VOTE
NO (YES) –
FLORIDA AMENDMENT 8
DEFEND
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
RESIST
OBAMACARE
Christians
MUST NOT Trust Government Over God
By KrisAnne
Hall
www.AmericansUnitedforFreedom.com
(busted link as of 12/2012)
August 13, 2012
"Separation of Church and State." I
know of very few statements that carry so much emotion and so much
misconception at the same time. Our
education system stifles religious expression with this phrase. Our
court systems have failed America with their rulings misapplying this
phrase. Our churches have been negligent to their responsibilities
because of this phrase. The culmination of all this wrong doing has led
this nation down a dangerous road that, may I boldly say, our Founders
never intended. Hisways
agrees.
VOTE
NO (YES) ON
AMENDMENT 8! – PROTECT FREEDOM OF RELIGION
NO FALSE CHOICES BETWEEN GOD'S LAW AND GOVERNMENT
 Thomas
Jefferson penned this phrase on January 1, 1802, in a letter to the
Danbury Baptists, assuring them that "the First Amendment has
erected a wall of separation between church and state."
His letter explained that they need not fear
the establishment of a national denomination – and that while the wall
of the First Amendment would protect the church from Government control
– there always would be guaranteed open and free religious expression,
because true religious expression of decent religious practices and
true religious duties would never threaten the purpose of Government.
Government would only interfere with a "religious" activity which
imperiled justice, posing a direct menace to the Government or to the
overall peace and good order of society. Hisways
agrees.
Jefferson was making a statement that the
Government has no business in the affairs of the church – period. If
you take into account the very words of Jefferson it is clear that he
never intended for the people's Government to attempt to eradicate
every evidence or mention of God from any arena of society. The intent
of the Founders was not to establish the Government as a God-free zone,
but to ensure that matters of religious conscience and practice
remained a Government-free zone, except where in such an anomalous case
"its principles break out into overt acts against peace and good
order." Hisways
agrees.
Thomas
Jefferson said, "Can the
liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only
firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these
liberties are a gift from God?"
All of these statements point to the egregious
religious usurpations by
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS). See
this web slide
presentation: Hisways.org/about/ChurchStateTyranny/index.html for
the irrefutable, prima facie "DUAL AND EQUAL AND PARALLEL" Walls of
Separation test that
SCOTUS should have known
and designed
instead of the spurious "Lemon Test"!
See
this web slide presentation: Hisways.org/about/ChurchStateTyranny/SCOTUS-FAIL2.html
(not finished) for egregious SCOTUS failures
in the misapplication of
the
1st and 14th
Amendments.
 With
this in mind, I must note that many states are mistakenly pushing
forward legislation to remove restrictions on the use of Government
funding for religious based activities or institutions. The argument in
favor of such legislation claims preventing or restricting Government
money to religious organizations is an expression of religious bigotry
and discrimination. In some instances this may be true, but in
virtually any case, the political "cure" being proposed is worse than
the disease. Florida currently has this issue on their November ballot.
Florida's Amendment 8, titled "Religious
Freedom," is a misnomer to say the least. If this Amendment or others
like it are passed they will actually be detrimental to Religious
Liberty. Hisways
believes that sharing community taxes collected for education of
children with those parents desiring educational
options for
their child is govt permitting parental choices. There is no
religion or church in the previous statement. If you assume
that
there is then you have assumed that the child and parent are slaves of
the government education plantation; and what the slaves do is the same
as the govt doing.
VOTE
NO (YES) ON
AMENDMENT 8! – PROTECT FREEDOM OF RELIGION
NO FALSE CHOICES BETWEEN GOD'S LAW AND GOVERNMENT
Amendment 8 is an effort to repeal the
Blaine Amendment, a common provision in many state Constitutions. That
is correct; it is in some STATE constitutions but not in all of the
states (see our "Blaine" link below).
The Blaine
Amendment reads in part:
"No revenue of the state or any
political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the
public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or
religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution."
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The proposed measure would amend Section
3 of Article I of the Florida Constitution to read:
Text of Section 3: Religious
Freedom
There shall be no law respecting the
establishment of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free
exercise thereof. Religious freedom shall not justify practices
inconsistent with public morals, peace, or safety. No
individual or entity may be discriminated against or barred from
receiving funding on the basis of religious identity or belief.
No
revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof
shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in
aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any
sectarian institution.
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The yellow box shows the original text with
the underline statement added and the strikethrough text to be deleted.
Hisways.org has written: The
Blaine Amendments And Hisways PLAVNIC Resolution For Redress From The
Court's Secular Religion in Public Schools
because government is already funding a religion. It is The
Secular Humanist Religion. It is an ugly, false religion from
which
public
school PARENTS want relief via: short-term vouchers/scholarships or/and
preferably, long-term "5
Points of
religion" back in schools. Some TAXPAYERS
would also like to NOT fund The
Secular Humanist Religion.
See also this prophetically true discourse from 1890 (yes 1890!)
regarding 'centralized government education': The
"Engine" of Atheism
. See also these talking points: How
To Disestablish The Secular Religion: Using Thomas
Jefferson's Model.).
Opponents of the Blaine
Amendment claim that the restriction upon using Government funds for
religious purposes or institutions is an attempt to discriminate against
religions. The truth is the Blaine Amendment is rooted in
principles dedicated to the preservation of Religious Liberty and the
prevention of Government intrusion into the church. (James
G. Blaine was a 1876 Presidential candidate who
tried to get government funding of Catholic religious schools outlawed
by Protestant state legislatures; but courts have consistently used the
language to quash "free
expression" of America's
default religion i.e. everything
Christian! )
In
our ignorance, we are repeating a battle in American history that our
founders already fought and settled. (I
think all of the Founders were deceased by 1876 when Blaine championed
his amendment.) Shortly after the
ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, several
legislators, Patrick Henry being one, put forth a bill to pay Christian
Teachers with tax dollars. The bill was titled, A Bill
Establishing A Provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion.
The purpose of this bill was to pay Christian teachers' salaries out of
collected tax revenue. Patrick Henry was a great defender of Liberty
and an ardent Christian. In this case, his desire to defend the faith
blinded him to the dangers of inviting the Government into the church
in the form of tax subsidies. Fortunately, there were other legislators
present that knew the dangers of such an act, and their stand helped to
clarify why good intentions can lead to dangerous
destinations. Hisways
is NOT in favor of the government
paying Christian teachers either, so let the parents or even the
taxpayers themselves have
the accountability for vouchers/scholarships. We do NOT have
1st Amendment
religious
freedom
if Christian public school students, parents, teachers;
or government contractors have to give up their religious
convictions in school or upon acceptance of a contract.
The/A CONTRACT between parent(s) and state should be explicit
as to the terms, limitations and responsibilities of both parties.
To understand why it is wrong for tax
dollars to pay for religious activities, we must really think about the
process as a whole. When the Government pays a person or an
organization to perform a service with tax dollars, that individual or
organization places themselves under the oversight of the Government,
much like an employee. Right
and parents should be required to show that the voucher/scholarship was
used for the education of their
choice. Since,
tax dollars are not the property of the Government but of the American
people, the American people cannot allow the Government to spend their
money with no accountability. Therefore, regulation of Government
spending of taxpayer dollars is required. So, to take tax
dollars invites Government regulation, influence and control into the
religious organization. (NO
but on the individual)
In opposition to Henry's
Bill, an
"Association of Ministers and Delegates" wrote this response:
"No man or set of Men are
entitled to exclusive or separate Emoluments or Privileges from the
Community but in consideration of Public Services. (Quoting the
Virginia Declaration of Rights) If, therefore, the State provides a
Support for Preachers of the Gospel, and they receive it in
Consideration of their Services, they must certainly when they preach,
act as Officers of the State and ought to be accountable thereto for
their Conduct.…" So
let the parent, taxpayer or
an independent corporation (say a voucher clearinghouse?)
have
the
accountability for vouchers/scholarships or contracts; they are the
WALL that stops government and SCOTUS so that there is no conflict with
social service
ministries, preachers or religious schools.
When tax dollars are spent, the organization
or individual
using those funds becomes a quasi-Government agent and thus opens
itself up to Government control. The
Government cannot allow the use of tax dollars in a way that will
discriminate based upon criteria such as race, gender, religion, creed,
etc. So if a religious organization accepts tax dollars for
the performance of a service, the Government must regulate that
organization's activity and prevent discriminatory practices. So
if a nonprofit or for profit educational organization is already,
legally performing a service then government is already
regulating
the organization. The
organization
can
no longer perform its service free to the dictates of their religious
convictions, but must adhere to a non-discriminatory practice as
regulated and dictated by the Government. In
1776, our founders believed that taking tax dollars into the churches
was paramount to the destruction of religious liberty: Hisways
agrees. (See SCOTUS
FAILUREs Parts 1-3
slide presentations same links as above.)
"the Consequence of this is, that
those whom the state employs in its Service, it has a right to regulate
and dictate to; it may judge and determine who shall preach; when and
where they shall preach. The mutual obligations between Preachers and
Societies they belong to… must evidently be weakened – Yea, farewell to
the Bill of Rights!" Hisways
believes this quote came from: www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/ebriefs/03/03099502.pdf where
TX Dept of ED. tried to intervene into and control the content of
seminary
curriculum!
There are two main problems with
Amendment 8. First, proponents of Amendment 8
professes that individuals motivated by "religious convictions" often
engage in the same types of services offered by the Government and
therefore should be eligible for Government funding.
"WHEREAS, their religious
convictions motivate some Floridians to establish religiously
affiliated schools, hospitals, adoption agencies, and
other benevolent institutions that provide valuable services to society
and to receive or utilize such valuable services from these benevolent
providers, which could be subsidized by the state through public
programs," (emphasis added) This
quote is used in a biased manner and came from http://laws.flrules.org/2011/r1471;
which is a 3 page pdf file that more than justifies removal of Blaine
from the FL Constitution.
However, the Government's benevolent
services are not and cannot be motivated by religious
convictions and they cannot provide religiously
affiliated services because non-discriminatory requirements
will not allow it. The author is still trying to negociate
through
the SCOTUS CASE FAILUREs of 1st Amendment and non-discrimination laws
which
infringes on free assembly. A
private organization operating on religious conviction to establish
religiously affiliated services will have to check those beliefs at the
door, (not if free expression is upheld via DUAL,
EQUAL and PARALLEL Walls of Separation, see ChurchStateTyranny/index.html)
if they want to operate using Government funding.
To do
otherwise would
compel those who do not share those convictions to provide funding for
them. This compulsion is unconstitutional and
immoral. Then compulsory (monopolistic) govt. school
attendance and indoctrination in The Secular Humanist Religious
(i.e. atheistic) Public Schools
is unconstitutional and immoral.
"to compel a man to furnish
contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he
disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical;" Thomas Jefferson, The
Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom,
1786. Hisways AGREES! TAXPAYERS need
relief from funding the
Secular Humanist Religion of our local public school.
VOTE
NO (YES) ON
AMENDMENT 8! – PROTECT FREEDOM OF RELIGION
NO FALSE CHOICES BETWEEN GOD'S LAW AND GOVERNMENT
By becoming funded by the Government, the
original intent motivating the Floridians to action is nullified and
they are no longer able to operate with religious
conviction under a religious affiliation.
The second
problem lies within the first. Person's acting upon "religious
convictions" ought to also believe those
religious convictions. To profess to operate under the conviction and
direction of God and then demand the Government to provide money, is a
violation of the First Commandment. So
let me as a TAXPAYER of
public education select and fund the school of my choice, including
private
nonprofit or for profit,
competitive schools for the education of my neighborhood children
according to the values of my community.
"[using tax dollars for
religiously based programs] tends also to corrupt the principles of
that very religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing, with a
monopoly of worldly honors and emoluments," Thomas
Jefferson, The Virginia Act for Establishing
Religious Freedom, 1786. Hisways agrees; TAXPAYERS need relief. (See
also 5
Points that Jefferson approved of; and his law modified to Disestablish
Secular Religion in schools.)
It
tells a world of nonbelievers that even believers cannot trust God to
provide for the needs of His children, and that all must rely on
Government. It takes a nation that pledges to be "one nation under God"
and tells the world we are actually "one nation under Government."
This shameful display of lack of faith undermines the believers
dependence on God, and undermines the gospel itself, declaring to the
world that God is NOT sufficient to provide for our needs on earth, so
how can we trust Him with eternal things? In Principles
of Freedom 101 we learn that "We, The People" are
God's delegates and are responsible for the living conditions under our
government and that we
must maintain our liberties or loose them. Hisways believes we should
return the Bible to schools and adopt the vision of a pristine
Constitutional Republicracy.
Religion not invented by human
policy, must have pre-existed and been supported, before it was
established by human policy. [Relying upon Government provisions
serves] to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence
in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster
in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too
conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits. James
Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance,
1785. (Hisways agrees. This was a bill to
establish a govt agency to fund and employ Christian teachers
throughout VA. https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/academics/founders/Madison%27sMemorial.pdf )
VOTE
NO (YES) ON
AMENDMENT 8! – PROTECT FREEDOM OF RELIGION
NO FALSE CHOICES BETWEEN GOD'S LAW AND GOVERNMENT
The true application of the principle of
"separation of church and state" is one that was won with over 700
years of battle. Hisways believes the true application of
the principle of separation of church and state TYRANNY is enforcing
the DUAL, EQUAL and PARALLEL Walls of Separation.
This principle, that teaches that Government
has no place in the church, is wrecked by the likes of Florida's
Amendment 8, where Christians, themselves, beg for their own
destruction. I am amazed that in light of the current battle
to keep the Government out of our churches in the matter of healthcare
mandates, that Christians can even consider demanding Government money
for programs established upon religious convictions. Haven't we seen
well enough that where the Government is invited in, it will soon run
the house? How can we with clear conscience declare the Government has
no right to force a religion to operate outside its conscience and
provide healthcare contrary to its beliefs and with the same body
demand the Government give the church money? (Let
the parent be the WALL between govt and their educational choice.)
"Well aware that Almighty God
hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by
temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only
to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the
plan of the Holy Author of our religion," Thomas Jefferson,
The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1786.
It is time for Christians of all
denominations to live their testimony and show the world that we serve
a living God who is sufficient in both eternal AND temporal things. How
else can we be not just hearers of the word but also doers? Hisways
USA, Inc believes that our God given testimony is to show the world
that
the Blaine Amendments, the Supreme Court FAILUREs and other government
usurpations
have victimized American Christians; and, relief is required which
might involve "State Nullification of Federal Laws and Decrees" by the
10th
Amendment. (See
SCOTUS
FAILS
slide presentation.)
No
man can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold
to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is and
tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye
of little faith? But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew
6:24, 30, 33.
Christians,
do what is right, TRUST
IN GOD, and vote NO
on Amendment 8. Hisways
suggests a YES vote.
Keep
Faith,
KrisAnne
Hall
Americans
United for Freedom
KrisAnne Hall is a
former prosecutor and Constitutional attorney who was fired from her
job for teaching the Constitution to citizen groups. She is a disabled
veteran of the US Army, a Russian linguist, a mother, a pastor's wife
and a patriot. Her former employer, State Attorney for Florida's 3rd
Judicial Circuit, gave her a choice – give up her First Amendment right
to speak on her own time or be fired. KrisAnne said, "My First
Amendment rights are worth more than a paycheck and I will not
surrender them." She now travels the country and teaches the
Constitution and the history that gave us our founding documents. We
are proud to have KrisAnne as a contributor to Americans United for
Freedom. (Here
is a perfect example of the need for "DUAL
and EQUAL and
PARALLEL Walls of Separation" from government tyranny.)
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