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Hi, My name is Robert Kendall, and I am running for President in 2012. I am not a career politician. I've actually never held
an office. I did run for Treasurer of the Student Council when I was in Elementary School, but didn't win.
I don't have a long resumé of political accomplishments. It's quite short. I have been a registered Republican, Libertarian,
(NY) Conservative, and again Republican. Although some of my positions would be more agreeable to the Democrats, they are
lesser points.
Some of the foundations things I see are what I've learned our country held to, that have slowly been neglected, and even
flat out rejected.
First of all, the moral foundation that was held by our founding fathers. Now, history is clear, that they weren't all Christians,
but they all had knowledge and appreciation of the principles of the Bible. The Bible laid the framework for how our government
was set up.
We have fallen a long way from when our country started. Part of it, was a shift in our language. When a pastor had written
to President Jefferson about establishing a national day of prayer, Jefferson wrote back the famous letter mentioning a separation
of Church and State.
To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the
state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury
Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of
my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more
and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none
other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate
with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation
between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience,
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights,
convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for
yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
-emphasis mine- Even reading this in context, with a knowledge of current definitions of words in English, it was to
protect the freedom of religion. A pledge not to make any laws concerning it, and definitely not banning it.
But the meaning, was that the Country will not give preference to any denomination. It's since been used, to take the Bible
and Prayer out of schools, the 10 commandments out of the courthouses, and led to the decay of society.
Even our Ivy League University's were founded to spread the Gospel (message of Christianity) to the world. Now they are caught
up in everything BUT that.
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