Several Conservative Issues on House Docket in Sept.
by Bill Fancher
September 13, 2004
(AgapePress) - Many issues important to Christian voters will be coming before members of the U.S. House of Representatives in coming weeks, beginning today (Monday).For example, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is scheduled to testify before the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, at Intellectual Property on Monday afternoon. Moore is urging Congress to pass the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 (H.R. 3799), which would bar federal judges from prohibiting the acknowledgment of God.
In August 2003, Moore ignored a federal judge's order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from Alabama's state courthouse and was subsequently removed from his position on the Alabama Supreme Court. He has since appealed his removal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a statement, Moore says, "The removal of the acknowledgment of God by the federal courts undermines the entire morality of this country and it must be stopped."
Congressman Roy Blunt of Missouri outlines other key issues that will be front-and-center in the House this month. One of those is the Pledge Protection Act which, according to Blunt, will provide "assurance that some court, somewhere, can't take away the important things that have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance."
Blunt says that act would remove the jurisdiction of the lower courts to ever deal with the Pledge in the future. "We think that's a right direction to take," Blunt says.
Along with the measure dealing with the Pledge of Allegiance is legislation pushing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would protect traditional marriage. He recalls how his constituents in Missouri handled that particular issue.
"Seventy-one percent of Missouri voters -- at the highest turnout we've ever had in a primary in August -- changed our constitution to define marriage in a traditional way," he says. "I think that's fairly reflective of what the sense of the country would be, so we'll be bringing that legislation to the floor as well."
Blunt says the House is determined to deal with these issues that are dear to Christian and conservative voters.
