[Lindykim]

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[lt.america]

Also, many Americans believe that separation of church and state is provided for in the Bill of Rights or Constitution. You would not believe how many educated people believe this to be true.

[jcb8199]

I would have put it

They take "wiping out America's Judeo-Christian heritage" and make it "separation of church and state."

Great post, otherwise!

[Savage Beast]

The foundation of U.S. law is the self-evident truth that all people are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.

They were not given these rights by government. They were not given them by some covenant. They were not given them by other people. These rights did not come through evolution from lower life forms.

They came from the Creator of human beings.

The acknowledgement of the Creator is the foundation of American law.

The American people need to keep this in their awareness, and anyone who seeks to expunge the recognition of God from American law should be stopped.

[BikerNYC]

It's Judeo-Christian.

I little more on the Christian than the Judeo.

As Charles Carroll, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Indpendence said, "When I signed the Declaration of Independence, I had in view not only our Independence from England, but the toleration of all sects professing the Christian religion, and communicating to them all equal rights."

[Coleus]

Many schools go out of the way to accommodate students celebrating Ramadan since they can not partake in the school lunch program. They will set aside rooms or special Ramadan Tables.

The problem is that teachers are taking out the Christian Religion and inculcating paganism, Gaia worship, earth worship, environmentalism, earth day, animal worship, vegetarianism, animal rights, paganism in the form of "tolerance" and homosexuality which is against God's natural law, Buddhism, etc. all issues which takes the focus away from the one and true God and his one and true image--humans. Most teachers' unions adopt an anti-Christian platform where they normally endorse candidates who are pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, pro-environment, pro-animal rights, pro-United Nations, and so on.

They teach this "separation" of church and state malarkey in the schools, words that do not exist in the US Constitution and fail to point out the history of the Anglican Faith since Henry VII where it was mandatory to practice the Episcopal Religion where it was the "official" religion of England and where our Forefathers didn't want and "established" religion in the US.

[mlc9852]

Why aren't churches and synagogues across the country raising their voices against this persecution? Do we just sit back and let them removal all vestiges of the Judeo-Christian aspects of our history from the public (and eventually the private) sphere?

[Lancey Howard]

The only problem with this article is that the author takes the phrase "separation of church and state" and treats it as though it is in the Constitution or something. It's like arguing about how much a unicorn weighs. There are no unicorns so why bother?

[Grut]

The First Amendment's religion clause isn't about personal religious freedom at all; it's about 'establishments of religion' i.e. official churches, and what it says is that the federal government can't have one and can't interfere with the states that do (Massachusetts had one until 1833).

A nice point is that the prohibition against favoring one church or another is about this or that organization and not at all about religion. Thus, there is no First Amendment requirement to separate religion from state so long as the state's recognition of religion does not rise to the level of 'establishing' a particular church.

[Publius6961]

All I need to know about this topic and that nutjob Nudow is that "... and the free exercise thereof..." is really easy to understand.