With over 50 years in Christian ministry, my preacher dad has pretty much seen and survived it all. A friend of mine is the pastor of a church. His membership is declining. He is considering various options to attract new parishioners – changing his sermons, music, the church name and more. I asked Dad his thoughts.

Dad said he has no problem with changes as long as they do not include straying from the principles and values in God's word.

I immediately thought of the Republican Party. Consultants say if the GOP hopes to win elections in this modern era, it must lighten up, relax core principles and values to create a big tent. Much of the GOP establishment embrace this philosophy. So, the GOP is considering abandoning all the reasons I, a black American, joined them years ago.

In a nutshell, I joined the GOP because I witnessed firsthand in my own family the demoralizing failure of Democratic Party government programs: the slavery of cradle-to-grave welfare, government replacing daddies in households, lost ambition, killed incentive and crushed human spirits.

Most of my cousins who lived on the Democrat government plantation suffered unfilled lives – serial out-of-wedlock births, incarcerations, drug abuse and early deaths. This result is not surprising because the Bible says an idle mind is the devil's workshop.

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The GOP offered me self-respect. As corny as this sounds, the GOP believed in me. It offered me a hand up rather than never-ending handouts.

I have shared my dad's story numerous times because it perfectly illustrates my point. In the early 1950s, Dad was among a handful of blacks allowed into the Baltimore City Fire Department. Dad worked under humiliating work conditions; not allowed to drink coffee from the same pot as the white firefighters, separate eating utensils and so on. And yet, Dad won Firefighter of the Year two times – without special concessions, without lowered standards. He won solely on merit and excellence. He earned it. The principles that carried dad to success are rooted the Bible and the GOP, not the Democratic Party.

Folks, we are engaged in a battle far greater than politics – Republicans vs. Democrats, conservatives vs. liberals. We are fighting a spiritual war for the heart and soul of America – good vs. evil, freedom and self-reliance vs. serfdom to big government.

A liberal school teacher was recently caught teaching elementary kids that conservatives do not care about people. This is a lie. Conservatives are eager to lend a helping hand, but compassionate enough to know that cradle-to-grave dependency is slavery and demoralizing.

Just like the Israelite people built a fake god, a golden calf in the wilderness, liberals have built a fake god: government. They seek to force every American to bow down in worship. The religion of liberalism requires that members surrender total control and live dependent upon the whims of arrogant controlling men (government). Trusting in God is for those unsophisticated naive idiot Christians. As I said, good vs evil.

I visited the VA clinic. A rep from a phone company was in the lobby encouraging vets, a bit pushy, to sign up for a free phone (Obamaphone). Most of the vets already had phones. It did not matter to the rep.

I chuckled overhearing the exchange between the rep and an elderly vet. The vet looked puzzled, arguing that he and his wife had phones and did not need another. The rep relentlessly tried to convince him to take the free phone and give it away. Frustrated, the elderly vet sternly ended their conversation, "I don't need another phone."

Welcome to Democratic Party America, folks. Is this the mindset we want the GOP to embrace to attract new voters? God forbid.