I sure do love living in America! It is the best country on earth. I appreciate BBQing and having friends over and smelling the gun powder from the fireworks in the air. Good ole hamburgers and hot dogs-and don’t forget to pass the macaroni salad please! Crack me a cold one, toast to the good Lord and to the land of the free because of the brave! We had an amazing outdoor country music festival with a fireworks show here in Star, Idaho. It was just some good old fashioned America 🇺🇸! God is good! Happy 4th of July!
The Supreme Court Has Ruled: Three Highly Important Decisions In 2022
This past week our United States Supreme Court has ruled in three separate cases with decisions that are based upon, what I consider, a sound interpretation of what the United States Constitution maintains.
The interesting thing about Supreme Court rulings is that one can always go to supremecourt.gov to read for themselves each and every decision that is made. To the best of my knowledge the opinions that can be found and read date back to 1991. The reading of the decisions (which are also called “opinions” of the court) is far more accurate and exact than any news source or media outlet on the planet. If you want to hear it from the horse’s mouth then read what the horse itself said.
Let’s take a look at these three monumental decisions more closely:
Second Amendment
The State of New York and its “proper cause” requirement for the purchase of a handgun and to be able to carry the handgun openly in public was decided against in a fundamental Second Amendment issue. The Justices decided in favor of the preservation of US citizens and their 2A gun rights. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion held on this case and the case was supported by a 6-3 margin.
The court stated,
“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self defense is not “a second class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 780 (plurality opinion). The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law abiding citizens with ordinary self defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public. [bold emphasis mine] Pp. 62–63.”NEW YORK STATE RIFLE & PISTOL ASSOCIATION, INC., ET AL. v. BRUEN, SUPERINTENDENT OF NEW YORK STATE POLICE, ET AL. June 23, 2022 (page 6)
Roe versus Wade was examined and ruled that it was never Constitutional to begin with. Rather than share my own thoughts on this matter, I will simply quote Justice Samuel Alito who wrote the ruling on this case and which case received a 5-4 margin of decision by the Justices.
The court stated,
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…The right to abortion does not fall within this category. Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right was entirely unknown in American law. Indeed, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, three quarters of the States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy. The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of “liberty.” Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called “fetal life” and what the law now before us describes as an “unborn human being.” Dobbs v. Jackson, June 24, 2022, p. 13 [bold emphasis mine]
Furthermore the court stated,
“What sharply distinguishes the abortion right from the rights recognized in the cases on which Roe and Casey rely is something that both those decisions acknowledged: Abortion is different because it destroys what Roe termed “potential life” and what the law challenged in this case calls an “unborn human being.” Dobbs v. Jackson, June 24, 2022, p.4
In criticism of the faultiness of Roe’s Supreme Court it was written, “Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.” Dobbs v. Jackson, June 24, 2022, p.14
You can read for yourself the 213 page document at supremecourt.gov
3. Freedom of Speech
In 2015 a high school football coach lost his job for praying at the 50 yard line after each high school football game. Why? The court found that Mr. Kennedy’s Constitutional rights had been violated. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the ruling on this case.
The court stated,
“There is no conflict between the constitutional commands of the First Amendment in this case. There is only the “mere shadow” of a conflict, a false choice premised on a misconstruction of the Establishment Clause. School Dist. of Abington Township v. Schempp, 374 U. S. 203, 308 (Goldberg, J., concurring). A government entity’s concerns about phantom constitutional violations do not justify actual violations of an individual’s First Amendment rights. Pp. 30–31. (c) Respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse Republic. Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a personal religious observance, based on a mistaken view that it has a duty to suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination. Mr. Kennedy is entitled to summary judgment on his religious exercise and free speech claims.” [bold emphasis mine]
Kennedy v Bremerton School District, page 5, June 27, 2022.
This Supreme Court is quite different than the Supreme Court we had 5, 10, and 50 years ago. This Supreme Court is one who is deciphering and interpreting the Constitution rather than forcing an agenda or a public opinion upon the Constitution. To reinterpret the Constitution should be a crime. The media is in a frenzy about these three rulings. Yet, I am convinced that journalism in recent years and up to 2022 has been replaced by an unconstitutional form of activism. Activism argues that abortion is protected in the Constitution when it is not. Activism contends that a person must show additional proof that he is qualified to have a 2nd Amendment right. Activism insists that a citizen protected under the First Amendment free speech clause cannot pray in public as he or she sees fit. What a distortion of American freedom. Where has this nation come to?
The media confuses, tricks, and persuades the populace of things that are not even in the Constitution such as phrases like, “Separation of Church and State.” Did you know that this phrase in not Constitutional and is not in the Constitution? This is a phrase that was written in a private letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut long ago assuring the church that the US government would not be establishing a ”one nation denomination” over against other Christian denominations. The phrase ”separation of church and state” is not in any of the founding documents of the United States. This phrase was inserted into a 1947 Supreme Court decision by Justice Hugo L. Black. The phrase took flight by church antagonists and has been used out of context ever since to distort the First Amendment to mean exactly what the First Amendment denies: government encroachment on free speech and the practice of one’s own religion. The government shall not tell someone they cannot pray or read scripture even in public arenas. The First Amendment protects free religious speech from government interference.
We cannot teach something that the Constitution does not explicitly teach and turn around and say that “It is in the Constitution”. Someone may challenge the claim I just made and all I can say is read the Constitution and Bill of Rights for yourself and be the judge for yourself. It is difficult to engage someone in a political discussion when such a person is only familiar with media sound bytes of information and no true knowledge of the subject matter and founding documents in question. Half of what the media produces these days is untrue or at best sifted through the filter of a godless worldview to eliminate key factual points about the matter at hand. The narrative is what the media is skilled in creating. The sad part is that the narrative is fueled by the agenda and the not by facts.
The God Factor
Ultimately, one cannot leave God out of the question of Constitutional matters. While the powers are distinct, the church being the church and the state being the state, the Constitution is most heavily and entirely influenced by the scriptures of the Judea-Christian worldview of which God is the primary author. The Constitution is nowhere influenced by the scriptures of any other major world religion or worldview such as Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism. Not even Atheism, Agnosticism, Skepticism, or any Enlightenment theory had any dominant influence in the formulation of the Constitution.
Nonetheless, the beauty of this country is that the Constitution provides the framework for anyone to worship and believe as they wish. There is no forced requirement to follow Jesus or to not believe in God at all. Do as and worship whom you wish. There are protected freedoms in the Constitution for ALL people especially for the unborn people now once again, and also for those who wish to pray at football games, and those who choose to carry a firearm for protection in public against potential threats.
Now my prayer is that God would turn the hearts of the people of this country to Himself in repentance and faith in Christ who is the Lord of life, freedom, and preservation! I pray also that God will grant all 50 states to establish in their own State Constitutions the right to life for the unborn. God says, ”Choose life that you and your children may live!” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Wisdom Walk 