An Open Letter in Support of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Defense of the Most Important Religious Liberty and States' Rights Test Case in Decades Posted on 08/15/2003 4:06:45 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
An Open Letter in Support of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Defense of the Most Important Religious Liberty and States' Rights Test Case in Decades
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A monument of the Ten Commandments placed in the rotunda of Alabama's Supreme Court building by Chief Justice Roy Moore, is the front line of the war over the First, Ninth and Tenth Amendment restrictions on the central government by our Constitution's Bill of Rights. Ordered by a federal court to remove the monument by August 20, Justice Moore has been warned by U.S. District and Appellate Courts that his states' rights argument will not be tolerated.
Judge Moore, of course, is rightly defending the original intent of the Founders, who drafted and approved the Bill of Rights, against erroneous interpretation by an activist Leftjudiciary, even as he prepares his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. This case is a major test case for states' rights and the so-called church-state "separation clause," and ultimately will determine the fundamental nature of government and the Constitution. To assess the importance of this case, consider this evaluation from 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ed Carnes, who ruled against Chief Justice Moore: "If Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument were allowed to stand, it would mean a massive revision of how the courts have interpreted the First Amendment for years." Indeed, it would.
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Founder's Quote:
"The States supposed that by their tenth amendment, they had secured themselves against constructive powers." --Thomas Jefferson
Maybe, maybe not. He often said one thing & did another.
What is fact is that he personally did not believe in the divinity of Christ & did not believe in the Virgin Birth. He went so far as to write his own Bible removing all references to miracles, etc that he considered supernatural. He was also apparently a big fan of Unitarianism, although he wasn't one himself (contrary to what some claim).
"I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."
Thomas Jefferson
That kinda knocks the "Judeo" out of "Judeo-Christian," doesn't it?
Quoting William Penn too? He set up Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers who were being oppressed by other denominations of Christianity. He was even imprisoned for writing pamphlets advocating religious freedom (there were those who thought he was violating the Scriptures).
On the flip side, Penn's "The Charter of Privileges of 1701" mandated a belief in Christ to hold office & outlawed swearing, drinking, playing cards & dice, stage plays, the wearing of masks & other practices -- apparently to show that he certainly didn't believe in a smaller, less intrusive government.
Sir William Blackstone
And despite having the district court judge and the 11th circuit court of appeals rule against his arguments, he's still insisting that his interpretation of the law correct, he's still making the same arguments--even though he's been told by two other courts that he's wrong. It's as though, despite losing in the courts, he's now turned to the court of public opinion rather than a court of law.
[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion....Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. (Source: Bernard C. Steiner, The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry (Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1907), p. 475. In a letter from Charles Carroll to James McHenry of November 4, 1800.)
[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Source: Benjamin Franklin, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks, editor (Boston: Tappan, Whittemore and Mason, 1840), Vol. X, p. 297, April 17, 1787.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of man and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?
And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric? (Source: George Washington, Address of George Washington, President of the United States . . . Preparatory to His Declination (Baltimore: George and Henry S. Keatinge), pp. 22-23. In his Farewell Address to the United States in 1796.)
That above quote is from Jefferson's "A Real Christian" letter from Jefferson to Charles Thomson from 1/9/1816.
You do realize that the "precious morsel of ethics" referenced was Jefferson's "Philopsophy of Jesus" -- a book he made by cutting out all sections of the Bible except those considered Jesus' own words? Done because he didn't believe in Jesus as the son of God but as the finest moralist in history? For reasons such as this, Jefferson was villified by others for considering himself a Christian.
I can't do anymore homework for you. I have things to do.
Regardless of how we conjecture WHY someone - particularly a dead someone who cannot correct us if our conjecture is wrong - made a statement which was recorded, they still said it. On the record. For prosperity.
Copying and pasting quotes is as great a thing as the Internet. After we look up the relavant recorded quotes, we copy and paste them so as not to get the wuote wrong.
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