Virginian Pilot: "We Will Decide Where You Can Put Your Christian Cross, Comrade."

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[Amendment10]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

But what happens when a ‘religion’ calls for the murder of Jews and Christians? Do we still allow the free exercise of that religion?

I'm glad that you brought up this idea.

Contrary to the popular belief that the 1st A. means that there should be no laws at all which regulate religious expression, what the Founding States were actually doing when they made the 1st A. was to reserve the power to make such laws for themselves, even if they prohibited the federal government from doing so. This is evidenced by the 10th Amendment.

10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

And if you still don't believe me about the states having the power to make laws restricting religion, then hear it from an authoritative expert.

"3. Resolved that it is true as a general principle and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the constitution that ‘the powers not delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people’: and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, & were reserved, to the states or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed; and thus also they guarded against all abridgement by the US. of the freedom of religious opinions and exercises, & retained to themselves the right of protecting the same, as this state, by a law passed on the general demand of it’s citizens, had already protected them, from all human restraint or interference: ..." --Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. http://tinyurl.com/oozoo

Note that the extent to which the states can make laws that limit religious expression, for example, is now limited by the 14th Amendment.

Otherwise, if it weren't for today's politically correct interpretations of the 1st and 14th Amendments, the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussions of the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and irreducible complexity, for example, regardless that atheists, separatists, secular judges and the liberal media are wrongly misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.

[fabian]

yes, good points. Many have been fooled by unwitting dupes to allow kids to be brainwashed with little opposition inside the classroom. All under the lie of separtion of church and state.It fits the socialist agenda perfectly, because young people, separted to some degree from their religious heritage, makes for more immorality and more need for government to the rescue.