The 28th Amendment: The Freedom, Equality, Justice, Equal Rights, Complete Removal Of the Church From the State and the Prevention of a Theocracy Amendment

November 26, 2012

This is a basic overview and of The 28th Amendment, just to give people an idea of what our positions are. It is not near complete and more legal but layman language will be used. Notes are added after every * and several links are supplied as references. It is possible that it may be divided into several amendments.

The 28th Amendment is an upgrade to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It goes above and beyond the the First Amendment in many ways with specific language leaving little to no room for incorrect interpretations.

Article I Repeal and Reenactment

Section 1. The first article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, unless those freedoms are used to abridge the freedom and safety of others.

Section 3. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, with the following seven exceptions:

Assemblies and protests cannot endanger people.

Assemblies and protests cannot be on private property.

Assemblies and protests targeting funerals are unlawful and prohibited.

Assemblies and protests targeting weddings are unlawful and prohibited.

Assemblies and protests targeting medical facilities, hospitals, clinics, emergency rooms, hospices, infirmaries, nursing homes, sanatoriums, and sanitariums must be 200 yards away.

It is unlawful and prohibited for assemblies and protests to interfere, obstruct, block, or impede the normal operation of medical facilities listed within article 1 section 3 .

It is unlawful and prohibited for assemblies and protests listed within article 1 section 3, to single out individual private citizens in their vicinity. Assemblies and protests cannot personally harass, demean, humiliate, belittle, disparage, or scorn any people from using or about to use any of those medical facilities listed within article 1 section 3, with any verbiage, signs, or banners.

Article II Religion

Section 1. The United States of America is not a christian Nation nor a Nation promoting any religion. Instead, The United States of America is a Nation of Freedom, Equality, Justice and Equal Rights for ALL people.

Section 2. Any organization that promotes or proselytizes religion, will be disqualified from any nonprofit status. All tax regulations will apply.

Section 3. Taxpayer money cannot directly or indirectly go to any organizations that promote religion.

Section 4. Federal and State funding cannot be used in any preservation or repair of any religious buildings, properties, or historical land marks.

Section 5. Creationism, intelligent design and any other religious hypothesis or belief concerning creation or the origin of life, will be outlawed from ALL public education, unless it can reach the level of a scientific theory by the majority of the science community.

Section 6. Government School vouchers or education vouchers are unconstitutional as well as any funding of private education or schools that promote religion.

Section 7. History of religions and basic comparative world religion classes are mandatory in public schools.

Section 8. Blasphemy is a constitutional right and absolute freedom of speech which cannot be prevented, restricted, limited, impeded, regulated, compromised or have conditions placed upon it.

Section 9. Religious leaders, groups and organizations cannot lobby Government officials.

Section 10. All religious and theistic terms, language, and words, will be removed from our national motto, currency, Pledge of Allegiance, and political documents.

Section 11. Religious displays will be removed from ALL public properties, including schools and legal settings.

Section 12. Immediate impeachment proceedings will begin if an elected official promotes or proselytizes any religion.

Section 13. Public property cannot be used to promote any religion.

Section 14. States will remove all religious test language, for holding public office, from their constitutions.

Section 15. Scriptures cannot be read and prayers cannot be held on the House and Senate floors or at any political proceedings.

Section 16. Former and current religious leaders such as clergy, priests, rabbis, deacons, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, ministers, vicars, pastors, reverends, imams, preachers, monks, chaplains, and nuns, cannot hold any public office.

Article III Oaths or Affirmations

Section 1. No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office, public Trust or for public employees under the United States, nor any religious books, scriptures, theistic terminology or theistic language used during any Oath or Affirmation.

Section 2. When The President of the United States, takes the Oath of office, as described in Article Two, Section One, Clause Eight, of the United States Constitution, it must be carried out using the United States Constitution. No other document can be used, including religious books, scriptures, as well as any theistic terminology or theistic language used.

Section 3. The Senators, Representatives, the Members of State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, of the United States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support the United States Constitution. This Oath or Affirmation must be carried out following Article 6 of the United States Constitution and using the United States Constitution. No other document can be used, including religious books, scriptures, as well as any theistic terminology or theistic language used.

Section 4. Religious books, scriptures, theistic terminology and theistic language cannot be used during any Oath or Affirmation in any court or any legal preceding.

Article IV LGBT rights and Marriage Equality

Section 1. ALL people are equal.

Section 2. LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

Section 3. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, Congress or by any State on account of gender or sexual orientation.

Section 4. LGBT citizens have ALL equal rights that heterosexual citizens have.

Section 5. The definition of marriage is: An equal right as well as a legal institution and legal contract between two citizens of any gender.

Section 6. These LGBT rights include marriage equality, with ALL legal rights and bindings that legal marriage provides.

Section 7. Marriage cannot be legally restricted or refused in any capacity, due to any citizen’s sexual orientation.

Section 8. Religious organizations as well as their employees and volunteers, do not have any legal authority to “issue” any “legal” marriage documents. Religious leaders may perform marriage ceremonies but do not automatically receive the authority to do so. They must receive federal certification, which requires mandatory following of the 28th Amendment. Any certified person who fails to abide by the 28th Amendment, will lose their certification for life, without any future chances to obtain another ceremony certification.

Article V Political Contributions

Section 1. Religious organizations will be banned from any political contributions.

Section 2. ALL political contributions and spending will be completely transparent with public access to all transaction records posted on the internet.

Section 3. Only American citizens can make contributions to political campaigns.

Section 4. Bans ALL corporate contributions to political campaigns.

Section 5. A $250 limit per year, will be set on total political contributions from one American citizen.

Article VI The People’s Rights Amendment

Section 1. We the people who ordain and establish this Constitution intend the rights protected by this Constitution to be the rights of natural persons.

Section 2. People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

Section 3. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit the people’s rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free exercise of religion, and such other rights of the people, which rights are inalienable.

Article VII Reproductive Rights

Section 1. Regardless of age, personal access to contraception, abortion services or any other method of ending an unwanted pregnancy, shall not be denied, prevented, restricted, limited, impeded, or abridged by the United States, Congress or by any State.

Section 2. Congress nor the states shall pass any law that prevents, restricts, limits, impedes tubal ligations, vasectomies, other surgical sterilizations or any other method of preventing unwanted pregnancy, for adult women, which is defined as over the age of 18.

Section 3. ALL adult women will have full, exclusive, absolute, and unlimited rights to decide their OWN PERSONAL reproductive choices, reproductive rights, family planning, or any other method of preventing unwanted pregnancy and ALL decisions concerning childbearing.

Section 4. Congress nor the states shall pass any law that prevents, restricts, limits, impedes or places conditions upon an adult woman’s personal right to access contraception, abortion services and any other method of preventing unwanted pregnancy.

Section 5. Congress nor the states shall pass any law that requires individuals to undergo any medical procedures, in order for that individual to have access to any abortion services.

Section 6. No employer shall prevent, restrict, limit, impede or place conditions upon an individuals personal right to access contraception, tubal ligations, vasectomies, abortion services and any other method of preventing unwanted pregnancy or any other medical decisions of their employees.

Section 7. It is unconstitutional for a licensed medical professional to deny, prevent, restrict, limit, impede or place conditions upon an individuals personal right to access contraception, tubal ligations, vasectomies, any surgical sterilizations, abortion services and any other method of preventing unwanted pregnancy

Section 8. It is unconstitutional for Pharmacy owners or employees to deny, prevent, restrict, limit, impede, discourage or place conditions upon an individuals personal right to access contraception or any other prescriptions that prevent unwanted pregnancies.

Section 9. Any person who becomes pregnant as a result of rape or incest, and carries the pregnancy to term, as well as any adoptive parent, shall be immune from a suit by the father for any paternal or visitation rights.

Section 10. No legal action can be taken against a pregnant person who has a miscarriage.

Section 11. Neither Congress nor the states shall pass any law that in any way, withholds any funding for contraception, tubal ligations, vasectomies, any surgical sterilizations, abortion services and any other method of preventing unwanted pregnancy

Section 12. Life does not begin at conception and neither Congress nor the states shall pass any law supporting the belief that it does. Life begins prior to conception. A zygote is formed by the fusion of a LIVING female reproductive cell (ovum) and a LIVING male reproductive cell (spermatozoon). Regardless of the point wherein people personally judge or believe that a human life begins, whilst it is reliant upon and thus a part of a woman’s body, a pre-human being is considered a part of the woman’s sovereign being and cannot be judged of greater value than the woman who carries it. Stem Cells, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, embryos, and fetuses are not people.

Article VIII Equality of Pay (Being Written)

Equal pay for equal work. No employer can discriminate by paying people less due to their gender or sexual orientation.

*The Amendment will incorporate sections from:

http://www.pay-equity.org/info-Q&A-Act.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_of_2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Fairness_Act

~Notes and additional information

Article I

*Note, The First Amendment to the United States Constitution does not support assemblies and protests that The 28th Amendment makes unlawful and prohibited.

First Amendment: “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Article II

Even though this “America was founded as a christian nation” delusion has been debunked, it wouldn’t matter if it were true. It wouldn’t matter if 100% of the “founders” were priests. It would’t matter if god and jesus infested every sentence of our constitution. Society has evolved. The 28th Amendment will clean up the oppression of religion from our government.

The Proven to be Secular, Founding and Early Documents of The United States of America. The Evidence that America’s Government was to be Separated From any Influence of any Religion http://tmblr.co/ZFotutY5YRFE

This section is about putting an end to churches using their charities as cheap religious promoting tools. If a church wants to help people, help them. Don’t exploit downtrodden people for future financial gain. If churches want their charities to double as a promoting institution, taxes will apply. Otherwise, the government would be aiding in the promotion of religion.

This will save the country billions of dollars per year. All money saved will support all the nonreligious organizations that already exist, that perform related functions of such religious organizations. This will allow these secular organizations to expand. All money will be regulated and monitored; while no longer being filtered into religious extremist groups or funding other religious agendas.

Parents and religious organizations can preach the misinformation of Creationism and Intelligent Design on their own time.

A school voucher, also called an education voucher, is a certificate issued by the government, which parents can apply toward tuition at a private school (or, by extension, to reimburse home schooling expenses), rather than at the state school to which their child is assigned.

Unless their extraordinary claims can be supported by extraordinary evidence; I see no reason for us to continue to subsidize their fraud for thousands of more years.

Currently, there are 216 religion-related advocacy groups operating in the nation’s capital.

http://www.pewforum.org/government/lobbying-for-the-faithful—exec.aspx

In the United States, seven state constitutions officially include religious tests that would effectively prevent atheists from holding public office, and in some cases being a juror/witness.

“The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.”

– George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 28, 2003.

In 1961, the United States Supreme Court explicitly overturned the Maryland provision in the Torcaso v. Watkins decision, holding that laws requiring “a belief in the existence of God” in order to hold public office violated freedom of religion provided for by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Did you know that atheists can’t hold public office in 7 states?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FefynZwWM0I&feature=related

Texas

Tennessee

South Carolina

North Carolina

Mississippi

Maryland

Arkansas

Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1:

Atheists disqualified from holding office or testifying as witness.

No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.

Maryland, Article 37:

That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God; nor shall the Legislature prescribe any other oath of office than the oath prescribed by this Constitution.

Mississippi, Article 14, Section 265:

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.

Pennsylvania, Article I, Section 4:

No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.

South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4:

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2:

No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.

Texas, Article 1, Section 4:

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.

Republicans To Read Bible On House Floor

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/26/7263/26608

Senate Chaplain Barry Black is the pitchman. His words of prayer are among the first words heard on the Senate floor each morning.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-chaplain-praying-prayer-time-wisdom-capitol-hill/story?id=16082587

House opens session with prayer by controversial pastor, DFL protests

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/polinaut/archive/2011/05/house_opens_ses.shtml

Article III

Current laws:

http://usmarriagelaws.com/search/united_states/officiants_requirements/index.shtml

Article V

Overturns the Citizens United Decision and Corporate Personhood. It will reestablish and expand The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain–Feingold Act, Pub.L. 107-155 , 116 Stat. 81, enacted March 27, 2002, H.R. 2356 ) and thus, The Federal Election Campaign Act.

Article VI

The People’s Rights Amendment

This section of the Amendment incorporates The People’s Rights Amendment

On November 15, 2011, Representative James P. McGovern introduced the People’s Rights Amendment, a proposal to limit the Constitution’s protections to the rights of natural persons, and not corporations.

http://freespeechforpeople.org/node/201

~For more information:

http://www.facebook.com/Pass28thAmendment/info

The 28th Amendment protects freedom from religion. Please see our related research blogs to see why our proposal is so important:

We must completely remove religion from our government, courts, military, and education system.

http://tmblr.co/ZTwOHxIn0SUz

The religious/political attack on education, public funding of private religious miseducation systems and antievolution

http://tmblr.co/ZTwOHxC0_8Ev

Christian Reconstructionism, Dominionism, Biblical Capitalism, Theocratic Libertarians, Christian World Domination (Evangelisation), The Lausanne Movement, The Christian Identity Movement, The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and Seven Mountains Dominionism (7MD)

http://tmblr.co/ZTwOHxQvfq9W

America’s True History of Religious Tolerance

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Americas-True-History-of-Religious-Tolerance.html