Letter: Don’t deny our religious roots

Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006 | 12:30 p.m.

Did you know that among the requirements in various states to hold a public office in early America was to swear to the following declaration: "I, _____, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore ..." (Delaware Constitution, 1776, Article 22)?

Yet, Nadia Romeo in her Feb. 10 letter again denies America's Christian foundation. By her arguments she disowns the statement in our Declaration of Independence, "all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." Does she also deny the Constitution, Article VII, "in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty-seven"?

I would challenge Ms. Romeo to read every state Constitution and to inform me as to why there is thanksgiving to the Christian God? Ms. Romeo must also explain the Christianity found in the Mayflower Compact, when it is written, "In the name of God."

President Calvin Coolidge stated on Oct. 15, 1924, "Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government."

History testifies that this is a nation founded upon Christ and the Bible. Deny this, and you deny not only God and America, but also history itself.

Timothy R. Carroll

Las Vegas