gary Bauer gives his views about prayer in schools, "I do support school prayer, I think that if you go back and look at the prayers that were in place in 1963 they were nondenominational, they were broadly written and for the most part most Americans of various faiths had very little problems with them." 03.22.18 Gary Bauer speaks about god in american government, "I believe that god and morality have a tremendous place in the entire American experiment, in fact it's what makes us different from virtually any other nation across the entire globe. In the second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence makes this very clear, the founders worked very hard to craft a paragraph in which they said they believed our liberty came from god, that he was the author of it and that without him we couldn't have it. That's an extraordinary thing to say, it's a powerful thing to say and it tells us a lot about what the founders thought about the notion of religion." 03.23.02 Gary Bauer answers question, what's the relationship between god and patriotism? Bauer responds "I think in America god, patriotism, apple pie for many Americans those things are all wrapped up together." Continues remarks. 03.24.17 Gary Bauer responds on the "right to die" issue, "The sanctity of life at both its beginning and at its end and at the moments of terrible illness and physical suffering all have a moral aspect to them, and societies have to be extremely careful in doing anything that cheapens the sanctity of life and the value of life that each individual enjoys. The most important part of this debate is how does one determine whether somebody wanted to end their life at a particular moment and what role does society play in implementing that wish." 03.25.27 Mr. Gary Bauer speaks about school vouchers, "I think there is a moral issue about the fact that many minority and low income students have been trapped in schools that don't work. .....For the parent's of those children, there are no options, they can't move to a better neighborhood to access a better school either because they can't afford the housing or because of other issues. In that sense I do think that the move for vouchers results from a moral impulse." 03.26.31 Gary Bauer speaking about the growth of catholic schools, faith based schools, and protestant schools within these troubled communities. 03.27.37 Mr. Gary Bauer explaining about the evangelical faith, "The very phrase evangelical is open to a great deal of debate. But, by and large of course Christians believe that Christ is the son of god, that he was crucified, rose from the dead, by doing that saved us from our sins, that he'll come back again and that all men will be judged at some day in the future. Evangelicals go further and believe that literally every word of the bible is divinely ordained, it was almost dictated by god, and that this "good news" needs to be told around the world. And that's where the word to evangelize comes from."