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Me#1You#10 · Site Admin Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503

I just happened to catch a promo for this on FoxNews and I thought I'd give everyone a heads-up. I think I can safely guarantee you an enlightening and thought-provoking hour of education, Newt-style.

Deuce · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

Me#1,

Good catch, that...I saw it as well, and plan to watch....He, of course, will be too 'nice' to the ACLU and other God-Bashers for my taste, but hey...it's a start.

Go Newt
Deuce

Me#1You#10 · Site Admin Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503

Well, it was an hour well spent and a nice introduction to what will hopefully be a series of Gingrich lectures. While it certainly wasn't on a par with his wonderful "special orders" lectures during his congressional minority days and was somewhat "pablumized" for easy digestion, you're right Deuce...it's a good start.

One thing I did learn. I was unaware that the FDR memorial had been so methodically sanitized of religious convictions which were so much a part of FDR's life and rhetoric.

I want MORE...and more often Wink

LewWaters · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:54 am Post subject:

I only caught the last 15 minutes, but it was defintely an eye opener. I'll be watching for it to be rerun later this evening (one of the advantages of being on the 'left coast') Wink

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Schadow · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:49 am Post subject:

Fox is also running it on Sunday, 17 Dec, at 4:00 PM ET.

Schadow
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kate · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

well presented - aught to be required viewing in civics classes

prompted me to go looking for FDR's Fireside Chats

Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

I have a ton of "Old Time Radio" broadcasts and I love them for their innocence and for what you can learn about our country from them.

That snippet you quoted is so typical of the wartime programs. Even the sitcoms signed off with mention of prayer for "our men and women fighting on foreign shores."

How did we get from having the President invoke Almighty God and mention prayer in just a few sentences... to having a President vilified for the fact that he prays at all?

Incredible, isn't it?
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Schadow · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

Newt's mention of Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists in which he used the phrase "wall of separation between church and state" caused me to look up the letter and ponder what Jefferson meant. Newt didn't offer enough analysis, IMO.

Of course, the phrase has become the rallying cry of the ACLU and other organizations trying to remove any expression of religion (particularly Christian religion) from the public square.

It becomes quite clear to anyone reading the letter that Jefferson was merely restating the message of the First Amendment which is that the US Government must not engage in law-making pertaining to religion. It left alone the states rights in the subject.

The ACLU and Americans For Separation of Church and State, or whatever they're called, are just wrong in proclaiming that Jefferson was giving some new interpretation of the Amendment. He clearly wasn't.

Here's the pertinent paragraph of the letter followed by a link to the whole letter: