To: Double Tap
"Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." Amendment I, Bill of Rights.So if congress can make no law respecting any religion, how can they do what he says?
You play bad word games....where does it say..."congress can make no law respecting any religion"? It says "respecting an Establishment of religion....(ie. a denomination, a specific religion, a religious point-of-view)
If the 1st stated, "....shall make no laws respecting THE establishING of religion..." then I would give you the point, but that's just not what it says.
20 posted on
01/12/2003 7:27:46 PM PST by
rface
(Ashland, Missouri)
To: rface
Sorry, your the one playing word games. The amendment clearly states that congress can not make laws that respect one establishment, or organized group, of religion over another. The original intent was to make sure that the government did not make a state religion, or favor one religion over another. That all religions, of lack of belief, could be practiced freely.
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