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In a message dated 8/3/2005 11:42:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am surprised you cannot understand how executing people based on Biblical Law might be seen as "religious strife." Similarly, the taking of farm animals to destory them because they were "contaminated" by Granger might lead to religious strife. Yes, the Turkeys were not private property so that might not lead to religious strife, per se, but it does indicate the dangers of allowing religious law to regulate civil society. And that, is what the establishment clause is all about. The Bible prohibits beastiality. The Biblical commonwealth enforces
the injunction in keeping with the command. You see religious
strife.
The Bible prohibits murder. Is the enforcement of the Biblical
command evidence of religious strife?
As an example of religious strife contemporaneous to the framers and the
founding, the treatment of Baptists in Virginia works pretty well. The
enforcement of laws against unnatural sex acts, as an example, is, well, a
turkey.
Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ
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