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To: ArrogantBustard

“Sorry ... no matter how you cut it, it’s six.”

Not if “cut it” by not counting the establishement clause as a freedom, which it isn’t.


75 posted on 09/15/2011 1:14:43 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane
From the "Legal Dictionary"

Main Entry: free·dom

Function: noun

1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another c : the quality or state of being exempt or released from something onerous

2 a : a political or civil right b : FRANCHISE 2

So:

The absence of ... coercion to support a state religion with which one disagrees.

the quality or state of being exempt ... from something onerous like supporting a state religion with which one disagrees.

The "no establishment" clause protects a freedom (from a state religion).

77 posted on 09/15/2011 1:44:25 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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