The First Amendment says:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
So, how is prayer in school, a public display of the Ten Commandments, or a Nativity scene an establishment of a religion?
For there to be an establishment of a religion there MUST BE:
1. A belief in a Supreme Being;
2. A creed (set of beliefs);
3. Rites and ordinances;
4. Ministers -- to teach about God and his will;
5. Tests -- piety of life, accountability to God's will.
It seems the atheists and secularists are INTOLLERANT of religion and religious people. It is they WHO INHIBIT FREEDOM of worship and expression.
It is the courts who have CHANGED the way things use to be. David Barton points out that it wasn’t until Abington v. Schempp in 1963, that, “the Court made its first open and absolute repudiation of the Bible ... in public affairs"
2006-10-07
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