Left Using an Activist Judiciary to Abolish Religious Liberty

Today is Religious Freedom Day 2019 (Wed. 1/16). But the left won’t let your faith interfere with its social agenda.

The First Amendment was adopted because the Founding Fathers thought we could learn from the religious wars that had plagued Europe since the Reformation. Also, and most importantly, to protect freedom of conscience – not to separate “Church and State.” That secularist dogma came much later.

It was never intended to force people of faith to pay for abortions or contraception or (if a business) participate in same-sex ceremonies.

Just this week, another Obama judge ruled in favor of compelling a group of nuns to provide contraception in their health plan. Cultural Marxists say: “You can believe whatever you want. We’ll tell you what to do.” The judiciary is their enforcement arm.

"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver

Decades of liberal/progressive efforts to censor, erase and deny the underlying ideas of liberty upon which the U. S. Constitution was framed have had consequences.

Our Constitution embodied a UNIQUE IDEA. Nothing like it had ever been done before. The power of the idea was in the recognition that people's rights are granted directly by the Creator - not by the state - and that the people, then, and only then, grant rights to government. The concept is so simple, yet so very fundamental and far-reaching.

CREATOR

People

Government

America's founders embraced a previously unheard-of political philosophy which held that people are "...endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights.." This was the statement of guiding principle for the new nation, and, as such, had to be translated into a concrete charter for government. The Constitution of The United States of America became that charter.

Other forms of government, past and present, rely on the state as the grantor of human rights. America's founders, however, believed that a government made up of imperfect people exercising power over other people should possess limited powers. Through their Constitution, they wished to "secure the blessings of liberty" for themselves and for posterity by limiting the powers of government. Through it, they delegated to government only those rights they wanted it to have, holding to themselves all powers not delegated by the Constitution. They even provided the means for controlling those powers they had granted to government.

This was the unique American idea. Many problems we face today result from a departure from this basic concept. Gradually, other "ideas" have influenced legislation which has reversed the roles and given government greater and greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of individual freedom and limited government and warned, over and over again, that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve that freedom for posterity.

Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5

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How the left avoids dealing with this fact boggles the mind.
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Left?? Sorry, but can you point me to any (R)N(C) ‘defenders’??

2 years in control of D.C. and WHAT, exactly, was it they pushed that was PRO-Freedom/Rights (rescind any “laws”\rules\regs, abolish ANY agency/dept)?? Oh, the “individual mandate” is gone, but O’Care is still “law of the land”, revenue-neutral “tax-cuts”, $1T+ budget deficits w/ PP/NPR/NEA funding...

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