Elimination of Church and State?
Since around 1993 displaying the Ten Commandments in Federal Buildings, namely courthouses, has become about as popular with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) as UN Inspectors in Iraq. The ACLU has used high powered lawyers and its deep coffers to try and intimidate and coerce judges from exercising their first amendment right. The ACLU insist that opening court sessions with prayer and the acknowledgment of God unfairly forces religon on those present in the courtroom and violates the Constitution...They are about as accurate as grand jury testimony by Bill Clinton.
The first amendment states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religon, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of spech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peacebly assemble, and to petition the government for a redess of grievances." The argument from the ACLU focuses on the begining clause, commonly known as the "Establishment Clause." The ACLU and many other legal minds contend that this is where the principle of absolute seperation of church and state is spelled out.
A little history behind the law may make it easier to see how bizarre the ACLU claim is. The colonials who established the Constitution and its' amendments had come from England. When Henry VIII was the king of England he longed for a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon, because she failed to bear a male heir. The Catholic church refused to allow the divorce. Henry VIII proceeded to break break away from the church and establish his own church of which he was the head. Since then, the ruling monarch of the ruling family has been the head of the state and church. Authority over the church and state allowed the ruler to manipulate both the religeous and spiritual realm for his own personal gain, and it sucked the liberty out o the land. In order to prevent future abuse, the drafters of the Bill of Rights put the Establishment clause into the Constitution.
No where does the first amendment prevent the acknowledgment of God by public officials. George Washington's first act as president was a public prayer of thanks to God. Since 1789 judicial officials and the President have been ending their oath of office with "So Help Me God." Both Houses of Congress open everyday with prayer. Yet despite that this behavior is not only tolerated but allowed and even condoned by the Decleration of Independance the ACLU claims its illegal. How does the Decleration condone it?....One of the justifications for the break from England by the colonialist was the "laws of nature and nature's God." Furthermore the Decleration acknowledges that "all men, are endowed by their Creator (it is capitalized in the document, indicating a proper noun...a person) with certain inalienable rights. There are numerous Supreme Court cases that have resulted in opinions supporting the acknowledgement of God the political and judicial realm. Furthermore, if the ACLU did its' research they would see how many of the Founding Fathers had some kind of Judeo-Christian beliefs. It is impossible to deny the evidence. (If you want more than what's hear email me and I'll send plenty your way) Yet the ACLU still continues to file lawsuit after lawsuit to eliminate God and the Ten Commandments from America's courtroom. The sad irony is that the "laws of nature and nature's God" are the moral basis for America's legal code. Without them no law would exist in the US. Failure to acknowledge God does not expand religeous freedom, it eliminates it!
Whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or whatever your religeous beliefs may be it is absolutely necessary that all Americans acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Creator God. Without Him and the laws of Nature He mandated man would be in a perpetual state of anarchism and lawlessness. The ACLU refuses to sleep. They continue to use intimidation and manipulation to get their case before liberal federal judges who are legislating illegally from the bench. We must not stand idly by and watch our freedom washed away by villanous schemsters who claim to protect us. The end result will be the washing away of the church and the destruction of the state. When the issue arises again stand up for truth...both legal and spiritual truth... it won't be easy, and may not be popular, but perserverance and persistance are stepping stones to sure victory.
The first amendment states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religon, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of spech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peacebly assemble, and to petition the government for a redess of grievances." The argument from the ACLU focuses on the begining clause, commonly known as the "Establishment Clause." The ACLU and many other legal minds contend that this is where the principle of absolute seperation of church and state is spelled out.
A little history behind the law may make it easier to see how bizarre the ACLU claim is. The colonials who established the Constitution and its' amendments had come from England. When Henry VIII was the king of England he longed for a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon, because she failed to bear a male heir. The Catholic church refused to allow the divorce. Henry VIII proceeded to break break away from the church and establish his own church of which he was the head. Since then, the ruling monarch of the ruling family has been the head of the state and church. Authority over the church and state allowed the ruler to manipulate both the religeous and spiritual realm for his own personal gain, and it sucked the liberty out o the land. In order to prevent future abuse, the drafters of the Bill of Rights put the Establishment clause into the Constitution.
No where does the first amendment prevent the acknowledgment of God by public officials. George Washington's first act as president was a public prayer of thanks to God. Since 1789 judicial officials and the President have been ending their oath of office with "So Help Me God." Both Houses of Congress open everyday with prayer. Yet despite that this behavior is not only tolerated but allowed and even condoned by the Decleration of Independance the ACLU claims its illegal. How does the Decleration condone it?....One of the justifications for the break from England by the colonialist was the "laws of nature and nature's God." Furthermore the Decleration acknowledges that "all men, are endowed by their Creator (it is capitalized in the document, indicating a proper noun...a person) with certain inalienable rights. There are numerous Supreme Court cases that have resulted in opinions supporting the acknowledgement of God the political and judicial realm. Furthermore, if the ACLU did its' research they would see how many of the Founding Fathers had some kind of Judeo-Christian beliefs. It is impossible to deny the evidence. (If you want more than what's hear email me and I'll send plenty your way) Yet the ACLU still continues to file lawsuit after lawsuit to eliminate God and the Ten Commandments from America's courtroom. The sad irony is that the "laws of nature and nature's God" are the moral basis for America's legal code. Without them no law would exist in the US. Failure to acknowledge God does not expand religeous freedom, it eliminates it!
Whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or whatever your religeous beliefs may be it is absolutely necessary that all Americans acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Creator God. Without Him and the laws of Nature He mandated man would be in a perpetual state of anarchism and lawlessness. The ACLU refuses to sleep. They continue to use intimidation and manipulation to get their case before liberal federal judges who are legislating illegally from the bench. We must not stand idly by and watch our freedom washed away by villanous schemsters who claim to protect us. The end result will be the washing away of the church and the destruction of the state. When the issue arises again stand up for truth...both legal and spiritual truth... it won't be easy, and may not be popular, but perserverance and persistance are stepping stones to sure victory.
posted by Mr. "J" | 7:03 PM
1 Comments:
There are several really funny things about this. First off the conservatives are saying the judges are liberal, the liberals are saying the judges are conservative!
I think taking the 10 commandments out of the courthouse was a little too far, then again i'm not discriminated against byt christians very much, so i am biased. By the way your history of the Establishment Clause, sounds almost paraphrased from our poorly written american history books, try reading "The Peoples History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.
"Failure to acknowledge God does not expand religeous freedom, it eliminates it!"
I agree with this statement to an extent, i acknowledge God, but definatley not he way Orthodo Christians in the US do. Also, please please please stop using Anarchism as a comparison to Chaos, disorder or lawlessness, its inacurate, Anarchism actually describes a state of community or existance without a centralized government, the lack of neccessity for many laws does not imply lawlessness.
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