January 9, 2006

Quotes

"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.

"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." Joseph Story

On March 28, 1787, when Dr. Benjamin Rush - 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." AND 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." And "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.

Voice your support for Judge Alito

"Article VI of the Constitution guarantees that 'No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any office or public Trust under the United States.'

Take Action on Alito’s nomination this week as his hearings begin and call your Senator to voice your support. Alito is highly qualified, has been endorsed by hundreds of organizations and the American Bar Association, and deserves confirmation.

Consider the virtue of the people and organizations that oppose Alito's nomination:

The NAACP said Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court "would be to the detriment of the nation."

Americans United for Separation of Church and State said Alito, "would fundamentally alter First Amendment law."

Norman Lear's, People for the American Way said Alito, "has compiled an extensive right-wing judicial record...."

The Human Rights Campaign says Alito is "the wrong choice for the Supreme Court."

People For American Way, MoveOn.org, George Soros, NARAL, Alliance for Justice,....

Senator Edward Kennedy says: "If Confirmed, Alito could very well fundamentally alter the balance of the court and push it dangerously to the right, placing at risk decades of American progress in safeguarding our fundamental rights and freedoms."

Senator Kennedy has yet to answer my request to define "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," and my question: Are "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" not the rules and boundaries which "entitle" the "unalienable Rights" as Thomas Jefferson plainly laid out in America's first official document, and not how the left has distorted instead a letter he wrote, which has resulted in dire consequences?

(See the Big Lie)

The Declaration of Independence was considerably based on John Locke's book, Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration which referenced the Scripture 1700 times. John Locke also authored The Commonplace Bible, The Reasonableness of Christianity, and Defense for The Reasonableness of Christianity.

The origin of this statement from Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) Knight, King's Counsel, Solicitor to the Queen, Member of Parliament, and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and the King's Bench. Book 1, Section II of the Commentaries, entitled "Of the Nature of Laws in General." Precisely: "This law of nature, being coeval [existing at the same time - ed.] with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."

And: "This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are in validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."

"Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered [permitted] to contradict these." William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols. (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, [1765–1769] 1979), 1:38, 41, 42.

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