Posted on 04/15/2005 4:56:59 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
You wrote that: The establishment clause prevents a theocracy.
If the fundamental rule of religious freedom is no theocracy then please define the word theocracy for me and tell me if a law that forbid any person to advocate infant baptism and prescribed that offenders be tossed to the lions would violated the "no theocracy" rule?
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Tailgunner Joe is telling the following lie: Jefferson wrote: [the] wall of separation between church and state
is a one-directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church, but makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.
Justice Rehnquist wrote that it is impossible to build sound doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history. He then proceeds to found a new doctrine on the frivolous premise that the legal substance of the establishment clause was derived from a letter that President Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists.
Would some one please point out to me the First Amendment legal principles, rules and theories that were derived from Thomas Jeffersons letter? Rehnquist once said that 99% of the meaning of the religion clauses is determined by the way you define the word religion.
The definition of religion, for First Amendment purposes, was derived from the Memorial and Remonstrance written by James Madison. See Reynolds v. U. S. (1878). That would leave only 1% of the meaning of the establishment clause that could have possibly been derived from Jeffersons letter.
When Rehnquist read the establishment clause, I think he was sniffing glue with Clarence Thomas.
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