Thu Apr 14, 2022 – 7:47 am EDT
Note from LifeSite president Steve Jalsevac: Item (1) correctly refers to the US Founders’ concept of religious freedom, but not in the way that LifeSite readers would specifically refer to “God” or “Jesus Christ” rather than to a vague “higher power.” Nevertheless, US Constitutional protection of religious belief and practice has been a uniquely crucial government safeguard against those who would crush our beliefs and must be aggressively invoked to stop such illegal suppression.
(American Thinker) – Does anybody still think totalitarianism can’t happen here in America? Ask yourself how many of these steps we’ve already galloped past.
(1) Destruction of religion
Any belief in a higher power is threatening to the State. If there is a “higher law” that takes precedence over government orders, then personal morality is a justifiable reason for disobeying the State.
America’s founding was a product of the Enlightenment’s understanding that natural rights and liberties exist apart from and superior to the State’s edicts. These God-given rights, some of which are recorded in the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution as the Bill of Rights, cannot be abridged or usurped by the State. For individual sovereignty and personal
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