AUTHOR: Drew Bryden
DATE: 7/4/2003 01:48:21 PM
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<strong>This fourth of July, a judge in Alabama represents the battle for preserving our heritage</strong> and the results of our independence. <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33407">The Alabama judge is defying a federal court's ordered removal of a monument depicting the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of a Montgomery judiciary building.</a><br /><br />We are losing the battle for our Constitutional freedoms and turning our backs on its original intent. The Constitution was written to insure the public's freedom, peace and welfare. The very basis of our Constitution, our  laws and our Bill of Rights was that of the free expression of religious beliefs. How does a granite monument that depicts the heart of our laws find itself suspect to the laws it represents? Our forefathers' religions are part of our nation's heritage. To deny these religions their free expression (in public prayer, the pledge of allegiance, a granite monument, a preamble in a legal document, etc.) is to deny our heritage and the sweat and blood of our forefathers who founded this great country that people of all religions call home. <br /><br />This venomous battle over the separation of church and state will eventually result in the crumbling of the foundation on which our nation stands. Our country was born of virtues and values that were spawned by religious beliefs. These beliefs are the glue that hold our government and laws together. The deeper we dig to remove the examples of these religious connections from the public domain, the deeper our country sinks into the abyss of moral decay. The path we now travel is surely not what the signers of the Declaration of Independence had intended for us. What were we celebrating this fourth of July? 
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AUTHOR: Drew Bryden
DATE: 6/29/2003 08:39:56 AM
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I decided to change the title of my blog today. Through a google search I found that someone was using "Life by the Drop" a month before I was (strange coincidence...). Anyhow,  I decided on a new title and subsequently found that in use also. I have settled on the title "A Sunday Morning Blog," as I never seem to have the time aside from Sunday mornings.
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AUTHOR: Drew Bryden
DATE: 6/29/2003 07:18:30 AM
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If blogging is a form of mental exercise, then my blog muscles must be getting flabby. My physical exercise routine has been taking precedent of late. It was time to get outdoors after a long stretch of miserably wet weather here on Cape Cod. I wonder how some of these bloggers find the time. I am assuming that many are self-employed, or are so employed that writing (or blogging) is an acceptable part of their work routine. Perhaps writing is their work. Regardless, blogging just has not fit into my schedule. Sunday mornings are the only time I am free to sit at my computer for any length of time. The rest of my time is spent working, sleeping, working out (physically), eating, reading or doing household chores... usually in that order of priority. Some day I may get these priorities straight and find blogging at the forefront, but for now it is what it is: a Sunday Morning Blog.
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