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Clarence Thomas on Abraham Lincoln

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Pinky
Pinky
Wednesday, February 12, AD 2014 12:34pm

Curse you, Donald, for posting “Clarence Thomas on Abraham Lincoln” when I don’t have 52:28 to spare!

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Thursday, February 13, AD 2014 12:02am

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Kevin
Kevin
Thursday, February 13, AD 2014 6:38am

I attended a talk he gave at the Union Club in NYC and chatted some time with him. He was truly a most exceptional speaker and the nicest person.
However, ditto on having 58 minutes. I have three children 14. 13 and 10 and a big driveway to shovel!

Kevin
Kevin
Thursday, February 13, AD 2014 6:51am

I skipped around and listened to some of this. If you only have a minute go to minute @37 and listen a couple of minutes. You will be glad you did. (I ended up listening to the end.) He is right on target and sticking his neck out for his liberal counterparts whose abuse he exposes. That democratic institutions can impose against the good of the people and against the constitution. Then he goes onto the doctrine of “care not” of the people who let it happen. Abortion could easily be a subtext. Marriage. Religious Freedom. Liberty itself.

Éamonn Gaines
Thursday, February 13, AD 2014 7:15am

Download Realplayer’s free player and open the youtube video in it. Click on the popup link and the video will be saved as a local copy in your computer. I too have small children and 58 minutes comes in small installments!

Mary De Voe
Thursday, February 13, AD 2014 3:02pm

This was posted at Bonchamps: Liberalism, Capitalism & Pluralism: The Catholic Wars Continue but with Clarence Thomas speaking of Lincoln and the Declaration if Independence and The Constitution as inseparable this comment carries more relevance here, I hope. So with your indulgence, it is reposted here
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The atheist and the secular humanist are to be tolerated. Atheism and secular humanism are to be exposed as the fraud, the perjury, the lie, that they are. Atheism refuses to acknowledge the existence of God. The Supreme Sovereign Being, our Creator, endows all unalienable human, civil rights. Unalienable rights are endowed by the infinite God. The state, constituted by man, is finite and all rights endowed by the state are finite. Finite human rights have an expiration date, and unless constantly renewed and ratified, they may expire or lose their efficacy. Finite human right, unacknowledged, puts man at the mercy of the state.
Infinite human rights come from the infinite God. Unending and unalienable human rights comes an unending and unalienable Creator.
It is the desire of God that all men be free. Our Creator has created man in freedom, freedom from enslavement to every vice and every addiction to every sort of evil. Man is created to be especially free to choose good over the deceit of the devil.
It is the will of God that man might live in peace with his neighbor. God inspires man to constitute the state that all unalienable rights of man might be shared to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” all future generations, persons still in the mind of God, our Creator.
It is the duty of the state constituted by man’s free will to deliver equal Justice. Equal Justice may only be established through virtue, through the innocence and virginity of the newly begotten human soul created in legal and moral innocence. Manmade Justice will always bear the mark of finite, imperfect man.
Freedom of Religion must remain constant so that when the atheist and secular humanist freely choose Truth, the unalienable right to freedom of religion may be theirs to embrace. This is evident in Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Church.
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
Citing the whole First Amendment, including the phrase, ”or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” Jefferson then comments about “a wall of separation of church and state.” The wall of separation of church and state has been abused by the atheist and the secular humanist to remove any free expression of religion, to impose atheism, their own agenda, to bamboozle and tyrannize and obliterate the unalienable human rights endowed by our Creator, God, the Supreme Sovereign Being in Whose image and likeness man is created with a rational, immortal human soul, endowed with free will, intellect and sovereign personhood. Enough of the half-truths of atheism and the skullduggery of secular humanism, if the atheist and secular humanist wish to impose finite civil rights on the souls of men, equal Justice dictates that they are the first to have their finite civil rights enforced by the state and by the state removed, finished. The atheist and the secular humanist want unalienable human rights while imposing their finite and removable human rights on the souls of men. This injustice must be rectified and the whole truth be re-established and re-ratified.
Jefferson also cites “ the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience.” “ “Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties”
This statement alone is the response to the Obamacare’s HHS Mandate.
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The Constitution of the United States
Preamble
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.
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.

Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Church.
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
Now, I shall return to listen a second time.

David
David
Friday, February 14, AD 2014 5:57am

I wish I had had this on my IPOD yesterday as I shoveled the driveway. No worries. Another snow storm is on the way.

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