Submitted event from “Things@StarkvilleNow.com.”
Starkville Tea Party will hold our next meeting THIS Sat, 27 June (4th Saturday of month) at the Bluefield Water Assoc. Bldg from 3 – 4:30 PM.
(Directions to Bluefield Bldg.: From Starlville Wal-Mart, go west on Hwy 12 toward Longview. The Bluefield Water Association is approximately one half mile from the intersection of Hwy 12 and Old Hwy 12 (where the New Lite Grocery Store is) on the North side of Hwy 12. There is a sign in front of the building.)
This meeting will be a special lecture/planning meeting involving a 30-40 min. business segment and a 30-40 min. educational lecture. The meeting will begin promptly at 3 and adjourn promptly at 4:30.
The business segment will include follow-up business from our last planning meeting and plans for coordination with and participation in the upcoming nationwide 4th of July event.
The educational segment will include the first of the following 3 educational lectures given by Robert J. Allen
Lecture # 1. The US Constitution – Its Christian design
Lecture # 2. The US Constitution – What it says
Lecture # 3. PROOF “Separation of Church and State” is FALSE
Come join us. We need your input and strengths. Come enjoy the lecture and learn how our forefathers designed a wonderful nation that we now need to recover from the clutches of liberals who have been busy destroying it for decades.
For more info write: Starkvilleteaparty@gmail.com, or call 662-465-6190.
Apparently someone has not heard of the Treaty of Tripoli:
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Tea Party Protests were designed to bring attention to the irresponsible fiscal policies of our federal government. This announcement sounds like it is purely fundamentalist religious propaganda.
I am all for their freedom to host these events, and I have no desire to see the group censored. However, I fail to see the connection between “Tea Party” groups and misguided claims of a national religion. I also fail to understand how this could possibly be worth posting on a reputable news source. Are we to expect all fringe and extremist groups to start using SN as their own billboards?
The “Tea Party” title seems like a sneaky way to lure in an audience.
Growing up in Mississippi I constantly heard and continue to hear talk of “activist” judges re-interpreting the constitution to fit their own liberal agenda. But I ask the Starkville Tea Party members this, what is so hard to understand about the first Amendment? It’s pretty clear, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…”.
I’m not sure what kind of theocratic state Starkville Tea Party wants to create but the Christianity I know will have no part of it. Talk such as this is no better than Ayatollah and Guardian Council controlled Iran. I too respect your right to assemble peaceably but if you want a religious state I hope the faith you practice goes by a different name than mine.
when is the next meeting?
Some founding father statements that may be of interest to the tea party goers:
“And of al plagues with which mankind are curs’d, Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst” Daniel Defoe 1701
“Because no People can be truly happy, though under the greatest Enjoyment of Civil Liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Consciences,… I do hereby grant and declare, That no Person or Persons, inhabiting in this Province or Territories,…shall be in any Case molested or prejudiced, in his or their Person or Estate, because of his or their conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Plane or Ministry, contrary to his or their Mid, or to do suffer any other Act or Thing contrary to their religious Persuasion.” William Penn Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges 1701.
“In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced” Samuel Adams The Rights of Colonists 1772
“Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty… As the union between spiritual freedom and political liberty seems nearly inseparable, it is our duty to defend both.” Thomas Paine Thought on Defensive War 1775.
“As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hat to do therewith.” Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776
“It is the will of the Almighty, that there should be a diversity of religious opinions among us” Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776
“That religion, or the duty which we owe to our CREATOR, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion.” James Madison Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776
“The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.” Thomas Jefferson Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom 1779
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God.” Thomas Jefferson Notes on the state of Virginia 1782
“We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions… shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power… we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.” John Adams to Dr. Price 1785
“Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society.” James Madison Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention 1788
Every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable, to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshiping the Deity according to the dictates of his conscience” George Washington Letter to the United Baptist Church of Virginia 1789
“Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.” James Madison Annals of Congress 730 1789
‘Religion is very improperly made a political machine.” Thomas Paine Rights of Man, II 1792
“The subject of religion, a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved, I have considered it as a matter between every and and his maker, in which no other; & far less the public had a right to intermeddle.” Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush 1813.
“I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.” James Madison to Mordecai Noah 1818.
And I could keep on posting but I think you get the point…
Welcome back Jim. We’ve missed you.
I miss Jim, too, but the post above is from June 26.
Well spotted BoardtownDawg. Perhaps when he is certain Lola won’t try and have him fired again, we’ll get him back.
Did Lola actually try and have him fired? I read the posts earlier where she cited statute- just wondering if something actually happened behind the scenes?? Hope not!
You people are far too serious! You are no longer amusing us.
L-Laughing O-ut L-oud A-t them