Posted on 11/14/2023 4:06:15 PM PST by Texan4Life
The Danbury Baptists did not want the Govt. to be able to make being a member of (another) Protestant Denomination a requirement to serve in Govt. That’s all the letter of separation concerned. Nothing More. Scalia said the (modern) interpretation of the 1st Amendment and Separation of Church and State was WRONG!!
More precisely, it is the right of the people to worship.
There is no entity called "the Church." Constitutionally, "the Church" is simply We the People who choose to peaceably assemble to worship in the same way. Different assemblies of people choose to worship in different ways based on different religious beliefs.
The Bill of Rights was meant to define the rights of the people that the government cannot encroach upon. Jefferson's "wall of separation between Church and State" means that the wall was meant to keep government out of the right of the people to congregate and worship. It was not meant to wall of religion from the government.
The true separation between church and state is Article VI, which states "but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States," which says that the state cannot deny people of faith the right to hold office.
-PJ
Its my understanding that when Kings changed in England they would implement their own interpretation of what religion was to be , that is the basis for our amendment.
Right on the “Brian Boitano”. Means you hit the nail right on the “button”...
The way my goofy mind works I guess.
What an inspired choice for Speaker.
In England, the monarch was the head of the church and the state. If there’s no separation, there’s no free conscience. God bless America.
If cats did have opposable thumbs, we’d be their pets, instead of the other way around.
No; the phrase in Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists is “wall of separation between church and state”.
The USSR twisted that many years later, declaring in their constitution: “In the USSR, the church is separated from the state and the school from the church.”
There is no real structural difference at all between a religion and a party.
They are each mechanisms of a belief system.
They each have their doctrines, their dogma, their priests, their adherents, their liturgy, their lists of prescriptions and proscriptions...
Political parties wield undue influence upon government.
I have thought this for a VERY long time and no one has yet convinced me otherwise.
One just happens to pertain to God and the other pertain to man. Otherwise, they are exactly the same.
Correct. It was not an absence of faith they wanted. They didn’t want one denomiation to be a national religion, that so many of the european countries had. And before those, the “holy roman empire”.
Thank you Speaker Johnson, and as a reminder, thank you Congressman Gaetz.
Goofy is ok....we’ll all be there soon!!!
Ever since Brian Boitano came on the scene for some reason when I thought of “hitting it on the button”, I thought of “hitting it on the Brain Boitano”. I’ve actually found some others doing the same thing. Goofy huh? But funny, I think.
Thank you for the clarification what’s important in my mind is that Justice Hugo Black reached for that in his 1947 Everson opinion at the Supreme Court.
That set the ball in motion for rulings on Bible Readings and School Prayer in the 1960’s and this mythology about “Separation of Church and State”.
What would Brian Boitano do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJmfuEWR8w Language warning.
Haven’t you ever heard of “hit on the Brain Boitano” instead of “hit it on the button”?
I don’t know, I heard it somewhere and it stuck.
Jefferson was talking about The Separation of the POWERS of Church and the POWERS Of State.
I.E. The Pope should not also be the President.
Great statement from the new Speaker. Now if he would just cut spending!!!!!
Yes Truth.
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