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To: nightdriver
It's not a state law. It was a ruling of the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

So if a state wanted to rule on whether they think a relegion is constitutional or not they can?

Doesn't that go against the First Amendement?

40 posted on 02/22/2003 10:02:10 PM PST by Mo1 (DC Chapter .. Patriots Rally for America IV .. on Saturday, March 1st)
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To: Mo1
I don't know if the guy is supporting the decision or its type of decision. He just stated that it happened. Interesting, but does not seem good to me, either.

Human civilization had better wake up soon and get as serious about its survival as the seventh-century savages of Islam are about our annihilation!
SLEEPING AMERICANS ARE EASIER TO KILL.
Do not be lulled to sleep by the Religion of Peace defenders.

Click here and never forget the face of Islam and what it wants for you infidels.

41 posted on 02/22/2003 10:05:00 PM PST by Thorondir
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To: Mo1
>>Doesn't that go against the First Amendement?

Clarify your question. Which part of the first Amendment? Free Exercise?

To use an extreme example, what if we started a religion that required adherents to murder a non-believer each week. Would stopping that so-called religion be a violation of the Free Exercise clause? Or would this "religion" be de-listed as such.

Now for the logical leap - How is de-listing Islam any different than de-listing the hypothetical religion above as a "religion"?
45 posted on 02/22/2003 10:13:32 PM PST by FreedomPoster (This Space Intentionally Blank)
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