[thomaswest]

Re 5: our Forefathers gave us God given rights Uhhh, yeah.

Took me two readings to see the joke. Good on ya, mate.

It is significant that there is NO reference to "god-given rights" in the Constitution. In fact, there is no mention of a god, a creator, or Christianity there at all. People often conflate the Declaration with the Constitution--but these are entirely separate documents, written 15 years apart. (I think only a handful of the delegates at the convention in Philadelphia in 1776 were part of the Constitutional Convention in 1791.)

[do the dhue]

In any case, the Declaration says we have been endowed by our creator with inalienable rights. The definition is God given rights. They put that in so man and/or Government would walk on the rights of the people.

If you want to get down to it, there is nothing in the Constitution that says 'separation of Church and State'. The only thing is the 1st Amendment that keeps Congress from establishing a religion and limiting the free exercise of it.