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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (17533)	4/25/2000 4:34:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) of 769667

"no law ...respecting...prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." The very amendment that guarantees freedom to exercise religion is now interpreted as a law forbidding it. Show me where this separation of church and state requires the government to forbid the posting of any religious commandments. It, in fact, prohibits the state from making any law that would restrict the establishment of religion. I know it is popular to interpret this in the reverse. That is, the government must restrict religion in respect of the non religious or other religious, but that is not what the Amendment states. I would oppose a law that requires the posting of religious documents on school walls but not one that gives the school representatives the right to post religious documents. I would go further, to require the state to voucher my kids so that my taxes can go to a school where the Quran's Suras are posted on the walls. Amendment 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.

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