Posted on 03/26/2015 7:28:21 PM PDT by so_real
FAIRCHILD, Wis. (WEAU) - An Amish family in Fairchild now has a sign on their home ordering them to leave.
The court order for Amos and Vera Borntreger, along with their four young children, is for violating Eau Claire County building codes.
The family claims those codes go against their religious beliefs.
The county put up the sign, Thursday, around noon.
The penalty for not obeying that sign by leaving their home could be $2,000 dollars for every day they stay or jail time.
A group of about ten from the Amish community were gathered when the county delivered the order to the home.
Amos Borntreger tells WEAU it was all done very peacefully, but says they're not leaving.
A friend of the Amish community, John Czech, was at the house, Thursday. He says he supports the family's stand.
“I personally think that's wrongful and corrupt to make them follow beliefs against their religion, that haven’t always been established but it's probably going to take something like this to put it on the legal books so they're not restricted in that way,” said Czech.
Borntreger also says he's feeling a little uneasy about the situation and just wants to take it one day at a time by following the legal path.
He adds they're now appealing the ruling to a higher court...
The county will now decide what comes next.
Slippery slope; do we then have to recognize the right of Muslims to continue their hundreds of years practices of requiring submission or death of Infidels?
Yes, I know, the comparison is silly. But it WILL be made!
nope, install battery powered detectors, then take the batteries out like they do in the inner city....no problem, and if you have a radio...it works just fine.......
Probably hard wired smoke detectors, effluent pumps, or smart electric / gas meters mandated by the local codes.
Of course the Amish have no indoor plumbing so effluent pumps are not needed, they have no electric service so the smart meters are moot and the wiring for the smoke detectors won't have any power to run them.
I have to meet them??? I live in Indiana and we are home to zillions of them.....horse drawn buggies in Wal-Mart parking lots...I have, and frequent an Amish bakery (YUM) within 3 blocks of my house...very nice people and I respect them a lot....(Kun's Bakery!!)
But not expressly or specifically for schools, nor did they purchased them, but recommend this edition of the "invaluable book." The actual document could be shortened as thus:
"Being witnesses ourselves of the demand for this invaluable book...Resolved...the United States in Congress recommend...the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States."
While this refers to a specific edition of the Bible, it was the "invaluable" Bible that was officially and uniquely recommended, and the printing of their recommendation authorized, something the ACLU types would go bananas over today.
If the Founders saw religion as something both the Fed and state govs must avoid officially sanctioning like the plague, then what were they doing affirming and recommending the Bible, and proclaiming such this as,
Congress proclaimed days of fasting and of thanksgiving annually throughout the Revolutionary War. This proclamation by Congress set May 17, 1776, as a "day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer" throughout the colonies
The present Library of Congress pages , whence this comes, should be saved before the liberals/atheists change it.
Only if the First Amendment and specifically meant absolute separation from the Christian faith, so that its laws did not reflect its general ethos.
For the reality is that there can be no absolute separation of religion and state, as the laws of the latter reflect moral beliefs, which historically trace back to religion, and in some cases a specific religion.
While there are some commonalities, accommodation of all religions would mean sanctioning everything from polygamy to honor killings. Meanwhile, though a consensus on what is right may be reached by reasonable men, yet man can also reason perversely, and without a supreme moral standard, which in America and for the Founders overall was the Bible, absolute separation of faith and state can lead to the gov sanctioning not only polygamy but fornication, bestiality, pornography, and gov advocation for abortion, and affirmation of sodomy, and Global Warming hysteria, and the victim-entitlement mentality, leading to dictatorship. Which is not much of an alternative to Islam.
America was not founded upon Karl Marx or Muhammad, nor specifically Roman Catholicism, but its Founders at the least were deists who esteemed Biblical morality, while overall they held to Christian faith, not another. Thus the aforementioned recommendation of the Bible as the "invaluable Book,"and proclamation of fast days. etc.
And thus the Constitution and laws reflect the beliefs of the Founders, and of the people who elect those who interpret it. However, as the people drifted away from that faith then they indirectly elected souls who imagine a perverse and unrealistic idea of the separation of powers. And as nature abhors a vacuum, so another faith, that of atheistic secularism has increasingly supplanted it, with its ever-morphing morality.
Which actually works in the favor of Islam, as makes merchandise of the immorality of the "Christian" West, and promotes itself as a secure faith community of unchanging standards and that provides souls with a purpose. For like as is exampled with cults, the devil understands God's basic principles, which the devil employs while perverting the message.
Meanwhile, much of the Christian church is increasingly seeking to please the flesh in order to win and pacify the worldly elements, supposing that quantity is better than quality, but which is not how the NT church began. Which degree of daily, hourly holy consecration i need to get back to more myself.
I would not use it as a "quote," as that denotes an actual statement.
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