| PRESIDENT'S PERSPECTIVE |

 

     The following opinion is not meant to be the official stance of the Patriotic Order Sons of America.  It will hopefully stimulate some thought, comments are welcome either dissenting or supportive.

 

     Our Organization's Watchword is, " Devotion to God, Our Country, Our Order ", and so my first writing of the President's Perspective will be in relation to our "God".  Let me begin by saying that I am absolutely sick and tired of the phrase " Separation of Church and State ".  Research shows that Thomas Jefferson penned this phrase, but not as part of the Constitution.  I was appalled that two commentators on a National Network, used this phrase to help explain why clergy was not invited to the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attack.

 

Thomas Jefferson also penned these words in the Declaration of Independence, " All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  Actual study and discernment of Jefferson's writings will reveal that he believed in protecting every individual's religious freedom, without the establishment of a government recognized church, as the Mother Country of England had.

 

I believe that Jefferson understood that a man's religious beliefs are truly between him and his Creator.  John 3:16 tells us that, " God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life".  Once an individual believes and accepts this fact, than he begins to walk in God's ways, Joshua 22:5.  Expressing one's religious beliefs through prayer or displaying the Tem Commandments Does Not and Can Not force anyone to believe the Christian Faith.  Each person Must either accept Jesus or reject Him on their own.

 

Our faith and belief in God's Providence should be apparent in our lives and in the life of our Nation as well.  Listen to the words of our 4th President James Madison as he responded to critics challenging him to reconcile his faith against his government.  " We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us.... to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God.  The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

 

In closing, let me say that because of the Christian faith that our Country was founded and built upon, we allow the freedom to believe or not believe in God our Father in heaven, or the freedom to believe in something else if you wish, but don't try to tell me that this is not a Christian Nation or that I cannot exercise my faith in Jesus in public.

 

God Bless America and God Bless the P.O.S. of A.

National President

James C Dewees

james 2251dewees@verizon.net