"Dana" <whoya@whoya.com> wrote:
:|http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46711
:|The 'born-again' bench
:|Kevin McCullough
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:|The liberals who already frequently accuse me (incorrectly by the way) of
:|trying to establish a theocracy will scream it all the more when they read
:|this. Many of the people who I have nothing but deepest respect for like Ann
:|Coulter, William Kristol, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and
:|others may think I am betraying the movement that we labor in together. But
:|let's put it all aside for a second take a look at what having someone like
:|Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court does for our nation.
:|Besides having spoken to some of those who know her best, I have been able
:|to put together a bit of a picture of who this woman is and how she
:|operates. And though some may scoff at what I am about to suggest - if they
:|will but digest it and take a deep breath for a second, strong conservatives
:|will discover that we have nothing to be worried about in Harriet Miers, and
:|that liberals have very much to be afraid of.
:|Because she is influenced by her personal belief system (i.e., her
:|worldview) we can know fully that she will be a strict constructionist on
:|the bench. How can we know? Because she handles the text of the Constitution
:|with the same respect and similar submissiveness as she does with the law
:|that was established even before the Constitution - God's law. I know its
:|really unpopular to say this in this day and age - but we do know don't we -
:|that the American legal code was in many respects modeled after biblical
:|principles and the Ten Commandments?
:|We do recognize, do we not, that the dignity of the individual - including
:|their personal rights were ideas gleaned from Scripture before they were put
:|into the legal document that now governs our nation? Were not the Ten
:|Commandments an original pattern for how our set of laws were established?
:|And haven't we seen the destruction of not only the Ten Commandments, but
:|also the traditional understanding of what American law has meant - say for
:|the past 40 years?
* The Ten Commandments Issues
o The Complete Ten Commandments, a Study Guide
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/10commsg.htm
o Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting the Establishment of
Reason. Neal Blanchett, Esq. comments on the Ten Commandments controversy.
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/blanch2.htm
o The Seven Lost Commandments
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/7lostcom.htm
o Rev. John Leland on the Ten Commandments, Judge Moore and other
related things
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/leland10.htm
Study Guide: The Roots of American Democracy
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/studygd8.htm
Roots of American Law
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/histlaw.htm
The Christian Bible and the Foundations of the U. S.
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/biblfoun.htm
How often did the founders quote the Bible?
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/arg9.htm
Did Montesquieu base his theory of separation of powers on the Bible?
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/montesquieu.htm
Christianity and the Constitution
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/arg10.htm
Does the Constitution Embody Christian Thought and Morality?
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/arg10a.htm
The "Sundays Excepted" clause
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/arg10b.htm
"The Year of Our Lord" and separation.
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/arg10c.htm
Federal officials take their oaths upon a Bible, and use the words
"so help me God." http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/arg11.htm
* A Baptist minister and follow warrior with Jefferson, Madison
and others in the struggle for religious freedom gave this advice
about electing public officials: "...guard against those men who make
a great noise about religion..."
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/leland5.htm
* Madison's Arguments Against Special Religious Sanction of
American Government
http://candst.tripod.com/madlib.htm
* Treaty of Tripoli, 1796: Little-Known U.S. Document Signed by
President Adams Proclaims America's Government Is Secular
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tripoli1.htm
Is it true that Madison said "Our future is staked on the 10
commandments?"
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/misq1.htm
Is it true that Madison said "Religion is the foundation of government?"
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/misq2.htm
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