How did you become involved in your present ministry?
In late 1987, I very providentially discovered that following the high court calls in 1962-1963 removing voluntary school prayer and Bible reading from public colleges that academic achievement scores plummeted, student crime increased, and measures of student ethics skyrocketed ( e.g, teenager pregnancies, STD rates, etc . ). That research, based totally on cabinet-level Fed. stats, ended in the publication of our first book, America : to pray or Not to offer prayers. I also found that early legal rulings on issues we face today ( e.g, prayer in public areas, Bible reading in colleges, public porno, and so on. ) were exactly the exact opposite of those rendered by courts today. Those early courts cited the original scribblings of the Founding pops, and upon reading those scribblings, I revealed that they contradicted much of what I had been taught about history. We so commenced to collect original documents and currently have in our library some seventy thousand documents predating 1812 which undeniably document not only our religious, moral, and constitutional heritage generally, but our Christian heritage in particular. This research has led to a number of successive books.
what has been the best example of law deviating from its original intent?
An illustration of the changes in law might be seen in the life of Charles Finney, one of America's well known revivalists, active in the Second Great Awakening. In his autobiography, Finney reports that he planned to be a lawyer, and as he scanned the preferred law books of his day, those texts also presented the Biblical ideas on which the laws were based. In the process of studying the law texts, Finney read most of the Bible that he became a Christian and received his call to the ministry.
Another example is seen in James Wilson, a signer of the Constitution and an original Justice on the U. S. Supreme Court, credited with beginning the 1st organized legal coaching in America for law students. Wilson taught students :
[I]t must be remembered that this law,. Made for men or for states, flows from the same Divine source : it is the law of Almighty God. What we do, indeed, must be founded on what he has done ; and the inadequacies of our laws must be supplied by the perfections of His. Human law must rest its authority, finally, on the authority of that law which is Divine. A long way from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants.
Today , however , Christianity and the law have become rivals and enemies. In fact, in the case Commonwealth v. Chambers, the jury sentence of a person convicted and sentenced by a jury for taking an axe handle and brutally clubbing to death a 71-year-old woman in order to thieve her Social Security check was reversed by the court because the prosecuting solicitor - in a statement that lasted less than five seconds - had discussed a Bible verse in the courtroom.
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Wallbuilders WallBuilders is an organization dedicated to presenting America's forgotten history and heroes, with the focus on the moral, spiritual, and constitutional foundation on which America was built - a foundation which, in recent times, has been seriously attacked and enfeebled. In treaty with what was so meticulously stated by George Washington, we think that'the propitious [favorable] grins of heaven can never be expected on a nation which disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.'
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