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So, at least once a year, I like to make the following post to each of
the lists that I own, so that people understand my position on certain
topics, and to be quite candid, if you have a negative opinion of me
doing this, or you have "issues" with what the message contains, I quite
honestly do not care. Oh, one other thing, I am also an ordained
minister (the legal terms is "Minister of the Gospel") and I can legally
perform weddings, perform communion, lead services, visit the sick and
so on. I am not a tremendously powerful leader or religious figure, and
I do admit that I have an abundance of faults, but I can be rather
effective in certain area of my faith, and I do wield an effective
amount of authority to "get things done within my constraints of my
Commission" Granted, I am really good with TSCM, TEMPEST, NONSTOP,
technical security, computer forensics, cyberoperations, computer
programming, and technical things like mechanical and electronic
engineering, but I do have other skill sets that you might not expect
unless you have known me for quite a while. Yep, being a Christian
Minister (and Chaplain) is one of those things, that you might not
expect. So, once or twice a year I post my Declaration of Faith, to the
various LISTSERVs or mailing lists that I own and operate, or where I am
the chief moderator.
Merry Christmas,
-jma
*My Declaration of Faith and Religious Creed*
1. My name is James M. Atkinson, and I am a Christian, a follower of
Jesus Christ, and I have been a Christian for over 50 years.
2. While my faith is that of a Christian, my denomination is best
classified be a "Protestant Evangelical" and a "Pentecostal Christian",
under the "World Assemblies of God Fellowship", which is the world
largest Pentecostal body in the World.
*Historical Points of Reference*
3. My faith and denomination can be further defined as "Apostolic
Pentecostal Church" under the "Apostolic Christian Fellowship" which has
a history in the Amish church movements prior to 1862, and the Amish
Mennonite divisions of 1880.
4. These all trace back to the Lutheran Reformation of Christianity in
1517, and thence through Calvinism of 1563 to 1564, and the
Congregationalist movement which developed in the United States in the
Colonial Era until the post World War I spiritual revivals of late 1918
and early 1919.
5. Prior to the Lutheran Reformation of 1517, my faith traces to Roman
and Western Catholic interpretation of Christianity, and prior to the
founding of the Catholic faith by the Emperor Constantine, to the
Messianic Jews and Gentiles in the time of Christ, and the Jewish faith
prior to the arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth.
6. Within my faith and denomination there have been what are called four
great religious "Awakenings" (not including the Lutheran Reformation),
the first in 1735, lead by Jonathon Edwards of Northampton,
Massachusetts and English Anglican cleric George Whitefield in 1738
until his death in 1770 and then by others through 1784, as the Puritan,
Congregationalist, Church of England and Calvinist followers evolved to
a new understanding of the gospels and emerged as Methodists (of note is
that the roots of this "First Great Awakening" shaping what would become
the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and
creating a great impact on the Originalists who actually authored the
Constitution as they endeavored to split church and government).
7. This led to the "Second Awakening" which began in 1790, at the end of
the American Revolution, with notable growth in the Methodist,
Presbyterians and Baptist Churches, continuing in the Northern states
from 1800 until 1840 and emerging as the driving force behind the
abolition movement up to around 1858.
8. The Third Great Awakening occurred in the years after the Civil War
(1858), up to 1908 and the early days of World War One (with evangelist
William Sunday, for example), with a slight carry over into the 1930's
through the use of radio (evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, /et al/).
9. The Fourth Great Awakening started in the days after the Korean War,
and spread until the late mid 1970's through ministers such as Billy
Graham, and other modern evangelists who used the media of television
for their crusades and revivals.
10. It is through the Methodist Movement of the 1780's that the modern
movement of Pentecostal and Evangelical Christians has taken place, to
include the modern Assemblies of God. It is with the fusion of the
Methodist/Pentecostal/Evangelical movements through which my grand
parents, parents, majority of my relatives, and myself were all raised,
educated and trained.
*Core Structure of My Faith and Religious Exercises*
11. I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and
earth, of all that is seen and unseen.
12. I believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three
persons or entities at the same time: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
13. I believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin
birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and
atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His
bodily ascension to the right hand of the Father/God, and in His
personal return in power and glory.
14. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally
begotten of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from
true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. For us and
for our salvation he came down from heaven, and the power of the Holy
Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary and through this God became man.
15. I worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither
confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance.
16. I believe that there is one Person of the Father, another of the
Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. But the godhead of the Father, of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is all one, the glory equal, and the
majesty co-eternal.
17. I believe that such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is
the Holy Spirit. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy
Spirit uncreated. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible,
and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.
18. I believe Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit
eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one Eternal. As also
there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated, but one
Uncreated, and one Incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty,
the Son Almighty, and the Holy Spirit Almighty. And yet they are not
three almighties, but one Almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is
God, and the Holy Spirit is God. And yet they are not three gods, but
one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy
Spirit Lord, not three lords, but one Lord. For as I am compelled by the
Christian faith to acknowledge each Person by Himself to be both God and
Lord, so I am also forbidden by my faith to say that there are three
gods or three lords. The Father is made of none, neither created, nor
begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but
begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Father, neither made, nor created,
nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three fathers;
one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits.
19. I believe that in the Trinity none is before or after another; none
is greater or less than another, but all three Persons are co-eternal
together and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity
in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
20. I believe that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and
man; God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds;
and man of the substance of his mother, born in the world; perfect God
and perfect man, of a rational soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to
the Father, as touching His godhead; and inferior to the Father, as
touching His manhood; who, although He is God and man, yet he is not
two, but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh
but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether; not by confusion
of substance, but by unity of person. For as the rational soul and flesh
is one man, so God and man is one Christ; who suffered for our
salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead.
21. I believe that for our sake Jesus Christ was crucified under Pontius
Pilate; that he suffered, died and was buried. On the third day that he
rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; that he ascended into
heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father, and that he will
come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom
will have no end.
22. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who
proceeds from the Father (and the Son); who with the Father and the Son
is worshiped and glorified; who has spoken through the disciples and
prophets, and this same Holy Spirit with which modern day Christians are
baptized with, and which is indwelling within them.
23. I believe that there is only one universal Christian Church,
although it is known by many names, creeds, divisions, denominations,
variations, interpretations, rituals, expressions and understandings,
that it is still only one Church, created by Christ himself by his
dispatching 84 disciples described in Luke 10:1.
24. I believe that there is one baptism, in the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
25. I believe that that God, the Father entered into a new covenant of
forgiveness with mankind upon the sacrifice and death of his Son Jesus
Christ, as a means of grace and everlasting life, and the resurrection.
26. I believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people,
regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
27. I believe in the Salvation of the lost and sinful through the
shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ by faith apart from works.
28. I believe in Salvation by faith and grace alone, through the
shedding of the blood and the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and not in
deeds of men.
29. I believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose
indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
30. I believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they
that are saved unto the resurrection of eternal life, but they that are
lost unto the resurrection of eternal damnation.
31. I believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Church, and the Body of Christ, to share in Christ's
baptism, and to eat at his table, and to join him in his passion and
victory.
32. I believe in Baptism in Water, as a Holy Sacrament, and in Communion
with Christ through this baptism.
33. I believe that Christ has instructed his followers to eat bread and
to drink wine in remembrance of him and that this is one of the many
Holy Sacraments of being a Christian.
34. I believe that Jesus Christ promises to all who trust in him, full
forgiveness of sins and fullness of grace, courage in the struggle for
justice and peace, his presence in trial and rejoicing, and eternal life
in his kingdom which has no end.
35. I believe the Bible and Holy Scriptures to be the inspired by God,
the only infallible, authoritative Word of God, divinely inspired,
infallible, entirely trustworthy; and the supreme authority in all
matters of faith and conduct.
36. I believe that the Holy Bible referred to the "King James Version"
is merely a sub-set of the writings our faith and doctrine, and that the
King James Version is incomplete, and that to fully grasp the true
tenants of our faith, we must reach down through history and study the
various version of the Holy Bible they predate the King James version of
1611, to include the Mathews Bible, the Wycliffe Bibles, the various
Geneva Bibles (actually carried by the early American Colonists), and
the versions that reach back through time to the historical documents at
the juncture of the founding of the Church, and thence to continue back
through time to the period of time where Christ still walked the Earth,
and his disciples and Apostles described what they experienced in their
own writings and recollections, and then to pass before the time of
Christ to examine the documents of the Babylonian Exile of the Kingdom
of Judah, and the documents that predate the Exile, all the way
backwards in time to the point the scriptures (Holy Writings) were being
written down for the first time, well before the time of Christ.
37. I believe that the Holy Bible is not merely a single book, but
rather a collection of sacred writings, by multiple authors, written and
collected over a span of many thousands of years. There are books on the
Holy Bible that are historical in nature, books about law, and religious
practices, books of poetry, or prophetic matters, and even of politics,
philosophy, and other matters.
38. I believe that the Bible is divinely inspired, and that in the
writings that compromise the New Testament are the words and direct
commands of Christ are recorded.
39. Further, that the words of Christ found in the New Testament provide
specific commands to the disciples and Apostles of Christ and followers
of Christ. Additionally, that Christ commanded his followers to do very
specific things to communicate to others and to teach as they are able,
and to directly contribute their abilities to this pursuit with such
talent or abilities they may possess.
40. I believe that "God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life" (John 3:16).
41. I believe in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to his followers
as directly articulated and described in Matthew 28:16--20, Mark
16:14--18, Luke 24:44--49, and John 20:19--23.
42. I believe that Christians are compassionate, because they have been
shown compassion by God, and in line with the instructions of Christ,
this compassion towards one another is a basic tenant of my faith, and
compassion is one of my essential skills as a Christian.
43. I believe that our Country was founded by Christians, and that they
integrated their faith into the Constitution of the United States and
into the original intent of the Constitution of the United States, to
include the First Amendment to the Constitution to the United States
which guarantees all Americans the unqualified and free exercise of
their religion and the faith of their choosing, and to permit the belief
or faith, rituals, and actions taken in this pursuit to be incorporated
against the states and local governments by operation of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
44. I believe that due to the Free Exercise Clause of the First
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that neither the
Federal Government nor any state or local government, or anyone acting
under the color of law may in any way make or enforce any law, rule,
regulation, custom, ruling, or practice that may in any way infringe
upon my faith as a Christian, or upon any other faith or any other U.S.
Citizen.
45. I am a Christian, I am a Proud American and that I only bend my knee
when it is time to pray, and it is upon our collective knees, in prayer
that this county was founded.
46. Our leaders, back in the days of our founding knew the value of a
bent knee, and a whispered prayer, and the heavens thundered as they
petitioned God, on those bent knees.
47. In short, I am a Christian, American, and a Disabled Veteran (in
that order), and I will not be denied the Free Exercise of my faith.
Which then invokes the following:
*Declaration of Rights under the First, Second, and Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States, in regards to the
Constitutional Protections on the Free Exercise of Religion under the
"Strict Scrutiny" Doctrine. *
1. This document is to declare my First Amendment rights and protections
under the Constitution of the United States and in how these rights
crossover, articulate and intertwine with my Second and Fourteenth
Amendment rights, as it applies to me specifically, and to the People of
the United States in general. Thusly, strict scrutiny much be applied.
2. I was born into a Christian family, to Christian parents, who
themselves had Christian parents, as were their parents before them.
3. I was raised in and embraced the Christian Faith, I was educated in
the faith, and have consciously adopted the Christian faith as a child
and also as an adult.
4. I was dedicated, and baptized as a young man, and strive to follow
the teachings of Christ both in my personal life, and in my professional
life.
5. The Christian religion that I have chosen to embrace requires that
the Bible be interpreted in the literal sense, and not in a metaphorical
or figurative sense. Thus, when Jesus Christ gives specific instructions
to his disciples and followers, we take this as his specific literal
commands.
6. As a Christian, I believe that God created a human, into which he
placed his own divinity and person so that God himself took on the
biological body of a "only begotten" human, so that he (God) could offer
himself as a sacrifice for the atonement of man-kind, but to those
members of man-kind how would willingly accept this atonement, and the
entering of a Second Covenant or agreement with God, to replace or amend
the original Covenant that God had made with Abraham. This is a basic
tenant in all major variations of the Christian faith, that God became
man, and sacrificed himself to vacate the original sacrifice based
convent between God and Abraham, and to convert the sacrifice based
"consideration" (to use proper legal contract terminology), into a "by
Grace alone" covenant or "by faith alone depending on the Christian
sub-denomination dogma a Christian may choose to embrace.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life." (John 3:16, KJV)
7. As all mainstream variations of the Jewish and Christian faith
recognize a point of origin of the faith at the juncture of the
Abrahamic covenants as the Genesis of the Abrahamic Religions of both
Judaism and all variations of Christianity, as well as part of the
Islamic Dogma. This Abrahamic series of Covenants are defined in the
Pentateuch and Torah, which is to say the books of Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Number, and Deuteronomy in the Holy Bible. These books are
herein incorporated by reference in their entirety, as they are too
voluminous to include to this document and are instead included as a
document attachment.
8. Further, in the Book of Jeremiah (versus 31:30-33), the Prophet
Jeremiah states that a "new covenant" between God and his followers
would take place as final fulfillment of the Old Covenant described in
the first five books of the bible. In turn, that both the Old and New
Covenant were established with the House of Israel, through the House of
David, and within the Tribe of Judah (2 Samuel 7:8-19 and Luke 1:68-78).
9. My faith recognized that the New Covenant was established at the Last
Supper as Christ performing the first Eucharist with him saying "this
cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood" (Luke
22:20).
10. In the tenants of my faith, I/we believe that Jesus Christ had an
ancestral lineage back to King David, and through the House of David
(though the genetic line of his biological mother Mary and her family,
who were of the tribe of Judah, direct descendant of King David), to the
Israelite tribe of Judah. Further, that Jesus Christ/God created a "new
tribe of Israel" who would follow the teachings of Christ, the
Disciples, the Apostles, and the Christian faith and denominations as a
whole.
11. In church, and through my family I was taught the Old and New
Testament of the Holy Bible and as a child I was a student of the
Gospels to include the Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. I thus
recognize and assert the following:
a. Jesus Christ commanded his followers to be well armed:
"He said to them, 'But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag;
and _if you don't have a sword_, sell your cloak and _buy one'_" (Luke
22:36, KJV).
b. In the NASB translation and interpretation, the same scripture reads
slightly differently, but with a similar meaning as:
"But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a
bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one." (Luke
22:36 NASB)
c. Jesus Christ himself not only personally supported the keeping and
bearing of arms, but Christ himself was actually armed:
"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword" (Matthew 10:34, KJV)
d. Thus, Jesus Christ himself, not merely commanded his followers to be
armed, but by his own statement and testimony he, himself was also armed.
e. Once Apostles had learned the lesson of trusting in God in their
early missionary training and assignments "Carry neither purse, nor
scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way." (Luke 10:4, KJV), they
were to be prepared to defend themselves in the future as they travelled
through dangerous areas to take the gospel to the whole world.
f. In the New Testament, there is an account that when Christ was to be
arrested by the religious police (not the Romans) before he was
crucified, that the disciples used arms in order to defend him.
"Then Peter, _who had a sword_, drew it and struck the high priest's
servant, cutting off his right ear. Jesus commanded Peter, 'Put your
sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?'" (John
18:10-11, KJV).
g. Jesus allowed Simon Peter to have the swords both before and after
this incident. The problem was not that defending someone is wrong; the
problem was that it was inappropriate at this time since Jesus wanted to
sacrifice himself and die for our sins (Mark 10:45).
"'Put your sword back in its place,' Jesus said to him, 'for all who
draw the sword will die by the sword'" (Matthew 26:52, KJV).
h. Again, Jesus did not necessarily condemn possessing or using the
sword (the keeping and bearing of arms). He told Simon Peter to put it
back in its scabbard, but not to get rid of it. What Jesus is saying is
that anyone who fought during that specific confrontation risked his
life in doing as Christ's submission (and thus Gods submission) to his
sacrifice was already ordained, and process that could not be interfered
with.
i. As biblical scripture demonstrates that Jesus Christ required that
his disciples, Apostles, and followers to be armed, then as a Christian
I am also compelled by the commands of Christ, by my faith and religious
beliefs to also be suitably armed.
j. Religious civil liberties are clearly guaranteed by the First
Amendment to the United States Constitution and in turn by the
Fourteenth Amendment, and provide for a federally protected
Constitutional right upon which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (or
any other state) is prohibited to infringe.
k. Civil liberties which involve the right to keep and bear arms, are
clearly guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States
Constitution and in turn by the Fourteenth Amendment, and provide for a
federally protected right upon which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
(or any other state) is prohibited to infringe.
l. In the case of both the First and the Second Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States the Supreme Court has made it well
settled that no state may infringe upon the freedom of speech, nor of
faith, nor of arms.
m. Thus, the First Amendment crosses over and articulates with the
Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and is made
Applicable against the States by operation and articulation with the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
n. Additionally, as these biblical commandments (from Jesus Christ of
Nazareth himself) predate the formation of the Constitution of the
United States, and were incorporated into the minds and intentions of
the signatories of the Constitution of the United States, and into the
minds and intentions of the colonial era Congress and the original
founders of this nation.
o. While I am a very gentle, thoughtful, and compassionate Christian, I
also recognize that there are times when it is only appropriate to use
arms, but that this must be done with great restraint and only as a last
resort.
p. It is notable that the Christian religion and thus the teachings and
commandments of Jesus Christ are inherently assumed and implicitly
present in the Constitution of the United States.
q. Indeed, according the _Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible_
written by James Strong (based of the King James Version of 1611) swords
are mentioned 469 times in the bible, knives are mentioned 5 times,
daggers 3 times, armor 24 times, and arrows 57 times.
r. In _Vines Complete Expository Dictionary_ by W.E. Vine it is
explained that the Ancient Hebrew word for sword is /hereb/ and that
this word is present as a weapon of warfare in the Semitic language to
include Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Arabiac, and other languages of the
region and time period of both the Old Testament and New Testament of
the Holy Bible. The general description of a sword or /hereb/ is of a
two handed, long two-edged implement that is longer than a dagger or
knife. Indeed, in the book of Judges in 3:16 a dagger is stated to be up
to roughly 24 inches long, or equivalent to a Roman short sword or
modern bayonet.
s. Additionally, in _Vines_, under the Ancient Greek versions of the New
Testament there is reference to the sword as either a /machaira/ (short
sword or dagger of 18 to 24 inches) or /rhomphaia/ (long sword, in
excess of 24 inches).
_ _
t. _The United States Constitution__ contains a direct reference to
Jesus Christ_.
i. "Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present
the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of _our Lord_ one thousand
seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United
States of America the Twelfth...."
u. As the framers of the Constitution strongly embraced religious
neutrality and religious freedoms and protections in regards to the
practicing of both Christian and non-Christian faiths, they nonetheless
based the Militia Clause, and the Second Amendment partially upon the
direct commandants of Jesus Christ. This is of particular importance as
it convincingly demonstrates the intentions of the framers in regards to
their own religious beliefs in regards to arms, self-defense, and the
defense of others.
v. Thus, any infringement or restraint upon my right to keep and to bear
arms is not only a violation and deprivation of my rights under the
Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, but as such
it is an infringement that impairs my ability to follow the commandments
of Christ, and the infringement of my right to keep and bear arms also
interferes with my First Amendment rights in regards to the practicing
and free exercise of my faith of my choosing and forms a deprivation of
this right.
w. To be very direct and concise, I keep and bear arms not only because
it is a right acknowledged by the Constitution of the United States (and
by those documents which predate the Constitution), but I also keep and
bear arms as a requirement of my faith, and for the defense of my
country, and for the defense of my home, for my own personal defense,
and for other lawful pursuits such as hunting, target shooting, firearms
competitions, and training with arms, and training others in regards to
arms.
x. In /Sherbert v. Verner/, 374 U.S. 398 (1963) the Supreme Court
required states to meet the *_"strict scrutiny"_* standard when refusing
to accommodate religiously motivated conduct. This means that a
_government must have a "compelling interest"_ regarding such a refusal.
The case involved Adele Sherbert, who was denied unemployment benefits
by South Carolina because she refused to work on Saturdays, something
forbidden by her Seventh-day Adventist faith.
y. In /Wisconsin v. Yoder/, 406 U.S. 205 (1972) the Court ruled that a
law that "unduly burdens the practice of religion" _without a compelling
interest_, even though it might be "neutral on its face," would be
unconstitutional.
z. The need for a _compelling interest_ was narrowed in /Employment
Division v. Smith/, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) which held no such interest was
required under the Free Exercise Clause regarding a law that does not
target a particular religious practice.
aa. In /Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah/, 508 U.S. 520
(1993) the Supreme Court ruled Hialeah had passed an ordinance banning
ritual slaughter, a practice central to the Santería religion, while
providing exceptions for some practices such as the kosher slaughter.
Since the ordinance was not "generally applicable," the Court ruled that
it needed to have a compelling interest, which it failed to have, and so
was declared unconstitutional.
bb. As the right to keep and to bear arms is a federally protected
right, and federal statues already provides limitations upon those right
as to who may not possess arms (for example, citizens adjudged insane or
adjudged to be felons are not allowed access to arms), and who is
forbidden to possess arms, and how they may be acquired, the
_Commonwealth of Massachusetts thus has no compelling interest_, reason,
or cause to impose restrictions beyond those already present in federal
statue and enforced by the Federal Government.
cc. Further, as there is no federal license required to keep and bear
arms, and the right to arms is a federally protected act (by virtue of
the Constitution of the United States), any state would gravely err in
confecting any licensing scheme in regards to arms as any act of
licensure is by its very nature an infringement upon a right.
dd. In association with this, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
unlawfully imposes criminal sanctions upon a U.S. Citizen who has
lawfully obtained a firearm, and who lawfully possesses it inside their
home, but who has not been given state permission to do so, which is a
direct and very grave infringement upon the Constitutional rights of the
otherwise law abiding citizen.
i. It is also clear that under Federal law there is no process to apply,
obtain, be granted, or to seek any form of licensing of arms by U.S.
Citizens. While an export license is needed to export arms, and certain
arms require a federal license (FFL) to operate a business to sell
primarily firearms on a retail basis, there is no actual license
required to merely possess arms.
ii. There are provisions under federal law for certain arms to involve a
transfer tax or transfer stamp, but these do not grant an actual license
to own, to keep, or to carry or bear as such a license is
Constitutionally forbidden under the 2^nd Amendment.
iii. Therefore, as the Federal government is specifically enjoined from
the infringement upon the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" so
to are the individual states.
iv. No state is permitted to have any law that in any way interferes
with law abiding citizens from keeping and bearing arms for lawful
activities, and the moment that any state passes into law any such
infringing statute or ruling, it automatically ceases to exist as of the
moment of its creation through the Nullification Doctrine of the Supreme
Court of the United States.
v. Further, through the Superiority Clause of the Constitution of the
United States, no state, city or county court, and certainly no other
court is permitted to rule contrary to the rulings of the Supreme Court
of the United States, and when any court is actually suffering from a
paucity of common sense, but an abundance of stupidity, the rulings of
that state or country court may be utterly ignored by the citizen, with
both impunity and immunity.
ee. As the Supreme Court in */Heller/* states that in the modern day we
must look back to the origination of the Constitution and the Second
Amendment to see what modern arms were regarded as at the time of the
ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Thus the Supreme
Court defines that the arms protected under the 2^nd Amendment as a
personal right included not merely those military weapons in common use
at the time of the ratification, but that it must reach forward in time,
and protect the modern arms used by a modern army, and this the Second
Amendment as incorporated against the state by the 14^th Amendment
preserves the right to keep and bear a modern M16 or M4 or other weapons
system, and no court is allowed to rule contrary to this ruling of the
Supreme Court.
ff. As the Supreme Court requires that when a privilege, immunity, or
right is ratified into law or otherwise adopted that in the present day
we must reach back in time to the time of the ratification.
i. As Jesus Christ commanded that his followers be armed with swords,
and in turn swords were the primary individual weapons of the Roman
Legions at the time, and "modern weapons" of the day.
ii. Thusly, the "swords" which Jesus Christ commanded his followers to
purchase and to carry is a right protected by the First Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, in which he commanded his followers
to obtain and carry military weapons for personal defense and security.
iii. As the Supreme Court in */Heller/* requires a "look back" then we
must regard the commandment of Christ to include not only swords, but
also modern arms to include the M4/M16, the M21, and all arms that can
be carried be a single person (the key being that the individual must be
able to "bear arms") as this confines the definition to arms suitable
for individual use as opposed to crew served weapons.
iv. To put it succinctly; the commandments of Christ in regards to the
2^nd Amendment are incorporated against the states by way of the 14^th
Amendment and articulated with the 1^st Amendment protections of the
Free Exercise of religion.
v. The Christian faith, through the words of their recognized leader
(Jesus Christ), compel those followers to keep and the bear arms...
including the keeping and bearing the most modern of arms.
vi. It also bears mention that under Massachusetts General Law, Chapter
272, Section 36 that the words of God, the Bible, and the words and
commandments of Jesus Christ are not to be questioned, reproached,
exposed to ridicule, contempt, or disobeyed.
"Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by
denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation,
government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or
contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing
or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the
holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more
than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior."
vii. As this court must obey the laws of the state, then it must accept
the "Word of God" as it is stated, or it commits a criminal act that
includes a penalty of fines and imprisonment.
viii. As the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has passed a criminal statute
against Blasphemy, this court must accept unquestionably the Word of God
as superior to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The court
thus must accept that the "Word of God" as proglamated in the Holy Bible
(King James version of 1611, or the Geneva Bibles before it) as law, and
of an authority that exceeds the authority of the state, or the
ministers of the state.
ix. As the First Amendment protects the free exercise of the fundamental
tenants of my faith and religion of my choosing, and Massachusetts
General Law, Chapter 272, Section 36 restricts all courts in the
interpretation of the scripture, or to claim that they do not represent
what they in fact represent.
x. In turn the Supreme Court has incorporated the 1^st and 2^nd
Amendments against the states, and in turn the Supreme Court has
protected the exercise of my faith, which requires the possession and
carrying modern arms.
xi. As I need no permission, license, or permit to be a Christian, or to
attend the church of my choosing, to operate a printing press, to write
or publish poems, or to obtain, possess and carry arms of my choosing.
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So, at least once a year, I like to make the following post to each of
the lists that I own, so that people understand my position on certain
topics, and to be quite candid, if you have a negative opinion of me
doing this, or you have "issues" with what the message contains, I
quite honestly do not care. Oh, one other thing, I am also an ordained
minister (the legal terms is "Minister of the Gospel") and I can
legally perform weddings, perform communion, lead services, visit the
sick and so on. I am not a tremendously powerful leader or religious
figure, and I do admit that I have an abundance of faults, but I can be
rather effective in certain area of my faith, and I do wield an
effective amount of authority to "get things done within my constraints
of my Commission" Granted, I am really good with TSCM, TEMPEST,
NONSTOP, technical security, computer forensics, cyberoperations,
computer programming, and technical things like mechanical and
electronic engineering, but I do have other skill sets that you might
not expect unless you have known me for quite a while. Yep, being a
Christian Minister (and Chaplain) is one of those things, that you
might not expect. So, once or twice a year I post my Declaration of
Faith, to the various LISTSERVs or mailing lists that I own and
operate, or where I am the chief moderator.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">My
Declaration of Faith and Religious Creed<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">1.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">My
name is James M.
Atkinson, and I am a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ, and I have
been a
Christian for over 50 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">2.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">While
my faith is that of
a Christian, my denomination is best classified be a “Protestant
Evangelical”
and a “Pentecostal Christian”, under the “World Assemblies of God
Fellowship”,
which is the world largest Pentecostal body in the World. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">Historical
Points of Reference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">3.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">My
faith and denomination
can be further defined as “Apostolic Pentecostal Church” under the
“Apostolic
Christian Fellowship” which has a history in the Amish church movements
prior
to 1862, and the Amish Mennonite divisions of 1880. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">4.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">These
all trace back to
the Lutheran Reformation of Christianity in 1517, and thence through
Calvinism of
1563 to 1564, and the Congregationalist movement which developed in the
United
States in the Colonial Era until the post World War I spiritual
revivals of late
1918 and early 1919.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">5.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">Prior
to the Lutheran
Reformation of 1517, my faith traces to Roman and Western Catholic
interpretation
of Christianity, and prior to the founding of the Catholic faith by the
Emperor
Constantine, to the Messianic Jews and Gentiles in the time of Christ,
and the
Jewish faith prior to the arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">6.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">Within
my faith and denomination
there have been what are called four great religious “Awakenings” (not
including the Lutheran Reformation), the first in 1735, lead by
Jonathon
Edwards of Northampton, Massachusetts and English Anglican cleric
George Whitefield
in 1738 until his death in 1770 and then by others through 1784, as the
Puritan,
Congregationalist, Church of England and Calvinist followers evolved to
a new
understanding of the gospels and emerged as Methodists (of note is that
the
roots of this “First Great Awakening” shaping what would become the
First
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and creating a
great impact
on the Originalists who actually authored the Constitution as they
endeavored to
split church and government). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">7.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">This
led to the “Second
Awakening” which began in 1790, at the end of the American Revolution,
with
notable growth in the Methodist, Presbyterians and Baptist Churches,
continuing
in the Northern states from 1800 until 1840 and emerging as the driving
force
behind the abolition movement up to around 1858. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">8.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">The
Third Great Awakening
occurred in the years after the Civil War (1858), up to 1908 and the
early days
of World War One (with evangelist William Sunday, for example), with a
slight
carry over into the 1930’s through the use of radio (evangelist Aimee
Semple
McPherson, <i style="">et al</i>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">9.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">The
Fourth Great
Awakening started in the days after the Korean War, and spread until
the late mid
1970’s through ministers such as Billy Graham, and other modern
evangelists who
used the media of television for their crusades and revivals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">10.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">It is
through the
Methodist Movement of the 1780’s that the modern movement of
Pentecostal and
Evangelical Christians has taken place, to include the modern
Assemblies of
God. It is with the fusion of the Methodist/Pentecostal/Evangelical
movements
through which my grand parents, parents, majority of my relatives, and
myself
were all raised, educated and trained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">Core
Structure of My Faith and Religious Exercises<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">11.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in one God, the
Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen
and
unseen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">12.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that there is
only one God, eternally existent in three persons or entities at the
same time:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">13.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in the deity of
our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His
miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in
His
bodily resurrection, in His bodily ascension to the right hand of the
Father/God,
and in His personal return in power and glory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">14.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in one Lord,
Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father,
God from
God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one
in Being
with the Father. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,
and the
power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary and through
this God became
man.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">15.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
worship one God in
Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the persons, nor
dividing
the substance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">16.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that there is
one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy
Spirit.
But the godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is
all one,
the glory equal, and the majesty co-eternal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">17.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that such as
the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit. The Father
uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated. The Father
incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit
incomprehensible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">18.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe Father eternal,
the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet they are not
three
eternals, but one Eternal. As also there are not three
incomprehensibles, nor
three uncreated, but one Uncreated, and one Incomprehensible. So
likewise the
Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Spirit Almighty. And
yet
they are not three almighties, but one Almighty. So the Father is God,
the Son
is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. And yet they are not three gods,
but one
God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit
Lord,
not three lords, but one Lord. For as I am compelled by the Christian
faith to
acknowledge each Person by Himself to be both God and Lord, so I am
also
forbidden by my faith to say that there are three gods or three lords.
The
Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of
the Father
alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the
Father,
neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is
one
Father, not three fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit,
not three
holy spirits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">19.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that in the
Trinity none is before or after another; none is greater or less than
another,
but all three Persons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in
all
things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity
is to be
worshipped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">20.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man; God, of the substance of
the
Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of the substance of his
mother,
born in the world; perfect God and perfect man, of a rational soul and
human
flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father, as touching His godhead; and
inferior to
the Father, as touching His manhood; who, although He is God and man,
yet he is
not two, but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into
flesh but
by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether; not by confusion of
substance, but by unity of person. For as the rational soul and flesh
is one
man, so God and man is one Christ; who suffered for our salvation,
descended
into hell, rose again the third day from the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">21.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that for our
sake Jesus Christ was crucified under Pontius Pilate; that he suffered,
died
and was buried. On the third day that he rose again in fulfillment of
the
Scriptures; that he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right
hand of the
Father, and that he will come again in glory to judge the living and
the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">22.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in the Holy
Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father (and
the
Son); who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified; who
has
spoken through the disciples and prophets, and this same Holy Spirit
with which
modern day Christians are baptized with, and which is indwelling within
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">23.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that there is
only one universal Christian Church, although it is known by many
names,
creeds, divisions, denominations, variations, interpretations, rituals,
expressions and understandings, that it is still only one Church,
created by
Christ himself by his dispatching 84 disciples described in Luke 10:1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">24.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that there is
one baptism, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">25.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that that God,
the Father entered into a new covenant of forgiveness with mankind upon
the
sacrifice and death of his Son Jesus Christ, as a means of grace and
everlasting life, and the resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">26.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that for the salvation
of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is
absolutely
essential.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">27.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in the
Salvation of the lost and sinful through the shedding of the blood of
Jesus
Christ by faith apart from works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">28.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in Salvation by
faith and grace alone, through the shedding of the blood and the
Sacrifice of
Jesus Christ, and not in deeds of men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">29.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in the present
ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is
enabled to
live a godly life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">30.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in the resurrection
of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the
resurrection of
eternal life, but they that are lost unto the resurrection of eternal
damnation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">31.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in the
spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Church,
and the
Body of Christ, to share in Christ’s baptism, and to eat at his table,
and to
join him in his passion and victory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">32.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in Baptism in
Water, as a Holy Sacrament, and in Communion with Christ through this
baptism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">33.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that Christ has
instructed his followers to eat bread and to drink wine in remembrance
of him
and that this is one of the many Holy Sacraments of being a Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">34.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that Jesus
Christ promises to all who trust in him, full forgiveness of sins and
fullness
of grace, courage in the struggle for justice and peace, his presence
in trial
and rejoicing, and eternal life in his kingdom which has no end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">35.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe the Bible and
Holy Scriptures to be the inspired by God, the only infallible,
authoritative
Word of God, divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy; and
the
supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">36.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that the Holy
Bible referred to the “King James Version” is merely a sub-set of the
writings
our faith and doctrine, and that the King James Version is incomplete,
and that
to fully grasp the true tenants of our faith, we must reach down
through
history and study the various version of the Holy Bible they predate
the King
James version of 1611, to include the Mathews Bible, the Wycliffe
Bibles, the
various Geneva Bibles (actually carried by the early American
Colonists), and
the versions that reach back through time to the historical documents
at the
juncture of the founding of the Church, and thence to continue back
through
time to the period of time where Christ still walked the Earth, and his
disciples and Apostles described what they experienced in their own
writings
and recollections, and then to pass before the time of Christ to
examine the
documents of the Babylonian Exile of the Kingdom of Judah, and the
documents
that predate the Exile, all the way backwards in time to the point the
scriptures (Holy Writings) were being written down for the first time,
well
before the time of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><span
style="">37.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that the Holy
Bible is not merely a single book, but rather a collection of sacred
writings,
by multiple authors, written and collected over a span of many
thousands of
years. There are books on the Holy Bible that are historical in nature,
books
about law, and religious practices, books of poetry, or prophetic
matters, and
even of politics, philosophy, and other matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
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style="">38.<span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that the Bible
is divinely inspired, and that in the writings that compromise the New
Testament are the words and direct commands of Christ are recorded. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
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style="">39.<span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">Further,
that the words
of Christ found in the New Testament provide specific commands to the
disciples
and Apostles of Christ and followers of Christ. Additionally, that
Christ
commanded his followers to do very specific things to communicate to
others and
to teach as they are able, and to directly contribute their abilities
to this
pursuit with such talent or abilities they may possess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that “God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believes in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe in the Great
Commission of Jesus Christ to his followers as directly articulated and
described
in Matthew 28:16–20, Mark 16:14–18, Luke 24:44–49, and John 20:19–23.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that Christians
are compassionate, because they have been shown compassion by God, and
in line
with the instructions of Christ, this compassion towards one another is
a basic
tenant of my faith, and compassion is one of my essential skills as a
Christian.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that our
Country was founded by Christians, and that they integrated their faith
into
the Constitution of the United States and into the original intent of
the
Constitution of the United States, to include the First Amendment to
the
Constitution to the United States which guarantees all Americans the
unqualified and free exercise of their religion and the faith of their
choosing, and to permit the belief or faith, rituals, and actions taken
in this
pursuit to be incorporated against the states and local governments by
operation
of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I
believe that due to the
Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the
United
States that neither the Federal Government nor any state or local
government,
or anyone acting under the color of law may in any way make or enforce
any law,
rule, regulation, custom, ruling, or practice that may in any way
infringe upon
my faith as a Christian, or upon any other faith or any other U.S.
Citizen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">I am a
Christian, I am a
Proud American and that I only bend my knee when it is time to pray,
and it is
upon our collective knees, in prayer that this county was founded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">Our
leaders, back in the
days of our founding knew the value of a bent knee, and a whispered
prayer, and
the heavens thundered as they petitioned God, on those bent knees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(57, 57, 58);">In
short, I am a
Christian, American, and a Disabled Veteran (in that order), and I will
not be
denied the Free Exercise of my faith.<br>
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<!--StartFragment--><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Declaration
of Rights under the First, Second, and Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution
of the United States, in regards to the Constitutional Protections on
the Free
Exercise of Religion under the “Strict Scrutiny” Doctrine. <o:p></o:p></span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">1.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
document is to declare my First Amendment rights and protections under
the
Constitution of the United States and in how these rights crossover,
articulate
and intertwine with my Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as it
applies to
me specifically, and to the People of the United States in general.
Thusly,
strict scrutiny much be applied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">2.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
was born into a Christian family, to Christian parents, who themselves
had
Christian parents, as were their parents before them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">3.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
was raised in and embraced the Christian Faith, I was educated in the
faith,
and have consciously adopted the Christian faith as a child and also as
an
adult.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">4.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
was dedicated, and baptized as a young man, and strive to follow the
teachings
of Christ both in my personal life, and in my professional life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">5.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Christian religion that I have chosen to embrace requires that the
Bible be
interpreted in the literal sense, and not in a metaphorical or
figurative
sense. Thus, when Jesus Christ gives specific instructions to his
disciples and
followers, we take this as his specific literal commands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">6.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
a Christian, I believe that God created a human, into which he placed
his own
divinity and person so that God himself took on the biological body of
a “only begotten”
human, so that he (God) could offer himself as a sacrifice for the
atonement of
man-kind, but to those members of man-kind how would willingly accept
this
atonement, and the entering of a Second Covenant or agreement with God,
to
replace or amend the original Covenant that God had made with Abraham.
This is
a basic tenant in all major variations of the Christian faith, that God
became
man, and sacrificed himself to vacate the original sacrifice based
convent
between God and Abraham, and to convert the sacrifice based
“consideration” (to
use proper legal contract terminology), into a “by Grace alone”
covenant or “by
faith alone depending on the Christian sub-denomination dogma a
Christian may
choose to embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John
3:16,
KJV)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">7.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
all mainstream variations of the Jewish and Christian faith recognize a
point
of origin of the faith at the juncture of the Abrahamic covenants as
the
Genesis of the Abrahamic Religions of both Judaism and all variations
of
Christianity, as well as part of the Islamic Dogma. This Abrahamic
series of
Covenants are defined in the Pentateuch and Torah, which is to say the
books of
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Number, and Deuteronomy in the Holy Bible.
These
books are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety, as they
are too
voluminous to include to this document and are instead included as a
document
attachment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">8.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further,
in the Book of Jeremiah (versus 31:30-33), the Prophet Jeremiah states
that a
“new covenant” between God and his followers would take place as final
fulfillment of the Old Covenant described in the first five books of
the bible.
In turn, that both the Old and New Covenant were established with the
House of
Israel, through the House of David, and within the Tribe of Judah (2
Samuel 7:8-19
and Luke 1:68-78).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">9.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">My
faith recognized that the New Covenant was established at the Last
Supper as
Christ performing the first Eucharist with him saying “this cup that is
poured
out for you is the new covenant in my blood" (Luke 22:20).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">10.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the tenants of my faith, I/we believe that Jesus Christ had an
ancestral
lineage back to King David, and through the House of David (though the
genetic
line of his biological mother Mary and her family, who were of the
tribe of
Judah, direct descendant of King David), to the Israelite tribe of
Judah.
Further, that Jesus Christ/God created a “new tribe of Israel” who
would follow
the teachings of Christ, the Disciples, the Apostles, and the Christian
faith
and denominations as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">11.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
church, and through my family I was taught the Old and New Testament of
the
Holy Bible and as a child I was a student of the Gospels to include the
Gospels
of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. I thus recognize and assert the
following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus Christ commanded his
followers to
be well armed:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"He
said to them, 'But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag;
and <u>if
you don't have a sword</u>, sell your cloak and <u>buy one'</u>" (Luke
22:36, KJV</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
TA \l "<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>Luke 22:36, KJV</span>" \s "Luke 22:36, KJV"
\c 3 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">b.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the NASB translation and
interpretation, the same scripture reads slightly differently, but with
a
similar meaning as: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 99.35pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But now, whoever has a money
belt is
to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to
sell his
coat and buy one.” (Luke 22:36 NASB</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Luke
22:36 NASB</span>" \s "Luke 22:36 NASB" \c 3 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">c.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus Christ himself not only
personally supported the keeping and bearing of arms, but Christ
himself was
actually armed: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 99pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I come not to bring peace,
but to
bring a sword" (Matthew 10:34, KJV</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Matthew
10:34, KJV</span>" \s "Matthew 10:34, KJV" \c 3 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">d.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus,
Jesus Christ himself, not merely commanded his followers to be armed,
but by
his own statement and testimony he, himself was also armed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">e.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once Apostles had learned the
lesson of
trusting in God in their early missionary training and assignments
“Carry
neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.”
(Luke 10:4,
KJV</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
TA \l "<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>Luke 10:4, KJV</span>" \s "Luke 10:4, KJV" \c
3 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">),
they were to be prepared to defend themselves in the future as they
travelled
through dangerous areas to take the gospel to the whole world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">f.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the New Testament, there is
an
account that when Christ was to be arrested by the religious police
(not the
Romans) before he was crucified, that the disciples used arms in order
to
defend him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 99pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Then Peter, <u>who had a
sword</u>,
drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right
ear. Jesus
commanded Peter, 'Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the
Father has
given me?'" (John 18:10-11, KJV</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>John
18:10-11, KJV</span>" \s "John 18:10-11, KJV" \c 3 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">g.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus allowed Simon Peter to
have the
swords both before and after this incident. The problem was not that
defending
someone is wrong; the problem was that it was inappropriate at this
time since
Jesus wanted to sacrifice himself and die for our sins (Mark 10:45).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"'Put
your sword back in its place,' Jesus said to him, 'for all who draw the
sword
will die by the sword'" (Matthew 26:52, KJV</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Matthew
26:52, KJV</span>" \s "Matthew 26:52, KJV" \c 3 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">h.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Again, Jesus did not
necessarily
condemn possessing or using the sword (the keeping and bearing of
arms). He
told Simon Peter to put it back in its scabbard, but not to get rid of
it. What
Jesus is saying is that anyone who fought during that specific
confrontation risked
his life in doing as Christ’s submission (and thus Gods submission) to
his
sacrifice was already ordained, and process that could not be
interfered with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">i.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As biblical scripture
demonstrates that
Jesus Christ required that his disciples, Apostles, and followers to be
armed, then
as a Christian I am also compelled by the commands of Christ, by my
faith and
religious beliefs to also be suitably armed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">j.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Religious civil liberties are
clearly guaranteed
by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution</span><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Constitution" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>and in
turn by the Fourteenth Amendment</span><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Fourteenth Amendment" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and provide for a federally protected Constitutional right upon which
the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (or any other state) is prohibited to
infringe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">k.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Civil liberties which involve
the right
to keep and bear arms, are clearly guaranteed by the Second Amendment
to the
United States Constitution</span><!--[if supportFields]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> TA \s "Constitution" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>and in
turn by the Fourteenth Amendment</span><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Fourteenth Amendment" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and provide for a federally protected right upon which the Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts (or any other state) is prohibited to infringe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">l.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the case of both the First
and the
Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States the Supreme
Court has
made it well settled that no state may infringe upon the freedom of
speech, nor
of faith, nor of arms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">m.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus, the First Amendment
crosses over
and articulates with the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the
United
States, and is made Applicable against the States by operation and
articulation
with the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">n.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Additionally, as these
biblical
commandments (from Jesus Christ of Nazareth himself) predate the
formation of
the Constitution</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Constitution" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>of the
United States, and were incorporated
into the minds and intentions of the signatories of the Constitution of
the
United States</span><!--[if supportFields]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> TA \s "Constitution of the United
States" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and into the minds and intentions of the colonial era Congress and the
original
founders of this nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">o.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I am a very gentle,
thoughtful,
and compassionate Christian, I also recognize that there are times when
it is
only appropriate to use arms, but that this must be done with great
restraint
and only as a last resort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">p.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is notable that the
Christian
religion and thus the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ are
inherently
assumed and implicitly present in the Constitution</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> TA \s "Constitution" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>of the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">q.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indeed, according the <u>Strong’s
Exhaustive
Concordance of the Bible</u> written by James Strong (based of the King
James
Version of 1611) swords are mentioned 469 times in the bible, knives
are
mentioned 5 times, daggers 3 times, armor 24 times, and arrows 57
times. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">r.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In <u>Vines Complete
Expository
Dictionary</u> by W.E. Vine it is explained that the Ancient Hebrew
word for
sword is <i style="">hereb</i> and that this word is
present as a weapon of warfare in the Semitic language to include
Aramaic,
Syriac, Akkadian, Arabiac, and other languages of the region and time
period of
both the Old Testament and New Testament of the Holy Bible. The general
description of a sword or <i style="">hereb</i> is of
a two handed, long two-edged implement that is longer than a dagger or
knife.
Indeed, in the book of Judges in 3:16 a dagger is stated to be up to
roughly 24
inches long, or equivalent to a Roman short sword or modern bayonet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">s.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Additionally, in <u>Vines</u>,
under
the Ancient Greek versions of the New Testament there is reference to
the sword
as either a <i style="">machaira</i> (short sword or
dagger of 18 to 24 inches) or <i style="">rhomphaia</i>
(long sword, in excess of 24 inches).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span
style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">t.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The United States Constitution</span></u><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Constitution" </span></u></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></u></b><![endif]--><u><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>contains
a direct reference to Jesus Christ</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>i.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Done
in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the
Seventeenth
Day of September in the Year of <u>our Lord</u> one thousand seven
hundred and
Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America
the
Twelfth...."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">u.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the framers of the
Constitution</span><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Constitution" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>strongly
embraced religious neutrality and
religious freedoms and protections in regards to the practicing of both
Christian and non-Christian faiths, they nonetheless based the Militia
Clause</span><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Militia Clause" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and the Second Amendment</span><!--[if supportFields]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> TA \s "Second Amendment" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>partially
upon the direct commandants of Jesus
Christ. This is of particular importance as it convincingly
demonstrates the
intentions of the framers in regards to their own religious beliefs in
regards
to arms, self-defense, and the defense of others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">v.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus, any infringement or
restraint
upon my right to keep and to bear arms is not only a violation and
deprivation
of my rights under the Second Amendment</span><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
TA \s "Second Amendment" </span></b><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></b><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>to the
Constitution</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> TA \s "Constitution" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>of the
United States, but as such it is an
infringement that impairs my ability to follow the commandments of
Christ, and
the infringement of my right to keep and bear arms also interferes with
my
First Amendment rights in regards to the practicing and free exercise
of my
faith of my choosing and forms a deprivation of this right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">w.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To be very direct and concise,
I keep
and bear arms not only because it is a right acknowledged by the
Constitution
of the United States (and by those documents which predate the
Constitution),
but I also keep and bear arms as a requirement of my faith, and for the
defense
of my country, and for the defense of my home, for my own personal
defense, and
for other lawful pursuits such as hunting, target shooting, firearms
competitions, and training with arms, and training others in regards to
arms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">x.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In <i style="">Sherbert
v. Verner</i>, 374 U.S. 398 (1963)</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Sherbert v. Verner</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>,
374 U.S. 398 (1963)</span>" \s "Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398
(1963)" \c 1 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>the
Supreme Court required states to meet the <b style=""><u>"strict
scrutiny"</u></b>
standard when refusing to accommodate religiously motivated conduct.
This means
that a <u>government must have a "compelling interest"</u> regarding
such a refusal. The case involved Adele Sherbert, who was denied
unemployment
benefits by South Carolina because she refused to work on Saturdays,
something
forbidden by her Seventh-day Adventist faith. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">y.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In <i style="">Wisconsin
v. Yoder</i>, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Wisconsin v. Yoder</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>,
406 U.S. 205 (1972)</span>" \s "Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205
(1972)" \c 1 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>the
Court ruled that a law that "unduly
burdens the practice of religion" <u>without a compelling interest</u>,
even
though it might be "neutral on its face," would be unconstitutional.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">z.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The need for a <u>compelling
interest</u>
was narrowed in <i style="">Employment Division v.
Smith</i>, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Employment Division v. Smith</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>,
494 U.S. 872 (1990)</span>" \s "Employment Division v. Smith, 494
U.S. 872 (1990)" \c 1 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>which
held no such interest was required under
the Free Exercise Clause regarding a law that does not target a
particular
religious practice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">aa.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In <i style="">Church
of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah</i>, 508 U.S. 520 (1993)</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> TA \l "<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of
Hialeah</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>, 508 U.S. 520 (1993)</span>" \s "Church of Lukumi
Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993)" \c 1 <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>the
Supreme Court ruled Hialeah had passed an
ordinance banning ritual slaughter, a practice central to the Santería
religion, while providing exceptions for some practices such as the
kosher
slaughter. Since the ordinance was not "generally applicable," the
Court ruled that it needed to have a compelling interest, which it
failed to
have, and so was declared unconstitutional.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">bb.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the right to keep and to
bear arms
is a federally protected right, and federal statues already provides
limitations upon those right as to who may not possess arms (for
example,
citizens adjudged insane or adjudged to be felons are not allowed
access to
arms), and who is forbidden to possess arms, and how they may be
acquired, the <u>Commonwealth
of Massachusetts thus has no compelling interest</u>, reason, or cause
to
impose restrictions beyond those already present in federal statue and
enforced
by the Federal Government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">cc.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further, as there is no
federal license
required to keep and bear arms, and the right to arms is a federally
protected
act (by virtue of the Constitution</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> TA \s "Constitution" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""> </span>of the
United States), any state would gravely
err in confecting any licensing scheme in regards to arms as any act of
licensure is by its very nature an infringement upon a right. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">dd.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In association with this, the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts unlawfully imposes criminal sanctions
upon a U.S.
Citizen who has lawfully obtained a firearm, and who lawfully possesses
it
inside their home, but who has not been given state permission to do
so, which
is a direct and very grave infringement upon the Constitutional rights
of the
otherwise law abiding citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>i.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
is also clear that under Federal law there is no process to apply,
obtain, be
granted, or to seek any form of licensing of arms by U.S. Citizens.
While an
export license is needed to export arms, and certain arms require a
federal license
(FFL) to operate a business to sell primarily firearms on a retail
basis, there
is no actual license required to merely possess arms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>ii.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
are provisions under federal law for certain arms to involve a transfer
tax or
transfer stamp, but these do not grant an actual license to own, to
keep, or to
carry or bear as such a license is Constitutionally forbidden under the
2<sup>nd</sup>
Amendment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>iii.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore,
as the Federal government is specifically enjoined from the
infringement upon
the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” so to are the
individual
states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>iv.<span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">No
state is permitted to have any law that in any way interferes with law
abiding
citizens from keeping and bearing arms for lawful activities, and the
moment
that any state passes into law any such infringing statute or ruling,
it automatically
ceases to exist as of the moment of its creation through the
Nullification
Doctrine of the Supreme Court of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>v.<span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further,
through the Superiority Clause of the Constitution of the United
States, no
state, city or county court, and certainly no other court is permitted
to rule
contrary to the rulings of the Supreme Court of the United States, and
when any
court is actually suffering from a paucity of common sense, but an
abundance of
stupidity, the rulings of that state or country court may be utterly
ignored by
the citizen, with both impunity and immunity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">ee.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the Supreme Court in <b
style=""><i style="">Heller</i></b>
states that in the modern day we must look back to the origination of
the
Constitution and the Second Amendment to see what modern arms were
regarded as
at the time of the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Thus
the Supreme Court defines that the arms protected under the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Amendment as a personal right included not merely those military
weapons in
common use at the time of the ratification, but that it must reach
forward in
time, and protect the modern arms used by a modern army, and this the
Second
Amendment as incorporated against the state by the 14<sup>th</sup>
Amendment
preserves the right to keep and bear a modern M16 or M4 or other
weapons
system, and no court is allowed to rule contrary to this ruling of the
Supreme
Court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="">ff.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the Supreme Court requires
that when
a privilege, immunity, or right is ratified into law or otherwise
adopted that
in the present day we must reach back in time to the time of the
ratification. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>i.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
Jesus Christ commanded that his followers be armed with swords, and in
turn
swords were the primary individual weapons of the Roman Legions at the
time,
and “modern weapons” of the day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>ii.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thusly,
the “swords” which Jesus Christ commanded his followers to purchase and
to
carry is a right protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution
of the
United States, in which he commanded his followers to obtain and carry
military
weapons for personal defense and security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>iii.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
the Supreme Court in <b style=""><i style="">Heller</i></b> requires a
“look back” then
we must regard the commandment of Christ to include not only swords,
but also
modern arms to include the M4/M16, the M21, and all arms that can be
carried be
a single person (the key being that the individual must be able to
“bear arms”)
as this confines the definition to arms suitable for individual use as
opposed
to crew served weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>iv.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
put it succinctly; the commandments of Christ in regards to the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Amendment are incorporated against the states by way of the 14<sup>th</sup>
Amendment and articulated with the 1<sup>st</sup> Amendment protections
of the
Free Exercise of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>v.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Christian faith, through the words of their recognized leader (Jesus
Christ),
compel those followers to keep and the bear arms… including the keeping
and
bearing the most modern of arms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>vi.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
also bears mention that under Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 272,
Section
36 that the words of God, the Bible, and the words and commandments of
Jesus
Christ are not to be questioned, reproached, exposed to ridicule,
contempt, or
disobeyed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 2in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Section
36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying,
cursing or
contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final
judging of
the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or
the Holy
Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to
contempt and
ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall
be
punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a
fine of not
more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good
behavior.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 2in; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>vii.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
this court must obey the laws of the state, then it must accept the
“Word of
God” as it is stated, or it commits a criminal act that includes a
penalty of fines
and imprisonment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>viii.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
has passed a criminal statute against Blasphemy, this court must accept
unquestionably the Word of God as superior to the Laws of the
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. The court thus must accept that the “Word of God” as
proglamated
in the Holy Bible (King James version of 1611, or the Geneva Bibles
before it)
as law, and of an authority that exceeds the authority of the state, or
the
ministers of the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>ix.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
the First Amendment protects the free exercise of the fundamental
tenants of my
faith and religion of my choosing, and Massachusetts General Law,
Chapter 272,
Section 36 restricts all courts in the interpretation of the scripture,
or to
claim that they do not represent what they in fact represent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>x.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
turn the Supreme Court has incorporated the 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup>
Amendments against the states, and in turn the Supreme Court has
protected the
exercise of my faith, which requires the possession and carrying modern
arms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span>xi.<span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
I need no permission, license, or permit to be a Christian, or to
attend the
church of my choosing, to operate a printing press, to write or publish
poems,
or to obtain, possess and carry arms of my choosing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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