To: Gondring
As were the Founding Fathers.
There is no such thing as Freedom FROM religion in the constitution.
Re-Read it again.
Nor were the founders for Freedom FROM religion.
Re-read the founders correspondence and books to find the truth of the matter.
To: SoConPubbie
Re-read the founders correspondence and books to find the truth of the matter.
Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform --Annals of Congress, Sat Aug 15th, 1789 pages 730 - 731).
You may view a
summary of this and other comments in the discussion and it's quite clear that they were discussing how best to prevent the compulsion of religion.
15 posted on
01/28/2008 9:58:16 AM PST by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: SoConPubbie
“Re-read the founders correspondence and books to find the truth of the matter.”
Don’t you just mean “read” there? Anyone who has would know better. Even the Deists did not want there to be no religion in the US.
49 posted on
01/28/2008 5:45:49 PM PST by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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