Those state laws should have been declared unconstitutional as it violates the federal constitutional clause that states there shall be no religious test for eligibility for elected office.
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:48 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: intersting opinion piece on Beck and the teabagging party "It really doesn't matter what dogma or faith was expressed by the Founding Fathers. " Only in the sense that it shouldn't influence how our country is ran. It is important in terms of heritage. "What matters is what was codified in law when they wrote the documents that set up the nation." Amen. That is what all the big hub-bub today is about. The tea parties and Glenn Beck think the gov't has went way beyond these. "The Constitution does not in any way create a Christian nation, or a religious nation of any stripe, and in fact specifically forbids the creation of a state religion. " Yes. More importantly, it prohibits the establishment of a state church, which is something England had. "So any claim that this nation was established as a Christian nation is absolutely wrong." That is debatable. Several months ago, this same argument came up. I posted a long list of state laws that would only allow Christians to be state representatives. There is a chain of logic proceeding from that which can be used to make the argument. J - No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. - Thomas Jefferson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326016 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
