Recently, King Charles
III, speaking before Congress, spoke the following words…
“I am mindful that we are
still in the season of Easter, the season that most strengthens my hope. It is
why I believe, with all my heart, that the essence of our two Nations is a
generosity of spirit and a duty to foster compassion, to promote peace, to deepen
mutual understanding and to value all people, of all faiths, and of none.”
This King of England referred
to Congress as “this citadel of democracy created to represent the voice of all
American people to advance sacred rights and freedoms.”
This British fellow seems
to understand what many leaders, elected, podcasted, or substackted in the United
States seem to have forgotten or never understood to begin with; that these “sacred
rights and freedoms” are for all people, of all faiths, and of none.”
I again invoke a
preeminent right embedded in the Constitution before even the Bill of Rights amended
that Constitution…
Article VI clause 3....
but no religious test
shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
As a Christian, as a
preacher, as a pursuer of Jesus teaching in action, I believe that we should
always foster compassion, promote peace, deepen mutual understanding and value all people whatever religion to
which they subscribe or none. I am convinced that the most basic notion of the
Unted States as envisioned by the framers is that each person is entitled to
their inviolable conscience.
