To: Pharmboy
Bachmann answered the Danbury question correctly - she just did not spell out what you referred to - that Jefferson’s quote was used and hijacked **against** religion instead of protection for it.
986 posted on
09/22/2011 7:29:08 PM PDT by
txzman
(Jer 23:29)
To: txzman
Bachmann is now twisting her words about the vaccine and the mentally retarded girl. Again, going on about the big drug company.
She should be asked about the money she took from other BIG drug companies.
1,008 posted on
09/22/2011 7:31:03 PM PDT by
World'sGoneInsane
(The terrorists attacked us--and don't you forget it!)
To: txzman
1,010 posted on
09/22/2011 7:31:06 PM PDT by
MestaMachine
(Wanna confuse obama? Ask him his REAL name.)
To: txzman
I was thinking the same thing. Bachman answered the question on so-called “separation of church and state,” well.
1,034 posted on
09/22/2011 7:33:56 PM PDT by
Arcy
To: txzman
Nope...the Jefferson letter is immaterial. The First Amendment is the MUCH MORE important issue that is misinterpreted. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
The reason this was put in was that 12 of the 13 colonies had specific religious requirements for officeholders (and VA was working on theirs) and they did NOT want the feds to interfere with them. For example, Delaware required belief in the Trinity; others required belief in Christ.
The current interpretation of the First Amendment is a travesty...it is the First Amendment that counts, not what Jefferson wrote to the Baptists of Danbury in 1802.
1,119 posted on
09/22/2011 7:39:03 PM PDT by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: txzman
Yes, she failed to follow through on the usual message about the Danbury Baptists etc.
2,096 posted on
09/23/2011 7:03:30 PM PDT by
firebrand
(Why didn't they impeach him? He's now totally out of control.)
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