Tea Party Talk – Is This Your Cup of Tea?

“Let’s talk about the Constitution” is the theme of our program for the January meeting of the Pickens County Ga Tea Party. Mr. Richard Gruetter, founder of Preserve Our Constitution, Inc., www.pocusa.info , is our guest speaker; and he will educate as well as entertain us with insight into our Constitution, based on his many years of studying this written heritage of our country’s Founders. Richard is a former U.S. Air Force pilot and a retired Delta Airlines pilot; and has spent his retirement years carefully studying our Constitution and our Founding Fathers.
Please join us, as we begin another year in our efforts to effect less national government and return more power to local governments in the U.S.A. Our January meeting will be held at Chattahoochee Technical College in Jasper, on Tuesday, January 27th, beginning at 6:30PM with coffee and “meet and greet”, and the program beginning at 7:00PM.

Quoting from the Preserve Our Constitution, Inc. newsletter—“The most destructive and widely circulated myth ever perpetrated upon our nation! “Separation of Church and State” — What does the 1st Amendment really say? “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…” The first ten amendments, popularly called the “Bill of Rights” are just that – Our Rights! They serve to further restrict the powers of the federal government to those enumerated in the Constitution in order to protect our God given rights. Notice the 1st Amendment opens with: “Congress shall make no law…” That is clearly a prohibition against Congress, and not the states. The states clearly retained all sovereign authority over religion. Most states had their own preferred denominations and were not about to give the federal government any sovereignty in that area. They were strongly against a national denomination that would dominate their own.

The states had their own religious tests. Delaware’s Constitution required the following oath in order to hold public office: ” I, _____ do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.” The Constitution of Pennsylvania required a similar oath: “I do believe in one God, the creator and governor of the universe, the rewarder of the good and the punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration.” Most of the other states had similar oaths specified in their Constitutions. Georgia required an oath that public officials were of the protestant religion.

Our US Constitution prohibits religious tests because the states did not want a federal religious test to trump their own, not because we were founded by deists as a secular nation. This is simply another example of states retaining sovereignty over religion.”
Please join us on Tuesday, January 27th , to learn more. Pickens County GA Tea Party, Jasper, GA.