Letter: We are not the U.S. that was intended
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005 | 7:49 a.m.
If we were to look at America today -- the America represented by the Senate and the House of Representatives -- we would not see the America that so many have died for.
On July 4, 1776, our country declared itself free. Ours was to be a country of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble and, most importantly, freedom of religion. A fact evident in many things around us: In the Pledge of Allegiance, "... One nation, under God"; on our currency, "In God we trust."
It's a freedom which seems is slowly being taken away. No longer are our children allowed to pray or mention God in their schools. No longer are teachers allowed to teach creation, but must now teach evolution, a theory that can't possibly ever be proven as fact. Abortions have been made legal. Teen pregnancy and divorce rates are rising. Crimes involving teens are increasing.
God and Christianity are slowly being filtered out of America. It is destroying our once great nation slowly yet surely. There is no doubt about it -- we need God in America again. If we only were to read the First Amendment, it's everything we're about if only we'd live up to it.
Even though the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are only pieces of paper with signatures on them, they are the only contracts we have that most definitely should not be subject to renegotiation. Not by the president, not by Congress, not by anyone, ever.
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