I’ve searched the US Constitution and I am unable to find an establishment of a right to not be offended. As much as I would like to exercise such a right… it does not exist in our constitution!
The First Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Obviously that English is not plain enough for some people to comprehend.
What is this about? Well the trigger was this article. But the constant misinterpretation of the First Amendment by our judicial system (an oxymoron in this instance) at all levels has become [understatedly] absurd.
According to the article, the King, NC city council reacted exactly as judicially conditioned in response to a letter from the ACLU pertaining to a Christian flag flying at a city owned Veterans Memorial site – they removed it. The ACLU letter was triggered by a Veteran’s dissatisfaction that the Christian flag was present at the memorial.
Let’s go back to the foundation of the ‘separation of church and state’ premise – the First Amendment. According to the ACLU and far too many justices, all apparently lacking a basic reading comprehension skill, the First Amendment separates: the church from the state from the church. Get the picture?
Well, I don’t! The First Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” So, unless Congress passed legislation, signed by a president, establishing Christianity as the ‘state religion’ for King, N.C., then the First Amendment was not violated.
The rest of the “establishment clause” states, “…or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” People with a basic reading comprehension understand that Congress cannot legislate the prohibition of free religious exercise – by individuals, communities, or even municipalities. Congress cannot legislate said prohibition, but the judiciary system sure has.
It is time for ‘we the people’ to take back from the federal government what ‘we the people’ never gave it in the first place! It is time for ‘we the people’ to start ignoring judicial fiat and challenging the justices to enforce their absurd rulings. In such instances, without a compliant mass, there are no teeth in judicial fiats. It is time to adopt President Jackson’s challenge to the SCOTUS – “Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”
It is way past time for ‘we the people’ to put a stop to a federal government, and it enabling judicial system, that is feeding upon itself – amassing powers that ‘we the people’ never extended to it. Our present state federal government is flatly out of control. ‘We the people’ must regain what the federal government has usurped; and restore that government to the functions established in our constitution!
If ‘we the people’ do not decisively act soon, ‘we the people’ will be replaced with, ‘we the Congress;’ and we will be well on our way to state socialism and the demise of the United States of America.
Old Soldier 