Attack of the Jihadist Judge
Another Jihadist Judge, oh excuse me, I mean a Liberal Judge has once again determined that what is good for a small group of people is good for ALL the people.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton has ruled the pledge of allegiance to be unconstitutional.
The judge ruled that the Pledge's reference to one nation "under God" violates school children's right to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God."
His contention that it violates the student’s rights is wrong for two reasons. Firstly, several minority religious groups do not say the pledge at all. They consider it idolatry to do so. These students are NOT ostracized for their beliefs.
Therefore, why cannot the atheists do the same? These children would not be ostracized for refusing to say the pledge (recently, when have you seen anyone ostracized for their beliefs in the public schools~~other than Christians that is…..)
Secondly, they argue that inclusion of the two words "under God" in the Pledge violates the so-called separation of church and state. But “if the Pledge established or tended to establish a religion, then that would have happened during the past 50 years of its existence.” **
It has NOT done so.
Just as the liberals’ agenda is to revoke freedom of speech from conservative Christians; atheists have an agenda to revoke religious freedom from us as well.
Just because you don’t agree with people of faith, who are you to try to deny us our rights to those beliefs? We are Americans as well. We are ruled by the same Constitution. I am not trying to force you to my beliefs; why are you trying to force me to yours?
Christians, it is time to make your stand. You no longer can afford the luxury of straddling that fence. You must choose.
2 Timothy 2:12 “…if we deny Him, He will deny us.”
You must take action. Write the President. Write your congressmen. Vote on important issues. Get out and pass out pamphlets if necessary to educate the public. Start a phone-in campaign where you call the people in your community to talk about the issues. Get them to call in to the White House and Congress.
Believe me, the other side is doing exactly this.
If we don’t make the effort, then one day we wake up in an America where religious freedom is GONE; where freedom of speech is DEAD. This is NOT the America I want my son to inherit.
I don’t want it said that I was just too busy trying to make ends meet that I let those freedoms go without a fight.
What about you?
Contacts: Add them to your favorites~~easily contact them whenever an important issue comes up!
The President of the U.S. : email addresses: White House
State Department of the U.S. : U.S. State Dept
U.S. Senate : U.S. Senate
Committee on the Judiciary: House Judiciary Committee
U.S. Courts: U.S. Courts
**Quote from Mat Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel.
Interesting Facts:
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; Psalms: 33:12
A good history lesson that we all should read. Patrick Henry is not quoted properly in our present day school texts. "Give me liberty or give me death" is not exactly all that he said or why!
Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply-committed Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal intervention. It is the same Congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import
20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.
Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death". But in current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is what he said:"An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."
These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he wrote this "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religious, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also."
Consider these words from George Washington, the Father of our Nation, in his farewell speech on September 19, 1796, "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
Was George Washington a Christian? Consider these words from his personal prayer book: "Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thee and thy son, Jesus Christ."
Consider these words by John Adams, our second president, who also served as chairman of the American Bible Society. In an address to military leaders he said, "We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
How about our first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay? He stated that when we select our national leaders, if we are to preserve our Nation, we must select Christians. "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was the sixth U.S. President. He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."
In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Reader, was used for over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation." Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology."
Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3)."
For over 100 years, more than 50% of all Harvard graduates were pastors! It is clear from history that the Bible and the Christian faith, were foundational to our educational and judicial system. However, in 1947, there was a radical change of direction for the Supreme Court. It required ignoring every precedent of Supreme Court ruling for the past 160 years. The Supreme Court ruled in a limited way to affirm a wall of separation between church and State in the public classroom.
In the coming years, this led to removing prayer from public schools in 1962. Here is the prayer that was banished: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. We beg Thy blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country. Amen."
In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading was outlawed as unconstitutional in the public school system. The court offered this justification: "If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children." Bible reading was now unconstitutional, though the Bible was quoted 94 percent of the time by those who wrote our Constitution and shaped our Nation and its system of education and justice and government.
In 1965, the Courts denied as unconstitutional the right of a student in the public school cafeteria to bow his head and pray audibly for his food. In 1980, Stone vs. Graham outlawed the Ten Commandments in our public schools. The Supreme Court said this: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce schoolchildren to read them. And if they read them, mediated upon them, and perhaps venerated and obeyed them, this is not a permissible objective."
Is it not a permissible objective to allow our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments? James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
Today, we are asking God to bless America. But, how can He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him? Prior to September 11, He was not welcome in America. Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.
Thanks to Wanda’s Country Home for this wonderful information! You are encouraged to make copies, and share with others, so that the truth of our nation's history will be told. Visit her here:
Wanda's Country Home
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U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton has ruled the pledge of allegiance to be unconstitutional.
The judge ruled that the Pledge's reference to one nation "under God" violates school children's right to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God."
His contention that it violates the student’s rights is wrong for two reasons. Firstly, several minority religious groups do not say the pledge at all. They consider it idolatry to do so. These students are NOT ostracized for their beliefs.
Therefore, why cannot the atheists do the same? These children would not be ostracized for refusing to say the pledge (recently, when have you seen anyone ostracized for their beliefs in the public schools~~other than Christians that is…..)
Secondly, they argue that inclusion of the two words "under God" in the Pledge violates the so-called separation of church and state. But “if the Pledge established or tended to establish a religion, then that would have happened during the past 50 years of its existence.” **
It has NOT done so.
Just as the liberals’ agenda is to revoke freedom of speech from conservative Christians; atheists have an agenda to revoke religious freedom from us as well.
Just because you don’t agree with people of faith, who are you to try to deny us our rights to those beliefs? We are Americans as well. We are ruled by the same Constitution. I am not trying to force you to my beliefs; why are you trying to force me to yours?
Christians, it is time to make your stand. You no longer can afford the luxury of straddling that fence. You must choose.
2 Timothy 2:12 “…if we deny Him, He will deny us.”
You must take action. Write the President. Write your congressmen. Vote on important issues. Get out and pass out pamphlets if necessary to educate the public. Start a phone-in campaign where you call the people in your community to talk about the issues. Get them to call in to the White House and Congress.
Believe me, the other side is doing exactly this.
If we don’t make the effort, then one day we wake up in an America where religious freedom is GONE; where freedom of speech is DEAD. This is NOT the America I want my son to inherit.
I don’t want it said that I was just too busy trying to make ends meet that I let those freedoms go without a fight.
What about you?
Contacts: Add them to your favorites~~easily contact them whenever an important issue comes up!
The President of the U.S. : email addresses: White House
State Department of the U.S. : U.S. State Dept
U.S. Senate : U.S. Senate
Committee on the Judiciary: House Judiciary Committee
U.S. Courts: U.S. Courts
**Quote from Mat Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel.
Interesting Facts:
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; Psalms: 33:12
A good history lesson that we all should read. Patrick Henry is not quoted properly in our present day school texts. "Give me liberty or give me death" is not exactly all that he said or why!
Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply-committed Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal intervention. It is the same Congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import
20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.
Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death". But in current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is what he said:"An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."
These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he wrote this "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religious, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also."
Consider these words from George Washington, the Father of our Nation, in his farewell speech on September 19, 1796, "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
Was George Washington a Christian? Consider these words from his personal prayer book: "Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thee and thy son, Jesus Christ."
Consider these words by John Adams, our second president, who also served as chairman of the American Bible Society. In an address to military leaders he said, "We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
How about our first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay? He stated that when we select our national leaders, if we are to preserve our Nation, we must select Christians. "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was the sixth U.S. President. He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."
In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Reader, was used for over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation." Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology."
Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3)."
For over 100 years, more than 50% of all Harvard graduates were pastors! It is clear from history that the Bible and the Christian faith, were foundational to our educational and judicial system. However, in 1947, there was a radical change of direction for the Supreme Court. It required ignoring every precedent of Supreme Court ruling for the past 160 years. The Supreme Court ruled in a limited way to affirm a wall of separation between church and State in the public classroom.
In the coming years, this led to removing prayer from public schools in 1962. Here is the prayer that was banished: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. We beg Thy blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country. Amen."
In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading was outlawed as unconstitutional in the public school system. The court offered this justification: "If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children." Bible reading was now unconstitutional, though the Bible was quoted 94 percent of the time by those who wrote our Constitution and shaped our Nation and its system of education and justice and government.
In 1965, the Courts denied as unconstitutional the right of a student in the public school cafeteria to bow his head and pray audibly for his food. In 1980, Stone vs. Graham outlawed the Ten Commandments in our public schools. The Supreme Court said this: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce schoolchildren to read them. And if they read them, mediated upon them, and perhaps venerated and obeyed them, this is not a permissible objective."
Is it not a permissible objective to allow our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments? James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
Today, we are asking God to bless America. But, how can He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him? Prior to September 11, He was not welcome in America. Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.
Thanks to Wanda’s Country Home for this wonderful information! You are encouraged to make copies, and share with others, so that the truth of our nation's history will be told. Visit her here:
Wanda's Country Home
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Response to Anonymous
Anonymous~~ you had some interesting interpretations. If I appear angry it is simply because personally, I am weary of liberals 'demanding' that we constantly defend our beliefs and our faith. They have treated Christians as if we were retarded or insane. They ridicule, belittle, and distort the truth of our faith. They have the backing of the media so they get all the air time and print pages.
Why do I have to defend what I believe? I'm not asking them to defend their beliefs.
For example: having to defend the virginal birth of Jesus. It is stated in the Bible that He was born of a virgin. The Holy Bible is God's Holy Word. You cannot change it or cannibalize it. You either accept the whole counsel of God or go practice some other religion. There are plenty out there. But don't claim to be a Christian if you are not willing to live and die by this book. I guess I am willing.
As for preaching war, God told the Hebrew people when they were given the land of Canaan "...I will help you defeat the people now living in the land, you will drive them out ahead of you. Make no treaties with them and have nothing to do with their gods. Do not even let them live among you! If you do, they will infect you with their sin of idol worship, and that would be disastrous for you." Exodus 23:31b-32
In Numbers 33:50-56 They are told to "destroy" these people.
I realize, the 'modern' world has some trouble with the thought that God can, and is in fact willing to sanction war. That is the folly of the modern world. They no longer understand the depth of God's characteristics. Because whether you believe God will judge the world or not, doesn't really matter. He has stated that He will.
God has stated that those nations who turn their backs on Israel will fall under His judgments~~once again, whether the world believes Him or not.
Finally, to equate God or Jesus with the anti-christ is the kind of slam-dunk disrespect I'm talking about. And if the pledge contained the words "to the antichrist", I wouldn't stand and say it. Neither will I say to "Allah". If atheists don't want to say the pledge, I'm not going to demand they do so. I will respect their right not to. But to have them decide for everybody that no one has this right, is just as wrong.
Thank you for your comments and have a wonderful life,
conservative by nature
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