Judge's Ten Commandments Display in Courtroom Ruled Unconstitutional. But...

A Judge's Ten Commandments Display in Courtroom Ruled Unconstitutional.

The lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (of course - always robbing people of their liberty), and the new ruling by the federal appellate judges marked the second time in the past 11 years they've had to admonish Deweese for his courtroom art. In 2000, he hung on his courtroom wall a copy of the Ten Commandments -- alone without any of his own comments -- before the federal courts ordered it taken down.

But the strange part is that the Ten Commandments are engraved above the bench of the Supreme Court - and THAT court says there is no problem with it. I don't see them tearing down the SCOTUS building.

The whole argument is actually groundless - NOWHERE in the Constitution is there ANY phrase that states a "separation of church and state." Nowhere. On the contrary, the 1st Amendment is actually quite clear in both its wording and its intent - that Congress shall make no law that establishes a state religion, nor can it pass any law that infringes ANY person's right to freely practice their religion.

And the very people who wrote the Constitution also wrote many other papers about the writing of the Constitution, and to a man each one expressed that religion should be involved in government, but government must not be involved in religion.

The only "wall of separation" was intended to be one-way. And Thomas Jefferson, the man who coined the phrase "separation of church and state" in his first letter to the Danbury Baptist Church made that very point quite clear in his follow-up. The ACLU and many judges, in their intolerance and ignorance have conveniently chosen to ignore Jefferson's follow-up because it does not help them in their pursuit of driving all religion out of America.

UPDATE: Someone from the Baptist Church submitted the following:

"Thomas Jefferson repeated the Baptists' historical words ("wall of separation") back to them in his Danbury letter, describing church/state separation enacted in the First Amendment, and Danbury Baptists (and many other Baptists) in return thanked Jefferson for separating church and state.But, while Baptists thanked Jefferson for helping them secure the establishment of America as a secular nation..."

But here's the problem with revisionist history --- First, "church/state separation" was NOT enacted in the 1st Amendment - it was only enacted by the liberal Supreme Court of the '70's. This is why the Supreme Court building, itself, is adorned with the 10 Commandments, and why every Congress since Washington always began with prayer. Apparently the founders had no problem with the "one-way" separation. Second, Thomas Jefferson played NO PART in drafting the Constitution. He was left out of it, most likely by design because of his liberal beliefs. So, he did not "separate church and state" except in the eyes of liberal justices who decided to ADD his words to the Constitution by proxy, nor did he "help secure America as a secular nation" other than to be taken out of context by those same justices who chose to ignore Jefferson's follow-up that it should only be a one-way separation.

Contrary to common belief, Jefferson was not atheist - he was a Deist. He believed in God, but also believed that once he created us, he moved on and plays no part in our daily lives.

The same liberal Baptist then wrote that I am the "revisionist", stating "Friend, you're not telling the truth about our American and Christian history. The First Amendment DOES separate church and state as a two way road". So, I will leave it to you to decide. Here is the actual word-for-word 1st Amendment that affects religion - you decide if it says "separation of church and state as a two-way road", or if it says what I had stated, above:

Amendment I
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Seems to me it says precisely what I said.

And every single one of the founders who drafted the Constitution had all written a number of letters and other writings in which, to a man, they stated the importance of having religion IN government, but not established BY government.

EXAMPLES:

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." --George Washington

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. " --George Washington

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased." -- Alexander Hamilton

"The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God." -- John Adams

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" -- John Adams

“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?-- John Quincy Adams, 1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.

“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” – Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention of 1787 original manuscript of this speech"

As these and several hundred other quotes of the founders show, I am not in the business of revising history. I study it, objectively. And I provide the evidence of my findings by quoting the founders, themselves.


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