Warning- The Ten Commandments
May Be Harmful To America

In McCreary County Kentucky, officials placed a copy of the Ten Commandments inside their county courthouse.  The ACLU challenged the county officials' right to place the Ten Commandments on their courthouse wall.  The case weaved its way from the local courts then through the Court of Appeals and eventually before the United States Supreme Court.  In 2005, in a split decision, the Court ruled against McCreary County by a vote of 5-4.  Justice Antonio Scalia dissented and stated that; "the display in question do not violate the First Amendment and never did."  Justice Scalia further stated that, "If religion in the public forum had to be entirely nondenominational, there could be no religion in the public forum at all."

Recently, a second attempt was made to once again place the Commandments in the McCreary County courthouse.  Again, they were challenged by the ACLU.  The case was again appealed to the United States Supreme Court.  This week, the United States Supreme Court refused to take another look at the challenge.  Now, the lower court ruling stands which prevents the Ten Commandments from hanging on the walls of McCreary County Kentucky.

In 1980, the United States Supreme court declared unconstitutional the posting of the Ten Commandments on the walls of the Public Schools.  They stated that; "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments," which, the Court said, is "not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause."  That's quite a statement!  

We would challenge our readers to note what the court stated in part.  It is not a "permissible objective" for children to "obey" the Ten Commandments. That's quite a statement.  They said those children must not see the Commandments because if they do, they might obey them---things like "don't steal", "don't kill" must be kept from our children.   Now 31 years later we must ask ourselves the question, "Are we better off?" 

The Hypocrisy of The
United States Supreme Court

While the court suspends the posting of the Ten Commandments in other places on American soil, the commandments are found numerous times in the United States Supreme Court Building.  The architects and designers of the Supreme Court building built in 1935 did not see a problem including several representations of the Ten Commandments in the architecture.   There is a depiction of Moses and the Law located on the front of the United States Supreme court building.  The Ten Commandments are posted on the wooden interior courtroom doors among other places.  Today's court is quite different from the Supreme Court of 1892 which wrote; "No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people...This is a Christian nation".

The Influence of The
Ten Commandments Lives On  

Those who set this nation in motion referred to the Ten Commandments as the: Laws of God, Ordinances of God, Statutes of God, Divine Law, Revealed Law, Holy Law, Book of Laws, Eternal Laws given to Moses on the Mount, His Just and Holy Laws, the Decalogue, Foundation of Our Holy Religion, Immutable Laws of Good and Evil.  John Adams who was an original member of the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence said; "The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion,"  Roger Sherman the only Founding Father who signed all four major founding documents stated; "That a God of infinite Goodness can (through atonement) have mercy on whom he will, consistent with the honor of His law and Government and all of His perfections, is a much better ground of hope than the denial of self-love."

William McGuffey, in his foreword of McGuffey's Reader, said in 1836: "The Ten Commandments and the teaching of Jesus are not only basic but pleneary."

President Harry Truman said; "The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount."

Ronald Reagan said; "With freedom goes responsibly."  Sir Winston Churchill once said, "You can have 10,000 regulations and still not have respect for the law.  We might start with the Ten Commandments."

The laws of our country have historically been based upon a higher law, God's law.  When the higher law of God is abandoned another law, Man's law, will replace it. Man's laws at their best are fickle and changing.  For instance, the sin of sodomy was looked upon as breaking God's immutable law, the higher law.  Today, the higher law, God's law, has been abandoned and man has changed his law to accommodate a sinful, perverted lifestyle.  Attorney John Whitehead summarizes this thought well.  "The fact that this principle [that God is the final lawgiver] carried over into the early life of America is apparent in the natural way the summary of Biblical law, the Ten Commandments, functioned as a pattern and a guide both in court decisions and in the framing of individual pieces of legislation."  Episcopalian theologian T. R. Ingram has observed that the reference point for the common law was in the Ten Commandments:  "Christian men have always known that what we might call political liberty as part of all Christian liberty is a consequence of upholding the common law...the Ten Commandments."

The humanistic doctrine of evolution allows man to create for himself the law he believes will most benefit evolving man.  In actuality, when man hedges on God's law, then the law of the land becomes what men or the courts say it is.  Abortion is made legal because it is convenient for the mother, although God condemns it.  Roe vs Wade was man's law to alleviate the problem of women who chose or do choose to live in sin without consequences.  A true judicial system must be based upon God's unchanging laws!  In his Institutes of Biblical Law, R. J. Rushdoony has well summarized this truth; "If a powerful and evil man, class, or group can push an innocent man out of his property, or in any way abuse him, the evil is compounded if they can command the state to help them in their theft...The courts must transcend the passions of the day.  It must represent a law-order which judges the entire social order, and this is possible only if the judges represent God, not the people of the state."   It is important to remember that without God's Supreme Law, the laws of the land serve the interests of the strongmen in society.  Someone has well said that; "Men will either choose to be governed by God or to be ruled by tyrants." (Greg Bahnsen)  Our present world is experiencing the abandoning of Gods Law and the implementation of Man's law.   

A Date To Remember

We are asking each of you to mark November 5^th, 2011 on your calendar.  On that day, Return America will march for Traditional Family Values through the streets of Winston-Salem.  The homosexual community in their entirety will be marching in Winston- Salem in the middle of October.  It is important that the churches and Christian community come out and support Biblical Family values.  If you believe in Biblical Family values, please assemble a network of churches and Christians and ask them to clear their calendar for this special important event. 

There is no doubt the homosexual community has been bolstered by recent laws leaning in their direction.  They will have national speakers and large crowds trumpeting their cause.   It is our prayer that the church community will rally to our Judeo-Christian tradition and show Winston-Salem and our country that the church and family are still alive and well in America.

Remember the date.  We will assemble at 12:00 Noon on November 5^th, 2011.  We ask each of you to report for duty!

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