Did you hear about the Colorado students who walked out of class, demanding that a "new" version of the Pledge of Allegiance be allowed for them, omitting the phrase "One nation under God"?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298336,00.html

Now, really, is there anybody out there who really buys into this cockamamie line about the "separation of Church and State?" Does the phrase exist? Yes, of course. Is it in the Constitution? No. Is it a principle the nation is founded on? Yes. Is it misrepresented?

Absolutely!

The phrase "separation of Church and State" was included in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists in 1802 mentioning a "wall of separation" between Church and State.

Now, ask yourself: Are we now run in this nation by "letters?" Does a letter from a man whose name doesn't even appear on the Constitution now carry enough weight that it shall be considered on the same level and of the same importance as the Constitution itself?

Hardly.

Thomas Jefferson was a patriot and a founder of this nation, but he was not a framer of the Constitution of the United States. He was not even in the country when the Constitutional Convention took place, representing the United States in France as our Ambassador to our oldest ally.

Further, since when did the President of the United States have such far-reaching powers as to declare--not in Executive Order, but in personal correspondence--the powers of the Constitution? Remember that under the Articles of Confederation there was not Executive Branch, and at the Constitutional Convention, great measures were taken to prevent the Chief Executive and the Executive Branch from usurping powers reserved to the Congress and the States.

So how is it that a man who didn't even write the Constitution, in an office that didn't even warrant the power, writing a personal letter, suddenly, supposedly, pen the words that became Law?

Simple: The "supreme Court" said so! Over 150 years of Constitutional Law and Precedent out the window in favor of a phrase penned in a personal letter. That sounds about right for the Judiciary.

And now today we see that everybody in this nation is a great political philosopher and "knower of all things." And we have teenagers who cannot even express themselves with proper grammar and spelling telling us--regurgitating the words of others equally uninformed, more likely!--that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, and demanding that Congressional Acts in the form of Federal Statutory Law be overturned because they choose not to say a commonly established pledge that contains the phrase, "One Nation under God."

Geniuses, every one!

Tell me, great Socrates and mighty Aristotle--do they still teach the Constitution of the United States in high schools? Does the State of Colorado still teach the Declaration of Independence in history or political science class? Let us review...

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." From the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States.

Following from the Declaration of Independence.

"Laws of Nature and Nature's God"

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions..."

Check the capitalization. Ignore the words, for just a moment, and check the capitalization, for crying out loud!

The "supreme Court" is referred to in the Constitution with a lower-case 's' every time it is mentioned. Yet the "Supreme Judge of the world" is referred to with upper-case 'S.'

Interesting.

"Creator" with upper-case 'C.'

"Nature's God!" I mean--there's the BIG 'G' word itself! Right there in the Declaration of Independence! How much more obvious does it need to be?? Obviously, pretty obvious. So they stated it as such: "endowed by their Creator."

How about creation vs. evolution? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created"! Created!! Right there in the Declaration of Independence!

Yet what is the tired old phrase used in the "separation of church and state" conversation?

"The United States wasn't founded on principles of Christian religion, it was founded on the separation of church and state; it was founded on Grecco-Roman Republican ideals; it was founded on the concept of individual rights." Blah, blah, blah!

More Jefferson for you: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Now that sounds downright theological, you know what I mean? Do you know what scripture I am referring to?

Now, I hate to quote the Bible in such instances, mainly because I don't feel it is necessary, and despite the point that I am making in this blog, I find it inappropriate. But I simply must in this case do so to compare the supposedly secular comment from Jefferson ("separation of church and state") with this comment above ("Governments are instituted among Men").

From Romans 13:1-3 (NIV), the Apostle Paul writes, "(1) Everyone must submit himself to the goverening authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebellinig against what God has instituted."

See my point? It is interesting that one would take the idea of "separation of church and state," gleaned from a personal letter as meaning that there is no place for any expression of religion in public places or life when that same individual's writing, in the Declaration of Independence so closely mirrors the very Bible itself!

Those driving this issue state that there is no place for religious expression in government of on public facilities, quoting Jefferson's letter and "supreme Court" precedent. Yet Jefferson's own writing in the Declaration of Independence confirms that "Creation" and the existence of "God" are themselves "self-evident! And his philosophy mirrors Christian theology that states that it is "God" Himself who "establishes...governments."

These high school philosophers in training can't even intelligibly lecture one on the Electoral College, but they think that they know something about "church and state." Hmph.

And the "supreme Court" can't intelligibly respect the 1st or the 10th amendment, yet they think they can impose a personal letter's phrase upon the nation and the People.

The Judiciary should be turned out, and these children should be also--expel them all! Send the Justices off to retirement and the children off to suspension, to be followed by intensive legal training in matters of Constitutional Law, which states that the Federal Government has no jurisdiction in matters of religion, that the States are reserved to take up the matter in any way they see fit, and Colorado State Law, which undoubtedly states that teenage morons (aka students) enrolled in public schools are expected to be in class during their scheduled sessions, and truancy is punishable by appropriate administrative action.

Geez, I applied to the University of Colorado Law School for the fall of 2005--I could have been in Boulder while this was happening! Wouldn't that be fun?