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Where is the "Telephone
Clause”
in the Constitution? |
 December
7, 2004
- My husband and I were just fuming the other day,
when we both simultaneously read an article about a principal who would not
permit a teacher to use The Declaration of Independence in his classroom
because God was mentioned in the document. My husband was so mad that he
immediately wrote a piece about the incident, in which he suggested that it
was treason to force a teacher to exclude our founding documents from the
curriculum. My colleague had an interesting take on the situation, as well.
He suggested that if we get our divine right to freedom from God, how can we
invalidate God in our Constitution, the document that protects that divine
right?
Well, I don’t really believe that it was ever intended that we exclude God
from our schools or public institutions. What leads me to believe this are
first source materials from our founders and framers, that typically read
like the following passage from the Dec. 3rd American Minute with Bill
Federer. "President Thomas Jefferson, author of the phrase "Separation of
church and state," asked Congress to ratify a treaty with the Kaskaskia
Indians, which they did this day, December 3, 1803. It stated: "And whereas
the greater part of the said tribe have been baptized and received into the
Catholic Church, to which they are much attached, the United States will
give annually, for seven years, one hundred dollars toward the support of a
priest of that religion, who will engage to perform for said tribe the
duties of his office, and also to instruct as many of their children as
possible, in the rudiments of literature." The treaty, signed by Jefferson,
concluded: "The United States will further give the sum of three hundred
dollars to assist the said tribe” in creating a church."
What I believe is that the founding fathers, (yes I still think of them as
founding fathers), didn’t want one religion to take precedence over any
other belief system. It was more about making sure that there wasn’t a state
denomination that would create favoritism toward those of one particular
religious persuasion.
When things always seem to have been a certain way, it doesn’t always occur
to a person to question their validity. That is how I would describe the
idea that there is supposed to be a separation of church and state. It’s
only been since l965 that we have seen federal money going to K-12
education, beginning with an NEA proposed legislation, the Murray-Metcalf
Bill – which resulted in federal aid to the school system, money not to find
its way to independent religious schools.
The ACLU, in some circles sarcastically referred to as the American
Communist Lawyers Union, works diligently to tear apart the citizens of our
country from our Judeo Christian roots. There goal is to erode the
connection between our governing principals and a higher power. They are
relentless in their fight to undermine the protections guaranteed in our
Constitution under the guise that they are fighting for our individual
rights. They are promoting a secular global agenda that could eventually
erase our history. Worse than that, our citizens are at risk from the
overthrow of our Democratic ideals by an ever widening infiltration of
Socialist practices. In the worst scenario, we may not be able to repel a
physical invasion by those hostile to our culture and ideals; that will stop
at nothing to annihilate us. "So long as our borders are unsecured and our
enforcement hamstrung by the ACLU, we are in extreme danger,” said another
writing colleague, Jud Cox.
According to Joseph Farah, the government is actually funding the ACLU court
battles to, "end taxpayer support of religious groups” (as they promote
their goal) through a section of the United States Code which, "permits
judges to award attorney fees to plaintiffs in civil-rights cases brought
against local governments, thereby putting the taxpayers on the hook and
oftentimes funneling public money to the ACLU.” In other words, "if the
municipality loses, the city's taxpayers are often forced to pay ACLU
attorneys.” This would explain why so many of these types of cases are filed
by ACLU lawyers.
It would not be out of line to say that just about every demographic group
is awarded preferential treatment in the public domain, except those of
Judeo Christian influence. The ACLU even looks out for pedophiles and
defends those waging Jihad against our citizens.
The time has come to defend ourselves against those who propagate the notion
that the separation of church and state is in the Constitution. It’s time to
call into question the practice of citing precedents, drawn from precedents,
drawn from precedents, when court justices make decisions about something as
serious as the majority belief system and instead, they should be required
to formulate a decision based on the original intent of those who drafted
our system of government. The idea of the document was to protect our
freedoms –freedom to worship where and when we please.
To erase the existence of religious symbols and ideas in a public
institution, based on the separation of church and state (words that don’t
exist in the Constitution), is a lot like playing telephone and believing
that what the person at the end of the line heard even remotely resembled
the original statement. Telephone is a child’s game. This is an adult
matter, of our very existence –as we know it. Our Constitution isn’t a fairy
tale, subject to the revision of who is telling it. It is the guarantor of
our liberty and should be revered as such!
Pull plug on ACLU
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41691
'Never Give Up!' - An Exclusive Interview With Mae and Martin Duggan
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=1606
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