‘That Godless Court’?
An Interview With Church-State Scholar Ron Flowers
What would separation of church and state look like under the Scalia-Thomas
model?
http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8007&abbr=cs_
[excerpt]
Q. We know that justices like Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia would like
to overturn some existing cases and refashion church-state law. What would
separation of church and state look like under the Scalia-Thomas model? How
likely is it that their vision could come to pass?
A. Unfortunately, the hypothetical quality of this question is misplaced.
The court has already changed its church-state jurisprudence. It has
already declared a voucher plan for government aid to parochial schools
constitutional. It has already ruled that a state university can use
student activity fees (essentially the money of the university) to pay the
expenses for printing a highly sectarian student newspaper. It has already
approved government support for a religious club for young children, a club
that includes worship in its activities, in a public school building after
hours. It has already held constitutional a stand-alone display of the Ten
Commandments on the lawn of a state capitol building. It has already
declared that government provision of computer hardware and software for
parochial schools does not violate the Establishment Clause. Their vision
has come to pass.
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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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"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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