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To: GovernmentShrinker

No, a blatant establishment of religion would be the First United States Church of the Christian God, with a tax levy on all citizens to fund the church practices and membership required to hold public office.

Local county officials deciding who to and who not to invite to offer a prayer is the prerogative of a free people and is only an establishment of religion in the most ridiculously open-ended reading of the principle imaginable.


179 posted on 08/11/2005 7:26:19 AM PDT by frgoff
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To: frgoff

It is entirely possible for something to be consistent with the 1st Amendment, but still wrong & inappropriate for the government to do.


185 posted on 08/11/2005 7:41:42 AM PDT by Sloth (History's greatest monsters: Hitler, Stalin, Mao & Durbin)
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