As I write this commentary, America is celebrating its 227th birthday. In recent days, our nation’s courts have continued to rule against the Christian principles upon which this nation was founded on July 4th 1776. Such rulings have continued to degrade our Republic, America’s system of Government was founded to be a Republic instead of a Democracy, by denouncing the God in which our Founding Father’s based the principles contained in our Constitution. These liberal judges have again ruled against the public display of the Ten Commandments, and they have supported the vilest of personal conduct, open homosexual sodomy, which is explicitly denounced in the Word Of God. One might ask the question, what are the Executive and Legislative branches of Government doing about our runaway court system? The answer is, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The Constitution set up a system of “checks and balances” to protect American citizens against any one branch of Government that would over step it’s Constitutional mandate, but they only work if the remaining branches use them to reign in the offending branch. At this time in our nation’s history, none of the three branches of Government are using the tools given to them in the Constitution. When this happens in our Republic, our Government ignores the voice of the citizens, you and I, and it is no longer a Government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” As an example, there has never been a time in our nation’s history, when the majority of our people have supported abortion on demand, and yet our courts made it legal. Another good example, would be the legalization of homosexuality, which has only been legal since the early 1990’s. The vast majority of Americans have always denounced this ungodly behavior, yet their voices were ignored. What about the volumes of court cases that ruled against these behaviors during the first two hundred years of our nation’s independence? Were they wrong all those years until some new, never seen before documents of revelation were found, that had been missing in the Constitution? Absolutely not! We are simply living in a time when our system of Government is not working the way it was set up to. Let’s look at the way our Government was intended to work.
ARTICLE I of the Constitution establishes the Legislative Branch of Government. It is our Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is given the responsibility of passing the laws of our land. It is given the “check” of overriding a Presidential veto by a two-thirds majority vote.
ARTICLE II of the Constitution establishes the Executive power “vested in a President of the United States of America.” He is given the power to appoint judges, “with the advice and consent of the Senate” “provided two thirds of the Senators present concur”. This means that the Senate must give the President’s appointments a vote, which our present Senate refuses to do for the President’s current judicial appointments, thus they are violating the Constitution. When the Senate ignores their Constitutional mandate, the President is given his “check” by giving him the “power to fill up all vacancies”….. “during the recess of the Senate.” Thus far, President Bush has not used his Constitutional “check”, allowing the Senate to make a mockery of the appointment process.
ARTICLE III of the Constitution establishes the Judicial branch of Government, specifically the Supreme Court. “The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution.” Section 2 also states that “the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.” It is important to understand that the Supreme Court was never given the power to legislate from the bench. They were only given the power to enforce the Constitution and the laws of the land as they were written, not according to their own opinion or preferences. For example, Americans have had the principle of “Separation of Church and State”, brainwashed into our minds and the education of our children, and yet there is no such thing to be found in the Constitution anywhere! After almost two hundred years of there being no such principle ruled in favor of in our judicial system, it simply appeared out of nowhere, and the Supreme Court used as its evidence a document that isn’t found anywhere in the Constitution. Even the Chief Justices of the high Court, has said that there is no such thing to be found in the Constitution! What you can find in section two, as stated previously, is the Congress’ “check” against bad rulings of the Court. The Congress can regulate and make exceptions to subjects that the Supreme Court can consider in its jurisdiction. Yet in the subjects of abortion, separation of church and state, and forbidding the acknowledgement of God in our public life, the Congress has never implemented its Constitutional authority and responsibilities, by removing them from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Yes, our Senators and Representatives can remove these scars against our Constitutional Republic, by simply voting to do so. Americans, let them hear from you loud and clear! Section 4 states that “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,” All we ever hear from our leaders is that America is a Democracy, which is not in the Constitution.
So where does America find itself on this 4th of July, 2003? It is still the greatest, most powerful nation on earth, but it is quickly falling down that slippery slope towards moral destruction. America will recover only if the President and Congress, will use it’s system of “checks and balances” given to them in the Constitution, and pull in the reigns of a judicial system that is legislating instead of enforcing, and making their decisions based on their liberal political agendas, instead of basing them on the Constitution of our great nation. America’s Founding Fathers knew that the Bible says “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,” and they founded a government based upon Godly principles. I reflect often on the fact that God Almighty destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, for living the same kind of lifestyle that we find in our nation today. George Washington, the father of our country and America’s first President, made the following statement; “that of all of the dispositions and habits which lead to good government, religion and morality are the inseparable and necessary pillars of support.”(I don’t see any separation of church and state here), and he went on to say; “Let not that man claim the name of patriotism who seeks to undermine those pillars. He is no patriot in this nation who seeks to undermine religion.” Consider George Washington’s statements in light of today’s Supreme Court decisions. After almost 225 years of Supreme Court decisions affirming God’s position in the Government of the United States, and its people, it has only been during the last 55 years that we have been forced to adhere to the UnConstitutional principle of separation of church and state. On February 29, 1892, the United States Supreme Court rendered the following decision after a 10-year study of our nation’s history, founding Documents, and court decisions. “Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian. No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people.”
As for me, I choose to believe the court decisions of our past, which based their decisions on facts, instead of our modern courts that have forced their fabrications upon an unsuspecting American people. I pray that Congress and the President will stop this before it is too late for our great Republic!
Rev. Wayne P. Riddlebaugh
President, American Heritage Ministry, Inc.
July 4, 2003
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