Note: This archive version of the e-newsletter is in ASCII text. To view this in Rich Text Format/HTML (with pictures & links), use the Contact page to send an e-mail to request that edition. Dear Friend, Why did the cow have popcorn? She was going to the moooooovies! Hardy-har-har. Got that one out of a "Clean Jokes for Kids" book that my 6-yr. old uses. Here's another one. How do you fix a casserole dish? With tomato paste! Yes, they may be cheesy, but they're better than hearing the same "why did the chicken cross the road" joke over and over and over! ;-) Today we'll get an update on AiG's Creation Museum, learn of a quick and efficient way to clean up the U.S.A., and learn of a conference of a lifetime! CONTENTS: (1) AiG Creation Museum Update! (2) Legally Protecting Babies, Marriage, & More - Super Quick Solution! (3) Meet Both Judge Roy Moore AND Alan Keyes, with Dinner! ==================== ==================== (1) AiG Creation Museum Update! The Creation Museum will proclaim to the world that the Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice and in every area it touches on. This ‘walk through history’ museum will be a wonderful alternative to the evolutionary natural history museums that are turning countless minds against the gospel of Christ and the authority of the Scripture. The Creation Museum is currently under construction in Petersburg, Kentucky, USA, just 4 miles west of the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati International Airport. Click here for a map and detailed directions to the construction site. NOTE: Visitors can view the museum property from behind the fence. Because of ongoing work on the property, and liability concerns, visitors can only walk the property accompanied by AiG staff members. For more information: Frequently asked questions Project overview Meet the museum team Museum Construction Photos! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the Creation Museum, you can send an email to any of our museum team staff. For any questions not relating to the museum, please visit our contact us page. Reference: AiG Museum: http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/ ==================== ==================== (2) Legally Protecting Babies, Marriage, & More - Super Quick Solution! WOW!!! SOCK! POW! BLAM! WHAMMO! Just when you think it can't get any better, KAPOW! BRILLIANCE! The latest edition of The New American Blew My Socks OFF! The Sanctity of Marriage Why a marriage amendment is the wrong approach. Volume 20, Number 1 January 12, 2004 Many of us strategize over the best way to legally ensure that abortion is ended, marriage is protected, disease-exploding sodomy is outlawed, and on. Hold onto your chair, true believers, because after I share this Efficient and Effective SUPER SOLUTION with you, you'll most likely jump through the roof with enlightenment! Problem to ELIMINATE: The "Full Faith and Credit" clause of Article 4 Section 1 of our Federal Constitution has been the reason for well-intentioned pro-family groups like the American Family Association, Focus on the Family, The Family Research Council, and a slew of others, for pushing an amendment to our Federal Constitution to define marriage! Forget It! Why? You'll see, beginning with the second paragraph in the snip below! Rather than amending the Constitution, Congress should use its Article 3, Section 2 power to protect marriage against federal judicial activists. By simple statute, Congress can eliminate the appellate jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court over such issues as the constitutionality of state laws defining or regulating marriage. Such a statute could contain other exceptions for a wide range of topics where the Supreme Court has abused its discretion. The jurisdiction of inferior federal courts would likewise be limited. One area of concern remains. Article 4, Section 1 of the Constitution requires states to give "Full Faith and Credit" to the "...public Acts, Records, and judicial proceedings of every other State;...." If a state is cursed with an invertebrate legislature that provides by law for same-sex unions, this constitutional provision would compel other states to recognize the validity of these unions. For this reason, the congressional act limiting the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary in matters of matrimony should also remove jurisdiction of federal courts to rule on any state's failure to accord full faith and credit to same-sex unions. One or more federal statutes of this kind would be easier to enact than any constitutional amendment. Congress can pass legislation by a simple majority vote in the House and the Senate, but a proposal for a constitutional amendment must be passed by a two-thirds majority vote of both houses. Even then, it must be ratified by three-fourths (38) of the states, which is no easy task. Why do we even have state constitutions? Why not just have a federal constitution? What's the difference? James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution, wrote in The Federalist, No. 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.' Federal powers must arise from the text of the Constitution, or they do not exist. 'Family policy has historically been regarded as a Tenth Amendment issue, one that's within the purview of the states,' comments Dr. Alan Carlson of the Howard Center on the Family. 'When the U.S. Constitution was written, one of the powers specifically not delegated by the states to the federal government was control of family law and governance.' What's so bad about taking family/morality law away from the states and giving it to the federal legislative, judicial, and executive branches by putting it into the Federal U.S. Constitution? The danger of such an [federal marriage] amendment lies in the fact that it would introduce the law of marriage into the Constitution, presenting federal courts with the opportunity to begin exercising control over the whole range of marital law. The danger exists no matter how carefully the amendment is drafted; it exists because the courts are looking for an opportunity to expand their powers and engage in social engineering rather than apply the Constitution to the facts of each case. When the U.S. Supreme Court, or any other court, operates on the legal theory that the U.S. Constitution is a living, evolving document whose meaning only the court may discern, it is actually declaring that words have no fixed definitions and there is no written Constitution. What else can the statutory approach of limiting the jurisdiction of federal courts solve? The concept could be used, for instance, to allow states to outlaw abortion or local school boards to reinstitute school prayer without the federal courts being able to rule against them. Is the statutory approach of limiting the jurisdiction of federal courts a complete remedy, or must we as citizens take an active role with our state legislators to see this approach work as well as it most certainly can? The statutory approach of limiting the jurisdiction of federal courts is not a complete remedy. Some states may choose to give such full faith and credit to same-sex marriages even if the federal courts are prevented from coercing them to do so. A diligent state electorate will need to insist that legislators not do so. A final remedy may rest with impeachment of state judges who willfully distort the law. This will be a matter for each state to determine, with adequate citizen insistence that the legislature take action. Look at that, my friends!! The BEST solution! PLEASE share this solution with your legislators and with the pro-family organizations pushing federal amendments based on family/morality law! Unless you do this, we can all say goodbye to morality law! References: The New American: http://www.thenewamerican.com IQ* FMA Alert: http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/Federal_Marriage_Amendment.htm ==================== ==================== (3) Meet Both Judge Roy Moore AND Alan Keyes, with Dinner! Meet Chief Justice Roy Moore and Ambassador Alan Keyes! The Biblical Foundations of American Law Conference Saturday, January 24, 2004 Lancaster Host Resort & Conference Center 2300 Lincoln Highway East (Route 30) Lancaster, PA Registration & Additional Inquiries Phone: (717) 390-1993 Online registration: https://secure.allied.net/tickets/orderform.cfm Additional Inquiries regarding Hotel Accommodations The Lancaster Host Resort: 800-233-0121 The Biblical Foundations of American Law conference is scheduled to take place during the afternoon of Saturday, January 24, and will be followed by a formal banquet at which both Moore and Keyes will be speaking. Both the conference and the banquet will be held at the Lancaster Host Resort in Lancaster. The cost of the conference is $25 per person and the cost of the banquet is $50 per person. A special package rate of $65 for both the conference and the banquet is available. Private reception tickets are available for $125 but space is limited. Moore - who has come to be known as 'The Ten Commandments Judge' - has become a icon among political and social conservatives due to his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments that he erected in the Alabama Supreme Court rotunda, setting off a national firestorm of debate over the federal judiciary and its powers. Keyes - who is recognized as perhaps the nation's greatest modern orator - was twice a Republican candidate for the presidency, and has been an ardent defender and supporter of Moore's since the controversy in Alabama first began.