{"id":7833,"date":"2017-06-29T10:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christsassembly.com\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:31:52","slug":"secular-law-professor-leslie-griffin-advocates-punishment-for-free-exercise-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchman.news\/sv\/2017\/06\/secular-law-professor-leslie-griffin-advocates-punishment-for-free-exercise-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sekul\u00e4r juridikprofessor Leslie Griffin f\u00f6respr\u00e5kar straff f\u00f6r fri religionsut\u00f6vning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Word from Reinhold the Confessor:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2931\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2930\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2929\">\n<div id=\"yiv1079088029yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_5773\" class=\"yiv1079088029yahoo_quoted\">\n<div id=\"yiv1079088029yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_5772\">\n<div id=\"yiv1079088029yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_5771\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2938\" dir=\"ltr\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2953\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2952\">Fr\u00e5n:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Reinhold Sommerstedt &lt;<a href=\"mailto:reinhold@wealthkeeper.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">reinhold@wealthkeeper.net<\/a>&gt;<br \/><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2951\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2950\">Till:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:leslie.griffin@unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">leslie.griffin@unlv.edu<\/a>\u00a0<br \/><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2949\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2948\">Skickat:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Thursday, June 29, 2017 1:17 AM<br \/><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2947\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498765759945_2946\">\u00c4mne:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Sekul\u00e4r juridikprofessor Leslie Griffin f\u00f6respr\u00e5kar straff f\u00f6r fri religionsut\u00f6vning<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3032\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">TO: \u00a0Leslie Griffin, Professor of Law at UNLV Boyd School of Law<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2974\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2954\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3067\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">In response to your Lamentation advocating Punishment for Free Exercise of Religion<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2971\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2969\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2953\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2952\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Secular Law Professor Leslie Griffin Laments Supreme Court Valid Interpretation of Law<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2960\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2962\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2966\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2965\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\"><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_2964\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2017\/06\/symposium-bad-news-trinity-lutheran-two-justices-support-establishment-clause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2017\/06\/symposium-bad-news-trinity-lutheran-two-justices-support-establishment-clause\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3080\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3077\" class=\"yiv5353866546post-title\">\n<h1 id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3076\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3075\">Symposium: Bad news from\u00a0<em>Trinity Lutheran<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Only two justices support the establishment clause<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv5353866546post-content\">\n<div><em>Leslie C. Griffin is William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the UNLV Boyd School of Law.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3082\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3085\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3084\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Lamenting the faithful interpretation of Law by the superlative majority having vindicated the Faithful Petitioner you hold in reverence the infamous dissenters \u00a0Ginsberg and her protoge&#8217; Sotomayor. \u00a0It is extremely \u00a0rare to see any practitioner of Law and Justice whose habitation reeks of lies, deceptions, and injustice. \u00a0Here we see a scintilla of integrity and you, to no surprise condemn it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3087\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3089\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3092\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3091\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s dissent, joined only by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was much more complicated, detailed, historical and correct. She repeatedly used piercing language to identify the dangerous simplicities of the majority\u2019s opinion. Even in her opening paragraph, she insisted that the decision \u201cslights both our precedents and our history, and its reasoning weakens this country\u2019s longstanding commitment to a separation of church and state beneficial to both.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3096\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3095\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3094\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Only the two dissenting justices recognized that establishment separation protects religious liberty by blocking the government from just funding any religion that desires money. Sotomayor is correct that the majority\u2019s establishment-free reasoning is a \u201cstartling departure from our precedents.\u201d Instead of the dissenters\u2019 goal of an establishment-clause-based religious liberty, this court lets religions win without any establishment penalties.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Are you unable to discern that the ruing in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comy holds that Public Funds may not be withheld from secular schools?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Is it not a genuine offense to see Pubiic Funds taken by force from faithful Christians to be willfully expended to excoriate the principles that Christianity has so generously and richly endowed to All Men to secure their Liberty. \u00a0Secular Humanists cannot secure Liberty by abolition of the Free exercise of the Christian Religion that shed their bood, paid the price and promulgated the Law and Due Process of Law designed to protect and preserve The inalienable Rights endowed to all men by their Creator. \u00a0Christian Law prohibits you and all other such practitioners from such and enterprise. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Regardless of any pretense, usurpation of power and authority is not only abhorrent but subject to direct suppression by any and all necessary force. \u00a0As anyone can see the Articles are prohibitions. \u00a0There have never been nor shall there ever be any substantial Right granted by Man but all Rights are secured to all Men only by their Creator. \u00a0It is not necessary for any man to believe that such granting is true. \u00a0It s only necessary for all men never to abridge or abolish such HGod-given Rights. \u00a0 Those that believe that the Rights of Man are granted by men must abide by the notion that Man can abolish such Rights.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><b>&#8220;Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><b>This axiomatic declaration is often erroneously attributed to the great Christian leader William Penn (1644 &#8211; 1718). \u00a0However, we can be sure he agreed. \u00a0Here below you will find the actual source document, The Charter of the Province of West New Jersey, dated March 13, 1677. \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><b>However we can be certain that William Penn did declare this concise description of government that is good &#8211; Godly:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black';font-size: medium\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><b>&#8220;Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><b><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Arial Black'\"><b>&#8220;Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.&#8221;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\">The notion of Governance by God\u00a0was brought to America by Christians determined to be governed by God.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: Helvetica\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black';font-size: medium\">\u201cFor we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: medium\">Ephesians 6:12<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">First Article of the Bill of Rights as Amended to the Constitution<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">&#8220;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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec;font-family: 'Marker Felt';font-size: medium\">Law Professor Leslie Griffin agrees with Supreme Court Judges Ginsberg and Sotomayor in their pernicious holding that this First Article prohibition must punish the free exercise of Religion.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">It would be far more prudent for Lawyers like you to advocate genuine Constitutional principles than to promulgate false narratives such the anecdotal slogan: \u00a0&#8220;Separation of Church and State&#8221; that you claim to mean that the Free Exercise of Christian Doctrine has no place in government. \u00a0 You appear to \u00a0be among those r that fail to recognize the Christian origin of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\">the Founding? \u00a0Perhaps such people have conflated&#8221; Founding&#8221; with \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\">&#8220;Funding&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\">,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0The so-called &#8220;Establishment clause&#8221; \u00a0is not what you d say. To apprehend the meaning the needs only to read the terms of the First Article of The Bill of Rights as adopted by Amendment to the Constitution for the Sovereign and Free States within this union. \u00a0 As you are associated with professional academic\u00a0practices\u00a0\u00a0reason presumes that you be astute in literary skills, history and law.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">While you are free to remain faithful to your &#8220;secular&#8221; beliefs a society desirous to live free cannot allow you to disparage the REGULARITY of our Christian Law.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Reason dictates that The Constitution can only be predicated on the Founding, \u00a0The Record of our History is rich with all such predication of Law. \u00a0 Beginning with English Charter Magna Carta and the Due Process of Law established thereby and enhanced by those Christian Colonists, Scholar and Statesmen we can rely on the Bright Line of Christian Law that separates the Christian Law of God from the secular law of men. The very nature of such secular law will be &#8216;governed&#8221; at all times by &#8220;Conditional Ethics.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\"><b><a class=\"yiv5353866546extiw\" title=\"w:John Adams\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Adams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">John Adams<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(<a class=\"yiv5353866546mw-redirect\" title=\"30 October\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/30_October\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">30 October<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546mw-disambig\" title=\"1735\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/1735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">1735<\/a>\u00a0-\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546mw-redirect\" title=\"4 July\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/4_July\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">4 July<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546mw-disambig\" title=\"1826\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/1826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">1826<\/a>) was an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546extiw\" title=\"w:List of Presidents of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">second<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546extiw\" title=\"w:President of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">President of the United States<\/a>\u00a0(1797\u20131801), the\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546extiw\" title=\"w:List of Vice Presidents of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Vice_Presidents_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">first<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546extiw\" title=\"w:Vice President of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vice_President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Vice President<\/a>(1789\u20131797), and as a\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546extiw\" title=\"w:Founding Fathers of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Founding Father<\/a>\u00a0was a leader of American independence from\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5353866546extiw\" title=\"w:Kingdom of Great Britain\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Great Britain<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\"><b>Zabdiel Adams<\/b>\u00a0(November 5, 1739 \u2013 March 1, 1801), minister of\u00a0<a title=\"Lunenburg, Massachusetts\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunenburg,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Lunenburg, Massachusetts<\/a>, was born in\u00a0<a title=\"Braintree, Massachusetts\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Braintree,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Braintree<\/a>, now\u00a0<a title=\"Quincy, Massachusetts\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quincy,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Quincy<\/a>. His father was the uncle of\u00a0<a title=\"John Adams\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Adams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">John Adams<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"List of Presidents of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">second<\/a>\u00a0President of the United States. He graduated from\u00a0<a title=\"Harvard University\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvard_University\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Harvard University<\/a>\u00a0in 1759. He was ordained September 5, 1764.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">In a letter to Zabdiel Aadams 1776<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3122\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3121\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3120\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3125\">John Adams wrote: \u00a0 &#8220;Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.<\/b>\u00a0The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3118\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3113\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3116\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3115\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Americans cannot repent because Americans will not confess.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">No King But King Yeshua the Christ,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3111\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3109\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3108\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3107\" class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">I hans namn och genom hans kraft<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3103\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1498731951042_3105\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"yiv5353866546Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #5a34ec\">Reinhold\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Word from Reinhold the Confessor: From:\u00a0Reinhold Sommerstedt &lt;reinhold@wealthkeeper.net&gt;To:\u00a0leslie.griffin@unlv.edu\u00a0Sent:\u00a0Thursday, June 29, 2017 1:17 AMSubject:\u00a0Secular Law Professor Leslie Griffin Advocates Punishment for Free Exercise of Religion TO: \u00a0Leslie Griffin, Professor of Law at UNLV Boyd School of Law \u00a0 In response to your Lamentation advocating Punishment for Free Exercise of Religion \u00a0 \u00a0 Secular Law Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"seo_booster_metabox":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1399,781,1397,2782,776,1246,880,1398,1662,1892,813,1409,269,1663,1904],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america-is-a-christian-nation","tag-american-independence","tag-american-rights","tag-anti-globalism-alliance","tag-christian-duty-under-corrupt-government","tag-christian-law-in-america","tag-constitution","tag-constitutional-rights","tag-establishment-of-religion","tag-fighting-communism","tag-legal-basis-constitution","tag-protect-and-defend-the-constitution","tag-supreme-court","tag-trinity-lutheran-playground","tag-true-christian-defense-league"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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