A renowned historian is taking stock of the historic Supreme Court session that just wrapped up, warning that now isn’t the time for believers to slack off.
Christian historian David Barton of WallBuilders sat down this week with American Family Radio to reflect on what he considers an epic year at the U.S. Supreme Court. The overturning of Roe v. Wade tops the list; but not far behind, he says, was the decision to allow Coach Joe Kennedy to pray on the field after football games.
“This year at the Supreme Court we won five religious liberty cases,” Barton emphasized. “We usually don’t win five cases in 20 years at the court.”
According to Barton, it’s been a good year in local politics as well – even in liberal cities. “The Denver school board was taken by conservatives. Four of the school boards in Colorado Springs are now in hands of conservatives, completely flipped in the election. There were 15 school board seats open in Dallas – and we got all 15 of them,” he listed.
But Barton warns conservatives and Christians not to think the work is done … or to quit too soon.
“The court has not made significant changes; they’ve opened significant doors. [But] if we don’t walk through those doors and take it advantage of this, it will mean nothing in the nation,” he stated.
“While these are great, great, great, great victories, they’re only the beginning of what needs to happen.”
Barton says the Church needs to step up to the plate next. Toward that end, he’s been asking pastors what they’ve seen over the past few decades as the greatest threats to the culture and the family.
“The transgender movement, the LGBTQ+ movement, the movement of secularism – they’ll go through all these things that have attacked our families and undermined them,” Barton described. “I said [to the pastors], ‘Okay, I want you to show me the sermons you’ve preached on [and confronted] all the topics you just mentioned.'”
Sadly, Barton shared, surveys have shown that only 2.8% of American pastors will confront those kinds of issues. Nevertheless, he sees the American Church beginning to wake up.
“I never thought I’d see so many churches get involved in local areas and communities – but now [pastors are] seeing that they need to confront the danger,” he added. “It’s just phenomenal to see local church pastors getting involved in local issues, and churches and Christians starting to be leaders again.”
Listen to the entire David Barton interview with AFR here
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
The liberals connvinced many that The Constitution placed restrictions on religious expression in public places because of the establishment clause which was under a false assumption and little by little whittled away at the free exercise. As the tide is turning many realize that vacuous secularism has nothing to offer them.
Whenever secular socialists take over a nation, the first thing they view as their number one threat are the churches. Hitler who sought to be worshipped as the new Messiah totally controlled the chirches in Germany once in power, and corrupted the concept of God for his own use and rise to power. Christmas became the rise of Santa Clause and the fall of Christ. The SS even celebrated Dec 21st rather than the 25th just to prove that they could. Easter became a celebration of the rights of spring, just like what the seculars are trying to do to America today. God was thrown out of the schools, and songs celebrating Adolph Hitler were substituted for religious tunes, which stayed the same, but the words drastically changed. Children were taught that the greatest entity was the state who owned them, who should be ready to be sacrificed for the Fatherland when called upon. God was not considered to be the Father of the land.The German children were taught to imagine themselves godlike Supermen, just like the Democrat LGBTQ now teach them to imagine themselves as sexually self-determinators. Same old B.S. except the for the men, the power of the Super has been replaced with the power of the pooper.
GOOD. May their common sense, CONTINUE On this regard.