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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

God-Like Panel of Judges Declares National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional

by: Gary DeMar
Another National Day of Prayer has come and gone, but it hasn’t stopped ill-informed judges from trying to rewrite our nation’s history. “A Colorado appeals court ruled last week that the state governors’ previous proclamations regarding the National Day of Prayer were unconstitutional as they implied a ‘government endorsement of religion over nonreligion.’”
This isn’t the first time wayward judges have displayed their ignorance of history and the meaning of the Constitution. Wisconsin U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb ruled that “the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience. . . . The government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual’s decision whether and when to pray.” She and the Colorado judges need a history lesson from the Founders who drafted the First Amendment and also called for national days of prayer and thanksgiving.
In 1789, the same day the wording of the First Amendment had been finalized, Congress called on President Washington to declare a national day of prayer and thanksgiving. The proclamation stated that “it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.”
John Adams, in his 1798 Proclamation, stated something similar:
[T]he safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and blessing of Almighty God; and the national acknowledgment of this truth is . . . an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.
Then there are the official documents that called for national days of prayer. On March 16, 1776, “by order of Congress” a “day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer” where people of the nation were called on to “acknowledge the over ruling providence of God” and bewail their “manifold sins and transgressions, and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease his righteous displeasure, and, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness.”[1]

Congress set aside December 18, 1777 as a day of thanksgiving so the American people “may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor” and on which they might “join the penitent confession of their manifold sins . . . that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance.” Congress also recommended that Americans petition God “to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consists in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”[2] Here’s a proclamation from 1799, more than ten years after the Constitution was drafted, during the administration of John Adams:
[That April 15, 1799] be observed throughout the United States of America as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that the citizens on that day abstain, as far as may be, from their secular occupation, and devote the time to the sacred duties of religion, in public and in private; that they call to mind our numerous offenses against the most high God, confess them before Him with the sincerest penitence, implore his pardoning mercy, through the Great Mediator and Redeemer, for our past transgressions, and that through the grace of His Holy Spirit, we may be disposed and enabled to yield a more suitable obedience to his righteous requisitions in time to come; that He would interpose to arrest the progress of that impiety and licentiousness in principle and practice so offensive to Himself and so ruinous to mankind; that He would make us deeply sensible that “righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people [Proverbs 14:34].”[3]
National days of prayer and thanksgiving have been a part of our nation’s history before its founding, during its founding, and since its founding.
If the above judges don’t know this history, they shouldn’t be judges. If they do know this history and don’t account for it, they shouldn’t be judges.

[Editor's note: Please email or mail this article to your state and federal congressmen and women and Senators. Tell them you are tired of Christianity being systematically outlawed.]





Why is All Girl Muslim Prom Not a Violation of Separation of Church and State?

by: da Tagliare
When was the last time you heard about a public high school holding a Baccalaureate Service for their Christian students who were graduating?
When was the last time you heard about a public school holding a Christmas (not holiday), Easter or Hanukkah program?
When was the last time you heard about a public school that did anything positive for Christian or Jewish students?
I bet your answer is, not for some time.  The ACLU and various atheist groups have successfully driven them out of the public school system.  Any show of religion (except atheism, humanism and secularism) is a violation of the separation of the church and state.

So why aren’t the ACLU and atheist groups hollering about the girls only prom held by Hamtramck High School.  Muslim girls are not allowed to dance or socialize with boys, and since the school has such a high number (65%) Muslim students, the school held a separate girls only prom just for the Muslims.
Hamtramck, Michigan is a northern suburb of Detroit and not that far from Dearborn, who has the largest percentage Muslim population of any city in the US.  Many of the Muslims are originally from other countries such as Palestine, Bosnia, Yemen, Poland and a number of African countries.
The girls only prom gained national attention when the New York Times ran a feature story on the Muslim event.  Yet no one from the ACLU has said anything to condemn the obviously religious event.  Barry Lynn from Americans United for Separation of Church and State has also remained silent.  Perhaps they have all remained silent about the public school endorsed Muslim prom because they are so busy attacking Christian and Jewish programs elsewhere in the county?
The acceptance of the Muslim prom is another warning sign that Islam is taking over American culture and law.  They are being allowed to trod where no other religion can.  They are being given special treatment while Christians and Jews are being stripped of their rights and freedoms.  If left unchecked, it won’t be long before it will be officially known as the United Islamic States of America.




THE KAGAN DECEPTION Subversion on the Supreme Court

THE KAGAN DECEPTION
Subversion on the Supreme Court
It has become abundantly clear that Elena Kagan was put on the Supreme Court, not to uphold and defend our Constitution as her oath requires, but to destroy that grand document and fundamentally transform America into a new Socialist state.
We must stop Elena Kagan!
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Elena Kagan's actions and questions as a Supreme Court Justice hearing the ObamaCare case were telling enough...but as reported earlier, (see below), her long history of public display of anti-Constitutionalism provide the proof.
The fact is:
Elena Kagan is committed to destroying the Constitution.
Elena Kagan is intent upon implementing Socialism in America.
Elena Kagan is unfit for duty as a Supreme Court Justice and MUST be immediately removed from the court.
We MUST protect the Constitution and the integrity of the court.
Elena Kagan MUST be removed from the bench.
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What would you say if you learned that a member of the highest court in the land has spent the last 30 years openly advocating for the destruction of the US Constitution and even went so far as to accept $20 million from Shariah Law proponents to accomplish her goal?
That Supreme Court Justice is Elena Kagan.
The year after Ronald Reagan entered the Oval Office with the goal of restoring America to greatness; Elena Kagan penned a telling and disturbing senior thesis titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933." In that body of work, Kagan lamented that "a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States"; and that," no "radical party" had yet "attained the status of a major political force." Kagan went on to sound a rally cry for "those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America."
Apparently, this was no mere college dalliance, as the Elena Kagan has spent the rest of her career working to remove the underpinnings of freedom and destroy the American Constitution from within. And Kagan's grand plan has worked very well indeed.
After graduate school Kagan went on to become Dean of Harvard Law, where she removed Constitutional Law classes from the curriculum, and replaced those necessary and time honored classes with required studies of international law. And in what appears to be a game of using a mutual enemy's resources to accomplish ones' true objective, Kagan also accepted a $20 million grant from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal - a noted Shariah Law proponent - to implement an "Islamic Studies" program.
Lest we think Kagan's intentions are ancient history, take a look at her line of questioning when hearing the ObamaCare case last week. Rather than question the thinly veiled socialist Trojan horse as an affront to our Constitution, Kagan almost seemed willing to defend ObamaCare and salvage the master plan to fundamentally change America into a new Euro-socialist model.
By definition, our Supreme Court is charged with upholding, defending and preserving the United States Constitution. The Judges on the Supreme Court are meant to protect our freedom, not destroy it. To do otherwise is nothing short of treason.
"Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as an attempt to 'overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation].'"
Destruction of the Constitution is an attempt to overthrow and seriously injure America. Elena Kagan's lifetime of actions lay bare a clear intention to subvert our Constitution and its founding principles, thereby rendering her UNFIT FOR DUTY as a Supreme Court Justice.
ObamaCare is not the end of the line. The Supreme Court will continue to weigh the Constitutionality of numerous cases. The fact is that Elena Kagan is an activist judge with hatred toward the very document she is sworn to protect. As such, Elena Kagan must immediately be removed from the bench if our Constitution and America is to survive.

Defend America,

Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman, AmeriPAC