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To: little jeremiah
Our country since its inception had laws against obscenity and pornography, public displays of sexual behavior, homosexual acts and so on. Also divorce was very difficult to grant and socially looked down upon.

Would these be laws in the states with state established religions?

Connecticut had a state established religion until 1818.

Massachusetts had state established religion until 1833

In New Hampshire you couldn't be a member of the state legislature unless you were Protestant until 1877.

In North Carolina you couldn't be a member of the state legislature unless you were Protestant until 1835 and you couldn't hold public office unless you were a Christian until 1876.

There is no question that these state established religions would not be acceptable today. Many of the laws based on those state established religions would also not be acceptable today.

759 posted on 05/27/2011 11:58:12 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: Prokopton

Mixing apples and oranges. Are you copying silliness from libertarian websites or what?

BTW the constitution doesn’t forbid a State to have a state religion if it wants to.

Obviously no one would vote for such a thing now.

But due to the COMMIE FOUNDED ACLU and assorted leftist activist groups AND a leftist SCOTUS that also “found” the right to kill the unborn in the Constitution, now NO STATE is allowed to make all kinds of STATE laws that under the original intent and meaning of the Constitution as understood for 200 years, they ARE allowed!

Apparently you hate States’ Rights. Funny how libertarians who prate about “nanny state” actually LIKE the fedgov and SCOTUS to take away States’ Rights. Liars and hyprocites!


774 posted on 05/27/2011 12:14:50 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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