Andrea Joy Campbell: “I was struck by the eloquence of the gentleman from Oklahoma by adding the references to God in the Declaration of…”

“I was struck by the eloquence of the gentleman from Oklahoma by adding the references to God in the Declaration of Independence. As the heroes drew together in Philadelphia to create our country and knew they were risking their lives, they concluded by saying, And for the support of this declaration, with a firm Reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. Just as they began the declaration with an invocation to God, they concluded it with an expression of firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence. Surely it would confound every one of them to think that the Lord's name could not be expressed by individual citizens on government property. I do believe that if the Supreme Court interpreted the Independence Hall to be government property in Philadelphia in 1776, they would have been hard-pressed to strike down this invocation to the Deity.”