OPEN LETTER TO ALL U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: "SCOTUS HAS ABANDONED 'ORIGINAL INTENT' AS THE FOUNDERS INTENDED IT TO BE"

 THIS IS AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SCOTUS Justices complaining about how over the last seventy years, they have abandoned their original role of interpreting laws according to the Original Intent of the writers of the laws, and yielded to social pressures.  

The letter included numerous quotes from our founding fathers regarding the Bible and Religion and government.  Those founding fathers would probably have shot or hung many of the justices that have been on the bench the last sixty or seventy years!  Many of them should be or should have been impeached!

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November 5, 2020

 

Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh,
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas
Associate Justice Stephen G. Greyer
Associate Justice Elena Kagan
Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice Neal N. Gorsuch
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett
 

Dear Justices,

 First, let it be known that I am publishing this letter on every social media site that I can, and am encouraging all my “friends” on social media to copy, print, and mail copies of this letter to every SCOTUS justice, just as I am.  I am also asking every friend to share it with every one of their friends and that they also will print and mail this letter to SCOTUS.  I am praying that America will flood the SCOTUS mailbox with sixty-plus million signed letters protesting and demanding change in SCOTUS’s behavior.  I am also copying this letter along with a letter directly to the President, Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, Senator Rand Paul, and my Representative, Democrat John A. Yarmuth, who does nothing but what Pelosi tells him he can do!

 I am amazed at how well you “Justices” can sleep at night; especially the liberal members of the court.  How do you sleep knowing that the rulings of your court and your predecessors have let to America now basically being a nation on the verge of another Civil war thanks to your dictates over the last seventy years? 

 I am amazed at how cowardly our legislators are, and why impeachment proceeding were not filed on those justices who were responsible for destroying the use of precedent rulings in their decision, and instead decided to yield to public pressure to adjust the Constitution’s original intent as written by the founders and ruled instead by societal pressures of the day. 

 The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States makes no caveats when it states “…Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Federal, State and local governmental officials that set out to prevent citizens from exercising our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms are behaving in an unlawful and unconstitutional fashion, and it is our duty to oppose and resist such behavior. 

 I think the term “prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” is self-explanatory! Neither SCOTUS, POTUS, Mayors, City Councils, City Managers, or anyone else that can be named has the right to prohibit a church’s right to worship as it sees fit according to its church doctrine.  Citizens of the United States of America have a God-given right to worship their Creator however and whenever they see fit, and any Federal, State, or Local Governing body is constrained by this Amendment to the Constitution from interfering with that worship. 

 As a taxpayer I deeply resent the over-reach that has taken place in cities and towns across this nation during this pandemic.  The persecution and tactics of state and local officials against those wishing to worship their creator as they see fit is a flagrant violation of the 1^st Amendment, and should be opposed with great vigor in situations where the Pastor, church governing boards, and members decide that they wish to meet in person.  I am encouraging all to resist both legally and with protest any movement by the U.S. or State or local governments to stop those services.

 As the 3^rd and smallest branch of the U.S. Federal Government, the SCOTUS is responsible to decide legal matters according to the U.S. Constitution.  It is your jobs to protect and defend, and interpret the Constitutional issues based upon what the writers of that Constitution intended the pertinent articles of that Constitution to provide for the citizens.  You have failed miserably for the most part in those decisions since the late 1940’s with the Brown versus Board of Education decision.  What a ridiculous ruling that was!  The majority of that ruling certainly caused the founders of our great nation to roll over in their graves and cry foul!  One complaining parent does not want his child to have to pray because that parent is an atheist.  So instead of allowing that student to be excused during the prayer, the entire class is prohibited from participating in that prayer?  And can someone please explain to me how allowing a prayer is somehow establishing a national church, especially when something as simple as setting aside a room for children whose parents do not want them to hear a prayer is violating their civil rights?  What kind of warped mind could conceive these ideas?  Talk about over-reaching.  The Pharisees and Sadducees in Jesus’s day would have been proud of that type of lunacy!

 Where in the Constitution did it read that the government’s role was to protect citizens FROM religion?  I do not see that anywhere!  I see in the wording of that 1^st Amendment that the SCOTUS is prohibited from interfering with an act of worship anywhere and anytime.  It is also obvious that the SCOTUS hearing the Brown case chose to ignore the wishes of our founders, which were readily available if they had done their homework.  Had they looked, they would have found statements by John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson said, “…The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were …the general principles of Christianity….Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God….I could therefore safely say, consistently with all my then and present information, that I believed they would never make discoveries in contradiction to those general principles.”

Or they could have referred to the Northwest Ordinance, which was used in the development of the 1^st Amendment, which said “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, school and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”

 How about what our 2^nd President John Adams thought about religion being important to the country’s well-being:  ““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”

 Here are numerous other quotes from founding fathers regarding the Bible in schools!  OH, and by the way; SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION, and the way that it has been interpreted by SCOTUS is not what then President Jefferson intended when he wrote it to the Danbury Baptist.  In fact, the correct interpretation is exactly the opposite of what SCOTUS has used; Jefferson was promising that government would NOT interfere in anyway with the way they practiced their religion.  That is a phrase manipulated by liberal judges in to justify their banning prayer in the public schools and now virtually everywhere but inside church buildings and private homes!

 

1.     The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [extinguishing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. [T]he Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life. . . . [It] should be read in our schools in preference to all other books from its containing the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public temporal happiness.
BENJAMIN RUSH, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

2.     [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
FISHER AMES, AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE LANGUAGE FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT

3.     Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited.... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.  I have examined all [religions]... and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.
JOHN ADAMS

4.     [T]he Bible.... [is] a book containing the history of all men and of all nations and... [is] a necessary part of a polite education.
HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; U.S. DIPLOMAT; SELECTED AS DELEGATE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

5.     The Bible itself [is] the common inheritance, not merely of Christendom, but of the world. 
JOSEPH STORY, U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE; FATHER OF AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE

6.     To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible . . . "it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it."
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

7.     The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and of public life is there displayed.... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, PENMAN AND SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION

8.     [The Bible] is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed.
PATRICK HENRY

9.     [T]o the free and universal reading of the Bible in that age, men were much indebted for right views of civil liberty. The Bible is . . . a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man.[64]
DANIEL WEBSTER

10. The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
JOHN JAY, ORIGINAL CHIEF-JUSTICE OF THE U S. SUPREME COURT

11. The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.
NOAH WEBSTER

12. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses.
JAMES MCHENRY, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION

By motivation directed straight out of the pits of hell, SCOTUS over the years has passed and reaffirmed laws which basically have accomplished exactly the opposite of what our founders intended for our new government’s relationship with Christianity to be! 

 Shame on the SCOTUS.  Shame on even the new courts where politics have resulted in rulings which guarantee at least somewhere between two and three million innocent unborn children will be murdered and butchered by companies like Planned Parenthood because a woman’s control over her own body is deemed more important than a babies right to life!  I am certainly glad that when I stand before God after my death, I will not have to answer for allowing genocide against American unborn children as many SCOTUS justices will have to do.  I hope they-all enjoy burning sulfa bathes!

Sincerely,                                                                           

Carey S. O’Neal, Jr.
MAJOR, USAF/USAR (ret’d), MBA
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