Once
again, “freedom” has won out. Charles Kincaid and a host of
individuals from Monroe's African American community were up in arms
at the Monroe City Council meeting last night over a proposed
ordinance to make wearing one's pants so that they “sag”,
exposing one's underwear. This is a common attire among the black
youth in Monroe and across the country.
First
let me say that I find this type of dress very offensive, the same as
I find much of the modern dress that young people are wearing these
days. Are we to outlaw halter tops, or see-through blouses where
women's bras, or lack of bras is embarassingly evident? Are we to
outlaw string bikinis, or men's Speedos? Are we to outlaw
see-through shorts where one's pink-print bikini underwear are
evident? I see worse than the sagging pants with underwear showing
every time I walk into Wal-Mart.
While
I and millions upon millions of other Americans find the dress code
that people with no pride and morals choose to exhibit themselves in
disgusting and offensive, passing more laws to stop it simply will
not work. As Mr. Kincaid stated, it leads to selective enforcement,
profiling, and violations of civil rights. Too bad that America has
let its morals and image degrade to that of a brothel or skid row
flop-house.
Yes,
the courts say we cannot adjudicate morality, but when we fail to do
so, we certainly do, by default, adjudicate immorality, crime, and
VERY poor dress taste. This is NOT the America our founders
envisioned, and the interpretations of the Constitution by our courts
over the last sixty years are NOT in concordance with what our
founders believed were required for our nation to survive and
flourish.
Here
are some of the comments that our founding fathers made about
America's absolute dependance upon religion and morality as pillars
to our nation's foundation and survival:
“Probably, at the time of the
adoption of The Constitution, and of the Amendment to it now under
consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in
America was that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from The
State…An attempt to level all religions and to make it a matter of
state policy to hold all in utter Indifference would have created
universal disapprobation [disapproval] if not universal indignation
[anger].” Joseph
Story, A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), p. 259-261, §441, 444; see
also Story, Commentaries, Vol. III, p. 726, §1868.
“What
is an establishment of religion…It [religion] must be considered as
the foundation on which the whole structure rests….In this age
there can be no substitute for Christianity; that, in its general
principles, is the great conservative element on which we must rely
for the purity and permanence of free institutions. That was
the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to
remain the religion of their descendants.”1853-1854
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORTS
“We
have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion….Our Constitution was
made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any others”
John
Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United
States, Charles Frances Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown and
Company, 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, to the Officers of the First Brigade
of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts on October 11,
1798.
“Three
points of doctrine, the belief of which, forms the foundation of all
morality. The first is the existence of a God; the second
is the immorality of the human soul; and the third is a future state
of rewards and punishments…. Suppose it possible for a man to
disbelieve either of these articles of faith and that man will have
no conscience…the laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him
to death, but they can never make him wise, virtuous, or happy.”
John
Quincy Adams, Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son on the Bible
and its Teachings (Auburn: James M. Alden, 1850), pp. 22-23.
“Reason
and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can
prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Purity of morals
[is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any
country….Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil
society”
George
Washington, Address of George Washington, President of the United
States . . .Preparatory to His Declination (Baltimore: George and
Henry S. Keatinge, 1796), pp. 22-23.
To
even the casual observer, it is evident from these writings of our
founders that the decisions that our Supreme Court have made over the
last sixty years which have adjudicated religion out of school and
the public sector were simply wrong. Our Supreme Court created the
monster of Judicial Activism and started adjudicating the law of the
land according to whatever social agenda was in vogue at the time.
That was not the intention of our founding fathers, and those
decisions have brought us to a point where morality and decency as
the founders envisioned it is now illegal in almost every form.
Christianity is the enemy, pornography, immorality, murder of unborn
children, heterosexual marriage, and the common sense approach that
our founders used in establishing this nation are now illegal.
Condemnation of anything representing the views of our founders is
one of the new “gods”, misguidely labled as “freedom of
speech”. There is no moral code in schools or the public sector
any more. America has virtually become an amoral society thanks to
liberals who seek to turn America into a totally amoral, godless
society where ones conscience and the Government's definition of
morality is the rule of the land, rather than what our founders tried
to protect and establish as they fought and died to found our nation.
Shame
on those that have perpetrated this injustice on America, and shame
on us for letting them get away with it.
