Our forefathers were men of faith and recognized that this land was established so that we could worship God as we please. They felt so strongly of this that religion was addressed in the very first amendment to the Constitution, writing:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof...
This provision supports that while the government shall not establish a religion and dictate what the people should believe, as was the case in mother England, it should not empower itself to restrict the various beliefs and exercise of faiths.
There have been many activists who have wished that this phrase merely read, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." They focus on the first half of the phrase to justify their desires to rid the public domain of God, thus stripping the rights of all believers, because they claim that expressions of faith are offensive to them. In many cases, activists have been successful in getting the judiciary to in fact prohibit the free exercise of religion, which the Constitution clearly is in objection to. An act of denying a child from offering a prayer in school, or even reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, is unconstitutional. How then have the activists been successful in subverting the Constitution? Simply, we Conservatives have been too silent, too long! We as a people must be actively engaged in protecting this and other God given rights, or we risk losing them all.
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