A Tree Grows In Boston
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/rappcity/2005/11/27/a_tree_grows_in_boston
Cape Cod Today - Cape Cod,MA,USA
What's in A Name?
DC's Thanksgiving is over. And I hope we all had something to be thankful
for. Now that our bellies are full we can all get ready to empty our
wallets as we speed towards the December "Holidays." It's almost time for
Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa and, perhaps some other holiday I don't yet
know about.
These past few weeks there's been a lot of hoopla in Massachusetts (where
else) about the possible renaming of a "Christmas Tree."
Yup, those folks in charge of "stuff" are trying to decide if the official
state "Christmas Tree" should instead be called a "Holiday Tree" (to better
include other religions and secularists during the "Holiday Season."
And they better decide fast...it was cut down late last week and is on its
way to be trimmed and topped as we speak.
.... My God! The "Christmas Tree" could end up another symbol for the
separation of Church and State! Holy goodness, "Merry Christmas" itself may
be in danger! ...
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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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