“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF INDIANA
PREAMBLE.
TO THE END, that justice be established, public order maintained, and liberty perpetuated; WE, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to ALMIGHTY GOD for the free exercise of the right to choose our own form of government, do ordain this Constitution.
ARTICLE 1.
Bill of Rights.
Section 2. All people shall be secured in the natural right to worship ALMIGHTY GOD, according to the dictates of their own consciences.
(History: As Amended November 6, 1984).
Section 3. No law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience.
Section 4. No preference shall be given, by law, to any creed, religious society, or mode of worship;
(History: As Amended November 6, 1984).
Section 5. No religious test shall be required, as a qualification for any office of trust or profit.
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After Dr. Stephen Ross issued his enigmatic non diagnosis (as instructed by his government handlers, I allege in the pending federal litigation) I took the time to let the Indiana system know that my religion and my politics were NOT supposed to be at issue when evaluating whether I was to be admitted to their bar. I was thunderstruck that this seemed to be a debatable point, but it was. While neither Terry Harrell nor Tim Sudrovech of the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program — those who were choosing and pre-briefing the state mandated mental health apparatchiks used against me — did not directly tell me that they were empowered to weigh my politics and religion in the balance one did say just that. Dr. Elizabeth Bowman informed me that no area was off limits, including my religion. (More on her later.)
Dr. Ross has recently been appointed to monitor the mental health of Allen County’s deputy sheriffs. He bragged in the newspaper article about his ability to use questions added to standardized testing to ferret out malcontents. I have a hunch I tripped over a few of those, which is why, I think, my notes (the work product of a Kansas-licensed attorney) were confiscated by Dr. Ross. Repeated petitions to Ross and his handlers have not resulted in a return of those notes. Note that more than half of the questions found on the MMPI-2 are available in books at the library. Why would those notes, therefore, be so dangerous as to require confiscation?
Perhaps because the question that the memorializes were not on the MMPI-2? Perhaps because I was given an iteration of the MMPI-2 that is yet being developed to be used with the soon coming and very controversial DSM V? Perhaps because those questions added by Dr. Ross, maybe even at the suggestion of Tim Sudrovech or Terry Harrell, in a plan to cull me out for ideological reason?
I cannot share a copy of my confiscated notes. I seek them through the pending federal litigation. I can the appendix of a letter that I sent to JLAP — repeatedly — seeking an answer as to why my (more…)