[MuddyWaters2006]

Tucker was wrong. Nothing in Washington's proclamation was mandatory, it was simply a suggestion.

Maybe he was right or maybe he was wrong. It was made a political issue which was decided, during the Early Years of the Republic, in favor of the view of Saint George Tucker and the Jeffersonian republicans. From 1789 to 1861, there were only five religious proclamations issued at the request of Congress. If we scored the contest as they do football, the Jeffersonians kicked butt 71 to 5. (It all changed with that ole deluder Abe Lincoln and the rise of Counterfeit Christianity)

God has absolute and exclusive authority over religious suggestions. The government, including the President, has none whatsoever.

[P-Marlowe]

From 1789 to 1861, there were only five religious proclamations issued at the request of Congress.

I thought we were discussing the religious proclamations of the president. The president is a man. The president has free speech rights. Congress has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, and the issuing of religious proclamations is arguably not one of them.

But the president is a man. The office is vested in a man. That man has the same free speech rights and free exercise rights as president that he had as a citizen. He can make whatever religious proclamations he wants and as long as they are not binding or as long as they do not carry with them the force of law, they do not violate either the spirit or the letter of the Constitution.

I think we've beaten this horse to death. You may have the last word.