Is Montgomery Another Memphis?

Is Roy S. Moore like Martin Luther King Jr.? Both are holding to their religious beliefs that the U.S. government is overstepping their authority and restricting the peoples’ freedom. An effort is underway to remove religious elements from both the historical and present day realm of government. Congress can open with prayer. Courts can ask witnesses to swear on the Bible. But the 10 Commandments can not be displayed in a courtroom. It just makes you wonder how much longer the first two practices will be “tolerated.” It all stems from a misunderstanding of true meaning of Thomas Jefferson’s quote, which is actually not part of the Constitution:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, I contemplate with solemn reverence that 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.

His statement means that the government should not establish an official State religion to the exclusion of all others, as was the case in a few European countries during that time. The Founding Fathers most evidently desired the foundation of the new experiment called America to be based on Christian principals, no matter how much today’s secularists wish it weren’t so. We can all learn more by reading Original Intent by David Barton.

Inscribed in the marble of the United States Supreme Court are the Ten Commandments. At the top of the Washington Monument is a plague that says “Praise Be Unto God” in Latin. Evidence is everywhere that the America was founded on Christian principals.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future …upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God. -James Madison

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. -Patrick Henry

This doesn’t mean everyone has to be a Christian. The religion itself has as its centerpiece, the component of free will. Everyone is free to choose what they believe and accept and what they reject. So back to Judge Moore. What would happen if the anti-religion crowd got their way?

If you ban any reference to God and eliminate the embodiment of our traditional moral law, what is left?