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Trinity Reformed Baptist Church Topeka Kansas 66614 |
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are citizens of the United States of America and
subjects of the sovereign Creator, acknowledged in the
Declaration of Independence as the Supreme Ruler and
Judge of the World. We hereby declare our belief in
the self-evident truths established by the
Declaration, to wit, that we are all created equal and
endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness; that human governments are
instituted to secure these rights, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. We strongly
affirm our allegiance to the Constitution of the
United States, as it was framed and amended in light
of these truths, to provide for a republican form of
government, which means a government of the people, by
the people and for the people, in which they make laws
and govern themselves through representatives they
elect.
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by our faith in God and this republican creed we join
together now to defend representative self-government
against the greatest assault it has ever faced. This
assault has been more dangerous and successful because
it comes from within and aims to destroy not just our
physical defenses, but the moral ideas, habits and
practices that sustain our character as a free people.
As a nation the United States of America has achieved
material success unparalleled in previous human
history. But without fortitude and self-discipline, we
would not have reaped the fruits of free enterprise.
We have thrice led our Allies to victory against foes
that enacted the worst possibilities of human
depravity. But without courage and a true sense of
responsibility for ourselves and all humanity we would
not have triumphed against their cruel and implacable
ambition. We have achieved or applied unprecedented
advances in scientific knowledge. But without respect
for the gentle yoke of God’s reason, and the diverse
possibilities with which it has seeded the
comprehensible universe, we could not have expanded
the enlightened sphere of human comprehension. We have
truly experienced the blessings of liberty, but never
without the virtues and qualities of good conscience
and decent character.
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some decades now supposedly “liberal” and
“progressive” forces within our society have waged
an insidious campaign to corrupt and destroy the moral
foundations of our liberty. Under the compassionate
guise of government welfare and social programs they
have eroded our fortitude and self-discipline, taxed
away our independent resources, and in particular
undermined the centrality of family as the locus of
individual self-reliance. Under the guise of sexual
freedom and self-determination they have corrupted our
sense of responsibility for our own offspring in the
womb and for our biological relationships in general.
This ultimately affects all relationships that draw
upon the capacity for self-sacrifice we ought
naturally to learn and practice in the context of
decent family life. Under the guise of scientific
knowledge, and a fallacious separation of religion
from public life, they have thrown off the yoke of
reason, and denied our sovereign right to acknowledge,
as a people, the existence and authority of the
Creator. But the Creator’s being and will represent
the principle of unity that makes possible both the
diversity of individuals and the orderly community
that, on the whole, they may become. Thus, though they
masquerade as the champions of community and
compassion, these self-styled “liberals” and
“progressives” have discarded the principle of
unity, the sense of a common good, indispensable to
both.
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the principal instrument for their assault upon the
foundations of our liberty they have resorted to an
abuse of the judicial system, and in particular the
Federal judiciary’s assertion of supreme and
unchecked constitutional power that supersedes and may
arbitrarily nullify any action taken by the executive
or legislative branches. But the Framers of the
Constitution understood that sinful human nature is
always a prey to inordinate ambition. Therefore, the
Constitution denies supremacy to any one branch of
government in order to secure self-government by the
people as a whole. By itself, therefore, the assertion
of judicial supremacy overthrows the framework of
self-government established by our Constitution.
However, the power thus destructively obtained has
been even more destructively used.
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the Constitution’s explicit terms, the U.S. Supreme
Court has arrogated to itself governmental power that
the Tenth Amendment unambiguously reserves to “the
states respectively and to the people” and created
from its false reading of the Establishment Clause a
pervasive hostility to religion.
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consequence of this power-grab, and the false claim
that makes it possible, the Courts have purported to
forbid prayer and other religious elements in
government funded schools, activities and projects
authorized by the people;
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have interfered with the public celebration of
religious festivals and observances determined by the
people;
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in this abusive fashion denied the people’s
authority over their own religious affairs,
power-grabbing Judges have begun a similar campaign
against the general moral authority of the people. In
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identity as a people arises more from our adherence to
common moral principles than from any other
characteristic. The Judicial assault against the moral
authority and sovereign rights of the people therefore
weakens our sense that despite our great diversity we
have become, out of many, one nation. But the
Courts have also assaulted the strength of our
national identity more directly:
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purporting to apply in their decisions foreign laws
never subject to ratification or legislation by proper
Constitutional means;