King, North Carolina has fallen prey to an
organization that has a disdain for our founding principles – Americans United
for Separation of Church and State – by using a local malcontent, Steven Hewett,
as a vehicle to shove their anti-Christian ideology down that city’s
throat. What was the object of
contention? A city park statue of a
soldier kneeling before a cross and a Christian flag, I kid you not. The Winston-Salem Journal reported the
following:
According to a press release issued by the
city, King had already incurred more than $50,000 in legal fees and costs and
estimated that litigation costs would have approached $2 million, exceeding the
city’s $1 million insurance coverage. The city was also facing the loss of that
insurance coverage if the matter proceeded to trial, according to the release.
Carter and Carico
spoke in defense of their position against the settlement but said they had no
hard feelings toward their other council members.
Carter said, “But I do
feel that this city has been sabotaged and has been bullied by folks that don’t
believe what this community stands for.”
Carico got choked up
as he talked about the sleepless nights he and other council members had
endured.
Carico said he
believed that the city did not do anything constitutionally wrong and that he
could not vote to have anything removed. He also indicated that his Christian
faith played a role in his decision.
Here are the reasons why this thumb
sucking, self-centered plaintiff sued the city:
Hewett, a U.S. Army veteran, sued the city
in November 2012 in U.S. District Court in Greensboro, alleging that King
officials had violated his constitutional rights by allowing the Christian flag
to fly at the Veteran’s Memorial in the city’s Central Park.
Hewett asked a federal
judge to bar the city from allowing the display of the Christian flag at the
memorial, from displaying the statue of the soldier kneeling at a cross and
from sponsoring religious activities at events at the site.
These organizations, along with federal
courts, have completely bastardized the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Anyone who has invested a modicum of time
studying our founding knows the establishment clause was meant to prohibit the
federal government from forcing states and their citizens to pay taxes to support
its sanctioned church. A religion, as
our founders understood and meant, were Methodist, Catholics, Presbyterians,
Anglicans, etc. The overwhelming majority
of Americans were Christians. It is
absurd to claim otherwise.
Officials in Great Britain dubbed the
American Revolution, a Presbyterian War.
Colonist resented paying a tax for the Anglican Church, and at the same
time, trying to support their own religion.
In most colonies, marriages were not recognized if the Anglican Church
didn’t officiate. Their children would
have been considered bastards. The legal
ramifications were enormous.
Suffolk County, Massachusetts openly
stated they were a Christian people in the famous Suffolk Resolves. Here is an excerpt:
10. That the late act of parliament for establishing
the Roman Catholic religion and the French laws in that extensive country, now
called Canada, is dangerous in an extreme degree to the Protestant religion and
to the civil rights and liberties of all America; and, therefore, as men and
Protestant Christians, we are indispensably obliged to take all proper measures
for our security
A catalyst for the American Revolution was the Great
Awakening. America needs another one. Not only do we need to promote the Christian
faith, but also reeducating Americans on our founding principles.
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