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GrandPoobah -> RE: The Catholic Church and it's ... (2/25/2012 12:12:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: housesub4you
Seems the USA was started to get away from the power of the church and now they want to use it to control our future
One of the problems manifesting itself today is a miss-understanding of exactly what was intended by the First Amendment.
The language specifically says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;.....
Now, what that meant was that the country wouldn't (couldn't) have an official religion. So, unlike a country that might have a State Church, the US would not. In addition, the State would not prohibit any religion. That was important largely because the states (the original 13 colonies) were vastly different, and often identified by their religious practices.
It was never intended that Congress couldn't pass laws that not all religions approved. For example, there is nothing in the Constitution that says you can force birth control upon someone whose religion believes otherwise. By the same token, you can't deny birth control simply because one religion doesn't believe in it. THAT is the crux of many of the recent arguments.
It was a given that the founding fathers were deeply religious men. They assumed that their religious beliefs would affect their decisions, but specifically stated that laws couldn't impose religious beliefs...something that today's candidates clearly do not understand or comprehend. The most recent issues have breached the boundary, but from the outside. Whereas the original occupants of the Garden of Eden believed the boundary hedge protected them from the wilderness, the current folks seem to believe that have the right to impose their own rules outside of the hedge. My guess is that they're going to find out otherwise in November...in a very loud NO!
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