Jim Inhofe: “even though the Founding Fathers were very clear and spoke of ``Nature's God'' and of the ``Creator'' in the Declaration…”

“even though the Founding Fathers were very clear and spoke of ``Nature's God'' and of the ``Creator'' in the Declaration of Independence, the Federal courts are increasingly trying to drive every vestige of faith from public life. On April 30, 2003, came an example from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. As the Boston Globe reported it: Judges bar prayer at public colleges. In a precedent- setting ruling against prayer at a State college, a Federal appeals court has barred the Virginia Military Institute from writing and reciting a prayer before cadets eat their evening meals. VMI and then the Citadel down in South Carolina have scrapped their prayers since that Federal court ruling, though Justice Stevens declared: There is no injunction presently barring VMI from reinstituting the supper prayer. The Naval Academy in Annapolis has also been reviewing its policy. The ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, is calling on the academy to review its practices of leading the students in prayer. Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for the Boston Globe who wrote in 1996: Have you heard about the Virginia politician who wanted references to God injected into the Declaration of Independence? Or about the activist from Massachusetts who urged making the Fourth of July a quasi-religious holiday? These proposals were made 220 years ago. Today they would be swiftly denounced by the ACLU, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and a slew of editorial pages.…”