by States Liberty Party
After a half century of paddling it's 50 children for
saying dirty words like
God or Jesus in the schoolroom, the
federal Supreme Court turned on it's peer, Congress, and washed out it's mouth with soap. The 1st Amendment prohibition on Congress was intended to
prevent the federal government from interfering with religion in the States, yet
the Court has turned the law around so that the central government controls
religion in the States, defining precisely how and where religion may be
practiced or prohibited.
Even though the Supreme Court always invokes the name of Thomas Jefferson when exercising it's self-appointed role controlling religion, he and other Founding Fathers could have only intended that the1st Amendment do no more than restrict a national church that might snuff out state churches and individual religious freedom, for Jefferson, Adams and Franklin aided in and approved the design of the Great Seal reading in Latin "God has favored us", with a design portraying the new government as a nation "under God". MORE
Must the Great Seal of the United States be prohibited?
GreatSeal.com • Ben's Guide • Bureau of Engraving & Printing
The Real Meaning and Significance of the Great Seal of the United States
The ballyhooed concept of separation of church and state cannot require mandatory public attendance in state run schools and not suppress religious freedom.
"Pharaoh sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his head and a Sword in his hand, passing through the divided Waters of the Red Sea in Pursuit of the Israelites: Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Cloud, expressive of the divine Presence and Command, beaming on Moses who stands on the shore and extending his hand over the Sea causes it to overwhelm Pharaoh."
The Supreme Court portrays a sense of fairness by the prohibiting of both positive and negative religious statements or activities, but it is an illusion because the prohibiting of one activity while allowing adversarial activity cannot be neutral.
A misapplied 1947 Supreme Court precedent prohibited religious activity in schools, even when initiated at the request of parents, without concern for whether it had even violated anyone's liberty or freedom of religious practice, and has resulted in the criminalizing of religion sponsored by any institution supported by the government.