1st Book Club Meeting: A Success

Authored by Carol Scott.

Hey, the first meeting was a success! We had 13 attendees (two men, so know that you all are welcome!) with a robust discussion of the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and plans for taking back this great country of ours, one principle at a time. Main ideas/areas of focus that came out of our discussion were:



1. Interest in Monica Shumway’s family lessons on the Constitution, from her mom. She will explore how to share these with us: FHEs, group discussion, etc.

2. Fostering interest in the tea party movement, especially for the 4th of July. Someone in Gilbert is planning one at the civic center. We all discussed attending with our families, and ways of encouraging others to attend as well. We feel that if the demonstrations continue to grow (hopefully exponentially in size), then sooner or later the powers that be will take us seriously!

3. As we discussed the importance of states’ rights, we realized that our most likely intervention point would be on a state level, so we are going to pursue avenues for getting/demanding an audience with our elected officials to assert our viewpoints and start making our views more relevant.

4. Next on the docket as reading material will be The Real George Washington by Jay Parry. It is over 900 pages but I’m told that’s a lot of reference pages. We thought we’d allow a several months for people to read the book, so we’re planning the next meeting tentatively for July 30 (8pm?) (email projectprinciples@gmail.com for details). At that meeting we’ll be watching a video on the Founding Fathers and discussing it, and further plans to empower ourselves, and find ways to hold our elected officials more accountable. We’ll set up a time from there to return and discuss the real George Washington and start reaching our leaders.

5. The group will start using our blog site, projectprinciples.blogspot.com to further our education, make us aware of issues, opportunities, etc. Please feel free to contact us at projectprinciples@gmail.com if you’d like author access. Please share! Also, please tell a friend. We hope everyone will bring someone else next time. If we can get a group of 50-100 people we can start getting audiences with our elected officials.

One of the most important things we took away was also the dire need we have to be a moral, virtuous people. We decided that it was one of the most important things we could be doing: setting an example of that for our children and those around us. The founding fathers believed that only a virtuous and moral people could "pull off" the American experiment.

Interestingly, I was reading in the scriptures this morning, and came across "Ye are the light of the world-a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid..." We agreed, cynics and optimists alike, that we must do what we can, and it seems like the way is opening for us to do more as moral, virtuous people than ever before.