Liberals are now taking aim at a painting honoring the victims of 9/11, all because it features a cross. Fox News reports:
A painting at the Camden County Courthouse in Missouri was put up to honor the lives of those who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It shows the Ground Zero Cross emerging from the rubble as a New York firefighter and young girl look on. The Twin Towers and a plane are shown in silhouette.
But that painting in Camdenton, Miss. has come under fire from a Wisconsin-based anti-religion group that claims the painting is a violation of the separation of church and state. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, or FFRF, has filed a complaint with the county and wants it taken down.
“The ‘9/11 cross’ painting is unconstitutional because a county government cannot display religious symbols on government property under the First Amendment,” FFRF legal fellow, Colin McNamara, told Fox News.
But locals have defended the painting, insisting it’s a beautiful tribute and far from a religious symbol.
This is a simple painting honoring victims, but liberals are hellbent on destroying any trace of God.
The reaction to the crucifix, to the Left in America, is similar to that of a vampire. They are repulsed and it poses a harm to their very existence. In addition, they are blood suckers.
I WONDER WHEN THE LAST TIME ONE OF THOSE DEMORATS HAVE STEPPED INSIDE OF A CHURCH…IF ONE OF THEM DID STEP INTRO ONE THE CHURCH WOULD COLLAPSE….I THINK THEY MOSTLY ATHEISTS….
The Communist ACLU has to be behind this they have been removing God from America since 1925 with the scopes monkey trial these people hate America and our culture. We are now in a battle of our lives, one side is the communist democrats with the communist democrat media support, the other just the citizens in flyover that wants our country to remain free and a republic. This didn’t happen over night, the Communist have been hard at work for years while we slept, is it too late, God knows, do we give up, or do we fight and reverse what we’ve allowed over the last four decades, I fear we will only win if we use our constitutional right with the 2nd amendment.
amen!!!
Folks, ‘freedom from religion’ is not constitutional. It is not in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. You cannot censor your Maker. HE can blow you away! Get humble and be thankful for our freedoms to worship HIM, and don’t worry about ‘church and State’. “Churches” are not the issue here. State is not GOD>
Lindajm
The left worships at the Altar of government. They hold special reverence for the UN as it exemplifies their utopia: World Socialist, no-borders, Government.
I don’t hear the FFRF saying anything about the increasing occurrence of sharia law.
FFRF, from Wisconsin, is telling Missouri what to do with it’s statue? Here’s my answer to them-F***FFRF!
Neither ‘separation of church and state’ nor ‘freedom from religion’ is to be found ANYWHERE in the United States Constitution!!!!!
What IS in the constitution is this
AMENDMENT 1
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It’s pretty clear that what is in there is the FREEDOMS OF RELIGION, not freedom from religion, unless of course you’re a LIBTURD!!!
At one point in world history the muslims were attempting to take over the world, and had in fact made great strides in that direction. When Christians finally said enough is enough and began to fight back, it became know as the CRUSADES. History is bound to repeat itself in that regard.
Today the left is allied with Islam, because they are both totalitarians, and see the United States and Israel (Christian and Jewry) as the enemy.
Have these Nimrods who make these stupid claims prove there is anything in our Constitution that even comes close to stating separation of church and state. You will not find it because there is no such claim. Let’s start challenging these poor misinformed souls who make these wild claims. Chuck
If you think the fraud of man-made global warming or climate change is the number one fraud perpetrated on the American people, think again. The number one fraud is the so-called ‘separation of church and state’. It is not in the constitution, and not one of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, nor any of the 37 delegates who signed the Constitution ever uttered the phrase.
The only person who ever uttered those words was non-delegate (he was in France that year) Thomas Jefferson, who was responding to a complaint by the Danbury, CT Baptists, that Connecticut had an established religion. The purpose of the religion part of the 1st Amendment was to keep the federal government out of religion. They were to be neutral where religion was concerned. Jefferson’s phrase was simply his way of reiterating this. It DID NOT infer that American citizens had to leave their religion at the edge of Government, as that is totally unconstitutional, and the people would not have ratified the Constitution under those circumstances.
In the 30 years or so subsequent to the drafting of the Constitution, Founding Fathers served in high political office, presidents, vice-presidents, sect of state, sect of treasury, judges, justices of the supreme court, senators, congressmen, etc. IF the Founders had wanted the religion part of the 1st Amendment interpreted as the left does today, it would have been that way from the get-go, not 200 years down the road. AND, if it had been meant the way the left wants it today, the Citizens would NOT have ratified the Constitution to begin with.
We know the religiosity of the American people of that time, by several ways, not the least of which is their reaction to Thomas Paine’s ‘The Age of Reason’, and the investigations of the United States, by Alexis de Tocqueville, which he compiled in book form: Democracy in America. De Tocqueville made his observations and study of the U.S. in the 1820s-30s. He said that upon arriving in America the first thing noticeable was the religious nature of the country. Later he writes that in wanting to find why the U.S. had become such a great country so soon, he studied her unparalleled constitution and her free institutions, but it wasn’t until he entered her Churches and heard the firey Sermons from the Pulpit that he knew the answer. He remarked how in Europe religion and government were at odds with each other, but in the United States they were in harmony and in fact the citizens could not imagine the one without the other.
At about the same time the Founders drafted and ratified the Constitution, they passed the Northwest Ordinance, which, among other things, required that religion be taught in the schools. The only way the left was able to push this hoax in the first place and then keep it going through the intervening years, is because so many American people are so cavalier about their citizenship and ignorant of U.S. History.
You are so right
Ditto
Your response is excellently stated! Let’s stand for those truths!
Well said!!!!
why do Christians vote for liberals who want to do away with them?
Abject ignorance!
The same reason Jews and Blacks always vote for Democrats even though the Democrats bind them in psychological chains. They prefer to remain slaves to an agenda that perceives them as less than human.
I do not understand how liberals are getting away with removing religious items of every one. Who made them law. We need to stand up and stop this evil action. They are way out of control.
Too many people keeping themselves ignorant of the Founding and U.S. History.
how long are we going to put up with these liberals before we take a stand, yellow vests are becoming popular time we all purchased one and kick ass
I think the Founding Fathers and the first citizens of the United States would not have put up with it PERIOD.
Conservatives have no real leaders. A lot of hand wringing but no “get up and go”. Democrat Socialists march in lock step with their leaders and present an unsurmountable wall .
To me, it doesn’t sound like anyone is pushing religion on them. If they want freedom from religion, just look the other way, and go on with their lives. That’s what we all do when we see something we don’t like. Bottom line, these people love their worldly lifestyle, and the cross reminds them that there just might be a God who will judge their sin someday. They want no accountability to anyone. Too much fussing over something they possibly do not believe in. You never know, God may put them in a bad situation, and He is the only one they can turn to. After all it has happened before. It might make a believer out of them
no wonder they hate trump
Eventually they will be destroyed.
Atheism is a religion, it is the religion of the left (communists, marxists, maoists, etc.). The left wants their religion to be the only religion in the U.S. The muslims want their religion to be the only one in the world. Christians just want to be left alone and have the freedom to practice their religion freely. And that can’t happen if Christians are forced to leave their religion at the edge of government…while the atheists are uninhibited from practicing their religion anywhere they want. Anyone who has even had a cursory study of U.S. History knows our nation was founded on Christian principles. Our laws are based on the the teachings of the Holy Bible.
GOD will not be MOCKED they (anti GOD people) will get punished.
I will put my trust in the CREATOR GOD, HIS SON, & the HOLT SPIRIT
This is what to expect from the new Socialist Democrat party, they have begun
to exhibit signs of the New Order of anti christian and pro islamic tendencies.
Islam hates all those who are not Muslim, maybe because muslims are pro slavery of
women, sex with underage children, the sale of people, the murder of non believers.
We have them in our Congress, Obama had them in his cabinet, The Democrats
cannot dig up 5 billion but they could give 145 billion to Iran and another 1.5 billion
in cash, all courtesy of THE GAY MUSLIM DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN
OBAMA and his Democrats who covered his illegal actions with the media on
TV and the Papers and the pro gay and lesbian actors and actresses of Hollywood,
which explains why Obama was comfortable with gay actors as he is one of them.
Now because of the spies Obama left and his agenda of racism and hatred of jews
and Christians and his love for Muslims. This is a Christian country where ALL
RELIGIONS ARE WELCOMED.
you hsve a lot of information on Obama’s sexuality… I’m wondering how you know that??…………is this first hand experience ?? the loudest protesters are usually the guiltiest….. [so, I’m assuming you’re gay??? read you disgusting post and tell me you welcome all religions……..a lot of hatred and bigotry here from you…. we should follow sick guys like you?? you give politics a really bad name……assume you’re a republican
Ignorance is not a virtue!
Indeed, Bath House Barry.
How about having the FFRF, the ACLU, and the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. read the FIRST AMENDMENT to the U.S.A. CONSTITUTION.
The First Amendment states:
CONGRESS shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the FREE EXERCISE thereof; or abridging the Freedom of SPEECH; or of the PRESS; or the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, and to PETITION THE GOVERNMENT for a REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.
Congress consists of those assembled in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Therefore, what is allowed within each State of the Union, or County or City, or village is up to that State, County, City, or Village, NOT THE SUPREME COURT, NOT CONGRESS, NOT THE ACLU, and NOT THE FFRF!
There is no such statement, nor implied stated of SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, and therefore FFRF, ACLU, and the Supreme Court are WRONG in their statement of SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
So, I tell this to the FFRF, ACLU, and the SUPREME COURT, to stay out of our States, Cities, Villages, Counties, etc, as that is NOT YOUR JURISDICTION.
And Finally, FFRF, ACLU, if you chose Not to believe in God, whether Jewish or Christian, that is your right, but you do NOT have the Right to force your lack of beliefs upon the rest of the country.
Amen! I was going to quote the first amendment, but you beat me to it.
Thee ACLU is a communist/atheist entity. The ACLU was founded on the heels of the Bolshevik Revolution, by communist, Roger Baldwin, who said: “communism is the goal.”
What you are describing is the Founding principle of ‘federalism’ (states rights). That was the cornerstone of our Republican form of government. Unfortunately, the Civil War ended up causing us to lose much of that. In the aftermath of the Civil War several Amendments were passed to outlaw slavery and accommodate black in American freedom. The 14th Amendment was one of these. Unfortunately, today the left has hi-jacked that amendment and has tyrannically interpreted it in a way that eliminates ‘states rights’. The specious interpretation has the states falling under the same constitutional restrictions as the federal government.
Remember that the Constitution was meant to limit the power of the federal government. It creates a federal government with its branches and its responsibilities and rights, but leaves all other rights and power to the states or the people. This is reiterated in the 9th and 10th amendments in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights came into being, because anti-Federalists, like George Mason and Patrick Henry of Virginia (yes Virginia was once a great American state) said they would not support the ratification of the constitution unless a bill of individual rights were incorporated.
This unconstitutional reading has come back to bite the democommunists in the ass too, as with the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd amendment (as with all amendments prevents the federal government from usurping the rights American citizens), in this case of American gun owners. With the malicious interpretation the states are also prevented from usurping those rights.
There are two main cornerstones of our Republican form of government, 1) self-determination/self-governance and 2) a system of federalism (states rights). The left has eliminated the 2nd and are working on the 1st by attempting to repeal the ‘electoral college’. Thus destroying the American system and setting it up for the socialism they so desire.
In the first paragraph the word ‘black’ should have been ‘blacks’ of course….however that is even the wrong description, as there were free blacks and there were blacks who owned slaves. The proper word should have been ‘slaves’.
The problem is the word “amendment”. It doesn’t have the same meaning it did 250 years ago. Kind of like “gay” (used to mean happy, cheerful, carefree) and “thong” (used to be footwear). All the “amendments” (original Bill of RIGHTS) are is acknowledgment of preexisting rights.
Yes, the constitution and the bill of rights do not grant rights. Our rights are God-given (preexisting). The reason the Founders felt a need to put those rights in law was due to their knowledge of history and thus their distrust of centralized government. They felt that government was a necessary evil.
Government at its best is a necessary evil,
and at its worst, an intolerant one. — Thomas Paine
This painting is an abstract copy of a photo that was taken just after the 9/11 tragedy, and the cross was not inserted into the picture, it existed naturally from the picture taken after the destruction of the structure of the destroyed building.
So who exactly has inserted a religious emblem in a picture of natural design from the random falling parts of a destroyed building, which has probably occurred many times in the past from the remnants of destroyed buildings, which nobody intentionally formed or inserted in the pictures, or in this painting of a picture of natural results?
This is nothing but a picture of a remnant of a collapsed building, and a reminder of an historic event, and people see in it what they want to see, nothing more and nothing less, because it was not designed by any human being, but occurred naturally.
They’re worried about seeing a cross. LOOK AWAY! What abot my right to see the cross, and respect first Responders and religion?
YES! America was Found and Built by people who were for the Cross and died with their Crosses⁄! Ask them to read the History of America! That was our Root! Anything that is removed from its root, will die in the FULLNESS OF TIME! Let us keep our Root! GOD, COUNTRY, FAMILY; that is America!
Idiot progressive liberal leftists(Democrats) are hell bent on ruining everything decent about this country.
Tell them to go to another country if they don’t like our country and trust in God.
Don’t tell me we have to go through this mess again! I had enough of their political correctness before and now don’t tell me these liberals get in office, take a pledge and start anti-American values. Poor them! They get offended with anything that is Christian/Jewish. Let it be Muslim or atheist and it is ok because Christians/Jewish people accept others as who they are. Let us be at peace and love each other. These wonderful people gave their lives due to terrorist that chose to take advantage of us by living in our country and being trained by us and then they destroy us.