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Camp Constitution’s Third Quarter Report for 2025
Our Annual Family Camp
While our numbers were down from last year’s camp, we still had an excellent turnout with attendees coming as far as Alaska, Wyoming and Utah.
Returning instructors included Professor Willie Soon, one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, who attended with his family, Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Rev. Steve Craft who serves at the camp chaplain, Mrs. Catherine White of the Constitution Decoded, Dr. Felecia Nace, author of several books, and author and host of the Liberty Sentinel program, Alex Newman. Guest instructors included Michelle Gallagher, author of A Guide to the Forefather’s Monument, Mr. Kurt Hyde, an expert of election fraud, and Mr. Chris Burke who taught an optional class on the use of HAM Radios. A link to our YouTube playlist of classes and activities at our camp:
https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL7jnzBzBiNYDeD_94loNG8mUcUMFM2m2N/videos
Camp Constitution Ladies Annual Spring Fling
We had our largest turnout for the Ladies “Spring Fling held for the 2nd year at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center in early May. Our guest speakers were Karen Testerman, author and gubernatorial candidate, and Sue Ianni, a January Sixer. The ladies also took a field trip to the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Club to do some marksmanship training.
Camp Constitution in the News
The publisher of the Rochester Voice, an on-line news for Greater Rochester, NH gave us a monthly column. -the Camp Constitution Report. Our monthly article now runs in four media outlets “The Boston Broadside” ‘The Weirs Times.” “The Granite Grok” and “The Rochester Voice.”
Our lawsuit “Shurtleff v Boston” continues to be mentioned in media outlets around the country especially during “Pride” Month. “Shurtleff v Boston” lawsuit was decided but it continues to be mentioned in the news around the country. Our case was recently cited in a decision by the University of Massachusetts Amherst when the “Pride” flag was removed from a building, and in February our case was mentioned in a controversy at the Marblehead, MA High School.
Camp Constitution on the Air
In September, we were interviewed by Landry Crawford a 16 year-old homeschooler who hosts HisStory podcast. We were return guests on the Duke Pesta Show, The Sentinel Report hosted by Alex Newman, The Chuck Moscowitz Show, and the Tamara Scott Show. And first time New Hampshire Gospel Radio, and by Shawn Crenshaw, the host of the Biblical Conservative Show on the subject of Planed Parenthood.
The Camp Constitution Report
In late August we received this E-mail regarding our podcast:
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As a result, we have received some interesting requests for interviews.
We did eighteen shows including interviews with Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer of the White House Faith Initiative, Adam Swart, founder of Crowds on Demand Jody Underwood of New Hampshire Educational Options, Karen Siegmund, President of the American Freedom Alliance, Woodrow Johnson, CEO of Revere Solutions, Michelle Gallagher, author of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook, Elena Barbera, producer and director of the documentary “American Groomer. This show airs on our YouTube Channel, Rumble, Podomatic, Spotify, and about five other podcast formats: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2025-05-22T05_29_44-07_00
We are working with the Matric Coalition, a New Hampshire based entity whose mission is to donate poster of the Forefathers Monument, and copies of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook to local schools. We donated several copies of the book and framed copies of the poster to Manchester Public Schools. We donated hundreds of pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to Cornerstone Christian School in Ossipee, NH, and two Trail Life Troops in MA and NH.
We had floats in the Alton, NH Old Home Day Parade where we distributed 400 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution, and a float in Lexington. MA’s 250 Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Lexington. The evening before the Lexington Parade, we hosted our 3rd Annual Patriot’s Day Overnight at the Lane House where we took in the reenactments of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battle of Lexington. We had information tables at six New Hampshire Education Options expositions. The Freedom Project Academy led by our friend Dr. Duke Pesta sponsored an essay contest for his students and offered three families free tuition at Camp Constitution’s annual family camp. We had the opportunity to conduct an on-line class for a group of students both national and international. The topic was the U.S. Constitution. We did a video for the Potomac Tea Party that was aired on Independence Day.
For the 17th year in a row, (with the exception of the Covid lockdown) we had info tables at the Mass HOPE homeschool convention, Homeschoolers of Maine, and the Crown of Maine’s Balloon Festival in Presque Isle. For the 2nd year in a row, we had an info table at the Londonderry, NH’s Old Home Day, and we co-sponsored Patriot Camp- a day camp program in Rockport, Maine hosted by Camp Constitution instructors Jessica Whitworth and Victoria Buckland.
Camp Constitution Media
We videotaped presentations made at the Sixth Annual Christian Education Initiative held in Lynchburg, VA in September, events at the last day of Patriot Camp held in Rockport, Maine, the classes and activities at our family camp, the Memorial Day Parade in Alton, NH sponsored by the American Legion and a presentation .by Dr. Chris Gnanakan of Liberty University.
YouTube, Rumble and Bitchute
We got 361 new subscribers for the 2025 giving us close to `17,200 subscribers overall. We received 87.1 thousand views this year. We uploaded 145 videos and now have 1,700 videos uploaded.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN7ME18Q1xiqcrPEn5h5FbA
Our Rumble channel received 4,792 views the first nine months of the of the year. We have uploaded some documentaries including “Operation Keelhaul” and “MAAFA 21 Black Genocide in the 2oth Century” as well as some classic anti-communists movies.
https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all
We have A Bitchute channel but haven’t uploaded many videos. We were happy to discovered that we are getting thousands of views of our videos and will be uploading more videos in the future: https://www.bitchute.com/profile/kiuIedaV8Erk
Camp Constitution Report on Podomatic and Other Platforms
We have received 204 plays and 1,333 downloads of our shows. We continue to be in the top ten for the category of conservative-right. In addition to our weekly show, we have uploaded some classic interviews and speeches by Dan Smoot, Gary Allen, and E. Merrill Root. A link to our show: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal
Camp Constitution Press
We reprinted in an 81/2” x 11” format, the free market classic “Frogs and Freedom”:
A link to purchase copies of these: https://campconstitution.net/product/frogs-and-freedom-free-market-classic/
Speakers Bureau
In September, we spoke at the Goffstown, NH Homeschool cooperative. We spoke at the August meeting of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Massachusetts chapter. Also in August, we did three presentations in Aroostook County, Maine titled “Borders and Banners: The Biblical View.” We gave a presentation at the Homeschoolers of Maine’s annual convention in May. We were the keynote speaker at the Berkshire (MA) Republic Committee’s annual Lincoln-Reagan where we gave a presentation on our Christian flag lawsuit to a very receptive group. Rev. Steve Craft was a speaker at an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Republican Assembly in late March.
Website
We have received 16.1 thousand views with 8.3 thousand visitors. Twenty percent of our views come from foreign nations We published eighty-six articles on our blog. https://www.campconstitution.net
Sam Blumenfeld Archives
We received over one million visits and 683,000 views. Our all-time stats from its creation in 2017: 4.5 million visits, 3.6 million views. views. We introduce the archives to folks at all of our info tables and public events.
The Blumenfeld Archives
Facebook Page
We have close to 3.5 thousand likes l and over 3,600 following our page. We also manage six other groups and one other page-all of them growing in members
Stopping An Article V Convention
We helped defeat an Article V Convention resolution and a “faithful delegate bill in New Hampshire.” We are part of a nationwide movement to protect the Constitution from an Article V Convention. Thousands have read our articles, blogs and videos on the subject as well as downloaded our on-line resources.
Looking into the next quarter
We are hosting a field trip to the Forefathers Monument in October, will have info tables at several NH Education Options fairs, a table at Harvest Happenings in Alton, NH , and hosting our annual Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at the Lane House in Lexington, MA.
How You Can Help
Make a monthly donation or a one-time donation. Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net
If you own a business or are involved with a non-profit, consider a sponsorship for a minimum of $100. A year.
And, please keep Camp Constitution in your prayers.
Thank you for helping to make Camp Constitution possible.
Blessings.
Hal Shurtleff, Director
Camp Constitution
Alton, NH
Why Won’t the Lasker Foundation Admit That Its Founders Were Militant Racists and White Supremacists
Members of the Left love to find racism where it doesn’t exist. We have racist roads, and racist trees. Being on time is a racist construct. Hard sciences are racist. Everything and everyone are racists. But the leftists race mongers and hustlers have overlooked the racism of the founders of the Lasker Foundation-Albert and Mary Lasker. The foundation’s website tells us little of Albert. He was more than a “pioneer adverting executive” he was the main funder of Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project. And his “saintly wife, Mary not only ran one of Sanger’s birth control “clinics” but was a close friend of Sanger, a racist and moral degenerate.
Recently, we called the Lasker Foundation to ask why their website doesn’t mention the face that they were hard core racists. Te nice lady who answered our call had no idea but will look into it and have someone call us back. We don’t expect a call back but we suggest that readers give the foundation a call and respectfully ask then about it. Their number is 212-286-0222. You can find information about the Lasker’s in the book The Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood and Its Legacy of Death. A free PDF download is available here: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Racist-roots-of-planned-parenthood-proof.pdf
The Weekly Sam: An Open Letter to American Jews by Sam Blumenfeld
(The following is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives. It was written in 1960 during the Kennedy-Nixon Campaign, but if he were alive today, he could have written a letter warning Jews and Americans of the anti-Semitic polices of Kamala Harris. Sam was the founder of American Friends of Algeria.)
Recently. three prominent Jewish leaders protested to Vice President Nixon because his press secretary had brought to their attention an editorial in an Israeli newspaper urging American Jews to vote for Nixon. The Jewish leaders were somewhat shocked because they were appealed to as Jews and not simply as Americans, and in their protest, they termed the press secretary’s action as Han insult to our faith.” This protest, the Jewish leaders asserted. was a personal action on their part and did not represent the opinions of the membership of their organizations. However, the protest as carried and reported in the press gave readers the impression that these leaders were speaking for the entire Jewish community. It is for this reason that I feel compelled to address this letter to ~ coreligionists who are somewhat dismayed and confused by this whole incident and who suspect that in all of this smoke there may be some fire.
As an American Jew I do not consider it an insult to my faith to be informed of opinion in security-sensitive Israel concerning our Presidential candidates and their policies. The Israeli newspaper, in its awkward way, was trying to say what a great many Americans of all faiths firmly believe that Kennedy’s foreign policy does represent a line of appeasement which could ultimately lead to the destruction of Israel and the West. Do I speak as a biased Republican? No, for I am a registered Democrat who this November will be voting Republican for the first time. Am I making groundless assertions or distorting Senator Kennedy’s words? Again, no. for the record is there for everyone who wants to see it in a. collection of the Senator’s ‘speeches entitled Strategy for Peace, and the Senator has not repudiated one word of it. Take, for example, the matter of Algeria–whose fate in a geopolitical sense has a very direct bearing on the future security of Israeli
The Senator has made his views quite clear on Algeria. In a startling Senate speech in 1957 strongly echoing the line of the. American Friends of the Middle East–an organization dedicated to the advancement of Arab nationalism and the. destruction of Israel–Senator Kennedy urged the United States to betray its major ally France in favor of the FLN terrorists who seek to establish their dictatorship over all of Algeria. Now, Algeria is not a purely Moslem country. It is, in fact. a multi-religious community which has been for the last 100 years a legal part of the French Republic and whose inhabitants are French citizens. The Moslem terrorists who seek to separate Algeria from France do not have the popular. support of their own people. They are a minority faction using terror. extortion and assassination as the means to achieve domination. Until now they have murdered and injured over 30.0000! their fellow Moslem civilians. This has made their cause anything but popular with the inhabitants of Algeria. Yet, this is the· group to which Senator Kennedy urged the United States to lend its support jeopardizing our military alliance with France as well as a close association and friendship which goes back to the days of Washington and Jefferson.
Now. you may ask, what bearing does this have on Israel or American Jews? The answer is this: Should Senator Kennedy’s policy be adopted after his election and should it succeed~ it would mean the expulsion of France from Algeria, the consolidation of Nasser’s Pan-Arab empire in North Africa, the inevitable destruction of French Algerian Jewry, and the enlistment of Algeria in the economic blockade against Israel. It should be noted that the Algerian rebels have taken part in all of the Arab League conferences dealing with Israel and are in full accord with general Arab aim of destroying Israel. Now, in what way would an independent” Algeria hasten the destruction. of Israel. One, it would add Algeria and its vast resources to the strength of the Arab block. Two, it would free Arab energies .to concentrate on the ultimate goal of destroying Israel; three, it would deprive Israel of France~ a military ally. Algerian France would no longer find it necessary to come to the aid of Israel in case of an attack from Nasser. France, it should be remembered, supplied. Israel with the Jets and tanks which made a victory in Sinai possible; four, it would add Algeria to the Arab bloc in the United Nations and enlist her in the general Arab campaign to spread anti-Semitism throughout Africa and the rest .of the world.
These are only the more direct effects which Kennedy’s policy, if successful, would have on the security of Israel. But what would this policy mean in the greater world picture to betray France would not only serve to aggravate and weaken our ally, but also to cause a serious rift in the Western alliance, which is exactly what the communists have been trying to achieve since the formation of NATO. As for anti-Semitism, there is no doubt that it would increase dangerously in France where, for some strange self-destructive reasons, such distinguished Jews as Mendes-France and Servan-Schreiber have openly espoused the cause of the Algerian nationalists, despite the glaring fact that the vast majority of Algerians of all religious communities have in two massive referendums expressed their determination to remain French.
This is just a brief outline of the effects which only one of Senator Kennedy’s future actions might have in the realm of foreign policy. Several indications. however, become very clear in the various remarks and speeches the Senator has made in his first decade for example, he has an almost obsessive hostility toward France, which does not augur well for the Western alliance. This hostility has manifested itself in the many anti-French statements the Senator has made concerning Indochina. Algeria and NATO. In one speech Sen. Kennedy made the amazing remark that the French atomic bomb was aimed at Washington and not Moscow. This would lead one to conclude that the Senator considers France a greater menace then Russia.
Now, what does this mean for Americans, particularly those who area1~o Jews1 Jews should be reminded that France is Israel’s only military friend and should therefore be given as much support as possible by them. Kennedy’s anti-French policy is, indirectly. an anti-Israel policy, for in effect it accomplishes the same thing: it strengthens Arab nationalism and weakens Israel’s defense position. Kennedy’s anti-French policy also weakens the West in general and strengthens the communist hand in Western Europe and North Africa.
It is no secret that the communists have been supporting the Algerian nationalists since the beginning of the rebellion and hope to reap the benefits of an FLN victory. As the reader will notice I have not had to mention Quemoy or Matsu in criticizing Senator Kennedy’s policy of appeasement. The Israelis, on the other hand, have found reason to be wary of the Senator. They see their security position from a world view, and it is quite understandable for them to want to influence their fellow Jews in voting for a President whose policies will have a very direct bearing on their future security. Now, of course, Jews as Americans are free to vote for whomever they please and for whatever reasons they see fit. However, if history has taught the Jews any lesson, it is that they cannot afford the luxury of a homegrown isolationism which, in a national election, shuts off everything from view but local party loyalty. It is clear to anyone who follows international developments that the security of Israel will not be strengthened by a Kennedy victory. In fact, the opposite will be the result.
It is incumbent upon the Jews of America that they be properly informed before they vote on November 8th. I have written this letter because I have felt it a duty to bring these views to the attention of my coreligionists who, through a coalition of deceitful forces, are being prevented from seeing the true facts of the world situation.
October 26,1960 SAMUEL L BLUMENFELD
The Blumenfeld Archives
Camp Constitution Instructor Alex Newman Gives a Tribute to Charlie Kirk at the Sixth Annual Christian Education Initiative
Camp Constitution instructor Alex Newman and friend of Alex, gives a tribute to Charlie Kirk at the sixth annual Christian Education Initiative held in Lynchburg, VA Friday September 26, 2025.
Happy Birthday U.S. Constitution
Today, Wednesday September 17 marks the 238th anniversary of the end of the Constitutional Convention which created what Daniel Webster said was the “works of the purest patriots and wisest statemen that ever existed.” He, of course, was referring to the U.S. Constitution. Sadly, far too many Americans know little to nothing about the Constitution.
Here is a condensed version of a recent encounter I had to reenforce my statement:
On Saturday August 16, we-Camp Constitution-had an information table at Londonderry’s Old Town Day celebration. A woman in her mid-sixties came by the table expressing her initial approval of our presence. She was critical of Trump’s tariffs and told me that his tariffs “were not constitutional.” I agreed saying that under Section 1, Article 8 of the U.S. Constitution, Congress has the power to impose tariffs. The specific wording:
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts…” Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 1.”
I told her that while I approved of tariffs in general, Trump should have received the approval of Congress. At this point she was still an ally. I then explained that the New Deal Democrats in Congress unconstitutionally gave some power to levy tariffs to Franklin Roosevelt. It was called the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934. Congress passed two more bills in 1962 and 1974 granting even more power to the President. All three bills were passed in Democrat controlled Congresses.
The lady didn’t like to hear that Democrats were the ones that enabled Trump. Her pleasant countenance changed from friendly to confrontational. She asked me who I thought were Constitutionalist in Congress. “There are not very many” I replied, “Thomas Massie in the House, and Rand Paul in the Senate are two that come to mind” They both score 90% and above on the Freedom Index while Chris Pappas is a dismal 5%. https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/
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She told me that she supports Chris Pappas. “You denounce Trump for his unconstitutional tariffs but support Pappas who almost always violates his oath of office,” I responded. “I am very angry,” was her reply and she left in a huff. She is typical of far too many voters in New Hampshire, and the U.S. They know nothing about the U.S. Constitution. They only regurgitate talking points from the Democrat Party and their allies in the corporate media. At least Trump used laws passed by Democrats to justify his tariffs with the intent of it protecting the American worker-something that both major parties failed to do over the past fifty years.
A week earlier, we had a float in Alton’s Old Home Week Parade as we have for the past five years where we pass out pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to spectators. The local Democrat Party also had a float and, to our surprise, also passed out pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution. What was even more surprising was that they were passing out copies obtained from the National Center for Constitution Studies (NCCS)-the same ones that we use.
While I doubt that anyone will be denouncing the local Democrats as Christian Nationalists, and members of a far-right fringe group, the Democrats should have consulted with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) before passing them out. The SPLC considers the NCCS as far right. By the way, the SPLC has us listed on their Hate Map as an anti-government organization but in the wrong state: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/?hm_year=2024&hm_state=NC
Here are some quotes contained in that version that we and the Democrats passed out:
“[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Province as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.”
George Washington
“I regard it [the Constitution] as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesmen that ever existed aided by the smiles of a benignant Providence…; it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf.”
Daniel Webster
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of master.”
Benjamin Franklin
Let’s honor the memory of those 38 delegates who signed the U.S. Constitution not by paying lip service to them, but by learning about the document they blessed us with and then ensuring that we hold our elected officials at all levels accountable to their oath that they took to defend it.
Today, there are many organizations that offer instruction on the Constitution which include:
The National Center for Constitutional Studies https://nccs.net/
The Institute on the Constitution Institute on the Constitution | Online Constitution Classes
Hillsdale College https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses
And Camp Constitution https://campconstitution.net
Readers who would like a free pocket copy of the Constitution can E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com
Happy Birthday U.S. Constitution
“Proof of the Illuminati” written by New Hampshire Minister Rev. Seth Payson of Rindge
Over ten years ago,
we
took
a
field
trip
to
the
Rindge
Historical
Society.
The
museum’s
collection
includes
a
military
discharge
signed
by
General
George
Washington,
a
musket
from
a
veteran
of
the
French
and
Indian
War,
and
the
carriage
owned
by
Dr.
William
Dean
of
nearly
Jaffrey,
NH,
whose
murder
in
1918
remains
an
unresolved
mystery.
Before
leaving
this
historic
gem,
we
visited
the
museum’s
bookstore
and
found
reprinted
copies
of
Proof
of
the
Illuminati
by
Rev.
Seth
Payson.
I
asked
the
museum’s
director
why
this
book
would
be
offered
by
the
museum.
She
told
me
that
the
author
was
pastor
of
the
Rindge
Congregational
Church
from
1782
until
his
death
in
1820.
I
bought
a
copy
and
read
this
fascinating
account
of
the
Illuminati.
Camp
Constitution
Press
is
pleased
to
reprint
this
timeless
but
little
known
classic.
From the Foreword:
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 version of the book:
And, a link to purchase the book from our on-line shop:
https://campconstitution.net/product/59283/
Back in 2012, we took a role in helping to defeat Agenda 21 in the Town of Rindge. Some Leftists in town were not happy with us. One such person was a direct descendent of Rev. Payson. This person was a town official. We pointed out to her that we were simply picking up where her worthy ancestor left off. She had no clue that her ancestor authored a book like this.
Camp Constitution Report Interviews Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer of the White House Faith Counsel
PHal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, interviews Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer of the White House Faith Counsel. Jackson Lahmeyer serves as the Lead Pastor of the historic Sheridan Christian Center in Tulsa, OK – now known as Sheridan Church. He is the founder of Pastors For Trump. Jackson and his wife, Kendra, have five children and reside in Owasso, Oklahoma. Lahmeyer attended Oral Roberts University (ORU) and received a B.A. & M.A. in Theological & Historical Studies, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Lahmeyer was then appointed to serve as the Crusade Director traveling the United States for Christ for All Nations, the ministry of Reinhard Bonnke that has helped lead 74,000,000 people to Christ since 1974. While serving as the Crusade Director, Lahmeyer served as the Oklahoma State Coordinator for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association leading more than 300 churches across Oklahoma’s 77 counties to get engaged and fight for conservative values.
In 2021-2022, Lahmeyer was a candidate for the United States Senate in Oklahoma. He was endorsed by Mayor Rudy Giuliani, General Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Sebastian Gorka, Mike Lindell and other America First leaders. He is the author of Chasing After the Wind.
The Bucks of America Flag: The First Black Military Unit in U.S. History
In this short video, Hal Shurtleff of Camp Constitution discusses the Bucks of America flag. The original flag, which John Hancock and his son presented to the unit, is on display at the African American Museum in Washington, D.C.
To order this book: Ten Years Ago the Obergefell Opinion Put Kim Davis in Jail
The Following is a news release from Liberty Counsel www/lc.org
Aug 29, 2025
After Davis did not receive the accommodation, a federal judge remanded her to the Carter County Detention Center on September 3, 2015, where she remained for six days. While she was in prison, a deputy clerk removed Davis’ name from the marriage licenses and issued them to three sets of same-sex plaintiffs who filed suit against the Clerk of Rowan County. One set of plaintiffs ended their litigation. But two sets of plaintiffs wanted the name of Kim Davis on their licenses.
Returning to court, they asked Judge David Bunning to hold Davis in contempt, but Gov. Beshear, who refused her original request, responded by saying the licenses were valid without her name. Thus, Davis essentially received the accommodation she sought, and the plaintiffs received the licenses – without her name.
In December 2015, after being sworn in, Gov. Matt Bevin issued a detailed Executive Order granting an accommodation to Davis and all Kentucky clerks to remove their names from the licenses. Then in April 2016, the Kentucky legislature unanimously passed a law removing the names of clerks from marriage licenses. The case should have ended, but two sets of plaintiffs, including David Ermold and David Moore, wanted to mock Davis’ Christian faith.
Ermold and Moore have spent the last 10 years viciously attacking Kim Davis. The two Davids told GQ magazine in December 2015, they had never even discussed getting married before rushing to join the melee outside Davis’ office as she waited for an answer to her religious accommodation request.
They traveled to her office day after day to record themselves harassing her and posting the videos to social media. They bragged to GQ about how their videos made them internet famous. And when their moment of initial fame ended, the men embarked on a targeted campaign to keep themselves in the spotlight by inventing new ways to try to destroy Davis.
They tried to sue to force Davis to put her name on their marriage certificate.
When they failed to win that legal fight, Ermold tried to take Davis’ job by running against her for the Rowan County Clerk position. Davis even helped Ermold complete the paperwork to run against her. Ermold lost in the primary race to another candidate, and their “fame” faded again.
Ironically, even after trying to take Davis’ job, Ermold claimed in court that she had cost him his job. But when Liberty Counsel called his former employer to the stand during trial in 2023, the whole world learned that Ermold’s claim was absolutely untrue.
So, the two Davids changed direction, asking for damages because Davis’ decision to use her lawful religious freedom rights had caused the men “hurt feelings.” Emotional distress, they claimed. No lost wages. No medical treatment. No counseling. Just “hurt” feelings.
Even though the law forbids financial damages over “hurt feelings” with no objective damages when the alleged distress arises because of speech on an issue of public importance, Davis now has a $360,000-dollar judgment hanging over her head.
On July 24, 2025, Liberty Counsel filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting the Court to take up her case. The petition presents two issues – that the First Amendment is an absolute defense and Obergefell should be overturned. Four Justices are needed to accept review and five are required for a majority opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts so opposed the Obergefell majority opinion that he read his dissent from the bench – the only time he has done so since joining the High Court. When Justices read their dissent from the bench, it is to emphasize the intensity of that dissent.
“Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law,” wrote Chief Justice Roberts. “The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent.”
Justice Clarence Thomas, who also dissented, noted there would be inevitable conflict between this invented right and religious liberty.
“In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well,” wrote Justice Thomas. “Today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter. It appears all but inevitable that the two will come into conflict, particularly as individuals and churches are confronted with demands to participate in and endorse civil marriages between same-sex couples.”
As Justice Thomas predicted, conflict arose as Davis stands today as the first victim jailed, sued, and held personally liable post-Obergefell for her sincerely held religious beliefs on marriage. By taking the case, SCOTUS can do two things – affirm religious freedom for all people and also correct the Obergefell mistake by overruling the 2015 opinion. SCOTUS can return the religious and governmental institution of marriage back to the states.
The urgency of this case is even more evident. On August 26, 2025, Ermold and Moore filed a notice in federal district court to begin exploring Davis’ personal assets to see what they can collect to satisfy the judgment. In light of this vindictive development, the High Court should take this case and render justice where justice is due.
The response by Ermold and Moore to Liberty Counsel’s petition is due by October 8, and thus the Justices will be ready to conference the case by the third week of October, at which time they could decide to take up this critically important case.
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “David Ermold and David Moore’s decade-long vindictive campaign has sought to personally punish Kim Davis for refusing to violate her faith.The plaintiffs created a shame case by intentionally targeting Davis to get a license with her name to mock her Christian faith. If a Christian can be personally sued, jailed, and held liable for their religious freedom and belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, then America’s religious freedom is meaningless. Obergefell was wrongly decided and the Supreme Court should overturn it and return the issue of marriage back to the states.”
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