[incredulous joe]

Bring it on!

[Grimmy]

The only Constitutional violators are the militant atheists trying to force the no religion religion into place as the official state religion.

[Travis T. OJustice]

constitutional separation of church and state

[CriticalJ]

Isn’t Thanksgiving a holiday celebrating the Pilgrims thanking the Indians for help?

*snicker*

That is being taught in some public schools.

[CSM]

I keep reading the 1st ammendment over and over and over and over and I can’t find any “seperation” or “wall” between the Church and State.

[SumProVita]

The vast ignorance of people is ASTOUNDING.

[Dixie Yooper]

Since The President Elect hasn’t been to Church since he won the election, I’m not so sure he has anything he wants to be thankful for...

[AU72]

The Mayflower Compact was under 200 words and mentioned God six times.

The Pilgrims apparently did not differentiate between 'church' and 'state'.

[MikeGranby]

Actually, I think I agree. The Federal government should not celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving or any other holiday with a reglious connotation. Federal employees and those elected to government should work on those days. The rest of us in the wealth-creating part of the economy can rely on our employers to recognize these important traditions, and we’ll have the day off while those who feed at the tit of the government can carry on working. Sounds like an idea every liberal (and their union buddies) would support, right?

[edpc]

Separation of Church and State. Biggest non-amendment in The Constitution, ever. The 1st Amendment says:

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.

It specifically says the government will not establish a specific, state approved religion. The people will be allowed to worship in any fashion. The last three words even support the celebration of Festivus and the Airing of Grievances.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Since Seperation of Church and State is only a thought in the minds of liberal and liberal judges and NOT written into the US Constitution then it can not be violated.
The Constitution specifically and ONLY prohibits the GOVERNMENT from ESTABLISHING at STATE RELIGION by LEGISLATION. Nothing more nothing less. Time this Nation got back to honoring our own Constitution.

[YdontUleaveLibs]

It looks like Libtards want to see how far they can push the envolope. They have already attacked Christmas and Easter, now Thanksgiving. I don’t believe they will stop until they have cleansed us of all tradition.

BTW, I don’t believe these Holidays (Holy Days) are only for the religious, they are traditional days of celebration.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

oh fer cryin’ out loud pleeeeezzzz let me say my grace at meals in private and LET ME EAT MY TURKEY & DRESSING!!!!roflmao

[Sybeck1]

Thanksgiving should be on a Friday, since I have to work the Friday after.

[BuffaloJack]

Freedom Of Religion does not mean Freedom From Religion.

[RKV]

Much has been made of Jefferson's usage of the words "wall of separation between Church and State" (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802). It does change ones perspective a bit to know the this same Jefferson went to church services held in the US Capitol building...

This from the Library of Congress web site...

"It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and of James Madison (1809-1817) the state became the church. Within a year of his inauguration, Jefferson began attending church services in the House of Representatives. Madison followed Jefferson's example, although unlike Jefferson, who rode on horseback to church in the Capitol, Madison came in a coach and four. Worship services in the House--a practice that continued until after the Civil War--were acceptable to Jefferson because they were nondiscriminatory and voluntary. Preachers of every Protestant denomination appeared. (Catholic priests began officiating in 1826.)" http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06-2.html

[DouglasKC]

Let's face the present Thanksgiving facts. President Bush likely will give the last explicit Judeo-Christian Thanksgiving proclamation that Americans will hear for the next four to eight years, as President-elect Obama likely will coddle a form of godliness in his Thanksgiving addresses (if he indeed gives them) that appeases the masses with a deity that fits every politically correct dress.

Yup.

[TSgt]

[gaggs]

George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789 contained a number of references to God.

Evaluation: George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789

If only we had men of Washington's character today,

[veritas2002]

I think that every museum that is government owned or funded should be required to remove works of fine art that have a religious subject so that the principle of separation of Church and state is not violated. Once the paintings and other artifacts are moved, they should be returned to the Catholic Church from where they originally came.