Protecting Personal Freedoms, Private Property and 2nd Amendment Rights
As a member of the NRA and as a licensed gun owner, I will protect our 2nd Amendment. Our Constitution is clear. We have the right to keep and bear arms. I will not support re-establishing the Clinton era bans that expired in 2004 and will work to see that incremental actions by liberal gun control advocates and czars to restrict freedoms are opposed.
I will fight to strengthen our private property rights and to limit the control federal bureaucrats have over not only our land, but our lives. “Eminent Domain” laws to seize land from private citizens should only be to serve the common good, not third parties, and the government must provide just compensation to the property owner.
Recent misuse of laws originally intended to establish national parks and protect natural treasures has allow the federal government to seize private lands to satisfy the demands of radical environmentalists. I will work for reform of these laws.
With respect to separation of church and state, the provisions of our Constitution prohibit the establishment of a state religion and allow us the freedoms to worship as we choose. Those provisions have been twisted by leftist groups and activist courts to place religion under attack in the United States. With a torrent of lawsuits from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance being questioned in the courtroom of an activist judge, I believe our nation needs to stand strong and defend our religious heritage in the United States.
These efforts have less to do with the separation of church and state and more to do with an effort to remove religious influences from American society. The right to voluntary prayer in schools as well as efforts to preserve this nation’s religious heritage - such as displays of the Ten Commandments or a cross on public property should be upheld. To quote John Adams, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
