A lesson in upholding values
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/13266748.htm
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
Carter takes us to task for letting others speak for us
By BO EMERSON
COX NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA - When former President Jimmy Carter told news reporters covering
the 1976 presidential campaign he was a "born again" Christian, some
listeners reacted as if he'd said he was from Mars.
The phrase was alien to many but familiar to Carter. "To me it was like
breathing," said Carter recently. "Christ told Nicodemus, right before John
3:16, that you have to be born again, so all of us Southern Baptists
considered ourselves to be born again."
Voters took the exotic term in stride, and Carter became the 39th president
of the United States. These days he's introduced as the first man to use
the presidency as a stepping-stone to bigger things. Active in disease
eradication in Africa and promoting fair elections around the world, Carter
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and has also become a regular
political commentator at newspapers such as The New York Times and The
Washington Post.
.... We believed in separation of church and state. To follow Thomas
Jefferson's admonition: Build a wall between the church and state. ...
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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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