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To: savedbygrace
Individual citizens cannot violate the 1st Amendment as written.

As a public school teacher in a class of captive children, he is an representative of the government and as such is not an individual speaking as an private citizen in front of group of citizens assembled by their own free will.

Big difference.
14 posted on 04/26/2009 8:33:56 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

You have bought the lie, FRiend. The 1st Amendment forbids LAWS passed by Congress. It’s the LAWS that are the violation. It is Congress that is the violator.

Go back and re-read the 1st Amendment again with fresh eyes. It doesn’t say what the elitists of today say it says. It doesn’t say what the USSC has said it does.

If an individual, whether a private citizen or a government employee, is restricted from freely exercising religion, then the law under which that individual’s expression is restricted becomes the violation. Not the individual.

Usurpers have taken unto themselves the authority to change the clear meaning and intention of the 1st Amendment. These elitists puff themselves up and claim to be scholars of the Constitution, but they are pretenders instead.


18 posted on 04/26/2009 1:25:35 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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