--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/6/06 10:34:41 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Though the separation of church and state is enshrined > in the US Constitution, with financial backing from the evangelical > community the college aims to > 'rechristianise' America; to 'preserve the world from the sinfulness of > man'. > > There is no mention of separation of Church and State in the > Constitution.
"Separation of church and state" is the phrase used by Jefferson to refer to the principles enshrined in the First Amendment. > As a matter of fact the first amendment to the constitution > guarantees that the Federal government shall not establish a state > religion,nor shall it prohibit the free exercise of religion. Right. That's separation of church and state. The phrase itself is obviously not in the Constitution, but the principles to which it refers most certainly are. We have a democratic republic form of > government, which means the people elect their representatives to make laws that > they want to represent their values. If the majority want laws that express > Judaic/ Christian principles they can have it or if they want laws to express > Shiriah beliefs or Laws of Manu, they can elect people to do so. Not if those laws abrogate other rights guaranteed by the Constitution. But the > government can not make you be a Christian, Jew, Muslim or anything else But if what you say above were true, you could be deprived of rights on the basis of your *not* being of a certain religion. The First Amendment holds that all religions must be equal in the eyes of the law. It has been pointed out that religious belief *thrives* under this mandated freedom; the U.S. is the second most religious country in the world, after India. and it > can not take tax money away from you to establish an official state religion. > The people at Patrick Henry are doing what they believe in The people at Patrick Henry hope to amend the Constitution to remove the wall of separation and to take away other rights guaranteed by the Constitution, in accordance with their own personal religious beliefs. , just as the people > of MUM did what they believed in when they started the Natural Law Party. Bogus analogy. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
