During Christmas there’s demands to remove a nativity scene at city hall. The reason is “separation of church and state.” The court stated what the “separation of church and state” means. The Supreme Court should be guided by truth. The phrase “separation of church and state” isn’t in the Constitution. It’s a comment by Thomas Jefferson, a personal letter to the Danbury Baptists 15 years after the Constitution was ratified. The church was also the school and welfare department, and spiritual center of the community. We were to have separation of school and state and welfare and state. The word “church” was inclusive of all these community responsibilities.

June 25, 1962 the Supreme Court declared prayer in schools unconstitutional. Again the “separation of church and state” isn’t in the Constitution! The first Amendment of the Constitution says there shall be no law made respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech and of the press.

“In no other place in the united states are there so many and such varied official evidences of deep and abiding faith in God on the part of government as there are in Washington, D.C. ” Sen. Robert Byrd.

The House and Senate sessions begin with prayer. Each have their own chaplains. The 83rd congress made a room for prayer. The room is always open, but not to the public. It has a stained glass window of George Washington kneeling. With the words “Preserve me O’ God for in thee do I put my trust” (Pslam 16:1)

“In God we trust” appears opposite the president of the Senate, the vice president of the United States. The Supreme Court opens and closes each session with “God save the United States and the honorable court” the same court that declared prayer in school unconstitutional!

On the Washington Monument, “Praise be to God.” Lining the walls are words “Search the scriptures” “Holiness to the Lord,” “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it”

The library of Congress has scriptures on its walls. The Lincoln Memorial are words by Lincoln, “That this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,” “As it was said 3000 years ago so it still must be said. The Judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”

The Jefferson Memorial, Jefferson speaks, “God who gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

Sen. Byrd cites these words as “A forceful and explicit warning that to remove God from this country will destroy it!”

This nation without reasonable doubt was established on the foundation of scripture. This country was surely born and created with divine providence.

Lee Litvinenko

Enumclaw