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Thomas Paine was attacked in America for his anti-religious views. Jefferson was a deist, so was Franklin. YET, the latter two both approved of CHRISTIAN...and only CHRISTIAN religious exercises in public. makes you think, doesn't it. I have about 50 pages on this subject, so I know what the heck I am talking about. I also know Jefferson removed the things he did not like from teh Bible and created his own "Jesus bible" with only things he liked in the words of Christ. Their religious beliefs do not matter here...they supported religion in public...and that DOES matter.

I've read and re-read every comment you've posted on this thread :-) You make sense to me and I thank you. I'm a tad more right wing than you are (I think). I believe the separation of church and state was designed to prevent any one flavor of Christianity from coming to power governmentally and therefore becoming corrupt and abusive of this power. Hence, I don't have a problem with Christian prayer of any denomination in schools but would be adamantly opposed to the Wicans, Satanists, et al. spouting off. I don't think the Founding Fathers (despite their wisdom) ever conceived of the possibility that this Nation Under God would ever grant so much authority to non-Christians. I personally wouldn't grant the non-Christian religions any protection or privilege under Federal law -- yup, that makes me a right-wing'er all right :-) But in the final analysis, would God hold it against me for not granting tax-exempt status, etc. to those who would turn his flock from him? I don't think so; I think He'd even appreciate it. And (more importantly only to the non-Christians) I think this would be more inline with the original goals and objectives of the founders of this nation as well.

I would be very interested in reading those 50 pages if you could provide it.