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MILLER (SPEAKING ON THE SENATE FLOOR) PART II Yesterday, I shared portions of a speech Senator Zell Miller made on the Senate floor. I had reached the place in the speech where Senator Miller said as he co-sponsored the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 with Senator Shelby and others he was standing shoulder to shoulder not only with his Senate co-sponsors and Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama, but with the founding fathers in the conception of religious liberty and a case to correct the wrong direction our modern judiciary has taken us. Senate Miller stated: “Everyone today seems to think that the U. S. Constitution expressly provides for separation of church and state…some point out it is in the First Amendment. Wrong, he said – read it. It says and I quote, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…Where is the word separation? Where are the words church and state? They are not there – never have been.” “Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence was
a brilliant young physician from Pennsylvania named Dr. Benjamin
Rush. When Rush was elected to that First Continental Congress his
close friend Benjamin A. Franklin, came up “Today, 228 years later, there is still a great task before us, assigned to us by Providence. Our founding fathers did not shirk their duty and we can do no less.” “By the way,” Senator Miller said, “Dr. Benjamin
Rush was once asked, are you “If you ask me why I’m taking up Senate time with social issues, its because…there is a deficit to be concerned about…a deficit of decency…so I feel compelled to speak out. For I truly believe in times like these, silence is not golden, it is yellow.” “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring
all the day long.” You have just heard part II of Senator Zell Miller’s speech
on the Senate floor.
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