Posted on 11/19/2013 4:08:50 PM PST by James R. Aist
In a recent FoxNews.com editorial, Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the 11,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Tex., summed up quite nicely what's gone wrong with America's church-state jurisprudence: "Activist judges have replaced the word 'Congress' with 'government,' 'establishment' with 'endorsement,' and 'religion' with 'Christianity,'" he writes, "so that they can eradicate any Christian expression from the public square at the local, state, or national level."
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Exactly. The clause says nothing of state and local governments.
Originally, none of the Bill of Rights applied to the states, but the Fourteenth Amendment changed that.
The amendment that gave us Roe v. Wade. Almost as bad as Prohibition.
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