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Trump Nominates Church/State Separation Denier for Federal Judgeship
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Posted on 09/09/2017 2:31:31 AM PDT by cotton1706

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Ok, first we had climate change deniers, now we have church/state separation deniers.

In reality, what we have are liberal/socialist worldview deniers. Gasp! You don't say!!

1 posted on 09/09/2017 2:31:31 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Church/state separation. Where is that in the Constitution exactly ? Can’t seem to find it.


2 posted on 09/09/2017 2:33:25 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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Even though he can’t find “separation of church and state”, the author ignores what is actually in the constitution.

Article VI of the Constitution says that ..”no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”.

The judge’s religious view are irrelevant to his nomination.


3 posted on 09/09/2017 2:41:52 AM PDT by plangent
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What we have in the first amendment is free exercise and no establishment.


4 posted on 09/09/2017 2:43:00 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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i like this judge

Trump is doing a good job in this area, no
a tremendous job


5 posted on 09/09/2017 3:30:53 AM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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I've read through the constitution and I just can't find the part where it says their must be a "separation" between church and state. Can someone help me out with this?

There seems to be a consensus among the legal profession that materialism is the official state religion of the United States but there was once a similar consensus that a black man has no rights that a white man must respect. Legal consensus tends to change over time.

6 posted on 09/09/2017 3:33:00 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Dump Flake)
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How come the part where it says,or the Free exercise thereof,is never mentioned?


7 posted on 09/09/2017 3:33:42 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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That means what Mateer is really saying is that he plans to be an activist judge /who doesn’t give a damn about precedent. He wants to create laws from the bench

Funny how liberals have a cat when a conservative judge makes law from the bench....could care less when liberal judge does it!!!

8 posted on 09/09/2017 3:37:30 AM PDT by ontap
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The false concept of separation is a perversion of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists. Some obviously don’t like it but there is no separation of church and state.


9 posted on 09/09/2017 3:38:20 AM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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Funny how liberals have a cat when a conservative judge makes law from the bench....could care less when liberal judge does it!!!

In this case, it does not appear that the judge will be making law from the bench. It appears only that he is aware of what the Constitution actually says, and will rule on that basis.

10 posted on 09/09/2017 4:03:33 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Of course you are right. I was referring to what they feel in their own minds. They are totally hypocritical!!!


11 posted on 09/09/2017 4:09:08 AM PDT by ontap
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To: cotton1706

The separation clause is right before the privacy clause.


12 posted on 09/09/2017 4:11:38 AM PDT by Raycpa
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They are totally hypocritical!!!

Well, of course! There is a reason for that saying, "If it weren't for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all."

13 posted on 09/09/2017 4:13:37 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Well now, just ‘a cause you ‘n me can’t find it in thet there Constitution thing don’t mean it ain’t real. You ‘n me is just too stupid to read them there nuances thet’s in that old dusty document. We ‘uns need to let our betters on the East Coast that went to them fancy schools tell us what’s in it, and we ‘uns just keep our toothless yaps shut.


14 posted on 09/09/2017 4:20:38 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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Ah! so it’s in the penumbras, hiding right there behind the “right” to kill your unborn child.


15 posted on 09/09/2017 4:28:14 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Dump Flake)
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To: cotton1706

I guess “denier” joins “racist” in the category of ultimate shutdown words. When you get called one of these two words the discussion is supposed to end with the recipient of the epithet hanging his head in shame. I suppose it was inevitable. Denier was a useful word for those who trivialize the genocide of European Jews and it is way overdue to become a general term of opporbrium for use in any dispute about anything.


16 posted on 09/09/2017 4:54:10 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: cotton1706

Deniers = Disagreers


17 posted on 09/09/2017 4:55:57 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: ballplayer

Excellent question, sir ! It’s because that interferes with the left’s plan to purge religion and religious values from every vestige of government and replace it with their own sick and twisted humanistic/sodomistic “values.”


18 posted on 09/09/2017 5:08:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

They are all human life deniers.


19 posted on 09/09/2017 5:20:04 AM PDT by dogcaller
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To: cotton1706

“Church/State Separation Denier”

Way too early for me to have to translate this into English.


20 posted on 09/09/2017 5:21:51 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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