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Judge Upholds Prayer Limits in Ind. State House |
Judge Upholds Prayer Limits in Ind. State House
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/31/AR2005123100723.html
Washington Post - United States
CHICAGO, Dec. 31 -- In a spirited duel over prayer, members of the Indiana
state House are at odds with a federal judge who ruled that the daily
invocation appeals too often to Jesus Christ and a Christian god.
The "systematically sectarian" prayers, U.S. District Judge David F.
Hamilton concluded, are barred by the Constitution, which forbids the
government to show preference for any religious denomination. He ordered
the House to avoid mentioning Christ in the formal benedictions.
As the House prepares to open its 2006 session on Wednesday, a number of
politicians have vowed to defy Hamilton, whom they accuse of undermining a
188-year Indiana tradition and interfering in legislative branch affairs.
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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
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