This week U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the pledge of allegiance reference to one nation "under God" violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Once again, professional atheist Michael Newdow, hysterically afraid that some poor child might have religious beliefs shoved down their throat, is shoving his own religious beliefs down everyone else's throat. So, he found a liberal activist judge in the form of Carter nominee Karlton to rule in his favor. This is a prime example of how a bad president can damage our country for decades after he's been pushed out of office through his appointment of bad judges. Karlton has a history of belligerence toward Christianity, as this editorial in the Sacramento Bee, via FreeRepublic shows:
In silencing senior Jason Niemeyer's valedictory address, Oroville High School has for the second year in a row trod clumsily on a student's free-speech rights. A federal judge has compounded the error by upholding the school's action.
Jason, like his elder brother Chris a year earlier, had wanted to cite his personal relationship with Jesus Christ during his graduation ceremony. In a draft of the speech, he urged his classmates to take with them on their uncertain post-graduation path the guidance of "a friend who has personally helped me to achieve my goals, and I give Him the praise and glory for that... I encourage every person here to take advantage of the beneficial personal relationship that is offered to everyone." But the attorney for Oroville Union High School District declared Jason's attempt to "ask the audience to accept Jesus Christ as their friend ... unconstitutional at the podium."
U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton agreed. But Karlton had to make a few leaps in logic to get there. Karlton concluded that Oroville High's "graduation ceremony is part of the school's curriculum," and therefore carried the "imprimatur of the school." Citing a 1988 Supreme Court decision, he wrote, the valedictory speech was therefore subject to review and revision by the school.
In their efforts to destroy the core principles upon which this nation was founded, this is the left's biggest, most evil success. Who would believe that our Founding Fathers actually wanted to push God out of the public square? Well, anyone who was educated in our public school system, which stopped teaching government and civics decades ago. In this vacuum of ignorance, liberals can say pretty much anything and be believed. What DID our forefathers want for us? Let's check in with a few of them.
"If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature on it." -- George Washington, May 10, 1789
"This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation...these are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people...and these and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation." -- Supreme Court in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892.
"While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader...If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." -- Samual Adams
"To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian." -- George Washington to his troops at Valley Forge, May 2 1778
"It is in the man of piety and inward principle, that we may expect to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible soldier. God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseparable and that the unjust attempts to destroy the one, may in the issue tend to be support and establishment of both." -- John Witherspoon
In an even stronger statement, John Witherspooon said this: "Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not [would not hesitate] to call him an enemy to his country."
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists [pluralism], but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." -- Patrick Henry
"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 and prefer Christians for their rulers." -- John Jay
"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe...Religion...[is] the basis and foundation of government." -- James Madison, considered The Chief Architect of the Constitution.
"Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God." -- Gouverneur Morris
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- John Adams
"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...Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encourged, not any one sect [denomination]." -- Congress, 1854
OK, I could keep this up all day, but this TINY example of our Founding Fathers' true intentions should expose the left's absurd campaign against Christianity as a total pack of lies. Even Thomas Jefferson, whose deliberately misinterpreted writings were the source of the separation of church and state fraud, would be horrified if he could see how much a tiny group of bigots have changed and damaged this country.
These treacherous attacks on our nation's values will not stop until either this country is destroyed or liberals are removed from every level of government.
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