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To: lugsoul
Your interpretation would be that Congress can not make a law about an organized Church, but can make one about a disorganized Church. Of course, the level of organization - what is an Establishment and what is not - was never discussed by anyone.

In order for it to be establishable, it needs to be organized enough to be an organ of the state - a la Church of England.

668 posted on 08/21/2003 2:04:51 PM PDT by inquest (We are NOT the world)
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To: inquest
You mean like Islam? Which has no officials, no ordination, and no official doctrine, but is an organ for a number of totalitarian states?
674 posted on 08/21/2003 2:06:30 PM PDT by lugsoul
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To: inquest
Where did the Founders establish that standard? In fact, where did they talk about the need for an "organization" for a religion to qualify as establishable?
677 posted on 08/21/2003 2:08:14 PM PDT by lugsoul
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