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To: epicure who wrote (6382)4/3/2002 12:34:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 

I would make a clear set
and forbid all entanglement

The main problems I have with that are

1 - I don't think that forbidding establishment of religion does forbid all entanglement so I don't think the constitution does forbid all entanglement. Of course the constitution could be amended or the elimination of all entanglement could be a matter of law, regulation, and or policy, without having to be a requirement of the constitution.

2 - Government entanglement in all areas of life is large and getting larger. If you use the law forbid religion from any area that is entangled with the government then you marginilize religion in the public sphere through the force of law. I would have a lot less of a problem with the idea of eliminating all entanglement between religion and government if government didn't have such an extensive entanglement in so many areas.

3 - The constitution explicitly supports free exercise of religion. A sufficiently inflexible banning of any entanglement of religion with any area the government is involved will restrict practice. For chaplains allow religious people to have effective free exercise of religion in the military. I suppose you could just say that those who need this practice should not join the military but that seem discriminatory, and also there is the fact that religious people can theoretically be drafted.

4 - I think the government should not discriminate for or against any religion or lack of religion. I think an extreme interpretation of the idea of separation of church and state would discriminate against religious groups.

Tim
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