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Everyone knows what the U.S.Constitution states about the establishment of religion. This flies right in the face of that, and liberals are, ahem, upset.
I suspect it is being done to purposely goad the BHO2 administration, which has flagrantly violated the Constitution.
Jeez, no comment.
Many States maintained a state religion well into the nineteenth century. The so-called establishment clause did not prohibit that power to the States, it prohibited the establishment of a national church.
Many of the colonies had majorities of religious dissenters. State Churches varied as a result, from Anglican in the south to Congregationalist and others in New England. The Constitution would never have been ratified if the current popular understanding actually was the legal meaning of the “establishment clause.”
I live in North Carolina. I don’t want it to have a state church. Most of my forebears were persecuted by state churches of various kinds, in the British Isles, on the European continent and even on this continent, particularly in Virginia.
But, I support any effort to return to enumerated powers. Federal overrreach has gotten truly astounding and more than a little scary.