Guest Opinion/Commentary*
I am an educated Christian and I vote
By Carolyn Hileman (04/19/08)
Have you ever noticed where you vote?? Some people vote in schools and recreation centers but most of us vote in those terrible places that the ACLU would have you to believe were unworthy of any American citizens presence, a Church. After all the talk of that none existent clause in the constitution, go ahead pull out your copy or look online it isn’t there, after the attempts to take the words under God out of the Pledge and off our money after all is said and done and the dust settles even those who believe in the separation of church and state end up more than likely voting in a Church. Have you ever asked yourself if Churches are such vile institutions why our government who requires them to stay completely out of any government controlled functions would send her citizenry to vote in such a place?
Perhaps it is because they know that the separation clause they oft allude to is nothing more than a letter sent by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists telling them:
Gentlemen,-The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association give me the highest satisfaction. . . . Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association assurances of my high respect and esteem.
As you can see once you have read the letter that they so often refer to it says that he is erecting a wall alright but not to protect government from religion but rather to protect religion from government. The constitution itself states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; Now lets see what that means shall we? Congress, well we all know who they are, shall make no law, did you get that make no law RESPECTING, which means having to do with. So what that says is Congress shall make no law having to do with an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It simply says Congress is to leave religion alone. Once again fairly simple yet our educated congress cannot seem to grasp it, nor would it seem that even the most educated of judges in the Supreme Court since they insist time and time again on handing down decisions based on a letter rather than that of the constitution, we the people are governed by the constitution and the bill of rights not a letter that if taken in its entirety would enhance further that there was never any attempt by Jefferson to try and separate God from state.
What this is really about is that the people content to be ordered around by those we put in power never bother to check to see if those we put in power have a clue what they are talking about. Content to be told what they wanted us to hear even though we knew it really didn’t sound right our freedom was not taken from us it was freely given away, not only by the churches but the lay people as well, we just simply were not interested. Oh yes on occasion there were a few who loudly objected but they were quickly dismissed as zealots and were not to be associated with the real Christians, you know the ones who would rather dig sand from their ears daily than bother to read a document and learn the truth. The scariest thing in the world to any politician is an educated Christian that votes, because those people know what their rights are, and that the constitution gives them the freedom to worship when they wish, where they wish and the law cannot touch them, by the way I am an educated Christian and I vote.
Carolyn Hileman
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