October 15, 2003

Dr. Alan Keyes and Dr. Rick Scarborough, president of Vision America, are scheduled to speak Oct. 21 at a Tri-States Ten Commandments Rally in Blairsville, Georgia.

The rally will be held at the Union County High School Football Stadium in Blairsville. Starting time is 7:00 p.m. ET.

The event is part in a series of rallies to promote religious liberty and protest federal interference with the right of states to publicly acknowledge God.

In previous rallies, Dr. Keyes has chastised the federal judiciary for its "dictatorial" usurpation of states' rights, and predicted further weakening of our nation's republic if judges are not held accountable for ignoring the Constitution.

"There can be nothing graver than the crisis that they have bought on this land!", Dr. Keyes said of the federal courts at a rally earlier in the month in Lufkin, Texas.

Keyes believes the Founders provided a solution to the "tyranny of the courts." That solution, he argues, is for Congress to regulate the federal judiciary under the authority of Article 3, Section 2, of the Constitution, which provides for Congressional oversight of the courts' appellate function.

Additionally, Keyes believes that the courts should be required by Congress to observe the actual language of the First and Tenth Amendments--the "conjoint effect" of which would protect the right of the people, through their elected representatives, to officially acknowledge God at the state level, free of federal intrusion.

The Blairsville event is being held in connection with a suit in U.S. District Court in Gainesville against the Habersham County Commission for displaying the Ten Commandments at the county courthouse and county jail.

See: "More Rallies Planned in Support of 10 Commandments," by AccessNorthGa.com