On Dec 26, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Craig White wrote:
> The guarantee is that no
> function of government was to engage in any religion whatsoever. This
> makes certain that government doesn't take any side, whether it is
> Christian, Judaism, or even the non-practice of any religion.
> Government
> - nor any agency is not to have any place in any of the religions.
This is actually untrue. The Constitution specifies that *Congress*
should not make a law respecting the establishment of religion and does
not limit the states in this regard. The aim was to make sure that the
Federal government did not overwhelm the states with an establishment
of religion. It was not intended to make all branches of government
subject to this limitation and in effect adversarial toward theism.
To remove the stone with the Ten Commandments from a state Supreme
Court building that was put in place by and *elected* judge is not in
accord with the Federal Constitution anti-establishment clause. The
removal of the stone is an imposition by the Federal Government on the
state (which ironically violates the very principle it appears to
defend). The Anti-Federalists are rolling over in their graves about
that descision.
Don Fitzsimmons
Software Engineer
Tornado Design
www.tornadodesign.com
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