The Weekly Sam: The Founding Fathers on Education and Morality

Published June 17, 2026 | By campconstitution

 

It is a pity that American children are not being taught more about the Founding
Fathers of America and what their vision of America was. Even when I was going to
public school back in the 1930’s and ’40’s, very little was taught about our Founding
Fathers concerning their religious and moral beliefs. We learned about George
Washington as a great soldier and a great leader, but virtually nothing about his
religious convictions. The same was true of all the other noted Founding Fathers:
Jefferson, Adams, Hancock, Franklin, Hamilton. They were great revolutionary leaders
who crafted the Declaration of Independence, fought a six-year war against Great
Britain, crafted the Articles of Confederation and then the Constitution which is the
basis of our political system. Surprisingly you can teach a great deal about all of that
with virtually no mention of religion.

In fact, we were taught more about the atheist Tom Paine than about any of the great
American religious and intellectual leaders, such as Jonathan Edwards, Timothy
Dwight, George Whitefield, Jotm Witherspoon, John Dickinson, George Mason,
Jonathan Mayhew, Nathanael Emmons, Jedidiah Morse, Noah Webster, and others.
Why was this the case? Because by the 1930’s the progressives had already made
sure that religion was removed from American public schools. Yet, in those days it was
still possible for a school principal to read a psalm from the Bible at assembly. Of
course, that is no longer the case. In fact, the schools have become so anti-Christian
that it is forbidden to even mention the word Christmas.

John Leo in U.S. News & World Report (Jan. 6, 97) wrote that in Fayette County,
Kentucky, school bus drivers were warned not to say Merry Christmas to any of the
children, and in West Orange, N.J. a student was reprimanded by the high school
dean for singing “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” on school property. And the
principal of Loudoun High School in Virginia told student editors to keep the
newspaper as secular as possible and “to be careful that they don’t associate the
upcoming holiday with any particular religion.” One wonders how they were supposed
to do that inasmuch as the upcoming holiday celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ! Talk
about censorship. I wonder what the ACLU or People for the American Way are going
to·do about that.

Some schools now only allow instrumental versions of traditional carols. The words
are too controversial and violate the sacred separation of church and state.
And that’s why the religious convictions of our founding fathers cannot be taught to
American children in our public schools. These poor children no doubt get the
impression — if they are taught at all about the founding fathers — that they were men
with no religious convictions at all and that religion simply did not exist as a vital
spiritual force in America when in reality it was the very force that made America
possible. If they are taught anything at all about religion in early America it is usually
about those mean, bigoted Puritans who hounded the poor witches of Salem.

And yet, what the Founding Fathers had to say about God is so inspiring that I wish
there were a way that American children could be made aware of this. It’s easy
enough for homeschoolers to get this knowledge. David Barton has written books
which deal with this subject, and an excellent book by William J. Federer, titled
America’s God and Country, Encyclopedia of Quotations, is filled with wonderful
quotations from Columbus to the present day, proving that Belief in God and doing
work to fulfill God’s promises is the most important theme in the entire American
enterprise. Christopher Columbus wrote in his Book of Prophecies:

It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to
sail from here to the Indies … .
There was no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit. because he comforted me with rays of
marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures . .. encouraging me continually to press forward. and
without ceasing for a moment they now encourage me to make haste.
In a letter written in 1493 to Spain’s General Treasurer Gabriel Sanchez, Columbus
wrote:

That which the unaided intellect of man could not compass, the spirit of God has granted to human
exertions, for God is wont to hear the prayers of His servants who love His precepts even to the
performance of apparent impossibilities. Therefore, let the king and queen, our princes and their most
happy kingdoms, and all the other provinces of Christendom , render thanks to our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ.

In June of 1630, ten years after the Pilgrims founded the Plymouth Colony, Gov. John
Winthrop landed in Massachusetts Bay with 700 people in 11 ships, thus beginning
the Great Migration, which lasted 16 years and saw more than 20,000 Puritans embark
for New England. In a sermon aboard the ship Arbella before disembarking on the
shores of New England, Winthrop said:

We are a Company, professing ourselves fellow members of Christ, and thus we ought to account
ourselves knit together by this bond of love .. ..
Thus stands the cause between God and us: we are entered into covenant with Him for this work. We
have taken out a Commission, the Lord hath given us leave to draw our own articles … .
We must hold a familiar commerce together in each other in–all meekness, gentleness, patience, and
liberality. We must delight in each other, make one another’s condition our own, rejoice together, mourn
together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our Commission and Community in this
work, as members of the same body .. ..
We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our
enemies, when He shall make us a praise and glory, that men of succeeding plantations shall say, “The Lord
make it like that of New England.”
For we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.

That’s the kind of religious fervor and covenantal love that permitted the Puritans to
create a Christian civilization in the wilderness of the new world. And from that
community came some of the most learned men of God that Christendom has ever
known. Harvard College was founded in 1636 for the purpose of training up a learned
clergy. And indeed it did. Increase Mather, who became President of Harvard, was
one of the first to criticize the British monarch, Charles II, for demanding in 1684 the
return of the charter which had given the colonists the right to govern themselves. He
wrote:

To submit and resign their charter would be inconsistent with the main end of their fathers’ coming to New
England.. .. [Although resistance would provoke] great sufferings, [it was] better to suffer than sin. Let
them trust in the God of their fathers, which is better than to put confidences in princes. And if they suffer,
because they dare not comply with the wills of men against the will of God, they suffer in a good cause.
Already you can see the seed of the War for Independence being planted in the soil of
New England.

Jonathan Edwards, the great theologian whose preaching began the revival known as
the Great Awakening, was the third President of Princeton University. Concerning the
Great Awakening, he wrote:

And then it was, in the latter part of December, that the Spirit of God began extraordinarily to … work
amongst us . . .. In every place, God brought His saving blessings with Him , and His Word, attended with
Spirit … returned not void.

George Whitefield, the famous dynamic evangelist of the Great Awakening, preached
up and down the Eastern seaboard of America. Benjamin Franklin wrote that he was
able to hear Whitefield’s voice nearly a mile away. Whitefield wrote:

Those who live godly in Christ, may not so much be said to live, as Christ to live in them … . They are led by
the Spirit as a child is led by the hand of its father ….
They hear, know, and obey his voice . … Being born again in God they habitually live to, and daily walk with
God.

Sarah Edwards, wife of Jonathan Edwards, wrote of Whitefield:

It is wonderful to see what a spell he casts over an audience by proclaiming the simplest truths of the Bible .
. Our mechanics shut up their shops, and the day laborers throw down their tools to go and hear him
preach , and few return unaffected . Franklin wrote:

It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless
or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if ali the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk
thro ‘ the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.

On matters of education, in 1750 Franklin wrote to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the first
president of King’s College (now Columbia University):
I think with you , that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in
wisdom and virtue .. .. I think also, general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the
education of youth, than from the exhortation of adult persons; bad habits and vices of tt’,e mind being,
like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured.
I think, moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are
bestowed, whenever a way is opened for the use of them, is as strongly called as if heard a voice from
heaven.

Franklin wrote in his Autobiography this prayer that he prayed every day:
o powerful goodness! Bountiful Father l Merciful Guide l Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my
truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to
thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

Wouldn’t that be a wonderful nonsectarian prayer for school children to recite each
day? It is said that Franklin was a Deist. He had been brought up and educated as a
Presbyterian, but he rejected many of the doctrines of the Presbyterian faith. But he
writes in his Autobiography:

I never doubted , for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world , and governed it by his
Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are
immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.

In July 1776, Franklin was appointed to a committee to draft a seal for the newly
formed United States. He proposed:
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the red sea,and pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the
waters. This motto “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”

In 1787 Franklin wrote in a letter:
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more
need of masters.

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Franklin, disturbed by the bitter debates
among the delegates, said in a speech to the convention:

I have live, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth–that God
Governs in the affairs of men . .
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in
vain that build it.” . .
I therefore beg leave to move–that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its
blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business,
and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.

It should be noted that prayers have opened both houses of Congress ever since.
It would take a full day to talk of the religious character of George Washington who was
so deeply conscious of his Christian faith. He believed that he was miraculously
saved from death after a battle in 1755. He wrote to his brother:

But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability
or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt,
although death was leveling my companions on every side of me’

As Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army Washington often prayed and fasted,
invoking God’s protection and providence during the entire War of Independence. He
appointed chaplains for every regiment. In 1789, at his inauguration as the first
President of the United States, Washington said :

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the
present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to
the Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations and whose
providential aids can supply every human defect,
that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a
Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes; .
No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men
more than the people of the United States.
Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been
distinguished by some token of providential agency .

Washington’s inaugural address should be required reading in every American public
school. But, of course, all of Washington’s references to God would send the ACLU
and People for the American Way screaming to the Supreme Court that such an act
would be a violation of the separation of church and state. That’s how far we’ve come.

On Oct. 3, 1789, Washington issued a National Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation in
which he stated :

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will , to be
grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor . .
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of l\Jovember next, to be
devoted by the people of these United States .. . . that we then may all unite unto him our sincere and
humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a
nation; for the Signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in thecourse
and conclusion of the late war;
for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enloyed; for the peaceable and
rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety
and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with
which we are blessed

The proclamation goes on for another long paragraph. But it is obvious where the
hearts of the American people turned to for their blessings. Today, our school children
think that the Pilgrims thanked the Indians on Thanksgiving Day. Our children are
being lied to by our educators, and I ask you, what good can come from such lies?
One merely has to read the prayers that Washington wrote in his own personal prayer
book to understand how deeply he was imbued with the Holy Spirit and how deeply
he relied on God for all matters of importance in his life. And it is this aspect of
Washington’s character that is rarely if ever referred to in history textbooks. Even so
great a man as Washington could fall to his knees and pray for forgiveness. In one
prayer, he wrote:

I have sinned and done very wickedly, be merciful to me, 0 God, and pardon me for Jesus Christ sake.
Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me; and has given me assurance of salvation, upon my repentence and
sincerely endeavoring to conform my life to His holy precepts and example

Praise God for such a man as George Washington, the father of our country. Isn’t it a
tragedy that American children are no longer taught about this tower of a man who
should be their hero. I remember when I was in first grade, there was a portrait of
George Washington in our classroom. That portrait looked down upon us children and
we revered him. It was the Stuart portrait, in which the bottom part was unfinished. But
to me it looked as if George Washington were in heaven.
Americans revered George Washington with good reason. But today he is just a figure
on a one dollar bill.

Another great American whose godly influence was felt by millions of children was
Noah Webster, whose blue-backed speller taught millions to read and spell. In 1828,
Webster completed his American Dictionary of the English Language. In this
dictionary are constant references to God and the Bible, for Webster was an orthodox
Christian. He stated:

Education is useless without the Bible.
God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct
He also wrote:
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under
a free government ought to be instructed . … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian
religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free
people
great

This strong American adherance to Biblical religion impressed the French historian
Alexis de Tocqueville who traveled throughout America in the early 1830’s and wrote a
marvelous book about his observations. He wrote:

In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, . . there is no country in the world where the
Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no
greater proof of its utility andof its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over
the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be
The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of
freedom .
The Amerians combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is
impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
It is hard for us to believe that thirty years later this Christian nation would be torn
asunder and plunged into a civil war that took a half million American lives. Men
prayed to the same God on both sides of the conflict. In his second inaugural address
after the defeat of the Confederacy, Lincoln said:

The prayers of both [sides] could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The
Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that
offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” .. .
And then Lincoln concluded with these famous words :

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let
us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan–to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and
lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Indeed, only Christian charity could restore the United States as one nation, under
God, with liberty and justice for all.

America’s Christian heritage is so rich, so powerful, so sustaining, that even President
Clinton felt compelled to end his second inaugural address, stating:
May God strengthen our hands for the good work ahead, and always, always bless our America.

(The above article was written in the mid 1990s, and comes from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive:

http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm

The Blumenfeld Archives

NJ City Agrees To Raise Christian Flag After Denying Permit: News Release from Liberty Counsel

Published June 16, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

JERSEY CITY, NJ – As a result of Liberty Counsel’s January 2026 demand letter, the city of Jersey City has agreed to grant organizers of the Children of Faith Parade a permit to raise the Christian flag at city hall after the city initially denied the request.

Before the letter, parade organizers had consistently included a ceremonial raising of the Christian flag at city hall for their annual parade since 1979. However, in August 2025 the city unlawfully denied the permit citing violation of the Establishment Clause and that the decades-long practice of granting their permit was an “administrative error.” Now, the Jersey City officials have agreed to let organizers raise the Christian Flag on September 8, 2026, for their annual Children of Faith Parade.

In the letter, Liberty Counsel informed city officials about its unanimous 2022 victory in Shurtleff v. City of Boston, a case where Boston officials denied raising the Christian flag in an open forum. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled cities that open their flagpoles to the public cannot selectively exclude religious viewpoints when they allow other private groups to speak. Liberty Counsel noted that Jersey City’s flag program had previously permitted other ideological and religious flags, including for the “Jersey City LGBTQ+ Pride Festival;” the “Independence Day of Pakistan Flag Raising Ceremony” for the Muslim Council North America and Muslim Federation of New Jersey; and the “3rd Annual Palestine Flag Raising Ceremony,” among others.

In Shurtleff, the High Court ruled 9-0 that raising the Christian flag under Boston’s public flag-raising program did not amount to government speech or violate the Establishment Clause since the city had opened its flagpole to private speech and was not selecting or communicating the message. Rather the High Court ruled, denying the Christian flag amounted to unequal treatment and was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

Since Jersey City’s flag program is almost identical to Boston’s, Liberty Counsel had requested Jersey City approve the flag-raising permit for the 2026 parade to avoid the city violating the First Amendment.

Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “We commend Jersey City officials for making the right decision to grant the Christian flag-raising permit for the Children of Faith Parade. Jersey City had stated that raising the Christian flag in their public forum would violate the Establishment Clause, but it does not. The opposite is true. Denying raising the Christian flag in a public forum is the actual First Amendment violation. The clear message from the U.S. Supreme Court is that government cannot favor one viewpoint and censor another in a public forum. Municipalities like Jersey City can legally permit both secular and religious commemorative emblems when they open their flagpoles to public expression.”

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Happy Flag Day

Published June 14, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

From the White House:

 

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

On June 14, 1777, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution declaring “that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”  In the 250th year of our glorious Republic, this Flag Day celebrates the American People, whose enduring spirit allows our beloved and timeless tricolor standard to fly as the greatest symbol of freedom, democracy, and sovereign strength the world has ever known.

At its inception, the Stars and Stripes symbolized America’s fundamental precepts of liberty, justice, and dependence on Almighty God.  Our Nation’s official banner and the principles that propelled our Founding Fathers to boldly undertake the most consequential act of self-governance of all time have withstood the test of time.  The flag is a physical representation of our storied past, shared sacrifice, common heritage, and divine destiny.  From the frozen ground of Valley Forge to the blood-soaked field of Gettysburg; from the triumphant beaches of Normandy to the desolate face of the Moon; and from the granite steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the heart of every patriot who continues to define American Excellence to this day — wherever our beautiful flag flies, America’s greatness follows.  After nearly two and a half centuries, through every tragedy and triumph, Old Glory remains the strongest beacon of sovereignty and hope the world has ever known, thanks to the devoted patriots of the past who made it so — and it is up to us to keep her flying proudly for generations to come.

Our beautiful flag is a global ensign of America’s indominable spirit, matchless power, and endless resolve to achieve a more perfect Union.  This sacred symbol of the American people, carried by generations with incredible courage and unshakable faith in the promise of our Nation, deserves our deepest admiration, protection, and respect.  Last year, I signed an Executive Order to preserve the dignity of our flag by enforcing accountability for acts of desecration tied to violence and lawlessness.  We also authorized the revocation of visas, residency, and naturalization for foreign nationals who desecrate the banner under which millions of American patriots have fought and died.  As President, I will always wield the full power of my office in defense of our flag’s sacred honor, and I will never rest in my commitment to ensure that the proudest emblem of liberty is forever treated with the reverence it has so dearly earned.

Next month, America will celebrate the most important milestone in our history — 250 glorious years of blessed Independence — and the Red, White, and Blue will preside over jubilant commemorations from sea to shining sea.  It will billow atop flagpoles in sprawling cities and on neighborhood porches in small towns; it will fly over beaches, stadiums, parks, iconic landmarks, and military bases.  Our flag will wave in the hands of children at parades and festivals and flap solemnly as a sentinel over hallowed cemeteries of the fallen.  On Flag Day, during National Flag Week, and throughout the summer of this historic year, may our majestic flag soar as a triumphant symbol of all the American people have achieved and serve as a shining herald of the new Golden Age that lies before us.

To commemorate the adoption of our flag, the Congress, by joint resolution approved August 3, 1949, as amended (63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of each year as “Flag Day” and requested that the President issue an annual proclamation calling for its observance and for the display of the flag of the United States on all Federal Government buildings.  The Congress also requested, by joint resolution approved June 9, 1966, as amended (80 Stat. 194), that the President issue annually a proclamation designating the week in which June 14 occurs as “National Flag Week” and calling upon all citizens of the United States to display the flag during that week.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 14, 2026, as Flag Day and the week starting June 14, 2026, as National Flag Week.  I direct the appropriate officials to display the flag on all Federal Government buildings during this week, and I urge all Americans to observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by displaying the flag.  I also encourage the people of the United States to proudly observe with all due ceremony those days from Flag Day through Independence Day, set aside by the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a time to honor America, to celebrate our heritage in public gatherings and activities, and to publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

 

DONALD J. TRUMP

 

Camp Constitution’s Annual Family Camp One Month Away. Spaces are Still Available

Published June 12, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

      Camp Constitution  18th Annual Family Camp  is one month away.    It will be held at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday July 12 to Friday July 17, 2026  We still have rooms available.  We have to give Singing Hills a final headcount on July 3.  So, if you are planning on attending, please let us know.

Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded, Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, Kurt Hyde, retired U.S. Air Force Lt, Col, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.


   Guest instructors include Julie Wilkinson who played in the movie “”UnPlanned:  The Abby Johnson Story.”  In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, and optional field trip and swimming, chess, gaga and corn hole tournaments.  Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire. 

Our theme:  Celebrating our nation’s 250th Birthday

Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free.     A link to the camp registration:  https://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/

Can’t attend but would like to help a worthy youngster or family attend camp?  Please consider making a donation to Camp Constitution.  Donations can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage   https://campconstitution.net/   or by check payable to Camp Constitution and mailed to Camp Constitution C/O Hal Shurtleff 146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH  03809.

For more information contact Hal Shurtleff (857) 498-1309  campconstitution1@gmail.com

 

A Letter to Youth by Youth: Freedom Lives or Dies with Us By Alise Uhl

Published June 11, 2026 | By campconstitution

My fellow young Americans, 85 years ago on December 7, 1941, our country was attacked on a lazy, peaceful day at Pearl Harbor. It dealt a devastating blow. One that could have knocked America to her knees. It did the opposite.

We took to the skies.

A select few of our young pilots were called upon to execute a top-secret counterattack on Japan. Doolittle’s Raid was practically a suicide mission.

Our country didn’t know it at the time, but they turned their eyes on those young men for justice.

And those pilots and bombardiers didn’t run. They didn’t hide. They didn’t buckle when they had already seen so much.

No.

They stepped forward.

They chose to give up the rest of their lives, give up marrying their sweethearts, and give up meeting their children so that American children could live, breathe, marry, and die in freedom.

Just a few generations later, those children are you and me.

If our nation now turned its eyes on us, could they trust us?

Loving our country and her people means more than basking in the freedom to say whatever we want. More than pushing for our generation to get its way because we are going to be the next ones to lead. More than wanting only “the fun part of freedom.”

Everyone should have freedom of speech. Every man and woman was born with that right. But will what we currently shout taste bitter in the mouths of our offspring, or will it be the anthem they sing as they teach their kids what freedom is?

Do those who mentored us have the assurance that the next generation is not simply waiting their turn to take political office for personal interests? Do they know that we won’t forget, trample over, take advantage of, or reverse the good they have accomplished?

Are we ready?

World War II was our last just war. Nearly a century ago. Our army mobilized only after Congress declared war on an attacking nation. If another country assaulted ours today, and Congress declared war, and the people demanded justice, would they get it?

When we look back to just one of the wars that shaped America, we realize the nation put herself into the hands of boys who were forced to become men. She put herself into the hands of young women who became nurses, stood behind those men, and helped many of them through their dying breaths.

Do we know what it is like to walk through a war memorial and truly honor those men and women who paid the ultimate price for freedom? To look back and silently promise them that their story, their lives, their deaths will not be forgotten?

This is not just history. This is our heritage. And when our heritage becomes a part of us, it refuses to become a relic of the past.

Are we willing to give more than a mere moment of silence to the same cause that our fathers were willing to fight and die for? To give our sweat, our tears, our fight, and, if it comes to it, our blood?

I don’t just speak of foreign wars and affairs or a power rising against us from without.

There is an enemy within. It is the crushing wave of false ideology, projected as truth, penetrating the young minds of our kids. It is the stifling of the God-fearing American spirit under the sweeping hail of propaganda.

I have testified at my state capitol for the same causes and worked in the same campaigns as older generations of patriots have. And I saw them stand. They left a legacy you and I still live in the wake of every day. Americans know what happened over the last six years in our schools, our hospitals, our churches, and even our homes because they fought for us to know. I interacted with ordinary people who chose to stand and paid for it dearly.

Some lost their livelihoods, their health, and some even their right to walk free. It began with one voice here, and another voice there. They alone risked what big government, big business, and people with power would bring down on them for their action. Yet, it was enough to inspire others to rise with them.

Because of them, Americans are now more informed, and therefore more equipped, to fight propaganda in our midst.

But, young people, are we? 

It isn’t enough for one of our voices to be heard. It isn’t enough for one patriot to salute. We need a young generation of patriots who will salute. A people who together speak. A nation that falls on its knees in acknowledgment of the God of righteousness. Young citizens who hail the Constitution, its protection of our rights, and its checks and balances will rise up and say the pledge proudly as one nation under God. And never get over it.

One truth. One God. One more chance.

What our country thinks of these principles will alone determine the question of her greatness.

I know what it is like to be in the company of patriots. I have more rarely found it my honor to be in the company of young patriots.

The colors. They must be hoisted again. Not by the aged, patriotic, should-be-honored generations that have gone on before us.

No.

They must be passed on to and raised and upheld by our young, strong, responsible arms that will carry them for our children. Freedom isn’t free. Let it sober us. Those who fought for us have to know they can trust us. That we aren’t just progressing our way, but the way God, Designer of our liberty, gives us the responsibility to. Not just for ourselves, but for our posterity.

Freedom – it lives or dies with us.

We are the remnant.

By Alise Uhl, 18 years old, and a 2024 Camp Constitution attendee.

 

The Weekly Sam: Christianity Versus Islam

Published June 10, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

Because we live in such a highly secularized society, we cannot believe that America could ever become
involved in a religious war in this day and age. Yet ferocious religious wars have been going on all over the
place: in Northern Ireland, in Israel, in the Balkans, in Sudan, in India, in Kashmir, and in Russia. But
history is a very harsh taskmaster and refuses to let us Americans escape into our secular fantasies and
liberal hot houses for long. Thus, it is vitally important for us to reconnect with the human race’s never
ending history of religious struggle. That a group of Islamic terrorists, trained in a remote war-torn, famine
ridden, hell-hole in Asia, could organize the kind of mind-boggling attack against America that took place on
September 11, 2001, means that America is not only not exempt from history, but has been dragged
kicking and screaming back into the middle of it.

Back in 1588, Christopher Marlowe, master of historical drama, wrote his famous Tamburlaine 2. In it there
is a fascinating scene in which the Christian King Sigismund of Hungary and Orcanes, the Muslim King of
Natolia, both former enemies, decide to establish peace between them in order to join forces to defeat
Tamberlaine the Great, the cruel, pagan conqueror of Asia.
Both men confirm their commitment with an oath. King Sigismund vows:

“By Him that made the world and sav’d my soul,
The Son of God and issue of a maid,
Sweet Jesus Christ, I solemnly protest
And vow to keep this peace inviolable!”

King Orcanes vows:

“By sacred Mohamet, the friend of God,
Whose holy Alcoran remains with us,
Whose Glorious body, when he left the world,
Clos’d in a coffin mounted up the air,
And hung on stately Mecca’s temple-roof,
I swear to keep this truce inviolable!”

But as the story goes, it was King Sigismund who later broke the truce and was defeated and killed by the
Muslims.

While the history of the struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of Europe was for a time
settled after the Muslims were expelled from Spain in 1492, and driven back from the gates of Vienna to
Asia and Africa, the Islamic enclaves that remained in the Balkans led to the recent wars in Bosnia and
Kosovo. The Serbs had considered themselves as the Christian bulwark against further Islamic incursions
in Europe, and therefore could not understand why they were being bombed by fellow Europeans and
Americans.

You had to know history to understand what Bosnia and Kosovo were all about and what bin Laden’s men
were doing in the Balkans. That conflict proved that the war between Christianity and Islam has never
ended. Over the ages, it simply took on different forms. The rise of European power put a lid on Islamic
ambitions and the Muslim world became the backwater of history until the discovery of oil in the twentieth
century. But in the nineteenth century, the Islamic Barbary states of North Africa could still make trouble for
the Infidel. They took possession of American and European commercial vessels, held their crews for
ransom, and enslaved other Christians. Our first war after independence was fought during the Jefferson
administration against the Muslim pirates and kidnappers of Tripolitania. It is known in the history books as
the Barbary War, in which U.S. Marines staged their first invasion of foreign soil. Hence, the Marine
anthem: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”

In order to finally put an end to the piracy and barbarism coming out of North Africa, France decided to take
over Algeria. During the 1830s and 1840s, the French imposed their rule over the territory, encouraging
Europeans to settle there. The result was a flourishing French colony and an end to Barbary piracy. France
maintained order in North Africa until the end of World War II, when the anti-colonialist movement got
underway. Both liberals and communists joined in forcing the European powers to give up their colonies.

In Algeria, however, over a million Europeans had settled in the territory and the coastal departements
were considered an integral part of France. However, when Charles de Gaulle gained power at the height
of the Algerian uprising, he decided that France should quit Algeria because the Moslems could never
become true Frenchmen. And so France abandoned Algeria, and a million Europeans took to the boats.
Today, the invasion has been reversed. Five million Muslims, mostly Algerians, live in France. They make
up ten percent of the population and are part of the resurgent Islamic power in Europe. Christianity is now
so weak in France that one wonders if it is capable of resisting the assumption of Islamic power.

We have been told by our leaders and the media that we are not at war against the Islamic religion. We
are at war against terrorism. But what they all prefer not to recognize is that the spiritual power behind that
terrorism, the power that drives otherwise intelligent human beings to undertake suicidal missions against
the infidel is the religion of Islam. Of course, there are millions of Muslims who just want to lead normal
lives. Unfortunately, after September 11, 2001, nothing is “normal” anymore.

In an alarming article in the November issue of Commentary magazine, Daniel Pipes contends that
Islamist militants are serious about their plan to conquer America. He writes:

“The first missionaries for militant Islam, or Islamism, who arrived here from abroad in the
1920’s, unblushingly declared, “Our plan is, we are going to conquer America.”

The audacity of such statements hardly went unnoticed at the time, including by Christians who
cherished their own missionizing hopes. As a 1922 newspaper commentary put it:

“To the millions of American Christians who have so long looked eargerly
forward to the time the cross shall be supreme in every land and the people
of the whole world shall have become the followers of Christ, the plan to win
the continent to the path of the ‘infidel Turk’ will seem a thing unbelievable.

But there is no doubt about its being pressed with all the fanatical zeal for
which the Mohammedans are noted. Pipes writes further:

“As a teacher at an Islamic school in Jersey City, near New York, explains, the “short-term
goal is to introduce Islam. In the long term, we must save American society.” Step by step,
writes a Pakistan-born professor of economics, by offering “an alternative model” to
Americans, Muslims can transform what Ismail Al-Faruqi referred to as “the unfortunate
realities of North America” into something acceptable in God’s eyes.”

The irony in all of this is stunning. For years the Christian right has been trying to get Americans to live
godly lives, but with very limited success. The fact that 85% of American parents put their children in pagan
public schools is an indication of how strong our liberal secular culture is. It controls the curriculum in our
schools and universities. It controls most of the print media, the electronic media, and most of what comes
out of Hollywood. And American schools are now teaching American children all about Islam. While the
Bible has been eliminated from the classroom, apparently the Koran hasn’t. How else can you teach about
Islam?

Recently, the Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief agency, called
Islam “wicked and violent.” He said, “I don’t believe this is a wonderful, peaceful religion. When you read
the Koran and you read the verses from the Koran, it instructs the killing of the infidel, for those that are
non-Muslim.”

As the son of Billy Graham, Franklin is the designated successor to his father’s longtime evangelical
ministry. He delivered the benediction at Bush’s inauguration. But now he’s in trouble with the White
House, which sponsored a Ramadan dinner for 50 ambassadors from Islamic countries with a traditional
meal and prayer. Also, the Muslim chaplain of Georgetown University recently officiated at the opening
prayers of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill.

The moral seems to be that if Islamist terrorists bomb the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and kill
5,000 Americans, other Islamists get invited to the White House for a special dinner prepared to their
specifications: no pork. Now that Americans are being invited to be kind to Muslims, where will all of this
lead?

Graham said, “It wasn’t Methodists flying into those buildings, it wasn’t Lutherans. It was an attack on this
country by people of the Islamic faith.” And that’s why the latter are now favored guests at the White
House! Of course, the President is doing this to keep the Islamic states in line while we war against the
terrorists which these states harbor.

But if we are being encouraged by our born-again President to be kind to our Muslim neighbors, shouldn’t
Christians see this as a missionary opportunity? Why not introduce Muslims to the loving grace of Jesus
Christ? One of the reasons why Americans find it difficult to become friendly with Muslims is because
sooner or later their rabid hatred of Israel will surface. Americans in general don’t like to hate anybody, and
they are uncomfortable with people who are haters.

Christianity preaches love. Islam preaches hate. That is why hatred of Israel fills the psyche of so many
Muslims. Abnormal, pathological hatred is not healthy. It requires constant energy to be sustained at the
level it exists among Muslims. And that is why life is so miserable in many Islamic countries. And that is
why Palestinian refugees have preferred to remain in refugee camps for 50 years rather than do something
constructive with their lives. They prefer to live with festering, enduring hatred, and teach it to their
children, rather than accept forgiveness and peace. No true Christian could ever waste his life that way.

Yet, the United Nations aid agency accepts these refugee camps as perfectly normal for the Arab Muslims.
After World War II, millions of displaced persons found new constructive lives in countries all over the
world. But in the Middle East, Palestinian hatred is used to torment the world about Israel.
It is to be hoped that one of the first things the new government of Afghanistan might do is recognize Israel
and establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. It would signal a dramatic change in the attitude of
Muslims toward Israel.

Indeed, let us be loving and concerned with the well being of our Muslim citizens, and let us convey to
them that Jesus will save them from their sickening hatred and grant them life renewed.

 

Support for “Pride” Month Shows Measurable Decline:

Published June 9, 2026 | By campconstitution

The following is a news release from our friends at Liberty Counsel:

ORLANDO, FL – Support for the LGBT “Pride Month” and symbols continue to decline and are noticeably less prominent in June 2026. According to recent reports and polling data, “pride month,” which was once marked by widespread corporate enthusiasm and growing public approval, is experiencing a measurable decline in participation and expression. Both persistent public pushback and the Trump administration’s agenda against harmful gender ideology are cited for lost corporate sponsorships and state grants of “pride” events, for some conservative states renaming June “Nuclear Family Month” or “Fidelity Month,” as well as for the steep decline in Republican support for “same-sex marriage.”

In 2026, reports indicate a dramatic reduction between 60-70 percent in corporate sponsorships for “pride” events as compared to recent years.  This loss in funding, as well as local government funding, permits, and support, are forcing many major metropolitan events in areas like Arlington, Texas, Long Beach, Louisville, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Tampa, and Tucson to scale back parades, cancel events altogether, or charge admission due to the “catastrophic” shortfall of funding. The LGBT advocacy organization “Phoenix Pride” recently filed for bankruptcy protection citing loss of “sponsorship and fundraising” due to the “current political climate.”

Notable companies backing off public alignment with LGBT support include Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, BlackRock, Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co., Google, McDonald’s, Meta, Target, and more.

In addition, the Human Rights Campaign, a longtime LGBT civil rights advocacy group, also reported that 65 percent of the Fortune 500 companies once on its Corporate Equality Index withdrew their participation. The corporate pullback suggests businesses are interpreting public LGBT association as a financial risk amid consumer trends, shareholder concerns, and political pressure.

Dynamics for the month of June are also changing at the state level. In April 2026, Tennessee led the way declaring June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month” celebrating God’s design for family and rejecting gender ideology and other “humanistic globalist ideologies.” On June 1, Indiana made the same recognition. In Arkansas, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared June “Fidelity Month” encouraging practices that cultivate a “fidelity to God,” while Oklahoma proclaimed June 2026 as “Life Month” to recognize the “inherent human dignity and value of every human life.” Also, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis designated June as “Faith and Family Month” recognizing religious faith, traditional family, and fatherhood as necessary pillars of safe and strong communities. These alternative observances directly combat radical, destructive ideologies and point back to faith and traditional family as the means for a free, wholesome, and lasting society.

In March 2026, Gov. DeSantis signed a bill into law that defunds any local government programming, policy, or activity designed to “provide preferential treatment” with respect to “race, color, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.” The law effectively bars local “pride” events in Florida from receiving state funds.

Declining alongside “pride month” participation is public opinion on “gender change” and “same-sex marriage.” A recent 2026 Gallup poll found that only four in 10 Americans view the attempt to change one’s gender “morally acceptable.” As for “same-sex marriage,” overall support waned from 72 percent in 2022 down to 65 percent, while the view that same-sex relationships are “morally acceptable” fell to 62 percent down from 71 percent in the same time frame. The poll also noted a significantly larger drop among the Republican demographic with only 37 percent now saying “same-sex marriage” should be legal, an 18 percent drop from 2022 (55 percent). The pushback against gender ideology is responsible for at least 27 states enacting laws protecting minors from harmful gender procedures and medical mutilation, 27 states protecting females from males in interscholastic sports, and at least 11 states introducing legislation to ban “same-sex marriage,” even though most of the marriage initiatives have failed to gain enough support for passage.

Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The decline in corporate support for ‘pride month’ is in concert with consistent public pushback and a rise in federal and state actions against gender ideology. The cultural debate is far from over as it seems businesses are paying more attention to their financial bottom line than what is morally right. Eleven years past the Obergefell v. Hodges opinion regarding ‘same-sex marriage,’ we have drag queens with sexualized performances in front of children, males in female sports, and child medical mutilation. Now, this radical gender ideology is being rejected.”

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American Minute with Bill Federer Nazi aggression led up to D-Day, June 6, 1944: Turning point in Europe, FDR “A Struggle to Preserve our Republic, our Religion and our Civilization”

Published June 7, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff
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After World War I, Germany’s economy suffered from depression and a devaluation of their currency.

On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany by promising hope and universal healthcare .. continue reading …

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Less than a month later, on February 27, 1933, a crisis occurred — the Reichstag, Germany’s Capitol Building, was suspiciously set on fire, with evidence pointing to Hitler’s supporters.

Hitler, though, blamed the attack on his political opponents and used the power of the state to falsely accuse and arrest them.

 

Hitler used the panic of the “crisis” as an opportunity to suspend citizens’ rights and systematically undermine Germany’s Weimar Republic.
He had radical homosexual activist Ernst Röhm and his feared Brownshirts, called “Sturmabteilung” (storm troopers), to storm into the meetings of his political opponents, disrupting and shouting down speakers.
Brownshirts organized protests and street riots, similar to modern day BLM / Antifa / Anti-ICE protests, blocking traffic, vandalizing, smashing windows, setting fires, and even beating to death innocent bystanders to spread fear and panic.
FDR stated January 2, 1942:

“Remember the NAZI technique — Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer!”

Roosevelt stated November 1, 1940:

“Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.”

FDR told Congress, January 3, 1940:

“Doctrines that set … race against race, class against class, fanning the fires of hatred in men … too desperate to think for themselves, were used as rabble-rousing slogans on which dictators could ride to power.”

FDR stated October 27, 1944:

“May this country … marshal its righteous wrath against those who would divide it by racial struggles.”
Nazis implemented boycotts of Jewish businesses.

The riots destabilized the country and led to the overthrow old political leaders.
On Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), they broke windows, looted and set on fire over 7,500 Jewish stores and 200 synagogues.
Once securely in power, Hitler had his SS and Gestapo secret police kill the Brownshirts in the Night of the Long Knives, thus eliminating competition and giving the public impression that he was cracking down on lawbreakers.
Nazis had old military leaders falsely accused and forced to retire.

Some were imprisoned and even shot without a trial.

He pushed a type of critical race theory, whereby all other races were taught that they were inferior to the Aryan race.
Hitler then confiscated weapons from law-abiding citizens.

An SA Oberführer warned of an ordinance by the provisional Bavarian Minister of the Interior:

“The deadline set … for the surrender of weapons will expire on March 31, 1933. I therefore request the immediate surrender of all arms …

Whoever does not belong to one of these named units (SA, SS, and Stahlhelm) and … keeps his weapon without authorization or even hides it, must be viewed as an enemy of the national government and will be held responsible without hesitation and with the utmost severity.”
Heinrich Himmler, head of Nazi S.S. (“Schutzstaffel”-Protection Squadron), announced:

“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the S.S. or the S.A. Ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.”
In 1938, when a suspected homosexual youth shot a Nazi diplomat in Paris, it was used as an excuse to confiscate all firearms from Jews.

German newspapers printed, November 10, 1938:

“Jews Forbidden to Possess Weapons by Order of SS Reichsführer Himmler, Munich …

‘Persons who, according to the Nürnberg law, are regarded as Jews, are forbidden to possess any weapon. Violators will be condemned to a concentration camp and imprisoned for a period of up to 20 years.'”
The New York Times, November 9, 1938, reported:

“The Berlin Police … announced that … the entire Jewish population of Berlin had been ‘disarmed’ with the confiscation of 2,569 hand weapons, 1,702 firearms and 20,000 rounds of ammunition.

Any Jews still found in possession of weapons without valid licenses are threatened with the severest punishment.”
Of the Waffengesetz (Nazi Weapons Law), March 18, 1938, Hitler stated at a dinner talk, April 11, 1942 (Hitler’s Table Talk 1941-44: His Private Conversations, 2nd Edition, 1973, p. 425-6, translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens):

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.

History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing …

So let’s not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order.”
Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, pioneered the use of fake news to sway public opinion so that the entire nation accepted the lies of the deep-state:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it …

The truth is the greatest enemy of the state.”
In socialist countries, a person’s life is only of worth if it benefits the state:

“No life still valuable to the state will be wantonly destroyed.” (German Penal Code, October 10, 1933)

Those not promoting the deep-state narrative were driven from their jobs, publicly ridiculed, and eventually removed from society and sent to labor and concentration camps.

Anti-socialist John Basil Barnhill stated in a debate with Henry M. Tichenor, 1914 (National Rip Saw Publishing Co., St. Louis, MO):

“Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.”

This is similar to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who warned at Hillsdale College, April 11, 2023:

 

“1. Any power that government takes from the people, it will never return voluntarily;

2. Every power that government takes, it will ultimately abuse to the maximum extent possible;

3. Nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism. The only thing we can do is resist.”

National Socialist Workers Party operated over 1,200 concentration camps where millions of Jews, Poles, Gypsies, handicapped, and others were experimented upon, tortured, or were killed in gas chambers.
German churches were silent, as they had for centuries taught pietism – a version of separation of church and state where Christians were instructed to only focus on their own personal spiritual life and withdraw from involvement in worldly politics.

As a result, the church stood by silent as the National Socialist Workers Party usurped power, leaving the work of stopping Hitler to done by the sacrifice of millions of courageous Allied soldiers.
By the time a few courageous Germany church leaders spoke out, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, it was too late — the government had grown so powerful it simply arrested and executed them.
Hitler’s National Socialist Workers’ Party used diplomatic intimidation, deception, and Blitzkrieg “lightning war” attacks to take control of:
  • Austria,
  • The Sudeten Region,
  • Bohemia,
  • Moravia,
  • Poland,
  • Denmark,
  • Norway,
  • Luxembourg,
  • Belgium,
  • Holland,
  • France,
  • Monaco,
  • Greece,
  • The Channel Island (UK),
  • Czechoslovakia,
  • Baltic states,
  • Serbia,
  • Italy,
  • Hungary,
  • Romania,
  • Bulgaria,
  • Slovakia,
  • Finland,
  • Croatia, and more.
Other Axis Powers were also aggressively expanding:

  • Italy had invaded Ethiopia in 1935, and
  • the Empire of Japan had invaded China in 1937.
The United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was bombed by Imperial Japan, a Tripartite Pact partner with Nazi Germany and Italy’s Benito Mussolini
The turning point in the Pacific War was the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942.
The turning point in Europe was D-Day, JUNE 6, 1944.

Over 160,000 troops from America, Britain, Canada, free France, Poland, and other nations landed along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast of France.
In his D-Day Orders, JUNE 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower sent nearly 100,000 Allied troops marching across Europe to defeat Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party:

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade … The eyes of the world are upon you.
… The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you …

You will bring about … the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe …
… Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely …

And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
It was the largest seaborne invasion force in world history, supported by 13,000 aircraft, 5,000 ships with 195,700 navy personnel.

Prior to the invasion, Allies attempted to mislead the Nazis as to where the attack would take place.
The invasion was supposed to take place June 5, but the weather was so bad aircraft could not fly. General Eisenhower gave the risky order to delay the attack 24 hours to allow the weather and tide to improve.

The night before, Allied aircraft launched an enormous air assault on Nazi defenses, batteries, and bridges.
Then paratroopers were sent in behind enemy lines to cut off their supplies.

President Ronald Reagan stated at the 40th Anniversary of D-Day:

“Something else helped the men of D-day: their rockhard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause.

And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer he told them:

‘Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do.’

Also that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: ‘I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.'”
Then elite Army Rangers went in to scale the cliffs and take out Nazi machine gun positions.
President Reagan stated:

“40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.

At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.

Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns.

The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
… The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers — the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades.

And the American Rangers began to climb.

They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place.

When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing.
… Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here.

After 2 days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.”
At 6:30am, Allied forces began landing.

Troops ran across the heavily fortified beaches of:

  • Utah Beach
  • Pointe du Hoc
  • Omaha Beach
  • Gold Beach
  • Juno Beach
  • Sword Beach
Ocean water ran red with the blood of almost 9,000 killed or wounded.

In the next two and a half months, over two million soldiers arrived on the shores.

Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944, and the Nazi war machine was pushed back over the Seine River

It was a major turning point in World War II.
Reagan continued:

“The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next.

It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.”
Shortly after D-Day, on July 20, 1944, a courageous German resistance movement was formed which attempted to assassinate Hitler, but he survived.

Hitler retaliated by killing over 7,000 Germans.
President Franklin Roosevelt stated JUNE 6, 1944:

“My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation …

I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God, Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization …

Give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.

For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces … We know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph …

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom …”
FDR concluded his D-Day Prayer:

“Help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice …

I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength … and, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee … With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy …

And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil. Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.”
FDR’s D-Day Prayer has been added to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., thanks to the tireless efforts of Chris Long of the Ohio Christian Alliance who initiated The D-Day Landing Prayer Act (S 1044).
The bipartisan bill was introduced in the House by Ohio Congressman Bill Johnson, introduced in the Senate by Ohio Senator Rob Portman, and signed into law in 2014.
For more information For Their Honor
President Donald Trump read a portion of Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer at the 75th anniversary memorial event held in Portsmouth, England, with England’s Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, and other world leaders.

FDR stated in his D-Day Prayer that the war was “a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization.”

A Democrat, President Roosevelt shared his Christian nationalist sentiments during a Fireside Chat, April 28, 1942:

“THIS GREAT WAR effort must be carried through … It shall not be imperiled by the handful of noisy traitors — betrayers of America, betrayers of Christianity itself.”
FDR stated at Madison Square Garden, NY, October 28, 1940:

“WE GUARD AGAINST the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without, and the forces of ignorance and fear which may corrupt us from within.”
FDR stated in Brooklyn, New York, November 1, 1940:

“THOSE FORCES HATE democracy and Christianity as two phases of the same civilization. They oppose democracy because it is Christian. They oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy.”
FDR stated in a Labor Day Address, September 1, 1941:

“PRESERVATION OF THESE rights is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them, but to the whole future of Christian civilization.”

 

As Franklin Roosevelt was an outspoken defender the nation as well as Christian civilization, one wonders if the modern mainstream media would label him a “Christian nationalist.”
FDR addressed Congress, March 1, 1945:

“I SAW SEVASTOPOL and Yalta! And I know that there is not room enough on earth for both German militarism and Christian decency.”
Eleven months after D-Day, the war in Europe ended with an Allied victory on May 8, 1945.

FDR stated May 27, 1941:

“THE WHOLE WORLD is divided between … pagan brutality and the Christian ideal. We choose human freedom which is the Christian ideal.”
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The “Gay Manifesto” We Will Sodomize Your Sons

Published June 5, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

I first learned about this vile screed from my friend Warren Bradley, a retired Boston policeman back in 1988.  He was a subscriber to Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority newsletter, and it had reprinted this manifesto.  I didn’t believe that it was true.  I called the now defunct “Gay Community News” which was based in Boston and the man who answered confirmed that the paper did indeed publish it.  He told me that the author  was a “poet from Connecticut.”   I asked him if printing such things was a way to gain supporters for the homosexual cause.  He didn’t respond.  

(First Published in Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987 and also put into the Congressional Record. Author – Michael Swift)

We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.

We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence–will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

 

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.

Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.

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Published June 2, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

 
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In 1775, America was desperately in need of money to finance the Revolution.

Spain’s King Carlos III, together with France’s King Louis XVI, set up a front trading business in Paris, “Roderigue Hortalez and Company,” to funnel money and arms to Americans fighting for independence.

King Carlos III of Spain decided to help, but did so covertly, behind the scenes, as he initially did not want to openly oppose Britain …

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Spanish merchant Juan de Miralles worked with Connecticut merchant Silas Deane and Thomas Morris, the half-brother of Robert Morris — Financier of the Revolution.

The company secretly shipped to American troops five million livers worth of muskets, bayonets, cannons, cannonballs, gunpowder, arms, blankets, tents, flour, sugar, medical items, such as quinine to treat disease, and enough clothing and uniforms for 30,000 soldiers.

It even sent limes and guavas to combat scurvy.

In November of 1777, Juan de Miralles was appointed as secret envoy to America’s Continental Congress by José de Gálvez, Inspector General of New Spain and uncle of Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish Governor of New Spain.

Through Miralles, Spain arranged loans of 40,600 pesos to South Carolina and 140,650 pesos to the Continental Congress.

Tragically, Miralles contracted pneumonia while visiting Washington’s headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, April 28, 1780.

George Washington so appreciated Miralles that he led his funeral procession.
With the help of Dutch merchants, the money and supplies were secretly funneled to America through the Dutch Island of St. Eustatius.

Polish-Jewish merchant Haym Solomon also raised significant funds for the American cause.

When the British blockaded the ports of the 13 colonies, the Spanish Governor of New Spain, Bernardo de Gálvez, sealed off the port of New Orleans to British ships but let ships supplying America to go through.

Over $70,000 worth of military supplies, weapons, cartridge boxes, uniforms, and medicine came from the Caribbean through New Orleans, up the Mississippi River to the Ohio River, then to Pittsburgh, from where they were transported overland to Philadelphia to aid the Continental Army troops under the command of General Washington and Brigadier-General George Rogers Clark.

A historical marker, “Blankets & Pesos for Washington’s Army,” reads:

“The United States have already received very considerable aid from the Court of Madrid — three million pesos. Much more however is expected; and in time to come, these services will be repaid with honor, as they are now acknowledged with gratitude.”

An interesting fact is that Bernado de Gálvez’s uncle, José de Gálvez, Inspector General of New Spain, was the one who appointed Franciscan Junipero Serra to lead the twenty-one Catholic missions in California.

Serra baptized over 6,000, a tenth of the native population there.

California placed Junipero Serra statue in the U.S. Capital’s statuary hall.

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On June 21, 1779, King Carlos III officially declared war against Great Britain, as did France and The Netherlands, resulting in Britain having to stretch its military even further.

Spanish and French navies laid siege to British-controlled Gibraltar, 1779-1783.

It was the longest siege the British ever endured, and one of the longest in naval history, requiring an enormous amount of British military resources that otherwise would have been sent to stop the American Revolution

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King Carlos III commissioned Gálvez to organize forces against the British.

Gálvez assembled 32 ships and recruited soldiers from Spain, Cuba, México, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Canary Islands, free Blacks, Indians, Creoles, and French Catholic Acadians — “Cajuns.”

He negotiated with the Spanish Governor of Texas, Domingo Cabello y Robles, in June of 1779 for hundreds of horses, as well as 10,000 head of cattle to be driven to New Orleans, Louisiana, to feed his troops.

In late August, 1779, Gálvez’s Spanish forces, numbering 1,427, departed from New Orleans to defeat the British at Fort Bute in Bayou Manchac, September 6, 1779.

On September 21, 1779, they captured Fort New Richmond in Baton Rouge, and then captured Fort Panmure in Natchez, October 5, 1779, freeing up the lower Mississippi Valley.

Gálvez captured hundreds of British soldiers, including the British Maryland Loyalist Regiment, Pennsylvania Loyalists, British 60th Foot Regiment, British 16th Foot Regiment, and the German Waldeck Regiment.

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Increasing his troop size to 2,000, Gálvez took Biloxi, and laid a month-long land and sea siege of Fort Charlotte in Mobile, capturing it on March 14, 1780.

The Fort Charlotte Museum exhibit states:

“British Colonial period on the Gulf Coast ended in spectacular fashion during the American Revolution …

In March 1780, Don Bernardo de Gálvez, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, led more than a thousand troops to Mobile and laid siege to Fort Charlotte …

For 14 long days, Spanish guns battered the old fort.

Faced with the complete destruction of his ragtag army of 300 men, including armed slaves and volunteers from the town, Captain Elias Dumford surrendered Fort Charlotte.”

The British recruited Indians to attack Americans in St. Louis.

Gálvez sent reinforcements and a canon to the Spanish fort there, Fort San Carlos, which was under Fernando de Leyba, commander of Upper Louisiana.

When the Indians attacked, May 26, 1780, they panicked, as they had never heard a cannon fired before.

They stopped fighting and the Battle of St. Louis was over.

Another Spanish contribution was the seizure of British supplies.

On the night of August 8, 1780, a convoy of British merchant vessels left the English Channel filled with military supplies, much of which was intended for British troops in America.

In the dark of night, Spanish Admiral Luis de Córdova slipped his flagship between the lead British ship and the rest of the British fleet.

Córdova mimicked the signal shots of the lead ship to fool the British convoy into following him.

When dawn broke, the British convoy was shocked to find they were surrounded.

A British officer wrote:

“At daylight we found ourselves in the center of thirty ships of the line and four frigates. We tried to run but found it impossible.”

It was one of the largest naval captures in history, 55 ships containing over a million British pounds of supplies, including 80,000 muskets, equipment for 40,000 troops, 294 cannons, uniforms and gold bars.

This Spanish capture deprived British troops of even more supplies they had hoped to use against Americans.

In February 12, 1781, Spanish soldiers from St. Louis traveled north and briefly captured Fort St. Joseph in Michigan.

Gálvez’s actions prevented the British from attacking Washington’s army from the west.

In 1781, with the help of Spanish Captain General Juan Manuel Cajigal and Spanish-Venezuelan Captain Francisco de Miranda, Gálvez led 7,000 Spanish soldiers in two-month land-sea attack against Fort George at the British capital of Pensacola in West Florida, capturing it May 10, 1781.

Ben Franklin and Marquis de Lafayette persuaded French King Louis XVI to send ships to help Americans.

On their way over, they stopped off at Haiti looking for funds for Washington, who was desperate to keep his army together.

French Admiral de Grasse wrote to General Rochambeau, July 28, 1781:

“Saint-Domingue Colony – Haiti – has no money, but I will send a frigate to Havana in quest of it.”

General Lafayette’s frigate L’Aigrette docked at the Port of Havana to obtain water and supplies to bring to Washington’s army in Virginia.

In September of 1781, Cuba’s Governor General Juan Manuel de Cagigal y Monserrat with the help of Spanish Captain Francisco de Miranda, organized a fundraising campaign.

When Cuban mothers – the “Havana’s Ladies,” heard of Washington’s plea for money, they raised an astonishing amount.

Women from Havana to Matanzas to Pinar del Rio donated their gold, silverware, candelabras, and jewelry, equivalent to $28 million dollars to help General Washington win the Battle of Yorktown.

The “Ladies of Havana” sent a note with their gift:

“So the American mothers’ sons are not born as slaves.”

The L’Agraitte arrived in September of 1781 in Virginia with the finances to pay the American army.

When General Washington heard of the Cuban women’s generosity, he reportedly threw his hat in the air.

French General Rochambeau wrote in his “Daily Memoirs” – kept in the Library of Congress:

“The joy was enormous when it was received …

The money from Havana … the contribution of 800,000 silver pounds which helped stop the financial bankruptcy — of the Revolutionary Army — and raised up the moral spirit of the Army that had began to dissolve.”

This money, together with the French fleet blockading British ships, allowed the 17,000 Americans and French to force Cornwallis to surrender, October 19, 1781.

Pulitzer Prize winning Historian Stephen Bonsal, who served in the U.S. embassy in Madrid, wrote in When the French Were Here (Doubleday, Doran & Co.,1945):

“The million that was supplied … by the ladies of Havana may, with truth, be regarded as the ‘bottom dollars’ upon which the edifice of American independence was erected.

The contribution of Cuban women by way of their jewelry, could very well be the foundation on which is founded, the freedom of the United States.”

On May 8, 1782, Gálvez’s Spanish forces captured the British naval base at New Providence, Nassau, Bahamas.

He was preparing to capture Jamaica when the war ended.

In 1783, Bernado de Gálvez helped with the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris which officially ended the Revolutionary War.

Congress recognized him for his assistance in the peace process.

In gratitude for his support, General Washington invited Gálvez to ride with him in a Philadelphia victory parade, July 4, 1783.

Statues of Gálvez are in New Orlean’s Spanish Plaza, and near the U.S. Department of State, Virginia Avenue and 22nd Street N.W., Washington, DC, which was dedicated by King Juan Carlos I, June 3, 1976.

The statue’s inscription reads:

“BERNARDO DE GÁLVEZ … THE GREAT SPANISH SOLDIER WHO CARRIED OUT A COURAGEOUS CAMPAIGN IN LANDS BORDERING THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.

THIS MASTERPIECE OF MILITARY STRATEGY LIGHTENED THE PRESSURE OF THE ENGLISH IN THE WAR AGAINST THE AMERICAN SETTLERS WHO WERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR INDEPENDENCE.

MAY THE STATUE OF BERNARDO DE GÁLVEZ SERVE AS A REMINDER THAT SPAIN OFFERED THE BLOOD OF HER SOLDIERS FOR THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.”

In October of 1784, Carlos III made Gálvez the Governor of Cuba, Louisiana and the Floridas, where, as a gesture of goodwill, he released all American sailors imprisoned for smuggling.

Gálvez had corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Charles Henry Lee.

A fifteen cent U.S. Postage stamp honors General Bernado de Gálvez, Battle of Mobile, 1780.

Galveston, Texas, and Gálvez, Louisiana, were named for him.

Congress awarded him honorary U.S. citizenship – one of only seven other people to be thus recognized.

In 1785, Gálvez succeeded his father as Viceroy of New Spain and moved his family to Mexico City, which was suffering disease and famine.

He used his personal fortune to help the suffering people.

He repaired the Castle of Chapultepec and completed the Cathedral of Mexico, the largest Catholic cathedral in the western hemisphere.

He died November 30, 1786.

His body was placed beside the Church of San Fernando and his heart was kept at the Cathedral of Mexico.

Another Spaniard who helped with the American Revolution was Spanish Captain Jorge Farragut.

He served as a lieutenant in the fledging South Carolina Navy and then the Continental Navy.

Farragut fought the British at Savannah in 1779; was captured in the Siege of Charleston, 1780; then fought in the Battles of Cowpens and Wilmington, 1781.

After the war, Jorge Farragut helped found Knoxville, Tennessee.

His son, David Glasgow Farragut, was the first U.S. Navy Admiral.
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