All USA citizen's have right to be free from GOVT coerced religious participations.
1st amendment bans fed gov from abridgement of that right. AND 14th amendment secures freedom from state abridgements of such privileges or immunities from govt coercion. Have you READ the 1st ******** & 14th ******** ammendments to the US Constitution AND understand why govt is NOT allowed to COERCE kids into reciting the words 'under God' in GOVT school? Bill of Rights Amendment I "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" Amendment XIV "Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" MoreAt http://www.Constitution.org -Terry Liberty Parker AustinLibertyInterNet Radio/TV via Yellow Pages at www.PeerCast.org --- In [email protected], "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Parker > Have you READ the 1st & 14th ammendments to > the US Constitution AND understand why govt is > NOT allowed to COERCE kids into reciting the words > 'under God' in GOVT school? > > MJ > Yeah ... I cannot understand how CONGRESS fits > into your claim. > > Amendment I plainly and clearly applies to Congress and > *did* until Judicial Edict in the 1920s ... > > MORE curious would be WHY other religions are embraced > and celebrated by the Government Schools (such as > Environmentalism with its 'Easter' Earth Day) ... while obvious > free speech violations (dress codes) are not questioned. > > Regard$, > --MJ > > That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public > education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and > awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the > duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. > Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public > education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to > reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, > to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent > and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the > pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such > mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. > --H L. Mencken ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> 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/
