On Sept. 3,

2003 an article on the Subject: Constitutional Confrontation In Alabama...

Schlafly was printed. It shows in some detail the ACLU's dastardly plan

take away our Constitutional Religious freedoms. We must not let them

succeed! I print it here:

"The secularists

are gloating. They got a court order to remove the Ten Commandments monument

from the Alabama courthouse and another court order to suspend Chief Justice

Roy Moore who put it there.

But anyone

who thinks this confrontation in Montgomery is just about an inscribed

rock and a defiant judge is out of touch with reality. The Ten Commandments

dispute is the tip of the iceberg in the ongoing battle to obliterate

every acknowledgment of God exce pt

behind the closed doors of churches.

The goal of

the secularists and the atheists is to treat religious people like smokers.

You can continue to exist only if you are out of sight, out of hearing,

and out of smell.

The American

Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans United for Separation of Church

and State, and other anti-religious groups and atheists have instigated

scores of lawsuits all over the country demanding that judges banish God

from all public forums.

The ACLU lost

its efforts to remove the Ten Commandments from courthouses in Kentucky

and suburban Philadelphia, but the Freedom From Religion Foundation got

a federal judge to ban a Ten Commandments monument from a public park

in Lacrosse, Wisconsin even though the city had sold the land it sat on

to a private group.

The city of

Everett, Washington is being sued by Americans United for Separation of

Church and State to remove a Ten Commandments monument from city property.

It is one of many Ten Commandments monuments donated to cities during

the 1950s, '60s, and '70s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

The ACLU has

already forced the removal of the Eagles' Ten Commandments monuments from

eight Utah cities and has announced a scavenger hunt to track down a ninth

which the ACLU thinks exists but can't find.

The ACLU intimidated

the National Park Service into removing plaques from the Grand Canyon

that contained verses from the book of Psalms. It was agreed that the

Park Service can continue to use the names of Hindu gods for some of the

trails and canyon formations.

The ACLU got

the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to let stand a federal district

court decsion banning grace before meals at Virginia Military Institute.

The Citadel then announced that it, too, would eliminate prayers before

meals, and you can bet that the ACLU will now target prayers at our military

and naval academies and on board ship.

The atheists

and secularists are on the warpath to stop the recitation of the Pledge

of Allegiance because it contains the words "under God." Atheist

Michael Newdow was successful in the Ninth Circuit, the ACLU won in Colorado,

and we can expect similar lawsuits in all the 33 states that require recitation

of the Pledge in public schools.

In Pennsylvania,

a federal judge voided a state law that required teachers to lead students

in reciting the Pledge or singing the National Anthem each morning. The

animosity against the National Anthem is probably because its fourth stanza

includes the words "our motto: 'in God is our trust.'"

Suing on behalf

of agnostics and lesbians, the ACLU got a judge to banish the Boy Scouts

from a San Diego city park where they have met since 1920. The Scouts'

offense was that they include God in their membership oath.

The attempt

to remove God from all state constitutions is at the heart of the Montgomery

dispute. Judge Moore took an oath to uphold Alabama's constitution which,

in order to "secure the blessings of liberty," invokes "the

i favor and

guidance of Almighty God."

The silliness

of the arguments against Judge Moore's Ten Commandments rock is shown

religion. The secularists seem unaware that the Ten Commandments predate

Christianity.

When chief

antagonist Barry Lynn was asked on television how he could oppose the

Ten Commandments monument in Montgomery when the US Supreme Court building

shows the Ten Commandments on its walls, he said that's different because

the Supreme Court also shows the Code of Hammurabi. But Judge Moore's

rock likewise displays several other quotations from historic documents.

The secularists

and the atheists seek out judges who pretend to find rights in the US

Constitution that no one else has seen for over two centuries. The federal

judges who believe they can make law, and punish, fine or imprison those

who challenge their tyranny, display arrogance like King Louis XIV's famous

words, "L'etat, c'est moi" (I am the state).

The American

people don't have to tolerate the federal judiciary's totalitarian grab

for power. When Congress returns to Washington after Labor Day, its first

order of business should be to use its Article III, Section 1 power to

pass a law withdrawing jurisdiction from all federal courts over whether

an acknowledgment of God violates the First Amendment.

The solution

is really that simple. It's not only perfectly constitutional; it's Congress's

constitutional duty to stop the out-of-control federal courts."

I pose a question

here; "who owns this country?" Is it "by the people and

for the people" or is it falling under the Tyranny of the [atheists']

Minority?

The Rev.

Dr. Knox Herndon is pastor of His House Community Church (SBC). The Rev.

Greg Mausz is senior associate pastor. The Rev. Dr. Lydia Herndon is the

Sunday School superintendent, Bible study coordinator and teacher. The

church is just below Fayetteville, on Ga. Highway 85, a mile south of

Ga. Highway 16, just below the fire station. Visitors welcome. Church

office and prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail [email protected]. The church's

new Web site is www.hishousecommunitychurch.com.

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