"Wide Eyed in Wonder" <kands00@hotmail.com> wrote:
:|California Thanksgiving proclamation - 1904
:|
:| "Whereas, The people of the State of California are peculiarly
:|blessed in a beautiful land, favored beyond measure--a land
:|where the best things of every clime are plenteously at hand, and
:|Providence has guided us to build here a commonwealth
:|founded firm in the principles of Magna Charta and the moral law,
:|so that to-day we are a contented people, secure in our liberties,
:|sane and God-fearing in our daily life, without disastrous inner
:|dissensions or class strife, and amenable at all times to the dictates
:|of justice and the rules of fair dealing; and,
:| Whereas, We have had during the past year bountiful harvests
:|of many kinds, our varied manufacturing industries are prospering,
:|and our material welfare generally is greater than ever
:|before, with possibilities more hopeful and alluring than those
:|vouchsafed to any other people wheresoever situated; and,
:| Whereas, We realize that all we are and all we have as a
:|people is by favor of the all-loving God, whose continuous care is
:|the basis of our welfare.
:| Now, Therefore, I, George C. Pardee, Governor of the State of
:|California, in accordance with custom and with the proclamation
:|of the President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set
:|apart Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of November, A. D. 1904, as
:|a Public Holiday, on which day all public and all but the most
:|necessary private business should be laid aside, in order that our
:|people may have opportunity to offer up their thanks to God for
:|His past mercies, and, as one people, supplicate for the
:|continuance of His favors.
:| In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused
:|the Great Seal of State to be hereunto affixed at the city of
:|Sacramento, California, this fifth day of November, nineteen
:|hundred and four."
California on Religion
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
SEC. 2. (a) Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or
her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of
this right. A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or
press.
(b) A publisher, editor, reporter, or other person connected with
or employed upon a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical
publication, or by a press association or wire service, or any person
who has been so connected or employed, shall not be adjudged in
contempt by a judicial, legislative, or administrative body, or any
other body having the power to issue subpoenas, for refusing to
disclose the source of any information procured while so connected or
employed for publication in a newspaper, magazine or other
periodical publication, or for refusing to disclose any unpublished
information obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or
processing of information for communication to the public.
Nor shall a radio or television news reporter or other person
connected with or employed by a radio or television station, or any
person who has been so connected or employed, be so adjudged in
contempt for refusing to disclose the source of any information
procured while so connected or employed for news or news commentary
purposes on radio or television, or for refusing to disclose any
unpublished information obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving
or processing of information for communication to the public.
As used in this subdivision, "unpublished information" includes
information not disseminated to the public by the person from whom
disclosure is sought, whether or not related information has been
disseminated and includes, but is not limited to, all notes,
outtakes, photographs, tapes or other data of whatever sort not
itself disseminated to the public through a medium of communication,
whether or not published information based upon or related to such
material has been disseminated.
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
SEC. 4. Free exercise and enjoyment of religion without
discrimination or preference are guaranteed. This liberty of
conscience does not excuse acts that are licentious or inconsistent
with the peace or safety of the State. The Legislature shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion.
A person is not incompetent to be a witness or juror because of
his or her opinions on religious beliefs.
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 9 EDUCATION
SEC. 7.5. The State Board of Education shall adopt textbooks for
use in grades one through eight throughout the State, to be furnished
without cost as provided by statute.
SEC. 8. No public money shall ever be appropriated for the support
of any sectarian or denominational school, or any school not under
the exclusive control of the officers of the public schools; nor
shall any sectarian or denominational doctrine be taught, or
instruction thereon be permitted, directly or indirectly, in any of
the common schools of this State.
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 16 PUBLIC FINANCE
SEC. 5. Neither the Legislature, nor any county, city and county,
township, school district, or other municipal corporation, shall ever
make an appropriation, or pay from any public fund whatever, or
grant anything to or in aid of any religious sect, church, creed, or
sectarian purpose, or help to support or sustain any school, college,
university, hospital, or other institution controlled by any
religious creed, church, or sectarian denomination whatever; nor
shall any grant or donation of personal property or real estate ever
be made by the State, or any city, city and county, town, or other
municipal corporation for any religious creed, church, or sectarian
purpose whatever; provided, that nothing in this section shall
prevent the Legislature granting aid pursuant to Section 3 of Article
XVI.
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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 US 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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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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