[birdsman]

I must have been asleep when the 1st amendment was changed. I remember when there was a Free exercise thereoff clause in the amendment. Seems to me that if the people want that monument to stay, that they should have that right under the 1st amendment. What will the ACLU want next? Perhaps if people on (city owned) sidewalks can hear religious singing from within a church, it'll be unconstitutional? How about crosses in our national cemataries? Although I've never been inside the Washington Monument or the Jefferson and Thomas Memorials, I suspect that God is mentioned somewhere in these monuments, rendering them Unconstitutional. As our Declaration of Independence states that all men are CREATED equal instead of saying that all men have evolved equally, obviously our Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional. This means that we must still be a colony of England. At present, suggesting that singing inside a church when people can hear it on our sidewalks, crosses in our cemataries, and our national monuments are unconstitutional may sound too extreme even for the ACLU, but I fully expect them to make these kind of claims within 20 years. It's time to end this nonsense now, and stand up to these idiots in the ACLU and People for the antiAmerican Way.

[sheltonmac]

I must have been asleep when the 1st amendment was changed. I remember when there was a Free exercise thereoff clause in the amendment.

Most people change or simply drop the parts of the Amendment that do not fit in with their political philosophy:

Congress shall make no law Thou shalt not have any public display respecting an establishment of religion that is even remotely religious in nature, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...