America At A Critical Crossroad

7/3/05

 

Pr. 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation,

but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Tomorrow our country will be 229 years old!

I thank God for America!

Army Spc. Brian Romines was killed in action in Iraq. His funeral was June 18, in Anna. Picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, KS who claim that God hates America came in total disrespect to the family. The pastor Fred Phelps and his people are terribly deceived. They are a perfect picture of total religious deception!

America is at a critical crossroad!

For months preceding the election last year, Christian leaders throughout this land urged believers to cry out to the Lord for His hand to be evident in the election. I, among many others, believed that whoever would be elected for this term would have the opportunity and responsibility to appoint justices to our highest court.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 75, unexpectedly announced Friday that she would step down upon Senate confirmation of her successor. Her departure as the first female justice and the decisive swing vote on divisive issues supporting abortion rights gives the court its first vacancy since 1994.

O'Connor, a breast cancer survivor, kept her retirement a surprise even from her son. It was not until Friday morning that she dispatched her letter, hand-delivered to the president.

"This is a state of emergency," said Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. "Every member of the Senate will have to choose sides _ either they will side with the bullies in the Republican leadership or they will take the side of our fundamental freedoms."

Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, countered that the court needs to move away from activists who legislate from the bench. "There could not be a more significant opportunity for President Bush to impact the direction of the high court," he said.

After waiting more than four years for a chance to strengthen conservatives' influence on the court, Bush was presented with the surprise decision of O'Connor to leave after 24 years. White House officials had anticipated that if anyone retired, it would have been Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 80 years old and ailing with thyroid cancer.

Nowhere was her legal thinking more carefully scrutinized than when it came to abortion, an issue that divides the court as it does the country.

O'Connor balked at letting states outlaw most abortions, refusing in 1989 to join four other justices who were ready to reverse the landmark 1973 decision that said women have a constitutional right to abortion.

In 1992, she helped forge a five-justice majority that reaffirmed the core holding of the 1973 ruling. Then, in 2000, she provided the fifth and decisive vote that struck down a Nebraska law that was aimed at banning a procedure critics call "partial-birth" abortions.

The president said he will be "deliberate and thorough" in this process.

"The nation deserves, and I will select, a Supreme Court justice that Americans can be proud of," he said.

If you have never read the Declaration of Independence I strongly suggest that you do so...

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

A long list of grievances are now listed...

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, do, in the Name, and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.

That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,

and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved;

and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce,

and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Ps. 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,

the people he chose for his inheritance.

¹³ From heaven the LORD looks down

and sees all mankind;

¹⁴ from his dwelling place he watches

all who live on earth—

¹⁵ he who forms the hearts of all,

who considers everything they do.

¹⁶ No king is saved by the size of his army;

no warrior escapes by his great strength.

¹⁷ A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;

despite all its great strength it cannot save.

¹⁸ But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,

on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

¹⁹ to deliver them from death

and keep them alive in famine.

Ez. 22:30 “I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.

2 Chr. 7:11 When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace, ¹² the LORD appeared to him at night and said:

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ¹⁴if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Is. 1:26 I will restore your judges as in days of old,

your counselors as at the beginning.