On May 8, 8:22=A0am, s****hawk <s****h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 8, 1:02=A0am, buckeye <buckeye...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > US Government Sponsored Prayers and The Pledge of
Allegiancehttp://bbsne=
ws.net/article.php/20080501163949996
> > [excerpt]
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> > =A0Thursday, May 01 2008 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
04:39 PM EDT
> > Edited by: Michael Hess
>
> > The American Way
>
> > BBSNews 2008-05-01 -- By Naman Crowe. I've sung this song but I'll
sing =
it
> > again. Let's get real. Let's start looking to the day when we can put
to=
> > rest the tired tradition of opening Congress with the Daily Prayer and
> > Pledge of Allegiance, on the grounds that they go counter to our
> > Constitution which requires a separation of Church and State.
>
> No it doesn't. =A0The Constitution says nothing about separation of
> Church and State. =A0I looked; it isn't there. =A0In fact, the
> Constitution specifically states that "Congress shall make no
> law . . . prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]." =A0Congress has
> no authority to prohibit anyone from engaging in religious exercises,
> in public, in private, in prison, or even in Congress itself. Free men
> are entitled to pray as they please--even congressmen.
Ah, but my grubby-fingered little revisionist, you should read the
judicial gloss on the Establishment Clause and Jefferson's "Letter to
the Baptists at Danbury."
You've even revised the Establishment Clause, which reads, "Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." And you
obviously do not know what the word "respecting" means in the context
of the Establishment Clause. Jefferson and Madison and their
extensive writings on the subject could probably help you, but you
have been reading sleazy David Barton's phony Jefferson and Madison
quotes.
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