Two examples of how free speech is defined in America today. Would Thomas Jefferson and James Madison applaud or slap us silly?
First, a North Carolina chaplain is fired for uttering the name of Jesus. The clerk of the state house of representatives had censored the word because ”we have some people here that can be offended.’”
Ron Baity, being American, said it anyway.
“I got fired,” said Ron Baity, pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. He had been invited to lead prayer for an entire week but his tenure was cut short when he refused to remove the name Jesus from his invocation.
Baity’s troubles began during the week of May 31. He said a House clerk asked to see his prayer. The invocation including prayers for our military, state lawmakers and a petition to God asking him to bless North Carolina.”
“When I handed it to the lady, I watched her eyes and they immediately went right to the bottom of the page and the word Jesus,” he told FOX News Radio. “She said ‘We would prefer that you not use the name Jesus. We have some people here that can be offended.’”
When Baity protested, she brought the matter to the attention of House Speaker Joe Hackney.
“I told her I was highly offended when she asked me not to pray in the name of Jesus because that does constitute my faith,” Baity said. “My faith requires that I pray in His name. The Bible is very clear.”
When the clerk returned, Baity said he was told that he would be allowed to deliver the day’s prayer – but after that – his services would no longer be needed.
There was concern that this could have a chilling effect on religious-oriented speech in other government buildings, but then Rahm Emanuel was reassured that the limits of the First Amendment do not extend to cussing.
Here we have idiots freely maligning their country and those who guard their right to be moronic jerks.
“Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.” Romans 1:22. Hat tip to Verum Serum.
I am told a initial test used by the Catholic Church to determine the influence of evil spirits within somebody is to speak the name of Jesus in a simple reading of scripture. If the person is question is offended to the point of refusal to continue, further inquiry is made upon the suspicion of the presence of evil spirits.
Our current government leaders seem to have no problem in taking The Lords Name in vain, but offer invocation or suplication, and you have to shake a rattle with holy water on em to mellow the out.
Why are some so threatened by the name of Jesus? I've often asked myself that. This is definitely a case of protesting too much.
Peter was also warned not to speak in the name of JESUS.
The people in Acts 4: 5-6 Acts 4:13-19 (NKJV) Now when ((they)) saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. 14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, 16 saying, "What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name." 18 And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Speak BOLDLY —JESUS!!!!!! IS THE ANSWER!!!!
The following is the text of Dr. Jacob Duche's first prayer in Congress 1774:
1ST Prayer in Congress
First Prayer in Congress.
. Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation, that the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony, and peace may be restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety prevail and flourish among the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and the vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they represent such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world, and crown them with ever-lasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Savior. Amen.
The entire prayer was to long to post view the link below for the entire prayer. Jacob prayed in Jesus name in CONGRESS. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/tr…