Our founding fathers did not want the government interfering with religious expression in any way which is why Amendment #1 of our Constitution prohibits any law doing so. Unfortunately, beginning in 1962 with the Supreme Court unilaterally removing prayer from the schools without a precedent, it marked the beginning of judicial rulings that affronted the very Constitution the Supreme Court was to interpret.http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/50-years-later-how-school-prayer-ruling-changed-america
Rulings by the Supreme Court prior to 1962 were done with the majority interest in mind, which meant the overwhelmingly reflected value was Christian based. The Supreme Court used many court rulings and legal documents as precedents as in the Supreme Court ruling of the Church of the Holy Trinity vs. the United States in 1892 which stipulated:
“There is no dissonance in these declarations. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterance; they speak the voice of the entire people. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterance that this is a Christian nation”.
The Supreme Court interpreted the law based on the general welfare of the people as articulated by the United States Constitution. In the Supreme Courts’ unanimous decision of Vidal vs. Girard’s Executors in 1844 regarding the Bible being used in government run schools, the justices noted:
“Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as a divine revelation in schools. Its general precepts expounded, its evidences explained, and its glorious principles of morality inculcated? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?”
It would be next to impossible for the current Supreme Court in this climate of anti-Christian bias of society and education system to make such a ruling now. Yoga is being approved in our schools while the religious values of our forefathers are being rejected.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/calif-judge-says-public-school-yoga-not-religious
Here’s what a Yale student handbook in 1787, the same year our US Constitution was framed, said: “All the scholars are required to live a religious and blameless life according to the rules of God’s Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, that fountain of Divine light and truth, and constantly attending all the duties of religion”.
How about Harvard’s student guideline in 1636?: “Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning”.
Can you imagine the uproar at Harvard if the same original requirement was even merely suggested to its students today? The founders of both Yale and Harvard would refuse to believe how the core fundamental values of both colleges have been eliminated. Christian clubs have been kicked off the campuses for not following the secular demands of the intellectuals.
George Washington declared, “You cannot govern apart from God and the Bible. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor”.
Abraham Lincoln stated, “Take what you can from the Bible by reason, the rest by faith”.
A Senate Judiciary Report in 1853 said, “We are a Christian people, not because the law demands it, not to gain exclusive benefits or to avoid legal disabilities, but from choice and education, and in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be expected, what desired, but that we shall pay due regard to Christianity?”
A House Judiciary Report in 1854 announced, “At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged. In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants”.
The founding fathers would be stunned to witness what is taking place in present day 2013 concerning the anti-Christian sentiment in our country, the Christian hostility being practiced in the educational venues, and a government implementing the most intrusive laws that have ignored Amendment #1 of our Constitution. http://www.examiner.com/article/mormon-student-tossed-from-college-class-for-not-stomping-on-jesus-name
Newsweek and President Barack Obama both declared the United States in no longer a Christian nation.http://godfatherpolitics.com/6423/obama-is-a-prophet-u-s-no-longer-a-christian-nation/
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10086
Our founding fathers would be hard pressed to disagree.
