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To: FredFlash
I pray that the Great Liberator shall free your mind from the influence of the Devil that you might gather in the gentle light that enables good men to see the difference between expressing religious views and issuing advice on them without God's permission.

I pray that you actually pray. Somehow I doubt you actually do.

319 posted on 01/17/2006 10:56:01 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Always Right

Where do you suppose that James Madison got the idea that "the separation between Religion & Govt in the Constitution" did not permit the State of Kentucky "to exempt Houses of Worship from taxes" and to write in his Detached Memoranda that:

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion & Govt in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history. (See the cases in which negatives were put by J. M. on two bills passd by Congs and his signature withheld from another. See also attempt in Kentucky for example, where it was proposed to exempt Houses of Worship from taxes.


321 posted on 01/17/2006 11:45:39 AM PST by FredFlash
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