The Judiciary According to the Religious Right
The manuscript contains the opinions of the heads of the nation's Religious Right. Chapters come from James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, probably the most popular radio program for the crowd. Benjamin Dupre, who worked for Judge Roy Moore has a segment. William Federer, who publishes his right wing slant on history, had a chapter. David Gibbs, who was an attorney for the Terry Shiavo family is on board. Black right wing leader Alan Keys, a former aid with Ronal Reagan, is represented in the work. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese has his say. Lady preacher Joyce Meyer has gone on record as opposing the idea of separation of church and state. Her husband has a few pages in the work. The late Howard Phillips, who ran for President and was deeply tied into Christian Reconstruction, gives his take on the nation. Rick Scarborough, founder of Vision America takes his shots as well as his director, Don Federer. Eagle Forum's leader Phyllis Schlafly, weighs in. Judge Roy Moore, of Ten Commandment fame, takes his shots. Legal Theocracy advocate Herb Titus makes his points. Much, if not most, of the book is about Alabama Judge Roy Moore and his banishment from the bench for posting the Ten Commandment monument in the Alabama court house. Sutherland begins the book by stating we need, "To bring our nation back from the elites in black robes that wish to redefine everything we are," pg. 9. The writers tend to view the courts, especially the Supreme Court, as activists who are taking it upon themselves to redefine the nation. It apparently never occurs to the book that the Supreme Court has tended to historically follow American culture more than remake it. The Ten Commandment issue is the evidence that our courts have committed heresy, not to mention violation of the Constitution in its decision to discipline Judge Moore. The book sees that this ruling meant that God is not now sovereign over man or government. The Supreme Court has set itself up as Lord of America. Pg. 14. The book repeats the assessment that God was now declared not sovereign over man by the ruling against Judge Moore. Pg. 22. It was more than just an Alabama judge who was refuted, it was God Himself. Alan Keys, states in his legal opinion the banishment of the monument in Alabama means there is no respect of marriage which leads to incest by this action. Pg. 188 Keys wrote, "But I do know this: once we have taken God's name from every wall, removed His laws from every court house, removed the sound of hearts prayerfully lifted up to Him from every school and every public place, once we have taken the Bible verses off the Liberty bell, and scoured the Ten Commandments from the walls of the Supreme Court, I do know this; we shall no longer be a people living in the midst of the foundation of our courage which made our freedom possible." Pg. 194 Judge Moore claims when he was ordered to remove the monument, it was an unlawful order. This violated his conscience and his oath to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of Alabama. This judge who ordered this removal placed himself above the law according to Moore. Pg. 62. Moore claims the Supreme Court of Alabama violated his rights and the rule of law. The Attorney General who prosecuted him on ethics charges, was wrong to do so. According to Moore this judge was in violation of the law according to his friends Jay Sekulow, of the American Center for Law and Justice and Richard Land, former director of the ethics division of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pg. 67. Sutherland believes an attorney from England, William Blackstone, established the fact that our nation's laws were based on the Bible. Separation of church and state was only imposed on the nation through a 1947, court ruling. Pg. 40. Matt Staver, the past head of Jerry Falwell's legal institution, stated the taking of the rights of the majority to shape our culture will lead to rebellion in our land. Pg. 153. Falwell and friends have always argued that minority rights should be ignored in school prayer cases. This often happens because as Joyce Meyer's husband wrote, we are ignorant of our Christian heritage. Pg. 28. To remedy this ignorance, Joyce's ministry is publishing history books on the subject to correct the mistaken image presented by the secular press. Pg. 34. Alan Keys laments the fact that we cannot live in communities that reflect our beliefs and govern according to our faith. Pg. 49. This comes from a defective court system, primarily the rulings that have come down from the Supreme Court. Phyllis Schlafly wrote, "Anybody who thinks that whatever the Court says is the `law of the land' is a person we do not want on the Supreme Court." Pg. 111. Howard Phillips believed that Congress has no authority to restrict establishment of religion in the state of Alabama, neither does any federal judge. Pg. 57. Moore said that we no longer live under the Constitution, but the interpretation of the Constitution that comes from men and not the document itself. Pg. 74. Historian Federer states our nation has degenerated from a republic to an Oligarchy. That is, a nation ruled by a few un-elected men. These men are the federal judges. Pg. 95. Herb Titus wrote that if George Bush was truly a Constitutional governor when he presided in Texas, Bush would have not obeyed the Supreme Court. Pg. 168. Pastor Rick Scarborough comments that we have been under assault by activist judges. What in 1776, was preformed by an evil king, is now done by an American judiciary. Judge Moore was thus attacked by these judges who are controlled by the ACLU. Pg. 80. Rick thinks Judge Moore was forbidden to exercise his faith in the public square. Pg. 81. Scarborough gives his legal opinion that you cannot find separation of church and state in the Constitution. He notes that no reasonable American would hold Judge Moore in violation of the law. Our nation is thus being destroyed by activist judges. Pgs. 82-83. Herb Titus, a Religious Right legal expert claims the United Nations Charter has been replacing our own Constitution. Pg. 173. The sub title of the book is The New Kings of America? The opinion of these writers is that our own Constitution, which was established to protect us from English Kings, has now been hijacked by those who would replace England's kings with the judiciary.
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