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To: PhilipFreneau
"The truth is that prior to the usurpation by the ACLU-influenced, Hugo Black supreme court of 1947 the states had power over religion (from the 10th Amendment), and many allowed Christianity to be taught and nourished in public schools."

You just can't live without your religion being taught to other people's kids, or using their tax money to pay for it, can you, Phil?

If states were using public monies to fund the teaching of ONE religion in schools which were supported by EVERYONE's tax dollars, then stopping that was a GOOD thing.

48 posted on 08/29/2004 8:28:27 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: Long Cut

My biggest frustration with these religionists is that they frighten the electorate away from good politicians like Senator Frist and George W. Bush who have a solid understanding of our constitutional separation of religion and state.

The televangelists and the other nabobs of Christian revisionism play right into the hands of leftist propagandists. See, they cry, the religious right wants to undo two hundred years of religious freedoms in our country! They do, but our current crop of Christian politicians is more interested in protecting all Americans than in pushing for a religious agenda in government.

Every time a PF or a T7 gets online and chants about Christ in our government, it probably turns of 1,000 voters, some of them Christians who fear religious oppression that would come through dogma's encroachment on government neutrality.

We end up with judges like the 5th and 9th circuit courts who are confused about the second amendment because they were appointed by politicians who appeased the fears of the people who worried about the Christianists. And so it goes. What a destructive lot.


52 posted on 08/29/2004 8:34:49 PM PDT by risk
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To: Long Cut
You just can't live without your religion being taught to other people's kids, or using their tax money to pay for it, can you, Phil?

You just can't live without your religions of Secular Humanism and Moral Relativism being taught to other people's kids, or using their tax money to pay for it, can you, Long Cut?

You are both a hypocrit and an anti-Christian bigot. You can stop the self-righteous act. I'm not buying it.

68 posted on 08/29/2004 9:02:51 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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