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Liberty, Responsibility, and Toleranceby States' Liberty Party States' Rights and Religious LibertyLittle Laura Greska of Northwest Elementary School in Leominster, Massachusetts, brought a story on the birth of Jesus to her 2nd grade class for a school assignment on the meaning of Christmas, but she was told she brought the wrong thing and could not share it with her classmates. Two parents of children that were slain in the Columbine School massacre, found their tiles for a school healing project had been removed by school officials, because they contained offensive language: "God is love" and "Jesus wept". Similar stories of schools trying to be in compliance with new federal requirements for prohibiting religion in schools are happening throughout the country. The Founding Fathers strongly protected the States from federal prohibition of religion. What has happened? The anti-slavery 14th Amendment, a majestically written document, carefully preserved States' rights yet protected citizen's civil rights, requiring only that State laws to be fair and applied equally, but the federal Supreme Court somehow decided that with it, they could turn the 1st Amendment establishment clause upside down and reach into any public school and muzzle the teacher and students from saying anything which may harbor an underlying belief in God, effectively silencing little Laura Greska from telling classmates of the meaning of Christmas. What ended the free expression of Laura and the parents of the slain Columbine School children was not the words contained in a civil rights amendment, it was a mindset permeating the federal government and much of the nation that the States are subservient to, not in control over the federal government. The Founding Fathers had foreseen the problems which may come from a central and remote government that has too much authority over the daily lives of citizens, that it may silence distant and unseen people like Laura to ensure that some abstract "right" is protected. The 17th Amendment is the only place to look in discovering what had brought about the shift in perception that a central government must dictate control over the states and local affairs of citizens. It's 1913 inception immediately reversed the flow of power between the States and federal government, stripping the States of their birthright: a central government under the authority of the States in an equal partnership with the people to propose new federal bills, block any bill from becoming law, and to confirm or reject nominations of federal judges and Supreme Court justices. Repealing the 17th Amendment will help to return religion to the way that Founding Fathers wanted; to schools under a local, not centralized authority.
Is Freedom Irresponsibility?The State Supreme Court of Georgia recently overturned an old law prohibiting premarital sex. In this era of terminated pregnancies and one parent families, the States' Liberty Party concludes it is the wrong direction. Not long ago, every state in the union had laws on their books prohibiting deviant sexual activities, but in recent times these have been removed, one by one, without betterment to the general good. It may have seemed like a good idea to lift what appeared to be restrictions on individual freedoms, but what worth is it when no good comes of it? Were homosexuality still outlawed few "gay men" would be dead or suffering from the terrible AIDS disease, and many youth would not have become confused by a society which has learned to worship physical lusts, even to becoming confused as to their own sexual identities. Is it right to instruct our children of the goodness of becoming sexually confused? Is it proper to demand of them a "pleasing" of their mates that may bring about a newborn child that they are not yet desirous of having or raising? Should a child, an American citizen by birthright, be stripped of the former protection granted by wiser and better concerned Fathers, of entering the world as a citizen by right, with two waiting and loving natural parents? Should any child need wonder how his birth came about from two mommies, or who his "daddy" is, because his mommy and daddy really liked experiencing physical sensations more than they liked each other? The new "tolerant" and politically correct controlling society seems unable to comprehend the emotional distress that a young child feels upon learning that one of his mommies or daddy or mommy is not a natural parent. Often as he grows older a child will try to seek out his natural parents so that he can attempt to understand the conditions and purpose of his birth. He ;may find that he was a mistake made by "two caring people". The Georgia law was for the purpose of preventing such tragedies, but it's now seen as an archaic and prohibiting law, even while numbers of undesired children, terminated pregnancies , and deadly sexually transmitted diseases continue to permeate the national scene. Is the wanton lack of concern for the future of a potential child a protection of freedom and liberty, or were those seeming prohibitive archaic laws the true protectors of liberty? America is founded upon religious freedom, not sexual perversion. An electing of truly concerned public servants, not self-centered politicians wishing to appeal to a vocal and politically active minority, will return the Presidency, Congress, and the State Houses to the former responsible proponents of Liberty and religious freedom, and following that will be the courts. -States' Liberty Party
Intolerance of the "Tolerant"Citizens are asked to test long held religious beliefs by accepting deviant sexual practices abhorred by the ancient religions. Marriage is a sacred religious act, a union consummated for the bringing forth of children, but now it must be observed for sanctioning what is believed as evil, a seeking of earthy physical sensations as the end to a means, and a discarding of self-control and responsible behavior honoring the birth process. With the demand for tolerance from those that adhere to and believe in Christian and other religions is an intolerance toward the religions. Religion cannot be taught in schools even though it is entirely voluntary, and students are not allowed to say a prayer at an organized school event, public displays of traditional and historical religious artifacts like the 10 commandments can no longer be tolerated, and now the word Christmas is being not allowed. This is not intolerance say the new "worshippers of sexual activities", it is religious freedom! The intolerance toward those beliefs having an underlying belief in God, and demand for obedience to and embracing of those having no belief in God, is founded on the Founding Father's desire that religion be protected from the national government, so that one religion may not be prohibited for benefit of another, but the present conditions prohibit all religions for the benefit of no religion! No religion is protected by the Constitution because it is not protected by the Constitution. The national government is free to prohibit homosexuality and coitus outside of the sanctity of marriage, but may not prohibit religion. So, the national government, by way of the federal Court, prohibits religion to protect religion from the federal government and now begins a practice of demanding acceptance of contrary ideas to religion. The intolerance of the "tolerant" demonstrates that these opposing ideas: freedom with responsibility or freedom is anything goes that feels good, cannot live peacefully together, for by nature one must view the other as evil. Religious liberty is the foundation of the United States, and contrary ideas have, since the founding of the Union, been subject to tolerance or prohibition, at the will of the majority in each of the States. The present reversal is unconstitutional and is unacceptable. Citizens must take back their nation.
These articles first appeared in the Liberty Newsletter February 2003
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