Once again, the ACLU goes way overboard about the display of a religious passage in a government building. Here's the headline from FoxNews.com: ACLU Accuses Ohio Judge of Re-Displaying Ten Commandments in Courtroom. Holy Cow! Oops, isn’t that Hindi? Where people get the idea that the First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the use of the word God or the mention of religious ideals is beyond me.

 

Here is the amendment verbatim:

So, where is it? Where does it say you cannot use the word God? Where does it say that government documents cannot mention religion or government buildings display the Ten Commandments? The fact is the constitution is mute on the subject. This interpretation happens to be a result of strong political action by a determined lobby and not an ideal held by the Founding Fathers.

Interpretation of the “respecting an establishment of religion” is a statement against the establishment of a national, government supported, religion as witnessed by the Founding Fathers when the Church of England became THE official church of England. There is no question as to why this statement was included in the Constitution. Yet, we Americans have allowed anyone with an accommodationist political agenda to warp its narrow meaning to include anything related to religion.

The Found Fathers knew that the Church of England provided advice to the king and parliament and decisions were made based on this advice. They simply wanted to avoid such an arrangement. The Founding Fathers had the foresight to understand that tensions between religions could be eliminated at the governmental level by not including any supported religion.

 

Even as the Founding Fathers were providing the means to insure our government would remain secular, they were deeply religious men. In fact many, 54.7%, of the signatories of the three major U.S. documents were Anglican or members of the Church of England. They understood that the government should provide no support for a state sponsored religion. Yet, it would be moronic to assume their faith would not find it’s way into the documents since it was by their various religions and God that they believed the United States of America would prevail in its struggle to become independent.

So what of the word God in these documents? God is why these documents exist. It represents insight into the historical basis for the existence of our country and the freedoms we enjoy. God, in our historical government documents, has nothing to do with religion. In God We Trust represents the devotion, the commitment, and the sacrifice of the Framers to bring into existence the greatest country on earth. God is in our history, it cannot be denied. For God was in the hearts of the Founding Fathers.

Two countries in recent history tried to remove God from existence, not the omnipotent, all powerful God, but the God of faith found in the hearts of the populace: The former Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany. Look how well they faired.

Oh, and by the way, our way of government is rule of majority while protecting the rights of the minority, not secure the rights of the minority at the expense of the majority. Of course that's meaningless to a Constitutionally myopic lawyer that is only interested in getting his or her name in some law review. That's right buddy, serve thyself at the expense of everything else. A classic example of a pathetic, useless, and absolutely unpatriotic American who has obviously forgotten that the very right to screw everybody over is derived from the Constitution he or she is attempting to remake in their own image.

So Speaketh the Chimp