Posted on 08/21/2003 7:49:27 AM PDT by jgrubbs
A speech given at the August 16 rally in support of Chief Justice Roy Moore and the defense of the public acknowledgement of God:
The overarching question we face today is: "Who is America's Sovereign?" and "What is His law?".
Chief Justice Roy Moore knows the correct answers, but Federal Judge Myron Thompson flunks the test.
The Holy Bible makes clear that Jesus Christ is our Sovereign.
He is King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Ruler of all nations.
America's Founding Fathers understood and acted on this Biblical truth.
In our Declaration of Independence, they proclaimed that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. And they enunciated the truth that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.
In the very first Article of the Constitution of the United States, the framers established the principle of accountability, investing all legislative powers therein granted in a Congress, with an appointed Senate representing the states, and an elected House representing the people.
Those who framed our great Constitution acknowledged that, as God's creatures, we must hold the Federal government accountable to us, so that, as God's stewards, we can be accountable to Him.
That is our duty, and the Constitution recognizes the fact of the duty we owe our Creator and provides the means for us to do our duty.
The provisions of the Constitution cannot lawfully be amended by judicial fiat or edicts from the bench.
Indeed, Article V of the Constitution spells out the only authorized procedures for amending the Constitution.
Nowhere does the Constitution authorize Federal judges to change even a single word in the document — or to disregard the plain meaning of its text.
In fact, Article VI of the Constitution makes explicitly clear that the Constitution, and the laws made pursuant to it, are "the supreme Law of the Land".
All judicial officials, including Judge Myron Thompson and the judges of the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have sworn oaths which bind them to support the Constitution as it is written, not as they would personally prefer it to be written.
The First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
Clearly, if the words of the framers are honored, Congress has no authority to restrict the establishment of Biblical religion in the State of Alabama — neither has any Federal judge such authority.
Congress may not interfere with the free exercise of religion — nor may any Federal judge interfere with the free exercise of religion.
The Tenth Amendment stipulates that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
No Federal court has had delegated to it any authority whatsoever over the placement of the Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Judicial Building.
Judge Thompson has violated his oath of office by disregarding the words of our U.S. Constitution and by corruptly attempting to usurp the authority of the elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
And so have the Federal judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals broken their oaths of office.
Each of these Federal judges has shown contempt for the Constitution. That is why we hold them in contempt — and call upon them to resign or be removed from office.
When the true history of these times is written, school children will learn that these men are the Benedict Arnolds of American jurisprudence.
Each of them should be stripped of his robes as an example to others who, in their official capacities, seek to supplant Constitutional truths with their private anti-Christian prejudices.
The Constitution has remedies for misconduct by Federal judges.
Article III, which places the judiciary in a position subordinate to the Article I Congress and the Article II Executive, provides that inferior courts such as those in which Judge Thompson and his Eleventh Circuit collaborators are installed are ordained and established by the Congress. By the same token, the Congress has the clear authority to remove the jurisdiction and to disestablish those courts which are arrogantly and presumptuously anti-Constitutional.
Article III goes on to provide that Federal judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour".
No reasonable person could argue that when Judge Thompson breaks his oath to the Constitution and when his rulings are sustained by judges of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals that any of these men have manifested "good behavior", which, inter alia, was intended to mean fidelity to the Constitution and fidelity to their oaths.
Even without a resort to impeachment, Congress may, by legislation, disestablish a court and, by simple majority vote, remove a Federal judge for failing to manifest good behavior.
If we are to maintain respect for the institutions of our Federal republic, lawbreakers and oath breakers must be removed from positions of responsibility.
Today I call upon the President and members of Congress to initiate action for the removal of Myron Thompson from his position as judge of the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Alabama, and to likewise remove from office those members of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals who, in disregard of the clear language of the Constitution, upheld Judge Thompson's ruling against the Ten Commandments.
At the same time, I encourage President Bush and members of Congress to publicly express their approbation and support for the courageous example of the Honorable Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
Judge Moore has kept his oath to the Constitution of Alabama and to the Constitution of the United States. He has upheld the law. He has obeyed his duty to God, to the people of Alabama, and to the citizens of the United States of America.
As Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, I urge President Bush, when the next vacancy occurs on the Supreme Court of the United States, to nominate to fill that position on the Supreme Court the man best qualified in our entire nation to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the laws of God on which it is premised.
I speak of that great patriot, that exemplary jurist, God's man for these times, the Honorable Roy Moore.
May God bless Judge Moore and his family, may God bless the people of Alabama, may God bless you, and may God bless America.
If they still taught civics in fifth-grade that is
The Honorable Mister Phillips may want Jesus to be the sovereing of America, as much as Khomeini wanted Mohammed to be sovereign of Iran or the Talibunnies wanted 'allah' to rule Afghanistan, but it is contrary to our Constitution to establish such a relationship.
Codswallop. The Bible says, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." According to Christian doctrine, there are things temporal and things spiritual. Our Nation is temporal. Caesar--in our case, the voting public--is sovereign.
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