Christopher Ruddy
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003

Everywhere we turn in America God seems to be under attack, to be banished from American life as a threat to our citizens and their civil liberties.

This is a funny notion, this idea that God needs to be banned to satisfy some claim that His existence violates another’s rights.

Aren’t God – and the Judeo-Christian moral compass that derives from Him – the basis of all our civil liberties?

Didn’t the founding fathers give acknowledgement to our Creator for the blessings of liberty?

But today, we have rejected the founding fathers. God is being banned. He is being banned in public and private life, in big and small matters.

Take, for instance, what happened to Sen. Joseph Lieberman during the 2000 presidential election. The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights discrimination, saw fit to rebuke Sen. Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew.

Lieberman’s crime? The ADL felt he was invoking God too often in public.

By the ADL’s standard, every president since Washington should be rebuked for having made similar invocations of the Almighty.

On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy S. Moore.

This honest and courageous judge has challenged a federal court order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments that sits prominently in the lobby of the state Supreme Court.

Though I believe the court order must and should be complied with, the high court’s decision should be sending a wake-up call to oh-so-comfortable Americans.

Americans also should note the Supreme Court’s hypocrisy. The Ten Commandments is displayed in the Supreme Court’s own building in Washington.

God needs to be banned and no one, not even the Supreme Court of the United States, wants to stand in the way.

Fox News host Sean Hannity said Wednesday night that the forced removal of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama court building is "the first step in the final lap" of the Left’s plan to "totally and completely" remove God from the public arena.

Already, federal judges have banned any utterance of God in public meetings, including the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms. The thought police have even banned silent prayer in schools.

A full ban on God is not too far off. Will a ban against those who believe in God be next?

Let’s make clear that the decision to ban God is not a matter of mere public policy. It’s also not a worry only for holy rollers and Bible thumpers.

This attack on God is an extremely dangerous threat to our government, our way of life, even our entire financial system (the Ten Commandments' order to "do not covet" is the basis of property rights and our capitalist system).

In fact, I believe that the Judeo-Christian ethic has formed the bedrock of America’s greatness.

If we ban God, then who – or what – will replace Him?

Clearly we have been living off the fumes of previous generations who believed in God, maintained the values of the Ten Commandments and made great sacrifices to keep us free.

But now we are turning our backs on God.

What will happen when He turns his back on us?

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