An appeal to America’s 44th President-Elect

Dear President-Elect ___________:

Congratulations to you, sir, on your election as America’s 44th President.

As you prepare your transition and make the key staffing and policy decisions that will shape your administration, we urge you to heed the example of our nation’s first President, George Washington.

This great leader understood that he must answer to a Higher Authority—and that the Bible is the supreme expression of the One he called the Lord and Ruler of Nations.

President Washington knew better than to think that God and His Word should be dismissed from public life. In his first Inaugural Address, he told the nation—and succeeding generations—that national prosperity depends upon obedience to the moral obligations laid down in Scripture. He said that

the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.

Our first president took seriously the divine mandate that “He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God” (2 Samuel 23:3 nkjv).

We would urge, we would plead, we will pray that you, sir, will do the same.

Mr. President, you will take office at a time of great national and international turmoil. Upheaval and uncertainty rock both Wall Street and Main Street. The Great American Culture War divides our nation along moral and ideological fault lines. Our sons and daughters serve overseas in the struggle against Islamic Jihad. And in the Kremlin, the Russian Bear stirs anew.

Ten Points for Life and Liberty

All these concerns and many more weigh on our nation. As you prepare to enter the Oval Office, we, as friends of Coral Ridge Ministries, the Christian media outreach founded by Dr. D. James Kennedy, ask of you the following:

• Speak and act for the unborn. Specifically, we ask you to please use your office to stop the flow of tax dollars to abortion provider Planned Parenthood, and support ethical and effective stem cell research—not research that destroys living human embryos.
• Nominate judges who will apply the Constitution and not their own political agendas to the cases brought before them.
• Support marriage by fighting for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
• Direct the Secretary of Defense to apply current law that prohibits homosexuals from military service and to once again ask inductees if they engage in homosexual conduct.
• Protect the rights of employers by vetoing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, if it is passed by Congress.
• Stand for equal justice, religious liberty, and free speech by vetoing “hate crime” legislation, if passed by Congress.
• Support efforts in Congress to protect free speech on the public airwaves by rejecting the “Fairness Doctrine.”
• Use your office to aid religious prisoners of conscience who suffer in Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea, and elsewhere for their Christian faith.
• Instruct your Attorney General to aggressively pursue and prosecute violators of obscenity and child pornography laws.
• Honor and recognize the role of Divine Providence in American life by proclaiming America’s Christian Heritage Week.

Mr. President, we will be praying and watching.

As Christians, we will pray that God will give you the grace and guidance only He can provide as you prepare to take on the enormous weight of the presidency.

As citizens, we will watch to see if you, like George Washington, will honor and acknowledge God and His law as you lead our nation.

Our prayer, sir, is that you will.