Posted on 06/29/2005 10:49:39 PM PDT by Gribbit
During my scan of google alerts on the ACLU, I came across an article in the ChronWatch that dealt with the recent rulings by the United States Supreme Court. A thread titled "Freedom of Religion in America: Adieu!" I have decided to re-print the article today as my BlogBurst contribution to Stop The ACLU and Gribbit's Word.
Freedom of Religion in America: Adieu!
Written by Lee Ellis Wednesday, June 29, 2005
A few days ago, 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 liberal judges have seized on this image of a wall of separation, and are waging a war on religious freedom in our country.
Now the Socialist movement, the ACLU, and other liberal organizations (some with “Mom and Apple Pie†names to fool its readers, its fiscal donators and the country) have 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 almost wholly secular and they are working hard to do this to America.
How?
They have crammed our courts 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 has tried to eliminate any mention of “GOD†from all public places. 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 they act as if it does?
Apparently, the ACLU has 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 enough people 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?
One of the most important causes for the Bush Administration and American voters is to get Congress to accept only Federal judges who believe in and will rule upon and in light of what is actually written in the Constitution of America, not that of France, nor any other document, nor of a personal letter written by an individual—whether he is Thomas Jefferson or not.
The ONLY way this will happen is if you elect a STRONG majority of conservatives to Congress in 2006 and 2008!
Fail this and bid welcome to a godless nation. Or prepare to bid Adieu (literally and ironically, “to Godâ€) to any semblance of freedom of (not from) religion in America.
About the Writer: Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and a former vice president of both CBS and Gannet. He resides in Indio, California, where he writes op-eds that appear in several local newspapers. Lee receives e-mail at indiolee@dc.rr.com.
We can take comfort in the fact that the judicial year is over for the United States Supreme Court and that the worst court in history is no longer seated in session. We can also hope that at least 2 are expected to retire prior to the beginning of the next judicial year.
This past week's rulings have been nothing less than invasive. The Eminent Domain ruling is hopefully going to backfire on at least 1 of the 9 Justices. An effort to seize Justice Souter's home in New Hampshire to build a Hotel is in the works. This is not a prank. It's a real project. A project that the Justice himself helped to make possible.
Who do we have to blame for the current illogical activities of the high court? The American Civil Liberties Union that's who. The ACLU's promotion of judicial activism has led the 9 Justices to unofficially declare themselves King by Committee of the United States.
How else can we describe them? The Justices have taken it upon themselves to ignore the very document that they are to judge the application of other laws by. Laws passed by the legitimate body to do such legislating, the United States Congress.
The Supreme Court has ruled that you can seize private property and turn it over to a private development company for the purpose of generating more revenue for the local government. This is the common good that the high court has seen fit to make legal something that is in direct contrast to the 5th Amendment to the Constitution.
The Supremes have taken it upon themselves to make law instead of judge law. Starting with Roe v Wade, the high court has chosen to ignore the Constitution. No law on the federal level was in question in Roe v Wade. A state law banning a medical procedure was at issue. The last time I checked, medical procedures are NOT covered by the Constitution at all. And the court's decision to even hear the case was a violation of the 10th Amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.†How can they forget that one? Think of all the Looney decisions that have come before the Supreme Court. How many of them actually contain violations of the Constitution? None of the religion challenges do.
Medical procedures aren't covered in the Constitution. And Congress hasn't attempted to pass a law forcing a national state run religion upon us. Did I miss an action by Congress? Have the legislators of this nation been corrupted by the Church of Scientology at the insistence of Tom Cruise? Did they pass a law stating that ALL Americans must convert to the Looney cult of Scientology? I don't think so.
But yet the Supremes have ruled consistently that a cross in public view and the 10 Commandments hanging on the wall violate the Establishment Clause. At what point was Congress involved with the 2 county courts in Kentucky? If they were, I didn't catch it.
The 1st Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." This Amendment doesn't say, Ohio shall make no law or California shall make no law, it says CONGRESS shall make no law.
It's time we take back our court. The Supreme Court is ours. We are the People in "WE The People of the United States..." It is time maybe to consider a Constitutional Amendment establishing a Term Limit for Supreme Court Justices. More to be released on this in a special upcoming posting. Stay tuned... you won't be disappointed.
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