To: seanmerc
...Those activities included human sacrifice, polygamy, bigamy, concubinage, incest, infanticide, parricide, advocation and promotion of immorality, etc. Such acts, even if perpetrated in the name of religion, would be stopped by the government since, as the Court had explained, they were subversive of good order and were overt acts against peace. However, the government was never to interfere with traditional religious practices outlined in the Books of the Law and the Gospel-whether public prayer, the use of the Scriptures, public acknowledgements of God, etc.... Hmmm... certainly polygamy was deemed as somewhat acceptable in the 'Books of the Law'.
31 posted on
01/10/2006 6:15:06 AM PST by
Sloth
(They'd call me a pedant, but they don't know that word.)
To: Sloth
Which one the framers ever said that the government was never to interfere with traditional religious practices outlined in the Books of the Law and the Gospel?
To: Sloth
Are we talking public prayer or government recommended prayer?
I take my religious advice from God - not some government stooge "reeking from the anus of his trull."
P.S. James Burgh probably inspired the "wall of separation" with his 1776 work "Crito." Any body happen to know what Burgh meant by "reeking from the anus of his trull?"
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