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To: one_less who wrote (11128)	10/25/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 67261

brees, you are right about the intent of the founding fathers. While the overwhelming majority of the founders and their communities were in fact of the Christian religion, there were many sects, subsects, and denominations, like Baptist, Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic, etc. There were indeed also some although very few, people of the Eastern Religions, and maybe even a few Islamics. And undoubtedly there were people of the Jewish faith. There were, for example, I believe it was 17 reverends (ministers) who were representatives at the Constitutional Convention. Even Benjamin Franklin, who though said he was a "Deist" (which believes in a single supernatural diety) but not necessarily a "Christian" (i.e. believer in Christ as Savior), made a very impassioned speech at the Constitutional Convention which essentially rebuked the representatives for failing to remember to pray for Divine guidance. At the conclusion of his speech, he moved to start each Constitutional meeting with a prayer by a reverend. And so it was seconded and done, and so today the practice remains to open each Congress with a prayer. So clearly the founders' intent was not to ban religion in public sector, but only that the US Govt would not "establish a religion" such as "Church of England", "Baptist", "Episcopalian", etc. But the Supreme Court has ruled to pervert the founders intentions, which were simply that all people may worship as they wish, whenever they wish. They wished America to be open to all religions. It's sad that now the Supreme Court thinks that nobody should ever be exposed to anything hinting of religion coming from a public entity.