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An article in the
Sunday, February 6, 2005, Arkansas Democrat Gazette cries out for
rebuttal of Judge Susan Weber Wright’s bone headed decision and
understanding of the United States Constitution. For that matter, the 8th
Circuit Court is as wrong as she is.
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For the edification of
the supposedly learned judges, the Constitution says Congress can’t
establish a religion. It says that the free practice of religion shall
not be prohibited and that there shall not be any abridging of free
speech, which prayer certainly is a part of the freedom to speak, but
not according to some of the oh so smart judges of our land. What is it
they don’t understand about the plain English of the First Amendment?
Are they now wiser that the founders and perhaps even God?
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The ramifications of
this ruling are ominous. This ruling allows anyone who is offended by
religious speech to go to court and cause the rights of a free people to
be denied because the one hearing the speech doesn’t want to hear those
things that will tickle whatever conscience may be lurking in the
confines of the mind alienated from God. How can a judge who takes an
oath to uphold the Constitution, and who supposedly knows the law, deny
anyone the right to speak because someone is offended? This would make
the founders turn over in their graves if they could hear this ruling.
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Each day all of us are
assaulted with speech from all directions that we don’t like, but we
endure because it is the right of everyone to speak as they please,
except when the speech is deliberately designed to harm and is
demonstrably dangerous to life, limb, and property, such as speech for
inciting to riot or yelling fire in a building when there isn’t any
fire. Even if there is a fire, it might not be wise to yell it and thus
cause a stampede.
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In the present case, the
people of the town and the DeValls Bluff School District have a right to
create those types of meetings that have the content that reflects their
community and social values. Certainly, young people going out into the
world at graduation need all the guidance they can receive, and prayer
to God for his blessing on them is one of the ways to prepare them for
the evil ways of the world that they will be facing full time.
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It is bad enough when a
free people are harassed and denied the right to have meetings with
content they deem to be proper, only to have a judge compound the loss
of freedom by assessing damages payable to the offended party. Would
Judge Wright please show us where the Constitution allows any party to
bring action that would cause the denial of rights when no harm is being
done to anyone? One of the duties of the court is to ensure we are
protected from an abusive government, and from those who abuse the power
of government in an attempt to silence those of us who speak about God.
In this case the judge overstepped her grounds and made an
unconstitutional ruling that should be appealed by the parents and the
school.
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Judge Wright wrote,
quote, "Because there is a realistic danger that the community of
DeValls Bluff would think that the District was endorsing religion, the
Court finds defendants [again] violated the Establishment Clause of the
First Amendment." Unquote.
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Judge Wright, the people
of the community and the school were endorsing religion; the religion
they believe and follow daily. Now please explain that since the people
involved aren’t Congress, and therefore can’t establish anything except
their belief in God, where do you find the power to deny those people
their right of free speech when Congress is forbidden from doing so?
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Regrettably, you have
used your power of office in an abusive arrogant manner, a manner which
your oath does not allow. There is only one word that applies in your case. Impeachment.
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Link for article “School violated order on prayer,
judge rules” http://www.ardemgaz.com
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02/07/2005 DEC
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