Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.
No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.
