Andy
Rooney
DID YOU KNOW?
As you walk up the steps to the building which houses
the
U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the
building
a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing
one in
the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal
view ...
it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!
DID YOU KNOW?
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom,
the two huge oak doors have the
Ten Commandments engraved
on each lower portion of each door.
DID YOU KNOW?
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall,
right above where the Supreme Court judges sit,
a display of the Ten Commandments!
DID YOU KNOW?
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the
Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
DID YOU KNOW?
James Madison, the fourth president,
known as "The Father of Our Constitution"
made the following statement:
"We have staked the whole of all our
political institutions 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."
DID YOU KNOW?
Patrick Henry, that patriot and
Founding Father of our country said:
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly
or too often that this great nation
was founded not by religionists
but by Christians,
not on religions but on
the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
DID YOU KNOW?
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer
by a paid preacher, whose salary has been
paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
DID YOU KNOW?
Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution
were members of the established
orthodox churches in the colonies.
DID YOU KNOW?
Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts
would overstep their authority and
instead of interpreting the law
would begin making law.
An oligarchy
the rule of few over many.
DID YOU KNOW?
The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said:
"Americans should select and prefer Christians as their
rulers."
How, then, have we gotten to
the point
that everything we have done
for
220 years in this country is
now
suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
Chamber, US House of Representatives
