I now have an excellent DVD put out by some southern Baptist type of patriots. . . . Newt Gingrich gives the introduction. It is about "The Wall of Separation" Thomas Jefferson referred to in his letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptists. In the year 1801-2, Connecticut still have a state religion. . . . Congregationalist I think. A lot of my ancestors came from there, leaving in 1797 to take land grants awarded by Congress for their service in the American Revolution. Probably a majority of States then had their own state-sanctioned church. . . .
The idea of barring the Federal Government from usurping control over the states, and dictating a national government, was one of the conditions a lot of States insisted on.
So the idea is presented in this light. . . .our founders did not want a government that was absolute, but limited, particularly the Federal government. They did not want a President, or a Judiciary, or a Legislature at the Federal level with any kind of absolute power, and they prayed that the government they were setting up at the federal level would never get the idea or the power to become absolute.
When "progressives" obtained their majority in the Supreme Court, they began to say things like "The Constitution means what we say it means", and began to overturn one principle after another that should have been kept in place to keep the Federal government limited to the original scope intended and agreed to by the contracting States.
About thirty years into that tyrannical tradition, The Supreme Court began to invoke the "Wall of Separation" in ways Thomas Jefferson never intended, and our founders would never have accepted. They turned the idea upside down, and instead of it being a limit on the Federal government, they made it a limit on the speech and conduct of the citizen, literally driving religious believers into their closets to exercise their faith.
It took a lot of outright, knowing lies and knowing liars to turn our federal government into the authoritarian phenomenon it is today. . . . all "progressives".
The idea of barring the Federal Government from usurping control over the states, and dictating a national government, was one of the conditions a lot of States insisted on.
So the idea is presented in this light. . . .our founders did not want a government that was absolute, but limited, particularly the Federal government. They did not want a President, or a Judiciary, or a Legislature at the Federal level with any kind of absolute power, and they prayed that the government they were setting up at the federal level would never get the idea or the power to become absolute.
When "progressives" obtained their majority in the Supreme Court, they began to say things like "The Constitution means what we say it means", and began to overturn one principle after another that should have been kept in place to keep the Federal government limited to the original scope intended and agreed to by the contracting States.
About thirty years into that tyrannical tradition, The Supreme Court began to invoke the "Wall of Separation" in ways Thomas Jefferson never intended, and our founders would never have accepted. They turned the idea upside down, and instead of it being a limit on the Federal government, they made it a limit on the speech and conduct of the citizen, literally driving religious believers into their closets to exercise their faith.
It took a lot of outright, knowing lies and knowing liars to turn our federal government into the authoritarian phenomenon it is today. . . . all "progressives".
