Ask your church to be involved. Give your church secretary a short one paragraph Church Bulletin Announcement,
to add to your church bulletin on that day.
The first Sunday of May is Ten Commandments Day.
President James Madison reflected best the importance of our commitment to God's standard when he noted that
America's success was dependent upon the determination of "each and every one of us to govern ourselves, to control
ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." The Ten Commandments is the most commonly
posted scripture in our society, being posted in over 4,000 public places and in millions of churches and homes.
The Ten Commandments convicts us of our sin and Jesus forgives us and saves us.
"And thou shalt write them the posts of thy house, and on thy gates." Deuteronomy 6:9.
The most important reminder of today is to obey the Ten Commandments.
Find out more about Ten Commandments Day at:
http://tencommandments.faithweb.com/tencommandments-today.html
The Flawed Philosophy of Obamanomics
by Judge Roy Moore March 19, 2009
Interest rates of 21%. Inflation rate 12.5%. Consumer Price Index rising 13% annually. Unemployment rate 7.5%. Top personal tax rate of 70%. Government spending constituted 43% of total spending.
Does this sound familiar? It should. This was the economy President Reagan inherited from President Carter in 1981.
Ronald Reagan took the reins of government and immediately set forth his Program for Economic Recovery with four major policy objectives: (1) reduce the growth of government spending; (2) reduce the marginal tax rates on income from both labor and capital; (3) reduce government regulation of business; and (4) reduce inflation by controlling the growth of the money supply. In short, Reagan's plan was to reduce the size and scope of government so that private enterprise could flourish and thereby solve the nation's economic woes.
Reagan's economic policy became known as "Reaganomics" and was the biggest change in U.S. economic policy since the New
Deal. "Only by reducing the growth of government can we increase the growth of the economy," Reagan explained.
The maximum personal tax rate was cut from 70% to 50% and further cut to 28% in 1986. Across the board, federal income
taxes were reduced by 25%.
And it worked! By 1988 the unemployment rate had dropped to 5.5%, interest rates had been cut to between 6 and 8%, and
the inflation rate was reduced to between 2 and 3%. Government's share of total spending was cut to 40%.
President Reagan presided over the longest period of peacetime economic growth in American history,
and he left the nation in far better economic condition than he found it.
While Reagan sought to reduce the size and scope of government, decrease taxes and regulations that chained the private sector, and allow the private sector to flourish,
Obama's solution is to dramatically increase federal spending by stimulus packages in excess of $3 trillion dollars (so far),
thereby injecting the federal government into the economy at a scale that dwarfs anything previous.
And with increased federal aid comes increased control by the federal government over banks, the auto industry,
medicine, education, and other areas of the economy too numerous to mention.
Ignoring the lessons of our history, Obama's economic policies of big government, enlarged federal control over our lives,
and eventually, as even he predicts, increased taxation has garnered a name of its own, "Obamanomics."
Obamanomics is simply the philosophy of socialism,
loosely defined as "collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production or distribution of goods."
Nations which embrace socialism inevitably experience stagnation and economic decline.
Socialism is contrary to the laws of God concerning private property and liberty of contract, and also contrary to the
basic laws of human nature, which teach us over and over that unless people have an incentive to work hard and be productive,
they will become lazy and live off the production of others.
Adam Smith, the Scottish economist whose Wealth of Nations (1776) was eagerly read by America's Founding Fathers, spoke of the "Invisible Hand"
that guides the economic affairs of all nations by the laws of nature: principles of private property, liberty of contract,
supply and demand, and others. Reflecting those principles, Patrick Henry declared,
"Fetter not commerce, sir; let her be as free as air; she will range the whole creation,
and return on the wings of the four winds of heaven, to bless the land with plenty."
These time-tested laws of economics will not fail us if we apply them today. And why should we think that we can ignore
or violate these laws, without reaping disastrous consequences?
Read the rest of the article at Foundation for Moral Law www.morallaw.org
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Church, State and the First Amendment
A continuing Legal Education Seminar by the Foundation of Moral Law
April 2, 2009 Montgomery, AL
You have been told for years that the First Amendment demands "separation of church and state." But what exactly does that entail?
The removal of God from government? And the exclusion of anything religious from the public
square? Not at all. The First Amendment was designed to protect religious freedom and the
public acknowledgment of God. Join the Foundation for Moral Law's CLE,
Church, State, and the First Amendment, to learn what the Constitution, America's unique
history, and even the United States Supreme Court have to say about
• First Amendment Jurisprudence
• The Rule of Law – Then and Now
• The Power of the Pulpit in American History
• IRS Restrictions on Churches & 501(c) (3) Organizations
• Modern Moral Issues in the Law
Speakers at this CLE Seminar include:
Judge Roy Moore and Justice Tom Parker, Alabama Supreme Court
Col. John Eidsmoe Ben DuPré, Esq.
Greg Jones, Staff Attorney, Alabama Supreme Court
Founders' understanding of freedom of religion presupposed a belief in God.
* The Bible has something to say about separation of church and state,
and the answer may surprise you.
* The crucial role American preachers played in fanning the flame of liberty in the Revolutionary War.
* U.S. Supreme Court cases have recognized God as the source of religious freedom.
* Judges may defend traditional moral values in their judicial opinions.
* Churches may speak out about moral and political issues of the day, including pending
pieces of legislation.
* Giving legal assistance to a church or organization when you also sit on its board
raises unique ethical considerations.
Learn more about these topics and other thought-provoking legal issues at the Foundation
for Moral Law's Church, State, and the First Amendment Seminar. Sign up today
to equip yourself to properly advise clients, churches, and public officials about their
religious liberty and the true meaning of the First Amendment.
Approved by the Alabama State Bar for 7 hours of CLE credit, including 1 hour of ethics.
Space is limited, so register today! Call (334) 262-1245 for more
information, visit the Foundation for Moral Law web site that is listed above.
"God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseparable, and the unjust
attempts to destroy the one, may in the issue tend to the support and establishment of both."
Rev. John Witherspoon, Fast Day Sermon, May 17, 1776
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