The Bible is the Foundation of Public Policy

 I find it egregiously odd that so many people are so ignorant as to not know our own history and to still think public policy cannot be legislated with any help of morality and more specifically Scripture. In Chuck McDaniel's letter, Nondiscrimination issue: Scripture cited to influence public policy, he improperly deduces that Scripture has no place in public policy. This idea would have been foreign to our founders. Sadly thanks to football coach history teachers this ignorance is accepted truth.

Samuel Chase said this of Christianity in America, "By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty." This was the reasoning behind the first amendment. Not freedom from religion but a freedom of religion so one denomination was not given a special place over another, as was the case in England. It is foolish and outright bad history to think America ever kept Scripture and policy separate, until recent history. Most colonies had state paid churches up until 1840's. Look it up, read a history book folks.

Patrick Henery said this, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." This too was brought up when they were forging the first amendment. Sadly, more and more live in a lie that America was some how never founded on faith, even though the primary sources clearly say otherwise. So, if that is the case why would we not seek the scriptures for direction in our public policy??

James Madison the father of the Constitution said that. "Religion [is] the basis and Foundation of Government." However, we still think it has no place in policy. The fact is all legislation is in one form or another someone's morality or lack thereof. Mr.McDaniel insulting those people of faith who use the Bible as their foundation of Government should realize they are no different that then men who founded our Government

William Penn founder of the sate of Pennsylvania said this, "If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him....Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Fellow founder and author of the first dictionary Daniel Webster says it better than all, "Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.” Never were truer words spoke.