Today's American Minute

"'Wall of Separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution"-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 21, 2023 • "'Wall of Separation • ' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution"-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart

Judge Richard Suhrheinrich wrote in ACLU v Mercer County, 2006: "The ACLU makes repeated reference to 'the separation of church and state.' This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome.

The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state. Our nation's history is replete with governmental acknowledgment and in some cases, accommodation of religion."

Founding Influences, particularly the Three Eras of Masons

February 19, 2023 • Founding Influences • particularly the Three Eras of Masons

The three eras of Masons could be identified as: First, Medieval stone workers who built defense works for kings; Second, revolutionary political dissidents who met in secret to plot against kings; Third, after France's Revolution, unspecified influences of French infidelity, Jacobins, and Illuminati, though not of cognizance to the general membership.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American Fireside Poet - "Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 18, 2023

In 1842, Longfellow expressed his public support for abolishing slavery by publishing a collection, Poems on Slavery, which was reprinted by The New England Anti-Slavery Association.

Victor Hugo: Greatest of Romanticist Poets, his classic novel Les Miserables & his epic poem Vlad Dracul - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 16, 2023 • his classic novel Les Miserables & his epic poem Vlad Dracul • Victor Hugo: Greatest of Romanticist Poets

Hugo stated: "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England."

Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist Leader & Advisor to Lincoln, "I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 15, 2023 • Abolitionist Leader & Advisor to President Abraham Lincoln - American Minute with Bill Federer • Frederick Douglass

Douglass continued: "I finally found that change of heart which comes by 'casting all one's care' upon God, and by having faith in Jesus Christ, as the Redeemer, Friend, and Savior of those who diligently seek him. After this, I saw the world in a new light ... I loved all mankind -- slaveholders not excepted; though I abhorred slavery more than ever ... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of wisdom from them."