Are some people serious about creating a conservative Christian theocracy here in the US? - I keep hearing "there is no separation between chruch and atate. I beg to differ, there IS. I don't see it going away either.
2006-09-15 17:04:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Not allowed in the US under the Constitution. Not that the Constituion seems to matter much anymore.
The literal phrasing isn't in the Constitution because the concept was so obvious to the Founders (and anyone else who has studied Constitutional law in depth) that it went without saying. But it's nothing new to Constitutional scholars. The phrase was first adopted by the Supreme Court in 1878, who credit it to Thomas Jefferson as the originator of the quote. According to the Court, the phrase should be taken as "an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [1st] amendment thus secured." Reynolds v. U.S., 98 U.S. 145 (1878).
It's been US doctrine for almost 130 years, and was referred to in 1943 as "our accepted belief" and "cardinal in the history of this nation and for the liberty of our people". West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
And or those who keep arguing that the country was founded by and for Christians, the words of the Treaty of Tripoli (1796) directly contradict that claim. As if it weren't enough that most of the Founders were Deists, not Christians, and that the word "God" doesn't appear anywhere in the Constitution. Just a handful of years after the Constitution was written, Congress said that "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion". (Article 11 of the Treaty).
2006-09-15 17:06:12 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If the US adopts a state religion, then the American Experiment is over, and it failed.
My family will leave here; there's nothing as insufferable as Christian fundamentalists.
2006-09-16 04:12:27 · answer #2 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's bad enough that the US has the second highest percentage of people who believe in a higher being, second only to Turkey. At least we have the highest amount of atheists where it counts, the scientists, astronomers, and physicists.
2006-09-16 01:24:25 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh sure, the Neo-Fascist Christian Right would LOVE to turn America into the Nazi States of Jesus, but we aren't going to LET them, are we?
2006-09-16 00:09:11 · answer #4 · answered by backinbowl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no state religion. The founding fathers specifically called for the separation of church and state and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't know their history.
2006-09-16 00:35:18 · answer #5 · answered by L3-knightw1zard 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Prais the lord and pass the ammunition
2006-09-16 00:19:59 · answer #6 · answered by Jerry T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋