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To: fieldmarshaldj
Amendment I
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The first 5 words “Congress shall make no law”, the limits are on the government not the people.

Lynn claims, “...but I never tried to silence his ideas.” To which I said, most of the people who read this won’t even know who Lynn is so they won’t be able to understand how untrue that statement is.

8 posted on 05/20/2007 3:55:55 PM PDT by Ron49ky
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To: Ron49ky

The intent of the Founding Fathers was a simple and practical one. They didn’t want a situation where the President would serve as the head of a particular sect of Christianity (a la the King of England). Since each given state had different dominant sects, they entrusted the states, and not the feds, to establish a state religion (Christian sect), and they did so.

Enforced “Separation” remains not only a deliberate misinterpretation, but a clear violation of “free exercise.” But, of course, leftist judicial activists have never concerned themselves with what written laws actually read, but with what they wish to impose via their own ideology.


9 posted on 05/20/2007 4:10:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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