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Put on the Full Armor

A Response to Coral Ridge Ministries’ Request For Money to Promote Religious Exception to Campaign Finance Laws

By Doug Lewis

You have put on part of the armor and are fighting with part of your strength, and it is a battle you will loose for us all!

Would you encourage your Christian flock to pick and choose the parts of the Bible they are comfortable with and only honor those parts?   How can you defend freedom of religion and not freedom of speech, press and assembly as well?

Your broadcasts rightly warn of the dangers of activist judges and their anti-Christian judgments, but the answer is not raising money for a PR campaign to influence the selection of conservative judges.  Law means fixed, and the role of judges, as you said on your TV show, is to interpret the law and not write it.  Your folly is to mount a Trojan horse campaign in full view of the enemy!  Oh please, evil sirs, do not ignore the law and oppress me anymore.

Existing Congressmen and Senators are enablers of the federal court's government by tyranny.  By making a circus of advise and consent and insisting on nominating candidates who share their conservative or liberal agendas, our lawful representatives divest themselves of their responsibility for making laws that conform to the Constitution and are approved by the represented.  We need Congress and the Senate to reign in the “Activist” courts and reassert their authority to write laws.  To force our elected representatives to be accountable to their oaths of office, 'We the People' must be able to hire and fire.

To make this happen, we must eliminate so called  Campaign reforms that practically guarantee incumbents will be re-elected and that no "new" political party can supplant the Democrats or Republicans, despite the fact that over 1/3rd of voters are now registered independent.  When the legislative branch passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, many among them thought it would fail to pass constitutional muster and that the Supreme Court would overturn at least parts of it.  George Bush questioned BCRA’s Constitutionality but still signed it into law. 

If you study the history of Federal Campaign Laws, you will find they are a recent oppression of the Bill of Rights.  There were not federal campaign regulations until 1907 and no enforcement mechanism until 1975.  This is because there are no federal elections, only elections for federal office held in the individual states.  The tenth Amendment grants authority to regulate elections to the states and the people. 

We the People currently have a friend on the six member board of the Federal Election Commission in the person of Professor Bradley Smith.  I believe it was Senator Ted Kennedy who objected to Mr. Smith’s appointment, as Bradley Smith is strident in his objection to the FEC and believes it is unconstitutional.  Senator Kennedy questioned whether Mr. Smith could be relied on to perform his duties given his belief.  Mr. Smith assured him he would abide with the law, even though he objects to it. 

Mr. Bradley Smith’s situation is a metaphor for Coral Ridge’s approach to fixing our broken Republic.  When Mr. Smith’s tenure is up or his voice is not the in the majority, the Constitution no longer applies!  We need to restore the broken system, not apply a band-aid.

While there is still a chance, put on the full armor, defend the whole 1st Amendment and let’s leave it all out on the field!

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