The Beat Goes On

Deborah Venable

11/17/03

God, the Law & Chief Justice Roy Moore – Part II

For those who have not read Part I of this story, please do so for background before continuing.

I have never before felt the need to concentrate so much effort on one or two particular current events almost to the exclusion of everything else. As they say, though, there is a first time for everything. Yes, I am still concerned with world events such as the crisis in the Middle East, America’s involvement in disputes and wars around the globe, and the shape of the American political process as well as the economy, but none of it will amount to a hill of beans unless enough citizens decide to get actively involved in saving the eroding liberties of America. Getting actively involved requires at least acquiring enough knowledge about the source of those liberties to be able to carry on an intelligent conversation without showing complete apathy or contempt for those things that preserve liberty. From whence springs “the source of those liberties” you ask?

As Americans, our first answer, though not necessarily the most correct, would intelligently be the Constitution. It was, after all, written for the express purpose of giving current and future generations of Americans the necessary tool to hone the skill of self-government with the enjoyment of individual liberties. It is the oldest existing document of human government still in use as the final law of the land, so to speak. Taking a closer look at the creation of that document and the people who came together to create it is absolutely necessary in order to glean a greater understanding of its importance. This was not some passing fancy that these people had with the idea of self-governing liberty. It was a dream they were able to crystallize into a reality. The fact that so many today are willing to shatter that crystal and rape that dream is truly telling of humanity’s descent into a cesspool of ignorance and apathy.

Everything had been tried before. Everything. From no government all through various stages of monarchies, oligarchies, democracies and everything in between, human societies had struggled against government and the destructive power it could yield since the first few people tried to share this planet. Then along came this unique collection of individuals who had known the yoke of oppressive government and vowed that their progeny would have the chance to live without that heavy burden. Why did they wish this, and how did they make it possible for a nation of men and women to live in more liberty than any other?

As I said, everything had been tried before – everything, that is, except a constitutional republic featuring a constitution that respected individual sovereignty. A democracy, contrary to popular belief, does NOT respect individual sovereignty, nor does it do anything to protect an outnumbered individual. Why in the world American schoolchildren are being taught that America is a democracy I will never understand. The word is one of the most misused in this country today. Until American citizens wake up and start realizing the difference, we will continue to back slide into ruination. With sovereignty comes responsibility, choices, results of those choices, and an opportunity to achieve and hold onto liberty. Without it, ALL those things belong to someone else, can be blamed on someone else, and never yield anything but shackles. Sovereignty. Study the word and then ask yourself, who is the ultimate “sovereign”? If you are religious, the answer is easy – if not, it is still easy. The answer is: the very best part of you is sovereign over your life, in complete control of you, and determines how you act and feel about everything around you. This is Natural Law and the ultimate ruler over each man’s destiny. It was from this point that that unique group of people – America’s Founders – started and built the reality of self-governing individual liberty.

For too many years now the enlightened, apathetic, ignorant among us have decided that above all else, God must be erased from America’s culture. Why? Because it is from God that we derive individual sovereignty. No man or man’s law can give it to us or protect it for us if we do not care enough to value it. This is a thing of great value because it is a gift from the Almighty. It is also the connection between man and the Creator – that part of us that is “created in His image. It is precisely why we have the free will to make our own choices. God does not limit that – only man attempts to. In doing so, man proceeds to build the most oppressive governments and strangling regulations ever imagined. The devil himself could not do a better job of corrupting man than those who would attempt to control human free will and strip individual sovereignty.

When human societies become so apathetic and morally vacant that they have not the intelligence to protect what is naturally their own, what follows is chaos and ruination. There are those Americans who honestly believe that the right path for America to follow is to melt us into the rest of the world and forsake our unique heritage – a heritage that includes recognition and a respect for a spiritual Creator. It is almost pointless to argue with people who will not see the foundation of America set upon the granite of faith – faith in basic moral absolutes instead of the shifting sands of relative secularism. The evidence that this is so is abundant and overwhelming, yet they prefer to ignore it. Argue with them we must, though, and we must win the argument, for that is the mission of salvation for future Americans and citizens of the rest of the world.

So accustomed have we become to giving up our individual sovereignty that we barely notice when other individuals or government are trying to take it from us. We come into the world being programmed to recognize that others and government have authority over us. We refer to our own “public servants” as “authorities” and think nothing of it. Is it any wonder why many of these same “public servants” do not recognize the limitations of their own power? Is it any wonder why courtrooms are no longer places where many of us expect to find justice? I have a great deal of faith in the judicial system of this country as it was originally designed, but the imposter of that design that it has become scares me to death. There is little comfort to be found in American courts and even less justice. When judges will instruct a jury in such a way that leaves out the duty for each individual to judge according to his conscience, substituting instead a necessity to adhere to the “rule of law” whether or not the law is right or just in the conscience, the original system has been bastardized beyond repair. Indeed, “the rule of law” is a meaningless phrase in these degenerated courtrooms. Whose rule? Does anyone bother to ask any more? I think not.

Going back to God’s law and man’s law let us consider this “rule” that these “authorities” and officers of the court would have us follow. They are bound by oath to follow the “rule” of law, which in this country is the Constitution – just as it is in each state with its own constitution - and justice for every American is dependent upon just how carefully this constitutional law is preserved. If we are speaking of man’s law, the very first obvious thing is that there are far too many of these laws of men. Lawmakers have been quite busy for generations adding to the list of laws and rules so that it is quite impossible for man to remain totally lawful for a lifetime. We all break laws – man’s laws – practically every day. And still they make more laws while too many proclaim the need for even more.

God’s law is quite simple, and never needs amending. According to God’s law, man should never forget that he and every other individual has individual sovereignty. Any actions taken in an attempt to strip that sovereignty from an innocent individual is wrong – illegal, if you will, in the eyes of God and every other individual. The only other thing that God asks of us is to honor our creators – both Spiritual and human. In the “family” of mankind, the creator of life should be so honored, and that is all that God’s law asks. In honoring the Creator, we also honor the very best of ourselves. We should not allow ourselves to be intimidated by others claiming “higher power” nor should we worship false sovereigns.

Now, of course, we have a choice, given to us by our Creator, to believe anything we wish to believe and follow any course of action we choose in our lives. This choice, however, carries responsibilities and those responsibilities can be met simply by following God’s laws.

What a contrast between God’s laws and man’s law! In the first place, man is not content with others having free choice. Indeed, permission must be acquired from man’s authorities to carry out the simplest of life’s tasks. There is regulation demanded for everything we do and, as stated earlier, laws too numerous to follow. God’s laws are stated quite simply and with no ambiguity - no license required and no fees collected for compliance. Freedom is its own reward and demands only responsibility for the free choices we make. At the very top of what is required from the creator I believe in is a simple admonishment to treat others as I expect to be treated. Yet, this scares the evil in mankind to death! Rightfully so if we dare look into the dark hearts that would demand power over others – they should indeed be scared to learn that their fate should only mirror their own treatment of others.

Chief Justice, Roy Moore, has been removed from his ELECTED post in the state of Alabama by the judgment of APPOINTED federal “authorities” and the failure of man’s system of justice. There are those proclaiming that the latest court proceeding “had no choice” but to remove the Chief Justice for failing to yield himself and his beliefs to other’s interpretation of “the rule of law.” Man has bitten off far more than he can ever chew with this one. The choices have always been there to follow God’s law, as the Chief Justice has always done, and the rule of man’s law will never trump the simplistic direction of the Creator – not in the hearts of those brave enough to know right from wrong in the first place.

The Preamble of the Constitution of the state of Alabama reads as follows:

“We, the people of the State of Alabama, in order to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution and form of government for the State of Alabama:”

When you hear or read that Chief Justice, Roy Moore, was compelled to follow his oath to uphold this Constitution and the Constitution of the United States of America, maybe now you can understand. Even though he was asked three times at his recent trial to deny this oath to acknowledge God, three times he refused. For that he has been persecuted, prosecuted, misconstrued as a lawbreaker, and stands to lose his license to practice law.

This man is no Judas. Like others before him, he is made from the fiber of the most precious cloth of humanity – those who would rejoice in and protect the freedom of individual sovereignty followed by an individual state’s sovereignty and finally the delicate balance of justice that can only be preserved with a thorough knowledge and respect for this nation under God. Do not make the mistake of misunderstanding what this man’s fight is all about or failing to see how important the outcome is to us all.

In Roy Moore’s own words, “this is not about religion.”

I include these quotes, (and there are many others), by Thomas Jefferson because he was the author of a letter, which contained those, five words, “separation of church and state” which have been used as a reason to exclude God’s law from man’s. This is the religious issue that clouds the real political issue in Roy Moore’s case. I remind you again of Moore’s own words: “It’s about whether or not we, as a state, can acknowledge God.”

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?" --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVIII, 1782. ME 2:227

"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262

"It is a fatal heresy to suppose that either our State governments are superior to the Federal or the Federal to the States. The people, to whom all authority belongs, have divided the powers of government into two distinct departments, the leading characters of which are foreign and domestic; and they have appointed for each a distinct set of functionaries. These they have made coordinate, checking and balancing each other like the three cardinal departments in the individual States; each equally supreme as to the powers delegated to itself, and neither authorized ultimately to decide what belongs to itself or to its coparcener in government. As independent, in fact, as different nations." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821. ME 15:328

"It is a singular phenomenon that while our State governments are the very best in the world, without exception or comparison, our General Government has, in the rapid course of nine or ten years, become more arbitrary and has swallowed more of the public liberty than even that of England." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1798. ME 10:65

States’ rights and beyond that, individual sovereignty – if these can be tossed aside by the rulings of appointed Federal judges, any so-called separation theory will be hung out to dry no matter which side of that argument you support. If American citizens can support such a miscarriage of justice as Chief Justice, Roy Moore, has repeatedly received due to a misunderstanding of what the law really is, this country will not long stand. This very issue is at the root of everything wrong in America today. That is my firm belief.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to judge this case for what it is and then do some research for a better understanding of the religious issue itself.

A place to start if you care to understand this “separation of church and state” quote (attributed to Thomas Jefferson by every Atheist intent on seeing America shake off her Christian heritage) is here.

If you would like to be perfectly fair in your research on this subject, then give this site an honest read. You will have a clear understanding of both sides of the argument and be armed with the knowledge to decide for yourself when faced with a real religious issue.

I realize there are many Christians who have been convinced that in order to preserve their own religious freedoms they must buy into this ridiculous notion that their own professed Christian faith had nothing to do with this nation’s founding. The truth is that I have yet to see anyone’s religious beliefs discriminated against in this country EXCEPT for Christian beliefs in our recent history.

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