Ooh, like with bodyguards carrying guns and everything? Watch out! Whew! Almost got hit by robertpaulsen's religion -- that was a close one.
As written by the Founding Fathers, you were guaranteed two things when it came to religion.
1) Congress was forbidden from creating a national religion. If the states wished to create, or continue with, a state-sponsored and state-funded religion, that was hunky dory with the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As proof, they affixed their signatures to those documents.
2) Congress was forbidden from making any law which prohibited the free exercise of an individual's religion. The states, however, were free to do so.
Other than the above constitutional protections, I have no idea what you mean when you say that you are "guaranteed protection from my religion". And I'm not about to guess.
"No, the Ten Commandments don't make me uncomfortable."
Yes, the Ten Commandments do make you uncomfortable. Otherwise, you'd look upon them as harmless symbol of the Christian principles upon which this country was founded.
The ten commandments are a harmless symbol of Xtian principles, I don't disagree. The problem is not the ten commandments or even religion per se... it's what people like you do with them.
Here is what I mean by "protection from your religion"... I'll let TJ... spell it out for you.
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity."
-Thomas Jefferson
big bumpkin
As written by the Founding Fathers, you were guaranteed two things when it came to religion.
1) Congress was forbidden from creating a national religion.
True.
If the states wished to create, or continue with, a state-sponsored and state-funded religion, that was hunky dory with the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Not true paulsen. -- New states were required to create republican forms of government, not theocracies.
If the original states wished to continue with their various state-sponsored and state-funded religions, that was permitted by the clever wording of the 1st.
The compromise worked. State religions died out, and new territories like Utah were not allowed to favor or establish state religions.
2) Congress was forbidden from making any law which prohibited the free exercise of an individual's religion.
True.
The states, however, were free to do so.
Not true paulsen. Article VI made clear that our Constitution & its Amendments were the Law of the Land, -- the "Laws of any State to the Contrary, notwithstanding".