The Spirit Of Montgomery
By David N. Bass (09/09/03)
Not surprisingly, the media is failing miserably in their coverage of the Alabama Ten Commandments rallies. Their portrayal of Judge Moore’s supporters as religious whackos foaming at the mouth to get arrested, or lying on the steps to prevent the monument from being removed, is nothing more than good ol’ fashioned propaganda.
I speak from personal experience, having stood with those people last week. And despite what NBC might think, those citizens have more peace and patriotism in their toenails than Barry Lynn has in his entire body.
Braving the infamous late summer heat, people are still flocking from all over to attend the rallies. Some from California, others from Minnesota, and a few from overseas. Old and young, white and black, all united under the cause of defending God’s law, our national heritage, and the rights of states to be free of federal interference in religious matters.
The crowd was two to three thousand strong when I arrived on August 28. An excitement and energy pulsed from the supporters assembled there. They were united in the belief that they were standing for something beyond themselves. They were Americans in the greatest sense: Americans exercising their God-given freedoms and rights under the Constitution.
It was an honor to behold. It was a privilege to partake in such a peaceful yet strong rally, a stark contrast to the violent, anti-war liberal tirades on America’s campuses during Vietnam.
And yet there was a sour lining to it, because I knew even as those people rallied, even as the nation spoke in support of Judge Moore, the people’s wish was being swept under the carpet.
Customarily ignoring the will of the people (namely a CNN/USA Today poll showing 77% of Americans want the Ten Commandments to remain in the Alabama judicial building), the judiciary maintains its attack against our nation. A tidal wave of tyranny is crashing down on us, and that tidal wave is hidden under the guise of judicial decrees and the so-called “rule of law”. As Thomas Jefferson intimated in his Memoirs, the Constitution has become a mere thing of wax in the hands of our courts.
Recent events in Alabama have opened the floodgates of religious persecution. The courts and ACLU are interested not in the will of the people as plainly displayed in Montgomery and throughout the nation, but their own humanist agenda. The Alabama case has given the few Americans who desire the removal of God from government a new lease on life.
The will of the many is being overrun by the will of the few. Perhaps that is the saddest part of this situation.
The most recent example is a lawsuit filed in Texas in late August over a monument that contained a King James Bible. The monument was constructed in 1956 to honor a local industrialist, William Mosher, for his charitable contributions to the Star of Hope Homeless program.
Kay Staley, the woman who filed the lawsuit, claimed the display was unconstitutional and personally offensive (alluding again to the unknown clause of the Constitution that guarantees freedom from offense. Show it to me!) She also emoted her fears over a so-called growing religious fundamentalism in America, and admitted the situation in Alabama was instrumental in her decision to file the lawsuit.
Looking at this reasonably, one may only conclude that Miss Staley and the minority who agree with her are out for blood. It is a crusade of sorts, a holy war without the holy, the shining goal being the removal of every vestige of our Christian heritage.
But despite this, the spirit of Montgomery is alive and well. It is a spirit of patriotism and deference to our Creator and His laws. And that spirit is not confined to Alabama. Regardless of efforts to stop it, that spirit is sweeping through our nation. And regardless of what the liberal socialist elite might think, these ideas are ingrained in the blood of America. We, not they, are the mainstream.
The ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State argue they represent the people, and the media may candidly concur, but what I saw in Montgomery last week showed the falsehood of that belief. It’s time Joel Sogol and Barry Lynn woke up to the fact that the people are behind God-fearing leaders, behind the Ten Commandments, behind the Constitution, and have been since the foundations of this nation were laid.
We are still one nation under God, and if the people’s voice is heard, we always will be.
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