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- From: mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt)
- Subject: Re: Soul of the Republican Party
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.231710.20966@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec20.165342.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:17:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.165342.1@cubldr.colorado.edu> stegner_g@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
- >As regards your statement on separation of church and state, If George
- >Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin could hear you now,
- >they'd all be turning in their graves. The clause stating that "there
- >shall be a clear separation of church and state..." was intended exactly
- >to prevent people like you from imposing your morality on the rest of us.
-
- Just where is this clause stating that "there shall be a clear
- separation of church and state..."? It is nowhere in the
- Constitution. The word "church" does not appear anywhere in the
- constitution. The only two places were religion is mentioned are
-
- (1) Article VI Section 3, "... no religious test shall ever be
- required as a qualification to any office or public trust under
- the United States."
-
- (2) Ammendment 1, " Congress shall make no law respecting an
- establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE
- THEREOF..."
-
- (Fanatical, intolerant anti-Christians conveniently "forget" the
- free-exercise part of the Bill of Rights.)
-
- --
- Mike Van Pelt | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
- mvp@netcom.com | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
- | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
- | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry
-