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  By   Tad Callister , Published in the Deseret News July 1, 2010 Were the Founding Fathers heroes, or as some claim, villains? Ted Stewart, a federal judge, put this question in its proper light: “Today, it is common to criticize the founders of America. Judging them by today’s standards of equality and justice they do fail. Some owned slaves, none fought to give women equal rights. Most were wealthy white men. …   “But there is just one problem with judging them by today’s standards and it is this: but for those imperfect founders and the sacrifices that they made and the instruments of government which they created, there would be no current, enlightened standards of equality and justice by which to judge them.” Judge Stewart is so right. The reason the critics can freely criticize, protest, vote for change, run for office and exercise freedom of religion or irreligion as they choose is for one reason and one reason only, because...

  The Role of Education in Building a Moral Society (By Tad R. Callister) A speech given to Liberty Hills Academy Introduction Tonight, I would like to speak about our inspired Founding Fathers, the Constitution, the need for a moral people as a condition to protecting our Constitutional liberties, and the role of education in promoting those necessary moral values. The Founding Fathers First, a word about the Founding Fathers.  Unfortunately, it has become academically in vogue to denigrate many of our national heroes, such as Columbus and the Founding Fathers.   But consider the consequences if God could use only perfect men and women to advance His work; He would be left empty-handed.  To illustrate, suppose I were to tell you these four historical facts about a New Testament character and nothing more: first, Jesus said to him, “Get thee behind me, Satan” (Matthew 16:23); second, the Lord reprimanded him as follows: “O thou of little faith” (Matthew ...

  Chasing American Legends: It’s a show about a homeschooling Christian family that looks into the truth behind various American legends, mostly ones about our Founding Fathers. It’s really inspirational. Each show is only about 25 minutes long. Good for all ages, but middle and high schoolers would get more out of it than elementary. https://www.patriotacademy.tv/series/6UvqMxjd1p4n-chasing-american-legends?channel=original-films Communism/Socialism explanation https://www.facebook.com/reel/1792405377980590