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To: TaraP

The founding fathers had church services in the Supreme Court and Treasury buildings.


3 posted on 03/06/2010 11:29:49 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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LOC - THE STATE BECOMES THE CHURCH: JEFFERSON AND MADISON

It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and of James Madison (1809-1817) the state became the church. Within a year of his inauguration, Jefferson began attending church services in the House of Representatives. Madison followed Jefferson's example, although unlike Jefferson, who rode on horseback to church in the Capitol, Madison came in a coach and four. Worship services in the House--a practice that continued until after the Civil War.

13 posted on 03/06/2010 11:46:12 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: mountainlion

The founding fathers had church services in the Supreme Court and Treasury buildings.

3 posted on Saturday, March 06, 2010 2:29:49 PM by mountainlion (concerned —————————that’s right because there is no such thing as separation of church and state....But no ONE religion can be the National (forced by government) religion....a deception of separation of church and state is just that, a deception.


16 posted on 03/06/2010 11:52:50 AM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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