A different kind of Baptist?
http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=207033&pub=1&div=Lifestyles
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Tupelo,MS,USA
Being Baptist is as natural to the Rev. Bruce Dellinger as having fingers
and toes.
"I was born into a Baptist family," said the retired chaplain, who lives
near Pontotoc. "At two weeks of age, I was enrolled in a Baptist Sunday
School."
Roots that reach to generations of Baptist ancestors gave him an affinity
for principles that he says the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's
largest Protestant denomination, has de-emphasized.
.... "The SBC has moved away from the historical heritage of Baptists in
areas of separation of church and state, autonomy of the local church and
the priesthood of ...
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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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