Posted on 03/03/2006 7:07:54 PM PST by Mia T
BTW, all you need for a Moslem to get the idea that church and state really need to be separate is to set up a Moslem country with two or three major brands of Islam held to by substantial numbers of people.
None of those guys will want the others to rule except through a modern civil and criminal code.
Iraq! :)
>Now first husband is not the same as being VP<
LOL. I think a female president's husband would be referred to as "First Gentleman", and BuBill is NO gentleman. But then, as the president's wife, HuHill was no lady either! (What am I laughing about? Please, Lord...)
Turkey as well. Plus, they have real Commies!
He's got that same exact look as when he was 'oogling' that Haitian dancer (If I could find the pic, I'd pop it up here)
BANG BUMP!
Hey! No shooting at Mia!
:)
Or perhaps I am what I am because Genghis Khan stubbed his toe on a rock and decided he couldn't ride his horse for a couple of days. Meanwhile, a butterfly in far off southwest Australia stirred the breeze which caused a ripple in the jet stream and a terrible winter descended on the Caucasus and the Khan was frozen in his campaign. My timing might be wrong but it was probably this same storm that prevented the Celts aligned with Alexander the Great from conducting a counteroffensive and flanking outer Mongolia...but driving the nascent, remaining Mongols to the Korean peninsula...In other words...your conjecture is pure speculation. At least in my opinion. We can all write our own history if we wish, as long as we have a government and a culture willing to print it...with respects.
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Whoa. Bit obsessed, ain't we?
I qualified my statement by saying Christian morals and you tried to use the word morals as if there were only one kind of morals. Laws are based on morals and Christians want those morals that the laws are based on to be Christian morals. The majority of Christians do not believe in separation of church and state, although they do believe that the state should not sponsor one certain church.
THEY want to be president again !
Since you are now telling me what I said and telling me you already qualified your comments, I will let you carry on with posting to yourself.
I agree no doubt. But just know that our side can be doing the same thing. just a heads up.
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Yes, but in those cases, there is no penalty for not belonging to the state church, and no governmental benefit for doing so. Technically speaking *we* don't have separation of church and state, but we do have a ban on a state religion and a ban on prohibition of any other religious worship. Some states, as oppposed to the federal government did have state official religions, which is why the first amendment says "Congress shall make no law". Guess which amendment is the one most often applied against the states, while the others, which are not limited to "Congress" by the words of the Bill of Rights, are spottily applied at best. Particularly the second amendment, which is not applied against the states at all, AFAIK.
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