Posted on 10/15/2001 11:26:22 PM PDT by VinnyTex
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:47:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
First things first. Let us get the myth about "separation of church and state" out of the way. A thousand dollars in cash to anyone who can find such a provision in the U.S. Constitution.
Two thousand dollars to anyone who can establish a rational connection between "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," and the American Civil Liberties Union's assertion that writing "God bless America" on a high school marquee is unconstitutional.
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The intent of the Constitution was to prohibit Congress from establishing an official state religion as did Great Britain with the Church of England or as did Spain with Roman Catholicism.
Any attempts to deny any expression of non-sectarian religion sentiments is a violation of "prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
Yes.
Shall I put in bold for you?
From another homeschooler, your post is cause enough for me to sport you one of those cyber beers floating around here.
Hah!! I'll have a cyber Warsteiner.
God bless you and your correctly-schooled children.
Yes.
I'd submit that your moral code is warped.
Is it moral to compel individuals to pay for a national defense even if it is counter to their vehemently held convictions about peace?
The "advancement of faith" is a concept of such loose distinctions it can't be appositioned with "compel men to pay". It's an old and tired trick. If a government official prays with his family, he is advancing religion on government time. If a school principle prints a religious slogan, he is advancing religion on government time. But are any of these instances legislating an establishment of religion? No. And that is precisely what the constitution speaks to.
And you are the first advocate of hamster stomping to agree with me.
I always assumed they added that line when we went off the gold standard, since from then on one could only pray that the green slips of paper would continue to be worth anything.
I think 90% of the disagreement over this subject would disappear, if we simply eliminated the inherently socialistic and divisive construct otherwise known as public schools.
I sure wish more conservatives would join with libertarians in attemtping to get rid of these collectivist propaganda factories. If they did, all of these arguments about creationism versus evolution, prayer vs not, homosexual normalization, etc... would simply disappear.
Parents (and not state) should decide what their children are taught, and parents (not state theft) should pay for it.
It would appear you don't know very many Christians. None of the Christians I know personally (and that would be a rather large number, btw) advocate any government religion of any persuasion, let alone one restricted to the Christian faith alone.
I'm aware of that but Storm Orphan is and he was trying to draw a nexis between the "God bless America" sign and the Constitution forbidding such a "pernicious" (my attempt at sarcasm) act.
I thought that was what the thread was about. Am I mistaken?
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