Cord Byrd: “it would be my suggestion that this judge go back and read the Declaration of Independence. I wonder if he can hold that…”

“it would be my suggestion that this judge go back and read the Declaration of Independence. I wonder if he can hold that Declaration to be unconstitutional--the Declaration of Independence. This is what it says: When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Let that judge read further, ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed,''--by whom?--``by their Creator.'' It is in the Declaration of Independence, ``by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'' Let that same judge go a little further and read in this same Declaration of Independence, in case he has not read it lately, and let him declare it unconstitutional, the reference to ``the Supreme Judge of the World.'' Who is this ``Supreme Judge of the World?'' Certainly, not some atheist. Nor is it a judge who sits on the Ninth Circuit and whose name is Goodwin.…”