RE: [DMCForum] Bush

["Katon, Robert" <robert.katon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

First of all, the Constitution does not contain the words "separation of
church and state" 
 
secondly, this premise is not to protect either government or church, it
was meant to protect people, specifically from having a state sponsored
religion.  Period, end of story.  
 
Also, in case you don't know U.S. history, this country was founded by a
group of white religious zealots.  There is nothing wrong with a
legislator allowing his faith to guide his action in government and
there is nothing in the Constitution that seeks to prohibit or limit
this.
 
 

      -----Original Message-----
      From: Farrar Hudkins [mailto:fhudkins@xxxxxxx] 
      Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 1:24 PM
      To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Bush
      
      
      And this:
      
      
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26244-2004Jun8.html
      
      And this:
      
      
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=55703
92
      
      Religion and politics don't mix, no matter whose side you're on.
Anyone 
      who waves their religion like a flag overhead (or, these days,
worships 
      the flag as a false idol) is going to be trouble in politics,
because 
      they "have to remain loyal to or serve the interests of [insert
name of 
      religious denomination here]."
      
      The purpose of "separation of church and state" is not only to
protect 
      the government from churches, it is to protect -churches- from
the 
      -government-.
      
      But that, it would seem, is all over now.
      
      --Farrar
      
      Marc Levy wrote:
      > Ah, so instead he is a soldier of the Chruch..
      > 
      > As a result, we loose 4 years of stem cell research
      > and have public funding for faith based programs (a
      > violation of the first ammendment)
      
      
      
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