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To: Looking for Diogenes
Madison brought and passed a bill in the Virginia Senate making the breaking of the sabbath a criminal offense.

Jefferson built Catholic Missions with the public treasury and filled them with bibles.

Several of the states had established religions befor, during and after ratification of the US Constitution. They managed to disestablish same without any interference from the federal behemoth.

If your now arguing that the "Wall of Separation" is a Constitutional mandate, you're out in Matsui territory.

92 posted on 10/19/2003 5:40:59 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
If your now arguing that the "Wall of Separation" is a Constitutional mandate, you're out in Matsui territory.

Setting up strawmen?

As quoted here and elsewhere, Madison expresses favor for a separation of church and politics.

You'll see that I have acknowledged that there have been laws in this country derived from Christian beliefs and customs. But those are not founding principles. The sabbath and Catholic missions are not in the Constitution and the country was not founded in order to provide them.

The nation wsa founded to free its citizens from political tyranny, a topic which does not come up in the Bible.

106 posted on 10/19/2003 6:15:23 PM PDT by Looking for Diogenes
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