Interestingly, Jefferson held this bedrock conviction to our system of government without possessing orthodox Christian convictions. He was anything but a Christian, denying both the divine inspiration of God’s written Word (the Bible) and the divinity of God’s living Word (Jesus Christ). Still, Jefferson was smart enough to understand that God cannot be subtracted from the American equation without pulling the foundation out from under our Republic. He understood, as few do today, that the denial of Almighty God transforms government into tyranny, with the inevitable result of men’s inalienable rights becoming alienable in the hands of an “almighty” and tyrannical government.

 

Positive proof of the above is clearly seen in today’s America. Our removal of God from the public square by outlawing our government’s acknowledgement of God—despite the fact that our government was founded upon an acknowledgement of God—has inevitably lead to our government’s usurpation of the place of God. For instance, our government has tyrannically taken the right to life from the unborn child, which has resulted in the hands of Uncle Sam being stained with the innocent blood of millions of aborted children.

 

Throughout history, the ploy most often employed to disguise the diabolical inhumanity of godless governments usurping the place of God is their denial of personhood, with all of its accompanying rights, to all of their helpless victims. Ask yourself the question: What does abortion, slavery and the Holocaust all have in common? The answer is: The denial of personhood to all of their helpless victims!

 

Slavery was justified in these Unite States by the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott Decision. According to this infamous decision, slaves were only 3/5ths human. Therefore, the court ruled that they could be legally classified as property rather than persons and bought and sold by their owners.

 

Likewise, the Holocaust was made possible by the denial of personhood to its helpless victims. In 1935, Germany’s Nuremburg Laws were passed, laws which stripped all Jewish people of their rights. In the following year, 1936, the German Supreme Court ruled that Jews were not to be legally recognized as persons. Instead, Jewish people were viewed by the German government as “sub-humans” or, as Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, parasites in the body of other peoples.

 

Just as the denial of personhood was once used by our government to strip slaves of their right to liberty and by Nazi Germany to strip Jews of all of their rights, it is now being used by our present-day government to strip unborn children of their right to life. For the past 38 years, our tyrannical government has played God and justified more than 52 million abortions under the guise of denying personhood to the unborn child.

 

In what is undoubtedly its most infamous decision ever, its 1973 Roe v. Wade Decision, the United States Supreme Court justified and made possible the unspeakable inhumanity of abortion on demand by dehumanizing the unborn child. What better way to disguise inhumanity than to claim that its victims are inhuman? Writing for the majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackman decreed: “The word ‛person’ as used in the 14th amendment [the amendment that forbids depriving any person of their right to life, liberty and property] does not include the unborn. The unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole sense.” Therefore, Blackmum concluded, “a fetus is not a person but only potential [human] life.”

 

This month, Mississippians will go to the polls and vote on an amendment to their state constitution that will define a person “to include every human being from the moment of fertilization.” It is the hope of the pro-life forces behind the amendment that its passage will outlaw abortion in Mississippi by enshrining within the legal definition of a person the unborn child’s God-given and inalienable right to life. Other states are watching and considering similar amendments to their constitutions in the days ahead.

 

That such an amendment is even needed speaks volumes about today’s America—a country padding its conscience against its own inhumanity by shutting its eyes to the humanity of its victims. That this amendment is being fiercely opposed and its supporters fallaciously slandered is proof of how the bedrock conviction to our system of government—the conviction in the minds of the American people that our liberties are inalienable, because they are a gift from God—has been pulled out from under our Republic. And the fact that this amendment, if passed, is destined to be overturned as unconstitutional by our tyrannical courts, is a most sinister and dark foreboding for the days ahead in these United States.