To: P_A_I
I've made no "additions" to the Constitution. Is separation of church and state prescribed by the United States Consitution or not?
Yes. 'Separation' is in effect directed [prescribed] in three different places. --
States are directed to have republican forms of governments, [no theocracies allowed].
- No religious tests for office are to be allowed.
Nor are laws to be made that respect any of the establishments [teachings/precepts] of religion.
Your little bracketed additions are precisely additions to the Constitution presented so as to bolster your argument. The fact that you had to add them militates against your argument.
58 posted on
06/01/2005 7:54:22 PM PDT by
AndrewC
(On vacation in Virginia Beach -- Don't you wish you were?)
To: AndrewC
"Is separation of church and state prescribed by the United States Constitution or not?"
Yes. 'Separation' is in effect directed [prescribed] in three different places. --
States are directed to have republican forms of governments, [no theocracies allowed].
- No religious tests for office are to be allowed.
Nor are laws to be made that respect any of the establishments [teachings/precepts] of religion.
My [bracketed] comments help to explain my argument.. Except to those, like you, who oppose our religious freedoms. You are your own worse enemy.
80 posted on
06/02/2005 8:48:20 AM PDT by
P_A_I
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