Why am I doing this?

There comes a time in everyone's life, when they feel small, unimportant, and useless. They feel like they should be doing more, but they're not sure what. Well, I have hit one of those times. I look at the world around me, and see so many lies, that the truth is hard to find. I see so much wrong, that the right is almost negated, and I wonder, what can I, someone so unimportant, do about it. The world is so large, and I am so minuscule compared to it. For a while, I've ignored this, tried to cope with the fact that I felt the world was upside down, and just tried to forget about it.

However, recently, I was blessed to attend a speech by Rick Santorem, a presidential candidate last year, and a Catholic, who spoke at the fundraising dinner for the White Rose Women's center. (a crisis pregnancy center) In his speech, Senator Santorem was anything but nice. He told us his story, all the way from the beginning of his career to now, and I realized, he knows the truth about this world.

He experienced so many hardships that most could not even dream of. He had to fight the Medical system to keep his daughter, who has trisomy 18 (a birth defect much like down syndrome except most of the babies don't live through their first year), alive. A few days after the baby was born, a doctor tried to prescribe enough morphine to the baby to kill it. From then on, Senator Santorem had to fight the medical system, trying against all odds to save his daughter, who died twice, but was revived and is still living today. He said, "This fight wasn't a fight between my daughter and her illness, it was a fight between me and the medical system as I tried to get her the meds she needed." He knows first hand were our medical system is going, and what it's opinions are on saving the helpless.

He went on to call out those who know the truth, but are afraid to say anything about it. A recent survey sent to various preachers in America (pastors and priest alike) asked them what their opinions were on things like gay marriage, abortion, and other political issues. 90% of them answered the questions correctly. However, when a second survey was sent out that asked how many of them actually preached on the subjects the results showed that only 10% did. To this, Senator Santorem said, "If your pastor is one of those 90% that doesn't speak on these issues, he needs to get off the pulpit and let someone else whose not afraid to do so take his place."

Though these two things are just small parts of his speech, they were things that rocked me the most, and I have decided, that I will not ignore the lies in today's world, I will not cower in fear while injustice runs rampant. I will speak the truth - no, shout the truth - and let me make things clear right now. If you don't want to hear the truth, or you don't like the way I'm saying it, or you think I'm lying, I don't care, because I know that I am speaking the truth, and no one's opinions, or beliefs, will change that. I have a right to speak protected by the first amendment and I plan on using it. If you don't like what I say, leave, you're busted in my eyes.