Leviticus v. Leviathan
Introduction
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Will we have law or
unfettered power?
By Dave Racer
Minnesota’s Constitution, like the United States
Constitution, is mute as it concerns abortion. Given that, I expected the
court to uphold the legislature’s ban on funding of abortions. The
legislature had a nearly two-decade record of forbidding such funding.
Instead, Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman
decided to enter the case on the side of the plaintiffs, identified as
Gomez. Gomez wanted the state to fund abortions.
As bad as it was for a “neutral” prosecutor to
get involved in this manner, even worse was Attorney General Hubert “Skip”
Humphrey’s stipulation to the court that the state constitution contained a
right to abortion. No such thing exists.
As I scratched my head about these matters, I
received a call from Wayne Holstad, an attorney whom I had known casually
because of Alan Keyes, a 1996 Republican candidate for president. I had
served as Keyes’ National Campaign Manager, and Wayne had grown interested
in Keyes’ knowledge, intellect and rhetoric concerning a wide variety of
issues. As a result, in 1997 Wayne asked me to arrange a meeting between him
and Alan Keyes — they, along with Julie Holstad, met Keyes for lunch in
Alexandria, Virginia. As well, Wayne asked me to review a book he had begun
to write.
The busyness of life interrupted my review of the
book, but when Wayne called me, he also asked if I would be a plaintiff in a
lawsuit he planned to bring on behalf of James Tarsney, another Minnesota
attorney. Tarsney meant to overturn the Gomez decision, and
Wayne offered powerful and unique insights to help him do it. But they
failed. The Eighth Circuit Court ruled against them.
I know enough about law that when I read the Gomez
decision, I could see it contained numerous fatal flaws. What I lacked in
understanding the case was how decades of bad decisions by other courts
effected such a tragic finding in Minnesota.
In 2002, I took a run at the Minnesota State Senate, and
I also brought Alan Keyes to Minnesota to help me raise money. Wayne and
Julie came that day, and brought others. After the campaign, I became
curious about Wayne’s book and called him. I asked for an updated copy and
as I read it, I realized how vital, timely and important a book it is.
At the time, I worked on a true crime book about Andrew
Cunanan, the gay spree killer. But I had days away from that work, and asked
Wayne if I could help him whip his book into shape. We began slowly sifting
and sorting it during April of 2003, and began to aim for completion during
the late fall of the year. The more we worked on it, the more I saw how
essential had become Wayne’s work.
American courts have shown in recent decisions that they are very confused
about religious freedom and moral issues.
During 2003, in Alabama, in Glassroth v. Moore,
a federal court decided that displaying a Ten Commandments monument in a
public building violated the constitution. During the same period of time, a
Texas federal appeals court decided that the constitution does not bar the
public display of a Ten Commandments monument. These decisions closely
followed on the heals of yet another Texas case, Lawrence vs. Texas,
in which the United States Supreme Court declared that state laws banning
sodomy were unconstitutional. Then the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
declared in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state
must bestow marital benefits on homosexuals and lesbians.
What seems apparent in these recent decisions is that justice has almost
nothing to do with our constitution or the wishes of the people, and
everything to do with the power the Court has amassed for itself.
Leviticus has been replaced with Leviathan.
James Madison, universally acknowledged as the
“Father” of the United States Constitution said, “We have staked the whole
of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for
self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of GOD.” According to Leviathan, Madison’s utterance was
unconstitutional. The carvings of the Ten Commandments above the Supreme
Court’s bench need to be chiseled out of the wall; the etchings, statues,
paintings, murals, ceramics, and mosaics that represent thousands of
references to America’s Christian heritage, many of them fashioned during
the time of the founding fathers, must be expunged because Leviathan has
declared them to be unconstitutional.
If you are like me, you sense the absurdity of it all, and ask “Why? How did
this happen?” That is why Wayne’s book needs to be read, to understand how
the Court, conceived as the weakest of the three branches, became the
strongest; how Leviathan wrestled power away from the people and turned its
back on Leviticus.
Is there an antidote to Leviathan? Oh, yes. Wayne
clearly identifies it. Christians, and constitutionalists who do not fear an
honest evaluation of history, be ready to have your lives changed.
— Dave Racer is an author, columnist,
publisher and political consultant. He is the President and CEO of Alethos
Press LLC, and editor of this book. See
http://www.daveracer.com and see
http://www.alethospress.com.