Do you want to know who is responsible for millions of babies being killed in the womb? Do you want to know who is responsible for at least $16 trillion in the national debt? It is conservatives (particularly Eagle Forum and the John Birch Society) spreading a message of fear. Here are the facts:
Article
V of the Constitution allows for two ways to amend the Constitution. Congress
can propose amendments when two-thirds of both houses vote in favor of a
particular text. The states can propose amendments when two-thirds of the state
legislatures vote to call a convention for a particular purpose. At the
Convention (properly called a Convention of States), the text is written. No
matter how the text is proposed, then three-fourths of the states must ratify afterwards.
The
Founders gave us the state-based method because they knew that Congress would
never propose any amendment that reduces federal power.
Two
of the most significant abuses of federal power are the killing of millions of
babies by the order of the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1973 case
of Roe v. Wade. It is hard to put anything in the same league as that deadly
abuse--but the federal abuse of our children by incurring a massive debt that
now officially is in excess of $19 trillion (and much more when you consider
unfunded liabilities) is also extremely important. Our children's futures are
being sold so that Congress can buy votes with current spending.
The
states responded to both of these outrages by calling Article V Convention of
States. Since the subjects cannot be combined together, it requires 34 states
to call for a convention for either purpose.
On
June 22, 1988 there were 19 state applications for a Convention to reverse Roe
v. Wade and protect the right to life of babies. And on that same day, there
were 32 state applications for a Convention to require a balanced federal
budget.
Since
that date there have been approximately 21,442,131 babies deliberately killed
in the womb.
And
since that date our national debt has increased by approximately $16.6
trillion.
Why
do I pick that date? That is the date that Warren Burger wrote a letter to
Phyllis Schlafly president of Eagle Forum warning her that a Constitutional
Convention (his inaccurate term of a Convention of States) could be a dangerous
wide open affair that could not be controlled.
It
must be remembered that Warren Burger was the Chief Justice who presided over
Roe v. Wade and voted in the majority to authorize the killing of babies.
Based
on Burger's letter to Phyllis Schlafly states started rescinding their Article
V applications on both the right to life and the requirement of a Balanced
Budget. And in several of state repealing documents, the opinion of Warren
Burger is specifically cited as the grounds for reversal. And these are not
just leftist states, very pro-life states like Idaho and Utah voted to rescind
their applications based on the fears that Burger stirred up with the Phyllis
Schlafly letter.
This
fear has killed 21 million babies.
This
fear has increased our debt $16.6 trillion.
Moreover,
if the Supreme Court had been reversed on Roe v. Wade through this method,
there is absolutely no way they would have dared to legalize same sex marriage
in 2015. We can add that horrific abuse of federal power to the list of
consequences of fear.
Using
debt as the analogy, it is like we are inside a burning building but we are
afraid to run outside because we might be hit by a meteor.
God
has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and a sound
mind. 2 Timothy 1:7.
Yesterday,
the ACLU and other leftist organizations used the Warren Burger reference to
oppose the Convention of States. Their testimony is indistinguishable from the
testimony we hear from Eagle Forum in Utah and the John Birch Society in South
Carolina and other states.
Please
help spread this message. Those conservative organizations have helped evil
triumph for far too long.
It
is time we use our sound minds and our love for innocent life and the future of
our children to demand that state legislatures stop listening to the fear and
lies from those who are responsible for so much debt and so many deaths. - Michael Farris
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