[grebu]

There is no "separation of church and state" in the US Constitution. It was a phrase Thomas Jefferson wrote to Danbury Baptists in 1802 to convince them that the United States would never establish a national nomination - 11 years after the First Amendment was ratified.

The First Amendment says only that Congress shall "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Meaning that Congress shall not establish a religion or prevent you from practicing one. But the words "under God" do not do that, they are not denominationally monotheistic.

The problem for those who argue that it does is contradiction - That the same men who created the Constitution and supposedly wanted a "separation of church and state" also put "In God We Trust" all over our federal currency. On the same day that the founding Congress past the First Amendment - September 25, 1789 - the same approved a resolution asking President George Washington to enact "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer." And it was President Thomas Jefferson, as head of the District of Columbia school system, who made the Bible and Isaac Wyatt's hymnal a pair of mandatory readings.

This court system is banning a pledge "under God" when the First Amendment says the power is limited to Congress, not state and local governments. These are not federal schools.

The Declaration of Independence mentions "natural God," and "that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"

This is nothing more than knee-jerk ultraliberal legislation in the People's Republic of San Francisco. It won't hold up.

And since when do we have a right not to be offended or to not to feel isolated. That happens to me daily. Who do I get to sue?

It's like the environmentalists. They twist and warp everything to achieve their version of utopia.

[Kenyon]

Roger Williams wrote of and supported the "hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" in the 17th century in Rhode Island. Its a concept that has been with the country from the beginning, and actually to protect both institutions.

[Tired of Taxes]

"the same men who created the Constitution and supposedly wanted a "separation of church and state" also put "In God We Trust" all over our federal currency."

That's not correct. As noted at the top of this thread, "In God We Trust" wasn't placed on our currency until the 50's. It replaced a secular phrase, "E Pluribus Unum" - "out of many, one".