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To: Lancey Howard
One area I am looking forward to seeing addressed by a new Supreme Court is the mythical "separation of church and state". It is long past due for this lie to be put to rest.

Over the past twenty-five years or so the sneaky, athiest scumbags of the ACLU and the Democrat Party have taken advantage of the ignorant rabble (with great help from their allies in the rapidly-fading "old media") by fabricating a "separation of church and state" (based on an old throwaway line from Ku Klux Klanner Hugo Black) and then trying to convince them that it's in the First Amendment somewhere. It is, of course, not in there at all.

Just for reference purposes, here's the First Amendment. It tells Congress what kind of laws it cannot make. That's all it does. There's nothing in here about "separation of church and state" (as anybody with at least the literacy and IQ of Jethro Bodine can see):

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."

23 posted on 12/16/2004 1:37:42 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
You need to bone up on your history. Justice Black is not the source of that phrase, nor was he the first to use it in a SCOTUS opinion.

PS - the 'nuclear option' doesn't refer to a simple change of Senate rules.

...by fabricating a "separation of church and state" (based on an old throwaway line from Ku Klux Klanner Hugo Black)...

26 posted on 12/16/2004 2:54:21 AM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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To: Lancey Howard

The ACLU is a scourge on the American landscape. Now, according to a segment on Fox News, George Soros has announced that he is pumping millions of dollars into the coffers of the ACLU. This is not welcome news!


38 posted on 12/16/2004 6:25:08 AM PST by international american (Generation Jones: "I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life)
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