“1963”

At a press conference in Turkey, on April 7, 2009, President Obama stated, emphatically, that the United States of America is a Judeo-Christian nation. “One of the great strengths of the United States," the President said, "is ... we have a very large Christian population -- we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
Roman Emperors Constantine and Theodosius, through personal experiences, turned to Christianity. Consequently, both sought to purge the Roman Empire of godlessness through the principles of Christianity. Their rule marked a new chapter in the history of church and state

Seeking refuge from governmental tyranny, our ancestors fled Europe and sought freedom in America. Our forefathers understood the value of religion as a stabilizing force of goodness in society. Like Roman Emperors Constantine and Theodosius before us, they based the laws of government upon biblical teachings.

Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court of the United States has steadfastly become more liberal, ideologically and philosophically, most notably, with the landmark decision, in 1963, to remove prayer from public schools throughout America. The religious foundation, upon which our laws of governance were created, is being systematically dismantled. Now it is God who is being purged from our government.

Atheist Madelyn Murray O’Hare began a lawsuit, Murray v. Curlett, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling, in June of 1963, ending the practice of daily prayer in American public schools. O'Hare later founded American Atheists and became so controversial that, in 1964, Life magazine referred to her as "the most hated woman in America." She was murdered in 1995, along with her son and granddaughter, for reasons unrelated to her public image and activism.

The Supreme Court edict, far-reaching, in scope, formally declared God a non-person---a non-entity---tantamount to the crazy old aunt kept hidden in the cellar. From that day, hence, not only has prayer been outlawed, God's very name has been declared anathema to the United States Constitution, and forbidden to be mentioned in any federal, state, county, city or municipal context.

The Supreme Court decision, in June 1963, started an avalanche of decrees that would further limit religious freedom in the U.S. Not just prayer is forbidden in public forum. Display of the cross is forbidden. The Ten Commandments are forbidden. The Bible is forbidden. Nativity plays are forbidden. Christmas concerts are forbidden. Even the mere mention of the names "God" or "Jesus" in schools are forbidden. More than that, anything even suggestive of those names is forbidden in public forums. The religious Zeitgist of America, before the Supreme Court decision, of June 1963, was captured in the following:

The government's legal decision was stunning. Up to that moment, most people considered the United States government tantamount to a church. The morality echoed by both was virtually identical. It was that perceived union which inspired the public's reverence for its political system in the first place. Just as it is today, almost every person in the country at the time of the court decision was Christian. Displays of the Ten Commandments, the parables, gospel quotations and Christian exhortations were everywhere. There were prayers in public schools, in public forums, in virtually all government affairs and in Congress. Public grammar schools conducted nativity plays. The morality of society was born of Judeo-Christian principles. Forgiveness was an essential principle in the land. Greed and corruption had not grown into the uncontrollable behemoth that it is today. Businesses closed their doors on Good Friday. God and Jesus were ubiquitous in almost every aspect of American society.

Suddenly all that was gone. All of it purged from the American scene in one sudden ruling. --Goodnews Christian Ministry,


How has America changed since prayer was outlawed in our nation’s schools, in 1963?

A. Youth
1. For 15 years before 1963, pregnancies in girls ages 15 through 19 years had been no more than 15 per thousand. After 1963, pregnancies increased 187% in the next 15 years.
2. For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies since 1963 are up 553%.
3. Before 1963 sexually transmitted diseases among students were 400 per 100,000. Since 1963, they were up 226% in the next 12 years.


B. Family
1. Before 1963 divorce rates had been declining for 15 years. After 1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the next 15 years.
2. Since 1963 unmarried people living together is up 353%
3. Since 1963 single parent families are up 140%.
4. Since 1963 single parent families with children are up 160%.


C. Education
1. The educational standard of measure has been the SAT scores. SAT scores had been steady for many years before 1963. From 1963 they rapidly declined for 18 consecutive years, even though the same test has been used since 1941.

2. In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores decreased, even though they continued to decline. That was when there was an explosion of private religious schools. There were only 1000 Christian schools in 1965. Between 1974 to 1984 they increased to 32,000.
a. That could have an impact if the private schools had higher SAT scores. In checking with the SAT Board it was found that indeed the SAT scores for private schools were nearly 100 points higher than public schools.
b. In fact the scores were at the point where the public schools had been before their decline started in 1963 when prayer and Bible reading/ instruction was removed from the schools.
c. The scores in the public schools were still declining.

3. Of the nation's top academic scholars, three times as many come from private religious schools, which operate on one-third the funds as do the public schools.

D. The Nation
1. Since 1963 violent crime has increased 544%.
3. Illegal drugs have become an enormous & uncontrollable problem.
2. The nation has been deprived of an estimated 30 million citizens through legal abortions just since 1973.


The chance of being murdered in Washington, DC in 1990 was 3 times greater than the chance of an American soldier being killed in the Gulf War.

About as many Americans were killed (over 54,000) in New York City between 1962 and 2002 as died in the Vietnam War

From the gangland era of the 1930s to 1963 there was a gradual decline in both murders & executions in the United States. In 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court imposed rules on confessions & searches that accompanied a popular sentiment increasingly opposed to capital punishment -- and in 1972 struck down capital punishment laws as being "arbitrary and capricious".

In the early 1960s the vast majority of murder victims were acquainted with the murderer, but by the year 2000 nearly half of murder victims were strangers.

When the World War II Memorial was erected recently in Washington D.C., a quotation by Franklin Delano Roosevelt --- "so help me God" --- was removed from the plaque.

The principles of Christianity, recognized by Constantine, Theodosius, and our founding fathers, as guidelines of morality, necessary to form and sustain a nation, at its best, are being abandoned by many leaders of our government.

Not surprisingly, to me, Barack Obama seems to have a personal agenda of diminishing the role of Christianity in American society. For what purpose? He says we are a “nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values”. I say, whose ideals and whose set of values?

Mans’ ideals and values change like the wind. The values created by God Almighty are in perpetuity. They never change. They have served us well for over two-thousand years.

Who is Obama to try to diminish my God? Hitler tried to diminish my God and committed suicide. Mussolini tried to diminish my God; and he was killed by his own countrymen and hung by his heels in a square in Italy. Madelyn Murray O’Hare tried to diminish my God and she was murdered, along with her son and granddaughter [the murders were unrelated to her public image and activism].

Atheists and tyrants come and go. God goes on.

I don’t believe Obama is evil like Hitler of Mussolina, but I do believe that operating and living by principles, other than principles set forth in the Bible, is an invitation to tragedy and disaster. Obama is in the position, as the most powerful man in the world, to bring tragedy and disaster down upon the head of every man, woman, and child in the United States.

How do you think Jesus must have felt when he heard Obama say that America is not a Christian nation?