Sarah Palin: “They Will Take the Phrase ‘Under God’ Away From Me When My Cold, Dead Lips Can No Longer Utter Those Words,”
Awesome red meat from a beauty!
When federal judges in San Francisco ruled in 2002 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because it included the phrase “under God,” Sarah Palin was not amused. Palin, who at the time was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, quickly drafted a terse letter to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper.
“Dear Editor,” Palin wrote in 2002. “San Francisco judges forbidding our Pledge of Allegiance? They will take the phrase ‘under God’ away from me when my cold, dead lips can no longer utter those words,” Palin wrote.
“God Bless America,” she concluded.
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Posted by Jay on September 25, 2008 7:19 pm
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Fantastic, God bless Gov. Sarah Palin
G-D BLESS Gov’r Palin
Yeah, well, she might rue those words when the Caliphate decides to take advantage of them. Since we can’t declare Islam a cult, and not a religion, we may well give it the rope with which to hang us. If we trust in god then Sharia law is appropriate, no? The train wreck that is creeping Islamification won’t stop until people in power STFU about Islam being a religion of peace – and we know who the chief enabler is. I’d much rather have no god than Islam’s god.
Red meat indeed! A tribute:
Make Our Country Proud (Sarah Palin Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-IXHojCDI
God bless Sarah Palin.
I think she’d make the best president of the four of them. I like McCain plenty, but Palin is just great.
She didn’t say Jesus Christ. She said “GOD”. That’s not infringing on anyone’s rights. I don’t begrudge Jewish people the right to believe as they do and celebrate their own religion. I don’t become offended when Muslims observe Ramadan. America was founded, in great part, so that people would have the freedom to worship as they pleased. Why is it that people are so hypersensitive that they want to keep people of faith (specifically Christian) quiet? That infringes on THEIR rights.
Palin is awesome. She tells it like it is and does not sugar coat her answers. Thats a leader and that’s what this country needs. Someone to put these liberals in the place. Thats why the Liberals are on the war path. They are scared of McCain and Palin.
Exactly.
Humorous in a dark sort of way, the left is frantic in their fear of — Mom.
“Me” misses the point. In the West, we’re all free to worship god as we define him/her/it/them/alternativepronoun. The problem is, once you’ve established god in the public public (as opposed to the private public – people going about their own lives), you give Islam the opening to attempt to dominate everyone else. That’s my point. If you have a completely secular country *officially*, not personally, it’s much easier to say to Muslims — no public footbaths, or we’re not caving in to Ramadan, etc. I’m not saying it’s wrong to believe in a god or gods, but when it becomes official public policy to acknowledge Allah (as Muslims believe the god the U.S. acknowledges is), then you will run into problems.
How many Americans don’t know USA has Christian founding fathers? And that in our dollar bills it’s written ‘In God We Trust’. With due respect, one is free to live elsewhere please, just don’t try to change what has been there since the beginning.
Fact Checks: The founding fathers (John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison) of the United States of America were deists, not Christians. They believed that a higher power, God, created the Universe, and that this could be concluded through reason and logic. They also believed that sacred texts (The Bible), were interpretations made by other humans and not authoritative sources (Yes, unfortunately our Founding Fathers were very educated men). This led them to make sure to include the separation of Church and State clear in the document that governs our country – The Constitution.
“In God We Trust” was added to currency first in 1864. The beginning of our country would have been in 1776.
“Under God” was added to the pledge when Eisenhower signed a bill on June 14, 1954.
robert j where do you get your so called facts-yes a few(not all that you say) were not Christians but were swayed by truths in the Bible–You are an educated elite idiot educated by liberal teachers who have read it in a liberal biased history book by a liberal biased author publisher and editor
The founding fathers (John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison) of the United States of America were deists, not Christians.
(Source: Benjamin Franklin, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks, editor (Boston: Tappan, Whittemore and Mason, 1840), Vol. X, p. 297, April 17, 1787. )
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
“In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered… do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?” [Constitutional Convention, Thursday June 28, 1787]
In Benjamin Franklin’s 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach “the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.”
In 1787 when Franklin helped found Benjamin Franklin University, it was dedicated as “a nursery of religion and learning, built on Christ, the Cornerstone.”
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I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ. [12] Thomas Jefferson
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And 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? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital) [Source: Merrill . D. Peterson, ed., Jefferson Writings, (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984), Vol. IV, p. 289. From Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1781.]
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We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! — John Adams and John Hancock [April 18, 1775]
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress
John Adams letter to Benjamin Rush: “The Christian religion…is the brightness of the glory and the express portrait of the character of the eternal, self-existent, independent, benevolent, all powerful and all merciful creator, preserver, and Father of the universe, the first good, first perfect, and first fair. It will last as long as the world. Neither savage nor civilized man, without a revelation, could ever have discovered or invented it. Ask me not, then, whether I am a Catholic or Protestant, Calvinist or Arminian. As far as they are Christians, I wish to be a fellow disciple with them all.” Adam’s Dairy, July 26, 1796, Christianity and the Constitution, John Eidsmoe, p. 285
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Alexander Hamilton:
• Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard to form the Christian Constitutional Society to help spread over the world the two things which Hamilton said made America great:
(1) Christianity
(2) a Constitution formed under Christianity.
“The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.”
On July 12, 1804 at his death, Hamilton said, “I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.”
“For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.” [1787 after the Constitutional Convention]
“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”
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James Madison: “…because the policy of the bill is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity. The first wish of those who ought to enjoy this precious gift, ought to be, that it may be imparted to the whole race of mankind.” …A Memorial and Remonstrance, delivered to the General Assembly of Virginia, 1785
James Madison: “The belief in God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the World and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities to be impressed with it.” In a letter to Frederick Beasley Nov. 20
James Madison: “While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.” From “A Memorial and Remonstrance” 1785, delivered to the general Assembly of the State of Virginia
• I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments, even the most rational and manly, than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and [who] are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare the unsatisfactoriness [of temportal enjoyments] by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ; and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way.
Letter by Madison to William Bradford (September 25, 1773)
• In 1812, President Madison signed a federal bill which economically aided the Bible Society of Philadelphia in its goal of the mass distribution of the Bible.
“ An Act for the relief of the Bible Society of Philadelphia” Approved February 2, 1813 by Congress
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97% of the Founding Fathers were practicing Christians and exercised their faith in public office, at work, at home, and had it taught to their children in their schools.
And I can’t agree MORE with governor Sarah Palin! You go girl! You’re REAL. You’re HONEST. You don’t BEAT AROUND THE BUSH. You’re not afraid to tell the truth. God Bless You, Sarah Palin. You’re about the ONLY one in politics who’s not afraid to talk about what really matters, and God is going to bless that. May He continue to bless you and use you in this lost and dying world. Kudos my sister in Christ!