Like many of you my busy work schedule during the week severely limits my free time - especially for writing (I'm averaging about one column a week).With this limited time frame my writings will have to boil down to what I think you need to know. There is so much to write about and it is hard to choose. As a matter of fact, I had intended previously to refrain entirely from commenting politically but I've come to the realization that nowadays- as it was with the founding of our nation - politics and religion are inextricably interwoven.
For Example John Jay, the first Chief Justice of The United States Supreme Court, was a politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat as well as jurist. In his spare time he CO-wrote "the federalist papers" with James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, served in the New York Provincial Congress and drafted it's first state constitution. He also served on the committee of correspondence which was attempting to coordinate the rebellious activities of the various colonial states with the actual fighting in Massachusetts, served on the committee to detect and defeat conspiracies, and yet another committee which actively gathered intelligence on British actions and in counterintelligence about "loyalist" activities.
After the war, Jay founded the New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May be Liberated, in 1785. This organizations was responsible for organizing boycotts against New York merchants and newspaper owners involved in the slave trade. The Society also had a special committee of antislavery militants who visited newspaper offices to warn publishers against accepting advertisements for the purchase or sale of slaves. Another committee kept a list of persons who either participated in or invested in the slave trade and urged members to boycott anyone listed. The Society triumphed in securing the gradual abolition of slavery in the entire state of New York in 1799.
. . . . . . . . .I could go on but I think I've established Justice Jay's pedigree.
So what does John Jay have to do with "The separation of church and state crowd," who would have us believe that we live in nation where God has no place in the public arena? That we are not a Christian nation.
For starters and according to Justice Jay "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." He was not talking about the modern godless religion of liberalism!
Justice Jay would most certainly have included our modern secular Judges in this selection process. Judges, who quite surprisingly believe they have the right to usurp the vote of the people as in the case of the gay agenda and abortion. Perhaps Justice Jay would tell them that "The people who own the country ought to govern it," and by all means in a Christian manner.
Liberals shudder at the thought of us having English be our national language. Of asking that immigrates become Americans (non-hyphenated) instead of The United States trying to accommodate every differing culture that lands on our shores, or sneaks in over our borders...illegally. On this most critical matter this John Jay stated the following:
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