Gary Kelly
America's culture war talking points.
Consider the "intention of the law-makers" (below), who framed our
Constitution against the Democrats judicial filibuster, and numerous Court
rulings between 1947-2005, in lieu of the decisions involving sodomy,
pornography, pursuit of death over life, etc.
One is left to ask, are liberals ignorant of America's true Christian
Foundation, or are they attempting to eradicate that foundation?
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First: The Constitution's
Article VI: "The Senators and
Representatives..., and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all
executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several
States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support his Constitution;
but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office
or public Trust under the United States."
"It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its
expression...that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the
constitution of the federal Judiciary;...working like gravity by night and by
day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless
step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be
usurped." Thomas Jefferson
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"One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society:
that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation." Thomas Jefferson
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the
first and only legitimate object of good government." Thomas Jefferson
"He is the best friend of
American liberty who is most sincere and active in promoting true and
undefiled religion and who sets Himself with the greatest firmness to bear
down profanity and immorality of every kind...God grant that in America true
religion and civil liberty may be inseparable and that the unjust attempts to
destroy the one, may in the issue tend to the support and establishment of
both." John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration of Independence,
Member of the Continental Congress, President of Princeton College and Pastor.
Spoken in a sermon delivered May 17, 1776.
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure
you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be
constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is
one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." George Washington
"We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and
reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that
every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own
heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our
boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the
Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest
Offices that are known in the United States." George Washington
"[R]eligion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of
all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all
the combinations of human society." John Adams
"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched
situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us
secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or
happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be
sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in
the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put
confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them." James
Madison
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for
life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are
the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with
caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without
religion.
Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of
peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that
National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." George
Washington
"A government that does not trust it's law-abiding
citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust." James Madison,
Federalist Papers
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are
laws of such nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes ...such laws serve rather to encourage than to
prev homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson 'Commonplace Book' 1775
"Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters." James
Wilson, signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
"You seem... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all
constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which
would place us under the deposition of an oligarchy." Thomas Jefferson, in a
letter to William Jarvis on September 28, 1820
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good
behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting
public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but,
that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and
prejudices of the day." Joseph Story
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Dr. Benjamin Rush:
1. On March 28, 1787, when - a signer of the Declaration of
Independence and the man considered "the father of modern medicine" - Proposed
his plan for public education in America, he wrote: "Let the children who are
sent to those schools be taught to read and write - - (and) above all, let
both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the
Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education." In 1791,
Dr. Rush wrote a pamphlet titled, "A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a
Schoolbook."
2. In a letter to John Armstrong,, March 19, 1783: "[T]he only foundation for
a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there
can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is
the object and life of all republican governments."
3. "Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals
and principles of mankind." AND warned if
America ever removed the Bible from the classroom, all of our time will be
spent fighting crime.
4. "The great enemy of the salvation of man, in
my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating Christianity
from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the
Bible at schools. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any
subsequent period of life. It should be read in our schools in preference to
all other books from its containing the greatest portion of that kind of
knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public temporal
happiness."
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See also:
Where is that in the Constitution? by
Alan Sears (3/31) Does the U.S. Constitution really protect the distribution
of graphic—even hard-core pornographic—videos depicting rape and murder?
...The First Amendment to the Constitution protects free speech, the Fourth
Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the
Fourteenth Amendment promises due process and equal protection under the law.
No author of the Bill of Rights could have conceived it would be stretched and
reshaped to protect obscenity. One after another, activist court
interpretations have eroded the original intent of these amendments to the
present case, in which Judge Lancaster ruled that privacy rights created out
of thin air trump “the general public’s sense of morality.”
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