To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (77609 ) 10/1/2001 7:16:56 AM From: long-gone Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116753 <<Richard...did you fall and land on your head recently or something? You seem incapable of logically thinking through the implications of this thing. Wait till one Islamic family moves next door/next block to you!>> What do you fail to understand in "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" Just how the HELL DARE YOU FORGET the freedom of religion is one our MOST BASIC FREEDOMS? Shame on you! You cheapen the death of all whom gave their lives for these freedoms! Read & remember United States Constitution We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. BILL OF RIGHTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO, AND AMENDMENTS OF, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PROPOSED BY CONGRESS, AND RATIFIED BY THE LEGISLATURES OF THE SEVERAL STATES, PURSUANT TO THE FIFTH ARTICLE OF THE ORIGINAL 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. The basis whereby our founding fathers claimed these msot basic of rights goes back to God Himself! "Declaration of Independence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. (cont)