I couldn’t sleep one night and as things go when laying quietly in the dark my mind went on one of those Beagle-type wanderings where it rushed down all sorts of rabbit trails until finally it latched on one scent it could not drop: the idea of appealing directly to the Supreme Court over my loss of rights as a Christian in the public sphere. What follows is what I wrote in about twenty feverish minutes that night about three in the morning (we all know how dangerous those moments are). It has sat there on my computer, tucked away in a directory that holds my weirder mutterings, quietly whispering, “What are you going to do with me?” Well, now that I have a blog, I have decided to let it out of its cage and allow it to speak to the world (I know, bad mistake). I am not deluded enought to think that it has any real legal merit, but it does express my feelings on the subject rather clearly (Ha! Fat chance). Some of you who read this will get lost in the first run on sentence. Sorry about that, but I felt it was time to stop the whispering. 😉
To the Supreme Court of the United States
Seeing as that over the last forty years decision after decision has prohibited the free expression of religion, especially the Christian religion, within the public sphere and seeing as my attempts as a citizen to express my religion within any public, though governmentally funded place, such as my local library or other such location, is denied, I find it useless to appeal to any lower jurisdiction and appeal directly to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Seeing as it can be demonstrated without prejudice that religion, and expressly the Christian religion, was an ongoing, regular, and normative part of the daily expression of the life of the U.S. Government and its various members and supporting staff, and as well of the various members of all its constituent state governments, supporting staff, and their general citizenry from the time before inception of the Article I of the U.S. Constitution, during its implementation, and for well over 150 years after its inclusion in the Constitution, therefore the removal of religion and expressly the Christian religion from the ongoing, regular, and normal part of the daily expression of the life of the U.S. Government and its various members and supporting staff, and as well of the various members of all its constituent state governments, supporting staff, and their general citizenry by force of law or executive decision constitutes prohibiting the free exercise thereof of religion, and expressly the Christian religion, according to Article One of the Bill of Rights and therefore all such prohibitive decisions should be declared null and void and unconstitutional.
As to the oft-used phrase in recent legislative history of the “separation of church and state” it should be noted that “church” is not equivalent or equal to religion as per Article One, but a specific regulatory expression of religion, expressly the Christian religion, where the ongoing, regular, and normal expression of that religion is administrated and governed by law, rule, principal, and canon. While it can be rightly argued that according to Article One the U.S. Government should not “establish” religion in such a manner as to establish by force of law a “state church” with all of its laws, rules, principals, and canons as noted above within the ongoing, regular, and normal part of the daily expression of the life of the U.S. Government and its various members and supporting staff, or demand such on the various members of its constituent state governments, supporting staff, and their general citizenry, that prohibition in no way applies to religion, per se, and especially the Christian religion or its expression in any way or means deemed appropriate by the normal daily expression of the life in the U.S. Government and its various members and supporting staff, and as well of the various members of all its constituent state governments, supporting staff, and their general citizenry. To do so is to deny the intent and purpose of Article One of the Bill of Rights.
That’s it. It boils down to saying that religion and church are not the same thing and while it may be proper to separate church and state (since church is a form of religious government) it is not proper to separate religion and the state, and in the end impossible without destroying both. There, now I feel a lot better.
