Posted on 10/01/2020 8:09:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why no Southern Baptist will ever be nominated to the Supreme Court. PS: IIRC, only two Supreme Court justices have EVER been baptists.
Our time is better spent pointing readers to a source more reliable than ourselves.
Let's read the words of the Author of our Declaration of Independence and President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson, who, in his 1801 Inaugural Address, laid out what might be considered to be "qualifications" for the American presidency:(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizensa wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the peoplea mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
What part of no religious test don't they understand?
Lets not delve into the motives of the author.
Oh lets. The Christian Post is corrupted
If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.”
John 15: 18-19
What part of no religious test don't they understand?
Napp Nazworth
@NappNazworth
Announcement: Today, rather abruptly, I was forced to make the difficult choice to leave The Christian Post. They decided to publish an editorial that positions them on Team Trump. I can't be an editor for a publication with that editorial voice. ...
https://mobile.twitter.com/NappNazworth/status/1209272753938976775
Nazworth’s departure comes after Christianity Today called for President Trump's removal in an op-ed last week, a day after the Democrat-controlled House passed two articles of impeachment against him.
Titled “Trump Should Be Removed From Office,” Christianity Today Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli cited the magazine's founder, the late pastor Billy Graham, in its editorial.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/christian-post-editor-resigns-team-trump-editorial
I saw no such back-stabbing. It looked to me as though they were just reporting on the fact that we now live in a society that is trying to apply a religious litmus test. We still have the 1st Amendment, and should, under it, have the right of assembly with like-minded believers, and the right to state our beliefs publically. As far as I know, it is illegal to apply a religious litmus test for any Federal position.
So, devout Roman Catholics are against abortion? Many other faiths are as well. So, devout Roman Catholics are for the marriage of one man to one woman, and against divorce? Same statement applies.
Our faith should inform our lives and decisions, but SCOTUS Justices aren't there to legislate from the bench, but to decide the constitutionality of matters brought before it. Roe v. Wade is law, until someone with standing brings a case before it which successfully challenges it.
The progressives would like to muzzle any who profess a belief in Biblical principles (including the founders of our nation) and cancel them. Are we to the point where only progressive athiests need apply?
The word “cult” is used to set the stage for taking extra-legal and legal oppression of a group. It means “a closed group” amongst other things. So the Masons and the FBI are actually cults. Christian and most religious groups, since most anyone can attend meetings and join, are not cults. The term was heavily used by deprogrammers back in the 70s, until the courts finally and rightfully began putting them in jail.
That in itself is an interesting subject: how people engaging in entirely legal conduct were kidnapped and tortured by rogue, criminal private citizens. The courts turned a blind eye to it for several years. I read about cases where adults in their 40s were kidnapped and tortured. Yet the practice of “deprogramming” is and always has been a felony in all jurisdictions. Unless you have a medical degree. Then, apparently, you can still run 400 volts through someone’s brain or shove an icepick into it.
Questioning the religion of a nominee is forbidden by the Constitution.
Thank you for the information. But it looks like Nazworth left the Post because they published Pro-Trump articles. You are right though and we must keep vigilant against wolves.
RE: Nazworths departure comes after Christianity Today called for President Trump’s removal in an op-ed last week, a day after the Democrat-controlled House passed two articles of impeachment against him.
Well, it looks like the Christian Post is doing a good job of rooting out the liberal writers among them.
I’m talking about THIS AUTHOR and THIS ARTICLE itself. What’s your problem with it?
You are both right.
The leftists are trying to narrow down the freedom of religion to simply freedom of “worship”. In other words, you’re free to worship God inside your particular church building, but once you bring your beliefs into the public square and try to persuade others, you’re going to have trouble. “Separation of church and state!!” they yell.
Of course this idea is totally wrong and unconstitutional, but they keep on trying. I believe Obama thought along these lines. Can you imagine if Hillary had won, the Senate gone Democrat, and Obama appointed to the Court?! Heaven help us!
Christians supporting Christian insitutions with Christian values... simply scandalous!!!
Little leftist lemmings are working hard, paid with soros’s money, trying to find something to get Barrett on. They will go back to her third grade. They are currently scrutinizing every word of every speech and opinion of hers. With the help of the corrupt media, they will surely find something they can splash on the front pages and crow about 24/7.
YES, we ONLY support Biblical Marriage!!!
Other constructs are a FRAUD!!!
THEY don’t care about what the guidelines are..
OMG!!! THIS MUST STOP! ANTI-CHRISTIANS are in the MAJORITY now!
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