Celebrate Bill of Rights Day

From JPFO. Dec 13, 2024

Do you celebrate America's civil holidays? Do you cherish your rights and freedoms as an American? If so, then make time to have a special day and remember the foundation for all of them: Bill of Rights Day, Sunday December 15.

The Bill of Rights is a major part of the "American way of life." America's civic holidays -- the Birthdays of Washington, Lincoln, and King, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day -- all remind us of the special contributions and sacrifices made by our forefathers and leaders to preserve, protect, and extend our freedoms. Each of these civic holidays exists because someone cared enough to fight and die for our rights -- the rights contained in the Bill of Rights.

We still remain particularly thankful that the Supreme Court reminded the nation in June of 2022 that law-abiding citizens don't have to provide a "good cause" simply to exercise their innate right to bear arms. Sadly, despite that landmark SCOTUS decision, there are still those who wish to ignore it and have continued to infringe on the Second Amendment at every opportunity.

All rights are important but as many would justly claim, the Second Amendment protects all the others, particularly in this day and age when freedoms have been ever more under attack during the last four years. It is to be hoped that with the coming transition to a welcome new administration, we will suffer fewer infringement attempts on all our rights.

 Listen to Debra Jean Dean read the first ten amendments of the U.S. Bill of Rights: