UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Washington, DC 20585

In the Matter of:

Application for Renewal and
Expansion of Recognition 
of The Association for Biblical Higher
Education to accredit Bible Schools

National Advisory Committee on
Institutional Quality and Integrity
meeting December 4-6, 2006
Federal Reg Notice Vol 71 No. 165
August 25, 2006 – Page 50403 3rd column
Item 1, Association for Biblical Higher
Education

JEFOUND AND SCOTT REQUEST TO MAKE AN ORAL PRESENTATION IN SUPPORT OF THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE REQUEST OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR BIBLICAL HIGHER EDUCATION TO RENEW AND EXPAND ITS ACCREDITATION AUTHORITY 

1. Presenter

William Sumner Scott, J.D. (“Scott”) P. O. Box 380341, Miami, FL 33238, wss@jefound.org, presents the following request:        

2. Organization Represented
Scott represents himself and Judicial Equality Found, Inc., a 501(c)(3) qualified, Florida non-profit corporation, (“jefound”) dedicated to the use of the judicial system to maintain civilized order.  See http://jefound.org for statements of its history, purpose and other activities.   

3. A.  Jurisdiction

1) The Higher Education Act of 1985, 79 Stat. 1212, as amended, 20 U.S. C. A. § 1070, granted the Department of Education (the “Department”) the right to determine which associations and agencies will have authority to accredit schools of higher education and on what terms. 

2) Scott is a citizen of the United States.  Scott and jefound have standing to make their presentation to the Committee as members of the public. 

3) The study of the Bible as the word of God or any other divinely inspired work is without proof or valid theory worthy of higher education.  

4) The past accreditation by the Department of The Association of Biblical Higher Education (the “Association”) violated the obligation imposed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution that the Federal government will not establish a religion because to accredit is to establish. Further, (i) the study of the Bible has no secular purpose, (ii) to accredit Bible schools is to advance Christianity by government action, and (iii) to supervise the accreditation of Bible schools is excessive entanglement of church and state.  Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 (1971).

B. Crises Conditions Exist

1) a)  The United States government has declared victory in the Middle East without the separation of Islam from the Afghanistan and Iraqi constitutions.  This is caused, in part, by a refusal of the religious in the United States to accept that all of the religions of Abraham, including Christianity, are the root cause of violence and other abuse.  The Association members, applicants and affiliates assert that their religious beliefs are superior to Judaism and Islam without justification.  The Bible teaches its followers that they have a right to stone anyone to death who attempts to change their beliefs.[1]  Because the Association refuses to renounce Deuteronomy 13:6-9 and other violent and abusive practices advocated in the Bible, it and its members are subversive to peaceful co-existence with followers of other religions. 

   b)  The Association does little to teach the possibility that their belief in the Bible as the word of God could be wrong.  As Sam Harris reports in the introduction to his thesis that God is a myth:  “Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christ’s love are deeply, even murderously, intolerant of criticism. While we may want to ascribe this to human nature, it is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible.  How do I know this?  The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite (sic Bible) chapter and verse.”[2]

2) These same or similar intolerant versus are taught to the followers of the Torah and the Qur’an.[3]  Rather than teach that no fewer than two out of three of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are absolutely wrong, the Association promotes the concept that only the Bible can be right.  This has led to war both before and after the United States was founded.[4]

3) The Association requires each of its accredited schools to affirm as follows:[5]

ABHE (sic the Association) Tenets of Faith

According to the Constitution of the Association, the following statement of faith is to be subscribed to annually by each member institution through the signature(s) of the president or of a board official.

1. We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

2. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious death and atonement through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal and visible return in power and glory.

4. We believe that man was created in the image of God, and that he was tempted  by Satan and fell, and that, because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary for salvation.

5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, and by Whom the Church is empowered to carry out Christ’s great commission.

6. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto the resurrection of life and those who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

The above required certification and teachings are lessons in hocus pocus rather than higher education coarse work worthy of accreditation.
 
4) The Association has no announced purpose to teach the dangers of anarchy promoted by those who follow the teachings of the Bible as the word of God.[6]

5) Civilization’s first line of defense against anarchy is its’ formally educated.[7]

6) The Association presentations fail to have the fair and balanced approach to question the beliefs presented that one would expect of higher education.   Unless the sources of religious violence and other religious abuse are eliminated, Americans are at risk of annihilation by use of weapons of mass destruction by those who seek to impose their religion on others. 

7) On September 12, 2006, Christian Pope Benedict XVI quoted a statement made by Byzantine Orthodox Christian Emperor Manuel II Paleologus during the period between 1394 and 1402 A.D. while the Emperor was under house arrest by Islamists:  “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”  The Emperor and the Pope conveniently overlooked the use of violence to spread Christian beliefs.  From 325 A.D. until they were separated from government, Christianity was spread by the sword.[8]

8) It is true that Islamists can be distinguished today because they continue to use violence to force submission to their religion.[9]

9) The use of violence to foster religious beliefs is evidenced by the high percentage of European populations that are Christian and Middle Eastern populations that are Islamist.  An organized religion can achieve 90% adherence to the faith only by the use of government sponsored or condoned force.    

10) A relatively new development is the practice of religious moderates to ignore the violent passages in their religious texts.  Because those texts continue to be used, none of the moderates can identify who in their midst will commit the next violent act.  In the name of their God, apparent moderate followers of the Bible commit murder[10]; the Church of Christ, Scientist, teaches its followers to refuse medical treatment, which leads to death;[11] and the Amish deny their children an education beyond the eighth grade.[12]

11) The Association advocates that their members teach, without proof of their claims, that parents may indoctrinate their children before they reach the age of reason that Bible based religion is the only religion to perpetuate the conflict with other religions.  

WHEREFORE, the Advisory Committee is requested to recommend to the Secretary that the Petition to Renew and Expand the Authority of The Association for Biblical Higher Education be DENIED.     
    
JUDICIAL EQUALITY FOUNDATION, INC.

/s/ William S. Scott
By:  William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Executive Director
Judicial Equality Foundation, Inc.

/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J. D.

1.  Deuteronomy 13:6-9:   “If your very own brother, or your son, or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’ (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the people around , whether near or far, from the one end of the land to the other) do not yield to him or listen to him.  Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him.  You must certainly put him to death.”  The New International Version, The Holy Bible, Zondervan Corporation, 1988, 13:6-11, page 185.

2.  Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation, Alfred A. Knoff, 2006, introduction.

3.  Dave Anderson, The Infidels, Authorhouse, 2005, page 4.

4.  Adam Zamoyski, Holy Madness, Penguin Putnam, Inc., New York, NY 1999.

5.  http://abhe.gospelcom.net/tenets.htm - last viewed on September 22, 2006.

6.  Followers of the Bible must obey God rather than men.  Acts 5:29.

7.  Wilhelm Niemoller, Struggle and Testimony of a Confessing Church, Bielefeld L Bechauf, 1948, p 526, citing Albert Einstein’s first look to the formally educated in a Democratic Germany to stop Adolph Hitler. 

8.  The edict that the Christian Bible and the Nicene Creed was to be the only recognized religion by Constantine I in 325 A. D. and the outlaw of Arianism by Theodosius I in 379 A.D.  The sword was used to impose Christianity pursuant to those edicts. 

9.  On July 28, 2006, Naveed Afzal Haq, opened fire on Jewish volunteers, killing Pamela Waechter.  At the time of the shooting, it was reported by witnesses that Haq announced, “I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel.”  Seattle Post – Intelligencer, July 29, 2006; the May 2006, threat of the death to Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan for conversion from Islam to Christianity; the February 14, 1989, sentence of death by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the then Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, upon British author, Salman Rushdie, for having insulted Islam in his novel “The Satanic Verses”; the murder of Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, because he produced the movie “Submission” to depict violence upon Islamic woman; the murder on May 17, 2006, of Turkish Judge Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin in retribution for his ruling against the Islamist head scarf; the violence that resulted in multiple deaths in response to twelve Danish cartoons of Muhammad published on September 30, 2005; the murder in Somalia of Sister Leonella and her bodyguard by two Islamists on September 17, 2006, in to protest the Pope’s speech; Swedish journalist Martin Adler, who was killed in June, 2006, during an Islamist demonstration in Mogadishu, and a prominent Somali peace activist, Abdulkadir Yahya Ali, who was murdered by Islamists a month later; BBC journalist Kate Peyton was shot dead in Somalia on February 9, 2005 – author’s comment: these actions are to stifle dissent against Islam – do you see the pattern.  

10.  Paul J. Hill, after serving as a Presbyterian minister for seven years, killed an abortion doctor.  He said he did not know why more people were not killing abortion doctors as he had done.  A group of same thinking Christians held a candle light vigil for him every night outside the prison for the two week period prior to his execution.  On March 11, 1993, Michael F. Griffin was the first to kill an abortion doctor.  He waited to ambush Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola, Florida.  On October 23, 1998, James Kopp murdered Dr. Barnett Slepian, an abortion doctor, by shots fired through a window from a wooded area behind his home.  Eric Rudolph is serving a life sentence for his confessed murder of a security guard by bombing an Atlanta abortion clinic on January 16, 1997.  The Bible followers called the Army of God have a John Salvi III website at http://www.armyofgod.com/JohnSalviIII.html - last visited on 9-22-06 - that reports: on December 30, 1994 Salvi walked into the Planned Parenthood Clinic of Greater Boston, MA and killed Shannon Lowney and wounding three others.  He then went down the street to Pre-term Health Services and killed Lee Ann Nichols and wounding two other volunteers.  An expert on extremist groups, Paul deArmond, Public Good Research Director, says: “the number of those who commit murder is relatively small but the support network is enormous.”   

11.  Rita Swan, CHILD, INC.,  http://www.childrenshealthcare.org/victims.htm; Hermanson v State, 604 So. 2d 775 (Fla 1992) for court refusal to hold anyone accountable for the death of a child that could have been easily cured by a trip to the doctor. 

12.  Wisconsin v Yoder, 406 U. S. 205 (1972).

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

On this 25th day of September, 2006, the undersigned certifies that a copy of the above Request to make an Oral Presentation in Support of the Opposition of Scott and jefound.org to the Application of the Association of Biblical Higher Education Application for Renewal and Expansion was sent by email to: Francesca.Paris-Albertson@ed.gov and the original hardcopy was by first class mail, postage prepaid to: Ms. Francesca.Paris-Albertson at U. S. Department of Education, Room 7110, MS 8509, 1990 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006 and a copy by the same methods to: renlow@abhe.org  and to: Dr. Ralph E. Enlow, Jr., Interim Executive Director, The Association for Biblical Higher Education, 5575 S. Semoran Blvd., Suite 26, Orlando, FL 32822. 

/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Executive Director
Judicial Equality Foundation, Inc.
P. O. Box 380341
Miami, FL 33238

email: wss@jefound.org
website: http://jefound.org