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William Barr Wants To Bring ‘God’s Law’ To America
William Barr Wants To Bring ‘God’s Law’ To America
Rob Boston
“Americans United for Separation of Church and State,” “Americans United” and “Church & State” are registered trademarks of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Overview of the article by mainly pulling out the direct quotes of Barr concerning religious education and that taxes should pay for it.
Is this the job of the Attorney General. What is Barr doing to try to bring this about?
It appears to me that there is only one reason Barr is fighting on Trump's team. The goal is to get federal funding for religious schools and in the case of Barr, Catholic schools.
READ ON!
Just last month, Barr joined former attorneys general Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey in a Washington Post column praising the views of Jeff Sessions, the ex Attorney General for his October 2017 directive “to all executive departments containing guidance for protecting religious expression.” The Sessions order, Americans United pointed out, is just a blueprint for using religion to discriminate.
Americans United criticized the guidance for insisting that religious organizations have a right to take taxpayer money and discriminate against employees and the people they serve.
Below are some quotes made by Barr and also some beliefs that can be gleaned from Barr's writings over time. These I believe are very important to understand who Barr really is and to what is his agenda. It appears to be to further the cause of religious, specifically Catholic education with taxes paying the cost of religious instruction. Read on:
In a speech, Barr blasted public schools for no longer providing moral instruction. He asserted that public schools had undergone a “moral lobotomy” and blamed it on “extremist notions of separation of church and state.”
During speech to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, a traditionalist Catholic group, Barr called for the imposition of “God’s law” in America.
“To the extent that a society’s moral culture is based on God’s law, it will guide men toward the best possible life,” Barr said.
“modern secularists” ... “The secularists of today are clearly fanatics.”
“Traditional Judeo-Christian doctrine maintains that there is a transcendent moral order with objective standards of right and wrong that exists independent of man’s will. This transcendent order flows from God’s eternal law – the divine will by which the whole of creation is ordered.”
“a steady and mounting assault on traditional values” spawned “soaring juvenile crime, widespread drug addiction and skyrocketing venereal diseases.”
Barr bemoaned no-fault divorce laws, legal abortion and laws designed to “restrain sexual immorality, obscenity or euthanasia.”
Barr attacked the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lee v. Weisman, a 1992 ruling that upheld the high court’s decisions from 1962 and ’63 barring public schools from compelling children to take part in prayer and worship.
“From a legal standpoint, our initial focus should be on education and efforts to strengthen and finance education,” observed Barr. “This means vouchers at the state level and ultimately at the federal level to support parental choice in education. We should press at every turn for the inclusion of religious institutions.”
How did we allow a person with these views to become Attorney General? I am a more liberal Christian. I believe that the hour of Sunday School, the hour for activities on Sunday night and on Wednesday night are the place to teach the next generation my church's beliefs.
I am not expecting tax supported schools to teach Christian beliefs and bring the students into a "saving relationship with Jesus Christ." That duty belongs to the parents and to the church they attend if they are Christians.
If it can't be covered in three hours a week, then having five hours a week instead won't work very well either, especially if in school it is taught without regard to how the students are receiving instruction.
The church has to find ways to make instruction interesting so that students want to come. The instruction will have much better results as a result than if the instruction is in a required class where the teacher doesn't care the least about making the lessons interesting.
It is the parents' job to see that religious instruction is taught, not the federal government or any government.
To some, this doesn't relate to Barr's involvement in Trump's impeachment inquiries. I contend just the oppossite is true. Barr is 69. There is a reason Barr came from retirement to join the Trump administration.
As a devout Catholic, Barr didn't do this because he considers Trump to be a very moral person.
I believe that Barr became Attorney General for the purpose of advancing the use of taxes to fund religious and private schools. This has been a long time goal. Trump is giving the right wing Christians everything that they want ot get their loyalty.
In the next few days and weeks we need to learn all that there is to learn about Barr and what makes him tick to Trump's beat and why?
This thread can be used for all these discussions about Barr and his relationship to Trump concerning impeachment and why Barr came out of retirement to do this!
William Barr Wants To Bring ‘God’s Law’ To America
William Barr Wants To Bring ‘God’s Law’ To America
Rob Boston
“Americans United for Separation of Church and State,” “Americans United” and “Church & State” are registered trademarks of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Overview of the article by mainly pulling out the direct quotes of Barr concerning religious education and that taxes should pay for it.
Is this the job of the Attorney General. What is Barr doing to try to bring this about?
It appears to me that there is only one reason Barr is fighting on Trump's team. The goal is to get federal funding for religious schools and in the case of Barr, Catholic schools.
READ ON!
Just last month, Barr joined former attorneys general Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey in a Washington Post column praising the views of Jeff Sessions, the ex Attorney General for his October 2017 directive “to all executive departments containing guidance for protecting religious expression.” The Sessions order, Americans United pointed out, is just a blueprint for using religion to discriminate.
Americans United criticized the guidance for insisting that religious organizations have a right to take taxpayer money and discriminate against employees and the people they serve.
Below are some quotes made by Barr and also some beliefs that can be gleaned from Barr's writings over time. These I believe are very important to understand who Barr really is and to what is his agenda. It appears to be to further the cause of religious, specifically Catholic education with taxes paying the cost of religious instruction. Read on:
In a speech, Barr blasted public schools for no longer providing moral instruction. He asserted that public schools had undergone a “moral lobotomy” and blamed it on “extremist notions of separation of church and state.”
During speech to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, a traditionalist Catholic group, Barr called for the imposition of “God’s law” in America.
“To the extent that a society’s moral culture is based on God’s law, it will guide men toward the best possible life,” Barr said.
“modern secularists” ... “The secularists of today are clearly fanatics.”
“Traditional Judeo-Christian doctrine maintains that there is a transcendent moral order with objective standards of right and wrong that exists independent of man’s will. This transcendent order flows from God’s eternal law – the divine will by which the whole of creation is ordered.”
“a steady and mounting assault on traditional values” spawned “soaring juvenile crime, widespread drug addiction and skyrocketing venereal diseases.”
Barr bemoaned no-fault divorce laws, legal abortion and laws designed to “restrain sexual immorality, obscenity or euthanasia.”
Barr attacked the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lee v. Weisman, a 1992 ruling that upheld the high court’s decisions from 1962 and ’63 barring public schools from compelling children to take part in prayer and worship.
“From a legal standpoint, our initial focus should be on education and efforts to strengthen and finance education,” observed Barr. “This means vouchers at the state level and ultimately at the federal level to support parental choice in education. We should press at every turn for the inclusion of religious institutions.”
How did we allow a person with these views to become Attorney General? I am a more liberal Christian. I believe that the hour of Sunday School, the hour for activities on Sunday night and on Wednesday night are the place to teach the next generation my church's beliefs.
I am not expecting tax supported schools to teach Christian beliefs and bring the students into a "saving relationship with Jesus Christ." That duty belongs to the parents and to the church they attend if they are Christians.
If it can't be covered in three hours a week, then having five hours a week instead won't work very well either, especially if in school it is taught without regard to how the students are receiving instruction.
The church has to find ways to make instruction interesting so that students want to come. The instruction will have much better results as a result than if the instruction is in a required class where the teacher doesn't care the least about making the lessons interesting.
It is the parents' job to see that religious instruction is taught, not the federal government or any government.
To some, this doesn't relate to Barr's involvement in Trump's impeachment inquiries. I contend just the oppossite is true. Barr is 69. There is a reason Barr came from retirement to join the Trump administration.
As a devout Catholic, Barr didn't do this because he considers Trump to be a very moral person.
I believe that Barr became Attorney General for the purpose of advancing the use of taxes to fund religious and private schools. This has been a long time goal. Trump is giving the right wing Christians everything that they want ot get their loyalty.
In the next few days and weeks we need to learn all that there is to learn about Barr and what makes him tick to Trump's beat and why?
This thread can be used for all these discussions about Barr and his relationship to Trump concerning impeachment and why Barr came out of retirement to do this!