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1 posted on 05/05/2014 9:25:30 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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Of course, this can be projected to roadside crosses etc...the basic argument being the same....


2 posted on 05/05/2014 9:34:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Even when the Supreme Court decides cases in favor of conservatives, the states need to amend the Constitution to require the Supreme Court to promptly and officially reference specific constitutional clauses to substantiate their arguments.

And when the Supremes decide not to hear a case, justices should be constituitonally required to promptly and officially reference specific constitutional clauses to justify such action.

The states also need to amend the Constitution so that the states can fire activist justices.


3 posted on 05/05/2014 9:44:25 AM PDT by Amendment10
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Now, the libs in town will insist on having satanists sacrifice children on temporary altars at council meetings in an attempt to obfuscate the ruling. Watch and see.


4 posted on 05/05/2014 9:52:57 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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Ask any so-called "progressive" about the basis of their absolute and rigid "separation of state" argument, and their likely answer will include Thomas Jefferson's phrase from his letter to the Danbury Baptists.

By doing so, they rely on the ignorance of many citizens of America's founding history and of the ideas of liberty which were strongly held and advocated by the man (Jefferson) who authored the Declaration of Independence, with its recognition of a "Creator," of "the laws of nature and of nature's God," of "Divine Providence," and of "Supreme judge of the world," as well as the actual meaning and context of his letter to the Baptists--whose phrase about the "wall of separation" they love to twist and cite as the basis of their prejudice and tyranny against religious expression in the public square!

Perhaps these "progressives" might wish to read and be honest enough to cite this portion of Thomas Jefferson's letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper:

"In our village of Charlottesville, there is a good degree of religion, with a small spice only of fanaticism. We have four sects, but without either church or meeting-house. . . .

. . . The court-house is the common temple, one Sunday in the month to each. Here, Episcopalian and Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist, meet together, join in hymning their Maker, listen with attention and devotion to each others' preachers, and all mix in society with perfect harmony.

As for Jefferson's views on a university setting as a place appropriate for open exchange of ideas and of unthreatened expression of religious thought, and to correct a then-false impression that the institution was against religion, he stated:
". . . .In our university you know there is no Professorship of Divinity. A handle has been made of this, to disseminate an idea that this is an institution, not merely of no religion, but against all religion. Occasion was taken at the last meeting of the Visitors, to bring forward an idea that might silence this calumny, which weighed on the minds of some honest friends to the institution. In our annual report to the legislature, after stating the constitutional reasons against a public establishment of any religious instruction, we suggest the expediency of encouraging the different religious sects to establish, each for itself, a professorship of their own tenets, on the confines of the university, so near as that their students may attend the lectures there, and have the free use of our library, and every other accommodation we can give them; preserving, however, their independence of us and of each other. This fills the chasm objected to ours, as a defect in an institution professing to give instruction in all useful sciences. I think the invitation will be accepted, by some sects from candid intentions, and by others from jealousy and rivalship. And by bringing the sects together, and mixing them with the mass of other students, we shall soften their asperities, liberalize and neutralize their prejudices, and make the general religion a religion of peace, reason, and morality." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper

6 posted on 05/05/2014 11:17:51 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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