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“In GOD We Trust”!!!!
God References Added to Capitol Visitor Center
Congressional committees have agreed to include references to “In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance to the newly opened Capitol Visitor Center thanks in part to efforts from the Congressional Prayer Caucus and Virginian Senator J. Randy Forbes.
Well, isn’t that nice of ‘em.
Before the $621 million attraction opened last Tuesday, the Architect of the Capitol came under fire from Forbes and other conservative lawmakers like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who protested factual inaccuracies and the omission of historical religious content in the Center.
The revisionist history of our nation does more damage that they’d like to believe. We were a nation, founded on Judeo/Christian values. Trying to wipe that to observe the politically correct BS is an insult to every man, woman and child of this country. Men and women, who fought and died to preserve the freedom that those values guarantee!
The letter correctly noted that the current national motto is “In God We Trust,” and said there were “factual inaccuracies regarding Capitol church services,” and references to “religion, morality, and knowledge” in the Northwest Ordinance have been excluded.
“In addition, the Capitol Visitor Center includes photos from Earth Day, an AIDS rally, various casino grounds, and factories, but it does not include photos from monumental religious events such as the National Day of Prayer or the March for Life event, attended by thousands annually, among other things,” the letter said.
Earth Day? Casinos? This is the “history” we want to leave to our children?
Following the letter, the Committee on House Administration and the Senate Rules and Administration Committee have agreed to remove “Our Nation’s Motto” from the plaque describing the engraving of “E Pluribus Unum,” and engrave both the “In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance in stone in prominent locations within the CVC, Forbes announced on Friday.
I sure as hell hope the taxpayers aren’t going to have to foot the bill to correct the blatant “over sight”. Who ever approved this should be paying for it out of their own pockets. You hear that you scuzz balls up there in D.C.????
“This is a clear departure from acknowledging that Americans’ rights ‘are endowed by their Creator’ and stem from ‘a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,’” added DeMint.
My rights come as a result that I am a creation of God Almighty Himself! No government has a right to take that away from me, or anyone else, in this country, or the world.
“This is an intentional misrepresentation of our nation’s real history, and an offensive refusal to honor America’s God-given blessings,” remarked DeMint.
Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation described the CVC’s portrayal of American history as “Congress’ temple to liberals’ ‘living Constitution,’” in an opinion piece published by McClatchy last week.
“The fundamental principles of the freedom we enjoy in this country stem from our Founding Fathers’ beliefs in a higher power, beliefs put forth in the Declaration of Independence and manifest throughout our Constitution,” stated DeMint.
They have rewritten history to the point it is no longer recognizable as true history. Adding to the history books is one thing. Removing accurate accounts of our past is something all together unacceptable. Liberalism truly IS a mental disorder!
“If we cease to acknowledge this fact, we may cease to enjoy some of the freedoms we take for granted. We must not censor historical references to God for the sake of political correctness. And we must truthfully represent the limited form of government the Constitution lays out so that our ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’ So help us God.”
Sadly, thanks to the efforts of organizations like the ACLU, Freedom From Religion, etc., aided and abetted by weasels in Congress and the media, this is already happening to a degree that I’m finding harder and harder to recognize the country in which I grew up.
And don’t you EVER forget it!
H/T: Maria via Facebook
