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To: Tailgunner Joe
Endorsement is defined as approval or support, but the first amendment does not forbid approval or support, it forbids establishment! Furthermore it forbids Congress from making any law concerning existing state establishments of religion!
Not true. Amendment XIV says that federal laws override state laws if the state laws violate the Constitution at the federal level. Second, the courts have deemed an "Establishment Clause" as being defined as:
  1. The establishment of a national religion by Congress, or
  2. The preference of one religion over another
The first Congress notes validate this (see my citations above). Having prayer or endorsing a religion is "preference of one religion over another".
If the establishment clause protects rights then it protects the right of the people of the various states to decide the issue of establishment for themselves because it actually protected state establishments from federal interference. Liberals interpreted the incorporated establishment clause to forbid the very thing it was meant to protect!
Again, please read Amendment XIV, which clearly states:
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Amendments are in order of precedence. This means Amendment XIV overrides certain rights under Amendment X. We may not "like" it, but every Amendment is Consitutional, provided it doesn't violate other parts of the Constition it fails to address within that Amendment.
43 posted on 10/21/2010 2:13:16 PM PDT by BocoLoco
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To: BocoLoco

The establishment clause never abridged any privileges or immunities of citizens before the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification, but the unconstitutional liberal “interpretation” of the incorporated establishment clause does abridge the privilege of the people of the various states to make laws concerning the establishment of religion.


48 posted on 10/21/2010 7:29:20 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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