Posted by
Boomer911 on Friday, January 16, 2009 2:00:43 PM
In the latest attempt by liberals to shake the country from its Christian moorings, the left has put their finishing touches on the new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington D.C.. The new $621 million (9 times over budget) visitor center is suppose to be an ode to democracy and America's experiment in self-government by "educating" the public about the nation's founding doucuments and principles. But what the PC left has given the American public has been described as "scandoulous" and in one visitors words, Heritage Foundation constitutional expert Matthew Spaulding, a "living temple to the liberal's view of a living Constitution".
Apparently its not so much what the new visitor center says as much as what it doesn't. There is no mention of the Founding Fathers faith in God and that many of them felt "divine providence" was the reason why the American experiment even began. There is no mention of the founder's belief that our rights come from God and not kings and governement institutions. But in what has to be the funniest and also saddest revelation from the Exhibition Hall was the attempt to actually change our nation's motto to "E Pluribus Unum- Out of Many, One" from "In God We Trust". Apparently the designers believed "E Pluribus Unum" was the nation's motto and had the words carved into marble to adorn the Hall. Imagine their embarrassment when they were alerted to our country's actual motto "In God We Trust" and they had to plaster over the their mistake. As for the actual motto, well, apparently they didn't like that one and elected to ignore "In God We Trust" completely omitting it from the Hall. They also omitted from the 1787 Northwest Ordinance exhibit the opening line from the document that signalled this nation's westward expansion, "Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind ...", yet continued on to describe its significance in our nation's history.
The new visitor center also had some startling ideas about our Constitution. They actually referred to the legislative powers delagated by the Constitution as "aspirations", not the clearly defined and limited role the legislature should assume. I couldn't believe it, not powers but "aspirations". What a joke! Isn't this nothing more than liberals trying to find Constitutional authority for the courts advance into legislative territory? If this is the history we are passing on to a nation, then God help us. This revised, flawed, and terrible interpretation is the liberal's view of the Constitution as a "living document" and opens the door for complete government control over every facet of our lives. And what's worse is liberals will argue the Constitution gives them the power to do such things.
I can personally attest to the liberal version of our founding as I was in Washington D.C. in mid-November and had the privelege of viewing our founding documents, the original Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, at the National Archives. As I was waiting my turn to view the documents, I began reading the "educational" plaque that described what it was we were about to see and what they essentially meant to our Founding Fathers and how they still apply today. Within the first four sentences, they did a wonderful job explaining that our Founding Fathers believed our rights did not come from kings, governments, or civil institutions, as was the norm up until that time. But what shocked me was the way in which they skated right over the most important part of the founding document's philosophy, where the Founding Fathers did believe our rights came from.....GOD. I found it dishearteneing and dishonest to tell all who stood and marvelled at those documents where our rights did not come from, but unwilling to tell us what the Founder's did believe, that our rights come from God. In fact, one of the documents we were about to view said as much. But hey, why let fact, truth, and history ruin one's ideological view?