Tony Perkins On Mass Shootings: ‘The Problem Is Not The Absence Of Laws; It’s An Absence Of Morality’
By Frank Camp @frankdcamp
On September 1, former police officer and President of the Family Research Council (FRC) Tony Perkins appeared on Fox News to discuss the shooting in Odessa, Texas.
During the segment, Perkins, as well as pastor Corey Brooks from New Beginnings Church, made the case that a waning morality in the United States is contributing to incidents of public violence.
Following introductions, Perkins stated that “at some point, we have to realize that as a nation, we have a problem, and the problem is not the absence of laws, it’s an absence of morality. Really, the result of a decade’s long march through the institutions of America driving religion and God from the public square.”
Host Todd Piro then asked Perkins to elaborate on a recent op-ed in which he wrote about gun violence.
Perkins replied:
Well, I’m willing as a former police officer and an ardent supporter of the Second Amendment, I’m willing to sit down with the Left who say, “I don’t want to hear any more about your prayers.” Well, I agree. Praying alone is not enough. It’s time to act, and it’s not just about having a conversation about restricting those who should not have guns, criminals, but it’s also a discussion of the absence of a moral core in our culture today.
I mean, look, we’ve taught our kids that they come about by chance through primordial slime and then we’re surprised that they treat their fellow Americans like dirt.
It’s time we talk about the result of the Left’s systematic march through our institutions driving religious expression from the public square. I think we have to go back to the point where we instill in these children – at least give them the opportunity to know that they’re created in the image of God, therefore they have inherent value, and as the first president United States said, “Don’t think that we can have morality without religion.” We’ve driven religion from our public life, and we’re shocked that we no longer have morality and we no longer value human life.
Piro then brought on Brooks, and asked him for his position.
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