DEFCON: Support for the Wall Between Church and State
http://faithfulprogressive.blogspot.com/2007/02/defcon-support-for-wall-between-church.html
Friday, February 16, 2007
DEFCON: Support for the Wall Between Church and State
Maybe Presidents Day will become the defacto Freedom of Conscience Day that
we suggested here.
C/O DefCon
Our Founding Fathers knew that a strong American democracy, and religious
freedom for all, required building a wall between church and state. Despite
this, religious right leaders like James Dobson, Beverly LaHaye, Jerry
Falwell, and Pat Robertson have waged war both on this central American
principle and the freedoms it allows. Their campaign hopes to revise
American history, ignoring our commitment to the separation of church and
state and replacing it with a government based on their narrow ideology.
Fortunately, our founders made clear their opposition to the mixing of
government and religion. Leaders like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
frequently commented on the importance of separating church and state, and,
in the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, George Washington's administration
emphatically stated, "the government of the United States is not in any
sense founded on the Christian Religion."
Show your support for the wall between church and state and write a letter
to the editor of your local paper today.
posted by Faithful Progressive at 4:37
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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 · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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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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