Freedom Of Speech Is A Two-Way Street

Mississippi Attorney Danny Lampley was jailed for five hours this week because he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the order of a judge. Lampley had shown up to court to represent his client in a divorce case when Judge Talmadge Littlejohn entered the courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Clinging to his First Amendment rights, Lampley refused to participate and was held in contempt.

The ironic thing is that Lampley successfully sued the Pontotoc school district in northern Mississippi in the 1990s to stop students from exercising their First Amendment rights by preventing them from praying over the intercom.

It has long been misunderstood that freedom of speech is a right given only to those who oppose organized religion or the patriotism of Americans in singing the National Anthem or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Its about time they begin to learn that the First Amendment is a two way street.

IN GOD WE TRUST

There is a reason this country is a Great Country: GOD. One cannot divorce God from the history of our Country. It simply cannot be done without wearing the name "Revisionist Historian." Basically, you have to fabricate and take things out of context, while leaving other important aspects untouched.

Ever been to DC? God is unmistakable on nearly every monument or historical item/icon...period. Supreme Court still displays the Ten Commandments - if they were not displayed, the stone figure of Moses would certainly bring one's mind back to them

Currency...daily reminder. Or daily frustration...for one. Michael Newdow believes it is his mission in life to be a jerk...excuse me, exercise his out-of-context free speech right. This is not what was intended by the First Amendment - much has claimed false under it, yet is not. Further, other blog articles have discussed that the "wall of separation" was in one of Jefferson's letters and is taken totally out of context. He never intended the separation of God from the workings of Government and the People of America - and spoke to this often.

Read the article yourself - of course broadcast by "the makeshift socialist news broadcasting center (MSNBC)." But more importantly, vote on the poll provided by MSNBC. The number continues to rise, though slower now (no longer the big news) - but by far HUGE numbers are against removing the motto from our currency.

Tolerance is so Intolerable

Welcome All!
http://purplemountainmajesties.blogspot.com blog site moves! Whew! How cool is this? Religion and Politics together! "Foul! - You can't mix Church and State!" Ah, but we can! ...we will! It is time to that America mixes more religion into its collective life! If you have kept up with the random and sporadic writings of Captian America, then you will be very interested in the content of this site - as dolphinfan will give you loads of credible debate from the religious view of life. We look to have fun!

Anyway - back to the first couple sentences....we have got to move from our tolerance mentality! It is literally gonna kill us! The end result of tolerance is maniacal intolerance. President Bush spoke to the UN (another sour point in life's many oxymorons) recently and supported the drive to tolerance. Problem is, he doesn't think the way the UN does and the UN doesn't think the way he does. He even referenced God.

Tolerance at base level is "acceptance of beliefs and ideologies, traits, personalities, etc." But taken to the extreme...then you have the inability to reference your beliefs as solely true.

All faiths believe that they have some corner on the market of religion. Two of the most commonly mis-quoted and/or emphasize (or demonized) are Christianity (some Protestant and Catholic groups) and Muslim. Though they may be highlighted as "extreme" ... and in some cases are ... just because their beliefs center around God or Allah being the only way to heaven. Christianity further stresses that belief in Jesus is the Only Way to Heaven.

In essence, one is wrong if you do not believe in their fashion ... including whether or not one is attached to their group. Buddhism, Taoism, Satanism - each have their exclusivities too. But they fade in comparison.

I think you see the problem I emphasize. There is no acceptable way to either of these religious entities to back off their beliefs. At which point, their "members" are "intolerant."

In America, our First Amendment Right is the ability to speak freely. The Fairness Doctrine is just one of many steps being sought to hack away at the great wisdom of our Founding Fathers. Americans United against Church and State - is another entity dedicated at de-unifying America and enforces division (at least for Caucasian or Anglo Saxon [loosely used, in a tongue-n-cheek kind of way] churches). The removable of prayer in school (formalized...cause you know that each test/quiz was proceeded by a silent prayer), the removal of the Ten Commandments, the attacks against Christmas Icons and many other instances are slowly removing this basic right from our society.

It is something we must fight. Seperation of Church and State is a myth, legistlated from the courts from outl-of-context debate. That is why our site is called "Church and State." More on this in the future (read the past too!).

So, put your lights out with your Manger Scene, your Hanukkah Candles and the like...fight for your city to put them up. Otherwise, one day you and I may way up with duct tape on our mouths!

More on the subject...semi-fictionally and set a few years in America's future... Read "Sinner" by Ted Dekker