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To: Right Wing Professor

>>>By adding religiously motivated falsehoods to the biology curriculum, they infringe on the right of Kansans to be free of an established religion.<<<

You have been reading too much ACLU. There is no Constitutional right to be free of an established religion. The Constitution protects us only from the Congress, in that the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". The delegates to the Constitutional Convention were clear that this meant no particular Christian denomination shall be imposed on the people by the federal Congress. Nothing else.


300 posted on 11/28/2005 2:04:58 PM PST by PhilipFreneau ("The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. " - Psalms 14:1, 53:1)
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To: PhilipFreneau

And then the 14th Amendment came along.


302 posted on 11/28/2005 2:07:15 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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To: PhilipFreneau
There is no Constitutional right to be free of an established religion. The Constitution protects us only from the Congress, in that the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".

This hasn't been true since long before you were born.

14th amendment, Section 1.
315 posted on 11/28/2005 2:23:39 PM PST by aNYCguy
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To: PhilipFreneau
There is no Constitutional right to be free of an established religion. The Constitution protects us only from the Congress, in that the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".

This was true until July 9, 1868.

332 posted on 11/28/2005 2:41:07 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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