Roy Moore

Rights come from God, not from government.

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.