Free the States is run by born-again followers of Jesus Christ. We are not ashamed of the Gospel and it is our intention that the truth, justice, and mercy of God be freely and powerfully proclaimed to all the nations of the earth. We strive to make ourselves, with Christ, enemies of all that is sinful.

In the context of a culture that murders its children, being a consistent Christian means being an abolitionist. It means bringing the light of the Gospel into conflict with the darkness of death and child sacrifice. It means loving your preborn neighbor by demanding equal justice and protection. This is our intention.

We dread to see the Gospel driven underground. Totalitarian governments now and throughout history have sought to do exactly that. Tyrants hate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Sadly, the form of government we have in these United States today has become a perversion of what it was intended to be. Nine politically connected lawyers in black robes have come to unassailably rule 320,000,000 people across all fifty states from their perch in Washington D.C., and by a successful propaganda campaign, most people have come to view that rule as legitimate. Though this form of government is cheered on even by many Christians, it has become vehemently hostile to crucial practical applications of Christianity itself. Abortion is the very antithesis of Christianity. A government that permits child sacrifice and arrests those attempting to save the victims of child sacrifice isn’t merely in need of slight alterations. It is a government in violent rebellion against God and one that is actively suppressing Christians’ ability to love their neighbors. It is a government that is driving essential applications of the Gospel underground.

The way out begins with defying the tyrant that is the United States Supreme Court. We reject pro-life legislation on numerous grounds, but largely because these bills are simply the states petitioning the tyrant to stop being a tyrant. That’s not what checking the power of a tyrannical branch of government looks like. The court must be defied and Roe, ignored.

We demand this first and foremost on moral grounds, but also on Constitutional ones. The courts have no authority to legalize abortion. Honest Constitutional scholars admit that Roe is a farce, with former Dean of Stanford Law School John Hart Ely saying it best: “[Roe] is not Constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.” In other words, the court hardly attempted to make its decision appear legitimate. Roe was a transparent power grab by a court intent on making itself the engine of societal upheaval and national rebellion against God.

Thomas Jefferson addressed the matter of judicial supremacy directly in an 1820 letter to a judicial supremacist of his time, William Jarvis. “You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps…. Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.” Years earlier, in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Jefferson and James Madison made clear that states ignoring unconstitutional federal action is the “rightful remedy” to the problem of tyranny.

It cannot be said that our governing authorities are ruling in accordance with their own principles (link to the Opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence or a document with Mark’s 9) much less consistently with the Higher Law of God. They have directly, intentionally, and severely violated both. The US Federal Government generally and the Supreme Court specifically have undeniably become destructive of the purposes for which they were established.

63 million preborn babies have been brutally butchered under the covering of American law. Every child murdered by abortion is created in the image of God, murdered in the place of the incarnation. They are all, like us, neighbors; fellow human beings, endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  We believe human government was established on this earth for the sake of securing these rights. On this matter, we agree with the founding fathers who also explained “that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” not from the arbitrary whims of a judge with the backing of financial and political elites.

Without the right to life there literally are no other rights. The concept of rights ceases to exist. At this time, no state in the Union upholds the principles of the Declaration of Independence. The right to life has been completely denied to the preborn for the past 46 years and freedom of speech and religion is under daily assault. This is no recent development. The enemies of the Lord Jesus Christ have long sought to corrupt and undermine the moral fabric of society by turning God’s created order on its head, and in recent years, it seems that they have succeeded. They have pathologized all that is good, decent, and holy, while placing the most abominable perversions and the most wicked practices on a pedestal as shining examples of strength, bravery, and virtue. They have accomplished this in large part by controlling and perverting the public discourse, heaping praise upon those who embrace the Lie as “tolerant” and “inclusive,” while demonizing those who speak the Truth in love as “hateful” and “bigoted.”

The same kinds of groups who have already used their wealth, power, and influence to enact draconian anti-Christian “hate speech” laws in Europe are waiting in the wings to do the same here, if but afforded the right opportunity. And the gradual encroachment of Federal power over the States has created a situation where publicly reading and applying certain parts of Scripture could easily be outlawed as “hate speech,” just as it already has in the United Kingdom and around the world. The First Amendment has no practical value if the governing authorities have no interest in enforcing it. Even more so if secular humanists can find a federal judge chomping at the bit to dredge up heretofore undiscovered legal “emanations and penumbras” that have the practical effect of making the law mean the opposite of what it actually says. Exchanging the Truth for the Lie, the enemies of God’s moral order have nullified legitimate laws and established the rule of their arbitrary whims. In so doing, they’ve reduced the courts to little more than a charade where political activists in black robes, sometimes overtly and sometimes covertly, replace the law with their desired political outcomes, which are most often evil and unconstitutional – Roe being the preeminent example.

This system is the most execrable form of tyranny. As Washington D.C. and the federal courts adopt more and more totalitarian control and the culture becomes more and more hostile to Christianity, what will happen to the States retaining large Christian populations? Will they be ruled over by the collective majority of states who do not share their values but actually despise them? What will come of those states who do not share the values of the majority assembled in Washington D.C. and in the halls of the Supreme Court? Will they be tyrannized in the way that our forefathers were themselves tyrannized by King George? As strange as it might sound, that the people of the States are already far more tyrannized in our current system of government than the people of the 13 Colonies ever were in the 18th century.

Our objective at Free the States has nothing to do with “taking back America” or “reclaiming the nation for Christ.” We do not exist to ensure that church-going, conservative Republicans possess power in Washington D.C. or in state governments. They already do! And judging by their actions, “conservative” politicians only exist to cede ground to the enemies of a just moral order, while deceiving their constituents with the lie that they are working hard to recover the ground that they previously gave away. We have no interest in playing the political games of most lobbyists and career politicians. Our goal is far simpler and much more fundamentally American: to protect the unalienable rights of the people to live freely in the states.

The most important application of this desire by far is the project to free as many states as possible from their participation in the American abortion holocaust. In seeking to check the power of the federal courts and immediately outlaw child sacrifice, abortion abolitionists alone remain dedicated to the principles upon which this Union was founded.

As proponents of the freedom of religion and speech and followers of Jesus Christ, we see the writing on the wall. Asserting state sovereignty to check the untethered and tyrannical power of the federal judiciary is not only key to abolishing abortion in the states, but is necessary to preserve the proclamation of the gospel in an increasingly anti-Christian culture.

Undoubtedly, accusations of all sorts will be made about the views described on this page and this website. To preemptively respond to those, we will note that the objective of Free the States is not the establishment of theocracy. It is not to secede from the union. We just want to be free – free to apply and preach our religion, to speak our minds, and to protect our fellow human beings from destruction.

We are not under any delusion that the world is perfectible. We believe the world is not as it ought to be, that men are fallen. We understand that not everybody is going to adhere to our theological beliefs. Forcing people to adopt the Christians faith or profess their allegiance to Christ is not our job. Protecting the right to preach the faith and actively follow Christ as King of King and Lord of Lords is.

Are Christians allowed to love their preborn neighbors as themselves? Will Christians be allowed to continue to oppose the evil of abortion or any other evil that contradicts the law of God (thou shalt not murder) or the principles of our union’s Declaration of Independence?

Will we live in freedom or will we be tyrannized by the courts as our fellow image bearers of God are destroyed by the millions? We know what our answer is. What’s yours?