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This week on the House
Floor, Congressman Forbes asked the questions "Did America ever consider
itself a Judeo-Christian nation?" and "If America was once a
Judeo-Christian nation, when did it cease to be?" Click the video below
to watch.
Rep. Forbes Featured in U.S. News & World Report
An
editorial by Congressman Forbes was featured in the U.S. News & World
Report on May 7, 2009. An excerpt from the editorial follows:
On April 6, 2009, President
Obama, speaking halfway across the world in Turkey, effectively made a
shocking proclamation: that the United States did not consider itself a
Judeo-Christian nation.
"Although, as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we
do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation," he
said. I do not challenge his right to make that statement, nor do I
doubt that he believes it to be true. But there were two critical
questions that he failed to ask and answer. First, did America ever
consider itself a Judeo-Christian nation? Secondly, if it did, what was
the moment or event in which it ceased to do so?
Our nation's history provides overwhelming evidence that America was
birthed upon Judeo-Christian principles. The first act of America's
first Congress in 1774 was to ask a minister to open with prayer and to
lead Congress in the reading of four chapters of the Bible. In 1776, in
approving the Declaration of Independence, our founders acknowledged
that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights..." and noted that they were relying "on the protection of Divine
Providence" in the founding of this country. John Quincy Adams said,
"The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human
government upon the first precepts of Christianity." Also, the signers
of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War, insisted
the treaty begin with the phrase, "In the name of the most holy and
undivided Trinity."
Click here to read the full article.
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