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To: Luis Gonzalez
Constitution State of Alabama [SECTION 3, Religious freedom.] That no religion shall be established by law; ...

What a mess. I don't always agree with you, but I think you're a brave patriot to stand up for separation of church and state here. I'm more afraid of people who lobby for Sunday laws than secularism in this country.

Anyway, there isn't a law on our books from the U.S. Constitution down to a city regulation, nor a document of founding fathers' correspondence that will change these zealots' minds. All the more reason to resist them.

223 posted on 08/21/2003 12:06:55 AM PDT by risk (Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: risk
I'm more afraid of people who lobby for Sunday laws than secularism in this country.

Most blue laws are mildly annoying at their worst. To the more intrusive ones I am opposed. However, I think your professed fear is misplaced. The forced march of secularism is a bigger danger to this country.

Anyway, there isn't a law on our books from the U.S. Constitution down to a city regulation, nor a document of founding fathers' correspondence that will change these zealots' minds. All the more reason to resist them.

I assure you, it is not only believers who decry the incorrect interpretation of the establishment clause (either of the US or Alabama Constitutions) as calling for the strict separation of church and state under the modern interpretation. That interpretation was a radical step by SCOTUS in 1947. Rehnquist, in a later dissent, nuked the commentary of that earlier court. It was good scholarship and makes for good reading.

235 posted on 08/21/2003 4:26:34 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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