Part I: Government
American Principle Eleven (Part I)
Government and Union Monopolies Involving Education
Or Religion Are Prohibited--For Liberty's Sake
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a 'redress of grievances.'"
First Amendment, Constitution of the United States
The delegates to the Constitutional Convention were concerned about the use of government power by what Thomas Jefferson called "Tyrants of the Mind." Instead of government being the servant of the people, tyrants override the people's authority and gradually take control of what schools teach. The family and the teaching of American history become early victims. Students are dumbed down. Secular open-minded morality and class envy divide families and communities. Fellow travelers in the judiciary reject the historical application of First Amendment law. In later chapters we document the inroads of harmful law.
Government-sanctioned teacher tenure guarantees are a violation of the First Amendment. Privileged government teachers lead toward the same devastating consequences as the government-sanctioned church imposed on medieval Europe. Experience with tyrants of the mind is the reason for the First Amendment.
Tyrants of the mind are bullies. The creation of fear enables the few to overpower school administrators hired by the people to run schools in the public interest. The weapons used include bad-mouthing and the ruin of the reputations of good administrators and teachers who dare to challenge leftist "politically correct" militants.
Editors of the book Speeches That Changed the World started with the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-17) and Christ's Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). These editors recognized the good that believers have contributed to society and the superior quality of the Bible as literature. Speeches That Changed the World included speeches by two Darwinian evolutionists, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Their leadership did influence the world. The murder of millions of innocent people demonstrates the depths to which the open-mindedness of Darwin's God-rejecting Origin of the Species dogma can take men.
As always happens, those who reject the envelope of the life-enhancing "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" eventually self-destruct. The problem now in America is the damage being done to the minds of millions of our youth who will soon be leaders.
"Educators have recognized the processes by which thought and behavioral patterns acquired in youth become the basis for adult motivation. In modern times thoughtful observers have become progressively aware that moral, social, and political concepts implanted during the time of mental immaturity not only participate in the conduct of later life, but, once acquired, such concepts become dominant and often unalterable in the adult" (Grand Jury study of problems in higher education for the Eleventh Judicial District of Iowa, chaired by David A. Norris).
"The first national study of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four [is] infected with at least one of the diseases, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday" (Lawrence K. Altman, New York Times, March 11, 2008). One in four U.S. teenage girls have STDs. The diseases, which are infections caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites, can produce acute symptoms… and potentially fatal pregnancy… and cervical cancer. The two most common sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, among all the participants tested were HPB at 18 percent, and chlamydia at 4 percent, according to the analysis portion of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
An honest evolutionist: "Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation which is unthinkable" (Sir Arthur Keith, citation in Wallie A. Criswell's Did Man Just Happen?, Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan, 1973).
Education worthy of the name will emphasize that the president, congress and the judiciary are servants of, by and for the people who are the sovereigns under creation's God.
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