A complex conservative
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_396918.html
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Bill Steigerwald
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Lunch with Paul Weyrich on Wednesdays is never a quiet affair -- and never
a waste of his time. Not when Congress is in session, anyway.
On Wednesdays, Weyrich -- one of the most influential Republicans in
Washington, D.C., for nearly the last three decades -- holds his famed
"coalition strategy lunches" at the offices of Free Congress Foundation,
the conservative think tank he runs six blocks from the U.S. Capitol
Building.
.... "Separation of church and state was meant to prevent us from having an
official religion, as England did with the Anglican Church. ...
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Posting and reading from alt.politics.usa.constitution OR alt.education
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the U.S. and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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