--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/26/07 4:54:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > For more than 200 years, the Senate has opened each workday with a > > prayer usually delivered by the Senate Chaplain, currently Barry > > Black, a Seventh Day Adventist. It is common, however, for senators > > to recommend religious leaders from their home states to serve as > > guest chaplains. > > So much for separation of Church and State. > > Sal > > > > It never has existed, at least how people interpret that phrase today. >
************************************** Separation of church and state is still very much a work in progress: "And Justice Scalia was scathing in his criticism of an opinion signed by Chief Justice Roberts that limited, but did not completely abolish, the right of taxpayers to go to court to challenge government expenditures that promote religion." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/washington/28memo.html
