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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (706335)	10/7/2005 3:35:54 PM
From: BEEF JERKEY	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I understand your viewpoint and I suppose I now understand what a "strict constructionist" is better. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ... .” Still the wording of the establishment clause is absolute. It forbids even laws respecting an establishment of religion. Religion < > Government - two separate things The establishment clause sets up a line of demarcation between the functions and operations of the institutions of religion and government in our society. It does so because the framers of the First Amendment recognized that when the roles of the government and religion are intertwined, the result too often has been bloodshed or oppression. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Thats the trouble with the right. You talk about liberty and then try to take liberty away from homosexuals. You don't want Theocracy in the Middle East but want one established in the US. You want the law to come down hard on drug abusers unless he's one of you own (Rush).