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To: hsalaw

The problem, in my "humble" opinion, is that the people are ignorant of both the Constitution and how their government is supposed to work.

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As a consequence of widespread constitutional and government ignorance, anti-religious expression judges are walking all over our religious freedoms. After all, when was the last time that you heard of a judge who took the 10th A. powers of the states to address religious issues into consideration before booting Intelligent Design out of the school building? Indeed, judges who want to protect our religious freedoms may be unaware that Jefferson acknowledged the 10th A. protected powers of the states to address religious issues.

The bottom line is that the people need to get a grip on what the honest interpretations of the 1st, 10th and 14th Amendments actually say about our religious freedoms. Then, when the people wise up to the fact that they are essentially prisoners of conscious to the bogus interpretation of the establishment clause by a renegade, anti-religious expression Supreme Court, they will hopefully heed Lincoln's advice for dealing with crooked judges:

"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.


28 posted on 08/26/2006 11:42:27 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
The SC has wisely recognized for more than 200 years that our Constitution is a secular document and we have a secular government. Neither Christianity nor any other religion is to have favored treatment.

The Constitution makes no reference to a deity or Christ--it says "We the people..." not anything about 'divine law'.

The notion that religion can be established by states is just nuts. Could Texas become an officially Baptist state or Connecticut an officially Catholic state? The idea is ludicrous. The right to freedom of religious conscience and governments on all levels that are neutral about religion is fundamental to Americanism, and cannot be decided by priests or preachers who manage to capture the power of government depending on which state you live it.

36 posted on 08/27/2006 8:17:19 AM PDT by thomaswest (Just curious.)
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