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To: Irontank
The Establishment Clause of the US Constitution has been so perverted since the 1947 Everson case that most people do not know that it applies to Congress and the federal government only.

The 14th Amendment and "incorporation doctrine" (like it or not) puts any government actor under the Constitution.

Not to mention that the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibits any preference to any religious establishment.

Applying the Constitution's prohibition on federal establishment of religion to state and local issues is judicial activism in every sense of the phrase

Maybe you ought to take that up with the US Supreme Court or the State of Pennsylvania, they think otherwise ...
Judge Jones is following the law as established (again, like it or not).

400 posted on 01/09/2006 7:34:49 PM PST by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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To: dread78645

So are we beginning on these threads to concede that the 1st amendment by itself is not enough for all the cases where the issue is separation of church and state?


438 posted on 01/09/2006 9:38:37 PM PST by Binghamton_native
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