If the Department of Justice, and the Internal Revenue Service do not nip this anti-Constitutional movement in the bud, this country will have taken a giant leap backwards:
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In IRS Protest, Pastors Back Candidates
Conservative Legal Group Fighting To Abolish Restrictions On Church Involvement In Politics
(AP) Pastor Luke Emrich prepared his sermon this week knowing his remarks could invite an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. But that was the whole point, so Emrich forged ahead with his message: Thou shalt vote according to the Scriptures.
"I'm telling you straight up, I would choose life," Emrich told about 100 worshippers Sunday at New Life Church, a nondenominational evangelical congregation about 40 miles from Milwaukee.
"I would cast a vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin," he said. "But friends, it's your choice to make, it's not my choice. I won't be in the voting booth with you."
All told, 33 pastors in 22 states were to make pointed recommendations about political candidates Sunday, an effort orchestrated by the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund.
The American Revolution was not only fought against the British King, but also against the Church of England. The “Conservatives” are fond of saying that the Constitution of the United States of America does not contain the words, “separation of Church and State.” No, it does not, but it contains a much larger concept: the Freedom of Religion.
The word “freedom” literally means: self-determination, free-will, choice, and sovereignty. In other words, Americans also enjoy the Right of Freedom from religion – especially someone else’s religion. Why would any American give up a basic Constitutional Freedom to choose according to their own conscience, in order to vote as directed by a religious zealot, or risk being ostracized? What’s next, vote as directed by your employer, or risk being fired?
We Americans have fought and died for the right of other peoples around the world to be free from theocratic regimes, since our own revolution against monarchal and religious tyranny. If these “American” religious fanatics are allowed to dominate the political structure of this country, then we will be no better off than the citizens of existing theocracies.
True Americans believe that spirituality and religion are private matters, and not something to be imposed on those of different beliefs. When influential, and passionate, religious zealots are allowed to spout bigotry, and impose undue political pressure on their “followers,” the Constitution becomes meaningless. Americans are not, and never have been, “followers” – we are innovators and free-thinkers.
Separation of Church and State? No, a foundational separation of fanatical theocrats and the Democratic process, as guaranteed by our Constitution.
