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To: brainstem223

"What a overreachingly false interpretation of the Constitution. The 1st amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." The Constitution makes no claims, statements, or assertions as to the "equality" of religions whatsoever."




It makes no statements regarding religion at all except to say that people may freely exercise their religion. That's equality of religion. If you are free to practice whatever form of Christianity you adhere to and the Hindu is free to practice whatever form of Hinduism, then the two religions are equal under our Constitution.


70 posted on 01/30/2006 10:00:38 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan
You're misusing the word equality.

Looking it up: the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status.

The Constitution forbids laws from Congress to prohibit the free exercising of a religion. The word "equality" of religions is absent. Your assumption that because "no laws" prohibit a a specific religion is tantamount to the assertion that the Constitution declares all religions to be equal is not stated,,, and you are by inference attributing a meaning into the text that is not there nor dealt with in any manner. All it says that you can choose what church to attend. Not that all religions are the equivalent of every other religion.
89 posted on 01/30/2006 7:23:59 PM PST by brainstem223
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