Will Miller
Monroe
To the editor:
The "Freedom of Religion" clique, coming uninvited from Madison, is reported in the Times as threatening Monroe's City Council for opening its meetings with prayer.
It's a shame to take such bullying seriously. Yet, several years ago they did intimidate the council, threatening a lawsuit over the Ten Commandments monument that then stood in Lincoln Park. The council did not have strong legal counsel and caved. Will they stand now? They need to if public respect is of value of them.
This kind of bullying can succeed only because of bad lawyers and bad judges. We know that Dane County has them.
Constitutionally, there is protection from what is called religious speech, and that would include prayer. There is no prohibition of prayer in government. On the contrary, evidence abounds that prayer in governmental bodies is well-established tradition from the beginning, amounting I suppose to common law.
What I am about to write will greatly displease antichrist bigots in Dane County or wherever. They would like to refute it, deny it, denigrate its significance. But it is true, an irrefutable fact. Let someone with a truly honest judicial mind consider what it imports.
The Constitution of the United States of America is a document that not only provides the legal basis without which the U.S. government cannot function or exist, it is also a document that acknowledges that Jesus Christ is Lord.
That document's final words before signature were affixed are these: "done in convention by the signatures of the State present the Seventeenth day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth ..."
The republic's founders used words with great care. They did serious business with words. They also prayed. And what is prayer but the attempt to be turned in to our Creator, to be sincerely attentive, gratefully mindful of the awesomeness of our Creator. We are responsible created beings you know. We didn't just evolve like Topsy.
Monroe
To the editor:
The "Freedom of Religion" clique, coming uninvited from Madison, is reported in the Times as threatening Monroe's City Council for opening its meetings with prayer.
It's a shame to take such bullying seriously. Yet, several years ago they did intimidate the council, threatening a lawsuit over the Ten Commandments monument that then stood in Lincoln Park. The council did not have strong legal counsel and caved. Will they stand now? They need to if public respect is of value of them.
This kind of bullying can succeed only because of bad lawyers and bad judges. We know that Dane County has them.
Constitutionally, there is protection from what is called religious speech, and that would include prayer. There is no prohibition of prayer in government. On the contrary, evidence abounds that prayer in governmental bodies is well-established tradition from the beginning, amounting I suppose to common law.
What I am about to write will greatly displease antichrist bigots in Dane County or wherever. They would like to refute it, deny it, denigrate its significance. But it is true, an irrefutable fact. Let someone with a truly honest judicial mind consider what it imports.
The Constitution of the United States of America is a document that not only provides the legal basis without which the U.S. government cannot function or exist, it is also a document that acknowledges that Jesus Christ is Lord.
That document's final words before signature were affixed are these: "done in convention by the signatures of the State present the Seventeenth day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth ..."
The republic's founders used words with great care. They did serious business with words. They also prayed. And what is prayer but the attempt to be turned in to our Creator, to be sincerely attentive, gratefully mindful of the awesomeness of our Creator. We are responsible created beings you know. We didn't just evolve like Topsy.
