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by Jeff Ziegler

News of the National Reform Association

On Tuesday April 25, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the state of Ohio's motto "With God All Things Are Possible" as an "improper promotion of the Christian Faith." The ruling was a result of a 1995 lawsuit filed by liberal Presbyterian minister Rev. Matthew Peterson of Cleveland Heights and advanced by the American Civil Liberties Union. Ohio Gov. Bob Taft vowed to fight the ruling saying; "....the motto does not promote any single set of beliefs." Jimmy Masteronardo who suggested the motto 41 years ago claimed: "I was thinking of a supreme being...not my God or your God. It could be Buddha."

Hence, the ACLU continues its assault upon every cultural institution with Christian moorings, while the sincere guardians of the state motto are left only with denials of the Faith as their primary line of defense. At least the ACLU is a consistent antithesis to Christianity. Under the guise of religious neutrality, they brutally assault the Crown Rights of Christ in the civil sphere. Theirs is a religion of Humanism which venerates the state as God, maintains the public school as the new sanctuary, and promotes abortion as the bloody sacrament. The ACLU, despite its egalitarian blather, understands it is never a question of religion in the public sphere, or no religion in the public sphere, it is always a question of which religion!

The ACLU worldview is far more formidable than the one brandished thus far by the hapless defenders of the state motto. How is it that Masteronardo thinks that a direct quote from St. Matthew's Gospel could be interpreted as a promotion of Buddha? The ACLU unashamedly promotes atheism, yet, Gov. Taft, a professing Christian, is reduced to a practical atheism by the public denial of the very Faith the state motto proclaims. Essentially, Taft and Masteronardo cede the epistemological ground to the enemy. They, believe in the myth of religious neutrality. The ACLU understands that you can't beat something with nothing. Yet, the amorphous rationale of Taft is exactly that ....nothing!

The National Reform Association calls for explicit confessions of the Lordship of Christ in the civil sphere. We challenge the ACLU on this ground. We will not retreat from the vision of our founding fathers, that we are one nation under God, a Christian Republic. The state of Ohio will more than likely win its case on appeal, and keep its motto. However, we call on all civil magistrates to bow the knee to the Lordship of Christ and confess Him as "Ruler of the Nations." In other words; there is no neutrality.

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