Woman not allowed to wear pro-life pin in National Art Gallery
This is a story that's both hard to believe and not hard to believe at the same time.
It seems that this past Saturday, a woman who had participated in the March for Life in Washington was told by security guards that she had to remove her pro-life pin that she had on from the march before she entered the building. She was told that you can't wear religious or political items in a federal building. (??) Via Lifenews:
...after searching her bag, two guards at the Gallery told her, "You're good to go in, but first you need to remove that pro-life pin.”
"He was indicating the small lime green pin with the message 'impact73.org' and the silhouette of a small hand inside that of a larger hand that I had attached to the lapel of my coat," Duke writes today.
"The pin, they informed me, was a 'religious symbol' and a symbol of a particular political cause and it could not be worn inside a federal building," Duke continues.
"Why, I asked, can I not wear a religious or political symbol inside a federal building? Bringing to bear the full weight of the supreme law of the land, the guards informed that it was a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution: The combination of me, wearing a pro-life pin, in a federal building was a violation of the separation of church and state," she explained.
Asked for a written copy of the rules preventing her from wearing a pro-life pin as a visitor to the gallery, they informed her the rules were not allowed for public viewing.
According to the story, the higher ups in the National Gallery admitted that the guards made a "mistake". But that really isn't the larger point here. Is this what we have devolved to in this country? We've allowed our government to become so antagonistic to religion that some security guards working in a federal building can get the idea that freedom of speech is not allowed on the premises? A building that is part of a government founded by a document that, among other things, guarantees freedom of speech and religion?
Amazing. And sad.
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I am not surprised at this
I am not surprised at this position since I have been an active public school educator for my entire life. I have been involved with federal litigation in the late part of the 1980's which travelled all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. My observations have been that the anti-God movement has been increasing at a steady and fairly progressive rate since that time. I have always been a supporter for working from within to create change, but that has become such a hostile envrionment for many Christian educators and publics that many of them are looking outside of the box for the answers to how they can best serve their children and the principles of this great nation. This article may sound absurd and far out at the present time to many, but I am telling you that it may a sketch of a picture to be painted on the canvas of our government regulations if we do not pool our political resources for intervention into the law making efforts of the court systems. Congress needs to make the laws based upon Constitutional principles and not on the social order of the country. Are we at a stage to rewrite the U.S. Constitution for the sake of the pleading hearts of emotion and non-biblical standards that are being proposed by various private interest groups in our society today?
My Heart goes out to these
My Heart goes out to these poor individuals who are being blinded and dooped by their current leaders and this current administration.This shows the need why we need to return this great counrty back to God "Our creator' who gave us the true commands to follow. As we see here their is a lack of communication between us , our creator. But the founders of this land that had forsight to see that future generations may fall away from the creator and all that he called this great nation to. They saw in advance that some may come to power under false pretenses masked by undermining the beleif of this country through "Change" from "One Nation Under God" and trying to return to that which has always caused a problem even in the garden of eden, Self! Our founders wrote to preserve life ,protection of our rights , liberties and and the way of christianity! But we as christians have been manipulated and selfish in our endeavours to maintain and protect that which God has given us.. The Gosple, to preach unto all man kind no matter what!! We have seen that since we allowed the Bible to be removed from schools , without a fight ,look at what has happen to our : Families, church, society, education system , legal system , Government, finances and this entire counrty as a whole. We even placed a man in office that says he is a christian and yet many of his beleifs contradict the Word of God and the character of God but many were blinded and are now starting to see only because their wallets are starting to take a hit. Martin luther king said it plainly .. "you dont judge a man by his colar but by his character"... how many missed that this past election. That they wanted the first african american and not a Godly man to contiune this counrty under God!!! We as christians are to blame its not one party or the other parties fault!! Its our fault for not asking God what He wanted, for seeing colar and not character( A man surrendered to GODs ways and His Heart), for being blinded by the world and their definition of what character is, Not what is really required to have, to led this nation. We didn't Raise up our children properly , we had wandered away from God! Our fault for not sending Godly men and women into the high offices of our counrty who didnt have : " God, integrity, humility, honesty, morals and the country at heart . We have let God down , we have sacrificed our heiritsge in God our creator, our children, our church,and our society, as well as the rest of the world!! We are the light of this world set apart by God and our forfathers knew this ! They knew we would possibly slip and Fall away and begin to return to debauchery and a heathen state of mind and try to follow the WORLD SYSTEM. WE need to reclaim america for God By starting to REPENT for our actions to God, ask Him for forgiveness of the Sins we have allowed and committed under his Name.. for not standing up for : " truth , justice , protecting life and the Gospel. We have cowardly backed away from the opposition in Fear and why because we dont beleive that God is who He says He is anymore . We have listen to insult after insult and have received a perverted message of the Gospel. We dont fear God anymore !!! Look america at what you want , look at the world who is suffering, look at the world who is bankrupt ,sick ,no morals ,no values, sexual lifestyles rampant, homosexuality rampant ,look at these countries dying, full of death and not crying out and still they will not REPENT !! We need to truely look at our selves and look at the church and ask God to : " clease us, purify us and return us to His chosen once again, to seek his face to rely on Him for guidance and instruction, to follow His ways , to heed His intructions and surrender our lives for His WAY. We have missed the Mark and we need to call upon Him and seek Repentance and Mercy for our Failuers as a people and as a nation.!! Their is so much blood on our hands that our policies have : " killed ,raped,plundered and murdered millions of innocent lives " on the behalf of selfishness and greed. We are getting our just reward , all through the bible God warns His people through the Men and women "He sends" ( not worldly men of no fruit of spirit) but the church has been blinded to the TRUTH. These Godly men that God sends call us back to Him, to turn away from the wickedness we have fallen into !!!!!! He even warned us about false people who come in His Name. Look at the Fruit!!!! We have been so blinded that we have missed the creator speaking to us and as in the bible we see that He allowed things to happen to get His people to turn back to Him !! Often many didnt return to Him and He ended up scattering them to the world!!! He took His hand of protection away from them and allowed other countries to invade, not with military force always but through :" a way of life , culture, imorarality, homosexuality,perversion , false religons , Pride, Greed , a change in their society,a Falling away.....
But He loves us and desires us to return to Him.... He even gives us several opportunites to do so all through the word of God.. "Repent, Turn back, seek His face ,enter into His presence , Fall down and cry out for forgiveness , cry out for help, surrender your ways and hearts to Him once again "!!!! America has one last chance and we need to get it right!!!! It starts at home ,Pray , seek His face, ask for help, call out to Him, Repent, seek His way not ours even if it hurts us, you have to be desperate enough. Then educate : "your selves , children, read the Declaration of Independance, the Constitution, Bill of rights, that our founding fathers penned, get the understanding from old books about this country and the GoVT. We need Godly men and women to go into every aspect of the : Families/Churches/Govt/Business /Education/Media/Arts(art,sports) we need to reclaim the Seven Mountains over this nation!!!.ie .Supreme court judges , lawyers, Senators,congressman,President,police,TV, Movies, Businessman, educators in every aspect from the administrator to the teacher,professors,Government employees,military, everywhere we need to reclaim america and it starts with YOU..
Make time, cut out the garbage in you life! Get invovled some how, decide to join and take part , start with something simple,!! Sit in on school board meetings, go to the county board meetings , visit your capital meetings, contact your local county govt offices about meetings , upcoming events !! Get invovled in ACLJ ( american center for law and justice) , ADF ( aliance defense fund) , These groups protect and fight for your freedoms in the cout sysytem and call them and get to know your legal rights !! Begin to think about Others first and the way of life God wants for us...
It all starts as we seek His face, Pray and Repent and ask for FORGIVENESS, READ His Word Daily, Fellowship together in "One accord" according to His Word,a unified church, Tithe to our local church and give offerings , seek to be a Holy Nation and educate the Lost about "The Truth" , Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and truth in our " Constitution and the Declaration of Independece and Bill of Rights". We need His INTEGRITY in us in every aspects of our lives!!! we are missing that in everything we do. I have seen this Nation rise and begin to fall, My heart knows that God has not abandon us but desires us to return to His boosum.!!!
But we must : " Submit, Repent, Cry out for Mercey, ASk Him to Forgive us of Our Sins, Surrender our lives to Him , Ask him to be Our Lord and Savior , come into our hearts, change us into a New creation, and fill us with His Holy Spirit and Power to do His will .
God Bless
A patriot
That is a tragic
That is a tragic infringement upon our First Amendment rights and unprecedented in America. Gone then may be the days when one could wear a pro-life tee shirt into the holocaust museum as I once did, or wear a politically incorrect pin as a visitor into the White House. When Clinton was residing there, I once wore a pin while taking my eldest daughter and her family to visit there that may have raised a few eyebrows, but it did NOT get me turned away. It said "If the Clintons are not impeached soon, will the last person leaving the House please turn out the lights"? Historically, it is freedom of speech that has been the catalyst to much-needed change from bringing freedom from slavery to establishing voting rights for women to now attempting to restore respect for the sanctity of human life. Our Founders knew how precious and important that right was, which is why it was included by amendment in our Constitution/founding documents. This is yet another issue pointing to the great importance of restoring our Republican majority this November - breaking that DNC dictatorship is the only way we stand to see our fundamental freedoms restored/preserved! May God save America from being dismantled by the current group at the helm.