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Friends, regardless of what branch of government, office, or party affiliation, the law applies to each and every one of us.

We all must keep in scope that the purpose of government is to restrain men from sin, breaking the law, 1 John 3, 4, and enforce God's standard of right and wrong as we make reference to God's moral law, for we are based on the Mosaic Institution in the United States of America, and the purpose to maintain order.

Now, knowing this, how does one accept what is happening in American government today? Just recently, Al Franken from Minnesota simply chose to resign after being accused of inappropriately touching multiple women before and after he was a senator.
felt that we had entered an important moment in the history of this country.

Facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, Representative John Conyers from Michigan simply chose to resign as Congress's longest serving member Tuesday, becoming the first lawmaker to step down as Capitol Hill grapples with allegations of inappropriate behavior by, listen carefully, lawmakers.

Conyers, who represented the Detroit area for 52 years, yielded to mounting pressure from representatives to step aside as a growing number of female former aides accused him of unwanted advances and mistreatment.

Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks is now announcing that he will be resigning.

Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks announced in a statement Thursday that he will simply resign from Congress at the end of January after the House Ethics Committee said that it would investigate allegations against him of sexual harassment.

They're uncovered for their offenses towards our laws, and when found out, they simply choose to resign without fear of the consequence? A mere slap on the hand is a signal of encouragement to the next violator of law in line to do the same in their criminal endeavors.

The last to resign amid a scandal was Senator John Ensign, a representative from Nevada, in 2011, who quit during an investigation by the Ethics Committee into his affair with a former campaign staffer who was married to a Senate staffer.

Before that, Senator Robert Packwood, a representative from Oregon, resigned after being recommended for expulsion amid accusations of sexual abuse in 1995.

And going even further back, we have Senator Harrison Williams, a representative from New Jersey.

He resigned in 1982 after being recommended for expulsion after a bribery conviction.

Where have the American people accepted the notion that public servants, those that are entrusted to serve we the people, who have been placed into public trust and have transgressed American laws, must simply resign after the criminal violations rather than face justice as to the laws they broke? as if to suggest that this will somehow appease the crime? Friends, it only encourages more crimes.

Therefore, if they violate that trust by breaking the law, then there is a higher consequence that they must pay for their transgressions.

Article 2, Section 4 of the United States Constitution tells us that the President, the Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Asking them to resign is like hiring a banker that turns out to be a bank robber, and then after their crimes are discovered, you ask the bank robber to simply return the money and go find another job? He will merely go to another bank and then repeat the crime all over again.

You fire him and call the police and have them prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their crimes against we the people.

Americans need to understand that where justice is left off, it will create repeat offenders, and so it has and
will, and it will continue to do so unless the remedy is applied.
If

this is one heart and voice, we may prostate ourselves at the throne of heavenly grace and present to our great benefactor sincere and unfeigned thanks.

for his infinite goodness and mercy towards us, from our birth to the present moment, for having above all things illuminated us by the gospel of Jesus Christ, presenting to our view the happy prospect of a blessed immortality, and for our unparalleled ingratitude to the adorable being who has seated us in a land irradiated By the cheering beams of the gospel of Jesus Christ, let us fall prostate before offended deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of his divine favors, fervently implore his pardon through the merits of our mediator, Jesus Christ.
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Friends, regardless of what branch of government, office, or party affiliation, the law applies to each and every one of us.

We all must keep in scope that the purpose of government is to restrain men from sin, breaking the law, 1 John 3, 4, and enforce God's standard of right and wrong as we make reference to God's moral law, for we are based on the Mosaic Institution in the United States of America, and the purpose to maintain order.

Now, knowing this, how does one accept what is happening in American government today? Just recently, Al Franken from Minnesota simply chose to resign after being accused of inappropriately touching multiple women before and after he was a senator.
felt that we had entered an important moment in the history of this country.

Facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, Representative John Conyers from Michigan simply chose to resign as Congress's longest serving member Tuesday, becoming the first lawmaker to step down as Capitol Hill grapples with allegations of inappropriate behavior by, listen carefully, lawmakers.

Conyers, who represented the Detroit area for 52 years, yielded to mounting pressure from representatives to step aside as a growing number of female former aides accused him of unwanted advances and mistreatment.

Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks is now announcing that he will be resigning.

Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks announced in a statement Thursday that he will simply resign from Congress at the end of January after the House Ethics Committee said that it would investigate allegations against him of sexual harassment.

They're uncovered for their offenses towards our laws, and when found out, they simply choose to resign without fear of the consequence? A mere slap on the hand is a signal of encouragement to the next violator of law in line to do the same in their criminal endeavors.

The last to resign amid a scandal was Senator John Ensign, a representative from Nevada, in 2011, who quit during an investigation by the Ethics Committee into his affair with a former campaign staffer who was married to a Senate staffer.

Before that, Senator Robert Packwood, a representative from Oregon, resigned after being recommended for expulsion amid accusations of sexual abuse in 1995.

And going even further back, we have Senator Harrison Williams, a representative from New Jersey.

He resigned in 1982 after being recommended for expulsion after a bribery conviction.

Where have the American people accepted the notion that public servants, those that are entrusted to serve we the people, who have been placed into public trust and have transgressed American laws, must simply resign after the criminal violations rather than face justice as to the laws they broke? as if to suggest that this will somehow appease the crime? Friends, it only encourages more crimes.

Therefore, if they violate that trust by breaking the law, then there is a higher consequence that they must pay for their transgressions.

Article 2, Section 4 of the United States Constitution tells us that the President, the Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Asking them to resign is like hiring a banker that turns out to be a bank robber, and then after their crimes are discovered, you ask the bank robber to simply return the money and go find another job? He will merely go to another bank and then repeat the crime all over again.

You fire him and call the police and have them prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their crimes against we the people.

Americans need to understand that where justice is left off, it will create repeat offenders, and so it has and
will, and it will continue to do so unless the remedy is applied.
If

this is one heart and voice, we may prostate ourselves at the throne of heavenly grace and present to our great benefactor sincere and unfeigned thanks.

for his infinite goodness and mercy towards us, from our birth to the present moment, for having above all things illuminated us by the gospel of Jesus Christ, presenting to our view the happy prospect of a blessed immortality, and for our unparalleled ingratitude to the adorable being who has seated us in a land irradiated By the cheering beams of the gospel of Jesus Christ, let us fall prostate before offended deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of his divine favors, fervently implore his pardon through the merits of our mediator, Jesus Christ.