American Minute for July 6th:

    American Minute with Bill Federer
Anti-Slavery Party started!
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Calls to ban statues, flags and images of groups that were involved in slavery would have to include the Democrat Party's Donkey and Islam's Crescent, as both of these institutions were involved in the enslavement of Africans.

Beginning in colonial times, approximately 350,000 African slaves were brought to America.

This number grew to nearly 4 million slaves prior to the Civil War.

Slaves were purchased at sharia Muslim slave markets.

Sharia Islam defended the right to own slaves, as its founder, Mohammed, owned slaves.

Beginning in 622 AD, the next 1,400 years saw an estimated 180 million Africans enslaved in sharia Islamic countries.

Only by international pressure did Yemen and Saudi Arabia nominally end slavery in 1962, and as recently as 1980 for Mauritania.

Fundamentalist sharia groups, such as ISIS, have continued unreported slavery.

Ironically, those in Western nations who claim to care about Black lives and want reparations for slavery in the past turn a deaf ear to present-day Black lives being killed and enslaved by sharia groups like Boko Haram in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, and Mali.

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Prior to the Civil War, the United States had two major political parties: Democrats and Whigs.

The Democrat Party was pro-choice, wanting to protect a slave owner's choice to own slaves.

The Whigs were attempting to be a big tent party in order to keep members from joining other parties such as the Free Soil Party and the Know-Nothing Party.

Whigs were originally the party in Britain who opposed the absolute power of the king.

Quakers and Second Great Awakening Revival preachers, such as Charles Finney, were urgent abolitionist voices calling for the end slavery.

Finney stated (Charles G. Finney, Memoirs, NY: A.S. Barnes, 1876, p 185-188; 324):

"I had made up my mind on the question of slavery, and was exceedingly anxious to arouse public attention to the subject.

I did not, however ... divert the attention of the people from the work of converting souls.

Nevertheless, in my prayers and preaching, I so often alluded to slavery, and denounced it, that a considerable excitement came to exist among the people.�

Finney was President of Oberlin College when it graduated the first black woman, Mary Jane Patterson.

In 1850, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress passed the infamous Fugitive Slave Act, where if a runaway slave escaped to the North, the Federal government demanded citizens obey a Federal Law to capture him and return him to his Southern slave owner.

It was pushed through by Democrat politicians Speaker Howell Cobb and Senate President William King.

The Fugitive Slave Act put the slavery issue squarely in the face of the anti-slavery North, whereas before it was considered mainly as an issue occurring on Southern plantations.

The Fugitive Slave Law imposed severe penalties on those who aided escaped slaves with food or shelter in their passage to freedom in Michigan or Canada.

It also made it a federal crime to interfere with the slave catchers' recovery of runaway slaves.

A person could be held criminally liable, fined $1,000 and imprisoned for six months if they failed to report a neighbor suspected of helping slaves.

The Fugitive Slave Law mandate intensified sectional animosity, provoking the Civil War.

It required citizens who were against slavery to violate their consciences and affirm it, and even engage in enforcing it.

Burgess Owens was quoted in Yahoo Sports, June 19, 2019, "Former NFL player on reparations: 'How about the Democratic Party pay'":

"(On) the concept of reparations ... Burgess Owens, formerly of the Jets and Raiders, spoke during hearings for H.R. 40 ...

'I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found the misery that party brought to my race ... Let's pay restitution. How about the Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race?'"

A Wisconsin historical marker reads:

"Joshua Glover was a runaway slave who sought freedom in Racine.

In 1854, his Missouri owner used the Fugitive Slave Act to apprehend him.

This 1850 law permitted slave catchers to cross state lines to capture escaped slaves. Glover was taken to Milwaukee and imprisoned.

Word spread about Glover's incarceration and a great crowd (5,000) gathered around the jail demanding his release.

They beat down the jail door and released Joshua Glover.

He was eventually escorted to Canada and safety.

The Glover incident helped galvanize abolitionist sentiment in Wisconsin.

This case eventually led the state supreme court to defy the federal government by declaring the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional."

Anti-slavery citizens met in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, February 28, 1854, to form what would become the Republican Party.

On July 6, 1854, the first Republican State Convention was held in Jackson, Michigan.

The new Republican Party was against slavery.

The chief plank of the original Republican Party platform was:

"... to prohibit ... those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and SLAVERY."

America was divided geographically between:

- Radical Republican North, which said slavery is wrong, end it now. This included abolitionist societies, the Underground Railroad, anti-slavery preachers and, unfortunately, the fringe John Brown who took guns and killed slave owners.

- Moderate Republican North, which said slavery is wrong, but the country should transition out of it slowly over time.

- Practical Neutral, which cared less about the value of human life, being more interested in jobs, wages, economy and tax-tariff issues.

- Moderate Democratic South, which said slavery may be wrong, but the country has to live with it. Though personally against slavery, they believed the right to own slaves should be protected, just made rare and few, and treat slaves humanely.

- Extreme Democratic South, which said slavery is good and should be expanded into Western states. They tried to justify it by twisting Scriptures, citing that Abraham owned slaves but ignoring Jesus' teaching to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

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New lands were added to the United States:

- 1803, Louisiana Territory, 827,987 square miles;
- 1819, Florida, 72,101 sq. mi.;
- 1845, Texas, 389,166 sq. mi.;
- 1846, Oregon Territory, 286,541 sq. mi.;
- 1848, Mexican Cession, 529,189 sq. mi.; and
- 1853, Gadsden Purchase, 29,670 sq. mi.

Though the importation of slaves into America was outlawed in 1807, the question arose, should slavery be extended to these new lands coming into the Union?

Futile attempts were made to reconcile the tensions with "The Missouri Compromise of 1820" and "The Compromise of 1850."

Congress made the situation worse in 1854 by passing Democrat Sen. Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which let inhabitants in those territories have the freedom of choice to decide if they wanted to own slaves.

It prescribed "dividing the land into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and leaving the question of slavery to be decided by the settlers."

Instead of gradually diminishing, as many founders had hoped, slavery was now expanding.

Pro-slavery Democrats rushed west in order to have Kansas enter the Union as a new slave state.

The violence this caused was referred to as "Bleeding Kansas."

On March 6. 1857, the Supreme Court, with 7 of the 9 justices being Democrats, rendered the Dred Scott decision.

Hoping to settle the slavery issue once and for all, their efforts to avoid a civil war actually precipitated it.

Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken by his master to Illinois and Wisconsin, but, as he was not allowed to learn to read, he was unaware that those territories forbade slavery.

When he returned to Missouri, Scott sued for freedom with the help of abolitionist friends, such as Henry Blow, a Republican congressman whose wife started the first kindergarten in the United States.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, appointed by a Democrat President, rendered the decision that Dred Scott was not a citizen, but property that belonged to his owner, writing that slaves were:

"... so far inferior ... that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for their own benefit."

Leaders rose up in churches, media and politics.

Republican President Lincoln said, March 17, 1865:

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Some states defied the federal government's Fugitive Slave Law mandate by passing "personal liberty laws," effectively nullifying it.

Communities insisted on jury trials before alleged fugitive slaves could be taken away by federal authorities. Some juries refused to convict those indicted.

Other communities forbade local law enforcement officials from using their jails to hold the accused.

President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under questionable Constitutional authority.

The issues was settled by passage of the 13th Amendment, officially ending slavery.

Every Republican in the House (86) and Senate (30) voted for it, joined only by a few Democrats in the Senate (4) and House (15).

The Tuskegee Institute recorded that between 1882 and 1968 there were 3,446 Blacks lynched.

In addition, there were 1,297 whites lynched, many of whom were white "radical" Republicans who had gone down to the South to register freed Blacks to vote.

After reviewing history, the calls to ban Confederate flags and symbols of past slavery of blacks should include bans on the Democrat Donkey to the Islamic Crescent, as both were involved in enslaving blacks.

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In addition to taking a stand against slavery, the Republican Party was also against efforts to disrupt the traditional nuclear family, as was occurring in the Utah Territory.

The original Republican party platform had the plank:

"to prohibit ... those twin relics of barbarism: POLYGAMY and slavery."

The Republican Party defended the natural heterosexual definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Republican President Abraham Lincoln signed the Anti-Bigamy/Polygamy Act of 1862.

Those attempting to redefine marriage were denounced by Republican President Ulysses S. Grant, December 4, 1871:

"In Utah there still remains a remnant of barbarism, repugnant to civilization, to decency, and to the laws of the United States ...

Neither polygamy nor any other violation of existing statutes will be permitted ... They will not be permitted to violate the laws under the cloak of religion."

On December 7, 1875, President Grant stated:

"In nearly every annual message ... I have called attention to the... scandalous condition of affairs existing in the Territory of Utah, and have asked for definite legislation to correct it ...

That polygamy should exist in a free, enlightened, and Christian country, without the power to punish so flagrant a crime against decency and morality, seems preposterous ...

As an institution polygamy should be banished from the land ...

I deem of vital importance to ... drive out licensed immorality, such as polygamy and the importation of women for illegitimate purposes."

Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes stated, December 1, 1879:

"Polygamy is condemned as a crime by the laws of all civilized communities throughout the world."

President Hayes stated December 6, 1880:

"The SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE and the FAMILY relation are the cornerstone of our American society and civilization."

Republican President James Garfield stated March 4, 1881:

"The mormon church not only offends the moral sense of manhood by sanctioning polygamy, but prevents the administration of justice through ordinary instrumentalities of law.

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices, especially of that class which destroy the family relations and endanger social order."

Republican President Chester Arthur fostered a Bible-affirming view, stating December 6, 1881:

"For many years the Executive ... has urged the necessity of stringent legislation for the suppression of polygamy ... this odious crime, so revolting to the moral and religious sense of Christendom."

Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison Waite, appointed by Republican Ulysses S. Grant, rendered the Murphy v. Ramsey, 1885, decision affirming heteronormative thinking, thus condemning the idea that children be collectively raised by a group of adults void of sexual restraints:

"Every person who has a husband or wife living ... and marries another ... is guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished...

No legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a free, self-governing commonwealth ... than that which seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of THE FAMILY,

as consisting in and springing from the union for life of ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN in the holy estate of matrimony; the sure foundation of all that is stable and noble in our civilization;

the best guaranty of that reverent morality which is the source of all beneficent progress in social and political improvement."

Preserving natural marriage between one man and one woman precludes Islam, which embraces polygamy, harems, sex-slavery, "mut-ah"-temporary wives for pleasure, and child brides.

The comprehensive annotated John Quincy Adams-A Bibliography, compiled by Lynn H. Parsons (Westport, CT, 1993, p. 41, entry #194, Essay on Turks, 1827):

"Mohammed poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy."

Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote in Summa contra Gentiles, 1258:

"Mohammed ... seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us ... and he gave free reign to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by carnal men."

Winston Churchill wrote in The (Nile) River War, 1899:

"In Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."

Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, who invited the first black to have dinner in the White House - Booker T. Washington, stated to Congress, January 30, 1905:

"The institution of MARRIAGE is, of course, at the very foundation of our social organization, and all influences that affect that institution are of vital concern to the people of the whole country."

Beginning with Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, there have been 19 Republican Presidents since the anti-slavery party was first formed in 1854.
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President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, March 23, 2010, is similar to President Fillmore’s Fugitive Slave Act, Sept. 18, 1850. The Supreme Court’s health-care decision, June 27, 2012, is similar to its Dred Scott decision, March 6, 1857.

Is a civil war next?

Preceding the Civil War, there were two major political parties in America: the Democratic Party, which was pro-slavery, and the Whig Party, which could not decide if it was for or against slavery, attempting to be an all-inclusive, big-tent party.

The Whigs dissolved, being replaced by a third party that took a stand on social issues, namely, the Republican Party. The chief plank in the original Republican Party platform, June 1856, defended traditional marriage and the value of human life, intending to “prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and slavery.�

America was divided geographically between:

-Radical Republican North – which said slavery is wrong, end it now. This included abolitionist societies, the Underground Railroad, anti-slavery preachers and, unfortunately, the fringe John Brown who took guns and killed slave owners.

-Moderate Republican North, which said slavery is wrong, but the country should transition out of it slowly over time.

-Practical Neutral, which cared less about the value of human life, being more interested in jobs, wages, economy and tax-tariff issues.

-Moderate Democratic South, which said slavery may be wrong, but the country has to live with it. Though personally against slavery, they believed the right to own slaves should be protected, just made rare and few, and treat slaves humanely.

-Extreme Democratic South, which said slavery is good and should be expanded into Western states. They tried to justify it by twisting Scriptures, citing that Abraham owned slaves but ignoring Jesus’ teaching to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.�

-Extreme Democrats Speaker Howell Cobb and Senate President William King pushed through the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which put the slavery issue squarely in the face of the anti-slavery North, whereas before it had become an out-of-sight and out-of-mind issue occurring on Southern plantations.

The Fugitive Slave Law imposed severe penalties on those who aided escaped slaves with food or shelter in their passage to freedom in Michigan or Canada. It also made it a crime to interfere with the slave catchers’ recovery of runaway slaves. A person could be held criminally liable, fined $1000 and imprisoned for six months if they failed to report a neighbor suspected of helping slaves.

The Fugitive Slave Law mandate intensified sectional animosity, provoking the Civil War by requiring citizens who are against slavery to violate their consciences and take part in it.

It was one thing for Northerners to be apathetic toward pro-choice Democrats enslaving people in the South, but it was quite another thing for them to be forced by a federal mandate to dip their hands in the blood of the crime and participate in enforcing slavery.

Congress made the situation worse in 1854 by passing Democratic Sen. Stephen Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which let inhabitants in the territories have the freedom of choice to decide if they wanted to own slaves.

It prescribed “dividing the land into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and leaving the question of slavery to be decided by the settlers.� Instead of gradually diminishing, as many founders had hoped, slavery was now expanding.

On March 6. 1857, the Supreme Court, with seven of the nine justices being Democrats, rendered the Dred Scott decision. Hoping to settle the slavery issue once and for all, their efforts to avoid a civil war began one.

Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken by his master to Illinois and Wisconsin, but, as he was not allowed to learn to read, he was unaware that those territories forbade slavery. When he returned to Missouri, Scott sued for freedom with the help of abolitionist friends, such as Henry Blow, a Republican congressman whose wife started the first kindergarten in the United States.

Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roger Taney, appointed by Democrat President Jackson, rendered the decision that Dred Scott was not a citizen, but property that belonged to his owner, writing that slaves were “so far inferior … that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for their own benefit.�

Leaders rose up in churches, media and politics. Lincoln said, March 17, 1865:

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.�

Some states defied the federal government’s Fugitive Slave Law mandate by passing “personal liberty laws,� effectively nullifying it. Communities insisted on jury trials before alleged fugitive slaves could be taken away by federal authorities. Some juries refused to convict those indicted. Other communities forbade local law enforcement officials from using their jails to hold the accused.

To settled the legality of President Lincoln’s Proclamation, the 13th Amendment was passed officially ending slavery. Every Republican in the House (86) and Senate (30) voted for it, joined by a few Democrats in the Senate (4) and House (15).

Today, there are two major political parties in America: the Democratic Party, which favors gay marriage and abortion, and the Republican Party, which predominantly protects traditional marriage and unborn humans, though some want to it go the way of the “Whigs� as an amoral, big-tent party.

Similar to the Civil War era, the country is divided between:

-Right-wing Republicans, who say abortion is wrong, end it now. These include pro-Life organizations, crisis pregnancy centers, Operation Rescue groups and, unfortunately, some extreme fringe “John Browns� who killed abortion doctors.

-Moderate Republicans, who say abortion is wrong, but the country should transition out of it slowly over time.

-Practical Neutral, who care little about the value of human life, being more interested in jobs, wages and tax issues, or as Bill Clinton said, “It’s the economy, stupid.�

-Moderate Democrats, who say abortion may be wrong, but the country needs to live with it. Though personally against abortion, they believed the right to abort one’s child should be protected, just made rare and safe.

-Extreme Democrats, who say abortion is good and should be expanded, not just nationally, but globally through U.S. foreign policy. They impose criminal penalties on those interfering with the abortionists trade by passing the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

Extreme Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi “deemed passed� the President’s health-care law in 2010, “so we can find out what’s in it,� and Senate Democrats changed the rules to prevent it from being filibustered.

President Obama promised in Executive Order 13535, March 24, 2010, that the new law would not include abortion and protect an individual’s right of conscience, but it soon became apparent this was a political tactic to get House Democrats to vote for it.

Once passed, the president called New York Archbishop, now Cardinal, Timothy Dolan, Jan. 20, 2012, to inform him that he was breaking his promise, as Machiavelli counseled in 1513: “The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. … A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.�

Similar to the Fugitive Slave Law, the president’s health-care law is intensifying animosity and almost intentionally provoking an ideological civil war – as Castro explained, “The revolution needs the antithesis.�

It has put the abortion issue squarely in the face of the moral “North,� whereas before abortion had become an ignored issue, occurring out-of-sight and out-of-mind in low-profile clinics.

Details of the health-care mandate were not specified when it was passed, but left up to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is now requiring religious organizations, such as the Catholic Church – the largest health-care provider in the United States – to violate their consciences and finance directly, or indirectly through insurance premiums, contraceptives and abortifacients, with the expectation of abortion soon to follow.

President Obama’s health-care law imposes severe penalties on those who refuse to buy mandated coverage. It requires citizens who are against abortion to violate their consciences and take part in it.

Just as with the Fugitive Slave Law, it was one thing for apathetic anti-slavery Northerners to allow pro-slavery Democrats to enslave people in the South, but quite another thing to be forced by a federal fugitive slave mandate to participate in enforcing slavery. So today, it is one thing for apathetic anti-abortion citizens to allow pro-choice Democrats to abort the unborn, but quite another thing for them to be forced by a federal health-care mandate to dip their hands in the blood of the crime and participate in paying for abortions.

Fire is not content with ashes but desires to consume more. Those advocating abortion are not content with it being legal; they want to force those opposing it to pay for it.

Democrat Sen. Douglas’ pro-choice 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act regarding slavery is similar to today’s Democrat pro-choice agenda regarding abortion, which ignores the Preamble to the Constitution, which, as Ambassador Alan Keyes pointed out, refers to the unborn in the phrase: “To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves AND OUR POSTERITY.� If “posterity� means “offspring to the furthest generation,� it certainly means offspring of the next generation – the child in the womb.

Before the Civil War, a person born two inches over the border in Illinois was a U.S. citizen with unalienable rights; but two inches over the border in Missouri, he was property. Today, if a baby is two inches outside the womb, he is a U.S. citizen with unalienable rights; but two inches inside the womb he is property.

As Democrats broke precedent by changing Senate rules to pass Obamacare, precedent was broken with Justice Elena Kagan foregoing impartiality by not recusing herself, as she had been previously involved in defending Obamacare as the president’s solicitor general.

As with the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade and now the Obamacare decision, instead of settling an issue, it has started a war.

What is at stake is whether “all men� are equal, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life,� regardless if they live in the North or South, on someone’s plantation or in someone’s womb, many years old or few seconds young.

Many politicians today avoid the abortion issue as it might jeopardize their careers, but other leaders in churches, media and politics are taking a stand against the federal health-care mandate the same way past leaders stood against the Fugitive Slave Law mandate.

Dr. James Dobson stated:

“This assault on the sanctity of human life takes me where I cannot go. I WILL NOT pay the surcharge for abortion services. … To pay one cent for the killing of babies is egregious to me. … The Creator will not hold us guiltless if we turn a deaf ear to the cries of His innocent babies. So come and get me if you must, Mr. President. I will not bow before your wicked regulation.�

St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson stated to thousands gathered in the Rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol, March 27, 2012:

“We will render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, but we will NEVER render unto Caesar what belongs to Almighty God! … Mr. President, we cannot comply with this Mandate ... Mr President: restore our religious freedom!�

Franciscan University President, Father Terence Henry, stated:

“Every single American bishop has condemned this unjust mandate as an unconscionable violation of religious liberty. If allowed to stand, it will coerce Christians into cooperating with acts that violate core tenets of our faith.�

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America wrote:

“Most troubling, is the administration … view that if a religious entity is not insular, but engaged with broader society, it loses its ‘religious’ character and liberties.�

The U.S. Catholic Bishops posted on their website:

“This is not a Catholic issue. This is not a Jewish issue. This is not an Orthodox, Mormon, or Muslim issue. It is an American issue.�

Martin Niemoeller, who spent seven years in concentration camps, wrote of the National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi Party):

“In Germany … they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.�

A frightening future awaits a nation whose government abandons the belief that every human being is endowed by a Creator with a “right to life.� It is at our peril we forget the millions killed by utilitarian governments.

President Ronald Reagan wrote in The Human Life Review, 1983:

“Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion.

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Republican Party. July 6, 1854, first state convention, Jackson, Michigan. First local meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin, February 28, 1854; first national convention in Philadelphia, June 1856. World Book Encyclopedia 18 volumes (Chicago: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957) Vol. 14, pp. 6882-6883. U.S. Supreme Court DAVIS v. BEASON, 133 U.S. 333 (1890), February 3, 1890, Justice Stephen Field rendered the court's decision. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/133/333.html

Murphy v. Ramsey(1885): "Every person who has a husband or wife living...and marries another...is guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished...Certainly, no legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a free, self-governing commonwealth...than that which seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of the family, as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony; the sure foundation of all that is stable and noble in our civilization; the best guaranty of that reverent morality which is the source of all beneficent progress in social and political improvement."

President Theodore Roosevelt stated to Congress, January 30, 1905: "The institution of marriage is, of course, at the very foundation of our social organization, and all influences that affect that institution are of vital concern to the people of the whole country."

Obamacare decision: Today's Dred Scott
Exclusive: William J. Federer brings abortion, slavery issues into budding 'civil war'
Published: 06/29/2012 at 8:01 PM

President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, March 23, 2010, is similar to President Fillmore’s Fugitive Slave Act, Sept. 18, 1850. The Supreme Court’s health-care decision, June 27, 2012, is similar to its Dred Scott decision, March 6, 1857.

Is a civil war next?

Preceding the Civil War, there were two major political parties in America: the Democratic Party, which was pro-slavery, and the Whig Party, which could not decide if it was for or against slavery, attempting to be an all-inclusive, big-tent party.

The Whigs dissolved, being replaced by a third party that took a stand on social issues, namely, the Republican Party. The chief plank in the original Republican Party platform, June 1856, defended traditional marriage and the value of human life, intending to “prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and slavery.�

America was divided geographically between:

*Radical Republican North – which said slavery is wrong, end it now. This included abolitionist societies, the Underground Railroad, anti-slavery preachers and, unfortunately, the fringe John Brown who took guns and killed slave owners.

*Moderate Republican North, which said slavery is wrong, but the country should transition out of it slowly over time.

*Practical Neutral, which cared less about the value of human life, being more interested in jobs, wages, economy and tax-tariff issues.

*Moderate Democratic South, which said slavery may be wrong, but the country has to live with it. Though personally against slavery, they believed the right to own slaves should be protected, just made rare and few, and treat slaves humanely.

*Extreme Democratic South, which said slavery is good and should be expanded into Western states. They tried to justify it by twisting Scriptures, citing that Abraham owned slaves but ignoring Jesus’ teaching to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.�

Extreme Democrats Speaker Howell Cobb and Senate President William King pushed through the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which put the slavery issue squarely in the face of the anti-slavery North, whereas before it had become an out-of-sight and out-of-mind issue occurring on Southern plantations.

The Fugitive Slave Law imposed severe penalties on those who aided escaped slaves with food or shelter in their passage to freedom in Michigan or Canada. It also made it a crime to interfere with the slave catchers’ recovery of runaway slaves. A person could be held criminally liable, fined $1000 and imprisoned for six months if they failed to report a neighbor suspected of helping slaves.

The Fugitive Slave Law mandate intensified sectional animosity, provoking the Civil War by requiring citizens who are against slavery to violate their consciences and take part in it.

It was one thing for Northerners to be apathetic toward pro-choice Democrats enslaving people in the South, but it was quite another thing for them to be forced by a federal mandate to dip their hands in the blood of the crime and participate in enforcing slavery.

Congress made the situation worse in 1854 by passing Democratic Sen. Stephen Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which let inhabitants in the territories have the freedom of choice to decide if they wanted to own slaves.

It prescribed “dividing the land into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and leaving the question of slavery to be decided by the settlers.� Instead of gradually diminishing, as many founders had hoped, slavery was now expanding.

On March 6. 1857, the Supreme Court, with seven of the nine justices being Democrats, rendered the Dred Scott decision. Hoping to settle the slavery issue once and for all, their efforts to avoid a civil war began one.

Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken by his master to Illinois and Wisconsin, but, as he was not allowed to learn to read, he was unaware that those territories forbade slavery. When he returned to Missouri, Scott sued for freedom with the help of abolitionist friends, such as Henry Blow, a Republican congressman whose wife started the first kindergarten in the United States.

Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roger Taney, appointed by Democrat President Jackson, rendered the decision that Dred Scott was not a citizen, but property that belonged to his owner, writing that slaves were “so far inferior … that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for their own benefit.�

Leaders rose up in churches, media and politics. Lincoln said, March 17, 1865:

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.�

Some states defied the federal government’s Fugitive Slave Law mandate by passing “personal liberty laws,� effectively nullifying it. Communities insisted on jury trials before alleged fugitive slaves could be taken away by federal authorities. Some juries refused to convict those indicted. Other communities forbade local law enforcement officials from using their jails to hold the accused.

To settled the legality of President Lincoln’s Proclamation, the 13th Amendment was passed officially ending slavery. Every Republican in the House (86) and Senate (30) voted for it, joined by a few Democrats in the Senate (4) and House (15).

Today, there are two major political parties in America: the Democratic Party, which favors gay marriage and abortion, and the Republican Party, which predominantly protects traditional marriage and unborn humans, though some want to it go the way of the “Whigs� as an amoral, big-tent party.

Similar to the Civil War era, the country is divided between:

*Right-wing Republicans, who say abortion is wrong, end it now. These include pro-Life organizations, crisis pregnancy centers, Operation Rescue groups and, unfortunately, some extreme fringe “John Browns� who killed abortion doctors.

*Moderate Republicans, who say abortion is wrong, but the country should transition out of it slowly over time.

*Practical Neutral, who care little about the value of human life, being more interested in jobs, wages and tax issues, or as Bill Clinton said, “It’s the economy, stupid.�

*Moderate Democrats, who say abortion may be wrong, but the country needs to live with it. Though personally against abortion, they believed the right to abort one’s child should be protected, just made rare and safe.

*Extreme Democrats, who say abortion is good and should be expanded, not just nationally, but globally through U.S. foreign policy. They impose criminal penalties on those interfering with the abortionists trade by passing the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

Extreme Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi “deemed passed� the President’s health-care law in 2010, “so we can find out what’s in it,� and Senate Democrats changed the rules to prevent it from being filibustered.

President Obama promised in Executive Order 13535, March 24, 2010, that the new law would not include abortion and protect an individual’s right of conscience, but it soon became apparent this was a political tactic to get House Democrats to vote for it.

Once passed, the president called New York Archbishop, now Cardinal, Timothy Dolan, Jan. 20, 2012, to inform him that he was breaking his promise, as Machiavelli counseled in 1513: “The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. … A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.�

Similar to the Fugitive Slave Law, the president’s health-care law is intensifying animosity and almost intentionally provoking an ideological civil war – as Castro explained, “The revolution needs the antithesis.�

It has put the abortion issue squarely in the face of the moral “North,� whereas before abortion had become an ignored issue, occurring out-of-sight and out-of-mind in low-profile clinics.

Details of the health-care mandate were not specified when it was passed, but left up to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is now requiring religious organizations, such as the Catholic Church – the largest health-care provider in the United States – to violate their consciences and finance directly, or indirectly through insurance premiums, contraceptives and abortifacients, with the expectation of abortion soon to follow.

President Obama’s health-care law imposes severe penalties on those who refuse to buy mandated coverage. It requires citizens who are against abortion to violate their consciences and take part in it.

Just as with the Fugitive Slave Law, it was one thing for apathetic anti-slavery Northerners to allow pro-slavery Democrats to enslave people in the South, but quite another thing to be forced by a federal fugitive slave mandate to participate in enforcing slavery. So today, it is one thing for apathetic anti-abortion citizens to allow pro-choice Democrats to abort the unborn, but quite another thing for them to be forced by a federal health-care mandate to dip their hands in the blood of the crime and participate in paying for abortions.

Fire is not content with ashes but desires to consume more. Those advocating abortion are not content with it being legal; they want to force those opposing it to pay for it.

Democrat Sen. Douglas’ pro-choice 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act regarding slavery is similar to today’s Democrat pro-choice agenda regarding abortion, which ignores the Preamble to the Constitution, which, as Ambassador Alan Keyes pointed out, refers to the unborn in the phrase: “To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves AND OUR POSTERITY.�
If “posterity� means “offspring to the furthest generation,� it certainly means offspring of the next generation – the child in the womb.

Before the Civil War, a person born two inches over the border in Illinois was a U.S. citizen with unalienable rights; but two inches over the border in Missouri, he was property. Today, if a baby is two inches outside the womb, he is a U.S. citizen with unalienable rights; but two inches inside the womb he is property.

As Democrats broke precedent by changing Senate rules to pass Obamacare, precedent was broken with Justice Elena Kagan foregoing impartiality by not recusing herself, as she had been previously involved in defending Obamacare as the president’s solicitor general.

As with the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade and now the Obamacare decision, instead of settling an issue, it has started a war.

What is at stake is whether “all men� are equal, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life,� regardless if they live in the North or South, on someone’s plantation or in someone’s womb, many years old or few seconds young.

Many politicians today avoid the abortion issue as it might jeopardize their careers, but other leaders in churches, media and politics are taking a stand against the federal health-care mandate the same way past leaders stood against the Fugitive Slave Law mandate.

Dr. James Dobson stated:

“This assault on the sanctity of human life takes me where I cannot go. I WILL NOT pay the surcharge for abortion services ... To pay one cent for the killing of babies is egregious to me ... The Creator will not hold us guiltless if we turn a deaf ear to the cries of His innocent babies. So come and get me if you must, Mr. President. I will not bow before your wicked regulation.�

St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson stated to thousands gathered in the Rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol, March 27, 2012:

“We will render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, but we will NEVER render unto Caesar what belongs to Almighty God! … Mr. President, we cannot comply with this Mandate ... Mr President: restore our religious freedom!�

Franciscan University President, Father Terence Henry, stated:

“Every single American bishop has condemned this unjust mandate as an unconscionable violation of religious liberty. If allowed to stand, it will coerce Christians into cooperating with acts that violate core tenets of our faith.�

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America wrote:

“Most troubling, is the administration ... view that if a religious entity is not insular, but engaged with broader society, it loses its ‘religious’ character and liberties.�

The U.S. Catholic Bishops posted on their website:

“This is not a Catholic issue. This is not a Jewish issue. This is not an Orthodox, Mormon, or Muslim issue. It is an American issue.�

Martin Niemoeller, who spent seven years in concentration camps, wrote of the National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi Party):

“In Germany … they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.�

A frightening future awaits a nation whose government abandons the belief that every human being is endowed by a Creator with a “right to life.� It is at our peril we forget the millions killed by utilitarian governments.

President Ronald Reagan wrote in The Human Life Review, 1983:

“Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion.�

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