Read Thomas Pain!
The Founding Father's commanded "no religious test shall ever be required."
The First Amendment commands "religion," shall not be established by law
or Congress. It is way past time for attorneys, judges, and justices to recognize
the words of the Constitution. The words "church and state" are not in the
Constitution. It is a "religious" test which shall not be required, not just
a church test. It is "religion" which shall not be established by law or
Congress or (thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment) government at any level,
whether state, county, city, township, or school board. Strict constructionists
accept the wording of the Constitution as written. The words of the Constitution
either mean what they say or it is nothing more than a blank piece of paper.
The Founding Fathers understood the words they used. The six-member joint
Senate-House conference committee (James Madison was co-chair) which produced
the final draft of of the First Amendment understood the words it used and
created no conflict between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise
Clause. There is no primary source evidence that George Washington used the
words "so help me God" when he took the oath of office. Those words are not
a part of the constitutional oath or affirmation required by the Constitution
and should never be added by any government official. What part of "religious"
or "religion" is difficult to understand? Obviously, some, if not all, justices
on the current Supreme Court have not got a clue and meander endlessly through
their massive Marsh of revisionist opinions, one of which is Justice
Rehnquist's 1985 Wallace v. Jaffree dissent. He is a flaming liberal
revisionist who changed the word "religion" to "a national church" in order
to fit his undereducated knowledge of American history.
Gene Garman
America's Real Religion
americasrealreligion.org
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