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A Religious State Could Provide Freedom of Religion, A Secular State Has Already Proved Itself IncompetentLiberty is not ExploitationBy States' Liberty Party Liberty was not envisioned by the Founding Fathers to be "anything goes", the exploiting of the gullible and naive for financial gain, or exploiting women and the birth process for an experiencing of passionate lusts, or of exact gender equality in every facet of life. Liberty was religious freedom and the right to speak out against the government, and to move freely and be safe in one's home, to not fear arrest and imprisonment without due process of law. The Fathers, particularly concerned about both freedom of religion and speech, protected the States from intrusion by the new federal government that had been given a purpose of protecting, but not governing the States. No federal controls were placed internally on the states because the States had their own own separate constitutions and laws. Thomas Jefferson is the primary architect of the public school system in America today, believing that while religion must play a strong role in the lives of citizens, a single denomination could no longer dictate values and methods to those of other faiths. For 160 years the idea worked well, until the federal government in 1948 twisted the meaning of the 1st and 14th Amendments and prohibited nearly all mention of religion in the public schools, stomping it out to the degree that Jefferson's preamble to his 1770's Virginia bill on religious liberty would be prohibited by the school system today, because it speaks of and credits the Christian Lord. The federal Supreme Court, in fact, cites Jefferson's own words every time it further restricts religion, placing itself in a somewhat comical position of justifying the prohibiting of Jefferson's own words on the authority of Jefferson's words. The new central government in Washington void of religion is called a "secular state", and serves a purpose of ensuring that the people are protected from religion and religious values, but it embraces values contrary to religion. The determining point is "does the activity harbor an underlying belief in God?", and if it does then it is prohibited to protect religion from government, tantamount to protecting citizens from arrest by tossing them in jail. A secular federal government anointing itself with the mission of protecting religion by prohibiting religion is prohibiting, not protecting religion. Although it is true that religion is provided tax exempt status, the same can be said for other not-for-profit groups, many of which teach contrary teachings to religion but are not subject to the federal religious prohibition, having no underlying belief in God. The Founding Fathers did not restrict religion in the States nor in the schools. They prohibited just the federal government from interfering with religion in the States. Any state had the right to establish a religion in 1779 just as any state has the same right today in 2003. The 1865 era 14th Amendment now exists, giving federal courts an authority to ensure that the States apply their laws equally and fairly, and with a due process clause that may stop a state from prohibiting the free exercise of religion, but nothing in the Constitution disallows a state from creating an establishment of religion. A state established religion could not legally do what the federal Supreme Court has done. It could not prohibit a free expression of religion in the schools by teachers or by students but such protections against restrictions are within the current practices of the various established religions. Many public hospitals are owned and managed by churches, yet patients in the hospitals with few exceptions feel no fear of indoctrination or mandatory worshipping requirements. Few patients probably even realize they are admitted to a religious institution during their stay. It is therefore apparent that the federal secular government has failed in it's self-appointed task of protecting religion from the federal government, and this alone should bring reasonable citizens to question whether the government's theory that an establishment of religion cannot provide religious freedom has any basis of fact. By prohibiting and restricting all philosophies having an underlying belief in God and freely allowing those which do not, the secular government has simply become a new and oppressive religion, blocking out ideas contrary to the new "anything goes" value system and telling youth, using the persuasive authority of government, to reject the ancient church values and accept the new secular ideas and morals that are 180 degrees contrary to the ideas of the Founding Fathers, and this exactly is what happened. Thomas Jefferson did not intend for religious morals and mention of God to be denied of teachers and students. He wished that schools instill the values and ideals of universal principles of religion without adhering to any one dogma or method, and this regulated by the states, not the central government. It is time that the people say "enough" to the shenanigans of the federal Supreme Court and take their government back. Although the federal Supreme Court must willingly change and reverse it's long unconstitutional string of decisions beginning in 1948, through the 1960's Roe v. Wade decision, and other erroneous judgments weakening moral values and banning religion, the people can help to accomplish this by legitimate legislative means. The 50 state legislatures have the power to repeal the 17th Amendment, returning Washington to the original structure of the Founding Fathers, requiring new federal judges and Supreme Court justices to again be confirmed by a majority of the 50 State Houses, of whom may then reject any court nomination that fails to respect the authority and separate powers of the states, granted to them by the Constitution. The Court could hardly ignore such as message, and some justices on the court are already on the side of, or may be somewhat on the side of breaking precedent and reversing the illegal decisions. Resulting will be 50 States, each one capable of regulating religion in their public institutions as they once were, within the fair limits set by the 14th Amendment.
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