By Ted Sampley
In late 2003, I presented the Lenoir County, North Carolina, Board of Commissioners a resolution reaffirming "God as the foundation of America's moral code, laws and national heritage." It was passed in January 2004.
The resolution, which originated in Greene County Tennessee, was first approved by Greene County and several other Tennessee local governments. It is now being considered by local governments in North Carolina and other states. Plans are to have the resolution passed by all state governments and in the US Congress.

God Resolution
 

WHEREAS, our Government was founded upon a trust in God, that began when our Founding Fathers proclaimed in America's first official document, our Declaration of Independence, that our rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," were not given to us by government, but by God "our Creator", the "Sovereign Judge of the Universe," and.....

WHEREAS, it is a fact that the vast majority of those who drafted and signed the US Constitution had a strong belief and trust in God, and never ever intended that there be a separation between God and the affairs of Government, only that all citizens would be protected from laws that would prevent the freedom of religion to worship, or not to worship as each individual chooses, and...

WHEREAS, historically our Government has acknowledged God on our National Currency, in our Pledge of Allegiance, in our National Motto "In God We Trust," and other acknowledgments of God appearing on many of this Nation's greatest Monuments, Memorials, and buildings, including the Ten Commandments, represented in the U.S. Supreme Court Building,

BE IT RESOLVED by the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate concurring, that the acknowledgment of God, especially in public institutions, coupled with our individual religious freedoms are the very Foundation of Our National Heritage, and therefore must be preserved.....



Blood sacrifices of our Founding Fathers
When, on July 4, 1776, 56 American colonists rebelled against their king and fixed their signatures to a Declaration of Independence, they pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor. They did so fortified with the belief that they were answering to a higher law than the King of England.
Thomas Jefferson underscored their thoughts when he wrote in the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."
Many of the signers of the Declaration paid dearly for signing.
Five were soon captured by the British and treated as traitors. They were tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
Today, Americans are forgetting the blood sacrifices of our Founding Fathers and are carelessly allowing the Judeo-Christian traditions that guided our Founders' to be literally deleted from our lives and history.
There are some in this country rallying under "separation of church and state" who are working relentlessly to delete all references to our Creator from American history.