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- From: hulsey@dbsun.uucp (hulsey)
- Subject: Re: Soul of the Republican Party
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.200732.9908@dbsun.uucp>
- Reply-To: hulsey%dbsun.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu
- Organization: BioMerieux-Vitek, St. Louis Mo.
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:07:32 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec21.231710.20966@netcom.com>
- mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.165342.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
- stegner_g@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
- >
- >(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.)
-
- Most Democrats and liberals are not "Fanatical, intolerant anti-Christians."
- What most of them object to is the use of public facilities and monies to
- promote Christianity, or any other religion.
-
- If Democrats were "Fanatical, intolerant anti-Christians," they would try
- to pass laws which would prevent you from practicing your religion in your
- own home or church. But these laws would unconstitutional, because they
- would prohibit the free-exercise of your religion. But when those exercises
- are performed on public grounds, it crosses the line and becomes "respecting
- an establishment of religion." Allowing the use of public facilities for
- religious ceremonies implies that the state is giving tacit approval for the
- religion, which is also unconstitutional.
-
- Free-exercise means you can put a nativity scene in front of your church.
- It does not mean you can put one in front of City Hall.
-
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- hulsey%dbsun.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Jim Hulsey) TBDBITL '84 ('85 Rose Bowl)
- An Ohioan living in Misery (Missouri, same difference)
- .sig undre contsruciotn
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