MLK celebration and Trump inauguration: What one historic day means for America

As we participate the caller year, January represents a clip of tremendous alteration and advancement for our nation. Just deliberation astir the events that laic successful store: the yearly March for Life, MLK Day, and, of course, the statesmanlike inauguration, successful which my person President-elect Trump volition instrumentality the oath of bureau and instrumentality to the White House. 

January volition besides people the clip erstwhile President Jimmy Carter was laid to remainder aft his decease astatine property 100. Over the people of my life, I had the grant of getting to cognize President Carter, and I americium grateful for the bequest helium leaves behind. 

When peripherals collide, convergence is imminent. The convergence of these events cannot conscionable beryllium a coincidence, and January’s March for Life, successful particular, offers america an accidental to bespeak connected the advancement we person made successful the movement. 

President-elect Trump smiles during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest astatine the Phoenix Convention Center connected Dec. 22, 2024, successful Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

By the grace of God and the spot of President Trump’s Supreme Court picks, Roe v. Wade was yet overturned successful June 2022. This was a infinitesimal that I, and millions similar me, prayed, marched and hoped for. However, it was besides a infinitesimal that galore of america were unsure would ever hap successful our lifetimes. 

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Let america each praise the Almighty that termination is nary longer a constitutionally protected close successful the United States. Yet this does not mean that our enactment is implicit arsenic a movement. Instead, arsenic we proceed to march successful enactment of the unborn, we volition besides crook our efforts to the authorities level to support beingness done authorities legislatures. 

While galore states took speedy enactment to restrict termination with the autumn of Roe, determination is inactive enactment to beryllium done. It is reprehensible that immoderate states let abortions adjacent up to the ninth period of pregnancy. 

There is hope, however. Through our question of love, we tin supply information, resources and acquisition to women facing unexpected pregnancies. The America First Policy Institute is starring the mode connected this contented with the rollout of the HOPE Agenda, a pro-life, pro-family model aimed astatine caring for the 2 lives involved: the parent and child. This volition amusement the American radical that our question of beingness is besides a question of love, and each of God’s children person inherent dignity that indispensable beryllium protected. 

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On Jan. 20, we volition inaugurate President Trump for his 2nd term. We volition besides observe the yearly solemnisation of the beingness and bequest of my uncle, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., honoring his interaction connected our country. 

Every year, I intermission and bespeak connected his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. If my uncle were live today, I deliberation helium would punctual america that we are the one-blood quality race, each brothers and sisters successful Christ, and that the American Dream is for everyone — nary substance our ethnicity, creed oregon religion. 

His code galvanized the federation and reminded the satellite of America’s elemental promise: that the "unalienable rights" of "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" are promised to each by our founding documents, and it is up to america to guarantee that these rights are protected for the slightest among us. 

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It is nary coincidence that connected the precise aforesaid time arsenic MLK Day, we volition observe the 2nd inauguration of President Trump. I judge that God made it truthful that these 2 events would align. 

President Trump’s committedness to instrumentality to the "America First" policies that uplift, dignify and respect humanity volition assistance america cherish the blessings of America and dispersed those blessings to the forgotten men and women of our nation. 

President Trump’s archetypal word helped present connected these promises, bringing jobs, economical growth, schoolhouse prime and a civilization of beingness to our forgotten communities. Now, with President Trump’s leadership, we tin instrumentality to that formula. This January, we instrumentality to our way of bid and prosperity for all. 

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I promote each of you to articulation maine successful praying for America arsenic we participate these promising days up and for our bid and prosperity passim the caller year.

Through our prayers, anticipation and continued hard work, we tin yet rejoice that determination is simply a light astatine the extremity of the tunnel. I commune that 1 day, we volition look backmost connected January 2025 arsenic the period erstwhile America erstwhile again became a federation that agreed astir the one-blood quality contention and embraced the dignity of beingness for each of God’s children, from the womb to the tomb and beyond. 

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