1. There is a platitude voiced by the Left that conservatives oppose change, or are even reactionary and would like to see the return of eras which were hostile toward various segments of our population.
This view is predominant among the most ignorant, the low information voter.
2. But, there is a change that I would resist .The trend in our nation is toward a brand of secularization that promotes overt hostility toward religious institutions. Pop culture and many in the political sphere demonize and ridicule the religious in an attempt to remove any influence of religion from public life.
a. People of faith are depicted as ignorant, intolerant, and behind the times on issues such as gay marriage, abortion, and stem cell research.
b. Somehow, the Lefts attempts to eradicate religious views from the public arena comes out of progressive media as the exact opposite....such as your attempts to force your religion down our throats.
Again widely believed by the low information voter.
3. The conservatives embrace of religious liberty is rooted in the values of the nations Founders, and a wish to preserve those principles. Our definition of religious liberty is to practice the religion of ones choice, or none at all, in either a private or a public setting. Childrens voluntary recital of prayer in public school, or the Presidents reference to God in a national address, or the use of federal funds of faith-based groups that aim to aid those less fortunate are all covered.
a. in fact, all practices that do not violate, do not infringe on the unalienable rights or the liberties of another.
b. If one can simply turn off or ignore some advertisement that is annoying or offensive, the same options should apply here.
4. Our approach rests on a literal constitutional interpretation. For conservatives, direct evidence of the actual use of a word is the most important source of the words meaning. It is more important than referring to the broader context, or the larger context, or the underlying principles, which is the means by which some jurists are able to turn black into white, and up into down.
a. So, when President Obama goes to Europe and declares that the United States is not a Christian nation, he is correct: this is not a Christian theocracy, nor do I know of any movement to make it so.
b. But the most rabid proponent of secularization is hard-pressed to deny that this country was founded on Judeo-Christian ideals and values. The Founding Fathers were deeply religious, and invoked God numerous times in the founding documents.
c. The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor. It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden. David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge.
5. And so, the argument comes down to the conservatives standing by what the Constitution actually says in the first amendment, and the spin of the secularist, attempting a colloquial argument based on wishes and interpretation.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
This view is predominant among the most ignorant, the low information voter.
2. But, there is a change that I would resist .The trend in our nation is toward a brand of secularization that promotes overt hostility toward religious institutions. Pop culture and many in the political sphere demonize and ridicule the religious in an attempt to remove any influence of religion from public life.
a. People of faith are depicted as ignorant, intolerant, and behind the times on issues such as gay marriage, abortion, and stem cell research.
b. Somehow, the Lefts attempts to eradicate religious views from the public arena comes out of progressive media as the exact opposite....such as your attempts to force your religion down our throats.
Again widely believed by the low information voter.
3. The conservatives embrace of religious liberty is rooted in the values of the nations Founders, and a wish to preserve those principles. Our definition of religious liberty is to practice the religion of ones choice, or none at all, in either a private or a public setting. Childrens voluntary recital of prayer in public school, or the Presidents reference to God in a national address, or the use of federal funds of faith-based groups that aim to aid those less fortunate are all covered.
a. in fact, all practices that do not violate, do not infringe on the unalienable rights or the liberties of another.
b. If one can simply turn off or ignore some advertisement that is annoying or offensive, the same options should apply here.
4. Our approach rests on a literal constitutional interpretation. For conservatives, direct evidence of the actual use of a word is the most important source of the words meaning. It is more important than referring to the broader context, or the larger context, or the underlying principles, which is the means by which some jurists are able to turn black into white, and up into down.
a. So, when President Obama goes to Europe and declares that the United States is not a Christian nation, he is correct: this is not a Christian theocracy, nor do I know of any movement to make it so.
b. But the most rabid proponent of secularization is hard-pressed to deny that this country was founded on Judeo-Christian ideals and values. The Founding Fathers were deeply religious, and invoked God numerous times in the founding documents.
c. The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor. It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden. David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge.
5. And so, the argument comes down to the conservatives standing by what the Constitution actually says in the first amendment, and the spin of the secularist, attempting a colloquial argument based on wishes and interpretation.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;