America -- A nation under God or another France

Lee Ellis

Today the majority of the Supreme Court ruled as if it were using the Constitution of France instead of the Constitution of the USA. The French Constitution states that its nation is a secular one, while our Constitution states that we are a nation under God! One would not know this if the majority of the Supreme Court today is to be believed

Mark Levin states in his book, ‘Men in Black,' "Chief Justice William Rehnquist has written that the Court ‘bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life.' Based on a misreading of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Court has propounded and expanded the concept of a 'wall of separation' between church and state.

The framers of the Constitution wanted to ensure that all Americans could worship freely, without religious persecution. So they prohibited the federal government from ‘establishing a religion’ and equally prohibiting it from ‘interfering with the people’s free expression of their religion.'

States, however, were permitted to have established churches (the Puritans were the officially established church in Massachusetts.). Even two of the most secular framers, Madison and Jefferson, appreciated the role of religion in the public life of the United States. Jefferson himself wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that our liberty is not endowed by states or governments, but by God.

President George Washington established Thanksgiving Day as a day of prayer to God. And it was not until 1897 that the Congress decided to stop appropriating money for education at religious schools.

In that now-famous letter, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists that the U.S. legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free exercise of, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.' Interestingly, a mere two days after writing this letter, Jefferson participated in church services held in the House of Representatives.

Yet the liberal judges seize on this image of a wall of separation, and are waging a war on religious freedom in our country.”

Now the Socialist movement, along with the ACLU and other organizations, (some with "Mom and Apple Pie" names to fool its readers, its fiscal donators and the country) has been partly successful in its efforts to drive the Judeo-Christian religion out America. The secularists have not failed in making most of Europe and Canada into secular countries and they are working hard to do this to America.

How?

They have caused our courts to be crammed, in the past, with liberal legislative judges as replacements for Constitutional judges, and now their representatives in Congress have filibustered to keep President Bush from appointing a majority of Constitutional federal judges. Finally, the ACLU is trying to eliminate any mention of "GOD" from all public places in this country! I don’t think that the word, “God” is a symbol of any one particular denomination or denotes any one specific religion, do you? So why do we act as if it does?

Has the ACLU forgotten that the founders were only afraid of a federally-owned religion ruled by a King or a President, not by free religious bodies governed by themselves.

In addition, the secularists have convinced the majority that they cannot offend any minority; they must all be "politically correct." They accuse the majority of "trampling" on minority rights. What about the rights of the religious majority? Is not the minority trampling on those? Do the atheists not offend those who believe in God when they try to eliminate Judeo-Christian religious symbols from all public arenas?

The most important cause for the Bush Administration and the American voters is to get Congress to accept only Federal judges who believe in and will rule as written in the actual Constitution of America, not that of France, not that of any other document, not that of a personal letter written by an individual, not that by a ruling of a past judge, but by only the actual sentences in the American Constitution!

The ONLY way this will happen is if you voice this to Congress and if you can elect a STRONG majority of conservatives to Congress in 2006 and 2008! Fail this and bid welcome to a godless nation.

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Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and narrator, formerly with both CBS and Gannett (USA Weekend). He was also a combat veteran of WWII, having fought in the South Pacific invasions. He had the pleasure of interviewing Ronald Reagan as an actor and then later working to help him become Governor of California. At the age of 80, he is keeping busy writing and doing free lance narrations for radio and television. He is an active member of Rotary and the VFW.

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