Conservatives to Rally Against 'Judicial Tyranny' in Jackson, TN
by Allie Martin
April 30, 2004
(AgapePress) - A conservative Christian activist says a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is proof that many of this nation's judges are on a quest for a religion-free America.Earlier this week, the high court refused to consider the appeal of a judicial ban on cadet-led mealtime prayers at Virginia Military Institute. By refusing to hear the appeal, the Supreme Court let the rulings of two lower federal courts stand, abolishing a practice at VMI that was more than 100 years old. (See Related Article)
The president of Vision America says he is not surprised by the action -- or lack thereof -- by the Supreme Court. In fact, that is one of the reasons his organization is hosting a series of rallies this summer rally in support of the Ten Commandments and the right to acknowledge God in America. Jackson, Tennessee, is the site on Saturday (May 1) for another of those rallies.
Vision America president Rick Scarborough says the effects of the VMI ruling will be far-reaching. For one thing, he fears the nation is in danger of raising up a generation of military officers without religious values. And he believes by such rulings, the United States is pitting itself against God.
"We're fighting an international war on terror; we have a president who's not hesitated to speak of his own faith in God; and again and again we hear our leaders say 'God bless America.'" he notes. "But we've got to consider and ask ourselves is, what are we asking God to bless?"
The Vision America leader says before it is too late, Christians need to act by standing up against judicial tyranny.
"That brings me back to the primary focus of Vision America," he says. "We are encouraging Christians to get registered for this voting cycle, to begin to find out which candidates stand for our values, and to understand that the judges should not be ruling the nation."
American Christians, he says, need to do whatever they can at the ballot box "to remove elected officials who are not standing against judicial tyranny -- and install in their places God-fearing men and women who will stop the tyranny."
Organizers of the Jackson rally say they are "disgusted" with the direction that liberal judges and politicians are leading the nation. In addition, they say that marriage between a man and a woman is sacred, should be preserved, and should be the only form of marriage recognized in the U.S.
A press release adds that those who attend will be encouraged to carry an additional message back to their churches and communities: that they will only elect candidates who are "willing to stand up and publicly profess that they are against the organized immorality which threatens the Judeo-Christian ethic on which this nation was founded."
Saturday's rally at Pringles Park in Jackson will begin at 5:00 p.m. with gospel music, and will be followed one hour later with messages by Scarborough and by Ambassador Alan Keyes of RenewAmerica. Similar rallies have been held recently in Montgomery, Alabama; Blairsville, Georgia; and Dallas, Texas. Another Tennessee rally is schedules for Cookeville on June 4.
