President Obama:  Don’t Deny America’s
Christian HeritageThere’s a powerful push underway to rewrite this nation’s history ... to strip America of its religious past — to deny our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage.  Even President Obama recently said, “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation....”

Now, concerned Members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus have stepped forward and introduced the “America’s Spiritual Heritage Resolution” (H.R. 397).  It’s dedicated to recognizing “the rich spiritual and religious history of our nation’s founding.”

The American Center for Law and Justice is strongly backing this Congressional resolution, and we need your generous support to help protect our nation’s rich religious history and continue all of our legal and legislative work across the country.  Give generously and help the ACLJ send a powerful message to Washington:  Don’t rewrite our nation’s history!

Rep. Forbes Featured in U.S. News & World Report

An editorial by Congressman Forbes was featured in the U.S. News & World Report on May 7, 2009. An excerpt from the editorial follows:

On April 6, 2009, President Obama, speaking halfway across the world in Turkey, effectively made a shocking proclamation: that the United States did not consider itself a Judeo-Christian nation.

"Although, as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation," he said. I do not challenge his right to make that statement, nor do I doubt that he believes it to be true. But there were two critical questions that he failed to ask and answer. First, did America ever consider itself a Judeo-Christian nation? Secondly, if it did, what was the moment or event in which it ceased to do so?

Our nation's history provides overwhelming evidence that America was birthed upon Judeo-Christian principles. The first act of America's first Congress in 1774 was to ask a minister to open with prayer and to lead Congress in the reading of four chapters of the Bible. In 1776, in approving the Declaration of Independence, our founders acknowledged that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights..." and noted that they were relying "on the protection of Divine Providence" in the founding of this country. John Quincy Adams said, "The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." Also, the signers of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War, insisted the treaty begin with the phrase, "In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity."