Huckabee - First Amendment gives us freedom FROM religion..

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[Grig]

Listen to Huckabee say that the first amendment gives us freedom of religion AND freedom FROM religion.

Sorry Huck, but freedom FROM religion isn't a right. If it was it would be a right to suppress the free exercise of other people's religion.

[Nevadan]

Add that statement from Huckabee to the one where he said that the Constitution is a “living and breathing document” which is typical liberal code to mean that it can mean anything they want it to mean.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Yep, Huck’s a complete moron.

I can’t stand any of the refuse left.

I shall be writing in Thompson.

[GOPyouth]

I'm curious is Huckabee has ever read the Constitution. If he has, then he believes everything in there is relative.

[GOPyouth]

IF Huckabee...

[Between the Lines]

This would be correct according to Baptist beliefs. Baptists are big on separation of religion and state.

[Gondring]

This would be correct according to Baptist beliefs. Baptists are big on separation of religion and state.

As were the Founding Fathers.

[Gondring]

Amazing that the Huckster is trying to pretend that he supports and understands the Constitution/Bill of Rights.


"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

[machenation]

IMO HUCK is the only lying politician running for president who
believes that Jesus is the son of the living God. So if Ginsberg or
Stevens et.al. resigns, Huck won't back down trying to overturn Roe.
So I believe.
Janus Rodgers Brown!

[Ingtar]

Have you read what Huckabee was saying when he used the words “living and breathing document?” It was an idiotic choice of words, but the point he was trying to make is that the Constitution has something called an amendment process that allows it to be changed over time. Without that process, we would not have The Bill of Rights.

[SoConPubbie]

As were the Founding Fathers.

There is no such thing as Freedom FROM religion in the constitution.

Re-Read it again.

Nor were the founders for Freedom FROM religion.

Re-read the founders correspondence and books to find the truth of the matter.

[exit82]

Don’t mean to be preaching to the choir, but if there are any uninformed out there:

The First Amendment prohibits Congress from establishing a Federally mandated approved religion for the country. On the other hand, states are free to do so for their state, unless their constitutions prohibit them from doing so. In the early years of America,some states had state sanctioned religions.

The Dope from Hope hits the populist high note again, shedding heat, but not light, on an important topic.

[Gondring]

Re-read the founders correspondence and books to find the truth of the matter.

Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform --Annals of Congress, Sat Aug 15th, 1789 pages 730 - 731).

You may view a summary of this and other comments in the discussion and it's quite clear that they were discussing how best to prevent the compulsion of religion.

[Gondring]

. On the other hand, states are free to do so for their state, unless their constitutions prohibit them from doing so. In the early years of America,some states had state sanctioned religions.

Yes, some states still discriminate against atheists, for example, forbidding them from holding office. Also, though, note that state-sanctioned religion isn't necessarily the same as compulsory religion.

[Gondring]

Ugh..sorry for the comma splice

[Ken H]

As were the Founding Fathers.

Yep.

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion & Govt in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

James Madison, Detached Memoranda ca. 1817 W. & M. Q., 3d ser., 3:554--60 1946

--http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions64.htm

[svcw]

Sorry for the language but I just do not know how to say it any differently -
what an ass.

[Grig]

But freedom FROM religion requires the government to suppess public religious expression, it is a violation of freedom of religion. Freedom of religion only exists by separating church and state, freedom from religion requires merging them to some degree.