Professor George is great to be here in your neck of the woods,

Prinsston University.

I joked earlier, I feel smarter just being in this room, but it's an honor.

Thanks for taking time.

Well, it's my very great pleasure, and what a joy it is to have you right here with us at the Witherspoon Institute

and Princeton. Well, it's just an incredible work that is going on here, and I'd love to share

some of that with our folks, but really we're here to talk about Fidelity Month, and it's such an

interesting year. It seems, for a couple reasons. One is there's momentum. There's momentum for Fidelity Month. There's more

people that are recognizing it. There's more churches that are that are doing things to participate.

There's states and cities and municipalities. Where did this idea come from? Oh, well, this goes

back to the spring of 2023.

I got up one morning and was having my cup of tea in my three biscotti.

That's my breakfast.

It's where the best ideas coming.

Now, there it is. And I was looking at the Wall Street Journal, I think the website.

And I saw a story about some polling data, data that had been compiled

over many years now, about what Americans value, what Americans think is important. And alarmingly,

the data showed that the belief of Americans in the importance of some of the traditional values that had

been our sources of unity and strength as a people had diminished, diminished very significantly,

right down in a line like that, the belief in the importance of religion.

Belief in the importance of fidelity and marriage. Belief in the importance of fidelity and marriage.

Belief in the importance of patriotism, love of country.

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