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Separation of church and state?
By: Henry Johnston | Submitted on: 12/08/03EDITORIAL - I am sick. Not in a perverted sort of way. I am sick to my stomach. I cannot believe it. Our nation has gone so far down the sewer that any mention of God in our society is attacked by the ACLU and other liberal front groups under the cover of the ?separation of church and state? argument.
Now before those of you from the left start getting huffy because I mentioned the ACLU in a negative manner, let me give you a few cases where the argument has been applied:
"Separation of church and state" was used by the ACLU to demand that a banner proclaiming "God bless America," erected outside a school shortly after Sept. 11, 2001 to honor the 3,000 murdered Americans, must be taken down. What is wrong with that? Who is it offending? Certainly it must offend the Muslim population because they do not believe in God, but Allah.
"Separation of church and state" was used to deny a little, handicapped girl the right to read her Bible on the bus while riding out the long trip to school. Again, why? It must offend the ACLU that this little girl is trying to understand religion since we all know it is a horrid thing to have a bit of faith.
Why are the radical judges in this country, as well as the radical lawyers from the ACLU, so scared? The phrase ?separation of church and state? is repeated so often and with such assurance, one would think it is the keystone phrase of the U.S. Constitution. And yet ? the words "separation," "church," and "state" are not found in the First Amendment, nor in any other founding document for that matter. In fact, the entire "constitutional separation of church and state" is a recent fabrication of activist judges who have ignored the Constitution's clear meaning.
And where is the Supreme Court on this issue? Holed up in Washington refusing to hear cases regarding this, especially the Alabama case of Judge Roy Moore. Apparently the court has forgotten that the United States Supreme Court begins with the Clerk calling ?God save America and this honorable Court.? Also, as you walk up the steps to the building which houses the Supreme Court, you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing forward with a full frontal view. Who is it? It is Moses and the Ten Commandments! And they must have forgotten that as one enters the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each. As you sit inside the courtroom, one sees the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, with a display of the Ten Commandments!
To set the record straight, the whole ?separation? issue started with a letter written in 1801 by the Baptists of Danbury, Conn., to newly elected President Thomas Jefferson. In Jefferson's brief response, he coined the phrase "a wall of separation between church and state" to assure his constituents that the new Constitution would not establish a national church or otherwise infringe on their religious liberties.
James Madison, the fourth president and known as "The Father of Our Constitution", made the following statement: "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
So what is so wrong with the last 220 years our country has existed, wherein we have acknowledged a ?supreme being?, God in this case, in our society? Why has it become so taboo? The suffix ?phobic? has been applied to many in society; ?Homophobic? or ?Islamaphobic?. Well, I have got one for you - ?Christaphobic?: The fear of Christians and the good values that Christianity represents.
Now before those of you from the left start getting huffy because I mentioned the ACLU in a negative manner, let me give you a few cases where the argument has been applied:
"Separation of church and state" was used by the ACLU to demand that a banner proclaiming "God bless America," erected outside a school shortly after Sept. 11, 2001 to honor the 3,000 murdered Americans, must be taken down. What is wrong with that? Who is it offending? Certainly it must offend the Muslim population because they do not believe in God, but Allah.
"Separation of church and state" was used to deny a little, handicapped girl the right to read her Bible on the bus while riding out the long trip to school. Again, why? It must offend the ACLU that this little girl is trying to understand religion since we all know it is a horrid thing to have a bit of faith.
Why are the radical judges in this country, as well as the radical lawyers from the ACLU, so scared? The phrase ?separation of church and state? is repeated so often and with such assurance, one would think it is the keystone phrase of the U.S. Constitution. And yet ? the words "separation," "church," and "state" are not found in the First Amendment, nor in any other founding document for that matter. In fact, the entire "constitutional separation of church and state" is a recent fabrication of activist judges who have ignored the Constitution's clear meaning.
And where is the Supreme Court on this issue? Holed up in Washington refusing to hear cases regarding this, especially the Alabama case of Judge Roy Moore. Apparently the court has forgotten that the United States Supreme Court begins with the Clerk calling ?God save America and this honorable Court.? Also, as you walk up the steps to the building which houses the Supreme Court, you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing forward with a full frontal view. Who is it? It is Moses and the Ten Commandments! And they must have forgotten that as one enters the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each. As you sit inside the courtroom, one sees the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, with a display of the Ten Commandments!
To set the record straight, the whole ?separation? issue started with a letter written in 1801 by the Baptists of Danbury, Conn., to newly elected President Thomas Jefferson. In Jefferson's brief response, he coined the phrase "a wall of separation between church and state" to assure his constituents that the new Constitution would not establish a national church or otherwise infringe on their religious liberties.
James Madison, the fourth president and known as "The Father of Our Constitution", made the following statement: "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
So what is so wrong with the last 220 years our country has existed, wherein we have acknowledged a ?supreme being?, God in this case, in our society? Why has it become so taboo? The suffix ?phobic? has been applied to many in society; ?Homophobic? or ?Islamaphobic?. Well, I have got one for you - ?Christaphobic?: The fear of Christians and the good values that Christianity represents.
