Wall between church & state is lawyers' con

NY Daily News ^ | September 23, 2003 | ANDREW W. GREELEY

[mom-7]

For once he has written something that makes sense.

[Charles of Newark]

For once he has written something that makes sense.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day . . . . on the other hand, perhaps this was written by a different Andrew Greeley.

[INVAR]

Truth is truth.

[xzins]

Wow.

Greeley actually wrote something that I mostly agree with.

[jwalsh07]

I know what you mean, I keep re-reading it and pinching my arm to see if I'm dreaming.

[CobaltBlue]

What is the biggest church on earth? My guess is that it's my church, the Roman Catholic church.

So, once we get rid of the separation of church and state, we Catholics will be calling the shots.

No war in Iraq, no death penalty, no birth control.

Oh, glee!

[hedgetrimmer]

Separation of church and state is in the constitution. Article 52 of the constitution of the USSR that is. You can't possibly be serious about your comment given that this country was founded by christians fleeing persecution in Europe. They never wanted a government without religion. While America bred morally upright leaders like George Washington, the secularist communists produced the likes of Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot and Chirac, who head or headed the secular communists governments responsible for the deaths of millions of people.

When you take the reverence for life that a strong christian ethic brings out of the government you get for example France. They had 15,000 people die a few weeks ago. You can blame it on the secularist socialist government they have.

[CobaltBlue]

No, I am cool with churches running private lives, as long as it's my church, the Roman Catholic church.

It's the only church that was actually established by Jesus Christ Himself. Accept no substitutes.

[hedgetrimmer]

Well the Constitution forbids the government from running private lives, so as long as we keep our government constitutional, no problem!

[hedgetrimmer]

Oh, and churches aren't elected to office, only individual citizens. So lets elect some people of high moral character with a belief in the Almighty, and we might get some of our god-given rights back.

[LiteKeeper]

It's the only church that was actually established by Jesus Christ Himself.

Besides saying "baloney" I will not grace that foolish remark with any other comment.

[CobaltBlue]

Besides saying "baloney" I will not grace that foolish remark with any other comment.

Typical Protestant silliness. If you had an intelligent comeback, why didn't you make it?

[CobaltBlue]

So lets elect some people of high moral character with a belief in the Almighty, and we might get some of our god-given rights back.

Agreed, as long as they're not Protestants.

[CobaltBlue]

As if Christ established any Protestant church. As if.

If ya'll Protestants want churches running the government, better bow down to the One Church, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Accept no substitutes. You will be assimilated.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

"(as we saw in the theft of the 2000 presidential election),"

Refuse to read any further.

[Held_to_Ransom]

If ya'll Protestants want churches running the government, better bow down to the One Church, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church

Assuming, of course, that it has any money left after the pederasty trials.

In any case, the Roman Catholic Church in America is hardly the Pope's Church. If you don't think so, ask yourself this: How come they finally let a Priest do the prayers in Congress?

[Held_to_Ransom]

Even more importantly: How come a Catholic priest did them?

[Ready4Freddy]

"The sure sign that they are hypocrites is that they repeat the "wall of separation" cliche as a magic formula, though they know the phrase is not a direct quote from the Constitution but rather words Thomas Jefferson penned in a letter."

And first referred to by SCOTUS in the 1870's, I believe.

[CobaltBlue]

Individual dioceses may be broke but not the Church.

As for why the current House Chaplain is Roman Catholic, sorry, I don't know any juicy gossip.