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To: Cicero
"All the Constitution says is that "there shall be no establishment of religion."

No it doesn't. Real it ALL

39 posted on 12/21/2005 2:09:55 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

An establishment of religion is a church,synagogue. In otherwords, the government will not interfere with the inner workings of the church. The government runs the country, the church runs the church. That is the definition of separation of church and state, which was connonized by the church way back in 1243 or thereabouts.
The rest, "free exercise thereof" and onward, seems clear to me.

43 posted on 12/21/2005 2:20:35 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

I have. That's all it says anywhere that comes anywhere close to saying that religion should be suppressed.


50 posted on 12/21/2005 3:05:16 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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