There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.