[EBUCK]

Get your rep to co-sponsor this bill. This is a great opportunity to restore the original intent of the 1st. Especially considering yesterdays 9th decision. Let your rep know what the 1st is really about!

EBUCK

[inquest]

Please! We don't need no stinkin' "First Amendment Restoration Act". We need to whack some judges upside the head and give 'em the Andrew Jackson treatment.

[Jim Noble]

The Constitution needs to be amended to revoke Everson, Lemon, and subsequent cases.

Since most voters and Congressthings are now illiterate, Amendment I needs to be simplified as follows:

Congress shall make no law establishing any religion as the national religion.

Congress may not infringe upon or prohibit the free exercise of any person's religion.

Nothing in this Constitution may be construed to permit the Executive or Judicial power of the United States to infringe upon or to impair the free exercise of any person's religion.

[rwfromkansas]

bump......

[DoughtyOne]

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[Middle Man]

If ever proof was needed that the Constitution is moribund, or else cavalierly ignored by the courts, it is when a society feels the need to pass laws that compel judges to obey the supreme law of the land. It should be enough to just invoke the Constitution, but...these are strange times we live in.

[weikel]

Ill grant that the judges are idiots but a law cannot modify an amendment or anything else in the constitution.

[xNavspook]

This bill still brings up some very valid points however.
1. The first amendment does not contain the words ‘separation of church and state’. The government is not prohibited from saying there is a God. It is prohibited from establishing a government sponsored religion, such as the church of England.
2. People that believe in God, pray, or otherwise worship are being discriminated against and, in increasing numbers, being denied first amendment rights to free speech.
3. Federal judges and the judges of the Supreme Court are misinterpreting the constitution.

Instead of a bill that makes new law, I would like to see this changed to a congressional proclamation. Congress (and we the people) should let the judges out there know that Americans are tired of being trampled on. America should not be the land where the 1 percent is catered to, while the majority suffers because of the 1 whiner.
If you take a cross and soak it in a jar of urine, it’s ok to display in public because now it’s ‘art’. If you remove the urine and just have the cross, now it’s incredibly foul – it’s forcing people to religion!!?? Where IS this country heading?? A lot of people started using the phrase “God bless America” after Sept 11, but I ask you, why would He? We just declared him unconstitutional!
I absolutely would not want the government to tell me how to worship, but they also shouldn’t be limiting the free exercise of religion, by misinterpreting the constitution, either.

[ForOurFuture]

Interesting that Ron Paul, a former Libertarian and a current libertarian, disagrees with the pledge decision, while the LP enthusiastically endorses it.

[goldstategop]

It won't work. We need a constitutional amendment of the kind Robert Bork advocated some years ago allowing both Houses of Congress to overrule by majority vote, any appelate or Supreme Court decision that Congress felt contradicted the Constitution. It would lodge the final say as to what the Constitution means with the elected representatives of the American people and curb judicial fiat. This is the amendment Ron Paul should have sponsored that is the appropriate response to the 9th Circuit's ruling.