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Old 09-23-2008, 01:24 PM

Where do people draw the line between church and state? You can see a mox of it every where you turn:
  • The pledge of allegiance (USA)
  • Gay Marriage (Churches are saying that it would be an infliction of Church and State because /they/ take care of who is married, not the state)
  • The oh-so very biased votes of the House and Senate on big issues that stem from their religion (which really can't be classified as it, but you know it's their religious background that keeps trivial matters like abortion from being passed)

That's just a few that I have, does any one have more or have something to add on?

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Old 09-24-2008, 12:52 AM

In view of a post I made just last night, I am going to reiterate.

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I don't want to burst any bubbles or start an argument but.... There is no such law. The real reading of the amendment says:
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. "
And what the founding fathers were trying to do was not to keep prayer out of schools, but rather to keep the government from forming one religion as the national religion because in england that was why so many people died. When a catholic queen was on the throne, protestants died by the thousands, when a protestant queen was on the throne, catholics died by the thousands. It was a vicious cycle that this amendment was meant to stop, it was by NO MEANS AT ALL a "Separation of church and state" those words don't even APPEAR in the amendment.

What the GOVERNMENT is trying to do is see what it can skew and twist and still get away with so that the general public believes in no other deity than itself, and is therefor makes them subject only to it. And that's the truth.

It would do a lot people a lot of good to know what the law REALLY says.

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Old 09-24-2008, 01:44 AM

Ok, well then, debate closed. o.o Can't really argue with that, I guess.

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Old 09-25-2008, 05:08 AM

Hehe, it's ok, it's just that this issue has been raised to me before so I did some research on the amendment.

 



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