I receved an email today that deeply offends the truths we as Americans hold self-evident, that informed me of the following blog.
Here is my open letter response to the Speaker of the House:
Dear Madam Speaker Pelosi,
I am appalled by your support of the decision of acting Architect of the Capitol, Stephen T. Ayers, to ban the use of religious references and specifically his refusal to use the word "God" on a flag certificate requested by an Eagle Scout, which read; “In honor of my grandfather Marcel Larochelle, and his dedication and love of God, country, and family.” Mr. Ayers has overstepped his position in removing the use of the word “God” in the certificate issued for this Eagle Scout.
This incident is unpresidented and wholly inappropriate for a man acting in Mr. Ayers' position. (Mr. Ayers is a non-elected bureaucrat, acting in the post and should be removed from this post immediately and reassigned to a Censorship Committee.) You of all people should adimently disavow his claim, and call for his reassignment, that he has the authority to ban the word “God” from these certificate. This is the first time ever for an acting Architect of the Capitol to ban religious or political references. Mr. Ayers stated his logic for removing the word “God” was because it might have might be offended someone.
Will Mr. Ayers now proceed to remove other religious references found throughout the Capitol?
Perhaps he should start with the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. Heaven knows those documents are deeply offensive for their religious overtones and references. They should obviously by his logic be removed from display and altered so as to not offend those good atheists who hate God. This act of his should not be defended it should be rebuffed and redressed ESPECIALLY by the Speaker of the House of Representatives! I call upon you act in a manner that is befitting a person of your position.
You should immediately petition his removal from his acting position. I am sadden to know that you will do nothing of the sort, because you are affraid of the political ramifications in your party or worse yet you truly do support his actions. This is one reason why you are presiding over a House that has near record low ratings. We the people of these United States having formed a more perfect union now find ourselves loathing the very people we have sent to represent us because of their lack of patriotic integrity and national character. We have twice reminded your collegues in the Senate that their actions on illegal immigration were not wanted. We voted for a change two years ago and the change has proven to be for the worse. This is a small issue in your mind and obviously of no consequence based upon your response at the press luncheon. Yet again you prove that you do not understand the sacred charge you have been given to represent "We the People...". You ought to have some shame in this matter but it is clear that shame has left you and as a poet once bemoaned the loss of shame can never be replace and once lost dignity and purpose are lost. Which explains quite a few of your actions as a Representative and now as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The architect is charged with their preservation and I am disgusted by his politically correct actions. HIS ACTIONS OFFEND ME GREATLY! YOUR ACTIONS TO DEFEND HIM OFFEND ME EVEN MORE! So if you are going to do something because you don't want to OFFEND SOMEONE, you certainly picked the WRONG THING NOT TO DO!!! Actions have lasting consequences. You are charged with the defense of the constitution of the United States of America, which is ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!!
I respect the office though you have greatly degraded all that it stands for in recent months. This is a Great Nation founded upon GOD GIVEN inalienable rights, too bad you haven't ever truly understood what those rights require of those to whom the mantle of their defense is given. You fear the Religious Right because they speak of God and truth. Truth NEVER CHANGES that is the way of things known as truths. I know God is a god of truth. You must decide Madam Speaker whether you are a supporter of truth, justice and that corny thing known as the American Way!
I pray GOD that you and I and Mr. Ayers will always have your right to those inalienable rights granted to us all in our personal lives. However, as a representative of the Federal Government it was not and is not his place to censor the use of the word "God" in any place or time. That is at the core of a separation of church and state. Not the absence of church or God. It is the absense of government telling its citizens who and how to worship. Yet is appears this is how you would have it based upon your support of Mr. Ayers decision to remove any reference to God. Thus, I must conclude that the Official Church that you would establish for these United States is Secular Atheism. Therefore I must conclude that you seek to make my inalienable right to worship as I see fit, to be of less value than I do.
You must remember that these inalienable rights must be extended to us all! You may choose to serve your own god the god of secular self, but remember in order to maintain that freedom; you must allow others to serve their own god. I chose along time ago to relenquish the god of secularism and to recognize the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob who was uniformily recognized by Adams, Washington and Jefferson. You may revile each and everyone of the founding fathers as dead white men of no consiquence but I value them and I have taught my children to value them. I can allow you your contempt of these treasured icons of American History, the very founders of our GOD GIVEN Nation; though I will despise you for those beliefs. Remember that if you seek to destroy my inalienable rights you are destroying your own as well. Please, cease your destruction of the freedoms and truths that I love and hold inalienable and self-evident!
Signed a concerned husband, father and patriot;
(Update as of October 16th, it should be noted that this policy has now been reversed due to the public and political pressure we as Americans brought to bare upon Madam Speaker Pelosi and upon the acting Architect of the Capitol, Stephen T. Ayers.)
2 comments:
I suggest you stop listening to the people who are telling you that our FF were xians, most weren't. They were Unitarians and Deists because they were educated men. Hence, you see words like Providence, Creator and God but never Jehovah or Jesus. Not one official document mentions jesus, god ,xianity or the bible. The only one time it's mentioned is the Treaty of Tripoli where President Adams stated "the US is not in any sense founded on the xian religion". Only Pat Henry was a xian like we see today. God didn't give us anything, our FF came here, made laws and we still live by civil law today. No, references to god already in the capitol stay but new ones are unconstitutional and we(our gov't) don't promote the god idea going forward. Ayers actions are not politically correct but intellectually correct, there is no except as a myth. You are entitled to have your personal belief we are a nation under god. You don't have a clue of truth if you think the bible is a good book. I know god is a fictional being and too many people are ignorant of this fact. Removing god from gov't is not telling you how you can or can't worship. It's telling us atheist the gov't won't favor religion and some day you will appreciate it when a muslim demands we change out dollar bill to "in allah we trust". If we were a secular atheist society we'd have "in no god's do we trust because god is just a myth" on money. I suggest you read this article which is about a history author who laughs at your idea of our FF being xian. They weren't, they were too educated from the enlightenment era.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-rutten10oct10,0,3455157.story?coll=la-headlines-calendar
I find your accusation against our Founding Fathers to be rather telling of your ignorance of the documents and the hundreds of exchanges between them. I can easily see your bias against people of faith and Christians in particular. Your use of a lowercase x for Christ, illustrates you view, (either that or you are just being lazy, a possibility as you typed FF for Founding Fathers). Regardless you lumped me into the Christian category with not one reference to Jesus in my article defend of the use of "God" in our vibrant history. I grant you your guess is likely given the history of this nation, as it was founded by God-fearing men who read the Bible. Many of whom, stated that without the divine influence of God to lead them through those dark hours they would not dared. I question your assumptions greatly as I am a student of history and in particular the Revolutionary period of our history. Adams always was a consummate politician and did say what was needed. He didn’t want war with the piratical nations of the Mediterranean and they clearly claimed an allegiance to Allah, therefore he said what he said in the Treaty of Tripoli. He had no backbone on many issues of similar nature. He was a man and like so many today he had no stomach for dealing with a religiously motivated war, he appeased the pirates with words but it did nothing to stop their piracy. There is a lesson in that chapter of history for us in this day, but you likely will choose the Adams approach to it and that is your prerogative.
I do not wish to strip you of your right to be an Atheist. I also strongly believe that the beauty of our nation is the fact that we grant all men their right to worship however and even whatever they choose. Provided they do not infringe upon the rights of others. You are so insecure in you beliefs that you feel you must print a disclosure statement in religious books, yet you would argue against that very same thing in the front of a Science textbook. I do not believe either one is required. I believe each man is capable of coming to his own conclusions about the truth. Your blog clearly shows you to be a man of one focus and that is fine. I must say that your evidences and proof of a lack of God are quite weak and non-empirical, but wish to refuse to acknowledge the existence of God that is your choice. I choose to acknowledge Him in all my doings.
I wish you well in your life sir.
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