It’s Time for a Modern-Day Black Robe Regiment to Fight for Freedom Once Again, by Daniel Schmid

By Daniel Schmid, The Stream, August 19, 2024

Daniel Schmid is a constitutional attorney and the associate vice president of legal affairs with Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family. Since 2012, he has been on the front lines of litigating many critical First Amendment issues. …

In Ecclesiastes 3, King Solomon instructs us that “to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven,” including “a time to keep silence, and a time to speak,” and, critically, “a time for war” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7-8).

In January 1776, Peter Muhlenberg used that passage of Scripture to instruct his parishioners that the cause of liberty also imposed upon men of conviction certain seasons of duty.

History recounts that Pastor Muhlenberg concluded his revolutionary sermon by stating: “In the language of the holy writ, there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.” Instead, he recounted, “there is a time to fight, and that time has now come.” ….

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