Identity Crisis
America has an identity crisis. Security over Liberty. Amnesty over Law. Party over Principle. Time to get educated and regain our identity as the shining city on the hill.
America has an identity crisis. Security over Liberty. Amnesty over Law. Party over Principle. Time to get educated and regain our identity as the shining city on the hill.
Special Guest interviews from the Constitutional Sheriff’s and Peace Officer Association Part 2. Great encouraging stories from Liberty minded law enforcement!
Joining me today: Chief Larry Kirk of Old Monroe, Missouri discussing the events of the Ferguson Protests from a Law Enforcement perspective. You’ll appreciate what he had to say and HOW he got involved in CSPOA!
In the 2nd half Tonya Benson, Executive Assistant at CSPOA joins me to discuss how she got involved with CSPOA and spreading the message of the importance of a Constitutional Sheriff.
Let’s Get Educated and Defend Liberty together!
Special Guest interviews from the Constitutional Sheriff’s and Peace Officer Association Part 1. Great encouraging stories from Liberty minded law enforcement! Let’s Get Educated and Defend Liberty!
Ask Me Anything Wednesday brings us questions and answers about Natural Born Citizens and Nullification…Not what I say but what the Framers said. Let’s Get Educated. Let’s be Defenders of Liberty!
Link to The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew http://bit.ly/1s6wXM7
History teaches that when government gets involved in religion, religious Liberty is threatened. The principle of religious liberty, asserted by King Henry I in 1100 and then embodied in the text of the First Amendment, is essential to the preservation of Liberty.
Richard Henry Lee, the drafter of the resolution to declare American independence said,
“It is true, we are not disposed to differ much, at present, about religion; but when we are making a constitution, it is to be hoped, for ages and millions yet unborn, why not establish the free exercise of religion, as a part of the national compact.”
The principle of religious liberty means,
“Government should protect every man in thinking and speaking freely, and see that one does not abuse another…all should be equally free, Jews, Turks, Pagans and Christians.” (John Leland, Baptist Minister 1791)
In protecting every man’s right to speak freely, the government cannot promote any man’s religion over another or fund any religion to the exclusion of another. That is the natural implication of the so-called establishment clause; government cannot restrict the exercise of religion by prejudicially supporting another. When the government uses tax dollars to fund religious speech, then it must fund all religious speech. And according to Thomas Jefferson, such an arrangement would be a violation of one’s religious conscience.
“That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” (The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Jefferson, 1777)
The difficulty of making the hard decision to apply these liberty-centered principles can be seen in the public school setting. A public school, funded with public money, CANNOT take a position on ANY religion, because all beliefs (or disbeliefs) are supported by public funding. Yes, that means that publicly funded schools and teachers are limited in their professional speech. However, this is no way prevents STUDENTS from freely expressing their beliefs.
If these public schools DO take a position on one religion, then they must give the same opportunity for ALL religions. For example, if your public school, paid for in full or in part by public money, displays Christian crosses on football helmets, then those football helmets MUST also provide space for satanic symbols, Buddhist symbols, and yes even Islamic symbols. Would those who are angry about a school being forced to take Christian symbols off their football helmets be equally, if not more so, angry about the display of Islamic or satanic symbols on those helmets?
Consequently, there are several Constitutional solutions to the lawyers and courts removing Christian symbols from public school property. First, remove ALL public funding from schools and have private schools determine their own philosophical and religious dispositions free from government intrusion. Secondly, remove YOUR children from publicly funded schools and put them in private schools that represent your beliefs and are free to openly express them. Or, teach and encourage your children to express their beliefs whether your school leadership participates or not – just remember each child is entitled to their religious liberty as much as your own child.
In order to maintain Religious Liberty we must be careful not to call for government to regulate religious speech, but rather stay out of religious speech entirely. We should also refuse to look to government to fund our religious activities and learn to live by faith and TRUST GOD to provide for our needs. Religious Liberty is a spiritual principle. Government mandated religious belief is tyranny. Ultimately, allowing and using our Religious Liberty gives Christians a platform for to display the love of Christ, as Thomas Paine explains:
“For myself, I fully and conscientiously believe that it is the will of the Almighty that there should be a diversity of religious opinions among us. It affords a larger field for our Christian kindness…” (Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776)
Do you ever feel like you have entered the Twilight Zone when you are talking to a liberal? Modern Liberalism is not just a political ideology, it is in fact a thought disorder. The inability to properly recognize, acknowledge, and classify distinctive plus a self-loathing and hatred of America is the essence of modern American liberalism. We have to resist the brainwashing. Pastor JC Hall fills in today and breaks it down.
Jihad on American soil! Where is the media? Make no mistake the First Amendment is under attack. Time to get educated…time to take back Liberty!
Many of you do not know this about me, but I feel moved to share my testimony this morning. In my younger years I was heavily into the occult and new age religion. This religion suggests you can simply create your own reality by your words and makes you the Sovereign of God’s universe instead of God being Sovereign over His own Creation. It is a subtle form of the highest idolatry – reliance upon and worship of SELF. There is no peace in believing that I am powerful enough to make myself “good enough.” No matter what I do, no matter what power I think I have, I will never be “good enough.” There is no peace in a constant futile effort.
Today I stand in wonder and awe that God would save me out of that and bring me into His truth and love. God showed me that is not about what I do, but about what HE HAS DONE! I stand amazed that He loves me so. The question still remains…so many people, why me?
Praise God for his overwhelming GRACE!
Here is my scripture for today’s devotion and may the peace of God be with you.
Philippians 4:
1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Are you smarter about the Constitution than an 8th grader? Today we will hear questions presented to me by an 8th grade class in Mater Dei Academy in Wickliffe, OH. And you won’t believe the questions they are asking. Let’s Get Educated!
Whose money is FEMA spending anyway? Congress gives permission to corporations to plunder pensions, paid by tax dollars, see just how its done. Obama gives a “drone-style” press conference. This and more on today’s show! Lets Get Educated!