Posted by
Patriot One on Sunday, May 24, 2009 12:03:36 AM
Home Is Not The Place To Study The Bible!!!
County demands pastor spend thousands on 'Major Use' permit to host friends
Pentagon Burns Soldiers Bibles - Military Chaplains Attacked
President Obama To The World: “America is no longer a Christian Nation…”
What is going on America? If the headlines above from just the last few weeks doesn’t cause you concern about your freedoms being taken away I don’t know what will. When you add these blatant attacks by the government on our most personal and closely cherished freedoms to the other recent moves towards a fascist government it should let you know that if this continues, the America that we grew up in, and was the greatest testament to the world-- that our way of life was the most open, generous and successful country in the world.
When Government Officials can intrude into the privacy of your home and ask these kind of personal questions:
“Do you have a regular weekly meeting in your home? Do you sing? Do you say 'amen'?" the official reportedly asked. "Do you say, 'Praise the Lord'?"
What is next- do you listen to fox news-do you attend TEA parties-Do you own guns-Do you [you name it]…
The pastor's wife answered yes to the questions above concerning prayer meetings in her home with friends.
“She says she was then told, however, that she must stop holding "religious assemblies" until she and her husband obtain a Major Use Permit from the county, a permit that often involves traffic and environmental studies, compliance with parking and sidewalk regulations and costs that top tens of thousands of dollars.
And if they fail to pay for the MUP, the county official reportedly warned, the couple will be charged escalating fines beginning at $100, then $200, $500, $1000, "and then it will get ugly."
“The First Amendment, in part, reads, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,'" Broyles said. "And that's the key part: 'prohibiting the free exercise.' We believe this is a substantial government burden on the free exercise of religion."
I am so tired of the above quote being misrepresented as meaning that the government must not approve of Christianity in any overt way. The original concept and force behind the statement in the first amendment regarding religion was put in place to ensure that the government didn’t set up an official government sanctioned church—like the Church of England—that did not allow Christians with viewpoints different from the official church to function freely. The founders certainly did not expect the results we live with today--where religions other than the Judeo Christian foundation that they used as the starting point for our country would be given the promotion and approbation and many cases superiority over a Judeo-Christian perspective.
Broyles continued, "If one's home is one's castle, certainly you would the think the free exercise of religion, of all places, could occur in the home." I’d agree how about you?
For more on this go to:
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98895