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To: eater-of-toast

Yes, 2000 years of established legal/social foundations and Obama signing something are exactly the same thing.


278 posted on 09/03/2015 8:30:56 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

2,000 years of “tradition” (and there are all kinds of traditions, eg religious pluralism vs burning heretics) don’t determine US law. What’s legally determinative is the text of laws, not some intentions that you self-servingly purport to divine. And you’re wrong that “the Founders” intended the US to be a Christian state. Various Founders had various views. For example, Jefferson and Madison both denied Jesus’ divinity, disparaged Christianity, and detested the intertwining of religion and state.


279 posted on 09/03/2015 11:14:51 AM PDT by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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