The First Amendment was intended to protect us from spectacles like we are seeing in Washington DC, with government and church attempting to push their brainless global warming religion on the American people.
US CO2 emissions have been declining since Bush was president, but China’s CO2 emissions have been skyrocketing and are now double the US. Even if you believe their climate scam, attacking the US is pointless. It won’t have any impact on global emissions.
The purpose of the Obama/Francis climate scam is to hurt the US, not alter the climate.
It’s insane what the effete leftists are doing to neuter our country by destroying our energy producing capabilities while allowing are potential #1 future enemy China to expand relentlessly.
I really like Trump because Trump will stick it to China instead of China sticking it to us. And Trump is the man as far climate change. Watch Trump’s excellent response to a climate change question, as Trump gets the audience involved to dismiss the question as ludicrous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdqnYiepWBg
Trump on climate change:
“I call it weather. You know, the weather changes.” -Donald Trump
“This very expensive global warming bullshit has got to stop.” -Donald Trump
“Surprise? 1970’s global cooling alarmists were pushing the same no-growth liberal agenda as today’s global warming.” -Donald Trump
“Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn’t care less. It would make us totally non-competitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America’s stupidity.” -Donald Trump
“With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.” -Donald Trump
The SCOTUS interpretation of that separation is primarily based on a single letter from Thomas Jefferson http://www.constitution.org/tj/sep_church_state.htm. But in my view that interpretation is more strenuous than even Jefferson would have intended it to be. Jefferson wrote: “….Our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights, only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. In neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg………” (Notes on Virginia, 1785.)
And yet now we see our governments forcing their view of institution of marriage by force of law upon those with different beliefs.
Jefferson was from Virginia. Virginia as a colony unlike the others, established the Church of England as the official church. That state church was a bed of corruption and abused it’s position for profit and to try and stamp out all other Christian sects in the Colony.
Jefferson saw this when growing up and it had a great impact on how he viewed organized religion and it’s relationship to the state. Even when he wrote the declaration of independence the last sentence which says: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” was not wholly his composition. The phrase “with firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence” was added by vote of both the committee and the general assembly.
Obviously Jefferson’s strict view on separation was not in agreement with the opinions of the vast majority of the founders on the matter. And yet it is Jefferson’s view which the SCOTUS references to justify it’s rulings on the matter.
Hey rah! Good points you make.
(Just for clarity, “State” with a capital “S” signifies a specific governmental body, such as Virginia, Georgia, or New York. The use of “state” without a capital “S” is just the generic meaning of any system of government.)
One thing that most people never point out is that in the Bill of Rights, the injunction against establishing a religion is only directed against the Federal government. “CONGRESS shall make no law…” At the time of adopting the Constitution, several of the sovereign States had established religions. Those religions were not mandatory on State citizens, but they were endorsed by and to at least some extent subsidized by the State. Those State religions continued for the next few decades but slowly fell into disfavor and many States incorporated amendments in their State constitutions disallowing the action. After the Civil War, the Southern States were required to rewrite their constitutions and a prohibition of State established religions was included. Additionally, some people interpret the 14th Amendment as extending the Congressional restriction to become applicable to the individual States. Any way, the point is that the founding fathers knew what they wrote. CONGRESS was initially restricted from establishing a religion, but the States were not. Again, it is important to point out that even in States that established religion, membership was not mandatory, and in fact, it was illegal; to use religion as a basis to exclude anyone from the holding of elected office. On the other hand, the Second Amendment is not limited to restrictions of weapons by Congress. The Second Amendment states that “the people” shall not have their right restricted. Thus any State that signed the Constitution cannot restrict that right.
Life (and history) would be simpler if people would actually read what was written.
“CONGRESS was initially restricted from establishing a religion, but the States were not.”
Careful The mussies will want to establish a caliphate!
Mohamad Abdun Nasir, Jakarta | Opinion | Sat, May 10 2008, 10:34 AM Caliphate and sharia law
Now you know why the Communists/Fabian Socialists have made pact with the muslims. Both want a totalitarian government and the big wigs are willing to use any religion to get it.
I’ve made up my mind. I’ll soon be packing my bags and leaving Birmingham to pledge allegiance to the Caliphate. Thousands more, mostly from Europe, will be doing the same.
And if that doesn’t send chills up the spine…
The SOTUS has deemed that certain other rights or amendments are “incorporated” in the 14th amendment. It is through this concept of “incorporation” by which the Federal Government has been able to force states to adhere to the provisions in the Bill of Rights never intended to be applied to them. And it is that concept of “incorporation” which has basically nullified the the 10th amendment.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Fourteenth+Amendment
And BTW, the 2nd amendment has not been “incorporated” into the 14th even though it says it is a right of “the people”!
Of course the 14th may never have been ratified… link
Since the 1930s when FDR threatened to pack the court after SOTUS kept declaring his ‘New
World OrderDeal’ scheme unconstitutuional, the SOTUS has been working very hard to rewrite the Constitution so it aligns with the wishes of the Globalist Fabian Socialists and the United Nations.French socialist and former WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy wrote:
First Franklin D. Roosevelt was president from 1933 to 1945.
Second the Bretton Woods system was established in 1944. It was written by Communist spy, Harry Dexter White and Fabian Socialist John Maynard Keynes.
It set up the much hated IMF and and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank. IBRD is the original World Bank institution. Currencies were pegged to gold. The investment bank, NM Rothschild ‘chaired’ the meeting setting those gold prices daily for the last 200 years source
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) ===> World Trade Agreement the EU’s big brother.
“approach to international relations that questioned the Westphalian, sacrosanct principle of sovereignty” is in plain language, nations are sovereign and NOT vassal states of the United Nations.
The UK for example IS a vassal state of the EU. “Thanks to the primacy of EU law over national law. Thanks to the work of the European Court of Justice in ensuring enforcement and respect for the rule of law. And thanks to a clear articulation between the Commission, the Parliament, and the European Court of Justice.” — Pascal Lamy (He should know as he was high up in the EU before moving to the WTO.)
We have had traitors working against the sovereignty of the USA for more years than most people realize. It started as soon as the American Revolution ended and has not ceased.
The real reason for the Global Warming – Clinate Change scam has never been the climate. It’s simply a vehicle – a tool to help drive the implementation of a new global, fascist regime.
Having the Papacy involved has pushed the whole thing up a gear – the Papacy has always had its eyes on global domination, and what better opportunity than this, where this Scarlet Woman (The Whore) can take a comfortable ride on the back of The Beast towards the throne of global rule.
(Reference to Revelations 17).
‘Global Warming Scare is Population Reduction, Not Science’.
https://larouchepac.com/20150923/new-paradigm-ending-climate-change-scare-scientific-understanding-mankind