[Vision2020] Amendments

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:57:40 -0800

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&gt;Greetings Visionaires - </DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Another thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Attempting to legally define marriage, by consitutional 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;amendment, in terms commensurate with the bible wreaks of theocracy to me. 
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&gt;Take care, 
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Tom Hansen 
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Seems from the quotes below that those “theocrats” have been around for a long time.&nbsp; Those unenlightened scoundrels - off with their heads!
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P.S Stile
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“The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority.&nbsp; The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that Book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer…”&nbsp; Noah Webster
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“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.&nbsp; We have staked the future of all our political institution upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God”&nbsp; James Madison
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“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible” George Washington
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“Our laws and our institution must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind.&nbsp; It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institution are emphatically Christian.”&nbsp; United States Supreme Court 1892, Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States
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“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering, and to prosper; but if our posterity neglects its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” Daniel Webster
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“…men may as well build their houses upon the sand …as to found free institutions upon any other basis than that of morality and virtue, of which the Word of God is the only authortative rule, and the only adequate sanction.&nbsp; All societies of men must be governed in some way or other… Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them, or a power without them; either by the Word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.”&nbsp; Robert Winthrop, 1849
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“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1821
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“He who admits the authority of the Bible will not readily acknowledge that whatever is “highly esteemed among men” must be right, nor that which is unpopular is, of course, wrong.”&nbsp; Warren Jay
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&nbsp;“Christianity, in its enlarged sense, as a religion revealed and taught in the Bible is not unknown in our law…” Chief Justice Chancellor Kent, N.Y., People vs. Ruggles, 1811
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