Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger stated in the case of Marsh v. Chambers (1982):
"It can hardly be thought that in the SAME WEEK the members of the first Congress VOTED to appoint and pay a CHAPLAIN for each House and also VOTED to approve the draft of the FIRST AMENDMENT ... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared ACCEPTABLE."
Beginning in 1727, the small Moravian congregation sent out hundreds of Christian missionaries to share the message of God's love for all mankind to places as far away as:
Arctic;
Africa;
Far East;
Caribbean;
Central America's Mosquito Coast;
South America; and
North America.
Moravians were the first Protestant denomination to minister to slaves.
Our forefathers passed the vast Atlantic, spent their blood and treasure, that they might enjoy their liberties, both civil and religious, and transmit them to their posterity ...
Now if we should give them up, can our children rise up and call us blessed?"
"And let me conjure you, in the name of our common Country, as you value your own sacred honor ...
to express your utmost horror and detestation of the Man who wishes ... to overturn the liberties of our Country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood Gates of Civil discord, and deluge our rising Empire in Blood.
By thus determining ... you will defeat the insidious designs of our Enemies, who are compelled to resort from open force to secret Artifice.
You will give one more distinguished proof of unexampled patriotism and patient virtue ...
"The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added ...
