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Due to recent budget cuts, and the rising cost of electricity, gas, and oil …

The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off

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Henry

"It cannot be emphasized toostrongly or too often that thisgreat nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

Patrick

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AdamsSamuel

"We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."

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George

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

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JeffersonThomas

"The reason that Christianityis the best friend of govern-ment is because Christianity is the only religion thatchanges the heart."

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FranklinBenjamin

"In the beginning of the contestwith Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered… do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?"

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33:12Psalm

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,

The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.

Nation ~ goyim – Gentiles

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AlexanderHamilton

ThomasJefferson

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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

ExclusionaryClause

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"Our sentiments are uniformly onthe side of religious liberty: that religion is at all

times and places a matter between God and individuals,that no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effects

on account of his religious opinions, [and] that the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who

works ill to his neighbor. But sir, our constitution of government is not specific. . . . [T]herefore what religious privileges we enjoy (as

a minor part of the State) we enjoy as favorsgranted, and not as inalienable rights."

Danbury Baptist AssociationOctober 7, 1807

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"The affectionate sentiments of esteemand approbation which you are so good as toexpress towards me on behalf of the Danbury

Baptist Association give me the highest satisfaction … Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies

solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of government

reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that

their legislature should 'make no law respectingan establishment of religion or prohibiting

Thomas JeffersonJanuary 1, 1802

the free exercise thereof,' thus building awall of separation between Church and 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. I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and

Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves andyour religious association assurances of my

high respect and esteem."

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"On every question of construction(of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves

back to the time when the Constitution wasadopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the

debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against

it, conform to the probable one in which itwas passed."

Thomas JeffersonJune 12, 1823

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24 So God abandoned them to doWhatever shameful things their hearts

desired. As a result, they did vile and degradingthings with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about

God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal

praise! Amen. 26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful

desires. Even the women turned against thenatural way to have sex and instead indulged

in sex with each other.

Romans1:24-27 (NLT)

27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within

themselves the penalty they deserved.

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H. B. 3685Rep. Barney Frank

on-iscriminationct

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"I was born a sinner – yes, from the moment my mother

conceived me."

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Psalm51:5 (NLT)

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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified

you…

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Jeremiah1:2

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Deliver those whoare drawn toward death,

And hold back those stumbling to the

slaughter.

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Proverbs 24:11

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FOCA

reedom

S.B. 1173Sen. Barbara Boxer

fhoicect

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I will bless those whobless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And inyou all the families of the

Earth shall be blessed.

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Genesis12:3

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14 And the LORD said to Abram,after Lot had separated from him:

“Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are— northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the land which you see I give

to you and your descendants forever.”

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Genesis13:14-15

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For thus says the LORD ofhosts: "He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you

touches the apple ofHis eye."

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Zechariah2:8