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What This Issue Is: A Christian Power Play

HarrisBierhoff
This issue has less to do with restoring the moral fabric of our society, and more to do with ensuring Church maintains a stranghold over State. It is time for we citizens to stand up and tell the Church to go where it belongs: to Church.
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    • I couldn't have said it better myself. This is well established by the Bill of Rights. The 1st Amendment to The Constitution says, in part: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...."

      This gentleman makes an excellent point that it is generally christians who are looking to advance prayer in public schools. So, what if, however, we didn't advance CHRISTIAN prayer in public schools? To which deity should we have the children of a FREE SOCIETY pray? A christian one? Hebrew? Islamic? Hindu? Buddhist? Zoroastrian? Shinto? Paganism? Wiccan? Confucianism? Taoism? Scientology? Jehovah? Rastafarian? Unitarian-Universalists?

      The point is that competing belief systems may arise. All religions are still free to practice as they see fit in accordance with their customs and beliefs, without interference by the state, but they cannot impose those beliefs upon society. This is the basis of freedom of religion in the United States and the "establishment clause" in The Constitution which essentially separates church and state.
      I suspect that if the reverse were true, and the Congress, or other religions like some of the ones I listed tried to take over your church, town, the laws of the land, the educational system, christians might have a different opinion, because these are not of "christian" origin. It's a very slippery slope, and exactly why our founding fathers were trying to protect us. Let's listen to them, shall we?

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