Faith, Freedom, and Family

Dim the lights and fire up the spots! It is time for the First Annual NRN Constitution Awards, a total of 13 awards announced daily until New Year’s Eve. It’s our great pleasure to honor people who are really deserving of recognition for the values that our Constitution upholds: Faith, Freedom and Family. These awards are not “Celebrity pats on the back” like many other awards. These are for real people who are making real change in the world.

Before we announce the nominees, I want to start by introducing the award since this is the first year of what shall become an annual tradition for NRN. In many cases, where a group deserves to be recognized, we will recognize the group. So without further ado, I am pleased to introduce the NRN Carla D’Addesi Constitution Award for the Preservation of State’s Rights in our nation. Since this is a state’s rights issue, we are nominating states for this award. Why? Because it makes sense.

On December 15th, 1791, a young nation which had just recently been forged came to find that they had a new right being born among them. This right was given the name Amendment X (X as the Roman Numeral). This special right, like all rights before it, was not created by this new nation; no, this right was given to us by God our Creator. It was in enshrining this right as Amendment X that these United States sent a message to the world.

Gone was the era of imperialism, gone was the age of pure colonization and gone was the era where a corrupt central government would be the pinnacle of global leadership. Amendment X spoke so loudly, so clearly that the states and the people within them had the rights not enumerated in the constitution. And it is in the memory of this momentous moment that we nominate the following people for the NRN Carla D’Addesi Constitution Award for the Preservation of State’s Rights. We also honor Carla D’Addesi as this year’s State’s Rights award namesake to recognize and thank her for her diligent collaboration efforts with NRN in 2019.

1st Nominee: Rhode Island

Our first nominee is Rhode Island. The State of Rhode Island, in 2012, passed a law which requires that the names of all political donors who are making large contributions to people seeking office be listed as donors on the state’s records. This law is created to have people stand behind their donations, not make silent donations playing a shadow game behind the politics.

Both radical conservatives and radical liberals are up in arms about this law, which tends to mean it is a good law that protects the people. I have written several times on the need for political speech to be “claimed” by people who are making it, not simply passing backdoor money to make their dreams happen (this, my friends, is the essence of political bribery when money passes behind closed doors). Rhode Island is standing up to the game of big money politics and giving control back to the people.

When people are required to stand behind their political donations, they are more likely to hold their “bought” politicians to a standard that protects the people that they are supposed to represent. It is in the spirit of John Hancock, who wrote his name largely and proudly on the Declaration of Independence that this law was passed. For those who are too timid to stand behind their political views do not deserve to have their donations counted in silence.

2nd Nominee: Alabama

Our Second Nominee is the State of Alabama. In May of 2019, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law one of the most momentous bills in the country, a law to prohibit abortion unless the life of the mother was in direct danger. This laws was a bellwether for many states that were so grossly offended by New York’s Abortion till Birth Law that they were finally ready to put an end to nearly five decades of bad law under Roe v. Wade. Anyone who has read the Constitution knows that there is no “right” to abortions present in any way shape or form.

The perversion of the 4th Amendment is an oft cited example of people who do not understand that seizures are not present in the case of the pro-life argument, and that there are rights for the child within the womb. There is, however, a right to life mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, a right to life that is only abrogated when someone commits a crime and is convicted. Last time any of us checked, babies were not out committing rape, murder, or treason (we can look into Congress for those crimes).

Alabama brought forth this law protecting the civil rights, and the basic right to life, of these children still in their mother’s wombs. Though liberal groups have fought this law through the courts, during which time children are dying, Pro-life groups are taking the case to the Supreme Court. An action which will tell if the United States Supreme Court respects state or civil rights in this modern #MeToo era.

3rd Nominee: South Carolina

Our final nominee also comes from the Civil Rights area. The State of South Carolina. In the 1970s, the United States fell one vote short of the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution which would prevent discrimination against anyone on the basis of sex. The text of the amendment is:

“Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

This Amendment (which is also being discussed in several other state capitals) is a major move forward, finally ratifying the right of women to be protected from sexual discrimination. Both the GOP and the Democrats in the state are wholly behind the bill. Who is opposing it you may ask? LGBTQTIP radicals, specifically the QTIP community (Queer, Trans, Incestual, Pedophile).

These radicals outside the LGB community are saying that the amendment does not go far enough and when it states “sex,” it limits the boundaries of “gender identity” politics. This amendment would throw out decades of ultra-progressive common law dealing with the QTIP community (those laws that are protecting drag queen story hours and are being used by academics to normalize “minor attracted people;” read pedophiles). While these fringe groups are attacking a law that will give equal rights to 51% of the population, South Carolina is moving forward with hopes of ratification.

And The Winner Is…

With three amazing causes for this award, it is difficult to give the award to just one of these worthy causes. Rhode Island, Alabama, and South Carolina exemplify the meaning of the NRN Carla D’Addesi State’s Rights Award. But as in the Highlander film, there can only be one. This year’s winner of the NRN Rhode Island State’s Rights award is: Alabama. While they are not bringing home the National Championship this year, Alabama is fighting to ensure that there will be generations of new athletes, teachers, tradespersons, scientist, and many other jobs, as they are fighting to bring the “right to live” to the unborn.

While South Carolina was a close second with their attempts to ratify the Equal Right’s Amendment, Alabama’s law brought rights to men and women who could not speak for themselves, which is really the spirit of this Award. A shout out to Rhode Island, who is silencing the big money that is causing travesties like Roe v. Wade to stay in existence so long. Abortion is big business and people are making a lot of money off of the death and sale of unborn persons. Alabama is trying to put a stop to that. Check in tomorrow for the next award in NRN’s Constitutional Award series, which will be a total of 13 (the number of US colonies), to take us right up to the New Year.