AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE: By Pastor James Wright

AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE:

2 Corinthians 3:17 ( reads:”Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
IN THE UNITED STATES, LIBERTY IS A FUNDAMENTAL VALUE DEFINED AS FREEDOM FROM ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT RESTRAINT, COUPLED WITH THE AUTONOMY TO MAKE PERSONAL CHOICES. ROOTED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, IT ENCOMPASSES CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES, ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE, AND THE PROTECTION OF NATURAL RIGHTS UNDER THE RULE OF LAW.

All presidents of the United States are required by Article ii, Section I, Clause 8 of the Constitution to take an oath promising to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.Before entering office, every president must solemnly swear or affirm the following:“ I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GUARANTEES LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE FOR ALL ITS CITIZENS, NOTHING IS DEARER OR MORE FUNDAMENTAL, BUT THE ROMAN CHURCH ADMITTED IN THEIR ENCYCLICAL THAT, “Liberty Of Conscience” is Absurd and Erroneous. Pope Pius ix, in his Encyclical Letter of August 15,1854, said: THE ABSURD AND ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES OR RAVINGS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE ARE A MOST PESTILENTIAL ERROR, A PEST OF ALL OTHERS, MOST TO BE DREADED IN A STATE.The same Pope, in his Encyclical Letter of December 8,1864, anathematized those who assert the Liberty of Conscience and of religious worship, also “ all such as maintain that the Roman Church may not employ force.

So when William Henry Harrison was elected to the Presidency of the United States in the year 1841, he was already well up in years at 67, but he was very healthy and robust. All who knew him felt that he would have no problem going through his full four years in office. However, just thirty-five days after taking the oath of office, President Harrison was dead on April 4,1841. 20TH Century historian, Burke McCarty in his book “The Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Arya Varta Publishing page 44-46” says that President Harrison died from arsenic poisoning, administered by the tools of Rome. The Jesuit Oath had been swiftly carried out, after President Harrison made his inaugural address, and remarked that,” We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned, the beneficent Creator has made no distinction among men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern, is upon the expressed grant of power from the governed. Harrison violated the so-called divine right that all governments must operate under the dictates of the Pope and the Roman Church. But in reality, the President’s loyalty was to the Constitution of the United States, which he sworn to protect.

ON SEPTEMBER 12,1960 AT THE RICE HOTEL IN HOUTON TEXAS, Senator Kennedy, campaigning for the Presidency of the United States, addressed “The Greater Houston Ministerial Association” in these words: “ I BELIEVE IN AN AMERICA, WHERE THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS ABSOLUTE, WHERE NO CATHOLIC PRELATE WOULD TELL THE PRESIDENT, SHOULD HE BE CATHOLIC, HOW TO ACT, AND NO PROTESTANT MINISTER WOUL TELL HIS PARISHIONERS FOR WHOM TO VOTE. WHERE NO
CHURCH OR CHURCH- SCHOOL IS GRANTED ANY PUBLIC FUNDS, OR POLITICAL PREFERENCE. I BELIEVE IN AN AMERICA THAT IS OFFICIALLY NEITHER CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT NOR JEWISH, WHERE NO PUBLIC OFFICIAL EITHER REQUESTS OR ACCEPTS INSTRUCTION ON PUBLIC POLICY FROM THE POPE, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, OR ANY OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL SOURCE. WHERE NO RELIGIOUS BODY SEEKS TO IMPOSE ITS WILL, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY UPON GENERAL POPULACE OR THE PUBLIC ACTS OF ITS OFFICIAL, AND WHERE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS SO INDIVISIBLE, THAT AN ACT AGAINST ONE CHURCH, IS AN ACT AGAINST ALL.

This kind of Constitutional conformity, embraced by the then Senator Kennedy, who became the 35th President of the United States, was not good news for the Roman Church, who asserts divine right over the sovereignty of nations. It was the night of September 13,1814, when an American Lawyer by the name of Francis Scott Key visited his client, William Beanes who was a prisoner of war, held on a ship in Baltimore, Maryland. Key came to negotiate his client’s release, and soon after his arrival, the British started their bombardment of Fort McHenry, that lasted all night. Towards morning, a dreadful silence fell over Fort McHenry. Either Fort McHenry had surrendered and the British flag flew above it, or the bombardment had failed, and the American flag flew.

As dawn began to brighten the Eastern sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the Fort, trying to see which flag flows over it. The report is that one man asks the other, “CAN YOU SEE THE FLAG?” Key wrote the fourth stanza when they saw the American flag flowing over Fort McHenry.

• Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight…
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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