LEG:NOTES taken from the Video AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE  by DAVID BARTON

   Except for specific quotes, the comments may be paraphrased from
David Barton, or in some cases, an interpretation or additional comment
by Dale Costner.

   This video is meant to inform you about the truth of the principles
that America was founded on, but are intentionally not being taught in
public schools.

   As a point of clarification, throughout the writings of the Founders
of the Constitution, they sometimes refer to Christianity, sometimes
religion, sometimes Godly principles, etc. Also "Providence" was a term
used commonly to refer to God. The religion they are referring to is
always Christianity and the God is the God of the Bible. It was so well
known at the time and referred to in so many writings, that it was
assumed in other writings that everyone knew the religion they were
talking about.

   GEORGE WASHINGTON - 1755 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR In the French & Indian
war in 1755, George Washington commanded 1300 troops against the
Indians in a woodland battle. Washington's officers (on horseback) and
most of his troops were cut down. At the end of the battle Washington
was the only officer that remained & still on horseback. Afterwards he
found 4 bullet holes in his jacket & wrote to his wife that God had
protected him. Fifteen years later, the Indian chief that fought
against Washington traveled a good distance to meet him when he heard
that he was in the area of the battleground. This chief stated that he
had commanded his braves to concentrate on killing Washington and had
personally shot at him 17 times. He wanted to meet the man that "God
wouldn't let die". This exciting story and Washington's letter, used to
be in the American history books. In an effort to degrade American
heroes that depended on God, American history books are being revised
and this story & letter have been removed in this century.

   PATRICK HENRY - AN AMERICAN PATRIOT He is known for his saying "Give
me liberty or give me death." He also said "It cannot be emphasized too
strongly or too often, that this great nation was founded not by
religionists, but by Christians, not on religion, but on the gospel of
Jesus Christ."

   AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY - AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY (and others)

   It is interesting that the Founders of the Constitution of the U.S.
were the same people that were among the Founders of the early
religious evangelical societies that are still in existence today. In
1813 the American Tract Society bound together their tracts from many
years past into a book and the names of many of the Founders are
included.

   THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER - 1795 The New England Primer was a reader
used in what would be our 1st grade. It was first introduced in 1690
and taught for 200 years in America, until 1900. The Alphabet was
taught with Bible verses that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
Also lessons had questions about the Bible and the Ten Commandments.

   JOHN QUINCY ADAMS With the education that had a Godly influence,
John Quincy Adams received an appointment to Ambassador to Russia at 14
years of age. He later wrote "The highest glory of the American
Revolution was this: that it tied together in one indissoluble bond,
the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

   JOHN JAY Jay was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and
one of the three men most responsible for the writing of the
Constitution of the U.S. He said "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 & prefer
Christians for their Rulers." How long has it been since the Supreme
Court said to make sure you elect Christians for your leaders? We have
lost this guidance which made our country great.

   GEORGE WASHINGTON - PRESIDENTIAL FAREWELL SPEECH Washington was a
public servant for 45 years. He was President of the convention that
gave us the Constitution. He called for the 1st Amendment Bill of
Rights. After 2 terms as President, he gave a farewell speech which was
heralded as the most significant political speech ever given to the
nation. It has since been removed from American history books and it
would be rare to find it in any for at least the last 30 years. Why? -
In it he said "Of all the habits and dispositions 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." Apparently the people writing
our history books want to change what our children are taught about the
connection between political prosperity and religion and morality.

   FORMS OF GOVERNMENT The form of government established by the
Founders of the U.S. has lasted over 200 years. Some other countries
have undergone many different forms during this same period; such as
France, 7 forms & Italy 40 forms.

   MEN MOST QUOTED BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE U.S. Political
Science professors at the University of Houston wondered if there was
something unique about the government of the U.S. They gathered 15,000
quotes from the Founders and located where all of them came from. They
then boiled that down to 3,154 quotes that had significant impact on
the founding of America. It took them 10 years to finish the project,
but they found that the three men most quoted by the Founding fathers
were Blackstone, Montesquieu, and John Locke. They also found that the
Bible was quoted: 4 times more often than Montesquieu, 12 times more
often than Blackstone, and 16 times more often than Locke.
Additionally, 34% of all quotes were from the Bible, and another 60% of
the quotes were from men who were using the Bible to arrive at their
conclusions. Added together, 94% of all the quotes of the Founders had
their origin in the Bible, which shows the importance of God's word in
their lives and of this Nation's founding.

   BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARY & CHARLES FINNEY Blackstone's Commentary on
the Law, introduced in 1758, became the law textbook for lawyers for
160 years, and the Supreme Court quoted from it to settle cases. It
gave Bible verse references to the law. For instance the three branches
of government are based on Isaiah 33:22, the separation of powers is
based on Jeremiah 17, and the tax exemption for Churches on Ezra 7:24.
Countries even next to the U.S., such as Canada and Mexico, don't have
tax exemption for churches. While Finney was studying to become a
lawyer, he became a Christian and then a well known Evangelist in the
1800's, primarily because he saw the truth of the Bible verse
references in Blackstone's Commentary.

   SUPREME COURT - 1844 - VIDAL VS GIRARD A Philadelphia school wanted
to teach morals without using the Bible. The Court said "Why may not
the Bible, and especially the New Testament, be read and taught as a
divine revelation in the schools? Where can the purest principals of
morality be learned so clearly or perfectly as from the N.T." Any book
teaching good morality would certainly be teaching what the N.T.
teaches, so why not use the original source which doesn't change.

   SUPREME COURT - 1892 - CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY VS U.S. In another
challenge the court ruled "Our laws and our institutions must
necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of
mankind, and it's impossible that it should be otherwise: and in this
sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are
emphatically Christian." The court also quoted 87 different historical
precedents to back up its decision, from the Founding Fathers, Acts of
the Founding Fathers, Acts of Congress, etc, etc.

   SUPREME COURT - 1811 - PEOPLE VS RUGGLES There was a man who made
attacks on Jesus in such a blasphemous way that it made it to the
Supreme Court and the court ruled: "Whatever strikes at the root of
Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government."
They reasoned that if you attack Jesus, you have attacked Christianity,
& if you have attacked Christianity, you have attacked the foundation
of the U.S., therefore an attack on Jesus or Christianity was
equivalent to an attack on the foundation of the U.S.

   "SEPARATION", "CHURCH", & "STATE" do NOT appear in the CONSTITUTION
Many people think it is part of the 1st Amendment, but it is not. The
1st Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishing of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
What the Founders DID NOT want was any ONE DENOMINATION of the
Christian religion to run the nation. They wanted to stay away from
what they had left in England, where the King was the head of the
Church. However the Founding Fathers and the Supreme Court were quite
clear that Christianity was the established religion, and WAS to be
involved in the government. This is evident in the Supreme Court
decision of 1796, Thomas Jefferson's letter of 1802, and many other
writings.

   SUPREME COURT - 1796 - RUNKEL VS WINEMILLER "By our form of
government the Christian religion is the established religion, and all
sects and denominations of Christians are placed on the same equal
footing."

   January 1, 1802 LETTER from PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON To the
DANBARY BAPTIST, of CONNECTICUT In 1801 the Danbary Baptist Church
heard a rumor that the Congregationalist Denomination was going to be
made the National Denomination. This disturbed them as it well should.
Jefferson answered in his letter: "The 1st Amendment has erected a wall
of separation between church and state, but that wall is a one
directional wall, it keeps the government from running the church, but
it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in
government." Please read that very carefully, it is supposed to protect
the church from the government, not the government from the church. And
it is supposed to guarantee that Christian principles will always stay
in government. This is where the "wall of separation" originated, but
it was another 146 years before a non-Christian, liberal, Supreme Court
distorted and reversed what the Founders meant the Constitution to do.
The Congress went through twelve different iterations before
determining the final wording. It is evident from the other wordings
that what they wanted was to always have God's principles in
government, but not to have one denomination running the nation, or any
interference from the government into religion. The 1st Amendment
reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishing of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

   RESPONSE FROM THE HOUSE AND SENATE - 1853

   Minority groups from time to time did keep trying to change things
to their way of thinking and in 1853 there was a group that petitioned
Congress for the separation of Christian principles from government.
The House and Senate had a one year investigation of the matter. The
House Judiciary Committee on March 27, 1854 reported: "Had the people
during the revolution, had any suspicion of any attempt to war against
Christianity, that revolution would have been strangled in its cradle."
The Senate also made a similar statement. The report continued: "At the
time of the adoption of the Constitution and the Amendments, the
universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, but not
any one sect. In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity .
That was the religion of the Founders of the Republic and they expected
it remain the religion of their descendants." "The great, vital and
conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the
pure doctrines and the divine truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

   SUPREME COURT - 1878 - REYNOLDS VS U.S. After 1853 for the next 50
years or so there were some other cases that worked their way through
the courts and challenged Christian principles in government. Each time
precedents were cited such as Jefferson's letter and they were
defeated. One of the cases was in 1878. Thomas Jefferson's letter was
referred to in its entirety. It was repeated that the 1st Amendment is
to protect the Church from the government, and Christian principles are
never to be separated from the government.

   SUPREME COURT - 1947 - EVERSON VS BOARD OF EDUCATION For the very
first time in Court history, only eight words were used from
Jefferson's letter. They were taken out of context and a brand new
meaning applied, which reversed their original intent. The Court
stated: "The 1st Amendment erected a wall between Church and State.
That wall must be kept high and impregnable." It didn't recognize that
the wall was intended to be a one way wall to keep government out of
religion.

   DR. WILLIAM JAMES - FATHER OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY In the 1940's the
Supreme Court and many other courts were being influenced by the
philosophy of James who was a strong opponent of religion in
government. He had said: "There is nothing so absurd that if you repeat
it often enough, people will believe it." The phrase "Separation of
Church & State" began being repeated over and over and this is born out
in a court case in Bear vs Colmorgan(sp?) in 1958. The Judge said: "If
this court doesn't stop talking about the Separation of Church and
State, everyone's going to think that's what the Constitution says."

   SUPREME COURT - JUNE 25,1962 - ENGLE VS VITALE This is the landmark
case that removed prayer from the public schools. It was even noted in
the 1963 World Book Encyclopedia that this was the first time that we
had separation of religious principles from public education. The
amazing thing is that it was done without citing any precedent from
other cases as is the normal procedure. Instead it was an entirely new
statement not based on any historical or legal base. There were no
quotes from previous legal cases! Instead, it was a brand new doctrine
which according to all the previous legal decisions WAS IN VIOLATION OF
THE CONSTITUTION! Nevertheless it took precedent over all the previous
interpretations of the Constitution which had cited many precedents
that disagreed with this new ruling.

   THE "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" PRAYER The case was over a 22 word prayer
which the Court said later was a "to whom it may concern prayer", a
very bland prayer that mentioned God only once, and Jesus not at all.
It read: "We acknowledge our dependence on thee, and we beg thy
blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country." The
Declaration of Independence was written & approved by the same people
as the Constitution and it refers to God four times. Yet it has never
been declared unconstitutional. The prayer deals with four areas
however which have been dealt with prior to 1963 in a way which was in
agreement with the Biblical principles. After 1963 the courts have
reversed their position in these areas, which are:

   us --- (students) parents --- (families) teachers --- (schools)
country --- (nation)

   SUPREME COURT - JUNE 17,1963 - MURRAY VS CURLETT This was the
Madeline Murray O'Hare case against school prayer.

   SUPREME COURT - JUNE 17,1963 - ABINGTON VS SCHEMPP Previous Courts
had said that you couldn't have a school that didn't teach Christian
principles based on the Bible. Early textbooks quoted the Bible and
used it for teaching the alphabet. This case reversed previous
decisions and made a brand new statement! It removed Bible reading and
instruction from public schools and stated: "If portions of the N.T.
were read without explanation, they could be, and had been,
psychologically harmful to the child." How could such a statement be
made by anyone who knows that the Founders of this successful
government of America was due to their belief in the N.T. as essential
to the well being of the nation and its' people? At the time of the
1963 Court cases, they took a survey to determine how many people
believed in God or religion. They found that only 3% didn't believe in
God or religion. Although the prayer was consistent with 97% of the
people, the Court ruled with the 3%. This is the first time that 3%
became a majority under which the 97% now had to live by. What happened
in 1962-63 in a 12 month period was a RADICAL REVERSAL of everything
that had happened up to that point. Removal of prayer, Bible reading
and religious classes in instruction was totally against the
Constitution, but these NEW RULINGS were simply ANNOUNCED by the
Supreme Court as if a dictator had taken over.

   BIBLE STUDY COURSE FOR DALLAS HIGH SCHOOLS

   As late as 1946 there was a Bible Study Course that was a
requirement for graduation. After 1963, what had been standard for so
many years, was not even an option to be taught anymore. The freedom of
speech and religion had been censored in the public schools!

   FURTHER CENSORSHIP & LOSS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH & RELIGION GUARANTEED
BY THE CONSTITUTION 1965 The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional
for a student to pray aloud. 1967 The Supreme Court declared a four
line Nursery rhyme used by a K-5 Kindergarten class was
unconstitutional, even though it didn't contain the word "God." The
Court said: "If someone heard it, it might cause someone to think of
God." (Now we have censorship of our thoughts we might think!)

   These kinds of court cases continued and in 1980 there was one
concerning what is called a "Passive Display." SUPREME COURT - 1980 -
STONE VS GRAHAM A "passive display" would be like something hanging on
a wall like a picture, which doesn't require that you pay any attention
to it unless you want to. There was a passive display of the Ten
Commandments hanging in a school hallway with no requirement to read
it. The Court ruled it was unconstitutional to display it in a school.
They said: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have
any affect at all, it will be to induce the school children to read,
meditate upon, perhaps.. to venerate and obey the commandments; this is
not a permissible objective." Just think, if it caused children to
respect their parents or to decide not to steal or kill... that would
be unconstitutional! What kind of mind-set is this, that is in charge
of preserving our freedom? If the Ten Commandments had come from some
philosopher instead of the Bible, would not they still be allowed in
schools and held in high regard? When the Court says it's
unconstitutional, aren't they saying that it's not what the writers of
the Constitution had in mind when they wrote it? Look at what James
Madison wrote.

   JAMES MADISON - THE MAN MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSTITUTION "We
have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power
of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our
political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to
govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." Note that
the Founders based everything, not on the Constitution, but on the Ten
Commandments, which 200 years later an out of touch Court says should
not even be displayed because it would not be permissible for it to be
obeyed.

   THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF NATIONAL MORALITY IN AMERICA SINCE THE
REJECTION OF GOD IN 1963 GEORGE WASHINGTON gave a warning when he said:
"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." In other words, you
will lose national morality when you reject the religious principles
found in the Bible.

   CONSIDER THE FOUR AREAS THAT THE "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" PRAYER DEALT
WITH AND HOW THE LOSS OF NATIONAL MORALITY HAS AFFECTED THOSE AREAS

   A. us - (the students) 1. Before 1963 pregnancies in girls ages 15
through 19 years had been no more than 15 per thousand for 15 years.
After 1963 pregnancies increased 187% in the next 15 years. 2. For
younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies since 1963 are up 553%.
3. Before 1963 sexually transmitted diseases among students were 400
per 100,000. Since 1963, they were up 226% in the next 12 years.

   B. parents - (families) 1. Before 1963 divorce had been declining
for 15 years. After 1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the next
15 years. 2. Since 1963 unmarried people living together is up 353% 3.
Since 1963 single parent families are up 140%. 4. Since 1963 single
parent families with children are up 160%.

   C. teachers - (schools) 1. The educational standard of measure has
been the SAT scores. SAT scores had been going along rather steady for
many years before 1963. Since 1963 they took a rapid decline for 18
consecutive years, even though the same test has been used since 1941.
2. In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores decreased, even
though they continued to decline. That was when there was an explosion
of private religious schools. There were only 1000 Christian schools in
1965. Between 1974 to 1984 they increased to 32,000.

   a. That could have an impact if the private schools had higher SAT
scores. In checking with the SAT Board it was found that indeed the SAT
scores for private schools were nearly 100 points higher than public
schools. b. In fact the scores were at the point where the public
schools had been before their decline started in 1963 when prayer and
Bible reading/ instruction was removed from the schools. c. The scores
in the public schools were still declining.

   3. Of the nation's top academic scholars, three times as many come
from private religious schools, which operate on one-third the funds as
do the public schools.

   D. country - (nation) 1. Since 1963 violent crime has increased
544%. 3. Illegal drugs have become an enormous & uncontrollable
problem. 2. The nation has been deprived of an estimated 30 million
citizens through legal abortions just since 1973.

   THOMAS JEFFERSON said: "The reason Christianity is the best friend
of government is because Christianity is the only religion in the world
that deals with the heart."

   Jesus says do not hate, don't lust in your heart (Mt.5:21). That
takes care of adultery, stealing, killing, etc.

   The Founders pointed out that Christianity was the only religion
that could stop crime before it started because all crime came out of
the heart. If you deal with the heart problem, you won't have to deal
with crime.

   JOHN ADAMS said: "We have no government armed with power which is
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."

   We have only to look at history to know that there is no government
big enough to make you do what is right if you aren't guided by
morality & religion.

   JEREMIAH 6:16 "Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways, and see, And
ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it: Then you
will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in
it.'" Since saying NO to Biblical principles AMERICA HAS BECOME A WORLD
LEADER IN: DIVORCE TEENAGE PREGNANCIES VOLUNTARY ABORTIONS ILLEGAL
DRUGS ILLITERACY (in the Industrial World)

   What were the "old paths" which were good, that had been established
by our Founders? Each state passed a State Constitution which had
requirements they considered most important for those who would
represent them. Generally they were along the line of the Delaware
Constitution in 1776 which stated: "Everyone appointed to public office
must say: 'I do profess faith in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus
Christ his only son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God & blessed
forevermore: and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old & New
Testaments to be given by divine inspiration.'" This was consistent
with the constitution because it did not recognize one denomination
over another or require you to belong to any particular denomination.
But it did require that you understand God's principles and God as
authority. They recognized that to be governed by someone without these
principles would eventually undermine and destroy the very freedoms
that they had fought so hard to gain. A 3rd requirement in their
Constitution was a requirement that every public official must
acknowledge a belief in future rewards & punishments. This was the idea
of accountability to God even after leaving office. Ungodly people will
not use Godly principles to run a Nation. That's why the Founders were
so emphatic about keeping Christian men in office. If you look at it
from the standpoint that God will only bless a Nation operating under
Godly principles, you can see how important it is to have Christian
people in office.

   DOES A NATION ANSWER TO GOD? This was a question the American
Founders dealt with on the floor of the Constitutional Convention. They
concluded that a nation doesn't have a spirit or a soul. Therefore when
a nation dies, it is dead and won't be resurrected later to answer for
it's failures, as a person will be who does have a spirit & soul.
GEORGE MASON said: "As nations cannot be punished or rewarded in the
next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes &
effects Providence punished National sins by National calamities."
Providence was commonly used by the Founders to refer to God. God's
judgement on a Nation because of it's corrupt leaders is evidenced many
places in the Bible. A couple of them are: 1. Because of the corruption
of King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, the nation went without rain for
three years. The righteous had to suffer too even though they had no
part in it. 2. King David was normally good King, but because of his
disobedience to God when he numbered his army, a plague came upon the
nation and wiped out 70,000 people. The Nation suffered because of the
leader.

   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - JUNE 17,1787 "We need God as our friend not our
enemy. We need him to be our ally not our adversary. We need to make
sure that we keep God's concurring aid." He called for regular daily
prayer to be sure we kept God alongside what we were doing in the
Nation. If this was needed by our leaders, why would it not be good for
children to be able to pray in school and learn & prepare for this
important facet of life? THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL Part of the
inscription on Jefferson's Memorial: "Indeed, I tremble for my country
when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice can't sleep
forever."

   ABRAHAM LINCOLN When Lincoln was asked if God was on his side in the
Civil War, he replied: "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on my
side. My great concern is to be on God's side."

   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - AS AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE "Whoever will introduce
into public affairs the principles of Christianity will change the face
of the world."

   CHARLES FINNEY - The Billy Graham of the 1800's "The Church must
take right ground in regard to politics. Politics are a part of a
religion in a country and Christians must do their duty to the country
as part of their duty to God. He will bless or curse this nation
according to the course Christians take in politics."

   If God's people don't make it into office, God's principles won't
make it into office. WE MUST NOT BE ISOLATED, WE MUST GET INVOLVED!
PROVERBS 18:1 "A man who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he
rages against all wise judgements." Apparently there are people that do
not want us to know what the Constitution and its' Founders really
said, or that our freedom and liberty is based on God's principles put
in place by Christians. Instead they use these freedoms to fight
against Christians and God's principles, to take away freedoms the
Founders sought to guarantee. Christians used to be involved in
politics, but they have been discouraged from doing so for the last 50
years or so. Even earlier there was a controversy among Christians
about where they should be involved to do the most good. The emphasis
was on being an Evangelist, Missionary, Doctor, or Teacher, but not a
Politician. When Christians started moving out and not running for
government office, they turned it over to people who didn't believe in
many of the Godly principles that had been so important in it's
founding.

   THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS BUT IT MAY BE
HUMANISM OR ATHEISM or ???

   1963 & 1986 SUPREME COURT rulings defined Secular Humanism as a
legitimate religion, lawfully equivalent to Christianity. The religion
of Secular Humanism rejects the supernatural in their philosophy and
places man as supreme, and able to control his own destiny.

   1977 SUPREME COURT ruled that Atheism is a legitimate religion,
lawfully equivalent to Christianity. Atheism says there is no God and
therefor should be no practice of religion.

   The Court said that whatever you believe with all your heart that
affects the way you act, that's your religion. Satanic activity and
Witchcraft are other religions that are recognized and receive
tax-exempt status as well. However the only time you hear the cry of
"separation of Church and State" is to get Christian materials, etc.
out of schools. If all form of religion needs to be removed from
schools, why is not the cry used against representation of witches on
Halloween? Or when there is no prayer and practice of believing in God
going on in the school, why not cry out against the religion of Atheism
or Humanism, which is the religion of exclusion of God. Non-recognition
of God is being practiced every day in schools and it is being forced
on all, including those who desire to pray and read the Bible.
Christians are attacked for believing in the religion upon which
America was founded while other religions are being allowed with no
comment. An American should be able to speak of his roots in
Christianity proudly and it should be taught in the schools. To refer
to God's principles in the Bible is to stand for what made America a
free country, with liberty for all. To reject the Scriptures is to
reject our heritage and the foundation principles which men fought and
died for to obtain. What is called right-wing extremism today by
intolerant liberals is really a mis- label. It is really what this
country was founded upon and was the normal middle of the road
conservatism for a long time afterward. It is the extremists that have
put the label on, to divert attention from their own far out position
(with respect to the Founders) of Secular Humanism & Atheism.
Separation of Church & State is not a part of our history and not a
part of our law until relatively recently. It is certainly not
Biblical, and most people don't know that it was lifted from
Jefferson's letter out of context to say the opposite of what the rest
of his letter says. The religion of Christianity and the Biblical
principles were the very basis for the Constitution & held in the
highest regard by the writers of the Constitution. They so wanted it to
remain a part of the government and the schooling that it is outrageous
that we are having censorship today of their writings which are in
support of Christianity and the Bible. It is intolerable that the
Supreme Court could get away with a decision that is in total
disagreement with the Constitution. It can't be emphasized too much
that the Constitution and the Founder's intentions were to protect the
exercise of Christianity in the government. Any ruling otherwise is
inconsistent with the Constitution, and is a deliberate distortion
without any basis. The 1963 decision that was based on no precedent and
is now used as a precedent for everything since, needs to be shown for
what it is. It was a total reversal from what was right, and another
reversal is necessary to put it back right. We have a Godly heritage
which has been robbed from us by the 3% who made a lot of noise about
"separation of Church & State". The only way to reverse this trend is
to get informed about the truth of our heritage and start fighting to
gain it back.

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