Proof of the Illuminati
On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati in Bavaria. In 1784, writing of the Illuminati were intercepted in Bavaria, the organization was banned ,and Weishaupt fled Bavaria. Two books, Proofs of a Conspiracy by Professor John Robinson and Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism by Abbe were published in the mi to late 1790s. In 1802, Reverend Seth Payson of Rindge, NH wrote Proof of the Illuminati and exposing the Illuminati was part of in Rev. Payson’s State Senate successful campaign.
Camp Constitution Press put it back in print. Here is the foreword to the book:
This work, Proof of the Illuminati, was first published in 1802 under the longer title Proofs of
the Real Existence, and Dangerous Tendency, of Illuminism. It was printed in Charlestown,
Massachusetts by Samuel Etheridge for the author, Seth Payson. Reverend Seth Payson, D. D.
was born in 1758 and died in 1820. He, like his father, Rev. Phillips Payson, and several of his
brothers, became a Congregational preacher. After graduating from Harvard, he was appointed.
as the minister of the Congregational church in Rindge, New Hampshire in 1782, and held this
post for the rest of his life. At least one of his sons also followed him into the ministry. Payson
was very active in establishing new churches for communities in northern New England,
including the church in Coventry, Vermont. He was the author of numerous sermons, several of
which were published and had a modest distribution. Additionally, Payson helped educate and
provide for Sophia Sawyer, a woman who would later become famous for establishing the
Fayetteville Female Academy. Rev. Payson served in the New Hampshire State senate from
1802-1805. He was a staunch Federalist supporter. Along with its alarming message regarding.
both religion and state, Proof of the Illuminati was also a part of Payson’s campaign platform.
A link to a free PDF download of the book:
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Exposing Earth Day
This morning, I received numerous E-mails from companies- national and local- from Best Buy to Miles Kimball to the Monadnock Ledger -pushing Earth Day. I flipped on my TV to see that even Fox News is also in on the Earth Day hustle. No surprise. Fox News also promotes “Pride Month.” But instead of going along with the fraud, we at Camp Constitution will expose it.
The first Earth Day was observed on April 22, 1970 which just so happened to be the 100 Anniversary of the birth of Lenin, a syphilitic, mass murdering psychopath that members of the American Left loved and admired.
Gary Allen, author and journalist wrote an expose of Earth Day titled “Ecology Government Control of the Environment” which was published in the May 1970 edition of “The American Opinion”: Here is an excerpt:
Nobody is willing to admit who
selected the date of April twenty-second
for the “Earth Day” teach-ins. That is,
after all, the one -hundredth anniversary
of Lenin’s birth. A coincidence you
think? The student activists just picked a
convenient weekend? Hardly. April
twenty-second falls on a Wednesday. For
months the radical and Communist Press
has been detailing plans to celebrate
Lenin’s centennial birthday with worldwide demonstrations.
April twenty second is as familiar a date to these people as Washington’s Birthday is to real
Americans. The selection of this date as
“Earth Day” provides an excellent indication of who is running the campus ecology movement.
I telephoned the Teach-In’s national
coordinator, Denis Hayes, to ask him how
April twenty-second happened to be
selected for the ecology festivities. Mr.
Hayes, late of Harvard ‘s Graduate School
of Government, had obviously memorized his answer: “It also happens to be
William Shakespeare’s birthday , Queen
Elizabeth’s birthday, Maryanna Kaufman’s birthday and her Aunt Ann’s birthday, but I am sure that none of those
entered into Gaylord Nelson’s thoughts
when he and the steering committee or
whoever it was chose that date .”
Mr. Hayes should avoid lying about
matters so easily checked. The date settled upon as the natal day of William
Shakespeare is April 23 , I564 ; Queen
Elizabeth was born on April 21 , 1926.
Which leads one to suspect that even
Hayes’ friends Maryanna Kaufman and
her aunt (if they exist) might well have
been born on some Friday the thirteenth
for all he knows. What else do you
suppose Mr. Hayes lies about?
Here is a link to the article in its entirety: https://s3.amazonaws.com/camppictures/CampArchive/Domestic/Ecology.pdf
The greatest polluters are governments especially in communist countries where there is no private property. An excellent read on the subject is Troubled Lands The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction.
Camp Constitution believes that we are stewards of God’s Earth, and we have a duty and obligation to be good and wise stewards of God’s Earth, but we do not worship the Earth nor do we think that allowing governments unlimited powers over property will insure a clean and healthy environment. Last year, we became a sponsor of two miles of highway in Alton, NH where we organize two clean-ups a year. We encouraged local left-wing groups to do likewise but they have not risen to the challenge, Perhaps they are too busy holding signs at the local rotary on Saturday morning urging the killing of unborn babies.
Camp Constitution’s First Quarter Report for 2023
Camp Constitution in the News:
Our “Shurtleff v Boston” decision has been mentioned numerous times around the United States over the past three months including “USA Today” and this article: https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2023/03/16/heres-why-the-unanimous-shurtleff-decision-is-even-more-important-than-6-3-dobbs-n1678939 Our case has motivated people around the county to petition their towns and cities to fly the Christian flag including Mr. Alex Destino of Gloucester: https://www.bostonbroadside.com/cross/12851/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=12851
Our news release announcing a Constitution Study Course in Alton, NH got front page coverage and generated plenty of interest in our course:
Special Projects:
In January, Camp Constitution donated 1,100 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Laconia, NH Junior High, and High Schools. This has opened up the doors to other donations to schools in the region.
Laconia, NH School Committee member Dawn Johnson presents our donated Constitutions to the Laconia School Committee.
YouTube, Rumble Channels and Bitchute Channels
We received over 25 thousand views on our YouTube Channel this quarter, 261 new subscribers giving us 7,40 subscribers overall. As mentioned in early reports, we expect to have our channel deleted anytime e even though we successfully and surprisingly challenged two YouTube strikes. So, we are downloading man of the videos from the YouTube channel and uploading them along with some new videos to our Rumble and Bitchute channels. Our Rumble channel had 1,700 views this quarter and our Bitchute channel has 2,000.
The Sam Blumenfeld Archive:
212,000 views., 1,800 downloads of “Alpha-Phonics, and 1,076 “Alpha-Phonics” manual, and over 3,000 downloads of Sam’s other books. If you haven’t already, please visit and subscribe to the archives: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/
Camp Constitution Radio on Podomatic:
We remain in the top five for the conservative category with 2,530 downloads, 312 plays and we uploaded 58 audios including some by Gary Allen, Larry McDonald, George Schuyler, and Alan Stang speeches from the 1970s and 1980s. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal
Facebook Page:
We continue to average fifty likes per month. We also admin about eight groups including Friend of the Constitution in ME, NH, MA, CT, RI. PA, VT, and Stop the Constitutional Convention.
Speaker’s Bureau:
Inclement weather led to a cancelation of several of our planned events, but we still held eight events including two speaking engagements for Pastor William Levi of Operation Nehemiah.
Camp Constitution’s Website:
We had 10,000 views for this period, and posted 59 blogs: https://www.campconstitution.net
Camp Constitution Book Sales:
We have raised close to $1,500 from donated books from our Amazon, Facebook page, and on-line bookstore. https://campconstitution.net/shop/
Camp Constitution Press
We published Being Revolutionary Women: A Message from the Women of the “Ladies Gallery by Maria Perez. Copies may be ordered here: https://campconstitution.net/product/being-revolutionary-women-a-message-from-the-women-of-the-ladies-gallery/
Article V Convention:
We helped defeat two Article V resolutions in New Hampshire, wrote several articles on the subject in on-line and print media, and participated in a national conference call hosted by Tamara Scott who hosts a show on Frank Speech.
Radio and Cable TV:
We were guests on “Chattin with Janine: a popular Cable TV Show hosted by NH State Rep and long-tine friend Janine Notter. We appeared as a guest on Tamara Scott’s show on Frank Speech, https://frankspeech.com/video/tamara-scott-show-joined-hal-shurtleff-camp-constitution and an appearance on the Ed Martin Radio Show which is nationally syndicated: https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/wynk-back-to-basics-with-hal-shurtleff/
Looking into the Second Quarter of 2023:
We have a busy schedule which includes a home school overnight at the Lane House to take in the Battle of Lexington Reenactment, two homeschool shows, keynote speaker at the Homeschoolers of Maine’s Annual State House event, and four speaking engagements for Julie Wilkerson, former abortion nurse turned Pro-Life activist.
Camp Constitution Ladies Group:
The Third Annual Spring Fling takes place May 5-7 at the Singing Hills Christian Camp. Speakers include Valery McDonnell, the youngest elected official in the United States and former abortion nurse turned Pro-Life activist Julie Wilkinson. Julie played a role in the movie “Unplanned.”
Camp Constitution’s 15th Annual Family Camp
We are looking forward to another full house at our annual family camp with new guest speakers author and documentary producer Vince Ellison, and Valery McDonnell mentioned above.
Second Annual Family Retreat:
We return to Camp Sentinel in Tuftonboro, NH for our 2nd Annual Weekend Family Retreat Friday September 29 to Sunday October 1.
How you can help Camp Constitution grow:
* Keep Camp Constitution and our nation in your prayers.
* Become a donor. Monthly and/or one-time donations can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website https://www.campconstitution.net
* Host one of our speakers
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* Introduce Camp Constitution to family and friends.
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Thank you for all you do in the freedom movement. May God bless you.
Hal Shurtleff, Director
Camp Constitution
VA School District Discriminates Against Christian Viewpoint
ASHBURN, VA – Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to the superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia on behalf of a high school teacher who was directed to remove her non-school-sponsored, private expression of a Bible verse from her email signature block, while the school district allows other employees to use other quotes or statements. Liberty Counsel is requesting that the school district permit the teacher to restore the Bible verse to her email signature block.
The directive from the school district to the teacher to remove an expression of her personal faith from her email signature block, based solely on its perceived religious nature, constitutes religious discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and school district policy, which prohibits religious discrimination based on religious viewpoint.
This teacher seeks to inspire her students to excellence and the foundation for teaching is her personal faith in Jesus Christ. Because her faith is such a part of who she is, and inspires her life and work, she has included the Bible verse John 3:16 (“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life”), as part of her email signature block since she was hired at the school. After the teacher was directed to remove that verse, she proposed an alternative verse, Proverbs 22:6 (“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it”). This was also rejected by the school district for the same reason: it was a Bible verse.
On the other hand, the school district permits teachers to personalize their signature blocks with quotations, pictures, phrases, or pronouns that are intended to express the teachers’ personal views on a variety of subjects, and that are attributable to the teachers, and not to the school district. For example, one teacher uses a quote by Cesar Chavez (“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our students”) and another has a quote by Frederick Douglass (“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”). Other teachers also include simple motivational quotes such as “Have courage and be kind,” and others include small pictures under their signatures with an encouraging or inspiring message.
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) does not have a written policy governing email signature blocks and incorrectly claimed that including the Bible verse is prohibited by the Establishment Clause. In addition, Acting Superintendent Dr. Daniel Smith, Ed.D. claims that LCPS School Board Policy 7566 prohibits the teacher from using the Bible verse in her email signature. However, in reality, the policy only forbids obscene or vulgar language and conduct prohibited by law.
Dr. Smith responded to Liberty Counsel’s letter by stating, “Simply put, the general inclusion of religious quotes in communications LCPS employees send while in their public capacities is not private expression and runs afoul of the Establishment Clause, and as such, bars LCPS, as a local governmental entity, from taking sides in religious disputes or favoring or disfavoring anyone based on religion or belief, or lack thereof. To be clear, LCPS’s determination is not based on any particular religious viewpoint, and LCPS would take a consistent approach as it has here with respect to any religious expression incorporated in an LCPS employee’s email signature block of which it becomes aware.”
However, the First Amendment requires that the school district may not discriminate against the teacher’s private religious expression. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court and various federal courts have confirmed that organizations and individuals holding a religious viewpoint may not be subject to discrimination or censorship on the basis of that viewpoint. For example, in Liberty Counsel’s case, Shurtleff v. City of Boston, the High Court unanimously ruled that the city of Boston violated the Constitution by censoring a private flag in a public forum open to “all applicants” merely because the application referred to it as a “Christian flag.” The High Court unanimously rejected Boston’s use of the “Lemon Test” to censor Christian viewpoints. Then in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the High Court ruled in favor of the high school football coach and also finally buried the court-made “Lemon Test” citing Liberty Counsel’s 9-0 decision handed down in Shurtleff v. City of Boston involving the Christian flag.
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The decisions from the Supreme Court involving the Christian flag and Coach Kennedy send a clear message that the ‘Lemon Test’ has finally been buried and government must not discriminate based on religious viewpoint. Loudoun County Public Schools cannot discriminate against a teacher who wants to use a Bible verse in her signature when other teachers are including nonreligious quotes.”
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Camp Constitution Donates 1,500 Pocket Copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Alton-Barnstead, NH Schools
Last night, Tuesday April 4, Rev. Steve Craft and I presented 1,500 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to Mr. Tim Broadrick, Superintendent of Alton and Barnstead, NH Schools and the School Committee. Prior to the meeting, Mr. Broadrick handed copies to the members of the board. I made some comments pointing out the sad state of an understanding of the Constitution in the nation, and thanked the committee for accepting the donation and ensuring that their students will have a knowledge and appreciation of our Constitution. I referred to the U.S. Constitution as an “owner’s manual for a free people.” We also offered Alton High School’s history club a visit to our learning center in Lexington, MA, and a tour of Lexington and Concord. MA
This donation came about after Mr. Broadrick read our article about our donation of pocket Constitutions to the Laconia, NH’s junior high and high school back in January which was posted on the “Alton Uncensored” Facebook page https://campconstitution.net/camp-constitution-donates-pocket-u-s-constitutions-to-high-school-and-junior-high-students-in-laconia-nh/ We have plans to make donations of these Constitutions to other school in the region.
Since Camp Constitution’s inception in 2009, we have donated and distributed over 30,000 pocket Constitutions. And we are just getting started. We purchase our Constitutions from the National Center for Constitutional Studies https://nccs.net/
Readers who would like to help our efforts may donate via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net or by check payable to Camp Constitution and sent to my address at 146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH 03809
Christians Discriminated on Cape Cod: Local Media Silent
Since our 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court victory Shurtleff v Boston, http://lc.org/flag numerous people from around the country have reached out to me for advice. One group Concerned Christians of Bourne (Cape Cod, MA), contacted me last year explaing that their Council on Aging (COA) has eight “Progress Pride” flag decals. I suggested that they get equal space for the Christian flag decals. What follows is a recent letter to the editor that was not published by their local media, and a message to Alliance Defending Freedom-a Chrisitan legal group that, like Liberty Counsel who were our legal team, take cases pro bono
Video link of Trustees meeting on Feb 28 that affirmed the LGBTQ+ decals and rejected our request for Christian decals:
Letter-to-the-Editor to the Bourne Enterprise was rejected outright (and dishonestly). After 4 weeks, no one in town knows that the Trustees meeting took place, let alone its subject matter. This is the letter to the Editor that gives a good description of what went on:
” Dear Editor,
On May 2, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Boston had to also display the Christian flag along with the LGBTQ+ flag. Fitchburg and Plymouth have also had to do the same. A Christian group in Bourne requested of Bourne’s Town Administrator for the same policy here in regard to the LGBTQ+ decals being displayed on the Council on Aging windows in the Bourne Community Building and elsewhere. The Town Administrator sent the matter to the Trustees of the Community Building.
The Trustees held their regular meeting on February 28th at the Community Building, this time to consider the LGBTQ+ Pride decals and the request by the Concerned Christians of Bourne for them to also include a Christian Flag decal there. The Town Counsel, Bryard Bertram, began his presentation with, “In my opinion”, rather than with what the Constitution says. Our group did not ask that the LGBTQ+ decal be removed; however, the LGBTQ representative criticized our group for “having a prejudice against us”. The Bourne Executive Administrator testified that she had told the Council on Aging to place the new “Progressive” LGBTQ+ decals on their windows, in accordance with a state law and the Fenway Institute LGBTQ+ policy (included in the law). The “+” in the Progressive LGBTQ+ designation “is inclusive of contemporary sexual behaviors”, and the Fenway Institute is the largest LGBTQ+ organization in the country. The Fenway Institute for Research, Training, Education and Policy Development for LGBTQIA communities was founded in 1971, has 700 employees, an annual budget of $131,000,000 and in choosing them the state and Bourne have chosen their “viewpoint” and must now allow the Christian Decal viewpoint as well, as cited in the Supreme Court May 5th decision.
The one speaker for the LGBTQ+ decal (in addition to some Trustees) was Pam Washburn. She gave out her “business” card as “the She/Her” President of Cape Cod Pride in Mashpee”. She thanked the Trustees for their adopting the LGBTQ+ decal and described for the Trustees the meaning of the colors in the Progressive Pride decal in the COA windows. The flag contains the red, orange, yellow, green, indigo and purple of the old Pride flag but in the “Progressive” version, as the speaker explained, it also contains black, brown, pink, baby blue and white which represent:
Black represents black people
Brown ” brown skinned people
Pink ” transgendered
Baby blue ” pan sexual
White ” other sexual behaviors
Trustee William Doherty strongly criticized a speaker who felt this discriminated against Christians and then said that many members of St. Margarets and St. Johns Parishes in Pocasset accept the LGBTQ+ positions. The Trustees then, with no discussion, voted 5 to 0 to retain the LGBTQ Progressive Pride decals and to deny the request of the CCC of Bourne to include their Christian decal. They stated that it did not come under the referenced Supreme Court decision and that it was solely their choice to make. The real problem for Bourne that we see is that this is only the beginning. We see the LGBTQ+ agenda appearing in the schools (which has already begun), the library, treatment of town employee and in many other Town facilities.
The Trustee meeting was recorded, the subject was highly controversial and there was a large audience, almost all of which supported including the Christian decals. Because of this we felt a letter-to-the-Editor was necessary, as nothing has been said about this Trustees meeting or the controversial new Town policy for several weeks, and the video of the meeting had been held up for 2 weeks. If you would like to see this video, go to <02.28.23 Community Center Trustees Meeting Recording (2).mp4>. If you disagree with the Trustees on their decision, let them know now and in the next election.
Sincerely,
Concerned Christian Citizens of Bourne,
Fran Cichowski, Kari MacRae, George Seaver, Alice Zinkelvich
plus 40 more signatures”
Video link of Trustees meeting on Feb 28 that affirmed the LGBTQ+ decals and rejected our request for Christian decals:
This is a “Googlelink” which requires an account and password. If that does not work for you, I can send (by mail) a hard copy.
The Ten Commandments Remain in Place Due to Death of “Lemon Test”
(The following is a news release from Liberty Counsel)
U.S. Congressman William Findley (1741-1821) observed that the Ten Commandments were “incorporated in the judicial law.” In fact, 12 of the 13 original colonies adopted the Decalogue into their civil and criminal laws. For example:
- The First Commandment states, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” In 1610, Virginia required its leaders to give “allegiance” to God, “from whom all power and authority is derived,” and who is the “King of kings, the Commander of commanders, and Lord of hosts.”
- The Second Commandment forbids the making of idols. The 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts stated in Part I, Article II, “It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great creator and preserver of the universe.”
- The Third Commandment prohibits taking God’s name in vain. This Commandment was adopted into law by Virginia in 1610 (“That no man blasphemes God’s holy name upon the pain of death”) and by Connecticut in 1639 (“If any person shall blaspheme the name of God the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost . . . he shall be put to death”).
- The Fourth Commandment states, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” The Fourth Commandment was adopted by Virginia in 1610, New Haven in 1653, New Hampshire in 1680, Pennsylvania in 1682 and 1705, South Carolina in 1712, North Carolina in 1741 and Connecticut in 1751.
- The Fifth Commandment exhorts children to honor their parents. A 1642 Connecticut law cited to the Fifth Commandment for the proposition that children should honor their parents.
- The Sixth Commandment states, “Thou shalt not kill.” Courts have been very candid in tracing the prohibition against murder from colonial times to the present laws back to the Sixth Commandment.
- The Seventh Commandment states, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” A 1641 Massachusetts law declared, “If any person committeth adultery with a married or espoused wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Ex. 30.14.” Similar laws were enacted by Connecticut in 1642, Rhode Island in 1647, New Hampshire in 1680 and Pennsylvania in 1705.
- The Eighth Commandment states, “Thou shalt not steal.” Not only have the laws against theft been derived from this Commandment, but also laws protecting the integrity of elections.
- The Ninth Commandment prohibits perjury or bearing “false witness.” This Commandment became the foundation of America’s judicial system. Connecticut enacted a perjury law in 1642, Massachusetts in 1641, Rhode Island in 1647, and New Hampshire in 1680. The Oregon Supreme Court stated, “No official is above the law. ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’ is a command of the Decalogue, and that forbidden act is denounced by the statute as a felony.”
- The Tenth Commandment prohibits coveting. This Commandment has been cited as the basis of civil laws against defamation, laws preventing election fraud, laws targeting white collar crime, and laws targeting modern forms of cattle rustling.
There are also many historic displays of the Ten Commandments embedded in the architecture in Washington, D.C. Near the top of the U.S. Supreme Court building is a row of famous lawgivers, and each one is facing Moses who is standing in the middle holding the Ten Commandments. Inside the High Court, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower part of the door and a display is also right above where the Justices sit. There is a prominent display at the Library of Congress as well as engraved in bronze on the floor of the National Archives. The Ten Commandments are also on the outside of the Ronald Reagan International Trade Building. Moses is engraved in stone over the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Ten Commandments is in the seal of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
However, there have been many rulings by judicial activists in recent years striking down Ten Commandments displays on public property because of the “Lemon Test,” the legal test which came out of the ruling in Lemon v. Kurtzman that has been used to determine if a law violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
For example, in 2001, Roy Moore, then chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, installed a 5,280-pound granite monument depicting the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the state’s judicial building. On October 30, 2001, three Alabama attorneys filed suit against Judge Moore alleging that the monument was a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause by endorsing religion. On November 18, 2002, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled that the monument violated the Establishment Clause, citing Lemon v. Kurtzman as precedent. Eventually, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the trial judge and that the monument should be removed. Judge Thompson ordered Judge Moore to remove the monument and he refused. On November 13, 2003, the Court of the Judiciary removed Judge Moore from office and the Ten Commandments monument was removed on November 14, 2003.
In McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union (2005), the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky sued two Kentucky counties for displaying framed copies of the Ten Commandments. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Ten Commandment displays in two county courthouses violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice David Souter focused on the history of the display and the lack of a secular purpose demonstrated by that history. The High Court invoked the “Lemon Test,” stating that the purpose analysis in that test is meant to ensure government neutrality regarding religion. Yet the same day, the High Court decided 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry (2005) that a monument of the Ten Commandments in a Texas public park did not violate the Establishment Clause.
However, all those rulings to remove the Ten Commandments from America’s landscape are no longer valid because of two major victories at the U.S. Supreme Court last year.
On May 2, 2022, Liberty Counsel’s 9-0 victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in Shurtleff v. City of Boston involved censorship of Christian viewpoints regarding flag raisings. The High Court unanimously ruled that the city of Boston violated the Constitution by censoring a private flag in a public forum open to “all applicants” merely because the application referred to it as a “Christian flag.” The High Court unanimously rejected Boston’s use of the “Lemon Test” to censor Christian viewpoints.
In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, Liberty Counsel argued in its amicus brief that since the Establishment Clause provides no justification for suppressing Coach Joe Kennedy’s private, religious speech to silently pray on the football field after games, the “Lemon Test” should be overruled. Then on June 27, 2022, the High Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the high school football coach and also finally buried the court-made “Lemon Test” citing Liberty Counsel’s 9-0 decision handed down in Shurtleff v. City of Boston involving the Christian flag.
The Kennedy ruling stated, “This Court long ago abandoned Lemon and its endorsement test offshoot… In place of Lemon and the endorsement test, this Court has instructed that the Establishment Clause must be interpreted by ‘reference to historical practices and understandings.’”
Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “As a result of the Shurtleff and Kennedy decisions, the Ten Commandments now can be freely displayed on government property as a reminder of the significant role these biblical guidelines play in the development of American law and policy as well as their impact on our culture and society. No activist court can ever remove them again.”
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Evacuation Day March 17
Today, March 17, 2023marks the 248th anniversary of the British evacuation from Boston and General George Washington’s 1st victory. After the Battle of Bunker Hill which took place on June 1775, Boston was under siege from the newly formed Continental Army. In early March of 1776, cannons captured at Ford Ticonderoga transported to Boston, under the leadership of General Henry Knox. and used to fortify Dorchester Heights in South Boston. This allowed the Continental Army to be able to fire cannons unopposed by the British. After viewing the efforts of the Colonialists, British General William Howe said “The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month.” Howe who didn’t want to see a repeat of the Battle of Bunker Hill which was won by the British but at a high cost of lives, decided to vacate Boston.
Every year, the Henry Knox Color Guard of the Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution, https://www.massar.org/ , celebrate this important day in our history with a ceremony on Dorchester Heights. This ceremony took place on March 17, 2021. Camp Constitution was on hand: