If the contstitution does make for the country to be separated from the church why dont you see fit to have us legislate morals to people? (where else will they learn it)?
2006-07-14 16:20:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The Bible says "Thou shalt not bear false witness."
We have laws against perjury, fraud, libel and slander. Notice the similarity? Think it's a coincidence?
Separation of church and state is not a new idea. Separation of law from morality is a recent invention by the left.
2006-07-14 16:28:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
"Separation of Church and State" is from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists.
The Bill of Rights states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". The government cannot legislate Christian values over the values of another religion.
"or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". You are free to worship as you see fit, as long as, in doing so, you are not violating the rights of another.
You can pray in school, as long as the Devil-worshiping kid from down the street can also. It is easier to not allow anyone to do it than to allow everyone to do it.
You can put up a Christmas display, but don't get angry when there is a Kwanzaa display or a Winter Solstice display right next to it (free exercise thereof). Again, all or nothing.
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." Thomas Jefferson
If an act is injurious to others (rape, theft, murder, etc), the government is not legislating "morality", they are working to protect the people.
As far as where people should learn "morals": how about at home or at church? If parents did a better job teaching their children about compassion, understanding and FAITH, instead of trying to work it into the school curriculum, the world would be a much nicer place.
2006-07-14 23:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by john_stolworthy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the constitution does not say that. This is the only amendment that mentions religion.
Amendments to the Constitution - Article [I.]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
As I see it, the government "shall only make no law". This does not mean that you can't have a cross or star of david on town property.
Morals and religion has nothing to do with this.
Considering our forefathers were very religious, it seems odd that ACLU people and twist this around to say something else.
I hope that you don't have a problem with being a good citizen that wants to obey the basic laws of our community. Nobody is dragging you "kicking and screaming" to church. If you don't like what you see on TV, turn it off, or change the channel.
2006-07-14 23:30:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Max: You and millions of other Americans have bought into the propaganda buzzwords, "separation of church and state". Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does the word "religion" appear. The word "religion" does appear ONCE in the Bill of Rights, in the First Amendment. The total text of the First Amendment is as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion; or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Atheists, agnostics and others, with an agenda to leave us without a moral compass in our society, attempt to ignore that all signers of the Declaration of Independance were Christians. For the last forty years they have kept up a continuous campaign blathering about "separation of church and state". The Founding Fathers were all Christians, and all Protestant with the exception of one Roman Catholic. They wanted a Christian Nation, but since they were of different denominations, wanted to insure that no single denomination would ever be named as the "official" church of the nation. And I can guarantee you that they would spin in their graves to even imagine that the phrase "separation of church and state" could be used to throw God out of our schools, account for the abortion of 45 million babies in the last 41 years, the suing of municipalities having a cross in their city seal, churches being told they could not have a manger scene outside of a church, or military chaplains being prohibited from saying "in Jesus name, Amen",at the conclusion of a prayer. And, for all you anti-semites out there, you should know that this nation could not have been formed without a few million dollars given, not loaned, to General Washington, which allowed him to fight the British for eight years! No, I am not Jewish, I am a practicing Christian, but I admire the Jewish people. Get a copy of the Constitution and Bill of rights and keep it in your coat pocket. Then, the next time some ignoramus mouths "separation of church and state", see if you can get a wager with him. When he loses the bet, he might try to recoup his loss by finding another ignorant soul to pass on his new found knowledge!
2006-07-15 00:33:38 · answer #4 · answered by guaro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People should learn morals from their parents and from their own self judgement. Everyone has a different set of morals, so aside from defending basic civil rights such as property and life, the legislation should not touch our personal morality.
The point is to have choice and religious freedom.
2006-07-14 23:23:46 · answer #5 · answered by harmonslide 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seperation of church and state does not exist anywhere in the constitution. It's a term that was made up and cannot be found in the constitution. The only hting the constitution says is htat the government cannot establish a national religion.
2006-07-14 23:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by Jim2386 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In England, back in the day, the King was considered the head of the church, and that mix of religion and politics was disasterous. It was this example that led our founding fathers to create our government the way that they did. Not so much a hard separation of church and state, but a means of preventing here what they'd seen in their original homeland - no one man totally in charge of both areas of our lives. They didn't mean we weren't to pray in Congress, they didn't mean we couldn't express our feelings of faith on the front steps of the White House. Their intent was religious freedom, which has certainly begun to blow up in their faces these days, hasn't it.
2006-07-14 23:29:05 · answer #7 · answered by Crooks Gap 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People should have the independent right to decide their own morals. There are fundamental things that we can punish (murder ect.) but as far making people do what certain groups deem right? That is crap. Church and State must be seperated other wise our country would fail.
2006-07-14 23:23:45 · answer #8 · answered by Josh S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morality can't be legislated. Who gets to decide what's moral? You? Me? Some rich politician?
2006-07-14 23:27:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Separation of church and state does not exist anywhere in the constitution.
2006-07-14 23:26:57 · answer #10 · answered by MesquiteGal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some "churches" have different ideas of what is moral. This is the problem.
2006-07-14 23:23:56 · answer #11 · answered by c_wag03 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋