I have somebody close to me that company. O. Of a drug [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] wasnt it a treat to have a sitting president speak at the values voter summit earlier this morning . Wow. [cheers and applause] he really does consider you his foot soldiers and thats every bit of what you are. Thank you so much. And we didnt have a single heckler. Did you notice that . Bough. Except the media. [laughter] no. We are certainly grateful for that. Ok. A couple of quick housekeeping announcements i need to get out of the way. We want you to be sure to visit the f. R. C. Store. We have a lot of great tshirts and other resources that you want to check out. A great souvenir to take home with you. Want to be sure you dont forget to get your ticket to the f. R. C. Action pack reception. That is tonight between 5 30 and 7 00 p. M. In the congressional room. Among others well have actor kevin sorbo, judge roadway moore. Other congressional leaders will be available. And so you want to be sure to take advantage of that. It is 100 per person. You can pay that at the registration desk. So lets take just a moment to learn more about f. R. C. Action. Please check out the screen for his following video. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Lets hear it for f. R. C. Action. Representing your values here in washington, d. C. And around the country. I want to remind you once again about our f. R. C. Store. In fact, we have a live model to show you just a little bit of what you might be able to take advantage of. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, this is ian. Want you to welcome ian. Look at this cool shirt that could be yours if you take it home. Also the hat. And hes carrying with him a notebook. I mean, you want if you want to be a winner, you need to be decade out just like ian. Thank you, ian. For classing up our value voter summit. We appreciate you being here. Ok. Hey, i mentioned earlier right before we broke for lunch about the let there be light movie. Thats going to be released later this month. Were expecting it to be a huge hit. You are among the first in america who are going to be able to see it first and free. Thats tonight right here, right after our Evening Program ends tonight. Also tonight, tony perkins is going to be doing his radio show, it will be in the exhibit hall, another reason for you to go to the exhibit hall to support our great exhibiters and also see tony do his radio show live. Remember while youre there to get your passbook stamped by exhibiters for the special android tablet which were going to be giving away. Again, another reason for you to check out our exhibiters. And i hope that you will support them because theyre doing so much to support us. Also need to remind thought media are our guests and we would ask that you be respectful as they cover our event. We are actually glad that theyre here. We want them to cover our event. Lets hear it for the media. [applause] one of our amazing sponsors is the American Family association. In fact, it is one of the most yeah, lets hear it for a. F. A. [applause] theyre one of the most trusted and influential ministries among values voters. In fact, theyve been our longest standing partner for the values voters summit and we appreciate their support so much. Lets learn more about the American Family association. Once again, check out the monitors and lets learn more. Theres a divide in our country. We see it in the headlines and in the attitudes among those that shape the culture. Its not about race. Abortion. Marriage. Or even who is allowed in our bathrooms. Its a divide over the subject of god. Does he care about these issues . Does he speak to us . And how would we know if he did . Sadly so many in the church today have lost confidence in the bible as the word of god. As christians, how can we expect to speak effectively to the culture on these divisive issues without a foundation for truth . We have to get back to the idea that god does speak and that the bible we hold in our hands is trustworthy. The American Family association has been fighting in this culture war for 40 years. But now more than ever we see the urgent need to call the church to stand on the Divine Authority of the scriptures. Thats why weve created a documentary that does just that. What we believe about the bible is based on what we believe about its source. The church of jesus christ always faces a tremendous temptation. And that is to deviate from the word of god. In many quarters the church has denied, questioned the faith. Nobody ever encounters god and says, that was boring and irrelevant. When people say that about the bible, it just says to me theyve not encountered the god of the bible. If you preach the gospel to a church, at every point they set the place where the needed. The place they need to be called back to obedience to god. Youre not preaching the goss petal ought gospel at all. If theres ever been a time to engage the culture while standing on the authority of gods word, its now. Will you stand with us . Lets hear it for a. F. A. [applause] and live, ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome the executive Vice President for the American Family association, mr. Ed itagliano. [applause] ed i can tell you, gil is just about worth the price of the ticket coming here. I love gil. Hes funny. How about having the president of the United States in the same room with you this morning . [applause] just the word of appreciation for our millennials. There was a couple rows up from my wife and i and they stood up while the president was speaking and actually took a selfie with the president on screen behind them. Have the president of the United States photo bomb your picture while youre here at values voters. Thats brilliant. I would never have thought of that. Im appreciative of the opportunity to speak to you at a gathering like this. Most of us i think probably all of us have a fairly clear understanding of the Founding Fathers vision for our republic. It was anchored in the concept of natural law and natural rights. Its selfrooted in the judeochristian world view. Im pretty sure most of you know this. And this foundation was evidenced by i think one of the most famous sentiments in all of human history. When Thomas Jefferson declared in the declaration of independence that we hold these truths to be selfevidence, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Those kinds of concepts had never before been uttered in the foundation of a government. They were at the founding of our nation. What if i told you, though, that some people in our nation have also thought about what our founders built, and rejected it. These people also had a vision and overthrough that of the founders, determined to reformulate america as a humanistic interprice. And they never asked anyones permission to do it. So let me present their alternative vision for america. It is a nation where there are no rights for men and women except in so far as the government grants them and allows you to keep them. Where our government will be run more and more by wellmeaning administrators and less and less by meddlesome voters like you. Who will learn to be does aisle and acquiescent and live in a vast collective with the government creating individuals and shepherding them throughout their lives, while making sure that individualism and patriotism do not interfere. That is the vision of the prophets of the secular movement, the Secular Progressive Movement in their own words. As i hope to share with you today. Beginning in the late 1880s and the early 1900s, the progressives started this work and they literally ridiculed the ideas of natural law and even human nature. Gone was the idea of the laws of nature and natures god. From the declaration of independence. Instead progressives insisted human beings had no nature. They are born as blank slates or empty vessels. John dewey, who many believe was the most influential progressive, certainly had a huge impact on our Public School system, said this, quote, social arrangements, laws, institutions are means of creating individuals. Individuality in a social and moral sense is something to be worked out or wrought out. How do human beings become what they ultimately are . According to progressives. Well, theyre cultural and historical surroundings create them. For progressives like dewey, government would become the ideal incubator and director of human nature. It can and must control more and more of human existence, if government is to create individuals and even work out their morality. After all, as youve heard, it takes a village to raise a child. Now, thats quite a lot for a government to bite off, dont you think . If progressives see government as an overarching Human Institution filled with experts shepherding people like yourselves, then what about the founders concept of we the people . I prefer to let progressives answer for themselves. In 1887 when Woodrow Wilson was a professor, he went on to become a president , he complained that americas future success was, quote, made doubtful by that bessetting error of ours, the error of trying to do too much by vote, end quote. Instead Woodrow Wilson praised the european style of governance by administrators and he noted with satisfaction that that continents citizens could, quote, be expected to be very does aisle and acquiescent in learning what things they dont have a right to think and speak about with authority, end quote. Americans on the other hand, he said, tended to be meddlesome. He actually used that word. I guess we voters tend to stick our noses where they dont belong. Progressives dont like that. Speaking figuratively of the vernment wilson said, quote, the cook must be trusted with a large discretion as to the management of the fires and the ovens, end quote. I dont know about you, but the bigger government gets, the less i trust it. Especially when they have me and my family being eyeballed as the main course. I dont trust government. I dont trust people who ac aggregate power to themselves. In the 1912 president ial campaign speech, wilson who was then the governor of new jersey described the process by which he expected america to be trmpled. He likened the activity of a about a nfip sent government working to Fashion Society to a crew that home owners hired to renovate their home. He said the architects would work gradualy and patiently on the alterations to the home and then wilson declared, until finally, quote, a generation or two from now the scaffolding will be taken away and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed. Where men can live as a single community, cooperative as in a perfected and coordinated beehive. Closed quote. Would you like to live in a beehive . Even if it was coordinated . When Woodrow Wilson dreamt allowed of a perfected, coordinated beehiving, he wasnt speaking high per bollically. One of the pioneers, a formative pioneers of the progressive movement, john burgess, a law professor for columbia university, he was one of the founders of the discipline of Political Science in the United States. In 1890 he wrote that the purpose of the state was, quote, the perfection of humanity. The civilization of the world. The Perfect Development of the human reason and its attainment to universal command over individualism. End quote. You cant have individuals mucking up the bee hive, according to progressives. And this process of perfecting man would not occur overnight. According to one influential progressive, charles mar yam, he was a professor of Political Science at the university of chicago, he actually became an advisor to several u. S. President s, including Franklin Delano roosevelt, he admitted that this perfection of humanity awaited the coming of the universal state. This is kind of a startling quote. It begins this way. This ends the perfection of humanity. Can be realized, however, only when a world state is organized. And for this man kind is not yet ready. End mankind is not yet ready. End quote. Christians who have a superphysical understanding of what the bible says, the coming of the last days, should hear a shiver up your spine when you hear words like that. Its clear to this day, whether youre talking about Climate Change or anything else, that progressives still believe in the globalist vision of a transnational superstate. Meanwhile, back in the good old u. S. A. , how could the government accomplish such a renovation . Obviously if government is to refashion human society, then that government must of necessity be unlimited. You hear this all the time. Excuse me. Matthew spalding of Hillsdale College notes this distinction between our founders and progressives. He said, the founders believed in separation of powers. Which divided and checked the government. Progressives believe in a combination of powers, which would concentrate its authority and direct its actions. If youre going to create individuals from start to finish, you hear these kinds of pushes constantly. Anything from kindergarten that begins at 2 and 3 years old, to schools that can take your children, your daughters to get an abortion without parental ca consent we see this over and over and over again, the experts will decide, the experts will create your children. They will shepherd them from start to finish. You have to have this combination of powers. Charles maherum said there is no line that the state cannot cross. He says, quote, it is not admitted that there are no limits to the action of the state, but on the other hand, it is fully conceited conceded that there are no natural rights which bar the way. End quote. Id like to think and i think our president does as well that there are limits to government power. We just have to stand up for it. Some have used the word leviathan to describe the allpowerful state. Many bible commentators use the image of the dragon in a different way. As a symbol of great political powers organized against god or his people. There is no doubt that there is some truth in that view. Government power can be put to constructive use. The apostle paul talks about the fact that god establishes government. In order to hinder the spread of evil and promote good. But our founders understood the warning of scripture too. When power is concentrated in the hands of small groups of people, it becomes an oligarchy. It becomes the bibles leviathan. In 1938, as the rise of a nazi germany cast its shadow across europe, a german political theorist named carl schmidt exampled this symbol and approve of it. This is what he said. It is the mortal god who brings to man peace and security. Because of this, leviathan demands unconventional disobedience. There is no resistance to him, for this by invoking religious reasons or arguments. He alone and pun punishes and rewards. He alone determines by law in questions of justice, what is right and proper and in matters pertaining to religious beliefs, what is truth and error. Closed quote. You hear the echoes of these kinds of sentiments when the Supreme Court dismisses arguments about marriage, for example. Just simply because there may be religious reasons attached to. This is attached to it. This is an abomination. To call forth leviathan is to call forth a monster. This was a dange that are our Founding Fathers recognized and they warned us against it. One only has to remember, for example, that American Children used to be allowed to pray in schools or see the 10 commandments posted on the hallway walls. Nativity scenes were common on public grounds during christmas. High School Football games began with an opening prayer. What happened . Didnt the Founding Fathers state clearly that religious expression could not be infringed by the government . Well, because progressive ideas had so permeated the nations law schools in the first half of the 20th century, the u. S. Supreme court by mid century had no problem dispensing with these, quoteunquote, natural rights. Without a single precedent oftentimes. The high Court Created new standards by which it would begin the process of altering the free exercise of religion. Leviathan had simply decede it would be so. Theres only one course decreed it would be so. Theres only one course of action to people who do not want to grant such allencompassing power and that is to do something. Dont sit still. Let every school board demand the children be taught the views of the Founding Fathers, let every parent educate their children in the principles of liberty. In George Washingtons first inaugural address, that titan of liberty said that the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government has been ultimately staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American People. It seems to me that in protecting this republic, George Washington was looking to us as much as we looked to him. I say to you, it is time for leviathan once more to be put in chains. Thank you and god bless you. [applause] gil our next speaker is one of the worlds leading experts on the rise of global islamic terrorism. She lectures nationally and internationally and her expertise is sought after by world, business and military leaders. Last year she was knighted in europe for her work in fighting terrorism. An honor reserved for