Posted by
Matt Cole on Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:02:49 AM
Ok, I have waited to start posting to my blog so I could make sure what I write is perfect and exact, eloquent and flowing, yadda, yadda, yadda. Whatever. I obviously have changed my thinking. I am a talk radio guy, not a writer. I am going to just write what I think, just as if I were talking on the radio. If you like it great; if you don't, oh well. I am what I am, a believer in the Scriptures and the Constitution and that is my "cause" for this blog.
So here we go. I am sick and tired of hearing about the so called "separation of Church and State". I read today where they are trying to ban some cross in the middle of the desert because it "violates the doctrine of separation of church and state". How stupid are people to not only say that but, to believe it. The cross is apparently a memorial to fallen Marines and other soldiers who gave their life for the real Constitution and our liberty, not some warped version or view of it.
Where is this doctrine? Oh yeah, the First Amendment, right? Well, the First Amendment says, as pertaining to religion, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...". Now I am not Barack Hussein Obama or any other Constitutional scholar but, I can read English and I don't see how this little cross or the Ten Commandments in a courthouse, or praying before a ballgame is Congress making any kind of law, much yet one establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof?!
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802, in response to a letter from them said this, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence the act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state". This is a letter to a Baptist Association, not the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, not even something passed by Congress. It's a letter from the President to a bunch of Baptist. Since when did that constitute the making of a law?
It's time we Christians in all walks of life and on a broader scale, true Patriotic Americans, whether Christian or not, stand up and say enough is enough. No more lies, no more Supreme Court blunders, no more religious persecution. We'll say what we want, pray what we want, and display what we want, whether we're in Government or on "public" property or not. Because nothing any of us do or say or pray is Congress making any kind of law about religion or anything else. It's about the Constitution and the rights that it protects for us all and it's high time we read it, we understand it and we hold our elected officials accountable for properly carrying out their duty to uphold and defend it.