The American Standard
THE AMERICAN STANDARD
The American experiment is not finished. Tomorrow begins with who we choose to be today.
AN OFFICIAL CULTURAL POLICY
The Moderate Party of America adopts this as an official, voluntary cultural policy describing how we want to be as Americans and the standard we ask ourselves, our leaders, and our country to pursue. It is meant to persuade, inspire, teach, recognize good conduct, and encourage service. It is not a purity test and it is not a command enforced by government.
This policy creates no offense, cause of action, disciplinary charge, or punishment. Falling short of it, disagreeing with it, or making an honest mistake under it is not, by itself, grounds for punishment. This policy itself gives no person, government, party office, employer, school, or other institution authority to punish anyone.
No person incurs a criminal, civil, administrative, financial, employment, education, licensing, voting, benefit, ballot-access, or membership penalty merely for declining to volunteer, donate, pray, profess a belief, join an activity, or meet this cultural standard.
No government agency or party office may create a service score, belief registry, religious test, compelled pledge, loyalty test, surveillance program, or reporting requirement from this policy.
The request to volunteer one hour each week is an invitation, not a quota. Disability, illness, work, caregiving, hardship, safety, conscience, and ordinary human limitation must be respected.
A mistake, bad day, failed attempt, disagreement, or imperfect conduct does not make someone unworthy. The standard calls for honesty, apology, repair, forgiveness, learning, and renewed effort.
This policy does not excuse crime, corruption, abuse, harassment, threats, discrimination, cruelty, neglect, or violation of another person’s rights. Those matters remain governed by applicable law and separate party rules.
HONESTY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND PROPORTIONATE CONSEQUENCES
When a separate law, policy, or rule permits punishment or another corrective consequence for actual misconduct, a person’s initial honesty must be considered as a mitigating factor. Initial honesty means prompt and voluntary truthfulness at the first reasonable opportunity, including when first questioned, together with acknowledgment of what happened and acceptance of responsibility before concealment, obstruction, retaliation, or confrontation with conclusive evidence.
Initial honesty is not immunity and does not erase the harm. The decision must also consider intent, seriousness, actual harm, prior conduct, cooperation, restitution, efforts to prevent recurrence, victim safety, public safety, and equal treatment. Any claimed honesty must be evaluated against the evidence and cannot replace proof or due process.
A person who lies, destroys evidence, intimidates witnesses, blames an innocent person, retaliates, or admits the truth only after it becomes unavoidable should not receive the same consideration as someone who was truthful from the beginning. Exercising the right to remain silent, seek counsel, contest an accusation, or require the government or another accuser to prove its case is not dishonesty and may not be treated as an aggravating factor.
No victim is required to forgive, accept contact, surrender restitution, or endorse a reduced consequence. The purpose is to reward truth and responsibility while preserving justice, repair, equal treatment, and protection of others.
HOW MPA WILL ADVANCE THIS STANDARD
MPA should advance this policy through example, voluntary service, civic education, public conversation, recognition of honest improvement and good conduct, partnerships with trustworthy local organizations, and opportunities for people to help without being compelled or placed under government control.
MPA leaders should model the standard, admit mistakes, make amends, and keep learning. Leadership under this policy means invitation and example, not moral domination.
Raising the American Standard
The Moderate Party of America seeks to raise the standard of American politics and American culture.
We are not here merely to win elections, defeat another party, or replace one group of politicians with another. We are here to change what Americans should expect from political leaders, public institutions, their communities, and themselves.
Politics should not lower the character of the nation. Public service should require greater honesty, competence, restraint, courage, humility, and accountability than ordinary life, not less.
Leaders should tell the truth even when the truth is inconvenient. They should admit mistakes, correct failures, keep their promises, respect constitutional limits, and remember that authority belongs to the people.
The greater the power, the greater the responsibility.
We also seek to raise the standard of American culture, not through censorship, coercion, forced conformity, or government control, but through example, expectation, persuasion, education, service, and the conduct we choose to recognize and reward.
Freedom should not become selfishness.
Strength should not become cruelty.
Wealth should not determine human worth.
Compassion should not require foolishness.
Patriotism should not become hatred of other peoples.
Disagreement should not make Americans enemies.
Being an American is not a matter of race, ancestry, wealth, religion, political party, or the circumstances of one’s birth.
An American may come from any race or lawful background, practice any faith or no faith, and disagree strongly with other Americans while remaining fully American.
To be an American is to inherit both extraordinary liberty and extraordinary responsibility.
It means respecting the Constitution, defending individual rights, accepting equal justice under law, participating honestly in self-government, taking responsibility for our choices, contributing when we can, helping our neighbors, protecting the vulnerable, and preserving freedom for those who will come after us.
It means having the courage to defend our country and the wisdom not to seek unnecessary conflict.
It means loving America enough to celebrate what is good, tell the truth about what is wrong, repair what has failed, and leave the nation better than we found it.
This is not a claim that Americans are perfect or that America has always lived according to its ideals. We have failed one another many times. The American promise is not that we will never fail. It is that we possess the freedom, courage, humility, and constitutional means to recognize failure, correct it, and continue striving toward something better.
This standard is not a purity test, a religious test, or a condition upon anyone’s fundamental rights. It is an aspiration and a voluntary commitment.
We ask every American, including ourselves:
What kind of country are our daily choices creating?
Are we strengthening the nation or weakening it?
Are we building trust or destroying it?
Are we solving problems or profiting from division?
Are we leaving our children a stronger country and a better culture than the ones we inherited?
The Moderate Party of America will ask more of its leaders, its members, and the country it seeks to serve.
We are raising the standard of American politics.
We are raising the standard of American culture.
We are renewing what it means to be an American.
A Call to American Character
America is more than its government, its economy, its military, or its borders. America is a people.
Laws can restrain wrongdoing, protect rights, and punish those who harm others. Laws cannot make us kind. They cannot force us to love our neighbor, forgive someone who has wronged us, help a person when no reward is offered, or do what is right when no one is watching.
Those things must be chosen.
A free nation cannot survive through law alone. It depends upon the character of its people. It depends upon individuals who respect the rights of others, keep their word, accept responsibility, tell the truth, help when they can, and exercise freedom without using that freedom to destroy one another.
We must look out for one another. We do not have to know someone, agree with them, resemble them, or benefit from helping them before their humanity matters.
The Moderate Party of America is informed by the Christian conviction that every person possesses God-given dignity and that we are called to love God, love our neighbors, care for the vulnerable, forgive others, seek truth, practice mercy, and serve rather than rule over one another.
These principles are not an excuse for government to impose religion or control conscience. Faith must be freely chosen. Americans of every faith, and Americans with no religious faith, can recognize the logic behind these values. A free society works only when people respect the rights of those with whom they disagree, fulfill their responsibilities without constant coercion, and care about more than their own immediate interests.
In God We Trust
Printed upon our currency and inscribed upon our coins are four words:
In God We Trust.
There is something profound about placing those words on money.
Money is necessary. It can feed a family, build a home, start a business, fund discovery, reward honest work, and help a stranger. But money can also become an object of worship. Greed can persuade people to betray their principles, exploit their neighbors, abandon their families, corrupt their government, and measure human worth by wealth.
Yet there, on the very object most commonly associated with wealth and greed, our nation proclaims that money is not where our highest trust belongs.
The denomination tells us what the money is worth. The motto reminds us that money cannot tell us what a human being is worth.
It is almost as if every dollar carries a warning: possess money, but do not allow money to possess you. Use wealth, but do not worship it. Earn honestly, spend wisely, give generously, and remember that no amount of money can purchase truth, character, forgiveness, salvation, or love.
If we are going to proclaim “In God We Trust,” the words should mean something.
They should remind the wealthy that prosperity is a responsibility, not proof of superiority. They should remind government that power and public money are entrusted, not owned. They should remind all of us that our nation cannot be saved by wealth, military power, technology, political parties, or human pride alone.
Perhaps those words remain on our money because that is where we most need to see them.
What It Means to Be a Good Person
A good person is not someone who is perfect, never makes mistakes, or always knows the right answer.
A good person tries to tell the truth, keep promises, accept responsibility, control harmful impulses, respect boundaries, protect the vulnerable, and help others without always needing recognition or reward.
A good person admits when they are wrong. They apologize without excuses, repair what they damaged when possible, learn from failure, and try again.
Goodness is not measured only by what we claim to believe. It is measured by how we treat people who cannot benefit us, people over whom we hold power, people with whom we disagree, and people whom society finds easy to ignore.
Being good does not mean being weak, gullible, or incapable of confronting evil. It means trying to use our strength wisely, honestly, courageously, and for purposes greater than ourselves.
Doing What Is Right
Character is revealed by what we do when we are not required, rewarded, praised, or watched.
We should help people when we can, not merely because a law, employer, church, organization, or government tells us to. We should help because another human being matters.
Helping does not mean creating permanent dependence or removing personal responsibility. It means refusing to abandon people when they are injured, overwhelmed, grieving, hungry, lost, alone, or temporarily unable to carry the burden before them.
When People Fall
Sometimes people fall and need to learn how to pick themselves back up.
We should encourage them, believe in them, and give them room to rediscover their own strength. We should not rob people of independence by permanently doing what they are capable of learning to do for themselves.
Sometimes a person can stand but needs a hand. Offer it.
Sometimes a person falls and cannot get back up. They may be injured, sick, disabled, grieving, overwhelmed, or carrying more than any person could reasonably bear alone.
Sometimes they need to be carried.
That help may last for an hour, a week, a year, or for as long as the genuine need remains. We should help them heal, rebuild, learn, and regain as much independence as reasonably possible.
When they can stand again, help them stand. When they can walk again, walk beside them until they are steady. When they are ready to continue on their own, step back without withdrawing your friendship.
Some people may always require assistance. Their need does not make them lesser people, failed lives, or burdens without value. Human dignity does not depend upon complete independence.
Compassion asks what kind of help will genuinely help this person. Responsibility asks what they can reasonably do for themselves. Wisdom helps us distinguish between someone who will not try and someone who truly cannot continue alone.
We should make that distinction carefully and humbly, because another person’s struggle is not always visible from the outside.
The goal is not permanent dependence.
The answer is not abandonment.
Restore independence when possible. Provide support when necessary. Preserve dignity always.
We should also help strangers when we reasonably can. The fact that we do not know someone does not make their suffering meaningless.
At the same time, compassion must be guided by wisdom. Helping another person does not require ignoring deception, danger, manipulation, repeated exploitation, or our responsibilities to our own families. We can refuse an unsafe or dishonest request while still offering a safer and more responsible form of help.
Kindness does not require us to become victims. Wisdom does not require us to become indifferent.
Going the Extra Mile
A healthy society cannot be built by people who do only the absolute minimum required of them.
Sometimes doing what is right means staying a little longer, working a little harder, listening a little more carefully, or helping with something that is not technically our responsibility.
Going the extra mile does not mean allowing others to exploit us. It means voluntarily doing more when that additional effort can genuinely help another person, strengthen a family, improve a community, or prevent unnecessary harm.
We should also reward good behavior. A culture grows whatever it repeatedly rewards.
We should recognize honesty, effort, courage, improvement, responsibility, generosity, service, and people who make amends after doing wrong. We should not reserve all of our attention for misconduct, outrage, fame, wealth, or controversy.
People should know that doing good matters, that improvement will be recognized, and that honest effort is worth something.
One Hour for One Another
We ask Americans to go the extra mile.
When reasonably able, give at least one hour each week to another person, an animal, a neighborhood, or a worthy cause.
Volunteer at a food pantry, animal shelter, church, school, veterans organization, hospital, community center, youth program, or local charity. Mentor a child. Visit someone who is elderly or alone. Help a neighbor with a repair. Clean a park. Teach a useful skill. Prepare a meal. Listen to someone who needs to be heard.
Service does not have to be organized or public to matter. Quietly helping one person still counts.
Give what you reasonably can to a trustworthy charity or community organization that genuinely helps others. A contribution may be money, food, clothing, supplies, professional knowledge, physical labor, transportation, or time.
Charitable organizations should be transparent about how contributions are used and able to show that help reaches the people, animals, or communities it was intended to serve.
No one should be shamed for being unable to volunteer or donate because of disability, financial hardship, work, caregiving, illness, or other legitimate responsibilities. Human worth is not measured by disposable income or free time.
The purpose is not to keep score. The purpose is to notice one another again.
Put down the phone. Learn your neighbor’s name. Look people in the eyes. Listen without preparing an attack. Share a meal. Work beside someone different from you. Remember that the stranger standing nearby carries fears, hopes, losses, responsibilities, and dreams just as you do.
We have allowed politics, technology, anger, fear, and isolation to separate us from one another.
It is time to reconnect with our humanity.
It is time to reconnect with each other.
One person. One neighbor. One hour at a time.
Choosing Kindness
Kindness is not weakness. It does not require silence, surrender, dishonesty, or acceptance of abuse.
A kind person can still be firm. A loving person can still tell the truth. A respectful person can still defend a boundary. A compassionate nation can still hold people accountable.
We can disagree without humiliating one another. We can challenge harmful conduct without denying the humanity of the person responsible. We can speak honestly without speaking cruelly.
How we treat people when we have power over them reveals more about our character than how we treat those who can benefit us.
Let Children Be Children
Children should not be pressured to imitate adults before they possess the maturity, judgment, and experience of adulthood.
They should not be sexualized, drawn into adult political conflicts, encouraged to glorify violence, drugs, criminality, reckless behavior, or taught that cruelty and disrespect make them strong.
Children need time to play, imagine, explore, learn, make friends, develop talents, and discover who they are. They need loving families, dependable adults, reasonable discipline, clear boundaries, age-appropriate responsibilities, and protection from people and institutions that would exploit their immaturity.
Letting children be children does not mean raising them without standards. Childhood is when honesty, responsibility, courage, manners, self-control, compassion, and respect should begin to develop.
We should prepare children for adulthood without stealing their childhood from them.
Self-Respect, Honor, and Conduct
America needs to recover a sense of self-respect and honor.
No human being is trash, and no community is beneath dignity. But behavior can be destructive, degrading, irresponsible, and dishonorable. We should not excuse harmful conduct merely because someone calls it culture, entertainment, authenticity, anger, or personal expression.
We should not glorify violence, criminality, intimidation, cruelty, public disorder, humiliation, reckless parenthood, abandonment of children, exploitation, or treating other people as disposable.
This standard applies to everyone. Wealth does not make dishonorable behavior respectable. Poverty does not make a person dishonorable. Race, neighborhood, clothing, accent, occupation, or political affiliation does not determine character. Conduct does.
Honor means keeping your word, controlling your temper, accepting responsibility, protecting those who depend upon you, treating others fairly, working honestly, standing against cruelty, and admitting when you are wrong.
Self-respect means recognizing that your choices matter. It means caring for your body and mind, refusing to degrade yourself for approval, developing your abilities, choosing friends and influences wisely, and not allowing anger, addiction, attention, or social pressure to control your life.
Respect for others means not threatening, humiliating, exploiting, or terrorizing people. It means behaving with reasonable consideration in public, at work, at school, at home, and online.
Strength is not the ability to frighten people. Strength is the ability to govern yourself.
Being honorable does not mean being perfect. It means having a standard, taking responsibility when you fall short, making amends, and continuing to become better.
We should build a culture that rewards honorable conduct and gives people something better to aspire to.
Wisdom, Peace, and Necessary Force
We are not pacifists. There are times when innocent people, individual liberty, our communities, or our country must be defended.
Refusing to confront violence or evil can allow greater suffering. Peace does not require surrendering to someone determined to harm others.
But force should never be our first desire or a source of pride. It should be used only when reasonably necessary and proportionate only in completely eliminating the danger being confronted. We will not play games. We won’t be cruel either.
Whenever we are forced to fight, something has already failed. Judgment, communication, prevention, deterrence, diplomacy, boundaries, restraint, or respect failed somewhere along the way.
Sometimes that failure belongs to the aggressor who rejected every peaceful alternative. A victim forced to defend themselves is not morally responsible for an aggressor’s decision to attack.
Even when force is justified, it should be treated as a solemn responsibility, not a celebration. The purpose should be to stop the threat, protect the innocent, and restore peace.
Strength should make peace possible. Wisdom should help us recognize when peace remains possible and when defense has become necessary.
No Peace With Evil
We seek peace, but peace does not mean surrender, cowardice, appeasement, or pretending that evil is acceptable.
We will make no peace with evil. We will not acquiesce. The road of appeasement is the road to surrender. America will not walk it. We will pursue every honorable path to peace, but we will not reward aggression, retreat from every threat, abandon those who depend upon us, or purchase temporary safety with freedom. Appeasement teaches aggressors that intimidation works and that every concession will produce another demand. We will negotiate in good faith, stand firm when necessary, and maintain the strength to make clear that there are lines no enemy will be allowed to cross.
We will not accept cruelty, slavery, terrorism, trafficking, torture, exploitation, corruption, abuse, or the deliberate destruction of innocent life merely to avoid confrontation.
At the same time, we must not casually call every opponent, disagreement, mistake, or different way of life evil. That word carries moral weight and should be reserved for conduct that knowingly and gravely harms, degrades, enslaves, exploits, or destroys others.
We will oppose evil, protect its victims, restrain those committing it, and hold wrongdoers accountable. We will do so without allowing hatred, cruelty, or vengeance to turn us into what we oppose.
A person can renounce evil. An enemy can surrender, repent, make restitution, and change. When that happens, reconciliation may become possible.
We may make peace with a former enemy who has turned away from evil.
We will never make peace with evil itself.
Forgiveness and Accountability
Forgiveness does not mean pretending that harm never happened. It does not erase responsibility, eliminate lawful consequences, automatically restore trust, or require a victim to remain within reach of abuse.
Forgiveness means refusing to allow another person’s wrongdoing to fill us permanently with hatred. It leaves room for repentance, restitution, change, and redemption.
People should be held accountable for what they do. They should also have a meaningful opportunity to repair what they damaged and become better than their worst decision.
Justice should protect the innocent, confront wrongdoing, and restore what can be restored. It should not become vengeance for its own sake.
Love Without Forced Agreement
Love does not always mean affection, agreement, or approval.
To love another person is to recognize their humanity and sincerely desire what is good for them without surrendering truth, reason, justice, or our own rights.
Sometimes love comforts. Sometimes it corrects. Sometimes it protects. Sometimes it establishes a necessary boundary. Sometimes it asks us to forgive. Sometimes it requires us to intervene when another person is being harmed.
We can oppose an idea without hating the person who holds it. We can defend our convictions while respecting another person’s freedom of conscience.
Respect for Ourselves and Others
Respect must work in both directions.
We respect ourselves by caring for our bodies and minds, developing our abilities, keeping our word, accepting responsibility, learning from our mistakes, and refusing to surrender our dignity.
We respect others by listening before condemning, speaking truthfully, honoring reasonable boundaries, avoiding malicious accusations, and treating people as individuals rather than stereotypes or political categories.
Respect does not require agreement. It requires recognition that the person before us possesses the same fundamental human dignity and rights that we claim for ourselves.
Animals and the Duty to Reduce Suffering
Our responsibility to do what is right extends to animals.
Animals cannot vote for us, reward us, repay us, or understand our politics. That is precisely why the way we treat them reveals something important about our character.
We should protect animals from cruelty, needless suffering, abuse, and neglect. We should practice responsible ownership and humane stewardship. We should help an animal in distress not because it can do something for us, but because preventing needless suffering is the right thing to do.
Human life and animal life are not identical, but both deserve moral consideration appropriate to their nature.
Not every form of suffering can be eliminated. Some hardship accompanies growth, responsibility, justice, medicine, nature, and life itself. Our responsibility is to prevent or reduce suffering when we reasonably can without causing greater harm.
We should never become comfortable with suffering merely because it is happening to someone or something that cannot speak for itself.
America First and Our Responsibility to Others
America must put America first.
That does not mean America alone. It does not mean indifference to suffering beyond our borders. It means recognizing that the first responsibility of the American government is to the American people, our Constitution, our security, our prosperity, and our future.
A nation that cannot protect its people, maintain its infrastructure, control its debt, defend its borders, care for its veterans, or preserve its institutions will eventually lose the ability to help anyone else.
We must put our own house in order so that we can help others from a position of strength, stability, wisdom, and generosity.
Our assistance to other nations should not needlessly weaken America, create permanent dependence, support corruption, or neglect suffering at home. It should accomplish a clear good, respect the dignity and independence of those receiving it, and be supported by evidence that the help reaches the people for whom it was intended.
America should be strong enough to defend itself, wise enough to avoid unnecessary conflict, and compassionate enough to help others when we reasonably can.
Putting America first gives us the strength and capacity to remain a force for good.
Citizenship, Neighbors, and Service
Government has legitimate responsibilities, but government cannot replace families, neighbors, congregations, friendships, mentors, charities, and communities.
Citizenship is more than demanding something from government. It also means accepting duties toward one another.
We should know our neighbors. We should notice when they are struggling. We should offer help when we can.
Help should ordinarily be offered, not imposed. Except when someone faces immediate danger or cannot act for themselves, we should respect their freedom to accept or decline assistance.
Helping people does not give us ownership over their decisions. Assistance should preserve dignity, independence, and choice rather than becoming another means of control.
Ask whether help is wanted. Listen to what is actually needed. Offer what can responsibly be given. Respect the answer.
Leadership is not a prize. Power is not proof of superiority. Authority is a responsibility temporarily entrusted to a person for the purpose of serving others.
To lead is to serve.
The greater the power, the greater the responsibility.
The Life We Are Trying to Protect
Human beings are more than workers, taxpayers, voters, consumers, soldiers, patients, statistics, or members of political groups.
A person’s dignity does not depend upon wealth, intelligence, health, productivity, physical ability, social status, usefulness, or whether they agree with us.
Every person has value, including those who are too young, too old, too sick, too injured, or too vulnerable to provide something in return.
The purpose of liberty, justice, security, prosperity, and good government is not merely to maintain an orderly society. It is to protect the space in which human beings can live meaningful lives.
We want people to have the freedom and opportunity to love, worship, learn, create, build, work, rest, raise families, form friendships, explore nature, discover truth, invent new things, make music and art, share meals, laugh together, mourn together, and experience the beauty of being alive.
Life should not consist only of surviving, producing, consuming, competing, and paying bills.
People need purpose. They need family, friendship, belonging, beauty, hope, and the knowledge that their existence matters to someone.
Not every human moment must be productive. Rest is not laziness. Play is not meaningless. Laughter is not a distraction from life. These things are part of life.
We should build more than we destroy, heal more than we injure, teach more than we condemn, and leave behind more hope than fear.
Strength should be measured by more than what we can defeat.
A nation does not become stronger by using its strength at every opportunity. It becomes stronger by possessing the power to act and the wisdom, discipline, and confidence not to use it when force is unnecessary.
Power proves that it exists when it is used. Character proves itself when power is restrained.
Our strength should protect children, families, freedom, peace, human dignity, and the opportunity to build a meaningful life. It should not exist merely so that we can demonstrate it.
Humanity also requires humility. We must be willing not only to help, but to be helped. Receiving help can require as much courage as offering it. None of us is completely independent, and no one should be ashamed of needing another person.
We should allow ourselves to grieve without surrendering to despair, to fail without believing we are failures, and to rest without believing our worth has disappeared.
We should remain curious. We should ask questions, seek evidence, explore the universe, study nature, pursue science, preserve history, and remain humble about everything we do not yet understand.
We should create things that outlive us. Build homes, families, institutions, businesses, discoveries, works of art, traditions, and communities that future generations will be grateful to inherit.
We do not own the future. We hold it temporarily in trust for those who will come after us.
The world we leave behind should be freer, safer, wiser, more beautiful, more compassionate, and more hopeful than the world we inherited.
The goal is not merely to prevent death.
The goal is to make life worth living.
Our Commitment
America will not become better merely because one party defeats another. We will become better when enough of us decide to become better ourselves.
We should be slower to condemn and quicker to listen. We should be humble enough to admit when we are wrong, courageous enough to make amends, strong enough to forgive, and disciplined enough to do what is right when doing wrong would be easier.
A political opponent is not automatically an enemy. Disagreement is not hatred. Losing an argument does not diminish anyone’s humanity. No political victory is worth teaching Americans to despise one another.
We will not always meet this standard. The standard is not perfection. It is direction, responsibility, humility, and the willingness to try again after we fail.
Let us stop fighting only against one another and start fighting for one another.
Look out for one another. Care for one another. Help where you can. Go the extra mile when it matters. Tell the truth. Keep your word. Reward good conduct. Forgive when possible. Make amends when you are wrong. Protect the vulnerable. Reduce needless suffering. Respect yourself and your neighbor. Defend the rights of people with whom you disagree.
Do what is right because it is the right thing to do.
Putting People First.
Others Before Self.
To Lead is to Serve.
With God’s help, let this be the character of the America we build together.
Faith, Conscience, and Belonging
You do not have to be Christian, religious, or even certain that God exists to be a part of the Moderate Party of America.
No one must profess a faith, participate in prayer, or pretend to believe something they do not believe. Americans of every faith, and Americans without religious faith, are equally welcome if they respect the Constitution, the rights and dignity of others, and the principles of this party.
At the same time, if there is a God who created the universe, and if that God can hear us, we see no harm in humbly asking for help.
Those who believe may pray with conviction. Those who are uncertain may pray with hope. Those who do not believe remain equally welcome and free not to participate.
This prayer is an invitation, not a requirement. It is a sincere plea to the God of the universe, should He exist, to help us become better people and build a better nation.
A Prayer, Plea, and Proclamation
God, if You are there, hear us.
If Jesus Christ is truly Your Son, and if You are Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three Persons in one God, reveal the truth to us and give us the humility to receive it.
We do not come before You pretending to understand every mystery. We come as human beings who are struggling, divided, frightened, angry, and often lost.
Our world is filled with war, hatred, cruelty, greed, loneliness, sickness, suffering, and death. We hurt one another. We deceive one another. We condemn before understanding. We seek power over people when we should be serving them. We recognize evil in others while ignoring it within ourselves.
Help us.
Help us solve the problems that wisdom, courage, work, and cooperation can solve. Give us the judgment to recognize what we can change, the strength to change it, and the humility to ask for help when we cannot do it alone.
End the wars that can be ended. Restrain those who profit from hatred and bloodshed. Protect innocent people trapped between armies, governments, criminals, and causes they did not choose.
Help us resist evil without becoming evil ourselves.
Teach us to tell the truth when lying would benefit us. Help us do what is right when doing wrong would be easier. Give us courage without cruelty, strength without arrogance, compassion without foolishness, and justice without vengeance.
Forgive us for the harm we have caused and for the good we could have done but chose not to do.
Help us ask forgiveness honestly. Help us make amends. Help us accept responsibility and just consequences. Help us forgive others without pretending their wrongdoing was acceptable and without allowing hatred to control the rest of our lives.
Help us forgive, and help us be forgiven.
Protect our children. Let them have childhoods filled with safety, imagination, learning, family, friendship, play, and hope. Protect them from abuse, exploitation, violence, abandonment, and those who would use their innocence for power, pleasure, money, or ideology.
Protect the elderly, the disabled, the lonely, the sick, the poor, the grieving, the forgotten, and those who cannot defend themselves.
Help us care for the animals placed within our power. Teach us not to cause needless suffering merely because a living creature is unable to resist us or repay our kindness.
Restore honor to our homes, schools, workplaces, communities, institutions, and government. Teach us to keep our word, govern ourselves, care for our families, protect our neighbors, and use our freedom responsibly.
Bless the United States of America. Help us put our own country in order so we can protect our people, fulfill our responsibilities, and help others from a position of strength rather than weakness.
Do not allow love of country to become hatred of other peoples. Make America strong enough to defend itself, wise enough to avoid unnecessary war, and generous enough to help others without abandoning its own citizens.
Help us know our neighbors. Help us notice when someone is suffering. Give us the courage to offer help and the wisdom to respect their freedom when help is not wanted.
Where reconciliation is possible, turn enemies into neighbors and neighbors into friends.
Where others refuse peace and threaten innocent life, give us the wisdom and courage to defend what is good without surrendering our humanity.
If angels are real and serve You, send them into this struggle.
Let them protect children, families, peacemakers, defenders, healers, first responders, servicemembers, and all those who place themselves between innocent people and danger.
Let them stand against hatred, cruelty, despair, and the forces that encourage human beings to destroy one another.
Guide us onto the narrow path of truth, humility, courage, mercy, self-control, responsibility, forgiveness, and love.
When we wander, correct us.
When we fall, help us rise.
When we become proud, humble us.
When we become hateful, soften us.
When we become afraid, strengthen us.
When we are lost, lead us home.
Teach us not to place our ultimate trust in money, government, political parties, technology, military strength, or ourselves.
If we print “In God We Trust” upon our money, help us become a nation that means it.
If You are there, find us.
If You call us, help us answer.
If Jesus is Your Son and the path home to You, guide our feet onto that path.
If the Holy Spirit speaks, quiet the anger, fear, greed, and noise within us so that we may hear.
Help us love one another.
Help us make friends from our enemies.
Help us limit suffering wherever we reasonably can.
Help us do what is right because it is right.
And when our lives in this world are finished, lead us home to You and, by Your grace, into Heaven.
Amen.
Related policies: Our Principles; Animal Issues; Families & Child Care; Liberty, Equality & Opportunity; Government Integrity & Equal Justice.
Status: Proposed / Draft, voluntary cultural policy, not legally enforceable.
Originally published: September 30, 2026.
Last updated: September 30, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.1.