The purposes of the LGIRS are three-fold:

1. To encourage public officials, policy makers and others to quote scripture in their public addresses and appearances. The reason for this is that there are verses in the scripture which specifically address problems that are facing our nation, our states, our county governments and our city governments. These universal truths will aid our policy makers in directing our ships of state.


2. To provide legal representation and legal assistance to those who attempt to communicate Biblical solutions in public forums and are denied.


3. To educate the public and policy makers about the specific verses which provide solutions to the specific problems facing our nation.

In ancient times, the Emperor, King, chief etc. were the final authority. They received their authority from God or they declared themselves to be a god.   There were no Constitutional restraints on them. After Christ, the Roman Emperors and Kings of Europe were crowned by the Catholic Church under the authority of God. God was where the ultimate authority resided and through his instrument the Catholic Church his Grace in granting authority to the King etc. was expressed. The theory was that the Catholic Church or the bible doctrine inculcated in the soul of the King was to restrain the King. That was the system however imperfect it may have been. In many people's opinion it did not work very well. The Magna Carta, Constitution and Bill of Rights were attempts to restrain and limit the power of the government through creating a contract which bound the King and government to scriptural universal truths specifically identified in the document.  The reason the founding fathers used universal truths in drafting the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were to permanently limit government.  They knew those universal truths would not change.  When the United States abandons those universal truths, government has no restraint. Our government will be like the emperors where truth lives in their opinion.  In pagan societies, the king is god.  Hitler operated a pagan government. Hitler acted as god in Germany and misused his power for his own political gains. Hitler had no restraints on his power. If decisions are left to man and not sought out through universal truth, man will ignore universal truths and make decisions as suits the situation at the time. Hitler is an example of how man has not changed since ancient times. An example of ancient government is shown in the book of Ester below.
 Esther 4:11

 All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court who is not called, there is one law of his: to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live..…..
   

Today the progressives make no bones about the fact that there are no universal truths nor are they bound by any scriptural restraints and they have rationalized a better way. So the decision is simple. Does the United States abandon universal truths and rely on man’s way or does it restrain government with universal truths?

Our founding fathers recognized universal truths as applying to all of mankind regardless of religion. That is why the Declaration of Independence says that you have inalienable rights granted to you by your creator. That is a universal truth. In order to preserve those rights, they created a document limited to universal truths. Those universal truths were found in the Scripture. Man has never found through rationalization or empiricism a universal truth, those are found in the Scripture. There are three methods of perception for mankind. They are rationalism, empiricism, and faith. Our nation was built upon faith and that faith was contained in universal truths. When we stop borrowing, we are going to have to go back to our faith in universal truths. We will have discovered that our rationalism and our empiricism have not solved our problems.

The Limited Government and Inalienable Rights Society believes that our Founding Fathers were men with a particular worldview. That worldview was uniquely Christian in character formed out of a deep immersion in the theology of the Bible and as summarized in the XXXIX (Thirty-nine) Articles of Religion and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger & Shorter Catechisms. Like their forebearers at the time of the signing of the Magna Carta, they understood that God had set boundaries not only for individuals but for governments as well. They rebelled against the English Crown not because they were a collection of anarchists but because those exercising power on behalf of the English Crown were governing English subjects in North America in ways contrary to the English Bill of Rights which was expressly built upon the understanding that Almighty God had even placed limits on the power and authority of Christian monarchs as well as the man on the street.

Thus our society's goal is simple. We exist to defend the vision of a government limited in scope. It is limited only by its obedience to universal truths. If you do not believe in universal truths then you do not agree with the LGIRS or the founding fathers.

The core belief of the Limited Government and Inalienable rights Society is that Almighty God, as Creator and Supreme Ruler of the universe, holds absolute power and dominion over mankind and its temporal institutions including governments, social structures and bodies of laws; and that He apportions His love among all His children, irrespective of race, intellect or native ability. "He is no respecter of persons". (Acts 10:34-35, Eph. 6:9, Col.3:25, I Peter 1:17.) Over 25 of the fifty some odd founding fathers were made up of ministers of the Gospel and Bible teachers and as a result our Constitution was never meant to be a respecter of persons.

They did not create a Theocratic Republic but they placed Biblical principles in the Constitution. The only place where our Constitution respected persons was resolved by our misnamed Civil War and the 14th Amendment. While this may not have been the cause of the Civil War it was the result and outcome of it. The Constitution did not create a religious republic but it was not designed to be at war with God.

These beliefs were not only shared but relied upon by the founders of our nation and are reflected throughout the documents by which they established the framework of our government. But less than 250 years later, these same principles have been systematically disregarded or glibly reinterpreted so as to invest certain groups with special privileges, immunities and other preferential treatment all in the name of equality, diversity, or political
correctness. This is in direct contravention of God's laws and therefore evil.

Inevitably, a lot of innocent ordinary people have gotten hurt in the process. Qualified job applicants have found themselves turned away in favor of affirmative action candidates. Christian students have been forbidden to pray in the schools their parents pay taxes to support. Southerners have been fired, expelled from school and assaulted with impunity for innocently displaying symbols of their heritage.

On the positive side, on rare occasions, courts have expanded our freedoms in line with our Constitution and Bill of Rights. We applaud these efforts and look forward to more such liberty and freedom. God-given rights are universal and eternal and do not change with the whims of the mind of man. But we must look at this matter realistically: most courts are made up of misguided social architects who have diminished our freedoms for the sake of political correctness. This is evil, and it has happened because these jurists have been improperly taught in our school systems, from elementary schools all the way through our law schools. They want to be fair minded but they are uneducated about the fundamentals of the very law they are entrusted with administering.

This is what we will fight against. We must fight. As Jefferson said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Will you help us keep these universal, God-given rights? Some have been taken away, but we can recover them. The ACLU and others want to take our freedom to help create their world of political correctness. That's why we have formed this organization, and it's why we are appealing for your support.

We’d like to thank the New York Times
For making our point for us.

By Roger McCredie

Ed. Note: The New York Times has never been noted for endorsing conservative values or viewpoints, so the LGIRS was more than a little interested in an op-ed piece by Thomas B. Edsall, published on Sunday, January 15, entitled, “What the Right gets Right.”  Mr. Edsall asked several prominent “academics and activists on the left” what, if anything, they admired about the mindset of conservatives in general.  These progressives were surprisingly candid in conceding that their conservative colleagues actually had some honestly-held values which they were attempting to advance in good faith for the good of the country.  The LGIRS is even more interested in the fact that each of these points can be matched to a Universal Truth as found in scripture.

Here are the things progressives think “the right gets right,” according to the Times, with the scriptural authority for them.  First, some points from a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Richman Center.  (His comments are in italics; scriptural comments are in
boldface. )
“They [conservatives] appreciate more instinctively the need for fiscal balance.”  (Deuteronomy 15:6:  “For the LORD thy God blesseth thee as He promised thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.”)
“They understand people’s more innate belief in hard work and individual responsibility and see government as too often lacking that understanding.”  (Proverbs 10:4: “He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.”  II Thessalonians 3:8:” …  nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.”
“They are more suspicious from a philosophical point of view of big government as an answer to many issues …”  (Colossians 1:16:“For by him were all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.”  Romans 13:1: “…for there is no power but of God: The powers that be are ordained of God.”)
“They respect the need for private sector economic growth … they are more pro-small business.”  (Deuteronomy 8:18:  “But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.”)

Edsall next turned to a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, a “liberal democrat” who, according to Edsall, nevertheless believes that conservatives “ ‘are closer to traditional ideas of liberty’ like ‘the right to be left alone, and they often resent liberal programs that use government to infringe on their liberties in order to protect the groups that liberals care most about.’ ” (II Peter 2:19: "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.")
 Edsall further quotes his source as saying, “Everyone gets angry when people take more than they deserve. But conservatives care more,” favoring a vision of society “in which the basic social unit is the family, rather than the individual, and in which order, hierarchy, and tradition are highly valued.”  In addition, conservatives “detect threats to moral capital that liberals cannot perceive. They do not oppose change of all kinds … but they fight back ferociously when they believe that change will damage the institutions and traditions that provide our moral exoskeletons (such as the family). Preserving those institutions and traditions is their most sacred value.”  [Emphasis added.] (Genesis 8:19: “For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
It is important to note that the LGIRS, in relating this article and juxtaposing relevant scriptural passages, is in no way implying that conservatives are more spiritually fit or knowledgeable than progressives.  (There are plenty of spiritually confused or unfocused conservatives as well as progressives wandering around the halls of government and in other positions of authority.)  Rather, the core mission of the LGIRS is to help bring the universal truths contained in scripture to bear once again on the governance of our nation by encouraging the reintroduction of scripture into public discourse.  As such, we were interested – and even a little hopeful – to note that prominent self-styled progressives were able to concede that there are values held by their opponents, the conservatives, which are worthy of emulation.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Psalms 111:10)      

Roger McCredie is Public Relations Director of the LGIRS.