GAIL TALK: August 2010

It's open season on the Judeo-Christian faith. The Ten Commandments, recognized as a moral foundation in Judaism and Christianity, have long been attacked.

There have been efforts to remove all vestiges of Christianity from the public square, to have "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance and our official motto "In God We Trust" removed from our currency, as well as "so help me God" removed from our presidential oath. Christian symbols such as crosses and nativity scenes, school prayer at graduation, and praying at school sporting events are assailed. The Christmas season itself has been targeted, and God is being removed from our textbooks.

But how did our Founding Fathers envision America? Let's review a small sampling of their quotes.

John Quincy Adams:
“The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.” John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. p. 61

James Madison:
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” [1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia]

George Washington:
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”
"To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian" [May 2, 1778, at Valley Forge]

John Adams and John Hancock:
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]

John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.” John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

Benjamin Franklin: Portrait of Ben Franklin:
“God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it..." Constitutional Convention of 1787 original manuscript of this speech

Patrick Henry:
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]

Here Patrick Henry notes that BECAUSE of the gospel of Jesus Christ, people of other faiths are afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship in this nation.

Alexander Hamilton:
"For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests." [1787 after the Constitutional Convention]

However, today even our Constitution is dismissed as flawed and irrelevant by our leaders.

Democrat Congressman Phil Hare: "I don't worry about the Constitution on this .. "

President Obama believes the Constitution 'reflected fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day'

President Obama believes we are no longer a Christian nation. On April 6, 2009 in Turkey he made the following comment: “one of the great strengths of the United States is that it does not consider itself a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

What kind of country do we want to be going forward? Do we want to remain the sovereign nation based on Judeo-Christian principles our Founding Fathers formed for us? Or do we want to be a secular society with open borders and post-American leaders?

The time to decide is NOW .. before it's too late.