In past years, a highly educated and well qualified black man could have been refused a job which went to a less qualified white man because of his skin color and now, due to affirmative action laws, the reverse is true and the black man is, by law, given priority over a better qualified person of white or other race.  Anger and frustration are generated by both of the above legal injustices and hate crimes, often

But while these crimes are horrific, the court is more interested in hearing complaints of the falsely named American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which I more accurately and disgustedly call the Anti-Christian Lawyers' Union they seek to remove all vestiges of real American heritage and greatness, all reference to God and Christ and the Ten Commandments from public places.  The very things which are the foundation stone of the United States with our guarantees of personal freedom and the thing which made America the land of the free and the home of the brave is now under attack by the very organization who, by its name claims to be defending those rights it seeks to deny and make illegal.

What made the United States the country that people from nearly every other nation on earth willing to give up virtually everything to come to; a land of freedom and liberty?  It was the fact that the majority of people were at least Christian in name and followed the Golden Rule and the teachings of their particular church. This made America a safe place to come to and build your family, your dreams and your fortune.

It is doubtful if any real immigrants moved to the United States with any expectation that they would change American religious beliefs or prevent Americans from continuing to exercise their freedom OF religion guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution which

 declares, "CONGRESS shall make NO LAW regarding an establishment of religion NOR PROHIBITING the FREE EXERCISE thereof." [Emphasis mine.] Immigrants still to this day crowd the  offices of the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in the effort to come here.  They come WANTING the freedoms our Constitution guarantees, never dreaming that in a few years their names may be on a legal brief seeking to force a Circuit Court Building in Alabama or Pennsylvania to remove a 200-year-old plaque of the Ten Commandments or to prohibit a public school teacher and ultimately the whole school district and state from holding or even permitting prayer and Bible reading on campus. But one day, some activist ACLU lawyer sees a name in the phone book or city directory that looks Hindu or Buddhist or Muslim and discovers that yes,  that person is indeed of that nationality and religion.  Do they like having their child forced to listen to someone cram Christianity down their child's throat? Well, no. Not really.  How would they like to prevent the possibility that their Hindu child would have to listen to a Christian prayer ever again? Then sign here.  Now you are a plaintiff against this school teacher and the school board she (or he) works for. We will get the courts to prohibit this violation of "the separation of church and state."

Now the words, "the separation of church and state," do not appear anywhere in the Constitution, the Amendments nor other official documents upon which the U. S. Constitution is built. But the Ten Commandments ARE the basis for the law and order we have enjoyed from the nation's earliest founding days.

So where do Apostolic Pentecostals fit in all this? Are we living up to our God-given responsibilities and privileges? Are we prayerful enough and in one accord enough that God can overwhelm our congregations and national or international organizations with a spectacular like the Day of Pentecost?  Do we have any preachers close enough in their walk with God that people bring their sick and lay them where even the shadow of that Man of God passing will heal them as happened with the Apostle Peter in Acts 5:15?

Is the mighty nation of the United States, known around the world, whether rightly or wrongly, as a Christian nation going to permit a nation like Thailand to show us the importance of religion in public life?  I just saw on, of all places, the National Geographic channel, how