What Are The Real Issues We Are Dealing With At Present?

  Lots of difficult situations are happening around the country today. A kindergartener is rebuked for praying. A teacher is told by the principal to remove her pin that says 'I love Jesus'. Students are reprimanded for bringing a Bible to school. A teenage daughter is taken away from her parents and given over to a medical team as her guardians. A mom is threatened to have her baby taken away because she gives him goat's milk. Clearly something is wrong here.
 
  New situations come up every day, and these situations are all a threat to our freedoms. What are the real issues though and why are they so upsetting to us? Can we do anything about them?

   The latest news is about a mayor in Texas, who is a lesbian, has ordered the pastors in that area to turn over their sermons to her, so they can be analyzed to see if there is anything that was taught concerning homosexuality.

   What is wrong with all of these situations is that those who are ordering the steps that are limiting the freedom of people, are violating the Constitution. Yet, they claim that those they are reprimanding are violating the Constitution. So, who is correct?

   What does the First Amendment say? It clearly says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

  So, how does the First Amendment tie in with the situation in Houston? Believe me, these people who are so aggressive will come up with a way to address this. But if you take it at face value, it is the pastors whose rights are being violated, not the mayor's.

   But aside from all that, what can we do? If you recall, in the 1960s and 70s, Madeline Murray O'Hair took a bold step and made up a case based on a bogus belief supposedly in our Constitution, and brought her case to the Supreme Court and won. How could she have won? That is easy to answer. She won because no one challenged her. Ever since that time, people believed that there was something called 'Separation of church and state' which has become a bogus, man made law, made to keep God out of our schools, and eventually out of all of our government.

   We have just bought into it. We assume, without even asking or thinking about it, that there is such a thing in the Constitution about 'separation of church and state' but I challenge you to try to find it if you believe it is there. This thing is so serious because it is actually taught as fact in law schools, so all our future attorneys also assume this is true. But it is bogus. I'll explain why.

   In 1620, a group of people came over to America from England. The reason they came over was to escape the church/government relationship in England. Instead of having churches run by pastors and bishops, the church was run by the king. Not a good set up. The Pilgrims were tired of this and came over to what we now call 'America'. Others joined later on, and in 1776, America was begun. The big goal of American was freedom. No one wanted to have a church run by a king!

   A document was written to help us understand the goals of our nation. We now have the Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and the bill of rights. The words written on these documents/articles help us understand better the hearts of those who founded our country.

   Now, back to the situation at hand. When Madeline Murray O'Hair did her thing, no one challenged her. By what she did, the laws, although unwritten, were changed. What Annisse Parker is doing is the same thing. She is acting out of a law that she made, and is enacting it, as if we are stupid enough to believe her. What she is doing is illegal. But here is the cruncher; are we going to respond to it? Are we going to challenge her on her man made law?

    This is not an issue of gay rights versus straight rights. This is the same type of issue that we faced (and failed to respond to) when Madeline Murray O'Hair made her venture to the Supreme Court. I can get all mad at people in that generation because they sat back and did nothing. But we have to go on, and when we see History repeat itself, we have to act. We must act. This has nothing to do with bullying gay people around. If Ms Parker gets away with creating a law that will be in effect (even though it is against the Constitution) what will the next perverted person in a leadership position come up with?

   It's time to 'pray for the church and pray for the country'.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.