I sent an email to Rep. Thompson reacting to a post at Cornerstone Policy Research about a response Mr. Thompson gave to one of that group’s supporters. From Cornerstone:
So, it seems that once again one of our elected officials are of the opinion that we will just believe anything they write…
The latest case being State Representative, Robert Thompson of Manchester, who recently sent what appears to be a “stock” response to one of our Cornerstone supporters…
After our supporter sent Rep. Thompson an email urging him to not support The Bathroom Bill, HB415, as it would trample on religious liberties among other reasons, Rep. Thompson replied that not only does “religion have no place in government”, but that the founding fathers were so concerned about this, that they added a “separation of church and state” clause into the Constitution.
Click here to read the whole post, including Thompson’s offending note.
This is my response to him:
Rep. Thompson,
How could you be such a boob as to write the following false statement in an email:
"Secondly, I certainly feel that religion has no place in government. Our founding fathers, who wrote the constitution, were very concerned about religion interfering with law making and included a separation of church and state into the constitution. This is a very important part of our constitution that has seemed to have gotten away from us. The Judeo-Christian values our country were founded on are important but do not belong in government."
Robby, You’ve obviously never bothered to read the Constitution, or much of anything one might guess. The U.S. Constitution only refers to religion once in the 1st Amendment where it guarantees freedom OF religion, and that means religion of the public square. Your red-herring concept of a separation was first mentioned in a letter by Mr. Jefferson to the Danbury, CT Baptists who were complaining to him when he was POTUS years AFTER the Constitution had been written and ratified that they thought it was unfair that they had to pay taxes that went to support the CT state religion at the time which was Congregationalism, because contrary to your moronic lack of knowledge about American history, the respective states had official state religions well into the 19th century. That so-called "separation" Jefferson coined referred to government having no power over religious liberty among the various states, including their 10th amendment right to establish state religions which they did in fact have. You shouldn’t even be a legislator, you’re so ignorant of the laws governing this land and even the history of New England where you reside.. It’s uneducated buffoons like you that make our democracy as horribly fragile as it’s recently become.
Furthermore, on religion in "government" as you ridiculously call it, in your attempt to set up a straw man,…John Adams who knew a helluvalot more than I would dare say you do, especially when it comes to the documents he was involved in drafting and ratifying, but even more so on questions of wisdom…political, moral and otherwise, said the following:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
During the debate on the Declaration, Benjamin Franklin asked the entire assembly if they would pray for God’s assistance in removing the division of opinion on whether to secede from the Empire, and all the Founders assembled commenced to pray to God the Father, ie Jehovah, Yahweh, Adonai. AND, Jefferson also said the following:
“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.” "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Jefferson was indeed most prescient and was anticipating in his thoughts stated above the dangers of government falling into the hands of heathen mental-midget demagogues like yourself. So, once again, the Founders’ fears and warnings ring true.
George Washington said;
"…reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle…" ; “ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.” ; “What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]
And his whole Farewell Address to the nation warns against the American people abandoning the only safe foundation of democracy which lay in a widespread religious respect and understanding of ORDERED liberty as a gift of the Almighty which you sir have lost due to your enfeebling Gubment Edjukashun, no doubt.
James Madison, "Father of the Constitution" said the following regarding the nation’s founding:
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” [1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia]
Do you know what the 1st Commandment is, Bob?
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the "Perfect Governor", as he read Isaiah 33:22.
“For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.” Talk about "religion in government".
It doesn’t get any better than that.
If you’re going to invoke either the Constitution or the Founding Fathers for your pathetic defense against the place of religion or Christian belief in American law, you don’t have a leg to stand on but postmodern, heathen, Socialist demagoguery and lies. So, rather than openly appear the ignoramus you are, better to come up with a pithier, more accurate answer, such as: "I’m a heathen Commie and don’t support laws that promote moral behavior…so there!". At least with a response like this one, you’ll be telling the truth while not revealing your total ignorance of American political history and jurisprudence. No doubt your political party’s mascot is a jackass…and with good reason. America is all about repentence and forgiveness however, and so in the spirit of this Lenten season of ashes and sackcloth, break out the books Bob, get on your knees, and ask the Almighty to forgive you for your ignorance of His Providence in the establishment of our great, and uniquely Christian nation and of our Founding Fathers’ acknowledgment of that Providence in our Founding Documents. All the best,
Bill from Dover