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Separation Of Church, State Advocates Protest Exclusion From ...
http://www.channel3000.com/news/5520056/detail.html
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WISC - Madison,WI,USA
MADISON, Wis. -- A group that encourages separation of church and state is
protesting its exclusion from a state legislative hearing on Tuesday.
The hearing will focus on a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire policy that
restricts resident assistants from holding Bible studies in their rooms.
Only invited guests will be allowed to speak at the hearing, and this
bothers officials from the Freedom From Religious Foundation, a group that
thinks the restriction is a good idea.
Group co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said that the hearing can't be
called a public hearing, and accuses the panel of political grandstanding.
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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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