Teddy Roosevelt quote in Riverside courthouse to be covered up
Posted on October 1st, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
“The true Christian is the true citizen.” words made famous by Twenty-Sixth US President, Theodore Roosevelt, to be covered up in the Riverside County Superior Court.
Officials agreed to cover up a Theodore Roosevelt quote in a county courthouse, after the Anti-Defamation League argued it violated the constitutional separation of church and state.
Engraved in gold letters on a mahogany wall in a courtroom of the Riverside County Superior Court are the words, “The true Christian is the true citizen.” The phrase was part of a longer address the former president gave at a YMCA convention more than a century ago and is one of several that were engraved on the court’s walls about 70 years ago.
The ADL, which seeks to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, sent a letter to the court in July stating that the quote should be covered because it could be interpreted as a direct “endorsement of Christian faith.”
Alison Mayersohn, associate director of the group’s Pacific Southwest region, said that without the original context, the quote could easily be perceived by socially vulnerable groups, particularly minorities “as equating Christianity and good citizenship.”
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The world can’t stand the truth of God’s Word.It will ever be until His return. This is part of the battle for the Hearts and Souls of man.
There is_ no “constitutional separation of church and state.” There is no mention of it anywhere in the Constitution. I believe the phrase appears in some obscure letter written by Thomas Jefferson. I could be mistaken on the source—but I know it isn’t in the Constitution.
“Human rights” organizations either are unaware of this, or they flat-out don’t think the general public is aware of this.
Just because they _say something is true does not make it true.
There is no such thing as an “obscure letter written by Thomas Jefferson” it appeared in a letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802. As I am sure you know the word god dosn’t appear in the constitution either.
What Jefferson said was this:
“Believing… that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”
Thomas Jefferson to Danbury Baptists, 1802. ME 16:281