------Original Message ----- I just got home from our meeting and how much fun was that?!! Les Phillips was the perfect speaker for our "Massachusetts' Miracle" Celebration tonight. There was so much joy, and enthusiasm and excitement in that room. How proud I am to be a part of a group like ours. I think the world has realized that the Tea Party Movement is real and a force to be reckoned with. AND WE ARE!!
As my husband Ron and I drove to the meeting I was thinking about these past couple of days and suddenly I asked Ron, "Have you really thought about how this whole thing in Massachusetts could have happened? " It truly was a miracle. It had to be a God thing. Not just the fact that Mass. voted for a Republican. Not just the fact that it was Teddy Kennedy's seat. But the fact that there was an election at all. And the timing of it. Just think how close we came to having that horrible hateful healthcare bill passed!! I think the nation may have been saved. And it can ONLY be explained as a God thing. And then I got home and received an email with this video. You simply must watch it. God's timing is perfect. And in Him we trust.
"One Nation Under God."
This simple phrase, added to the pledge of allegiance over 50 years ago has been the source of unbelievable debate and heated controversy. Likewise, the phrase 'In God We Trust' on our currency has been targeted and continues to be attacked as improper and politically incorrect. Lawsuits have been filed and legal minds employed to ascertain whether such statements violate the concept of 'separation of church and state'.
As this debate continues, some so called experts have implied or concluded that our Founding Fathers and Patriots were not religious. These secular champions, in an effort to further their own causes, have even painted these great men and women from our history as being devoid of religious passions or even a belief in God. This is a part of their strategy to remove any discussion of God from the public forum.
These men and women were passionately religious and saw the hand of God all around them. To God they gave Thanks for His Hand in the founding of this great nation. To Him, according to their own testimony they turned for wisdom and strength when life and liberty hung in the balance. Certainly the debate on separation of church and state will continue. But no one can dispute how our Founding Fathers and Patriots felt about God. The record is clear!
'One Nation Under God' is Jon McNaughton's witness and reminder that those who went before us knew from whence their blessings came!
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I was so proud to be a part of the effort in the State of Massachusetts to elect Scott Brown. I too consider myself a true Patriot with a strong belief in God. I just joined the "Tea Party Patriots" and I have a blog under the U.N. JoeyBowie. In my first Blog entry I explain that I recently bought a red hand knitted Voyager's Toque stocking cap with the tassel at the end. I'm told that some of the "Son's of Liberty" wore these caps with a lettered stick pin with the word "Liberty" pinned into the fold of the cap to keep it in one place while it was being worn. They also used a quill for this purpose, so I'm told. I ordered the hat from the "Log Cabin Shop" in Lodi Ohio and it appears to be back ordered at the moment. In the meantime, I've been looking for a stick pin with the word "Liberty" or "Freedom" on it, and they're nowhere to be found. They don't make them, but that doesn't mean that they can't be made. I emailed stickpins.com, http://www.stockpins.com/index.html and asked if they could make some up and they said that they would consider it. In my Blog, I've asked Tea Party Patriots if it would be possible to request these stick pins for their members. You don't need to go out and buy a Voyager's toque to pin it on, any hat or lapel will do. If every member wore a "Liberty" pin, we could recognize one another in our daily travels. Not only that but, new acquaintances who happen to spot that pin would probably come up to you and say, "Hey, do you belong to a Tea Party? "I've been looking for one in my area to join." It not only would be a good ice breaker for new acquaintances, but the Tea Party organization could sell them to it's members and generate a little money for it's organization. This is just a little brain storm idea that I came up with and maybe Les Phillips, or Ron and Nita could discuss this idea at their next meeting. Anyway, I'm so happy that Scott Brown got in. The five hours that I spent at the polls holding one of his signs really paid off. Not only that, but while I was standing there with his sign, people were driving by me honking their horns and yelling out, "Scott Brown, Yea!" with their thumbs held high in the air. For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of the savvy Massachusetts voters who elected Scott Brown. We didn't drink the "Kool-Aid" this time and for our efforts, we now have a voice in Congress.
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What a wonderful video and Nita's email was bursting with pride. I can imagine what that must feel like in a blue, blue state like Mass.
ReplyDeleteGod bless our Tea Parties. They are doing the work of heroes.
Obama and his far left radicals are still denigrating the Tea Party participants in his usual arrogant manner, but the people he speaks of are the true Americans and we vote. If you drive a truck, you're lower than whale feces, according to him. When the American People listen to this failed leader, they need to consider the source. Barack Husein Obama is nothing but the product of Affirmative Action. He's had his hands out all these years, taking and never giving. He's not a leader by any stretch of the imagination. He's a campaigner who used devious strategies and empty words to get where he is today. In the words of his hate monger minister, "The chickens have come back to their roost." 2012 can't come fast enough for me and I'll be glad when we're rid of this anti American slug!
ReplyDeleteThis was written by my friend Errol Phillips:
ReplyDeleteAll in all it's been a pretty darn good week.
Scott Brown Victory.
Supreme Court Decision.
Pelosi declaring "not enough votes."
Aloof and arrogant President humiliated.
Air America went out of business.
North Carolina ambulance chaser admission of fatherhood.
Obama exposed as a Fraud and empty suit by an awakening America.
Obama announces he will go to Nevada for Reid.
Barbara Boxer in trouble.
No Mercy for the Communist Thugs from Chicago.
Errol Phillips
Whatever the religions of the various founders, they drafted a Constitution that plainly establishes a secular government on the power of the people (not a deity) and says nothing substantive of god(s) or religion except in the First Amendment where the point is to confirm that each person enjoys religious liberty and that the government is not to take steps to establish religion and another provision precluding any religious test for public office. This is entirely consistent with the fact that some founders professed their religiosity and their desire that Christianity remain the dominant religious influence in American society. Why? Because religious people who would like to see their religion flourish in society may well believe that separating religion and government will serve that end and, thus, in founding a government they may well intend to keep it separate from religion. It is entirely possible for thoroughly religious folk to found a secular government and keep it separate from religion. That, indeed, is just what the founders did.
ReplyDeleteThe phrase “separation of church and state” is but a metaphor to describe the underlying principle of the First Amendment and the no-religious-test clause of the Constitution. That the phrase does not appear in the text of the Constitution assumes much importance, it seems, only to those who may have once labored under the misimpression it was there and later learned otherwise. To those familiar with the Constitution, the absence of the metaphor commonly used to describe one of its principles is no more consequential than the absence of other phrases (e.g., Bill of Rights, separation of powers, checks and balances, fair trial, religious liberty) used to describe other undoubted Constitutional principles.
Some try to pass off the Supreme Court's decision in Everson v. Board of Education as simply a misreading of Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. Instructive as that letter is, it played but a small part in the Court's decision. Indeed, it was only after reaching its conclusion based on a detailed discussion of the historical events leading to the First Amendment that the Court mentioned the letter. The metaphor "separation of church and state" was but a handy catch phrase to describe the upshot of its conclusion.
Perhaps even more than Thomas Jefferson, James Madison influenced the Court's view. Madison, who had a central role in drafting the Constitution and the First Amendment, confirmed that he understood them to "[s]trongly guard[] . . . the separation between Religion and Government." Madison, Detached Memoranda (~1820). He made plain, too, that they guarded against more than just laws creating state sponsored churches or imposing a state religion. Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., "the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress" and "for the army and navy" and "[r]eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts"), he considered the question whether these actions were "consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom" and responded: "In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the United States forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion."
The First Amendment embodies the simple, just idea that each of us should be free to exercise his or her religious views without expecting that the government will endorse or promote those views and without fearing that the government will endorse or promote the religious views of others. By keeping government and religion separate, the establishment clause serves to protect the freedom of all to exercise their religion.