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‘Separation Of Church And State Is A Lie’: Legal Precedent Collapses Bringing Religious Freedom To US
Have you heard the good news that the Ten Commandments will soon be displayed across classrooms in multiple states? Many people think these legislations fly in the face of laws written to separate church and state, but there are no laws — and never have been — that separate the church and public spaces in America. Are you shocked? You should be! The anti-faith lobbies within lawmaking have done an amazing job convincing at least four generations of Americans that they cannot practice their faith in the spaces their taxes fund. (RELATED: Mamdani’s Shocking Claim: Blames America For al-Qaeda Terrorist’s Rise) Libraries, schools, universities, so many different public spaces are now in for a rude awakening: not only is the short-held precedent that allowed us to remove Christ from our classrooms falling apart at the federal level, but states are taking serious action to educate and implement His word in public spaces. Listen to Lakepointe Church Pastor Josh Howerton discuss this issue in a recent post on social media: What most people believe about the “separation of church and state” is a LIE ⛪️❌ pic.twitter.com/FCpGCYyJH2 — Josh Howerton (@howertonjosh) June 2, 2025 Why Do People Think The U.S. Separates Church and State? In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-to-3 in favor of high school football coach Joseph Kennedy’s right to pray at the 5-yard line at the end of each game. The decision overturned a short-held legal precedent regarding the constitutionality of public religious displays. It’s believed the Ten Commandments were a prominent part of American education for almost three centuries prior to 1980, when the prior legal precedent was held against it. “Respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse Republic. Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a personal religious observance, based on a mistaken view that it has a duty to suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination. Mr. Kennedy is entitled to summary judgment on his religious exercise and free speech claims,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch at the time. (RELATED: What’s America Gonna Look Like? Shocking Video from Rome Gives Preview) The first purely American educational textbook “New England Primer” was published by Benjamin Harris in Boston in 1690, featuring an in-depth section on the Ten Commandments. In the context of American history, 45 years, from 1980 to 2025, without having the Ten Commandments in our education system doesn’t seem like a very long time, especially when you take into account it was part of our curriculum from at least 1690 to 1980 (that’s 290 years). But ask yourself: how do the last 45 years or so compare to the previous 290? Do You Know How Your Pastor Feels About Politics? Your Sunday service doesn’t have to be political, but your day-to-day life outside of His four walls will always be dictated — in large part — by your elected officials. Ignorance of politics is like handing over control of your life to the greediest, most power-hungry serpent in the room. When we Use Our Voice, we bring a more Biblical worldview to our nation. What Is The Purpose Of Million Voices? Contacting your representatives should be easy, but there are myriad ways they can ignore your messages. That’s where we come in. Yes, Million Voices helps you with voter guides. Yes, we send letters from YOU directly to your elected officials because it’s the only way to guarantee they’ll listen to you. Yes, we publish data, articles, text messages, and help bridge the gap between education and civic action. But what do you want? Tell us today. We want to make YOU the hero of our American story by giving you the tools you need to make a difference, from your local, state, all the way up to the federal level. Join us in our mission to advocate for religious freedom, support fair and secure elections, and uphold the values that this great nation was built upon. Tell us what you want from the next four years, and we will fight to make it a reality … again!
Former Atheist Actor Describes His Faith Journey In Moving Interview
Actor and former atheist Kirk Cameron shared a moving interview with Joe Pags on “Unshaken & Unafraid” in May, and we thought we’d share it with you today. Most of us remember Kirk Cameron as Mike Seaver in the hit sitcom “Growing Pains,” which ran from 1985 to 1992, captivating audiences and earning a slew of Hollywood awards. Since graduating from his sitcom days, Cameron’s career moved into a slew of faith-based films. From “Unshaken & Unafraid” Kirk Cameron found Jesus as a teenager after being an atheist. How did that happen? What did he experience as a child in Hollywood? How did he find his faith and how does it apply to his life now. Plus, why he started a new network to take on Disney and Netflix and he explains how you can get it. You can subscribe to Joe Pags on YouTube by clicking here. The Modern Memo will be bringing you as many of Pags’ episodes as humanly possible, but please follow and subscribe to him across all of the following platforms. Check out Joe Pags on X: always the hottest takes and the news you need Joe Pags Official Website Rumble — Joe Pags If you care about any of the issues you learned about today, you should consider contacting your locally elected official to voice your concerns. Did you know that if a politician — from your local town Mayor, all the way up through Congress — receives as few as 10 letters on the same issue, they will be forced to take action? Learn more about this brilliant political loophole by joining Million Voices today. TMM Action As we grow, The Modern Memo will be elevating the most important voices for the social sustainable future of American society. We will elevate good people, great ideas, and stuff our editorial team finds interesting, funny, or valuable to you, dear readers. MORE NEWS: Kay Hill On America’s Spiritual Revival & The Battle With Secular Power At the same time, we will never be above calling out wrongdoers, stupid ideas and the things that endanger our survival as a society and species. If you’d like to be more involved, contact us today to learn more.
ROOKE: Blue State Should Pay The Price For Breaking America’s Greatest Promise
by Mary Rooke, commentary & analysis writer The First Amendment protects American citizens’ right to free speech, but a recently passed Colorado bill plays into left-wing ideology that violates this promise and more. Under the guise of “anti-discrimination” and adding legal protection for so-called transgender individuals, Colorado lawmakers adopted into law House Bill 25-1312, “Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals,” which may violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments. This bill puts the government and schools in charge of the welfare of children by requiring that the courts consider whether parents committed cardinal sins of transgender ideology like deadnaming or misgendering, which is now considered “coercive control” under the law. It also prevents the court from removing a child from a parent for allowing the child to receive so-called “gender-affirming care services.” These procedures are known to cause irreversible damage to children’s bodies, including removing healthy organs and loss of future fertility. Fines For Free Speech HB 25-1312 also changes the state law to include deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts. This makes using biological pronouns and birth names in a public place a discriminatory practice, which could mean fines starting at $5,000 per violation. It requires teachers to use “chosen” names and pronouns, and that school districts provide clothes and other amenities for these confused children, even if the parents disapprove. Here’s the Colorado perverts responsible for passing HB 25-1312 which makes “misgendering” a form of “discrimination” empowering the state to kidnap your children. Jesus promised millstones would be His response. pic.twitter.com/s1MK4tgSNw — Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) May 10, 2025 Defending Education, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, Protect Kids Colorado, Do No Harm, and Dr. Travis Morrell joined to bring a complaint against state officials and others under 42 U.S.C. §1983, claiming HB 25-1312 violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments. (RELATED: Kay Hill On America’s Spiritual Revival & The Battle With Secular Power) “‘If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.’ West Virginia v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943). The state cannot place its thumb on the scale to favor one side of a contentious public debate. It certainly cannot stifle viewpoints it doesn’t like simply because it finds those views offensive or disagreeable,” Defending Education said in a statement. As parents sit back and watch the state remove our divine right to raise our children within the bounds of our moral values, it’s hard not to wonder when the higher courts will step in to protect our ability to do that. SCOTUS The U.S. Supreme Court did step in on behalf of children in 2024 when it reversed a lower court ruling that blocked an Idaho law to protect children from irreversible procedures progressives tout as gender-affirming care for minors. Hopefully, it doesn’t come down to SCOTUS to decide whether this law is unconstitutional. It seems like a very straightforward answer. The language of HB 25-1312 is government-compelled speech, and violations of the law result in massive penalties. The lower courts should have no reason to deny the complaint against them. Still, as parents have unfortunately experienced during the rise of transgender ideology in our country, we can’t rely on the judicial system to protect our rights. The left wants you to believe that the government has the right to sever the parent-child relationship by ending the importance of parental authority. It also wants you to believe in a false reality that sex is not immutable by forcing even non-parents to use fake names and pronouns. Their ultimate goal is to get to children. They want them so badly, and you, as their parent, stand in the way. (RELATED: Pastors Must ‘Make It Clear To Our People’ That Anti-Parent Transgender Laws Come From ‘One Political Party’) We have to fix this problem. Not only should this law be struck down as unconstitutional, but any state official who voted for or otherwise signed their name to it should face serious repercussions at the ballot box. We have to end the left’s control of our state and local governments, or these laws will continue to pass. TMM Action Follow Mary Rooke on X: @MaryRooke_ Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!
‘Separation Of Church And State Is So Stupid’: National Radio Host Joe Pags Goes Off
A video shared in Dec. 2024 showed nationally syndicated radio host Joe Pags of “The Joe Pags Show” going off about the separation of church and state, and how the whole argument in favor of this idea is “so stupid.” Pags was in the middle of interviewing The Modern Memo’s managing editor Kay Hill about the explosive growth in Christian and faith-based entertainment in Hollywood when the topic turned to the separation of church and state. “The argument about the separation of church and state is so stupid. It is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen,” Pags told Hill. “The argument from Satanists and from from the atheists, and from those who are just stupid, is that somehow the First Amendment requires that you can never be religious in public, and a public place funded by taxpayers can’t show any religious beliefs either.” “That’s not true,” Pags said of the argument. “It simply says ‘Congress shall pass no law establishing a religion,’ nor getting in the way of our means of worshipping how we see fit.” (RELATED LINK WILL GO HERE) “So the idea that somehow separated religion from state isn’t true. The whole separation of church and state … was a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to a church saying, ‘we’re not going to get in the way of what you’re doing.’ It had nothing to do with not wearing a cross if you’re a congressmember.” What’s up? — TheModernMemo (@TheModernMemo) December 31, 2024 Pags gave other examples of how the concept of “separation of church and state” is misguided in the modern interpretation, honing in on how he believes the American system is based on the Magna Carta that mentions God throughout. Watch the full interview here: