I listened to the Personhood Townhall Forum last night on my friend Steve Deace’s national radio program and was very encouraged that 4 of the signers of the USA Personhood Pledge appeared on the show to answer questions from Steve and Personhood USA President, Keith Mason.

While I am skeptical of the varying levels of understanding and commitment to the the Pledge, I am greatly encouraged by the fact that 4 leading presidential candidates actually signed on to the Personhood Pledge which essentially states that all human life from fertilization to natural death are fully human persons who possess a God given right to their own lives which may never be violated by any individual state without exception.

But as encouraging as these developments are, it is clear to me that most of the GOP candidates (to varying degrees) sadly don’t understand the basics of the law, why civil government primarily exists, what the primary duty of the president of the United States is, and what presidents are obligated to do when courts issue unconstitutional opinions.

For example, Steve asked each one of the candidates as president what they would do if Personhood legislation were passed and the Supreme Court attempted to “strike it down.” None of the candidates were able to provide the correct answer. Bachmann said she would “re-draft” and introduce new legislation. Gingrich to his credit, came the closest, saying he would limit the court’s jurisdictional authority to review the legislation. But they all missed an even more simple solution which is that a president is obligated to ignore any unconstitutional court ruling and call for the impeachment of the judges who issued the opinion.

In an effort to help focus the discussion for the future, I have listed some vital questions that I believe should be asked of all the candidates in regard to law, life and a president’s primary function and constitutional authority as well as suggested answers which I believe to be in accord with the Declaration’s “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” upon which the Supreme Law of our land, the Constitution, is founded.

If we are going to have presidents who are going to abide by their oaths, I believe we need to spell out for them what is expected of them. (Sad that we have to do that. But that is unfortunately where we are at in this country.) I don’t want to hear another candidate say that as their first official act as president they will “defund Planned Parenthood.” While they should be defunded, the first thing a president is constitutionally obligated to do is to criminalize murder of pre-born babies when individual states fail to do so. How I long to hear even one candidate say so!

So, here are the questions and answers I believe every presidential candidate should easily be able to articulate when asked.

What is the law? Any custom, standard or rule of conduct in accordance with God’s Divinely Inspired Word or the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” As Aquinas said, “any law contrary to God’s Law is no law at all.”

What is the primary purpose of civil government? To protect inalienable (i.e. God given) rights, chief among them, according to Jefferson and the Founders, the right to life for all innocent persons.

When does human life begin? God’s Word says that life begins in the womb when the baby is first conceived and science confirms that at the very moment the male sperm inseminates the female egg a new human person is created with 46 chromosomes and a totally unique set of DNA from any other human being that he or she will have for the rest of their lives. Fully human and fully living.

Are pre-born babies persons? Yes, from the very beginning of physical development (at fertilization) the pre-born baby is a living human person made in the very image of God.

Does the 14th Amendment apply to pre-born babies? Yes. This is a self-evident truth. Pre-born babies are living human persons and are therefore entitled to the same “due process of law” and “equal protection under the laws” as are all other innocent human persons regardless of their size, skin color, or age.

Do individual states have an obligation to enforce the 14th Amendment? Yes, they have the obligation to enforce all Constitutional Law especially the God given right to life.

What is the Constitutional duty of the president when individual states fail to enforce the 14th Amendment? As the Chief Law Enforcement Officer, the president is obligated to enforce the 14th amendment when individual states fail to do so.

As president, would you abide by your oath and enforce the inalienable right to life for all innocent persons when individual states fail to do so? Yes

How would you do it? As my first official act as president, I would call on the states to enforce the 14th amendment and end all abortions in their states. If they failed to do so within 24 hours I would issue an executive order closing down all abortion clinics and prosecuting any murders of any innocent pre-born babies in any state where the state governments allowed the murders to take place. No state possesses the right to alienate inalienable rights, especially the right to life!

So is Personhood legislation not necessary? I believe the Declaration, Preamble to the Constitution and 5th and 14th Amendments already guarantee the inalienable right to life for all human persons which obviously include babies in the womb who are, as we have already acknowledged, fully human living persons and that a president needs no additional laws to protect and defend their lives. But I would welcome any legislation that would further codify into statutory and Constitutional law that all pre-born babies from beginning of physical development at fertilization are persons who possess the God given right to their own lives. In the meantime, I would abide by my oath to enforce the inalienable right to life for all innocent human persons from fertilization to natural death.

What if the courts attempted to “strike down” or “overturn” your Personhood legislation? I would ignore any judicial opinions not in accord with the Supreme Law of the Land and the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” as I am obligated to do as president and as all elected officials are obligated to do in every branch and at every level of government. Adams, Jackson, and Lincoln all ignored unconstitutional rulings and so would I. I would tell them, “thanks for your opinion. How do you plan on enforcing it?” The president’s main duty is to enforce the Supreme Law of the Land, not unconstitutional court opinions.

First the ones I would not be caucusing for if I lived in Iowa.

Rick Perry- Does great in commercials but once the script is gone I get that same feeling right before he speaks that I had with Bush…a very unsettling one at that. Kind of looks like Bush too. Way too many bad memories whenever I see this “tough talkin Texan.” And like Bush, his commitment to conservatism is highly questionable. Glad he signed the USA Personhood Pledge recently. The best thing he could do in 2012 as governor is abide by his pledge and end all child murder in Texas by helping pass Personhood. Better yet, he could just enforce the 14th Amendment’s “due process” and “equal protection” clauses as he is constitutionally obligated to do and end child murder now given he is on record stating that human life begins at the very moment of fertilization!

Rick Santorum- Phenomenally inspiring personal family story and one of the strongest pro-family/ pro-life candidates and the only candidate with the courage in the debates to expose Romney’s unilateral, illegal and unconstitutional implementation of same-sex “marriage” . (which the “fair and balanced” media have just coincidentally ignored). But his endorsements of pro-aborts Arlen Specter, Christie Todd Whitman, and the Founding Father of same-sex “marriage,” the $50 co-pay abortion, and socialist healthcare, Mitt Romney (over significantly more conservative Mike Huckabee, in 08’) is really tough to swallow. 3 endorsements of liberal pro-aborts is 3 too many in my book.

Newt Gingrich- The most articulate candidate in the race and the only one with an authentic plan to rein in the judiciary. His recent signing of the USA Personhood Pledge is also a positive. And while I can get over the Pelosi commercial on Al Gore’s “global warming” initiative which Gingrich now claims was a big mistake, his negatives are too numerous to overlook including his membership in the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, his endorsement of pro-abortion, pro-homosexual tax and spend liberal RINO ACORN-backed Dee Dee Scozaffava (recipient of the Planned Parenthood “Margaret Sanger Award” in 2008) over the across the board conservative Republican tea party favorite, Doug Hoffman in the N.Y. 23rd District Congressional race, leaving his dying wife on her death bed while she was dying of cancer for another younger woman, recently working with anti-Semitic Al Sharpton to promote Obama’s new healthcare initiatives which includes increased funding for the unconstitutional Department of Education, his statement in 1995 at the Center for Strategic and International Affairs, that, “The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution…Under our [constitutional system] — either we’re going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we’re going to have to rethink our process of decision-making,” and his recent failure to sign the Iowa Christian pro-family Family Leader’s marriage pledge which I don’t know how any genuine pro-family Christian would not sign.

Ron Paul- Right on the fed, rolling back the welfare state, and nation building. But that is where we part ways. I as a Christian can’t vote for anybody who thinks individual states possess the authority to alienate the inalienable right to life, that sodomy isn’t a sin, who has no problem with homosexual “marriage,” who supports legalizing hard drugs such as heroin, cocaine as well as prostitution, and who has no real issues with Islamic Jihadists in Iran getting a hold of nukes which it has announced it plans to wipe Israel off the map with. Proof

Mitt Romney- The most far left across the board liberal governor in the history of the Republic. Hands down. Pathetic so many celebrity conservatives like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham continue to support this total fraud.

As governor, Willard Mitchell Romney: Unilaterally, illegally & unconstitutionally instituted same-sex “marriage” falsely claiming the “court ordered him to,” signed the forerunner to Obamacare (Romneycare) into law which includes $50 tax-subsidized elective surgical abortions including late-term abortions into law (3 years AFTER his fake “pro-life conversion,” boosted funding for homosexual “education” starting in kindergarten, opposes a ban on homosexual scoutmasters, promised the homosexual Republican “Log Cabin Republicans” he wouldn’t oppose “gay marriage” in return for their endorsement, instituted a quasi socialist healthcare plan endorsed by Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Barack Obama and Planned Parenthood that destroyed the Massachusetts’ economy, forced Catholic Charities, the nation’s #1 adoption and foster care service to place children with same sex couples even though he was under no legal obligation to do so as even former Governor Michael Dukakis has acknowledged, increased taxes and fees by close to a billion dollars which destroyed the Massachusetts’ economy and opposed the Bush Tax Cuts, voted # 8 RINO by Human Events, passed over Republican lawyers for three quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he faced and nominated 2 open homosexuals, criticized Joint Chief’s of Staff, Peter Pace for saying that homosexual acts were “immoral,” supports passage at the state level of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which would force churches and other religious organizations to hire homosexuals and transvestites or face criminal fines and prosecution, supported McCain-Feingold “campaign finance reform”, McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive immigration reform” (i.e. amnesty), and parts of the McCain-Lieberman “carbon cap and trade” bill. Proof Does anything more really need to be said?

And now the one candidate I would be caucusing for if I lived in Iowa….

Michelle Bachmann- Of all the candidates, she has the most authentic Christian conservative worldview philosophy and record. I disagree with her support for the USA Patriot Act and hope as president she would help to substantially reform it. I also have opposed her support of abortion regulations such as the immoral and unconstitutional Ohio “Heartbeat Bill” that codifies into law that it is ok to kill pre-born babies (that the bill itself acknowledges are living human beings) without “detectable heartbeats.” But I applaud her recent signing on to the USA Personhood Pledge and am hopeful that as president she would fulfill her promise to enforce the inalienable right to life for all innocent persons from fertilization to natural death when individual states fail to do so (which happens to be the case, sadly enough, in all 50 states).

Bachmann is one of the only candidates to acknowledge that America’s economic problems are the result of our moral/spiritual decline and has not only vowed to end the Abortion Holocaust by supporting Personhood but also to champion a federal marriage amendment. That being said, life and marriage are nowhere to be found on her website’s “issues page” so I do have some reservations as to how much of a priority actually ending abortion (as opposed to regulating it) and protecting marriage would be in a Bachmann administration.

On the economic issues, Bachmann, a former tax attorney, who is the head of the Congressional “Tea Party Caucus” who vehemently opposed TARP is rock solid, and I have no doubt she would energetically champion tax cuts, massive spending cuts, and the repeal of Obamacare to help stimulate economic growth and deficit reduction.

Moreover, I believe she would also be a “peace through strength” foreign policy hawk in the mold of Thatcher and Reagan. She has proven she can win highly contested elections in a blue state and have no doubt she possesses the “fire in the belly” to go toe to toe with Obama in a national election more so than any other candidate barring Gingrich who would definitely be a formidable debate opponent.

At this point, if I were living in Iowa, given the very weak GOP field, I would be caucusing for Michelle Bachmann on January 3rd.

Some may say, “But Gregg, Bachmann isn’t one of the ‘frontrunners.’”

I don’t care.

“Duty is ours. Results are God’s.”

Gregg Jackson is the national bestselling author of “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies” and co-author of “We Won’t Get Fooled Again: Where the Christian Right Went Wrong and How to Make America Right Again.”

Aside from the Kool-Aid drinking Romneybots and Ron Paul clones who comprise about 3 in 10 voters combined (about 20% for Romney and 10% for Paul) depending on the poll, the other 7 in 10 voters have shown now strong and consistent preference for any of the other candidates.

What explains this tepid and highly fractured support?

As a guy who has spent the last two decades in sales and sales management in the ultra competitive high tech software and medical device industries…I can tell you that the customer (the voters) ain’t buyin what the candidates are tryin to sell them.

None of the GOP presidential candidates have come anywhere near closing the deal not only with Iowans in the first in the nation caucus state but with voters nationally.

Why you ask?

Simple.

The candidates are talking but they aren’t clearly articulating what the majority of voters want to hear. And the heart and soul of the GOP, especially in the primaries, are evangelical Christians and Catholics “values voters.” Some of the candidates have come close to speaking their language but not enough to gain their confidence, trust and energetic, committed support.

Here are 5 major points I have not heard one of the candidates clearly make that I believe would resonate strongly with the largely unenthusiastic conservative Christian base who are starving for moral clarity and consistency.

1. The primary duty of civil government is to protect the inalienable right to life. None of our other rights can be secure if the right to life for every person is not secure from the very beginning of life (at fertilization) until natural death. As president I will enforce the 14th amendment to the Constitution as I am bound by my solemn oath to do which guarantees that no state shall deprive any person of life without due process of law and equal protection under the laws. As president I will protect and defend the God given right to life wherever and whenever individual states are alienating the inalienable right to life. The time to end the silent genocide (55 million pre-born babies who have been murdered in the past 40 years) is now! We can’t wait any longer. And as president, I won’t!

Our fathers, recognizing God as the author of human life, proclaimed it a ‘self evident truth’ that every human being holds from the Creator an inalienable right to live … If this right be denied, no other can be acknowledged. If there be exceptions to this central, this universal proposition, that all men, without respect to complexion or condition, hold from the Creator the right to live, who shall determine what portion of the community shall be slain? And who shall perpetrate the murders?”
~ Joshua R. Giddings, 1858, in reference to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

2. Our Founding National Charter, the Declaration, states explicitly that our rights come from God and that governments are instituted among men to protect those God given rights. As president I will veto any laws contrary to God’s Divinely Revealed Law since any law contrary to God’s Law is no law at all.

3. The Supreme Court is the weakest of the 3 branches of government by design wielding “neither the power of the sword nor the purse.” No judge possesses the authority to rule by judicial fiat that it is ok to murder babies, that homosexuality or bestiality that God says is an abomination is “legal,” to change God’s definition of marriage which He Himself created, or that the government has the right to steal from its citizens. I will respect the court’s administrative opinions when they are in accordance with the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” but will ignore any court opinion contrary to it and call for the removal of any judges who issue any of these illegal and anti-Constitutional opinions.

4. As president, I promise to repeal Obamacare not just because it is an economically inefficient socialist rationing scheme (which it is). I promise to repeal Obamacare because government doesn’t possess the authority to force any citizen to purchase any good or service. Obamacare is bad because it is morally wrong. It’s unconstitutional because it is contrary to the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.”

5. As president I will veto any and all unconstitutional spending and propose a 10% flat tax for every American as well as a 0% capital gains and 0% corporate income tax. No American should pay more to the government than they tithe at church. And everybody knows that businesses don’t pay taxes. They merely pass them on to the consumer in higher prices. The way to grow our economy is simple. We need to drastically cut spending (non-discretionary and discretionary) and drastically reduce the amount government collects from individual workers and businesses (large and small) to make America more competitive globally. (But none of this will matter if we continue to permit the murder of 4,000 pre-born babies a day!)

Given the fact that the chief obligation of civil government is to protect the inalienable right to life for all innocent human persons and the fact that the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law nor deny any person within its jurisdiction equal protection under the laws, will you solemnly swear to enforce the 14th amendment when individual states fail to do so (as is sadly the case in all 50 states in our nation)?

If you can fulfill your primary moral and Constitutional duty, I can vote for you.

In not, then I, as a Christian, can not.

Is there one candidate running for the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America that will promise to enforce the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution and put an end to the 4,000 pre-born babies that are murdered in cold blood in our country each and every day?

If there isn’t, does it really matter where any of the candidates stand on tax rates, border fences, oil drilling etc…?

This week marked a major victory for the Personhood movement in America. 4 GOP candidates Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich all singed the Personhood USA Pledge which states:

I __________________ proclaim that every human being is created in the image and likeness of God, and is endowed by our Creator with the unalienable right to life.

I stand with President Ronald Reagan in supporting “the unalienable personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death,” and with the Republican Party platform in affirming that I “support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and endorse legislation to make clear that the 14th Amendment protections apply to unborn children.”

I believe that in order to properly protect the right to life of the vulnerable among us, every human being at every stage of development must be recognized as a person possessing the right to life in federal and state laws without exception and without compromise. I recognize that in cases where a mother’s life is at risk, every effort should be made to save the baby’s life as well; leaving the death of an innocent child as an unintended tragedy rather than an intentional killing.

I oppose assisted suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and procedures that intentionally destroy developing human beings.

I pledge to the American people that I will defend all innocent human life. Abortion and the intentional killing of an innocent human being are always wrong and should be prohibited.

If elected President, I will work to advance state and federal laws and amendments that recognize the unalienable right to life of all human beings as persons at every stage of development, and to the best of my knowledge, I will only appoint federal judges and relevant officials who will uphold and enforce state and federal laws recognizing that all human beings at every stage of development are persons with the unalienable right to life.

While many of the candidates who spoke at Mike Huckabee’s pro-life event in Des Moines this past Wednesday night spoke eloquently about the sanctity of human life and what they would do as president to advance a culture of life such as eliminating tax-payer funded abortions at home and abroad as well as supporting a federal human life amendment, none of the candidates pledged to do the most important thing as president they possess a moral and constitutional duty to do which is to enforce the inalienable right to life for all innocent persons from conception (when science has proven that human life begins) until natural death when individual states fail to do so. (which in our case is all 50 states sadly enough.)

Here is what I wanted even one of the candidates to say:

“The 14th amendment guarantees that ‘no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction equal protection of the laws.’ As president, I will abide by my sworn oath to enforce the inalienable right to life for all persons (i.e. their Personhood) if any individual states fail to do so on their own. Since the primary duty of civil government is to protect innocent human life, I promise that my first official act as president of the United States will be to urge every governor of every individual state to enforce the inalienable right to life by criminalizing all child murder. If any individual state fails to do so by immediately criminalizing all child murder, I will issue an executive order to close down all abortion clinics in our country and authorize my attorney general to prosecute any and all child murder. My second act will be to eliminate all tax-payer funds going towards any abortions anywhere in the world. While I can’t promise you that I will be the perfect president, I can promise you that I will fulfill my primary obligation as your president…to protect the inalienable right to life for all innocent persons in our country. We can never hope to have a virtuous and prosperous nation if we continue to violate the most fundamental right all persons made in the very image of God possess…the right to their own lives.”

All of the candidates claim to be “pro-life.”

But if you really believe in the inherent Personhood of all persons from the very moment they are conceived (at fertilization) and that all abortions at any stage of a pre-born babies’ development to be murder (as all the candidates who signed the pledge claim to), then isn’t the chief executive officer of the nation, the president, obligated to enforce the God given (inalienable) right to life when individual states fail to do so?

And if the president is not as the chief law enforcement officer in the country…

Who is?

When asked about the Boy Scouts’ ban on gays as scoutmasters, Mitt Romney — then a member of the group’s executive board — initially defended the right of the Boy Scouts to set a tough policy. But he added: “I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts (youtube clip) regardless of their sexual orientation.”

Pedophilia, which is a type of “sexual orientation” is defined as:

“sexual activity with a prepubescent child (generally age 13 years or younger). The individual with Pedophilia must be age 16 years or older and at least 5 years older than the child. For individuals in late adolescence with Pedophilia, no precise age difference is specified, and clinical judgment must be used; both the sexual maturity of the child and the age difference must be taken into account.”

What does it say that the “frontrunner” in the GOP presidential campaign, Willard Mitt Romney, who barred the Boyscouts from taking part in the Olympics that he is credited by some as “saving,” thinks that somebody like former Penn State assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky who “allegedly” molested at least 9 prepubescent boys on numerous occasion, should be allowed to be part of the Boy Scouts?