U.S. Court Says There’s
No Wall of Separation
By Jim Day
WOW
- here’s a story I can almost guarantee you wasn’t on the evening news or made
it to the front page of any major newspaper here in Missouri or probably any
where else in the nation for that matter. Praise Jesus, a United States Circuit
Court has finally put the ACLU in its place and recognized the truth regarding
the Constitution and “church-state separation.” And, I might add, in no
uncertain terms. Wait until you read the following news release from Gary
Glenn, President of the Michigan chapter of the American Family Association,
which was sent out on December 21, 2005.
6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals:
does not demand a wall of separation between
church and state."
By Gary Glenn
In an astounding return to judicial
interpretation of the actual text of the United States Constitution, a unanimous
panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on December 20, 2005 issued
a historic decision declaring that “the First Amendment does not demand a
wall of separation between church and state.”
In upholding a Kentucky county’s
right to display the Ten Commandments, the panel called the American Civil
Liberties Union’s repeated claims to the contrary 
“extra-constitutional”
and “tiresome.”
“Patriotic
Americans should observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving for this stunning and
historic reversal of half a century of misinformation
and judicial distortion of the document that protects our religious freedoms,”
said Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan.
“We are particularly excited that such
an historic, factual, and truth-based decision is now a controlling precedent
for the Federal Court of Appeals that rules on all Michigan cases,” Glenn said.
Sixth Circuit Judge Richard Suhrheinrich wrote in the unanimous decision: “The ACLU
makes repeated reference to the ‘separation of church and state.’ This
extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not
demand a wall of separation between church and state. Our nation’s history
is replete with governmental acknowledgment and in some cases, accommodation of
religion.”
“The words ‘separation of church and
state’ do not appear in the U.S. Constitution, though according to polls, a
majority of Americans have been misled to believe that they do,” Glenn said.
For background information regarding the issue of church-state separation, visit http://www.answers.com/topic/separation-of-church-and-state-in-the-united-states. To read the full Court of Appeals decision: http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/05a0477p-06.pdf.
End
Note…
Now, if we can only get the rest of
our courts across the country, particularly the United States Supreme Court, to
follow suit, maybe – just maybe – we can put an end to the subversive,
un-American, and destructive diatribes of the ACLU, People for the American Way
(PAW), Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU), and Michael Newdow. Perhaps we can put the 10 Commandments back on the
school house walls and in our government buildings. Maybe the millions of
dollars and man hours spent each year fighting the ACLU’s, PAW’s,
AU’s and Newdow’s
outrageous law suits can be better spent on something meaningful.
Savor the victory folks!
