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Dave Roth is currently serving as the Director of Multihousing Ministries for the York Baptist Association in Rock Hill, S.C. and as Pastor of Midtown Ministries, a new church plant in Rock Hill. He also runs the Seeker's Network website on which he publishes a daily Bible study.
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There has been some exciting talk among the prolife and other freedom loving movements lately. It concerns a mostly previously ignored wording in the Preamble to our federal constitution. It renders Roe v. Wade and many other decisions and laws null and void. The problem will be getting someone to uphold it and honor their oath of office. Let's see if you can recognize what I am talking about."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." Did you catch it? The purpose of the constitution is to "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity!
Now, before anyone decides to argue the definition of "is," here is the 1828 Noah Webster's definition of posterity. POSTER'ITY, n. [L. posteritas, from posterus, from post, after.] 1. Descendants; children, children's children, &c. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam. 2. In a general sense, succeeding generations; opposed to ancestors. Those two marvellous little words guarantee the rights of every child, born or unborn, because they are all our future generations, our posterity. Doesn't the preamble place them on the same level as everyone else? Doesn't it guarantee their right to life, to a jury of their peers, etc.
Even children who have not yet been conceived are protected under this clause. So, next we must ask, "Who has the right to spend them into poverty?" What constitutional provision gives our government the right to incurr so much debt that generation after generation will have to struggle to pay for it?
Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." That is some good advice, but the next verse, while it appears to be unrelated, may be there for a very good reason. "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." (Proverbs 22:7) Some translations say, "...slave to the lender," which may be more accurate. I thought slavery was dead in this country. Where does government get the constitutional authority to make slaves out of our posterity?
We do not need new laws or new court decisions. What we need are some corageous Christian politicians (Is that an oxymoron or what?) who will defend and enforce the provisions of our constitution. Now is the time for Tea Party folks to begin dumping the Washington junk into the Potomac! In the words of Charleton Heston, "Let My people go!"
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Copyright 2009, All Rights Reserved, David A. Roth |
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