Timeless wisdom.

Keeping my powder dry...

A perfect example of what used to be... and probably will never be again. Therefore... America's decline will only escalate.

To the "thumbs down" crew... I give you Proverbs 18:2.

It is a shame that so few know this principle.

"In pure Christianity, there is pure acceptance for all Religions and Beliefs. " - No. There is tolerance for all religions and beliefs to the extent that a Christian recognizes that "there but by the grace of God, go I". To "accept" all religions and beliefs would make the Christian a hypocrite.

Justice Clark, in his arrogance, has discarded legal precedent and shown his ignorance of the U.S. Constitution and the original intent of the Founders of this nation. “The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.” - Joseph Story - Commentaries on the Constitution (Joseph Story - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, along with James Kent - known as a “Father of American Jurisprudence”, educator, founder of Harvard Law School, his father was one of the “Indians” of the Boston Tea Party in 1773) “Though the constitution has discarded religious establishments, it does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offenses against religion and morality which have not reference to any such establishment....This [constitutional] declaration (noble and magnanimous as it is, when duly understood) never meant to withdraw religion in general, and with it the best sanctions of moral and social obligation from all consideration and notice of law....To construe it [the Constitution] as breaking down the common law barriers against licentious, wanton, and impious attacks upon Christianity itself, would be an enormous perversion of its meaning.” - James Kent - along with Joseph Story, known as a “Father of American Jurisprudence”, educator, jurist, first Professor of Law at Columbia College “Christianity was parcel of the law and to cast contumelious [insulting] reproaches upon it tended to weaken...the efficacy of oaths.” James Kent

Freedom should never be equated with license. This quote seems to give license to the pornographers. Such a dismissive attitude towards the protection of, and encouragement of, good morals - justly deserves the condemnation of all. Censorship is not a four letter word and communities have the right to guard their moral standards. I wonder of the competency of an organization that in error calls America a democracy. This quote seems only to compound their ignorance.

This seems unsupportable given other things Lincoln said. I would like to see the source of the quote and the context of the selection.