Interesting!
I will bookmark.
Very timely. I was discussing this very subject over the weekend.
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Therefore, their view of what is and is not included in the First Amendment has to be considered questionable at best.
-Eric
How useful! This is a fresh and original topic. I'm sure we'll see plenty of new insights, and very few copied block quotations from other threads.
Here, I'll help out by summarizing the first hundred or so posts.
- We need to take back this country from the atheists!
- The First Amendment doesn't mean freedom FROM religion!
- I still don't understand by the First Amendment would apply to a state. Nobody ever seems to have noticed the word "Congress" in there before!
- But many of the Founding Fathers were Deists!
- Yeah, but the rest were avowedly Christian.
- The First Amendment allows people to be whichever Christian denomination they want. That sounds like religious freedom to me.
- Many states had officially established denominations at the time when the Constitution was written!
- We need to take back this country from the atheists!
- Roy Moore is a living god, and on Thursdays I sacrifice individual condiment packets to His glory.
- We need to take back this country from the Muslims!
- I don't understand why anybody would object to establishing Christianity as the state religion.
- All our laws are just based on the Ten Commandments anyway.
- Except for the ones which aren't.
- Why would anybody mind state-sponsored religious displays? If you don't like them, don't look.
- Assuming these are Christian ones, of course.
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