Duhh....you mean this one?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
All I am saying is that if they are going to leave it up to the states, why do they get involved in it when it gets brought back in front of the Court again when the State in question doesn't want to legalize what another state has?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"....Congress!!! Not the Supreme Court!!! Separation of powers anyone?
I will make one last post on this subject, then you can argue about it untill you puke.
Matthew 12:30 - "He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." Jesus Christ
“As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, providence punishes National sins by National calamities.”
George Mason (On the floor of the Constitutional Convention)
Navydog wrote:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"....
Separation of powers anyone?
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Separation of church & state, anyone?
See my 'Rehnquist' post at #67.
The 1st's establishment clause clearly shows the intent to separate church & state.
Rehnquist admits as much.
>> All I am saying is that if they are going to leave it up to the states, why do they get involved in it when it gets brought back in front of the Court again when the State in question doesn't want to legalize what another state has?
The Federal Government, to my knowledge, has never passed a law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, with the exception of some perversions of the "non-profit" status during the Johnson administration (IIRC). All prohibitions against the free exercise of religion have come from usurpations by the courts (state and federal). Since the 1st Amendment prohibits only the congress, and the congress has made no law, the rulings by the courts in recent years amount to creating law out of thin air.