By America’s political pundits and Christian Evangelical leaders of 2007 ” who deny America and … dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom.”

“This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: ‘All men are created equal’ — ‘government by consent of the governed’ — ‘give me liberty or give me death.’ Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives.

“Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man’s possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.

“To apply any other test — to deny a man his hopes because of his color or race, his religion or the place of his birth — is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom.“ — Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, 15 March 1965, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The American Promise Amended 2007: “The American Promise, as promised by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965, does not apply to those of the Mormon faith (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).” ~~America’s political pundits and Christian Evangelical leaders of 2007.