American History never ceases to amaze me. Pastor Bill Hart of Austin recently shared a bit of history behind a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Hart. John Hart descended from Edward Hart, the City Clerk of Flushing, New York in the year 1657.It seams the Quakers of 1657 were offensive to the Reform Dutch Church of the day. While the powers that be took exception to actions of the Quakers and arrested them. The locals failed to find fault in these Men of God.
Ed Hart drafted and signed the Flushing Remonstrance in protest to the authorities. This act cost him his job and time in jail. Hart and others were punished for their convictions with jail-time, banishment, and/or other penalties.
Experts assert the Flushing Remonstrance is directly connected to the First Freedom listed in the Bill of Rights. The Flushing Remonstrance was commemorated with a Religious Freedom postage stamp on December 27, 1957.
The modern day equivalent of persecutors inside the Reform Dutch Church is the ACLU, along side of the AU and the Freedom From Religion bunch. These so called civil liberty lovers hate the public actions evangelical protestants. They hate it when evangelicals prayer in public, especially in the Name of Jesus. They hate it when the Biblical teachings on sin are espoused. They hate it when the little children are taught the Christian religion, and they hate it when schools have the audacity to prayer. The ACLU believes attempts to minimize evangelicals as quacks. And the ACLU would love flushing the quacks off Long Island and the remainder of the continent.
The battle over Religious Liberty in American, the battle for the very soul of a nation, rages yet today. Join us on Sunday, July 25th for the First Anniversary of the Political Hope Radio Show with our first ever guest, Jerald Finney, and Pastor David Newsome. Jerald is a Christian Lawyer and author of the book, God Betrayed. David is Pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Temple and led the call for prayer when the U.S. Supreme Court told Santa Fe ISD to stop.
God Save the U.S.A.
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